Science Discovery Series: Science Content Standards

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To help NJ-based educators (whether in-school teachers, home-schooling parent-teachers, or others) meet learning objectives, effort has been made to connect Science Discovery Series educational activities with the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards set by the NJ Department of Education.

Below is a table which outlines the content standards met by educational lessons/activities contained in each SDS unit. The degree to which each standard is met will depend upon educational needs and objectives and are open for interpretation. For more information about the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards, visit the New Jersey Department of Education web site: http://www.state.nj.us/njded/cccs/

Standard 5.1: All Students Will Learn To Identify Systems Of Interacting Components And Understand How Their Interactions Combine To Produce The Overall Behavior Of The System.
Weatherwise	5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	4
Exploring Planet X	1, 2, 3, 4
Spiderrific	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Standard 5.2: All Students Will Develop Problem-Solving, Decision-Making And Inquiry Skills, Reflected By Formulating Usable Questions And Hypotheses, Planning Experiments, Conducting Systematic Observations, Interpreting And Analyzing Data, Drawing Conclusions, And Communicating Results.
Weatherwise	1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Exploring Planet X	1, 2, 3, 4
Spiderrific	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
What is that tree I see?	1, 2, 3, 4
Where does your garbage go?	3, 4, 5, 6

Standard 5.3: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of How People Of Various Cultures Have Contributed To The Advancement Of Science And Technology, And How Major Discoveries And Events Have Advanced Science And Technology.
Weatherwise	7, 50
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	6
Exploring Planet X	1, 2, 3, 4
Spiderrific
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?

Standard 5.4: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Technology As An Application Of Scientific Principles.
Weatherwise	19
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	8, 9
Exploring Planet X	1, 2, 3, 4
Spiderrific
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?	5, 6, 7

Standard 5.5: All Students Will Integrate Mathematics As A Tool For Problem-Solving In Science, And As A Means Of Expressing And/Or Modeling Scientific Theories.
Weatherwise	8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 27, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	8
Exploring Planet X	1, 2, 3, 4
Spiderrific	4, 5
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?	6

Standard 5.6: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Structure, Characteristics, And Basic Needs Of Organisms.
Weatherwise
Mountains High, Oceans Deep
Exploring Planet X	4
Spiderrific	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?	4

Standard 5.7: All Students Will Investigate The Diversity Of Life.
Weatherwise
Mountains High, Oceans Deep
Exploring Planet X
Spiderrific	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
What is that tree I see?	1, 2, 3, 4
Where does your garbage go?

Standard 5.8: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Structure And Behavior Of Matter.
Weatherwise	12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43
Mountains High, Oceans Deep
Exploring Planet X
Spiderrific
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?	1, 3, 4, 5, 6

Standard 5.9: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of Natural Laws As They Apply To Motion, Forces, And Energy Transformations.
Weatherwise	11, 15, 20, 22, 32, 33, 35, 39, 45, 46
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	3, 4, 5, 8, 9
Exploring Planet X	1, 2, 3, 4
Spiderrific
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?	5, 7

Standard 5.10: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Structure, Dynamics, And Geophysical Systems Of The Earth.
Weatherwise	1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Exploring Planet X
Spiderrific
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?

Standard 5.11: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Origin, Evolution, And Structure Of The Universe.
Weatherwise	21, 25, 23, 24, 25, 26
Mountains High, Oceans Deep
Exploring Planet X
Spiderrific
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?

Standard 5.12: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of The Environment As A System Of Interdependent Components Affected By Human Activity And Natural Phenomena.
Weatherwise	1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51
Mountains High, Oceans Deep	5
Exploring Planet X
Spiderrific	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
What is that tree I see?
Where does your garbage go?	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7


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