Strand | The Scientific Process | Standard 1: The Scientific Process: SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION: Discover, invent, and investigate using the skills necessary to engage in the scientific process |
Topic | Scientific Inquiry | Benchmark SC.5.1.1 | Identify the variables in scientific investigations and recognize the importance of controlling variables in scientific experiments |
Topic | Scientific Inquiry | Benchmark SC.5.1.2 | Formulate and defend conclusions based on evidence |
Strand | The Scientific Process | Standard 2: The Scientific Process: NATURE OF SCIENCE: Understand that science, technology, and society are interrelated |
Topic | Unifying Concepts and Themes | Benchmark SC.5.2.1 | Use models and/or simulations to represent and investigate features of objects, events, and processes in the real world |
Strand | Life and Environmental Sciences | Standard 3: Life and Environmental Sciences: ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Understand the unity, diversity, and interrelationships of organisms, including their relationship to cycles of matter and energy in the environment |
Topic | Cycles of Matter and Energy | Benchmark SC.5.3.1 | Describe the cycle of energy among producers, consumers, and decomposers |
Topic | Interdependence | Benchmark SC.5.3.2 | Describe the interdependent relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem in terms of the cycles of matter |
Strand | Life and Environmental Sciences | Standard 4: Life and Environmental Sciences: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN ORGANISMS: Understand the structures and functions of living organisms and how organisms can be compared scientifically |
Topic | Cells, Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems | Benchmark SC.5.4.1 | Describe the structures of the human body and how they work together to sustain life |
Strand | Life and Environmental Sciences | Standard 5: Life and Environmental Sciences: DIVERSITY, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION: Understand genetics and biological evolution and their impact on the unity and diversity of organisms |
Topic | Heredity | Benchmark SC.5.5.1 | Recognize that some traits of living things are inherited and others are learned |
Strand | Physical, Earth, and Space Sciences | Standard 6: Physical, Earth and Space Science: NATURE OF MATTER AND ENERGY: Understand the nature of matter and energy, forms of energy (including waves) and energy transformations, and their significance in understanding the structure of the universe |
Topic | Energy and its Transformation | Benchmark SC.5.6.1 | Identify different forms of energy (e.g., thermal, electrical, nuclear, light, sound) and how they can change and transfer energy from one form to another |
Topic | Energy and its Transformation | Benchmark SC.5.6.2 | Describe ways that heat can be transferred from one object to another |
Topic | Waves | Benchmark SC.5.6.3 | Compare what happens to light when it is reflected, refracted, and absorbed |
Strand | Physical, Earth, and Space Sciences | Standard 7: Physical, Earth, and Space Sciences: FORCE AND MOTION: Understand the relationship between force, mass, and motion of objects; and know the major natural forces: gravitational, electric, and magnetic |
Topic | Forces of the Universe | Benchmark SC.5.7.1 | Explain how electrically charged materials can push or pull other charged materials |
Strand | Physical, Earth, and Space Sciences | Standard 8: Physical, Earth, and Space Sciences: EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE: Understand the Earth and its processes, the solar system, and the universe and its contents |
Topic | Earth in the Solar System | Benchmark SC.5.8.1 | Describe the relationship (size and distance) of Earth to other components in the solar system |
Topic | Earth in the Solar System | Benchmark SC.5.8.2 | Describe examples of what astronomers have discovered using telescopes |
Topic | Earth in the Solar System | Benchmark SC.5.8.3 | Explain that the planets orbit the sun and that the moon orbits the Earth |
Topic | Earth in the Solar System | Benchmark SC.5.8.4 | Demonstrate that day and night are caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis |
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