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CONSTRUCTING REFLECTING

USING LIFE SCIENCE CELLS ORGANIZATION OF LIVING THINGS HEREDITY EVOLUTION ECOSYSTEMS

USING EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE GEOSPHERE HYDROSPHERE ATMOSPHERE SPACE SCIENCE

USING PHYSICAL SCIENCE MATTER AND ENERGY CHANGES IN MATTER MOTIONS OF OBJECTS WAVES AND VIBRATIONS

CONSTRUCTING

How do scientists ask questions that help them learn about the world?

How do scientists figure out answers to their questions?

How do scientists learn about the world from books and other sources of information?

How do scientists communicate their findings?


REFLECTING

How do scientists decide what to believe?

How is science related to other ways of knowing?

How do science and technology affect our society?

How of people of many and various cultures contributed to and influenced developments in science?

Relecting and Constructing on Sound.......on Cancer

USING LIFE SCIENCE

CELLS

What are cells?

How did scientist discover cells?

Why are cells important?

How are cells adapted to grow, develop and reproduce?

How do cells use energy and food?

What are some differences and similarities between plant and animal cells, between a nerve and blood cell?


ORGANIZATION OF LIVING THINGS

How are groups of living things classified?

How do life cycles of living things differ?

How do living things obtain and use energy?


HEREDITY

How are characteristics of living things passed on through generations?

How can new traits be established in populations of organisms?


EVOLUTION

How do scientists trace the origin and development of species?

In what ways are various kinds of living things adapted to survive in their environment?

How do species change through time?


ECOSYSTEMS

How are parts of an ecosystem related and do these parts interact?

How is energy distributed to living things in an ecosystem?

How do communities of living things change over a period of time?

How do materials cycle through an ecosystem and get reused in the environment?

How do humans interact with the environment?


USING EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE

GEOSPHERE

What is the earth's surface like?

How do the earth's features change over time?

What effects has technology had on the earth's surface and resources?


HYDROSPHERE

Where is water found on earth and what are its characteristics?

How does water move?

How do human activities interact with the hydrosphere?


ATMOSPHERE

What makes up weather and how does it change from day to day, from season to season, and over long periods of time?

What causes different kinds of weather?

What are the relationships between human activities and the atmosphere?


SPACE SCIENCE

How does our planet and sun compare to other planets and star systems?

How do objects in the solar system move?

How did the universe begin?

How do we learn about the universe?


PHYSICAL SCIENCE

MATTER AND ENERGY

How do we describe the things around us?

What is the world around us made of?

What is energy?

How do electricity and magnetism interact with matter?


CHANGES IN MATTER

How does matter change?

How do living things and human technology change matter and transform energy?

How are visible changes in matter related to atoms and molecules?

How are changes in matter related to changes in energy?


MOTIONS OF OBJECTS

How do the things around us move?

Why do things move as they do?

How can we control the motions of objects?

How is motion related to energy and energy conversion?


WAVES AND VIBRATIONS

How can we describe sound?

How can we describe light?

How can we describe and measure vibrations and waves?

How do waves and vibrations transfer energy?