LIVE FROM MARS - New Hampshire Science Curriculum Framework

New Hampshire Science Curriculum Framework

The STANDARDS CORRELATION chart suggests which New Hampshire Science Curriculum Framework standards you can cover using LIVE FROM MARS in your classroom. We hope you will discover additional standards you can use. These are the ones our Instructional Materials Development team felt most directly related to the activities contained in LIVE FROM MARS.

For additional New Hampshire Science Curriculum Framework standards you can cover see the STANDARDS CORRELATION chart for the following PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE projects:

PASSPORT TO ANTARCTICA

PASSPORT TO THE RAINFOREST

PASSPORT TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM

PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE

LIVE FROM THE SUN/LIVE FROM THE AURORA

LIVE FROM A BLACK HOLE/LIVE FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE AND TIME

End of Grade Six, End of Grade Ten

End of Grade Six (Elementary)

Proficiency Standards
Science as Inquiry

1a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how the scientific enterprise operates.
Students will be able to:
Solve problems using a variety of strategies	video hands-on online
Pose questions for scientific investigations and make predictions about the outcomes	video hands-on online
Design and conduct a scientific investigation exploring the relationship between two variables	video hands-on online
Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, organize, and interpret data	video hands-on online
Compare and estimate very large/very small numbers	video hands-on online
Use appropriate measurement units	video hands-on online
Read bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and tables	video hands-on online
Construct explanations, including the development of simple models, for observations made	video hands-on online
Work in small teams to investigate problems, but form own conclusions	video hands-on online
Discuss the relationship between evidence and explanations	video hands-on online
Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and procedures	video hands-on online
Communicate scientific procedures and explanations	video hands-on online
Make hypotheses and design simple experiments to test hypotheses made	video hands-on online
Recognize the variables in a situation and the importance of controlling them when conducting a scientific investigation	video hands-on online
Seek information for comparing past and present scientific ideas and theories

Science, Technology, and Society

2a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to use measuring instruments to gather accurate and/or precise information.
Students will be able to:
Use an assortment of measuring instruments, with a variety of scales, such as rulers, thermometers, graduated cylinders, balances, and timers	video hands-on online
Describe and practice appropriate techniques for using simple measuring devices	video hands-on online
Use technology to explore events in nature, e.g. telescopes, microscopes, computer probes	video hands-on online
2b. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to use technology to observe nature.
Students will be able to:
Explore nature with simple scientific tools, e.g. magnifying glasses, levers, pulleys, batteries and bulbs	video hands-on online
Use technology to capture information on film, tape, etc.	video hands-on online
2c. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to analyze, synthesize, and communicate scientific information using technology.
Students will be able to:
Record data using appropriate units	video hands-on online
Use a calculator to determine other important quantitative values from data, using proper units, e.g. speed, density, area, volume, etc.	video hands-on online
Compile and display classroom data on a computer	video hands-on online
Use technology to share data with classmates or other groups of students	video hands-on online
2d. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand how technology is used to synthesize new products.
Students will be able to:
Construct simple projects from readily available materials found at home	video hands-on online
Choose appropriate common materials for mechanical construction of simple models	video hands-on online
Make safe electrical connections with various electrical components	video hands-on online
Assemble and/or take apart a device to identify how it works, e.g. simple motor, door bell, telephone, ice cream maker	video hands-on online
Create and/or reassemble technological models and identify how they work	video hands-on online
Compare and contrast old and new technology, e.g. antique and modern ice cream makers by making ice cream in each	video hands-on online
2e. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that science and technology can affect individuals, and that individuals in turn can affect science and technology.
Students will be able to:
Describe and defend decisions that they have made involving themselves and their environment	video hands-on online
Identify and gather information needed to make a decision on a science- and/or technology-related issue	video hands-on online
Describe the possible consequences of various alternative decisions to a science- and/or technology-related issue	video hands-on online
2f. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that progress in science and technology is controlled by societal attitudes and beliefs.
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate that knowledge makes it possible to make informed decisions	video hands-on online
Cite examples which show how society can affect the direction taken by science and technology	video hands-on online
Describe how science and technology affect career choices and the kinds of work people do	video hands-on online

Earth/Space Science

4a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that the Earth is a unique member of our solar system, located in a galaxy, within the universe.
Students will be able to:
Compare and contrast important features of the Earth, Sun and Moon	video hands-on online
Observe and describe the motion of the sun, moon, and stars from the perspective of the Earth	video hands-on online
Explain how the brightness of a star as seen from Earth is related to its size, color, and distance from the Earth	video hands-on online
Use a telescope to magnify the appearance of some distant objects in the sky	video hands-on online
Explain how the Earth's relationship to the Sun causes night, day, and the seasons	video hands-on online
State the type of information which can be gathered by the use of scientific instruments such as telescopes, satellites, etc.	video hands-on online
Cite evidence that the Earth is very old	video hands-on online

Physical Science

5c. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand the relationships among different types and forms of energy.
Students will be able to:
Recognize and give examples of the various forms of energy, e.g. heat, light, sound, electrical, mechanical, magnetic, chemical, and nuclear	video hands-on online
Show by examples how types of energy are used for specific purposes	video hands-on online
Observe and describe how one form of energy may be transformed into another	video hands-on online
Identify the relationship between the pitch of a sound and the frequency of the sound wave	video hands-on online
5d. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how electrical and magnetic systems interact with matter and energy.
Students will be able to:
Conduct an investigation to discover which materials are attracted to a magnet	video hands-on online
5e. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how an unbalanced force exerted on an object causes a change in the state of rest or motion of that object in the direction of the unbalanced force.
Students will be able to:
Observe and describe objects in motion, including vibration motion	video hands-on online
Define the force which causes an object to undergo a change in direction or speed	video hands-on online
Design a simple experiment which demonstrates the effect of gravitational force on an object	video hands-on online
Describe or conduct an investigation which illustrates that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction	video hands-on online
5f. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding that energy can be transmitted by waves, using light and sound as examples.
Students will be able to:
Produce sounds by causing several types of objects to vibrate	video hands-on online
Relate the pitch of a sound to the rapidity of an object's vibration	video hands-on online
Use a prism to separate white light into the visible spectrum	video hands-on online
Identify ways in which light can be generated, e.g. heat, electricity, chemicals	video hands-on online
Distinguish among objects which are opaque, transparent, and translucent	video hands-on online
5g. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding that heat is the product of many natural processes.
Students will be able to:
Explore and identify sources of heat including chemical, mechanical, and absorption of radiation	video hands-on online
Identify the effect of heat on common substances	video hands-on online

Unifying Themes and Concepts

6a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to recognize parts of any object or system, and understand how the parts interrelate in the operation of that object or system.
Students will be able to:
Identify and describe the essentials parts of any object or system	video hands-on online
Relate structure and function of parts of any object in a system to the system as a whole	video hands-on online
Describe the interrelationships among the parts of an object or system	video hands-on online
6b. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the meaning of stability and change and will be able to identify and explain change in terms of cause and effect.
Students will be able to:
Identify and describe several ways in which things may change	video hands-on online
Identify and describe several types of change	video hands-on online
Identify and describe how change can be prevented or enhanced	video hands-on online
Distinguish between important and unimportant changes in given situations	video hands-on online
6c. Curriculum Standard: Students will understand the meaning of models, their appropriate use and limitations, and how models can help them in understanding the natural world.
Students will be able to:
Define and describe various physical models and their uses, e.g. cell model, model cars	video hands-on online
Use graphs, geometric figures, number and time lines, and other devices to represent events and processes in the natural world	video hands-on online
Construct one or more physical models representative of objects or processes in the natural world, and explain how the elements of the model are representative of the real object, e.g. solar system, dinosaurs, telephone	video hands-on online
Recognize that a model is a representation of an object or process and is not identical to the object or process	video hands-on online
6d. Curriculum Standard: Students will increasingly quantify their interactions with phenomena in the natural world, use these results to understand differences of scale in objects and systems, and determine how changes in scale affect various properties of those objects and systems.
Students will be able to:
Measure properties of objects, to a reasonable degree of accuracy, using standard scientific instruments such as a ruler, balance, clock, and thermometer	video hands-on online
Calculate derived measurements of objects, such as area, volume, and density from direct measurements made in the laboratory	video hands-on online
Estimate the smallest and largest limits, or the range in size, of certain objects in quantitative terms	video hands-on online
Determine that increases in linear dimensions (length), have a large effect on area and volume	video hands-on online

End of Grade Ten (Secondary)

Proficiency Standards
Science as Inquiry

1a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how the scientific enterprise operates.
Students will be able to:
Formulate questions and use appropriate concepts to guide scientific investigations and to solve real world problems	video hands-on online
Use ratios as a means of comparing very large/very small numbers, e.g. building scale models	video hands-on online
Design and conduct a controlled scientific investigation	video hands-on online
Use technologies as tools in conducting investigations, e.g. microscopes, computer, calculator	video hands-on online
Construct and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence	video hands-on online
Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models for observed phenomena	video hands-on online
Select, communicate, and defend a scientific argument	video hands-on online
Compare and contrast how technology has shaped our lives both in the past and the present	video hands-on online
Select a science-related social problem and design a solution that reflects an understanding of basic science concepts and their application	video hands-on online
Demonstrate an understanding that science knowledge has, over time, accumulated most rapidly after acceptance of major new theories	video hands-on online
Explain how scientific knowledge is applied in the design and manufacture of products or technological processes, e.g. water purification systems, sewage treatment systems, microwave ovens, resistors	video hands-on online

Science, Technology, and Society

2a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to use measuring instruments to gather accurate and/or precise information.
Students will be able to:
Measure with both analog and digital electronic devices, e.g. voltmeter, oscilloscope, and pH meters	video hands-on online
Estimate the error in measurements they make and use procedures to minimize those errors	video hands-on online
Describe ways in which technology has improved measuring instruments and their accuracy	video hands-on online
2b. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to use technology to observe nature.
Students will be able to:
Explore nature with technology, e.g. microscopes, telescopes, computer probes, and spectroscopes	video hands-on online
Gather information that can only be obtained by using a technological tool, e.g. pH, voltage, amperage, blood pressure, etc.	video hands-on online
2c. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to analyze, synthesize, and communicate scientific information using technology.
Students will be able to:
Store data in an appropriate technological device	video hands-on online
Manipulate data on a database, e.g. rearranging, sorting, selecting, using a spread sheet	video hands-on online
Analyze data graphically with technological assistance, e.g. graphing calculator	video hands-on online
Communicate data through an electronic medium, e.g. camera, tape recorder, computer modem	video hands-on online
Quantitatively analyze experimental data	video hands-on online
2d. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand how technology is used to synthesize new products.
Students will be able to:
Plan and conduct a scientific research project using technology	video hands-on online
Construct scientific models using common materials or standard laboratory equipment	video hands-on online
Create a model by locating and utilizing appropriate software programs	video hands-on online
2e. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that science and technology can affect individuals, and that individuals in turn can affect science and technology.
Students will be able to:
Describe immediate and long-term consequences of various alternative solutions for science- and/or technology-related issues , e.g. natural catastrophes, interactions of populations, resources and environment, health and disease	video hands-on online
Defend a personal decision made on a science- and/or technology-related issue	video hands-on online
Determine how technology affects their lives and predict how it might affect their future	video hands-on online
2f. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that progress in science and technology is controlled by societal attitudes and beliefs.
Students will be able to:
Illustrate, through example, that the knowledge produced through science and technology changes the way members of society think	video hands-on online
Demonstrate, by giving examples, the relationships between the maintenance and progress of society and scientific and technological advancement	video hands-on online

Earth/Space Science

4a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that the Earth is a unique member of our solar system, located in a galaxy, within the universe.
Students will be able to:
Use a model to describe the location and motion of the Earth and its Moon in the solar system	video hands-on online
Identify the other planets in the solar system on a diagram or in the night sky, and describe their motions, as well as the motion of the planetary moons and comets	video hands-on online
Describe the characteristics of Earth and other planets in the solar system in terms of their ability to support life	video hands-on online
Describe the current scientific theory relating to the origin and geologic evolution of the Earth and the solar system	video hands-on online
Explain phases of the Moon in terms of relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun	video hands-on online
Draw inferences from celestial and terrestrial observations relating frames of reference for time and Earth motion	video hands-on online

Physical Science

5a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to distinguish among materials by utilizing observable properties.
Students will be able to:
Obtain reliable and valid quantitative data through careful and skilled use of measuring instruments, e.g. balances, graduated cylinders, computer probes	video hands-on online
Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative properties based upon observations of a substance	video hands-on online
5b. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that matter is composed of dynamic interactive units or particles and that all the properties and changes in matter can be explained in terms of the forces involved in the interactions of these units.
Students will be able to:
Explain that the arrangement, configuration and/or motion of atoms, molecules, and ions of a particular substance determine the structure and, thus, the properties of that substance	video hands-on online
Recognize that groups of elements have similar properties because of their atomic structure and have been organized in a Periodic Table	video hands-on online
Identify and describe each state of matter, including plasma, in terms of the arrangement and motion of its particulate units	video hands-on online
Demonstrate that it takes time for substances to change or interact and that these rates are affected by such factors as temperature, pressure, and change of state, e.g. fermentation, decomposition, combustion	video hands-on online
5c. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand the relationships among different types and forms of energy.
Students will be able to:
Collect observations to show that transformations of energy involve the production of heat	video hands-on online
Describe or sketch how energy is released when the nuclei of some atoms undergo fission or fusion	video hands-on online
5e. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how an unbalanced force exerted on an object causes a change in the state of rest or motion of that object in the direction of the unbalanced force.
Students will be able to:
Formulate questions, design an exploration, and collect data about objects in motion	video hands-on online
Demonstrate inertia as a property of an object which resists a change in motion and is directly related to its mass	video hands-on online
Observe, describe, and identify basic properties of waves (transverse and longitudinal)	video hands-on online
Demonstrate the relationships among change in motion, applied force, and mass of an object	video hands-on online
Identify friction as a force opposing motion	video hands-on online
Identify and experimentally explore forces acting at a distance (gravity/electromagnetism)	video hands-on online
5f. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding that energy can be transmitted by waves, using light and sound as examples.
Students will be able to:
Distinguish among amplitude, wavelength, and frequency of longitudinal and transverse waves	video hands-on online
Conduct investigations to demonstrate the properties of reflection, refraction and diffraction of light	video hands-on online
Demonstrate the differences in sound quality produced by simple musical instruments, e.g. whistle, vibrating string, tapping water glasses	video hands-on online
Identify and distinguish among the various forms of electromagnet radiation, e.g. visible light, microwaves, X-rays	video hands-on online
Determine the speed of a wave using wave length and frequency	video hands-on online
5g. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding that heat is the product of many natural processes.
Students will be able to:
Formulate a series of explorations that distinguish between heat and temperature	video hands-on online
Examine the relationship between the effects of heating and cooling and the motion of the molecules of the substance being heated or cooled	video hands-on online

Unifying Themes and Concepts

6a. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to recognize parts of any object or system, and understand how the parts interrelate in the operation of that object or system.
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate and describe how parts of a system influence each other, including feedback	video hands-on online
Demonstrate how systems include processes as well as parts, e.g. human body, telephone system, solar system	video hands-on online
Show how one system can be part of another system, and how systems influence each other	video hands-on online
Predict how certain changes in the system will/will not affect the operation of the system	video hands-on online
6b. Curriculum Standard: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the meaning of stability and change and will be able to identify and explain change in terms of cause and effect.
Students will be able to:
Distinguish among cyclic (e.g. seasons), linear (e.g.distance/time) and irregular (e.g.weather) changes and give examples of each	video hands-on online
Identify and describe varying rates of change and measure selected rates	video hands-on online
Recognize one form of stability as opposing changes occurring at the same rate (dynamic equilibrium) and cite several examples of that type of stability, e.g. homeostasis, saturated solutions, vapor pressure of liquids	video hands-on online
Quantify certain changes and use a mathematical expression to determine past or future states of the system, e.g. gas laws, Newton's laws of motion	video hands-on online
6c. Curriculum Standard: Students will understand the meaning of models, their appropriate use and limitations, and how models can help them in understanding the natural world.
Students will be able to:
Distinguish among physical (e.g. DNA), mathematical ( e.g. D=RT), and conceptual (e.g. atom) models and give examples of each	video hands-on online
Use different models to represent the same object or process	video hands-on online
Use a computer and mathematical model to determine values of variables beyond the range of phenomena observed in the laboratory	video hands-on online
Compare and explain differences in values obtained using a mathematical model and those obtained in the laboratory	video hands-on online
Illustrate how models allow scientists to better understand the natural world	video hands-on online
6d. Curriculum Standard: Students will increasingly quantify their interactions with phenomena in the natural world, use these results to understand differences of scale in objects and systems, and determine how changes in scale affect various properties of those objects and systems.
Students will be able to:
Calculate from direct measurements, many of the derived measurements of objects such as density, velocity, inner and surface areas, volumes, perimeters, and changes in heat content	video hands-on online
Calculate averages and ranges of measurement values for certain properties or processes in a system	video hands-on online
Correlate the mathematical relationships among length, area, volume, surface area, mass, etc.	video hands-on online
Convert data collected from measurements into graphs and derive mathematical relationships from the data and graphs	video hands-on online
Determine the degree of error in any measurement given the accuracy of the instruments used	video hands-on online
Express relationships among measurements in the form of a ratio, proportion, or percentage when appropriate	video hands-on online

Updated January 2001