School City of Hobart Science The Indiana Academic Standards provide educators and administrators with a complete set of Indiana's K-12 academic standards for Science. Schools should work to align curriculum instruction and classroom assessment with the new standards. While the standards set expectations for student learning they do not prescribe how the standards should be taught. IN: Integrated Chemistry-Physics The Indiana Academic Standards for Science include standards for students in Integrated Chemistry-Physics. |
Physical Science |
The Physical Science unit includes concepts related to matter, forces, motion, and energy, as well as their interactions. Topics include chemical and physical changes, electricity, magnetism, heat, light, sound, machines, work and power. |
Atoms: Comprehend/Nucleus/Electrons
The learner will be able to comprehend that atoms have a positive nucleus, containing positive protons and neutral neutrons, surrounded by negative electrons which have a much smaller mass; electrons may be lost, gained, or shared with other atoms.
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Atoms: Describe/Nucleus/Electrons
The learner will be able to describe that atoms have a positive nucleus, containing positive protons and neutral neutrons, surrounded by negative electrons which have a much smaller mass; electrons may be lost, gained, or shared with other atoms.
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Atoms: Understand/Atomic/Mass/Number
The learner will be able to understand that the atomic number and mass number of a neutral atom can be used to find the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons that compose the atom.
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Atoms: Describe/Atomic/Mass/Number
The learner will be able to describe that the atomic number and mass number of a neutral atom can be used to find the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons that compose the atom.
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Atoms: Comprehend/Electrons/Interact
The learner will be able to comprehend that atoms may lose, gain, or share electrons when they interact with other atoms.
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Atoms: Conceptualize/Structure/Functions
The learner will be able to conceptualize the basic structure of atoms and the functions of the main components of the atom in establishing the properties of materials.
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Atoms: Describe/Electrons/Interact
The learner will be able to describe that atoms may lose, gain, or share electrons when they interact with other atoms.
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Atoms: Understand/Forces/Between/Within
The learner will be able to understand that the electromagnetic forces that exist between and within atoms are much stronger than the gravitational forces that exist between atoms.
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Atoms: Describe/Forces/Between/Within
The learner will be able to describe that the electromagnetic forces that exist between and within atoms are much stronger than the gravitational forces that exist between atoms.
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Forces: Identify/Object/Equal/Opposite
The learner will be able to identify that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second objects exerts an equal and opposite force back onto the first object.
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Forces: Interaction of Objects
The learner will be able to explain that when one object exerts force onto another object, a force is exerted onto the first object of equal magnitude and opposite in direction.
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Heat: Describe/Energy/Random/Motion
The learner will be able to describe that heat energy in a material consists of the random motion of its atoms or molecules.
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Energy: Transformations/Describe/Heat
The learner will be able to describe that during energy transformations, some energy usually changes to heat and dissipates through radiation or conduction into cooler surroundings.
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Energy: Transformations/Understand/Heat
The learner will be able to understand that during energy transformations, some energy usually changes to heat and dissipates through radiation or conduction into cooler surroundings.
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Energy: Potential/Kinetic/Comprehend
The learner will be able to comprehend that the total energy in a system is the sum of the potential and kinetic energy.
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Energy: Potential/Kinetic/Describe/Total
The learner will be able to describe that the total energy in a system is the sum of the potential and kinetic energy.
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Chemical and Physical Change: Identify
The learner will be able to identify whether the transfer of heat in a chemical reaction or phase change is exothermic or endothermic.
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Chemical and Physical Change: Explain
The learner will be able to explain whether the transfer of heat in a chemical reaction or phase change is exothermic or endothermic.
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Chemical & Physical Changes: Propert
The learner will be able to differentiate between chemical and physical changes in matter by recognizing properties of these changes.
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Energy: Matter/Explain/Einstein/Light
The learner will be able to explain that one concept addressed by Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity is that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
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Energy: Matter/Describe/Einstein/Theory
The learner will be able to describe that the special theory of relativity is best known for stating that even matter is a form of energy and any form of energy has mass.
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Nuclear Reactions: Comprehend/Energy
The learner will be able to comprehend that approximately a million times more energy is released when heavy nuclei split or light nuclei combine than is absorbed or released in a chemical reaction.
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Nuclear Reactions: Describe/Energy
The learner will be able to describe that approximately a million times more energy is released when heavy nuclei split or light nuclei combine than is absorbed or released in a chemical reaction.
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Physics: Explore/Concepts/Matter/Energy
The learner will be able to explore the following concepts: relative motion, the action/reaction principle, wave behavior, and interactions of matter and energy.
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Radioactivity: Describe/Radium/Curie
The learner will be able to describe that Marie and Pierre Curie made radium accessible to researchers worldwide, increasing the study of radioactivity and leading to the realization that atoms must be composed of smaller parts, since one type of atom can change into another type.
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Radioactivity: Describe/Research/Atoms
The learner will be able to describe that Marie and Pierre Curie's studies of radioactivity resulted in awareness of subatomic parts, as demonstrated by noted scientists, Rutherford, Bohr, Geiger, and Marsden, to be small, dense nuclei, containing protons and neutrons, with a surrounding electron cloud.
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Radioactivity: Describe/Rutherford/Found
The learner will be able to describe that Rutherford and his colleagues found that uranium, a heavy radioactive element, spontaneously splits itself into a moderately lighter nucleus and an extremely light helium nucleus.
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Radioactivity: Explain/Uranium/Energy
The learner will be able to explain that Austrian and German scientists demonstrated that when uranium is struck by neutrons, it splits into two similar parts plus one or two excess neutrons; the Austrian physicist, Lise Meitner, was the first to indicate that if these particles added up to less mass than the original uranium nucleus, then according to Einstein's special relativity theory, a large amount of energy should be released; Enrico Ferni, the Italian working in the U.S., demonstrated that the excess neutrons set off more fissions and create a sustained chain reaction that gives off enormous amounts of energy.
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Radioactivity: Demonstrate/Decay/Rate
The learner will be able to demonstrate how the predictability of nuclear decay rate makes it possible for radioactivity to be utilized to estimate the age of materials that contain radioactive substances.
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Radioactive Isotopes: Understand/Decay
The learner will be able to understand that the nucleus of a radioactive isotope is unstable and therefore could spontaneously decay and emit particles and/or electromagnetic radiation.
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Radioactive Isotopes: Describe/Decay
The learner will be able to describe that the nucleus of a radioactive isotope is unstable and therefore could spontaneously decay and emit particles and/or electromagnetic radiation.
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Motion: Relative/Frame of Reference
The learner will be able to understand that motion is relative to frame of reference.
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Motion: Relative/Reference/Absolute
The learner will be able to understand that there is no absolute frame of reference to observe all motion.
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Motion: Relative/Describe/Reference
The learner will be able to describe that all motion is relative to the frame of reference.
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Motion: Relative/Describe/Absolute/Frame
The learner will be able to describe that there is not an absolute frame of reference from which to judge all motion.
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Energy: Conservation/Comprehend/Amount
The learner will be able to comprehend that whenever the amount of energy in one place or form decreases, it increases by the same amount in another place or form.
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Energy: Conservation/Explain/Place/Form
The learner will be able to explain that whenever the amount of energy in one place or form decreases, it increases by the same amount in another place or form.
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Electricity & Magnetism: Understand
The learner will be able to understand that moving magnets produce electric forces and moving electric charges produce magnetic forces.
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Electricity & Magnetism: Describe/Fo
The learner will be able to describe that moving magnets produce electric forces and moving electric charges produce magnetic forces.
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Scientists: Identify/Lavoisier/Approach
The learner will be able to identify that Antoine Lavoisier persuaded a generation of scientists that his approach explained experimental results better than other chemical systems.
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Scientists: Describe/Lavoisier/Created
The learner will be able to describe that Antoine Lavoisier created a new field of science based on a theory of materials, quantitative methods, and physical laws, with the conservation of matter at its core.
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Scientists: Explain/Lavoisier's/Method
The learner will be able to explain how Lavoisier's method of naming substances and explaining their reactions contributed to the quick growth of chemistry by making it possible for scientists around the world to clearly communicate their findings with each other regarding chemical reactions.
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Scientists: Describe/Dalton's/Reactions
The learner will be able to describe that John Dalton's modernization of the ancient Greek concepts of atoms, elements, compounds, and molecules strengthened chemistry by giving physical explanations for reactions that could be expressed quantitatively.
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Periodic Table: Atomic Number
The learner will be able to understand that the Periodic Table organizes the elements by increasing atomic number.
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Periodic Table: Predict/Atom/Interacts
The learner will be able to predict whether an atom will gain, lose, or share electrons when it interacts with other atoms, using the periodic table.
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Electrons: Unbalanced
The learner will be able to understand that when an atom gains or loses electrons it causes an unbalanced charge.
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Electrons: Describe/Unbalanced/Charge
The learner will be able to describe how an unbalanced electrical charge can occur in an atom when it gains or loses electrons.
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Solutions: Understand/Properties/Used
The learner will be able to understand that physical properties can be used to distinguish between pure substances, solutions, and heterogeneous mixtures.
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Solutions: Describe/Physical/Properties
The learner will be able to describe that physical properties can be used to distinguish between pure substances, solutions, and heterogeneous mixtures.
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Equations: Understand/Atoms/Conserved
The learner will be able to understand that balanced chemical reactions must be used to demonstrate that atoms are conserved in chemical reactions, since mass is conserved.
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Equations: Describe/Atoms/Mass/Conserved
The learner will be able to describe that balanced chemical reactions must be used to demonstrate that atoms are conserved in chemical reactions, since mass is conserved.
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Electric Force: Describe/Reactions
The learner will be able to describe that electric forces between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons hold atoms and molecules together, and consequently, are involved in all chemical reactions.
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Electric Force: Comprehend/Materials
The learner will be able to comprehend that there are usually equal proportions of positive and negative charges in materials, making the materials as a whole electrically neutral, although even a minor excess or deficit of negative charges would produce observable electric forces.
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Electric Force: Describe/Materials
The learner will be able to describe that there are usually equal proportions of positive and negative charges in materials, making the materials as a whole electrically neutral, although even a minor excess or deficit of negative charges would produce observable electric forces.
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Electric Force: Comprehend/Reactions
The learner will be able to comprehend that electric forces between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons hold atoms and molecules together, and consequently, are involved in all chemical reactions.
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Motion: Newton's Laws/Describe/Unified
The learner will be able to describe that Isaac Newton established a unified view of force and motion, allowing for any motion in the universe to be explained by the same few rules; his mathematical analysis of gravitational force and motion demonstrated that planetary orbits were, in fact, the ellipses that Johannes Kepler had demonstrated two generations earlier.
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Motion: Newton's Laws/Explain/Based On
The learner will be able to explain that Newton's system was based on mass, force, and acceleration, and his three laws of motion which related these concepts, as well as a physical law which stated that the gravitational force between any two objects in the universe depends only upon their masses and the distance between them.
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Motion: Newton's Laws/Describe/Model
The learner will be able to describe that the Newtonian model allowed explanation of diverse phenomena.
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Chemical Reactions: Rate/Describe
The learner will be able to describe that reaction rates among atoms and molecules are dependent upon their frequency of collision with one another, which is influenced by temperature, pressure, and concentration of the reactants.
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Elements: Isotopes/Comprehend/Number
The learner will be able to comprehend that isotopes of the same element have a different number of neutrons, but the same numbers of protons and electrons.
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Elements: Isotopes/Provide/Examples
The learner will be able to provide examples to demonstrate that isotopes of the same element have a different number of neutrons, but the same numbers of protons and electrons.
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Forces: Motion/Describe/Acceleration
The learner will be able to describe that an object's acceleration is proportional to the net force applied to the object and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
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Atoms and Molecules: Comprehend/Changes
The learner will be able to comprehend that a wide variety of biological, chemical, and physical phenomena can be explained by changes in the motion and arrangement of atoms and molecules.
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Atoms & Molecules: Comprehend/Cataly
The learner will be able to comprehend that catalysts are effective in stimulating interaction between atoms and molecules.
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Atoms & Molecules: Describe/Catalyst
The learner will be able to describe that catalysts are effective in stimulating interaction between atoms and molecules.
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Atoms and Molecules: Examples/Changes
The learner will be able to provide examples to demonstrate that a wide variety of biological, chemical, and physical phenomena can be explained by changes in the motion and arrangement of atoms and molecules.
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Waves: Identify/Described/In Terms Of
The learner will be able to identify that waves can be described in terms of their amplitude, wavelength, velocity, and frequency or period.
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Waves: Explain/Described/In Terms Of
The learner will be able to explain that waves can be described in terms of their amplitude, wavelength, velocity, and frequency or period.
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Waves: Comprehend/Bend/Superpose/Reflect
The learner will be able to comprehend that waves are able to bend around corners, superpose other waves, reflect off of surfaces, be absorbed by materials, and alter direction upon entering a material.
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Waves: Describe/Bend/Superpose/Reflect
The learner will be able to describe that waves are able to bend around corners, superpose other waves, reflect off of surfaces, be absorbed by materials, and alter direction upon entering a material.
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Gravity: Identify/Strength/Proportional
The learner will be able to identify that the strength of the gravitational force between two masses is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
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Gravity: Identify/Force/Attraction
The learner will be able to identify that gravitational force is an attraction that exists between two masses.
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Gravity: Explain/Theory/Relativity/Force
The learner will be able to explain that the general theory of relativity illustrates Newton's gravitational force as a distortion of time and space.
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Gravity: Explain/Force/Attraction
The learner will be able to explain that gravitational force is an attraction that exists between two masses.
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Gravity: Explain/Strength/Proportional
The learner will be able to explain that the strength of the gravitational force between two masses is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
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Reduction/Oxidation: Recognize/Electrons
The learner will be able to recognize which substances gain electrons and which substances lose electrons in basic oxidation-reduction reactions.
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Forces: Objects/Understand/Acceleration
The learner will be able to understand that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the strength of the applied force and inversely proportional to the object's mass.
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Matter: Properties/Explore
The learner will be able to explore the characteristics of matter.
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Motion: Objects/Comprehend/Described
The learner will be able to comprehend that an object's motion can be described based on its velocity, acceleration, and position.
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Motion: Objects/Explain/Described
The learner will be able to explain that an object's motion can be described based on its velocity, acceleration, and position.
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Research and Inquiry |
The Research and Inquiry unit focuses on the knowledge, processes, and real world issues associated with science and technology. Topics include experimentation, data analysis, science related careers, and technological advances. |
Science: History/Comprehend/Events
The learner will be able to comprehend how the scientific enterprise operates by using examples of historical events; through examining these events, comprehend that new ideas are limited by the context in which they are conceived and often the ideas are rejected by the scientific community; ideas sometimes stem from unexpected findings and grow or change slowly through the contributions of different investigators.
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