This grid is excerpted from the National Science Education Standards, published by the National Research Council in 1995.
- Standards
- What Is It?
- Unifying Concepts and Processes
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- Systems, order, and organization
- Evidence, models, and explanation
- Change, constancy, and measurement
- Evolution and equilibrium
- Form and function
- Science as Inquiry
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- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
- Physical Science
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- Properties of objects and materials
- Position and motion of objects
- Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism
- Life Science
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- Characteristics of organisms
- Life cycles of organisms
- Organisms and environments
- Earth and Space Science
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- Properties of Earth materials
- Objects in the sky
- Changes in Earth and sky
- Science and Technology
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- Abilities of technological design
- Understandings about science and technology
- Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
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- Personal health
- Characteristics and changes in populations
- Types of resources
- Changes in environments
- Science and technology in local challenges
- History and Nature of Science
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- Science as a human endeavor
To find the complete National Science Education Standards, please visit http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962.
