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Indiana Academic Standards
2.1.1 Manipulate an object to gain additional information about it.
2.1.5 Demonstrate the ability to work with a team but still reach and communicate one's own findings.
2.1.6 Use tools to investigate, observe, measure, design, and build things.
2.2.4 Assemble constructions using things such as interlocking blocks and erector sets.
2.2.5 Draw pictures and write brief descriptions that correctly portray key features of an object.
2.6.1 Investigate that most objects are made of parts.
3.1.2 Participate in different types of guided scientific investigations, such as observing objects
and events and collecting specimens of analysis.
3.1.3 Keep and report records of investigations and observations using tools, such as journals, charts, graphs, and computers.
3.1.4 Discuss the results of investigations and consider the explanations of others.
3.1.5 Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively while respecting the ideas of others and communicating one's own conclusions about findings.
3.2.3 Keep a notebook that describes observations and is understandable weeks or months later.
3.2.6 Make sketches and write descriptions to aid in explaining procedures or idea.
3.6.1 Investigate how and describe that when parts are put together, they can do things that they could not do by themselves.
3.6.2 Investigate how and describe that something may not work if some of its parts are missing.
4.2.3 Make simple and safe electrical connections with various plugs, sockets, and terminals.
4.2.5 Write descriptions of investigations, using observations and other evidence as support of explanations.
4.2.7 Identify better reasons than "Everybody knows that…" or "I just know" and discount such reasons when given by others.
4.6.1 Demonstrate that in an object consisting of many parts, the parts usually influence or interact with one another.
4.6.2 Show that something may not work well, or at all, if a part of it is missing, broken, worn out, mismatched, or incorrectly connected.
5.2.3 Choose appropriate materials for making simple mechanical constructions and repairing things.
5.2.4 Keep a notebook that describes observations and is understandable weeks or months later.
5.6.1 Recognize and describe that systems contain objects as well as processes that interact with each other.
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