The Bosque Education Guide: Education Standards
Science Part 1: 2003 Content Standards and Benchmarks
Strand I: Scientific Thinking and Practice |
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| Standard I: Understand the processes of scientific investigations and use inquiry and scientific ways of observing, experimenting, predicting, and validating to think critically. | Activity Number* |
| K-4 Benchmark I: Use scientific methods to observe, collect, record, analyze, predict, interpret, and determine reasonableness of data. | 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 32 |
| 5-8 Benchmark I: Use scientific methods to develop questions, design and conduct experiments using appropriate technologies, analyze and evaluate results, make predictions, and communicate findings. | 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 22, 32 |
| 9-12 Benchmark I: Use accepted scientific methods to collect, analyze, and interpret data and observations and to design and conduct scientific investigations and communicate results | 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 22, 24, 28, 32, 33c |
| K-4 Benchmark II: Use scientific thinking and knowledge and communicate findings. | 2, 3, 13, 32, 40 |
| 5-8 Benchmark II: Understand the processes of scientific investigation and how scientific inquiry results in scientific knowledge. | 2, 3, 13, 28, 32, 33, 40 |
| 9-12 Benchmark II: Understand that scientific processes produce scientific knowledge that is continually evaluated, validated, revised, or rejected. | 4, 13, 22, 24, 28, 32, 33, 36, 40 |
| K-4 Benchmark III: Use mathematical skills and vocabulary to analyze data, understand patterns and relationships, and communicate findings. | 6, 25 |
| 5-8 Benchmark III: Use mathematical ideas, tools, and techniques to understand scientific knowledge | 6, 8, 9, 14, 22, 24, 28, 33, 34, 35 |
| 9-12 Benchmark III: Use mathematical concepts, principles, and expressions to analyze data, develop models, understand patterns and relationships, evaluate findings, and draw conclusions. | 8, 9, 22, 24, 28, 33, 34, 35 |
Strand II: Content of Science |
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| Standard I (Physical Science): Understand the structure and properties of matter, the characteristics of energy, and the interactions between matter and energy. | Activity Number* |
| K-4 Benchmark I: Recognize that matter has different forms and properties. | 2, 3, 26, 29 |
| 5-8 Benchmark I: Know the forms and properties of matter and how matter interacts. | 26, 29, 30, 32 |
| 9-12 Benchmark I: Understand the properties, underlying structure, and reactions of matter. | 28, 32 |
| Standard II (Life Science): Understand the properties, structures, and processes of living things and the interdependence of living things and their environments. | |
| K-4 Benchmark I: Know that living things have diverse forms, structures, functions, and habitats. | 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 |
| 5-8 Benchmark I: Explain the diverse structures and functions of living things and the complex relationships between living things and their environments. | 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33 |
| 9-12 Benchmark I: Understand how the survival of species depends on biodiversity and on complex interactions, including the cycling of matter and the flow of energy. | 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 33, 34 |
| K-4 Benchmark II: Know that living things have similarities and differences and that living things change over time. | 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 |
| 5-8 Benchmark II: Understand how traits are passed from one generation to the next and how species evolve. | 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
| 9-12 Benchmark II: Understand the genetic basis for inheritance and the basic concepts of biological evolution. | 4, 8, 9, 10 |
| 5-8 Benchmark III: Understand the structure of organisms and the function of cells in living systems. | 10 |
| 9-12 Benchmark III: Understand the characteristics, structures, and functions of cells. | 10 |
| Standard III (Earth and Space Science): Understand the structure of Earth, the solar system, and the universe, the interconnections among them, and the processes and interactions of Earth’s systems. | Activity Number* |
| K-4 Benchmark II: Know the structure and formation of Earth and its atmosphere and the processes that shape them. | 13, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32 |
| 5-8 Benchmark II: Describe the structure of Earth and its atmosphere and explain how energy, matter, and forces shape Earth’s systems. | 13, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32 |
| 9-12 Benchmark II: Examine the scientific theories of the origin, structure, energy, and evolution of Earth and its atmosphere, and their interconnections. | 13, 26, 27, 32 |
Strand III: Science and Society |
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| Standard I: Understand how scientific discoveries, inventions, practices, and knowledge influence, and are influenced by, individuals and societies. | |
| K-4 Benchmark I: Describe how science influences decisions made by individuals and societies. | 11, 13, 17, 40 |
| 5-8 Benchmark I: Explain how scientific discoveries and inventions have changed individuals and societies | 11, 13, 17, 18, 33, 40 |
| 9-12 Benchmark I: Examine and analyze how scientific discoveries and their applications affect the world, and explain how societies influence scientific investigations and applications. | 4, 13, 17, 18, 24, 34, 36, 37 |
