This grid is excerpted from the National Science Education Standards published by the National Research Council in 1995.
- Standards
- What is it?
- Unifying Concepts and Processes
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- Systems, order, and organization
- Evidence, models, and explanation
- Change, constancy, and measurement
- Evolution and equilibrium
- Form and function
- Science as Inquiry
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- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
- Physical Science
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- Properties and changes of properties in matter
- Motions and forces
- Transfer of energy
- Life Science
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- Structure and function in living systems
- Reproduction and heredity
- Regulation and behavior
- Populations and ecosystems
- Diversity and adaptations of organisms
- Earth and Space Science
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- Structure of the Earth system
- Earth's history
- Earth in the solar system
- Science and Technology
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- Abilities of technological design
- Understandings about science and technology
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
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- Personal health
- Populations, resources, and environments
- Natural hazards
- Risks and benefits
- Science and technology in society
- History and Nature of Science
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- Science as a human endeavor
- Nature of science
- History of science
To find the complete document, please visit http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=4962.
