Science Standards

Standard 5.2: All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making, and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

     6. Identify problems that can be solved by conducting experiments.
     7. Design and conduct experiments incorporating the use of a control.
     8. Collect and organize data to support the results of an experiment.
     9. Communicate experimental findings using words, charts, graphs, pictures, and diagrams.
    10. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of claims, arguments, and data.
    11. Assess the risks and benefits associated with alternative actions.

Standard 5.4:  All students will develop an understanding of technology as an application of scientific principles.

       9. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of alternative solutions to practical problems.

Standard 5.5:  All students will integrate mathematics as a tool for problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing and/or modeling scientific theories.

       6. Express experimental data in several equivalent forms such as integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.
       7. Infer mathematical relationships among variables using graphs, tables, and charts.
     10. Find the mean and median of a set of experimental data.

Standard 5.8:  All students will gain an understanding of the structure and behavior of matter.

        2. Recognize that matter can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas, and can be transformed from one state to another by heating or cooling.
        4. Identify characteristic properties of matter, and use one or more of those properties to separate a mixture of substances.
        5. Show how substances can react with each other to form new substances having characteristic properties different from those of the original substances.