Standards & Benchmarks for Motion

Legend: F=Focus in Lesson O=Ongoing Development E=Early Development

NSE STANDARDS			LESSONS													SBA
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	S1	S2
A. Science as Inquiry
	Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
		Ask a question about objects, organisms, and events in the environment.				O	O	O		O	O	O		O		O
		Plan and conduct a simple investigation.	O			O	F		O	F	O	O		O
		Employ simple equipment and tools to gather data and extend the senses.				O	F	O	O	O	O	O		O			F
		Use data to construct a reasonable explanation.				F	O	O	O	O	O	O		O
		Communicate investigations and explanations.	O	O		F	O	O	O	O	O	O		O	O
	Understandings About Scientific Inquiry
		Scientific investigations involve asking and answering a question and comparing the answer with what scientists already know about the world.									O	O
		Scientists use different kinds of investigations depending on the questions they are trying to answer. Types of investigations include describing objects, events, and organisms; classifying them; and doing a fair test (experimenting).	O			O		O		F	F	F		O
		Simple instruments, such as magnifiers, thermometers, and rulers, provide more information than scientists obtain using only their senses.				O			O		O			O			F
		Scientists develop explanations using observations (evidence) and what they already know about the world (scientific knowledge). Good explanations are based on evidence from investigations.					O		O	O	O	O	O	O	O
		Scientists make the results of their investigations public; they describe the investigations in ways that enable others to repeat the investigations.					O			O	O
		Scientists review and ask questions about the results of other scientists' work.					O			O	O
B. Physical Science
	Properties of objects and materials
		Objects are made of one or more materials such as paper, wood, and metal. Objects can be described by the properties of the materials from which they are made, and those properties can be used to separate or sort a group of objects or materials.														F
	Position and Motion of Objects
		The position of an object can be described by locating it relative to another object or the background.		E	O		O	O	O	O	O		O		O
		An object's motion can be described by tracing and measuring its position over time.		E	F	F	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O
		The position and motion of objects can be changed by pushing or pulling. The size of the change is related to the strength of the push or pull.					F	F	F	O	F	F	O	O	O
E. Science and Technology
	Abilities of Technological Design
		Identify a simple problem; propose a solution; implement proposed solutions; evaluate a product or design; communicate a problem, design, and solution.							O
	Understanding About Science and Technology
		Tools help scientists make better observations, measurements, and equipment for investigations. They help scientists see, measure, and do things that they could not otherwise see, measure, and do.															F

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Legend: F=Focus in Lesson O=Ongoing Development E=Early Development

AAAS BENCHMARKS			LESSONS													SBA
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	S1	S2
1. The Nature of Science
	A. The Scientific World View
		When a science investigation is done the way it was done before, we expect to get a very similar result.				E			O	F	F			F
	B. Scientific Inquiry
		People can often learn about things around them by just observing those things carefully, but sometimes they can learn more by doing something to the things and noting what happens.					O	O	F	O	O	O	O	O
		Tools such as thermometers, magnifiers, rulers, or balances often give more information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without their help.				O			O		O			O			F
		Describing things as accurately as possible is important in science because it enables people to compare their observations with those of others.	F	F	F		O	O	O	O	O	O	O	F	O	F
		When people give different descriptions of the same thing, it is usually a good idea to make some fresh observations instead of just arguing about who is right.								O	O			F
	C. The Scientific Enterprise
		In doing science, it is often helpful to work with a team and to share findings with others. All team members should reach their own conclusions, however, about what the findings mean.				O			O	O	O	O		O	O
2. The Nature of Mathematics
	A. Patterns and Relationships
		Things move, or can be made to move, along straight, curved, circular, back-and-forth, and jagged paths.	F	O	F		O	O					O		O
	C. Mathematical Inquiry
		Numbers and shapes can be used to tell about things.		O	O	O											O
3. The Nature of Technology
	A. Technology and Science
		Tools are used to do things better or more easily and to do some thiings that could not otherwise be done at all. In technology, tools are used to observe, measure, and make things.														O	O
4. The Physical Setting
	F. Motion
		Things move in many different ways, such as straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, and fast and slow.	F	O	F	F	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O
		The way to change how something is moving is to give it a push or a pull.					F	F	F	O	O	O	O	O	O
		Something that is moving may move steadily or change its direction. The greater the force is, the greater the change in motion will be. The more massive an object is, the less effect a given force will have. (Grades 3 through 5)						F	F	F	F	O		O	O
	G. Forces of Nature
		Things near the earth fall to the ground unless something holds them up.											F	O	O
6. The Human Organism
	F. Learning
		People use their senses to find out about their surroundings and themselves. Different senses give different information. Sometimes a person can get different information about the same thing by moving closer to it or further away from it.	O	O										O	O	F
		Some of the things people do, like playing soccer, reading, and writing, must be deliberately learned. Practicing helps people to improve. How well one learns something depends on how one does it and how often and how hard one tries to learn.															O
		People can learn from each other by telling and listening, showing and watching, and imitating what others do.														O	O
9. The Mathematical World
	D. Uncertainty
		Some things are more likely to happen than others. Some events can be predicted well and some cannot. Sometimes people aren't sure what will happen because they don't know everything that might be having an effect.							*	O	O	O		O
12. Habits of Mind
	A. Values and Attitudes
		Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out.					O	O	O	O	O	O		O	O
	D. Communicaiton Skills
		Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O		O	O	F
		Draw pictures that correctly portray at least some features of the thing being described.		F			O			O			O			O
	E. Critical-Response Skills
		Ask "How do you know?" in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when others ask them the same question.										O	O		O

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