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St. Fabian Science
Science - Grade 5

Earth and Space Science

Earth: Properties/Structure
The learner will be able to comprehend the internal and/or external structure of the Earth.
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Earth: Properties
  
Water: Sources/Recognize/Variety
The learner will be able to recognize a variety of water sources.
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Water
  
Water: Drinking/Source
The learner will be able to identify water sources that provide drinking water.
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Water
  
Water: Explain/Moves
The learner will be able to explain the way in which water moves.
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Water
  
Water: Properties/Explain
The learner will be able to explain the properties of water.
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Water
  
Water: States/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the three different states (liquid, solid, and gas) of water.
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Water
  
Water: Explain/Exists/Three/States
The learner will be able to explain how water exists in three states on the earth.
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Water
  
Water: Rain
The learner will be able to track the flow of rain water (precipitation, flow, bodies of water).
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Water
  
Water: Track/Flow/Rain/After/Falls
The learner will be able to track the flow of rain water after it falls.
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Water
  
Water: Show/Location
The learner will be able to show the location of water on the earth.
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Water
  
Earth, Moon, and Sun: Traits
The learner will be able to explain the basic traits of the earth, moon, and sun.
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Earth, Moon, and Sun
  
Earth, Moon & Sun: Motion
The learner will be able to describe how the earth and moon move around the sun.
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Earth, Moon, and Sun
  
Earth, Moon & Sun: Find/Similarities
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the properties of the sun, moon, and earth.
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Earth, Moon, and Sun
  
Moon: Explain/Movement/Around/Earth
The learner will be able to explain the movement of the moon around the earth.
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Moon
  
Earth and Sun: Relate/Explain
The learner will be able to explain the motion of the earth in relation to the sun.
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Earth and Sun
  
Earth and Sun: Compare/Contrast/Planets
The learner will be able to compare and contrast the earth and sun to other planets and star systems.
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Earth and Sun
  
Weather: Safety
The learner will be able to explain safety precautions necessary during severe weather conditions.
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Weather
  
Weather: Explain/Conditions
The learner will be able to explain weather conditions.
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Weather
  
Universe: Characteristics/Understand
The learner will be able to understand the characteristics of the universe.
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Universe
  
Universe: Describe/Knowledge
The learner will be able to describe how we gain knowledge about the universe.
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Universe
  
Solar System: Objects/Motion
The learner will be able to explain the motion of different types of solar system objects.
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Solar System Objects
  
Human Activities: Analyze/Hydrosphere
The learner will be able to analyze interactions between human activities and the hydrosphere.
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Human Activities
  
Human Activities: Analyze/Atmosphere
The learner will be able to analyze how human activities and the atmosphere relate.
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Human Activities
  
Atmosphere: Describe
The learner will be able to describe the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere
  
Earth: Surface/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the properties of the Earth's surface, such as rivers, oceans, and mountains.
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Earth: Surface Properties
  
Earth: History/Describe/Rocks/Fossils
The learner will be able to describe how the history of the earth can be understood utilizing rocks and fossils.
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Earth: History
  
Earth and Sky: Changes
The learner will be able to develop an understanding of the various changes to the earth and sky.
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Earth and Sky
  
Earth: Materials/Identify/Various/Kinds
The learner will be able to identify various kinds of earth materials.
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Earth: Materials
  
Earth: Materials/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize forms of earth's materials.
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Earth: Materials
  
Earth: Materials/Explain/Kinds
The learner will be able to explain various kinds of earth materials.
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Earth: Materials
  
Earth: Materials/Explain/Uses
The learner will be able to explain various uses of earth materials.
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Earth: Materials
  
Earth: Surface/Changes/Describe/Time
The learner will be able to describe how the features of the earth's surface alter over time.
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Earth: Surface Changes
  
Earth: Surface/Changes/Describe
The learner will be able to describe natural changes in the surface of the Earth.
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Earth: Surface Changes
  
Earth: Surface/Describe/Key/Features
The learner will be able to describe key features of the earth's surface.
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Earth: Surface
  
Earth: Surface/Explain
The learner will be able to explain the surface of the earth.
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Earth: Surface
  
Earth: Surface/Analyze/Technology
The learner will be able to analyze how technology impacts the surface of the earth.
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Earth: Surface
  
Weather: Change/Describe/Seasons
The learner will be able to describe how the weather changes based on the seasons.
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Weather: Change
  
Weather: Change/Explain/Michigan's
The learner will be able to explain Michigan's seasonal weather changes.
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Weather: Change
  
Weather: Influences On/Describe/Causes
The learner will be able to describe what causes various types of weather.
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Weather: Influences On
  
Water: Uses/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize how water is used.
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Water: Uses
  
Water: Uses/Explain
The learner will be able to explain uses of water.
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Water: Uses
  
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Life Science

Animals: Adaptations/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the ways that behavioral and physical adaptations give animals the capability to respond to the needs of life.
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Animals
  
Living Things: Needs
The learner will be able to describe the basic needs living things require for survival.
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Living Things
  
Living Things: Characteristics/Survival
The learner will be able to describe how the characteristics of living things, physical and/or behavioral, help them survive.
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Living Things
  
Living Things: Relationships/Dependence
The learner will be able to describe patterns of interrelationships and interdependence among living things.
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Living Things
  
Environment: Objects/Describe
The learner will be able to describe objects found in the environment.
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Environment
  
Environment: Understand/Interactions
The learner will be able to understand the interactions within an environment.
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Environment
  
Environment: Materials/Explain/Reused
The learner will be able to explain the way in which materials are reused in the environment.
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Environment
  
Fossils: Describe/Evidenced/Organisms
The learner will be able to describe how organisms from long ago are evidenced in fossils.
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Fossils
  
Animals & Plants: Plan/Growth/System
The learner will be able to plan systems that foster the growth of certain plants or animals.
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Animals and Plants
  
Animals: Parts/Describe/Observable
The learner will be able to describe properties and functions of various animals' observable body structures.
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Animals: Parts
  
Heredity: Generations/Explain
The learner will be able to explain how characteristics are passed on through generations.
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Heredity
  
Life Cycle: Comprehend
The learner will be able to comprehend the life cycles of living things.
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Living Things: Life Cycle
  
Life Cycle: Explain/Particular
The learner will be able to explain the life cycles of particular living things.
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Living Things: Life Cycle
  
Life Cycle: Describe
The learner will be able to describe the life cycle of living things.
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Living Things: Life Cycle
  
Life Cycle: Differences/Variety
The learner will be able to find differences in the life cycles of a variety of organisms.
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Living Things: Life Cycle
  
Organisms: Survive/Reproduce/Compare
The learner will be able to compare ways that organisms are adapted to survive and reproduce in their environments.
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Organisms: Survival
  
Food Webs: Recognize/Living Things
The learner will be able to recognize common living things as components of a food chain or food web.
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Food Webs
  
Food Web: Organisms/Relationships
The learner will be able to explain the feeding relationships among organisms within a particular food web.
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Food Webs
  
Species: Describe/Differ/Reasons
The learner will be able to describe the reasons that living things within a species differ.
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Species
  
Species: Describe/Alter/Over/Time
The learner will be able to describe how species alter over time.
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Species
  
Environment: Humans Interaction
The learner will be able to explain how humans both positively and negatively affect the environment.
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Environment: Human Activities
  
Environment: Human Activities/Examine
The learner will be able to examine the ecological impact of human interactions with the environment.
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Environment: Human Activities
  
Cells: Multicellular/Apply/Function
The learner will be able to apply knowledge of the function of cells in multicellular living things, including cell growth, development, and reproduction.
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Cells: Single and Multiple
  
Ecosystems: Energy/Matter/Distribution
The learner will be able to describe the distribution of energy to organisms in an ecosystem.
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Ecosystems: Energy/Matter
  
Living Things: Compare/Contrast
The learner will be able to compare and contrast living things in terms of food, energy, and environmental needs.
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Living Things: Characteristics
  
Living Things: Find/Similarities
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in familiar living things based on observable physical properties.
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Living Things: Characteristics
  
Living Things: Energy/Describe
The learner will be able to describe how organisms obtain and utilize energy.
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Living Things: Energy
  
Living Things: Energy/Explain/Transform
The learner will be able to explain the way in which organisms transform energy.
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Living Things: Energy
  
Living Things: Energy/Explore
The learner will be able to explore how organisms obtain and utilize energy.
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Living Things: Energy
  
Organisms: Classify/Explain/Groups
The learner will be able to explain groups of organisms by utilizing classification systems.
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Organisms: Characteristics
  
Organisms: Characteristics/Classify
The learner will be able to classify organisms based on various observable characteristics.
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Organisms: Characteristics
  
Organisms: Classify/Physical Attributes
The learner will be able to classify organisms based on physical attributes.
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Organisms: Characteristics
  
Organisms: Compare/Physical Attributes
The learner will be able to compare the physical attributes of organisms.
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Organisms: Characteristics
  
Food Chain: Recognize/Living Things
The learner will be able to recognize common living things as components of a food chain.
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Food Chains
  
Organisms: Structure/Show
The learner will be able to show comprehension of the structure of organisms.
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Organisms: Function and Structure
  
Organisms: Function/Structure/Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze how the structures of organisms are adapted to perform specific functions.
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Organisms: Function and Structure
  
Vertebrates: Characteristics/Observable
The learner will be able to use observable body parts and attributes to explain vertebrates.
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Vertebrates: Characteristics
  
Environment: Analyze/Technology
The learner will be able to analyze how technology impacts the resources of the earth.
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Environment: Resources
  
Environment: Adaptation/Understand
The learner will be able to develop an understanding of environmental adaptation.
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Environment: Adaptation
  
Life: Origin/Describe/Theories
The learner will be able to describe the way in which scientists form and scientifically test theories pertaining to the origin of life.
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Life
  
Communities: Describe/Alter/Over/Time
The learner will be able to describe how organism communities alter over time.
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Biological Communities
  
Communities: Alterations/Explore
The learner will be able to explore the alterations in communities of organisms over time.
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Biological Communities
  
Heredity: Mutation/Describe/New Traits
The learner will be able to describe how gene manipulation or alteration can establish new traits.
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Heredity: Mutation
  
Heredity: Traits/Provide/Evidence/Passed
The learner will be able to provide evidence that traits are passed from parents to offspring.
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Heredity: Traits
  
Heredity: Traits/Explore/Generations
The learner will be able to explore how traits are passed from one generation to the next.
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Heredity: Traits
  
Seed Plants: Explain/Functions/Parts
The learner will be able to explain the functions of certain parts in seed plants.
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Seed Plants
  
Recycling: Show/Disposition
The learner will be able to show a disposition toward recycling.
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Environment: Recycling
  
Recycling: Show/Manufactured
The learner will be able to show ways of recycling manufactured materials.
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Environment: Recycling
  
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle: Show/Conserve
The learner will be able to show methods to conserve natural resources by reducing, reusing, and recycling synthetic materials.
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Environment: Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
  
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle: Show/Pollution
The learner will be able to show methods to reduce pollution by reducing, reusing, and recycling synthetic materials.
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Environment: Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
  
Ecosystems: Interactions/Describe/Parts
The learner will be able to describe how parts of an ecosystem interact.
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Ecosystems: Interactions
  
Ecosystems: Dependency/Relationships
The learner will be able to describe the relationships between parts of ecosystems.
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Ecosystems: Relationships/Dependency
  
Ecosystems: Cycles/Explain/Materials
The learner will be able to explain how materials cycle through an ecosystem.
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Ecosystems: Cycles
  
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Physical Science

Motion: Direction/Speed/Explain/Compare
The learner will be able to explain or compare the direction and speed of the motions of objects.
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Motion
  
Objects: Measure
The learner will be able to measure objects in terms of weight, dimensions, and temperature.
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Objects
  
Objects: Measure
The learner will be able to measure objects.
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Objects
  
Objects: Build/Technological Purpose
The learner will be able to build simple objects that satisfy a technological purpose.
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Objects
  
Materials: Measure
The learner will be able to measure materials in terms of weight, dimensions, and temperature.
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Materials
  
Matter: Changes/Explain
The learner will be able to explain changes in matter.
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Matter
  
Matter: Changes/Explain/Organisms
The learner will be able to explain how matter changes due to organisms.
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Matter
  
Matter: Changes/Technology
The learner will be able to explain how matter changes due to technology.
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Matter
  
Matter: Alterations/Atoms/Molecules
The learner will be able to describe how observable matter alterations are associated with molecules and atoms.
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Matter
  
Matter: Alterations/Investigate
The learner will be able to investigate alterations in matter.
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Matter
  
Matter: Alterations/Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze alterations in matter.
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Matter
  
Motion: How/Describe
The learner will be able to describe how objects move.
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Motion
  
Light: Shadows/Phenomena/Describe
The learner will be able to describe shadows and other light phenomena.
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Light
  
Sound: Explain
The learner will be able to explain sounds.
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Sound
  
Electricity: Hazards
The learner will be able to describe electrical hazards that may be found at school or at home.
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Electricity
  
Electricity: Interaction
The learner will be able to describe how electrically charged materials interact with other charged and uncharged materials.
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Electricity
  
Energy: Transformations/Technology
The learner will be able to explain how energy is transformed by technology.
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Energy: Transformations
  
Energy: Transformations/Motion
The learner will be able to associate energy transformations with motion.
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Energy: Transformations
  
Energy: Matter/Describe/Changes
The learner will be able to describe how changes in matter and energy are related.
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Energy: Matter
  
Electricity: Circuits/Build/Basic/Useful
The learner will be able to build basic electrical circuits that are useful.
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Electricity: Circuits
  
Magnetism: Interaction
The learner will be able to describe how magnetic materials interact with other magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
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Magnetism: Properties
  
Materials: Properties/Purposes
The learner will be able to recognize the characteristics of materials that enable them to be specifically suited to certain purposes.
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Materials: Properties
  
Materials: Properties/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize the properties of materials that make them beneficial.
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Materials: Properties
  
Matter: Physical Changes/Explain/Typical
The learner will be able to explain typical physical changes of matter: size, shape, melting, freezing, dissolving.
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Matter: Physical Changes
  
Matter: Physical Changes/Explain
The learner will be able to explain typical physical changes of matter including evaporation.
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Matter: Physical Changes
  
Motion: Control/Describe/Ways
The learner will be able to describe the ways that the motion of objects can be controlled.
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Motion: Control
  
Motion: Control/Show/Ways
The learner will be able to show the ways that the motion of objects can be controlled.
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Motion: Control
  
Objects: Properties/Classify
The learner will be able to classify objects based on their observable properties.
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Objects: Properties
  
Substances: Properties/Classify
The learner will be able to classify substances based on their observable properties.
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Substances: Properties
  
Matter: Chemical and Physical Changes
The learner will be able to apply an understanding of changes of matter.
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Matter: Chemical and Physical Changes
  
Electricity & Magnetism: Matter/Inte
The learner will be able to describe how matter interacts with electricity and magnetism.
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Electricity and Magnetism
  
Mixtures: Utilize/Electrophoresis
The learner will be able to utilize electrophoresis to separate molecules.
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Mixtures
  
Mixtures: Components
The learner will be able to create mixtures and separate them into their component parts.
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Mixtures
  
Shadows: Formation
The learner will be able to explain how shadows are formed.
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Shadows
  
Waves: Explain
The learner will be able to explain waves.
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Waves
  
Matter: Properties/Know
The learner will be able to know the properties of matter.
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Matter: Properties
  
Motion: Objects/Describe/Reasons
The learner will be able to describe the reasons objects move in particular ways.
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Motion: Objects
  
Energy: Develop/Understanding
The learner will be able to develop an understanding of energy.
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Energy
  
Energy: Associate/Motion
The learner will be able to associate energy with motion.
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Energy
  
Energy: Types/Identify
The learner will be able to identify the different types of energy.
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Energy: Types
  
Energy: Types/Recognize/Events
The learner will be able to recognize energy types related to common events.
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Energy: Types
  
Energy: Types/Explain
The learner will be able to explain various types of energy.
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Energy: Types
  
Energy: Types/Recognize/Occurrences
The learner will be able to recognize types of energy related to everyday occurrences.
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Energy: Types
  
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Research and Inquiry

Evidence: Develop/Awareness/Decisions
The learner will be able to develop an awareness of the importance of evidence in making scientific decisions.
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Evidence
  
Instruments: Handle/Devices/Help
The learner will be able to handle simple devices that help in observation and data collection.
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Questioning
  
Science: History/Acquire/Awareness
The learner will be able to acquire an awareness of scientific contributions by people of various cultures and backgrounds.
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Science: History
  
Machines: Handle/Basic/Device
The learner will be able to handle basic mechanical devices.
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Instruments: Machines
  
Evidence: Importance
The learner will be able to understand the importance of evidence in making scientific decisions.
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Evidence
  
Investigations: Express/Technology
The learner will be able to express findings of explorations using suitable technology.
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Investigations
  
Observations: Summarize
The learner will be able to summarize observation findings.
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Observations
  
Questioning: Develop/Observations
The learner will be able to use observation skills to develop reasonable questions about the world.
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Questioning
  
Questioning: Develop/Observations
The learner will be able to use observation skills to develop scientific questions about the world.
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Questioning
  
Questioning: Pose/Assist/World
The learner will be able to pose questions that assist him/her to gain knowledge about the world.
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Questioning
  
Arguments: Analyze/Claims/Merit
The learner will be able to analyze claims to determine their scientific merit.
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Arguments
  
Real World: Describe/Composition
The learner will be able to describe the composition of their surroundings.
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Real World
  
Problem Solving: Develop/Skills
The learner will be able to develop the skills of problem solving.
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Problem Solving
  
Problem Solving: Solution/Devise
The learner will be able to devise solutions to unfamiliar problems by using reasoning, observation, and/or experimentation.
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Problem Solving
  
Graphs: Create/Summaries/Observations
The learner will be able to create summaries of observations from graphs and charts.
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Graphing
  
Science: Describe/Other Ways/Related
The learner will be able to describe how science and other ways of comprehension are related.
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Science
  
Science: Demonstrate/Ideas/Expression
The learner will be able to demonstrate how ideas in science can be exhibited through creative expression.
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Science
  
Resources: Learn/Books/Information
The learner will be able to learn from books and additional information sources.
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Resources
  
Technology: Describe/Daily Life
The learner will be able to describe the ways in which technology is used in daily life.
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Technology
  
Science, Tech. & Society: Demonstrat
The learner will be able to demonstrate how our society is affected by science and technology.
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Science, Tech. & Society
  
Technology: Investigations/Plan
The learner will be able to plan explorations utilizing suitable technology.
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Technology: Investigations
  
Data: Collection/Develop/Skills
The learner will be able to develop skills for collecting data.
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Data: Collection
  
Data: Collection/Develop/Plans
The learner will be able to develop plans for collecting data and solving problems.
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Data: Collection
  
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