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Colorado: Science [1995]

Currrent Standard

 •   Standard 6: Students understand that science involves a particular way of knowing and understand common connections among scientific disciplines.
(Grades K - 12)

Standard's Subset

  In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes comparing a model with what it represents (for example, comparing a map of the school to the actual school; a model of the Earth to the Earth itself).
(Grades K - 4)

  In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes comparing knowledge gained from direct experience to knowledge gained indirectly (for example, collecting data about student heights in their class and comparing the results to similar data collected in another class or school);
(Grades K - 4)

  In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes describing and comparing the components and interrelationships of a simple system (for example, tracing the continuous flow of water through an aquarium, filter, and pump); and
(Grades K - 4)

  In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes identifying observable patterns and changes in their lives and predicting future events based on those patterns (for example, seasonal weather patterns);
(Grades K - 4)

  In grades K-4, what students know and are able to do includes recognizing that when a science experiment is repeated with the same conditions, the experiment generally works the same way;
(Grades K - 4)

  As students in grades 5-8 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes describing contributions to the advancement of science made by people in different cultures and at different times in history;
(Grades 5 - 8)

  As students in grades 5-8 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes explaining why a controlled experiment must have comparable results when repeated;
(Grades 5 - 8)

  As students in grades 5-8 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes giving examples of how scientific knowledge changes as new knowledge is acquired and previous ideas are modified (for example, through space exploration);
(Grades 5 - 8)

  As students in grades 5-8 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes identifying and illustrating natural cycles within systems (for example, water, planetary motion, geological changes, climate); and
(Grades 5 - 8)

  As students in grades 5-8 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes identifying, comparing, and predicting variables and conditions related to change (for example, climate, population, motion);
(Grades 5 - 8)

  As students in grades 5-8 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes using a model to predict change (for example, computer simulation, video sequence, stream table).
(Grades 5 - 8)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes analyzing and comparing models of cyclic change as used within and among scientific disciplines (for example, water cycle, circular motion, sound waves, weather cycles);
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes evaluating print and visual media for scientific evidence, bias, or opinion;
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes explaining an exponential model (for example, pH scale, population growth, Richter scale); and
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes explaining that the scientific way of knowing uses a critique and consensus process (for example, peer review, openness to criticism, logical arguments, skepticism);
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes identifying and describing the dynamics of natural systems (for example, weather systems, ecological systems, body systems, systems at dynamic equilibrium);
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes identifying and predicting cause-effect relationships within a system (for example, the effect of temperature on gas volume, effect of carbon dioxide level on the greenhouse effect, effects of changing nutrients at the base of a food pyramid);
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes identifying and testing a model to analyze systems involving change and constancy (for example, a mathematical expression for gas behavior; constructing a closed ecosystem such as an aquarium);
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes using graphs, equations, or other models to analyze systems involving change and constancy (for example, comparing the geologic time scale to shorter time frames);
(Grades 9 - 12)

  As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes<ul><li>refining a hypothesis based on an accumulation of data over time (for example, Alvarez’s theory on dinosaur extinction ).</li></ul>
(Grades 9 - 12)

Correlated Activities
 Using a Fancy Spectrograph
 A Spectral Mystery
 Watch It Slide!
 Building a Fancy Spectrograph
 Lunch in Outer Space!
 Rockets on a Shoestring Budget
 Find It!
 Slingshot to the Outer Planets
 Modern Day Pyramids
 Tower O' Power
 Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration
  Product Development and the Environment
 Make Your Own Temperature Scale
 Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
 Biodomes Engineering Design Project: Lessons 2-6
 Shapes of Strength
 Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?
 Pop Rockets
 Aqua-Thrusters!
 Drifting Continents
 Earthquake in the Classroom
 Mini-Landslide
 Scale Model of the Earth
 Fossil Fondue
 Cooking with the Sun
 Soapy Stress
 Survive That Tsunami!
 Floodplain Modeling
 Strawkets and Weight
 Strawkets and Control
 Fuel Mystery Dis-Solved!
 Strawkets and Thrust
 Newton Rocket Car
 Tornado Damage!
 I'm Not in Range
 Cars from the Future
 Swinging with Style
 For Those Back Home…
 Viking Ship Design Challenge
 Fancy Feet
 Water Power
 Wind Power
 What's Gotten Into You?
 The Dirty Water Project
 Solar Power
 Fascinating Friction!
 Blood Cell Basics
 Kidney Filtering
 Just Breathe
 Hot or Not
 Endocrine Excitement!
 20/20 Vision
 The Beat Goes On
 Do You Have the Strength?
 Composting - Nature's Disappearing Act
 It's all In the Package
 Building an Electromagnet
 Solid, Liquid or Gas?
 Too Much Pressure!
 Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race
 Floating and Falling Flows
 Balsa Glider Competition
 Design a Flying Machine
 Echolocation in Action!
 Controlling Sound
 I Feel Renewed!
 Trash Talkin'
 This Landfill Is a Gas!
 The Great Divide
 Is That Natural?
 Light Scavengers
 Environmental Interactions
 Carve that mountain
 Acid Attack
 What's Hiding in the Air?
 The Search for Secret Agents
 Moving without Wheels
 For Your Eyes Only
 Good News - We're on the Rise!
 A Recipe for Air
 Air - Is It Really There?
 What Color is Your Air Today?
 Dangerous Air
 Acid Rain Effects
 Hot Stuff!
 It's Really Heating Up in Here!
 Battling for Oxygen
 Let's Bag It
 A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air
 Washing Air
 Cleaning Air with Balloons
 You're in Hot Water
 Waterwheel Work
 Action-Reaction! Rocket
 Tightrope Trials
 Perching Parrot
 Skateboard Disaster
 Ramp and Review (for High Scool)
 Sliders (for High School)
 Ramp and Review
 Super Spinners!
 Swing in Time
 How Far?
 Breaking Beams
 Falling Water
 Hovercraft Racers!
 Windy Tunnel
 Close Enough?
 Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
 How Big?
 Scaling the Map
 The North (Wall) Star
 Stay in Shape
 Trig River
 Are We Alone?
 Egg-cellent Landing
 Edible Rovers
 Edible Rovers - High School
 Computer Accuracy
 Sextant Solutions
 Can You Catch the Water?
 Break the Tension
 Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!
 One World Ocean
 Snow vs. Water
 The Trouble with Topos
 GPS Receiver Basics
 Strong-Arm Tactics
 An Inflated Impression of Mars
 Testing the Caverns - Optional
 Oil Spill Cleanup
 Pea Soup Ponds
 Drum Roll Please
 Ranking the Rocks
 Possible Locations
 Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
 Stream Consciousness
 Where Does All the Water Go?
 Straining out the Dirt
 I Breathe WHAT??
 Cleaning the Air
 Eek, It leaks!
 How Full is Full?
 What's down the well?
 Groundwater Detectives
 Sliders
 
Correlated Lessons
 Transportation and the Environment
 The Science of Swinging
 Will It Fly?
 Planting Thoughts
 A Mini World
 Land on the Run
 Olympic Engineering
 Environments and Ecosystems
 Future Flights!
 Chemical Wonders
 Homeward Bound
 Digestive System
 Unlocking the Endocrine System
 How Should Our Gardens Grow?
 Naturally Speaking
 Plumbing the Deep - Using Sound Waves to See
 To Absorb or Reflect… That is the Question
 Needing Illumination - Investigating Light
 Fresh or Salty?
 Manned Mission to Mars
 Not So Neutral Views
 The No Zone of Ozone
 Oil Spill
 Weather Watchers
 Stressed and Strained
 Crash! Bang!
 Motion Commotion
 Red Light, Green Light
 How Clean is that Water?
 An Underground River
 The Amazing Red Planet
 Come On Over Rover
 Six Minutes of Terror
 The Air We Breathe
 You Are What You Drink!
 Who's Down the Well?
 Landfills: Building Them Better
 Swinging on a String
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