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Define kinetic and potential energy
Motion and Force
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Use scientific tools to measure speed, distance,
and direction of an object
•
Experiment with frequency and wavelengths
•
Identify the visible spectrum
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Explain how different media affect waves
•
Understand how friction affects motion
Science and Technology
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Understand the nature of scientific knowledge
•
Know that the same scientific investigation
often gives slightly different results when it is
carried out by different persons or at different
times or places
•
Understand that scientists use different kinds of
investigations (e.g., observations of events in
nature, controlled experiments) depending on
the questions they are trying to answer
•
Understand that they should include detailed
procedures in their experiment write-ups
•
Know why is it important that other scientists
get the same results when they do the
experiment
•
Understand the nature of scientific inquiry
•
Use simple equipment and tools to gather
scientific data and extend the senses
•
Know that scientists make the results of their
investigations public; they describe the
investigations in ways that enable others to
repeat the investigations
•
Know what current research is being done
in genetics
•
Develop a two minute report on current
research from a scientific journal
•
Explain why it is important for scientists to
publish their work
•
Understand the nature of technological
design
•
Evaluate a product or design based
on constraints
•
Know the advantages and disadvantages of
everyday inventions
•
Understand the interactions of science,
technology, and society
•
Know that people continue investigating new
ways of doing things, solving problems, and
getting work done
SOCIAL STUDIES
Colonization to the Revolutionary War
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Gather data to analyze geographic, religious,
and economic reasons that brought explorers
and settlers to America
•
Reconstruct timelines that represent the time
period between the founding of Jamestown to
the Revolutionary War
•
Describe ways the settlers of Jamestown
adapted to, used, and changed the environment
•
Research interactions between the Native
Americans and the first explorers and settlers
•
Compare and contrast the life in various
colonies
•
Analyze some of the interactions that occurred
between the Native Americans and the first
explorers and settlers
•
Construct a historical narrative about daily life
in early settlements
•
Analyze the contributions of significant people
during the time between colonization and the
Revolutionary War
•
Examine the conflicts before the Revolutionary
War (e.g., the Pequot and King Philip’s Wars in
New England, the Powhatan Wars in Virginia, the
French and Indian War)
•
Identify causes and effects of the American
Revolution
•
Identify and describe key events of the
American Revolution
•
Examine the language, organization, and
intellectual sources of the Declaration of
Independence
Western Expansion to the Civil War
•
Gather data to analyze geographic, religious,
and economic reasons for western expansion
•
Reconstruct timelines that represent the time
period between the Revolutionary War and the
Civil War
•
Analyze the contributions of significant people
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during the time between the American
Revolution and the Civil War
•
Construct a historical narrative about the daily
life of a pioneer
•
Identify causes and effects of the War of 1812
•
Recognize differences in regions that lead to
the succession of 11 states
•
Identify and analyze strategies formed in early
years of war
•
Identify and describe key events of the Civil War
•
Describe challenges faced by the nation after
the Civil War
Growth of a Nation
•
Gather data to analyze geographic, religious,
and economic reasons for migration
•
Identify effects of The Transcontinental
Railroad
•
Research interactions between the Native
Americans and the new inhabitants of the Great
Plains
•
Analyze the contributions of significant
inventors and business people during the
late 1800s
•
Construct a historical narrative about a day in
the life of an immigrant
•
Identify causes and effects of immigration
•
Identify key international conflicts in the 1900s
•
Reconstruct timelines that represent the
international conflicts since the Civil War
Today’s Culture
•
Describe how current traditions in the United
States can be traced through cultural exchange
•
Identify cultural connections between the
United States and Canada
Map/Globe Skills
•
Trace the routes of the major land explorers of
the United States; the distances traveled by
explorers; and the Atlantic trade routes that
linked Africa, the West Indies, the British
colonies, and Europe
•
Locate on maps of North and South America
land claimed by Spain, France, England,
Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia
•
Understand the influence of location and
physical setting on the founding of the original
13 colonies and identify on a map the locations
of the colonies and of the American Indian
nations already inhabiting these areas
•
Map key events of the time period
•
Name the states and territories that existed in
1850 and identify their locations and major
geographical features (e.g., mountain ranges,
principal rivers, dominant plant regions)
•
Discuss the experiences of settlers on the
overland trails to the West (e.g., location of the
routes; purpose of the journeys; the influence of
the terrain, rivers, vegetation, and climate; life in
the territories at the end of these trails)
•
Construct physical maps and three-dimensional
models that include the essential map elements
of the geographic regions in the United States
Analysis
•
Analyze how the locations of the physical
features such as oceans, rivers, valleys, and
mountains had effects on the growth of
settlements in various regions
•
Use maps, charts, and pictures to describe how
regions vary in land use, vegetation, wildlife,
climate, population density, architecture,
services, and transportation
•
Translate geographic data into a variety of
formats such as graphs and maps
•
Describe the mapping, geographic basis, and
economic factors in the placement of early
communities
•
Explain how physical characteristics,
transportation routes, and climate influence
the variety of crops, products, and industries and
the general pattern of economic growth in
various regions
Economics
•
Examine the economic patterns of early
colonies
•
Identify the economic motivation for European
exploration and settlement in America
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Identify and analyze economic factors of the
Revolutionary War
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