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-Constructing
New Scientific Knowledge
The learner will be able to:
- generate reasonable questions
about the world based on observation
- investigate toys/simple
appliances and explain how they work, using instructions and
appropriate safety precautions
- design and conduct simple
investigations
- use measurement devices
to provide consistency in an investigation
- use sources of information to
help solve problems
- write and follow procedures in
the form of step-by-step instructions, recipes, formulas, flow
diagrams, and sketches
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-Reflecting
on Scientific Knowledge
The learner will be able to:
- evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of claims, arguments, or data
- describe limitations of
personal knowledge
- show how common themes of
science, mathematics and technology apply in real-world contexts
- describe the advantages and
risks of new technologies
- recognize the contributions made to science by
cultures and individuals of diverse backgrounds
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-Cells
The learner will be able to:
- describe cells as living
systems
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-Organization
of Living Things
The learner will be able to:
- compare and classify organisms
into major groups on the basis of their structure
- describe the life cycle of a
flowering plant
- describe evidence that plants
make and store food
- explain how selected systems
and processes work together in plants and animals
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-Ecosystems
The learner will be able to:
- describe common patterns of
relationships among populations
- predict the effects of changes
in one population in a food web on other populations
- describe how all organisms in
an ecosystem acquire energy directly or indirectly from sunlight
- describe the likely succession
of a given ecosystem over time
- identify some common materials
that cycle through the environment
- describe ways in which humans
alter the environment
- explain how humans use and
benefit from plant and animal materials
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-Motions
of Objects
The learner will be able to:
- qualitatively describe and
compare motions in three dimensions
- relate changes in speed or
direction to unbalanced forces in two dimensions
- describe the forces exerted by
magnets, electrically charged objects, and gravity
- design strategies for moving
objects by application of forces, including the use of simple
machines
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-Wave
and Vibrations
The learner will be able to:
- explain how sound travels
through different media
- explain how echoes occur and
how they are used
- explain how light helps us to
see
- explain how objects or media
reflect, refract, transmit, or absorb light
- describe the motion of
pendulums or vibrating objects (frequency, amplitude)
- explain how waves transmit
energy
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-Hydrosphere
The learner will be able to:
- describe various forms that
water takes on the earth's surface and conditions under which they
exist
- describe how rainwater in
Michigan reaches the oceans
- describe the origins of
pollution in the hydrosphere
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-Atmosphere
and Weather
The learner will be able to:
- describe the composition and
characteristics of the atmosphere
- describe patterns of changing
weather and how they are measured
- explain the water cycle and its
relationship to weather patterns
- describe health effects of
polluted air
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