The STANDARDS CORRELATION chart suggests which New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards you can cover using PASSPORT TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM 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 PASSPORT TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
For additional New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards you can cover see the STANDARDS CORRELATION chart for the following PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE projects:
PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
All Students Will Learn To Identify Systems Of Interacting Components And Understand How Their Interactions Combine To Produce The Overall Behavior Of The System
Descriptive Statement: The natural world and the world built by humans both provide examples of systems where interacting parts work together as a whole. This standard asks students to analyze, understand, and design systems of integrating parts
Cumulative Progress Indicators
1. Recognize that most things are made of components that, when assembled, can do things they could not do separately.
video 2. Recognize that since the components of a system usually influence one another, a system may not work if a component is missing.
video 3. Diagram the components of a system.
video 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
Descriptive Statement: Students best learn science by doing science. Science is not merely a collection of facts and theories but a process, a way of thinking about and investigating the world in which we live. This standard addresses those skills that are used by scientists as they discover and explain the physical universe - skills that are an essential and ongoing part of learning science.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
By the end of Grade 4, students:
1. State a problem about the natural world in the form of a question.
video 2. Develop strategies and skills for information-gathering and problem-solving, using appropriate tools and technologies.
video 3. Use technology to present the design and results of investigation.
video 4. Keep a journal record of observations, recognizing patterns of observations and summarizing findings.
video 5. Learn what constitutes evidence and evaluate the data and information used to make explanations.
video 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
Descriptive Statement: Science is a human endeavor involving successes and failures, trials and tribulations. Students should know that many people of all cultures have contributed to our understanding of science and that science has a rich and fascinating history. This standard encourages students to learn about the people and events that have shaped or revolutionized important scientific theories and concepts.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
By the end of Grade 4, students:
1. Hear, read, write, and talk about scientists and inventors in historical context.
video 2. Recognize that scientific ideas and knowledge have come from men and women of all cultures.
video All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Technology As An Application Of Scientific Principles
Descriptive Statement: Understanding the unique interdependence of science and technology is an important goal of science education. This standard is an attempt to show students how the application of scientific knowledge can be used to improve the human condition and how technological development affects the quality of life.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
By the end of Grade 4, students:
1. Develop skill in the use of tools for everyday purposes.
video 2. Demonstrate how tools are used to do things better and more easily or to do tasks that could not otherwise be done.
video 3. Examine and compare toys and other familiar objects and explain how they work.
video 4. Find and report on examples of how technology helps people.
video All Students Will Integrate Mathematics As A Tool For Problem-Solving In Science, And As A Means Of Expressing And/Or Modeling Scientific Theories
Descriptive Statement: Galileo is credited with asserting that "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe." Science cannot be practiced or learned without appreciation of the role of mathematics in discovering and expressing natural laws. This standard recognizes the need for students to fully integrate mathematics skills with their learning of science.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
By the end of Grade 4, students:
1. Judge whether estimates, measurements, and computations of quantities are reasonable.
video 2. Use a variety of measuring instruments, emphasizing appropriate units
video 3. Use mathematical skills and concepts in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing.
video 4. Use tables and graphs to represent and interpret data.
video All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Structure And Behavior Of Matter
Descriptive Statement: Exploring the nature of matter and energy is essential to an understanding of the physical universe. This standard leads students from their experiences with the states and properties of matter, to the development of models of the atom and the underlying principles of chemistry.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
By the end of Grade 4, students:
1. Describe and sort objects according to the materials from which they are made and their physical properties.
video 2. Recognize that matter can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas, and can be transformed from one state to another by heating or cooling.
video 3. Investigate matter by observing materials under magnification.
video All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of Natural Laws As They Apply To Motion, Forces, And Energy Transformations
Descriptive Statement: Basic principles of physics emerge in this standard, where the study of force and motion leads students to the concept of energy. All forms of energy are introduced and investigated, and principles of transformation and laws of conservation are developed.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
By the end of Grade 4, students:
1. Demonstrate that the motion of an object can vary in speed and direction.
video 2. Demonstrate that the position and motion of an object can be changed by pushing or pulling and that the change is related to the strength of the push or pull.
video 3. Recognize that some forces are invisible and can act at a distance.
video 4. Investigate sources of heat and show how heat can be transferred from one place to another.
video 5. Investigate sources of light and show how light behaves when it strikes different objects.
video 6. Demonstrate how sound can be produced by vibrating objects and how the pitch of the sound depends on the rate of vibration.
video 7. Demonstrate how electricity can be used to produce heat, light, and sound.
video All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Origin, Evolution, And Structure Of The Universe
Descriptive Statement: The study of science should include a study of the planet earth and its relationship to the rest of the universe. This standard describes what students should know about astronomy and space science, while Standard 5.10 describes what students should know about the composition of the earth and the forces that shape it.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
By the end of Grade 4, students:
1. Observe and identify objects and their apparent motion in the day and night sky.
video 2. Relate the motions of the earth-sun-moon system to units of time (days, months, seasons, years).
video 3. Construct a model of the solar system.
video All Students Will Learn To Identify Systems Of Interacting Components And Understand How Their Interactions Combine To Produce The Overall Behavior Of The System
Descriptive Statement: The natural world and the world built by humans both provide examples of systems where interacting parts work together as a whole. This standard asks students to analyze, understand, and design systems of integrating parts
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students:
4. Describe components of a system and how they influence one another.
video 5. Recognize that most systems are components of larger systems and that the output of one component can become the input to other components.
video 6. Disassemble and reassemble the components of a system, analyzing how they interact with each other.
video 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
Descriptive Statement: Students best learn science by doing science. Science is not merely a collection of facts and theories but a process, a way of thinking about and investigating the world in which we live. This standard addresses those skills that are used by scientists as they discover and explain the physical universe - skills that are an essential and ongoing part of learning science.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students:
6. Identify problems that can be solved by conducting experiments.
video 7. Design and conduct experiments incorporating the use of a control.
video 8. Collect and organize data to support the results of an experiment.
video 9. Communicate experimental findings using words, charts, graphs, pictures, and diagrams.
video 10. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of claims, arguments, and data.
video 11. Assess the risks and benefits associated with alternative actions.
video 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
Descriptive Statement: Science is a human endeavor involving successes and failures, trials and tribulations. Students should know that many people of all cultures have contributed to our understanding of science and that science has a rich and fascinating history. This standard encourages students to learn about the people and events that have shaped or revolutionized important scientific theories and concepts.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students:
3. Recognize that scientific theories emerge over time, depend on the contributions of many people, and reflect the social and political climate of their time.
video 4. Develop a time line of major events and people in the history of science, in conjunction with other world events.
video 5. Trace the historical origin of important scientific developments such as atomic theory, genetics, plate tectonics, etc., showing how scientific theories emerge, are tested, and can be replaced or modified in light of new information and improved investigative techniques.
video All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Technology As An Application Of Scientific Principles
Descriptive Statement: Understanding the unique interdependence of science and technology is an important goal of science education. This standard is an attempt to show students how the application of scientific knowledge can be used to improve the human condition and how technological development affects the quality of life.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students:
5. Describe how tools of today are different from those of the past but may be modifications of ancient tools.
video 6. Describe how technology expands the ability of scientists and others to make measurements and observations.
video 7. Design and build simple mechanical devices to demonstrate scientific principles.
video 8. Explain how engineers and others apply scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
video 9. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of alternative solutions to practical problems.
video All Students Will Integrate Mathematics As A Tool For Problem-Solving In Science, And As A Means Of Expressing And/Or Modeling Scientific Theories
Descriptive Statement: Galileo is credited with asserting that "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe." Science cannot be practiced or learned without appreciation of the role of mathematics in discovering and expressing natural laws. This standard recognizes the need for students to fully integrate mathematics skills with their learning of science.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students:
5. Recognize and comprehend the orders of magnitude associated with large and small physical quantities.
video 6. Express experimental data in several equivalent forms such as integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.
video 7. Infer mathematical relationships among variables using graphs, tables, and charts.
video 8. Express the output units of the calculation in terms of the input units.
video 9. Select appropriate measuring instruments based on the degree of precision needed.
video 10. Find the mean and median of a set of experimental data.
video All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of Natural Laws As They Apply To Motion, Forces, And Energy Transformations
Descriptive Statement: Basic principles of physics emerge in this standard, where the study of force and motion leads students to the concept of energy. All forms of energy are introduced and investigated, and principles of transformation and laws of conservation are developed.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students:
8. Explain how a moving object that is not being subjected to a net force will move in a straight line at a steady speed.
video 9. Show that when more than one force acts on an object at the same time, the forces can reinforce or cancel each other, producing a net force that will change the speed or direction of the object.
video 10. Investigate how the force of friction acts to retard motion.
video 11. Describe the various forms of energy, including heat, light, sound, chemical, nuclear, mechanical, and electrical energy, and that energy can be transformed from one form to another.
video 12. Explain how heat flows through materials or across space from warmer objects to cooler ones until both objects are at the same temperature.
video 13. Explain that the sun is a major source of the earth's energy and that energy is emitted in various forms, including visible light, infrared and ultraviolet radiation.
video 14. Show how light is reflected, refracted, or absorbed when it interacts with matter and how colors appear as a result of this interaction.
video 15. Show how vibrations in materials can generate waves which can transfer energy from one place to another.
video All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Origin, Evolution, And Structure Of The Universe
Descriptive Statement: The study of science should include a study of the planet earth and its relationship to the rest of the universe. This standard describes what students should know about astronomy and space science, while Standard 5.10 describes what students should know about the composition of the earth and the forces that shape it.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students:
4. Describe the physical characteristics of the components of the solar system, and compare the earth to other planets.
video 5. Explain how naturally occurring events on earth are related to the positions of the sun, earth, and moon.
video 6. Describe the technologies used to explore the universe.
video All Students Will Learn To Identify Systems Of Interacting Components And Understand How Their Interactions Combine To Produce The Overall Behavior Of The System
Descriptive Statement: The natural world and the world built by humans both provide examples of systems where interacting parts work together as a whole. This standard asks students to analyze, understand, and design systems of integrating parts
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students:
7. Recognize that the behavior of a system may be different from the behavior of its components.
video 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
Descriptive Statement: Students best learn science by doing science. Science is not merely a collection of facts and theories but a process, a way of thinking about and investigating the world in which we live. This standard addresses those skills that are used by scientists as they discover and explain the physical universe - skills that are an essential and ongoing part of learning science.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students:
12. Select and use appropriate instrumentation to design and conduct investigations.
video 13. Use technology to present the design and results of investigation.
video 14. Evaluate conclusions, weigh evidence, and recognize that arguments may not have equal merit.
video 15. Explain how experimental results lead to further investigation.
video 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
Descriptive Statement: Science is a human endeavor involving successes and failures, trials and tribulations. Students should know that many people of all cultures have contributed to our understanding of science and that science has a rich and fascinating history. This standard encourages students to learn about the people and events that have shaped or revolutionized important scientific theories and concepts.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students:
6. Recognize the role of the scientific community in responding to changing social and political conditions.
video 7. Examine the lives and contributions of important scientists and engineers who effected major breakthroughs in our understanding of the natural world.
video All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Technology As An Application Of Scientific Principles
Descriptive Statement: Understanding the unique interdependence of science and technology is an important goal of science education. This standard is an attempt to show students how the application of scientific knowledge can be used to improve the human condition and how technological development affects the quality of life.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students:
10. Recognize that technological problems often create a demand for new scientific knowledge, and cite present and past examples of the interrelationship and mutual influence of science, technology, and society.
video 11. Participate in a design project that identifies a problem, proposes and implements a solution, and evaluates the consequences of that solution.
video All Students Will Integrate Mathematics As A Tool For Problem-Solving In Science, And As A Means Of Expressing And/Or Modeling Scientific Theories
Descriptive Statement: Galileo is credited with asserting that "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the Universe." Science cannot be practiced or learned without appreciation of the role of mathematics in discovering and expressing natural laws. This standard recognizes the need for students to fully integrate mathematics skills with their learning of science.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students:
11. Express the results of mathematical operations based on the degree of precision of the input data.
video 12. Use computer spreadsheets, graphing, and database programs to assist in quantitative analysis.
video 13. Evaluate the possible effects of measurement errors on calculations.
video 14. Express physical relationships in terms of mathematical equations derived from collected data.
video 15. Use mathematical models to predict physical phenomena.
video All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of Natural Laws As They Apply To Motion, Forces, And Energy Transformations
Descriptive Statement: Basic principles of physics emerge in this standard, where the study of force and motion leads students to the concept of energy. All forms of energy are introduced and investigated, and principles of transformation and laws of conservation are developed.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students:
22. Explain how electromagnetic waves are generated, and identify the components of the electromagnetic spectrum.
video All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Origin, Evolution, And Structure Of The Universe
Descriptive Statement: The study of science should include a study of the planet earth and its relationship to the rest of the universe. This standard describes what students should know about astronomy and space science, while Standard 5.10 describes what students should know about the composition of the earth and the forces that shape it.
Cumulative Progress Indicators
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in the preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students:
7. Construct a model that accounts for variation in the length of day and night.
video 8. Evaluate evidence that supports scientific theories of the origin of the universe.
video 9. Analyze benefits generated by the technology of space exploration.
video Updated January 2001Grades K-4
Standard 5.1:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.2:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.3:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.4:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.5:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.8:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.9:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.11:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Grades 5-8
Standard 5.1:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.2:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.3:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.4:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.5:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.9:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.11:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Grades 9-12
Standard 5.1:
hands-on
online
Standard 5.2:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.3:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.4:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.5:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
Standard 5.9:
hands-on
online
Standard 5.11:
hands-on
online
hands-on
online
hands-on
online