Scientific Inquiry: Standards 1 - 5
1. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the importance of curiosity, honesty, open-mindedness, and scepticism in their own efforts to understand how and why universal phenomena exist and occur.

2. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.

3. Students will be familiar with the character of scientific knowledge and inquiry and how it is achieved.

4. Students will be able to select and use tools and instruments to conduct scientific activities.

5. Students will understand and demonstrate the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.

Physical Setting: Standards 6 -14
6. Students will be familiar with current scientific theories about the universe and how those theories evolved.

7. Students will understand how key features of the earth influence climate, weather, and the water cycle.

8. Students will understand scientific theories of how the earth’s surface is formed and how those theories developed.

9. Students will know and understand scientific theories of the nature of matter and how those theories developed.

10. Students will be familiar with the forms and transformations of energy and the significances of energy in understanding the structure of matter and the universe.

11. Students will understand how society uses and conserves various sources of energy.

12. Students will understand the relationship between force, mass, and the motion of objects.

13. Students will recognise gravitational, electrical, and magnatic forces as major kinds of forces acting in nature.

14. Students will be familiar with the wave nature of sound and electromagnetic radiation.

The Living Environment: Standards 15 - 20
15. Students will be aware of the diversity of living organisms and how they can be compared scientifically.

16. Students will understand the structure, functions, and reproduction of living cells and organisms.

17. Students will understand how and why organisms are dependent on one another and their environments.

18. Students will understand the cycling of matter and the flow and transformation of energy through systems of living things.

19. Students will understand how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.

20. Students will understand the arguments for natural selection as scientific explanation of biological evolution.

Human Organism and Society: Standards 21 - 24
21. Students will know and understand the biological, cultural, and social explanations for why human beings have important traits in common yet different from one another.

22. Students will be familiar with important aspects of human development from fertilization to death.

23. Students will understand the basic processes of the human body.

24. Students will understand that a variety of factors influence learning in human beings.

*AERO: American Education Reaches Out

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