GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades 3-5
Strand B: Energy
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Standard 1: The student recognizes that energy may be changed in form
with varying efficiency.
Benchmark SC.B.1.2.1: The student knows how to trace the flow
of energy in a system (e.g., as in an ecosystem).
Fourth Grade
1. knows that most living things use energy from the Sun to live and
grow.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Moons of Jupiter,
On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology
Fifth Grade
1. knows how to trace the flow of energy in a system (for example, electricity
in a circuit to produce heat, light, sound, or magnetic fields).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Environmental Detectives
Benchmark SC.B.1.2.3: The student knows that most things that
emit light also emit heat.
Third Grade
1. knows that the Sun provides energy for the Earth in the form of heat
and light.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Schoolyard
Ecology
Fourth Grade
1. knows that most objects that emit light also emit heat.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight
Benchmark SC.B.1.2.4: The student knows the many ways in which
energy can be transformed from one type to another.
Fourth Grade
1. knows ways that energy can be transformed (for example, electricity
to light, light to heat, mechanical to heat).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight
Benchmark SC.B.1.2.5: The student knows that various forms of
energy (e.g., mechanical, chemical, electrical, magnetic, nuclear, and
radiant) can be measured in ways that make it possible to determine
the amount of energy that is transformed.
Fourth Grade
1. extends and refines use of a variety of tools to measure the gain
or loss of energy.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot
Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight
Fifth Grade
1. extends and refines use of a variety of tools to measure the gain
or loss of energy.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Messages From Space
Benchmark SC.B.1.2.6: The student knows ways that heat can move
from one object to another.
Fifth Grade
1. knows that some materials conduct heat better than others.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot
Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight
2. understands that convection, radiation, and conduction are methods
of heat transfer.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Messages From Space,
Ocean Currents
Standard 2: The student understands the interaction of matter
and energy.
Benchmark SC.B.2.2.1: The student knows that some source of energy is
needed for organisms to stay alive and grow.
Third Grade
1. knows that some source of energy is needed for organisms to stay
alive and grow.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology
Benchmark SC.B.2.2.2: The student recognizes the costs and risks
to society and the environment posed by the use of nonrenewable energy.
Third Grade
1. knows ways natural resources are important.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, On Sandy Shores
2. classifies resources as renewable or nonrenewable.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Fourth Grade
1. understands the reasons for energy conservation.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, On Sandy Shores
2. knows the risk factors associated with the use of nonrenewable energy
sources (for example, economic factors and health factors).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, On Sandy Shores
Benchmark SC.B.2.2.3: The student knows that the limited supply
of usable energy sources (e.g., fuels such as coal or oil) places great
significance on the development of renewable energy sources.
Fifth Grade
1. knows that the limited supply of usable energy sources (for example.,
fuels such as coal or oil) places great significance on the development
of renewable energy sources.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Moons of Jupiter
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