Biological and Physical Sciences Standards Alignments

Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.

Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.

Construct and present arguments using evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions are attractive and depend on the masses of interacting objects.

Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.

Use mathematical representations of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and Coulomb’s Law to describe and predict the gravitational and electrostatic forces between objects.

Design, build, and refine a device that works within given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy.

Use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media.

Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.