These activities and the extensions can be used to reinforce the following National
Science Content Standards for Grades 5-8.
Unifying Concepts and Processes
- Change, constancy, and measurement
Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
Physical Science
- Properties and changes of properties in matter
Science and Technology
- Understandings about science and technology
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Science and technology in society
History and Nature of Science
- Science as a human endeavor
- History of science