• Gain experience with the parts of a simple system and their relationship to each other.
• Gain experience with the concept of variable.
• Identify patterns as repeated processes or recurring elements in science and technology.
• Explain scale as a way of relating concepts and ideas to one another by some measure.
• Design and conduct controlled experiments.
• Construct materials that will be used in the investigations.
• Acquire some understanding of the behavior of pendulums.
• Gain experience with buoyancy.
• Use data to make predictions.
• Apply mathematics in the context of science.
• Record and graph data concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to discover relationships.
• Know that people select, create, and use science and technology, and that they are limited by social and physical restraints.
• Acquire the vocabulary associated with controlled experimentation.
• Use scientific thinking processes to conduct investigations and build explanations:  observing, communicating, organizing, and relating.
• Work collaboratively and use tools and scientific techniques to make better observations.
• Understand science safety and follow safe practices during investigations.

Assessments:

• Lab experiments
• Performance assessments
• Reflective journals
• Teacher created assessments
• End of unit projects
• Rubrics
• Checklists
• Homework/Class work
• Teacher observations

Variables

Full Option
Science System
Module
(FOSS)

Content:  Physical Science
Develop students’ understanding of motion and forces.

• The motion of an object can be described by its position, direction of motion, and speed.
• Motion can be measured and represented on a graph.

Internet Links:
FOSS.com

pde.state.pa.us/k12/lib/k12/scitech.doc

education-world.com/
standards/national/science/index.shtm

umtsd.org/Science_list

Planned Courses