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CURRICULUM GUIDE
Science - Grade 4

Goal 11: Inquiry/Tech Design
Standard 11.A
The learner will be able to know and apply the concepts, principles and processes of scientific inquiry.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.A   Master IL: Learning Standards, 1997, Late Elementary, 11.A Classroom
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Questioning: Formulate/Answer
The learner will be able to formulate questions and choose steps needed to answer the questions: (Knowledge) - describing science observation concepts used to ask questions on a specific topic; (Knowledge) - remembering scientific knowledge and concepts appropriate to a scientific topic used to ask questions; (Knowledge) - recalling the logical sequence of a scientific investigation to answer questions; (Application) - analyzing a simple research question that they can answer with observations and scientific knowledge; (Application) - applying the logical sequence of steps of a scientific investigation to answer a question.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.A Analysis Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11A, Stage D Classroom
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Data: Collection/Investigation
The learner will be able to collect data for investigations by: (Knowledge) - recognizing how to use observation to collect and record data; (Knowledge) - recognizing how to collect the amount and quality of data to investigate a question or solve a problem; (Knowledge) - describing estimation, measurement concepts, and tools to collect and record data; (Knowledge) - identifying simple validation methods to check data for accuracy; (Application) - using observation to collect and record data; (Application) - collecting the amount and quality of data to investigate a question or solve a problem; (Application) - using estimation, measurement concepts, and tools to collect and record data; (Application) - using simple validation methods given to them to check data for accuracy.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Data Collection Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11A, Stage D Classroom
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Data: Graphical Construction
The learner will be able to construct charts and visualizations to display data by: (Knowledge) - explaining data using various kinds of graphs and charts; (Knowledge) - examine examples of simple graphs and charts produced by a computer or other technology; (Application) - reporting data from a variety of graphs and charts; (Application) - using a computer or other technology to produce simple graphs and charts.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.A Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11A, Stage D Classroom
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Data: Assessment/Make/Explanations
The learner will be able to use data to produce reasonable explanations by: (Knowledge) - identifying data from multiple observations and sources of the same event that explain an effect or result; (Application) - using data from multiple observations and sources of the same event to explain an effect or result.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.A Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11A, Stage D Classroom
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Investigations: Conducting/Group
The learner will be able to report and display results of individual and group investigations by: (Knowledge) - identifying graphs and charts to report the results of small group observations of the same event; (Knowledge) - describe examples of a variety of approaches to communicate the results of individual and group investigations; (Application) - construct graphs and charts from forms given to them to report the results of small group observations of the same event; (Application) - discuss a variety of approaches to communicate the results.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.A Analysis Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11A, Stage D Classroom
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Standard 11.B
The learner will be able to know and apply the concepts, principles and processes of technological design.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.B Application Master IL: Learning Standards, 1997, Late Elementary, 11.B Classroom
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Design: Solution/Propose
The learner will be able to identify a design problem and propose possible solutions by: (Knowledge) - listing possible design problems; (Knowledge) - describing possible design solutions to a given design problem; (Application) - determine a design problem from a list of possibilities; (Application) - recording possible solutions to a given design problem.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.B Analysis Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11B, Stage D Classroom
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Procedures: Develop
The learner will be able to develop a plan, design a procedure to address the problem to be solved, and identify constraints by: (Knowledge) - listening to a group discussion of the design plan and procedure within time limits and with available materials; (Application) - sketching a design plan for the solution to the problem within time limits and available materials.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.B Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11B, Stage D Classroom
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Models: Build
The learner will be able to build a model of the design using available tools and materials by: (Knowledge) - researching prototypes or models to be built according to a design using available tools and materials; (Application) - construct a list of steps to build a prototype or model according to a design using available tools and materials.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.B Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11B, Stage D Classroom
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Prototype: Test/Instrument/Techniques
The learner will be able to test the prototype using suitable instruments, techniques, and quantitative measurements to record data by: (Knowledge) - listing steps involved in testing a prototype or model, the test instruments, techniques, and quantitative measurements to record; (Knowledge) - discovering that the test of the prototype or model will be replicated and the results compared; (Application) - experimenting with a prototype or model; (Application) - collecting and recording data for a prototype or model.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.B Analysis Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11B, Stage D Classroom
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Conclusions: Assess/Errors
The learner will be able to assess the test results and effectiveness of a design, when given criteria including possible sources of error by: (Knowledge) - identifying, from given criteria, including possible sources of error during the design testing; (Knowledge) - recognizing parts of a design plan or prototype that need to be changed after initial tests of a devise; (Application) - experimenting with a design plan or prototype to see how it matches up against test criteria; (Application) - preparing changes in a design plan or prototype after tests have shown sources of error.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.B Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11B, Stage D Classroom
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Test: Design/Processes/Results
The learner will be able to report a test design, test processes, and test results by: (Knowledge) - identifying test designs, procedures, and results; (Application) - discovering that an organized presentation should include: how the test was designed, how the test was conducted, and an explanation of the test results; (Application) - show a test design, procedures, and results.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 11.B Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 11B, Stage D Classroom
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Goal 12: Life/Physical/Earth/Space
Standard 12.A
The learner will be able to know and apply concepts that explain how living things function, adapt and change.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.A   Master IL: Learning Standards, 1997, Late Elementary, 12.A Classroom
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Animals & Plants: Life Cycle/Know
The learner will be able to know the simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring by: (Knowledge) - labeling the stages of simple life cycles of selected plants and animals; (Knowledge) - observing stages of simple life cycles of selected plants and animals; (Knowledge) - observing the similarities and differences of offspring and their parents; (Application) - identifying the stages of simple life cycles of selected plants and animals; (Application) - recording observations of the life cycle of selected plants and animals; (Application) - listing characteristics of offspring with their parents.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.A Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12A, Stage D Classroom
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Heredity: Traits/Sort/Inherited/Learned
The learner will be able to categorize features as either inherited or learned by: (Knowledge) - identifying the behavior and characteristics of selected plants and animals; (Knowledge) - telling the difference between inherited and learned characteristics of living organisms; (Application) - comparing the behavior and characteristics of selected plants and animals to determine whether their characteristics are inherited or learned.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.A Comprehension Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12A, Stage D Classroom
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Standard 12.B
The learner will be able to know and apply concepts that describe how living things interact with each other and with their environment.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.B   Master IL: Learning Standards, 1997, Late Elementary, 12.B Classroom
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Environment: Organisms
The learner will be able to know the relationships among various organisms in their environments by: (Knowledge) - matching predator with prey in a habitat illustration; (Knowledge) - describing a simple parasite/host relationship with which they are familiar (e.g., mosquito, tick or leech).; (Knowledge) - describing a simple food chain or food web; (Application) - reporting on the predator/prey relationships that are commonly found in local habitats; (Application) - choosing which parasite most often infects a host (e.g., leech to fish, flea to dog); (Application) - investigating a simple food chain and or web of organisms from a habitat.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.B Analysis Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12B, Stage D Classroom
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Environment: Adaptation
The learner will be able to know how an organism's physical features help it live in its environment by: (Knowledge) - listing which physical features help a plant survive in its environment; (Knowledge) - listing which physical features help an animal survive in its environment; (Application) - reporting on plant adaptations that suit them for a particular environment; (Application) - reporting on animal adaptations that suit them for a particular environment.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.B Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12B, Stage D Classroom
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Standard 12.C
The learner will be able to know and apply concepts that describe properties of matter and energy and the interactions between them.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.C   Master IL: Learning Standards, 1997, Late Elementary, 12.C Classroom
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Energy: Types/Know
The learner will be able to know different types of energy including light, heat, sound, electrical, and mechanical by: (Knowledge) - listing types of energy; (Knowledge) - observing experiments that investigate the interrelationships among various types of energy; (Application) - demonstrating different types of energy; (Application) - conducting simple experiments to investigate the interrelationships among various types of energy.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.C Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12C, Stage D Classroom
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Matter: Properties/Matter
The learner will be able to know the properties of solids, liquids, and gases by: (Knowledge) - listing the properties of solids, liquids, and gases; (Knowledge) - listening to an explanation of the differences among the properties of solids, liquids, and gases; (Application) - conducting experiments to investigate concepts related to properties of matter.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.C Application Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12C, Stage D Classroom
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Standard 12.D
The learner will be able to know and apply concepts that describe force and motion and the principles that explain them.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.D   Master IL: Learning Standards, 1997, Late Elementary, 12.D Classroom
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Motion: Variable/Constant/Periodic
The learner will be able to know constant, variable, and periodic motions by: (Knowledge) - defining constant, variable, and periodic motions; (Application) - choosing whether motion is constant, variable or periodic.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.D Comprehension Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12D, Stage D Classroom
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Forces: Action/Reaction
The learner will be able to know ways forces cause actions and reactions by: (Knowledge) - discovering the causal relationships of forces in terms of actions and reactions; (Knowledge) - listening to an explanation of how variability in forces can affect variability of actions and reactions; (Application) - demonstrating the causal relationships of forces in terms of actions and reactions; (Application) - demonstrating how variability in forces can affect variability of actions in reactions.
Strand Bloom's Scope Source Activities
Standard 12.D Comprehension Master IL Performance Descriptors: 12D, Stage D Classroom