| PHYSICAL SCIENCE STANDARDS |
| Levels K–4 |
How Mission Is Aligned |
| Properties of objects and materials |
Students observe the mystery goo, identify its properties, predict what it is made of, and develop an investigation to check their predictions. |
| HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE |
| Levels K–4 |
How Mission Is Aligned |
| Science as a human endeavor |
After viewing video footage of different kinds of scientists, students begin to understand that science encompasses many disciplines. Because they, too, will be working as scientists, they also start to realize that anyone who asks questions and tries to find the answers to their questions is a scientist. |
| SCIENCE AS INQUIRY |
| Levels K–4 |
How Mission Is Aligned |
| Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry |
Students go through the steps of scientific inquiry: observing, making predictions, experimenting to test their predictions, and drawing conclusions. |
| Understandings about scientific inquiry |
Students learn about different kinds of scientists who ask different questions and develop original experiments to answer their questions.
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