Science Learning Standards

• Predict and investigate that water can change from a liquid to a solid (freeze), and back again (melt), or from a liquid to a gas (evaporation), and back again (condensation) as the result of temperature changes.

• Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.

• Plan and conduct investigations to determine the cause and effect relationship of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

• Develop a model to compare and contrast observations on the life cycle of different plants and animals.

• Construct scientific arguments to support claims that some characteristics of organisms are inherited

from parents and some are influenced by the environment.

• Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the

variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving and finding mates.

• Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular

Ecosystem some organisms -- based on structural adaptations or behaviors -- can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot.

• Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

• Represent data tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

• Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

• Make a claim about the merit of an existing design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

• Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

• Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

• Plan and carryout fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.