| Content Area | Grade Levels | Content Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science as Inquiry | Understandings about scientific inquiry | 9-12 | Scientists rely on technology to enhance the gathering and manipulation of data. New techniques and tools provide new evidence to guide inquiry and new methods to gather data, thereby contributing to the advance of science. |
| Physical Science | Structure and properties of matter | 9-12 | The physical properties of compounds reflect the nature of the interactions among its molecules. These interactions are determined by the structure of the molecule, including the constituent atoms and the distances and angles between them. |
| Structure and properties of matter | 9-12 | Carbon atoms can bond to one another in chains, rings, and branching networks to form a variety of structures, including synthetic polymers, oils, and the large molecules essential to life. | |
| Structure of atoms | 9-12 | Matter is made of minute particles called atoms, and atoms are composed of even smaller components. Each atom has a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons. | |
| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology | K-4 | 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. |
| Understandings about science and technology | 5-8 | Science and technology are reciprocal. Science helps drive technology, as it addresses questions that demand more sophisticated instruments and provides principles for better instrumentation and technique. Technology is essential to science, because it provides instruments and techniques that enable observations of objects and phenomena that are otherwise unobservable due to factors such as quantity, distance, location, size, and speed. | |
| Understandings about science and technology | 5-8 | Many different people in different cultures have made and continue to make contributions to science and technology. | |
| History and Nature of Science | Science as a human endeavor | 9-12 | Individuals and teams have contributed and will continue to contribute to the scientific enterprise. Doing science or engineering can be as simple as an individual conducting field studies or as complex as hundreds of people working on a major scientific question or technological problem. Pursuing science as a career or as a hobby can be both fascinating and intellectually rewarding. |
| Content Area | Grade Levels | Content Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biology | The Chemistry of Life | 9-10 | Broad Concept: Living things are made of atoms bonded together to form organic molecules. |
| The Chemistry of Life | 9-10 | Explain the significance of carbon in organic molecules. | |
| Chemistry | Atomic Structure | 9-10 | Identify the major components of the nuclear atom (protons, neutrons, and electrons) and explain how they interact. |
| Physical Sciences | Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures | 6-8 | Differentiate between an atom (the smallest unit of an element that maintains the characteristics of that element) and a molecule (the smallest unit of a compound that maintains the characteristics of that compound). |
| Technology and Engineering | Materials, Tools and Machines | 6-8 | Broad Concept: Appropriate materials, tools, and machines enable us to solve problems, invent, and construct. |