Unifying Objectives: Grades 4-5

Obj #

District Objective/State #

Suggested Activities and Resources

STS45.1

Students will develop a systematic approach to solving a problem./18.05.01

All activities.

STS45.2

Students will use actual observations and results of scientific investigation to form a possible explanation or new questions./18.05.02

All activities.

STS45.3

Students will acceptably research and use biographical information to describe, in written form or oral discussions, past discoveries and inventions. /18.05.03

3: Ideas and Inventions

STS45.4

Students will generally recognize that working on team brings greater results than working alone. (such as Apollo 13, Thomas Edison’s work on the light bulb...)/18.05.04

All activities.

STS45.5

Students will can use technological devices which can measure motion. (e.g. stop watches, radar guns)/18.05.05

5: Variables

STS45.6

Students will identify a question for further study while doing a scientific investigation (e.g. factors affecting plant growth...)/18.05.06

All activities.

STS45.7

Students will justify conclusions or explanations by use of data and logical argument./19.05.04

All activities.

STS45.8

Students will use a physical model to explain how something works or is constructed./20.05.01

All activities.

STS45.9

Students will explain with examples that the probability of an event happening depends on how closely present conditions match previous conditions. (e.g., weather, accidents)/20.05.02

5: Variables
Requires some modification.

STS45.10

Students will describe and compare the components and interrelationships of a simple system (e.g. trace the flow of water through an aquarium, a filter and a pump...)./20.05.03

5: Environments
Resource: ESS pg. 30 - 52 (Liquids)

STS45.11

Students will keep records of investigations and observations without changing those records later. (e.g. not changing records to fit the norm...)/21.05.01

All activities.

STS45.12

Students will make conscientious observations and test things more than once; use repeated observations or experiments to verify results./21.05.02

All activities.

STS45.13

Students will offer reasons for their findings in the context of an investigation./21.05.03

All activities.

STS45.14

Students will consider suggestions by others in the context of an investigation./21.05.03

All activities.

STS45.15

Students will provide reasonable written or oral instructions that others are able to follow./22.05.01

All activities.

STS45.16

Students will adequately organize information into charts, tables and graphs./22.05.02

All activities.

STS45.17

Students will collaborate on a group project./22.05.03

All activities.

STS45.18

Students will investigate the change in the result of a simple experiment when they alter one of the experimental conditions. (e.g., what variables affect the “swing” of a pendulum?)/23.05.01

5: Variables

STS45.19

Students will can generally explain the strategy and thinking they used to solve a particular problem./23.05.02

3: Measurement

STS45.20

Students will make acceptable quantitative estimates of familiar lengths, weights and time intervals and check them by measurements./23.05.03

3: Measurement

STS45.21

Students will usually select the appropriate unit for a particular measurement; (e.g. meters for length, seconds for time, and kilograms for mass) and in magnitude (e.g., meters, not centimeters for measuring swimming pools)./23.05.04

3: Measurement.

STS45.22

Students will generally recognize that there may be variations when everyone in the class makes a particular measurement ./23.05.05

3: Measurement.

STS45.23

Students will consistently use safety equipment and attire./24.05.01

All activities.

STS45.24

Students will generally measure and mix dry and liquid materials safely in prescribed amounts./24.05.02

3: Measurement
Resource: ESS pg. 30 - 52 (Liquids)

STS45.25

Students will properly use provided materials to construct objects for a particular task./24.05.03

3: Ideas and Inventions

STS45.26

Students will generally label measurements and diagrams properly./24.05.04

3 Measurement
All activities.

STS45.27

Students will mostly label measurements and diagrams properly. (e.g. balances, thermometers, metric measurement ...)/24.05.05

3: Measurement
All activities.

STS45.28

Students will acceptably manipulate objects and observe events in an experiment./24.05.06

All activities.

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