Science Curriculum Preview Committee Clarification of
Learning Results
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Content Standard H:
Energy
Students will understand concepts of energy.
Elementary Grades Pre-K-2
H1: Demonstrate an understanding that
the sun gives off light and heat energy.
H2: Explain why living things need
energy.
Elementary Grades 3-4
H1: Identify different forms of
energy (e.g., light, sound, heat).
H2: Explain ways different forms of
energy can be produced.
Middle Level 5-8
H1: Analyze the benefits and
drawbacks of energy conversions (e.g., in energy generation).
H2: Demonstrate that energy cannot be
created or destroyed but only changed from one form to
another.
H3: Compare and contrast the ways
energy travels (e.g., waves conduction, convection,
radiation).
H4: Describe the characteristics of
static and current electricity.
H5: Categorize energy sources as
renewable or nonrenewable and compare how these sources are used by
humans.
H6: Describe how energy put into or
taken out of a system can cause changes in the motion of particles in
matter.
Upper Levels 9-12
H1: Analyze the evidence that leads
scientists to conclude that light behaves somewhat like a wave and
somewhat like a particle.
H2: Examine and describe how light
is reflected and refracted (deflected) by mirrors and lenses.
H3: Explain and describe how sound
waves travel.
H4: Analyze the relationship between
the kinetic and potential energy of a falling object.
H5: Use mathematics to describe the
work and power in a system.
H6: Describe the relationship
between matter and energy and how matter releases energy through the
processes of nuclear fission and fusion.
H7: Use mathematics to describe and
predict electrical and magnetic activity (e.g., current, resistance,
voltage).
H8: compare and contrast how
conductors, semiconductors, and superconductors work and describe
their present and potential use.
H9: Demonstrate an understanding
that energy can be found in chemical bonds and can be used when it is
released from those bonds.