15 Annually Assessed Benchmarks from Former Standards – that will be Assessed on FCAT Science until and including Spring 2011

SC.A.1.3.1- (MC, GR, SR) The student identifies various ways in which substances differ (e.g., mass, volume, shape, density, texture, and reaction to temperature and light).

Density Column
The Pool, the Boat, and the Anchor
Identifying Minerals
Light as Air
Watched Pot
Video: Matter
Video: Mass and Weight
Video: Mirage

SC.B.1.3.1- (MC,GR,SR,ER) The student identifies forms of energy and explains that they can be measured and compared.

Taking a Marshmallow Apart
High Bounce
Why Paper Burns
Radioactive
Solar Power
Video: Matter
Video: The Leyden Jar
Experiment: Quick, Easy Crystals

SC.B.1.3.6- (MC,GR,SR) The student knows the properties of waves (e.g., frequency, wavelength, and amplitude); that each wave consists of a number of crests and troughs; and the effects of different media on waves.

Microwave Chocolate
Light Speed Chocolate
Changing the Speed of Light
Dark Lines

SC.B.2.3.1- (MC) The student knows that most events in the universe (e.g., weather changes, moving cars, and the transfer of a nervous impulse in the human body) involve some form of energy transfer and that these changes almost always increase the total disorder of the system and its surroundings, reducing the useful energy.

Ice Cream Science
Taking a Marshmallow Apart
High Bounce
Recycle

SC.C.2.3.6- (MC,GR,SR) The student explains and shows the ways in which a net force (i.e., the sum of all acting forces) can act on an object (e.g., speeding up an object traveling in the same direction as the net force, slowing down an object traveling the direction opposite of the net force).

The Old Tablecloth Trick
High Bounce
Pick a String
Newton's Laws of Motion
Inertia
Strange Flame, part 1
Strange Flame, part 2
Relative Motion
Video: Floating Cups

SC.D.1.3.4-(MC) The student knows the ways in which plants and animals reshape the landscape (e.g., bacteria, fungi, worms, rodents, and other organisms add organic matter to the soil, increasing soil fertility, encouraging plant growth, and strengthening resistance to erosion. (Also assesses D.1.3.2)

Erosion

SC.E.1.3.1-(MC,GR,SR) The student understands the vast size of our Solar System and the relationship of planets and their satellites.

A Scale Model of the Solar System
Video: Global Science

SC.F.1.3.1-(MC, SR) The student understands that living things are composed of major systems that function in reproduction, growth, maintenance, and regulation.

Boning Up on Turkeys
Have a Heart
The Science of Spit
Don't Push

SC.F.2.3.2-(MC, SR) The student knows that the variation in each species is due to the exchange and interaction of genetic information as it is passed from parent to offspring.

Experiment: Ear Genes

SC.F.2.3.3-(MC) The student knows that generally organisms in a population live long enough to reproduce because they have survival characteristics.

Seed Search

SC.G.1.3.4-(MC,SR) The student knows that the interactions of organisms with each other and with the nonliving parts of their environments result in the flow of energy and the cycling of matter throughout the system.

SC.G.2.3.2- (MC,GR,SR) The student knows that all biotic and abiotic factors are interrelated and the if one factor is changed or removed, it impacts the availability of other resources within the system.

SC.H.1.3.1-(MC,SR) The student knows that scientific knowledge is subject to modification as new information challenges prevailing theories and as a new theory leads to looking at old observations in a new way.

Science Fair Panic, part 4
Experiment: Is Gravity a Theory or a Law?
Video: Floating Cups

SC.H.1.3.4-(MC,SR,ER) The student knows that accurate record keeping, openness, and replication are essential to maintaining an investigator’s credibility with other scientists and society.

Science Fair Panic, part 2
Science Fair Panic, part 3
Science Fair Panic, part 4
Video: Floating Cups

SC.H.1.3.5-(MC,GR,SR,ER) The student knows that a change in one or more variables may alter the outcome of an investigation.

Science Fair Panic, part 2
Video: Floating Cups