Weather (STC) Foss

Benchmarks
 

SCI.I.1.E.1	SCI.I.1.E.2	SCI.I.1.E.3
SCI.I.1.E.4	SCI.I.1.E.5	SCI.I.1.E.6
SCI.II.1.E.1	SCI.II.1.E.2	SCI.II.1.E.3
SCI.II.1.E.5	SCI.IV.1.E.1	SCI.IV.1.E.2
SCI.IV.1.E.3	SCI.IV.2.E.1	SCI.IV.3.E.1
SCI.V.2.E.1	SCI.V.2.E.2	SCI.V.3.E.1
SCI.V.3.E.2	SCI.V.3.E.3

Vocabulary
 

Air:  The mixture of gases around us. Alike:  Acting or looking the same. Atmosphere:  The layers of air that surround a planet. Brainstorm:  To share ideas on a topic.  People often brainstorm to solve a problem. Cloud:  A mass of tiny drops of water, dust, or pieces of ice.  Clouds usually float in the sky.  They are gray or white. Communicate:  To share information and ideas through speaking, writing, or drawing. Compare:  To look at two or more things to see how they are alike or different. Data:  Information. Describe:  To use words to explain how something looks, feels, or acts. Different:  Not the same. Evaporate:  To change from a liquid to a gas; to dry up. Experiment:  A procedure that is carried out to investigate a scientific question. Fair test:  A test that compares two or more things by keeping everything the same except the thing being compared.  A race is a fair test.  Everyone starts at the same place and at the same time and ends at the same place.  The only thing that is different is the speed of the runners. Float:  To rest in or on the surface of a liquid or in a gas; to move along slowly in the air. Flow:  To move slowly and smoothly. Gas:  A substance that has no shape or size.  Gases spread out to fill space.  Most gases have no color and cannot be seen. Graph:  A diagram used to show the relationship between things. Guess:  To give an idea about something when you are not sure. Investigate:  To study something closely and in an organized way. Length:  The distance from one end of something to the other. Liquid:  A substance that has no shape but that takes up space.  A liquid takes the shape of its container. Measure:  To find out the length, size, or weight of something. Object:  Something you can see or feel. Observe:  To use your senses to study something closely. Pattern:  A repeating arrangement of shapes, colors, numbers, or other things. Precipitation:  Water that falls to earth as rain, snow, hail, or sleet. Predict:  To say what you think is going to happen. Procedure:  A set of steps that tells you how to do something. Property:  Something about an object that helps tell what it is. Rain gauge:  A tool used to catch and measure rainfall. Same:  Alike; not different. Senses:  Touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Shape:  The form of an object. Size:  A measurement of how big something is. Solid:  A substance that takes up space and has its own shape. Sort:  To put things in groups on the basis of a property, such as color or shape. Temperature:  A measurement of how hot or cold something is. Thermometer:  A tool used to measure how hot or cold something is. Tool:  An object used to do a task. Unit:  A fixed quantity used as a standard of measure.  Inches, miles, meters, degrees, and kilograms are all units. Water cycle:  The process by which water moves through the ground, evaporates from earth into the air, forms clouds, and falls back to earth as rain or snow. Weather:  How cold or hot, wet or dry, or windy or calm it is at a certain time and place. Weight:  A measurement of how heavy something is. Wind:  Moving air. Wind speed:  The rate

Solids & Liquids (STC) Foss

Benchmarks
 

SCI.I.1.E.1	SCI.I.1.E.2	SCI.I.1.E.5
SCI.I.1.E.6	SCI.II.1.E.1	SCI.II.1.E.2
SCI.II.1.E.3	SCI.II.1.E.4	SCI.IV.1.E.1
SCI.IV.1.E.2	SCI.IV.2.E.1	SCI.IV.3.E.1
SCI.IV.3.E.2	SCI.IV.3.E.5

Vocabulary

Organisms (STC)

Benchmarks
 

SCI.I.1.E.1	SCI.I.1.E.2	SCI.I.1.E.5
SCI.II.1.E.1	SCI.II.1.E.2	SCI.II.1.E.3
SCI.II.1.E.4	SCI.III.2.E.1	SCI.III.2.E.2
SCI.III.2.E.5	SCI.III.4.E.2	SCI.III.5.E.3
SCI.IV.1.E.1

Vocabulary