Science Activities for 5-8
Connections to National Science Education Standards
The activities featured in the 5-8 Think Like an Egyptian activities support the National Science Education Standards. In particular, the activities meet the following objectives.
- Content Standard A: Science as Inquiry
Activities meet this standard when students make accurate measurements, gather, store, retrieve, and organize data and when students understand that mathematics is essential to asking and answering questions about the natural world. - Content Standard B: Physical Science
Activities meet this standard in part when students see that common materials, such as water, can be changed from one state to another by heating or cooling and that objects have many observable properties, including size, weight, and shape. - Content Standard C: Life Science
Activities meet this standard in part when students learn that organs and tissues are part of organized structures and systems. - Content Standard D: Earth and Space Science
Activities meet this standard in part when students learn that patterns of atmospheric movement influence local weather. - Content Standard E: Science and Technology
Activities meet this standard in part when students design a solution or product and implement a proposed design. - Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspective
Activities meet this standard in part when students see that science and technology have advanced through contributions of many different people, in different cultures, at different times in history. - Content Standard G: History and Nature of Science
Activities meet this standard in part when students realize that science has been practiced by different individuals in different cultures.