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SC.912.P.10: Energy: Energy is involved in all physical and chemical processes. It is conserved, and can be transformed from one form to another and into work.
SC.912.P.10.1: Differentiate among the various forms of energy and recognize that they can be transformed from one form to others.
SC.912.P.12: Motion can be measured and described qualitatively and quantitatively. Net forces create a change in motion.
SC.912.P.12.3 Interpret and apply Newton's three laws of motion.
SC.912.E.5.: Earth in Space and Time: Humankind’s need to explore continues to lead to the development of knowledge and understanding of the nature of the Universe.
SC.912.N.1: The Practice of Science
1. Scientific inquiry is a multifaceted activity; The processes of science include the formulation of scientifically investigable questions, construction of investigations into those questions, the collection of appropriate data, the evaluation of the meaning of those data, and the communication of this evaluation.
SC.912.N.1.1. Define a problem based on a specific body of knowledge, for example: biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science, and do the following:
1. pose questions about the natural world,
2. conduct systematic observations,
3. examine books and other sources of information to see what is already known,
4. review what is known in light of empirical evidence,
5. plan investigations,
6. use tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data (this includes the use of measurement in metric and other systems, and also the generation and interpretation of graphical representations of data, including data tables and graphs),
7. pose answers, explanations, or descriptions of events,
8. generate explanations that explicate or describe natural phenomena (inferences),
9. use appropriate evidence and reasoning to justify these explanations to others,
10. communicate results of scientific investigations, and
11. evaluate the merits of the explanations produced by others.
SC.912.N.1.2: Describe and explain what characterizes science and its methods.
SC.912.N.1.7: Recognize the role of creativity in constructing scientific questions, methods and explanations.
SC.912.N.3.5: Describe the function of models in science, and identify the wide range of models used in science.
2nd through 8th Grade
SC.2.N.1.4: Explain how particular scientific investigations should yield similar conclusions when repeated.
SC.4.N.1.3: Explain that science does not always follow a rigidly defined method ("the scientific method") but that science does involve the use of observations and empirical evidence.
SC.4.N.1.4: Attempt reasonable answers to scientific questions and cite evidence in support.
C.5.N.1.1: Define a problem, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigations of various types such as: systematic observations, experiments requiring the identification of variables, collecting and organizing data, interpreting data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.
SC.8.N.1.6: Understand that scientific investigations involve the collection of relevant empirical evidence, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses, predictions, explanations and models to make sense of the collected evidence.
SC.3.P.10.1: Identify some basic forms of energy such as light, heat, sound, electrical, and mechanical.
SC.4.P.10.1: Observe and describe some basic forms of energy, including light, heat, sound, electrical, and the energy of motion.
SC.5.10.1: Investigate and describe some basic forms of energy, including light, heat, sound, electrical, chemical, and mechanical.
SC.3.P.10.2: Recognize that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.
SC.4.P.10.2: Investigate and describe that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.
SC.5.10.2: Investigate and explain that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.
SC.5.10.4: Investigate and explain that electrical energy can be transformed into heat, light, and sound energy, as well as the energy of motion.
SC.5.11.1: Investigate and illustrate the fact that the flow of electricity requires a closed circuit (a complete loop).
SC.6.P.11.1: Explore the Law of Conservation of Energy by differentiating between potential and kinetic energy. Identify situations where kinetic energy is transformed into potential energy and vice versa.
SC.7.P.11.2: Investigate and describe the transformation of energy from one form to another.
Conservation of Energy: Potential/ Chemical to Mechanical/ Kinetic
Motion: Unbalanced forces
Experiment: I wonder what would happen if...