SOUND+UNIT+INFORMATION

**In every unit of study--we have targets or benchmarks as our goals for students to learn. These are the ideas that we would like for our students to hold onto and remember. In science units of study, I've found the most valuable standard and benchmarks is the one about scientific inquiry. These are the ideas that I want them to remember for the rest of their lives.**

**These are the standards and benchmarks for our first unit of study, "Sound."**

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the importance of curiosity, honesty, open-mindedness, and skepticism in their own efforts to understand how and why universal phenomena exist and occ ||< 1.1 Keep records of investigations and observations and not alter the records. 1.2 Distinguish observations from ideas and speculations and predictions about observations. 1.3 Offer reasons for findings and also consider reasons suggested by others. 1.4 Support statements with facts found in books, articles, and other resources 1.5 Identify when comparisons might not be accurate or appropriate because some conditions are different || Students will be able to select and use tools and instruments to conduct scientific activities. ||< 4.2 Use a variety of scientific tools to collect data. || Students will be familiar with the wave nature of sound. || 14.1 Describe and explain how sound travels through solids, liquids, and gases at different speed. 14.2 Describe and explain the pitch of sound (high and low). || Students will understand the basic processes of the human body || 22.1 Describe how the brain gets signals from all parts of the body telling what is going on throughout the body and sends signals to parts of the body to influence what they do. ||
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