The curriculum will be based on the Science Netlinks website from the American Academy for Advancement of Science, see http://sciencenetlinks.com/about.php
Also the Teacher Domain website http://www.teachersdomain.org/collection/k12/sci/
will be used as an additional resource for selecting digital media or lesson plans
At the heart of Science NetLinks are standards-based lesson plans that incorporate reviewed Internet resources, and can be selected according to specific benchmarks and grade ranges. Each lesson is tied to at least one learning goal and uses research-based instructional strategies that support student learning.
The objectives selected below are based on input specifying fun interactive in-school classes in the following areas: Chemistry, Engineering, Physics and Thermodynamics. Optional internet activities will be provided on a website to enhance each in-school class.
The Structure of Matter
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Heating and cooling cause changes in the properties of materials.
2. No matter how parts of an object are assembled, the weight of the whole object made is always the same as the sum of the parts; and when a thing is broken into parts, the parts have the same total weight as the original thing.
3. Materials may be composed of parts that are too small to be seen without magnification.
4. When a new material is made by combining two or more materials, it has properties that are different from the original materials.
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E. Energy Transformations
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Things that give off light often also give off heat.
2. When warmer things are put with cooler ones, the warm ones lose heat and the cool ones gain it until they are all at the same temperature.
3. Some materials conduct heat much better than others.
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F. Motion
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Changes in speed or direction of motion are caused by forces.
2. How fast things move differs greatly.
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G. Forces of Nature
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. The earth's gravity pulls any object toward it without touching it.
2. Without touching them, a magnet pulls on all things made of iron and either pushes or pulls on other magnets.
3. Without touching them, material that has been electrically charged pulls on all other materials and may either push or pull other charged materials.
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Design and Systems
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. There is no perfect design.
2. Even a good design may fail.
3. The solution to one problem may create other problems.
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C. Issues in Technology
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Technology has been part of life on the earth since the advent of the human species.
2. Any invention is likely to lead to other inventions.
3. Transportation, communications, nutrition, sanitation, health care, entertainment, and other technologies give large numbers of people today the goods and services that once were luxuries enjoyed only by the wealthy.
4. Scientific laws, engineering principles, properties of materials, and construction techniques must be taken into account in designing engineering solutions to problems.
5. Technologies often have drawbacks as well as benefits.
6. Because of their ability to invent tools and processes, people have an enormous effect on the lives of other living things.
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B. Materials and Manufacturing
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Naturally occurring materials such as wood, clay, cotton, and animal skins may be processed or combined with other materials to change their properties.
2. Through science and technology, a wide variety of materials that do not appear in nature at all have become available, ranging from steel to nylon to liquid crystals.
3. Discarded products contribute to the problem of waste disposal.
4. Through mass production, the time required to make a product and its cost can be greatly reduced.
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C. Energy Sources and Use
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Moving air and water can be used to run machines.
2. The sun is the main source of energy for people and they use it in various ways.
3. Some energy sources cost less than others and some cause less pollution than others.
4. People try to conserve energy in order to slow down the depletion of energy resources and/or to save money.
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. In something that consists of many parts, the parts usually influence one another.
2. Something may not work as well (or at all) if a part of it is missing, broken, worn out, mismatched, or misconnected.
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B. Models
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Seeing how a model works after changes are made to it may suggest how the real thing would work if the same were done to it.
2. Geometric figures, number sequences, graphs, diagrams, sketches, number lines, maps, and stories can be used to represent objects, events, and processes in the real world, although such representations can never be exact in every detail.
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C. Constancy and Change
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Some features of things may stay the same even when other features change.
2. Things change in steady, repetitive, or irregular ways or sometimes in more than one way at the same time.
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D. Scale
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By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
1. Almost anything has limits on how big or small it can be.
2. Finding out what the biggest and the smallest possible values of something are is often as revealing as knowing what the usual value is.
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