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The New Jersey Curriculum Content Standards for Science reflect "the belief that all students can and must learn enough science to assume their role as concerned citizens equipped with necessary information and decision-making skills."
The following is a list of the New Jersey Science Standards:
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."
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."
5.3 "All students will develop an understanding of how people of various cultures have contributed to the advancement of science and technology."
5.4 "All students will develop an understanding of technology as an application of scientific principles."
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."
5.6 "All students will gain an understanding of the structure, characteristics, and basic needs of organisms."
5.7 "All students will investigate the diversity of life."
5.8 "All students will gain an understanding of the structure and behavior of matter."
5.9 "All students will gain an understanding of natural laws as they apply to motion, forces, and energy transformations."
5.10 "All students will gain an understanding of the structure, dynamics, and geophysical systems of the earth."
5.11 "All students will gain an understanding of the origin, evolution, and structure of the universe."
5.12 "All students will develop an understanding of the environment as a system of interdependent components affected by human activity and natural phenomena."
The Science performance standards are built upon the National Research Council's "National Science Education Standards" (1996) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061 "Benchmarks for Science Literacy" (1993).
In Science, the goal is for all students to achieve scientific literacy. The objectives and competencies included in this curriculum deal with scientific concepts and the application of those concepts within the field of science and in other fields of study.
The National Science Education Standards outline "what students should know, understand, and be able to do in the natural sciences over the course of K-12 education.
Grade 5
The Higher Order Learning curriculum provides objectives for fifth grade students.
In the Fifth Grade Science course, students continue to build their knowledge of science and their ability to communicate scientific concepts.
Research and Inquiry
The Research and Inquiry unit includes the history and development of science and scientists, investigation techniques, the use of instruments in science, communication of scientific concepts, and real world issues that surround science, technology, and mathematics.
Physical Science
The Physical Science unit includes properties of objects, motion of objects, matter, energy, light, heat, electricity, magnetism, and force.
Earth and Space Science
The Earth and Space Science unit includes properties of the Earth, moon, sun, solar system, and universe.
Life Science
The Life Science unit includes organism characteristics, plants and animals, human health and safety, life cycles, and the environment.
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