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Science as Inquiry- Content Standard A |
Models
will help students understand cause/effect relationships
and build a context for new information.
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Students
will practice communicating scientific procedures and explanations.
They will gain competency in following instructions, describing
observations, communicating experimental methods, and summarizing
their results and the results of other groups.
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| Physical
Science- Content Standard B |
Students
will investigate how substances can be diluted or concentrated.
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| Life
Science - Content Standard C |
Students
will reinforce that reproduction is essential to sustain
life and population growth.
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Students
will study sexual reproduction and the passage of genetic
information from parent to offspring.
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Students
will actively investigate how an organism responds behaviorally
to an external, environmental stimulus.
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Students
will learn about biotic and abiotic factors that are changing
a niche and how these changes threaten to decrease population
growth.
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