Science+Standards


 * **GRADE 5: EMBEDDED INQUIRY** ||
 * Conceptual Strand - Inquiry Understandings about scientific inquiry and the ability to conduct inquiry are essential for living in the 21st century. |||||| Guiding Question - Inquiry What tools, skills, knowledge, and dispositions are needed to conduct scientific inquiry? ||
 * Grade Level Expectations |||||||| Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment) || State Performance Indicators ||
 * GLE 0507.Inq.1 Explore different scientific phenomena by asking questions, making logical predictions, planning investigations, and recording data. GLE 0507.Inq.2 Select and use appropriate tools and simple equipment to conduct an investigation.  GLE 0507.Inq.3 Organize data into appropriate tables, graphs, drawings, or diagrams.  GLE 0507.Inq.4 Identify and interpret simple patterns of evidence to communicate the findings of multiple investigations.  GLE 0507.Inq.5 Recognize that people may interpret the same results in different ways.  GLE 0507.Inq.6 Compare the results of an investigation with what scientists already accept about this question. |||||||| 0507.Inq.1 Identify specific investigations that could be used to answer a particular question and identify reasons for this choice.  0507.Inq.2 Identify tools needed to investigate specific questions.  0507.Inq.3 Maintain a science notebook that includes observations, data, diagrams, and explanations.  0507.Inq.4 Analyze and communicate findings from multiple investigations of similar phenomena to reach a conclusion. || SPI 0507.Inq. 1 Select an investigation that could be used to answer a specific question. ||
 * **EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING** ||
 * Conceptual Strand Society benefits when engineers apply scientific discoveries to design materials and processes that develop into enabling technologies. |||||| Guiding How do science concepts, engineering skills, and applications of technology improve the quality of life? ||
 * Grade Level Expectations |||||||| Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment) ||
 * GLE 0507.T/E.1 Describe how tools, technology, and inventions help to answer questions and solve problems. GLE 0507.T/E.2 Recognize that new tools, technology, and inventions are always being developed.  GLE 0507.T/E.3 Identify appropriate materials, tools, and machines that can extend or enhance the ability to solve a specified problem.  GLE 0507.T/E.4 Recognize the connection between scientific advances, new knowledge, and the availability of new tools and technologies.  GLE 0507.T/E.5 Apply a creative design strategy to solve a particular problem generated by societal needs and wants. |||||||| 0507.T/E.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Explain how different inventions and technologies impact people and other living organisms.  0507.T/E.2 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Design a tool or a process that addresses an identified problem caused by human activity.  0507.T/E.3 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Determine criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of a solution to a specified problem.  0507.T/E.4 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Evaluate an invention that solves a problem and determine ways to improve the design. || SPI 0507.T/E.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Select a tool, technology, or invention that was used to solve a human problem.  SPI 0507.T/E.2 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Recognize the connection between a scientific advance and the development of a new tool or technology. ||
 * **LIFE SCIENCE** ||
 * **STANDARD 1 – CELL** ||
 * Conceptual Strand 1 All living things are made of cells that perform functions necessary for life. |||| Guiding Question 1 How are plant and animals cells organized to carry on the processes of life? ||
 * Grade Level Expectations |||||||| Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment) || State Performance Indicators ||
 * GLE 0507.1.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Distinguish between the basic structures and functions of plant and animal cells. |||||||| 0507.1.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Label drawings of plant and animals cells. 0507.1.2 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Compare and contrast the basic structures and functions of plant and animal cells. || SPI 0507.1.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Identify the major parts of plant and animal cells such as, the nucleus, cell membrane, cell wall, and cytoplasm.  SPI 0507.1.2 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Compare and contrast basic structures and functions of plant and animal cells. ||
 * **STANDARD 2— INTERDEPENDENCE** ||
 * Conceptual Strand 2 All life is interdependent and interacts with the environment. |||| Guiding Question 2 How do living things interact with one another and with the non-living elements of their environment? ||
 * Grade Level Expectations |||||||| Checks for Understanding (Formative/Summative Assessment) || State Performance Indicators ||
 * GLE 0507.2.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Investigate different nutritional relationships among organisms in an ecosystem. GLE 0507.2.2 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Explain how organisms interact through symbiotic, commensal, and parasitic relationships.  GLE 0507.2.3 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Establish the connections between human activities and natural disasters and their impact on the environment. |||||||| 0507.2.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Evaluate producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships.  0507.2.2 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Classify interspecific relationships within an ecosystem as mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism.  0507.2.3 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Create a simple model illustrating the interspecific relationships within an ecosystem.  0507.2.4 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Analyze basic information from a body of text to identify key issues or assumptions about the relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.  0507.2.5 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Create a poster to illustrate how human activities and natural disasters affect the environment. || SPI 0507.2.1 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Describe the different types of nutritional relationships that exist among organisms.  SPI 0507.2.2 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Distinguish among symbiotic, commensal, and parasitic relationships.  SPI 0507.2.3 <span style="font-family: times new roman,times new roman;">Use information about the impact of human actions or natural disasters on the environment to support a simple hypothesis, make a prediction, or draw a  conclusion. ||