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K-12 Florida Education Standards

The following standards are focused by suggested grade levels and aligned to Florida Department of Education benchmarks.

• 3rd Grade

  SC.3.P.10.1: Identify some basic forms of energy such as light, heat, sound, electrical, and mechanical.

  SC.3.N.1.1: Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them individually and in teams through free exploration and systematic investigations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.

  SC.3.N.1.2: Compare the observations made by different groups using the same tools and seek reasons to explain the differences across groups.

• 4th Grade

  SC.4.N.1.2: Compare the observations made by different groups using multiple tools and seek reasons to explain the differences across groups.

  SC.4.P.10.2: Investigate and describe that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.

  SC.4.P.10.1: Observe and describe some basic forms of energy, including light, heat, sound, electrical, and the energy of motion.

• 5th Grade

  SC.5.P.10.1: Investigate and describe some basic forms of energy, including light, heat, sound, electrical, chemical, and mechanical.

  SC.5.P.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.P.10.2: Investigate and explain that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.

• 6th Grade

  SC.6.N.2.2: Explain that scientific knowledge is durable because it is open to change as new evidence or interpretations are encountered.

  SC.6.N.2.3: Recognize that scientists who make contributions to scientific knowledge come from all kinds of backgrounds and possess varied talents, interests, and goals.

  SC.6.N.1.4: Discuss, compare, and negotiate methods used, results obtained, and explanations among groups of students conducting the same investigation. 

• 7th Grade

  SC.7.P.10.2: Observe and explain that light can be reflected, refracted, and/or absorbed.

  SC.7.P.10.3: Recognize that light waves, sound waves, and other waves move at different speeds in different materials.

  SC.7.P.11.2: Investigate and describe the transformation of energy from one form to another.

• 8th Grade

  SC.8.P.8.6: Recognize that elements are grouped in the periodic table according to similarities of their properties.

  SC.8.E.5.1: Recognize that there are enormous distances between objects in space and apply our knowledge of light and space travel to understand this distance.

  SC.8.N.4.2: Explain how political, social, and economic concerns can affect science, and vice versa.