GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades 3-5
Strand H: The Nature of Science
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Standard 1: The student uses the scientific processes and habits of
mind to solve problems.
Benchmark SC.H.1.2.1: The student knows that it is important
to keep accurate records and descriptions to provide information and
clues on causes of discrepancies in repeated experiments.
Third Grade
1. knows that it is important to keep accurate records and descriptions
to provide information and clues on causes of discrepancies in repeated
experiments.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Liquid Explorations, Mystery Festival, On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard
Ecology, Secret Formulas
Fourth Grade
1. knows that scientists make the results of their investigations public,
and they describe the investigations in ways that enable others to repeat
the investigation.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Fingerprinting,
Mystery Festival, On Sandy Shores, Oobleck, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories
in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. understands that although the same scientific investigation may give
slightly different results when it is carried out by different persons
or at different times or places, the general evidence collected from
the investigation should be replicable by others.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Crime Lab
Chemistry, Environmental Detectives, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm
Homes From Sunlight, Messages From Space, Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents,
Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing, Stories in
Stone
Benchmark SC.H.1.2.2.: The student knows that a successful method
to explore the natural world is to observe and record, and then analyze
and communicate the results.
Third Grade
1. plans and investigates an experiment that defines a problem, proposes
a solution, identifies variables, collects and organizes data, interprets
data in tables, charts and graphs, analyzes information, makes predictions,
and presents and supports findings.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Investigating Artifacts, Liquid Explorations, Mystery Festival,
On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Secret Formulas
2. uses various kinds of instruments to collect and analyze information
(for example, metersticks, timing devices, graduated cylinders, force
meters, pan balances, calipers, microscopes, cameras, sound recorders,
hot plates, magnets, collecting nets).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology
Fourth Grade
1. plans and investigates experiments in which hypotheses are formulated
based on cause and effect relationships; distinctions are made among
observations, conclusions/inferences and predictions; a limited number
of variables are controlled; and numerical data that are contradictory
or unusual in experimental results are recognized.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Crime
Lab Chemistry, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight,
Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, On Sandy Shores,
Oobleck, Schoolyard Ecology
2. uses metric tools to measure, record, and interpret data.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Investigating Artifacts,
Moons of Jupiter
Fifth Grade
1. understands that scientists use different kinds of investigations
(for example, observations of events in nature, controlled experiments)
depending on the questions they are trying to answer.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Crime Lab
Chemistry, Environmental Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight,
Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery
Festival, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean, Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing,
Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
2. understands the importance of accuracy in conducting measurements,
and uses estimation when exact measurements are not possible.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Environmental Detectives,
Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages
From Space, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Of Cabbages
and Chemistry, Paper Towel Testing, Stories in Stone
Benchmark SC.H.1.2.3: The student knows that to work collaboratively,
all team members should be free to reach, explain, and justify their
own individual conclusions.
Third Grade
1. knows that to work collaboratively, all team members should be free
to reach, explain, and justify their own individual conclusions.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Bubble Festival, Buzzing a Hive, Investigating Artifacts,
Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, Mystery Festival, On Sandy
Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Secret Formulas
Fourth Grade
1. works collaboratively to collect, share, and record information for
a scientific investigation.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Bubble Festival, Crime Lab Chemistry, Fingerprinting, Hot
Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Investigating Artifacts, Microscopic
Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Of Cabbages and Chemistry,
On Sandy Shores, Oobleck, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. understands the importance of communication among scientists (for
example, informing and becoming informed about scientific investigations
in progress and the work of others; exposing ideas to the criticism
of others).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers,
Crime Lab Chemistry, Earth, Moon, and Stars, Environmental Detectives,
Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Investigating
Artifacts, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Moons of Jupiter,
Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean, Oobleck, Paper Towel
Testing, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
Benchmark SC.H.1.2.4: The student knows that to compare and contrast
observations and results is an essential skill in science.
Third Grade
1. knows that to compare and contrast observations and results is an
essential skill in science.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Involving Dissolving,
Liquid Explorations, Mystery Festival, On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology,
Secret Formulas
Fourth Grade
1. knows that comparisons between experiments can be made when conditions
are the same.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Crime Lab Chemistry, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight,
Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck,
Stories in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. uses strategies to review, compare and contrast, and critique scientific
investigations.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers,
Crime Lab Chemistry, Environmental Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight, Investigating Artifacts, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages
From Space, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Of Cabbages
and Chemistry, Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories
in Stone
2. knows that an experiment must be repeated many times and yield consistent
results before the results are accepted.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Crime Lab Chemistry, Environmental
Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Moons of Jupiter,
Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing
Benchmark SC.H.1.2.5: The student knows that a model of something
is different from the real thing, but can be used to learn something
about the real thing.
Third Grade
1. uses sketches, diagrams and models to understand scientific ideas.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, Investigating Artifacts, Liquid Explorations,
On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Secret Formulas
Fourth Grade
1. knows that a model of something is different from the real thing,
but can be used to learn something about the real thing.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Investigating Artifacts,
Microscopic Explorations, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, On Sandy
Shores, Oobleck, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. uses sketches and diagrams to propose scientific solutions to problems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Earth, Moon, and Stars, Environmental
Detectives, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Moons of
Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing,
Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
2. constructs models to compare objects in science.
Aquatic Habitats, Bubble-ology, Environmental Detectives, Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Messages From Space, Microscopic Explorations,
Moons of Jupiter, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean, Oobleck, Schoolyard
Ecology, Stories in Stone
Standard 2: The student understands that most natural events occur in
comprehensible, consistent patterns.
Benchmark SC.H.2.2.1: The student knows that natural events are
often predictable and logical.
Third Grade
1. makes predictions and inferences based on observations.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Bubble Festival, Buzzing a Hive, Investigating Artifacts,
Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, Mystery Festival, On Sandy
Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Secret Formulas
2. uses charts and graphs to understand patterns of change.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Liquid
Explorations, Mystery Festival, Schoolyard Ecology
Fourth Grade
1. makes predictions based on data from picture graphs, bar graphs,
and line graphs.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Fingerprinting,
Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Mystery Festival, Of Cabbages
and Chemistry, Schoolyard Ecology
2. knows basic patterns, sequences, and cycles occurring in nature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Fingerprinting, Investigating Artifacts, Moons of Jupiter,
On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. makes a prediction for a new investigation using the data from a
previous investigation.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers,
Crime Lab Chemistry, Environmental Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space, Moons
of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Of Cabbages and Chemistry,
Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing, Schoolyard Ecology
2. understands that change is constantly occurring and uses strategies
to analyze different patterns of change.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Earth, Moon,
and Stars,
Environmental Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Investigating
Artifacts, Mapping Animal Movements, Ocean Currents, Schoolyard Ecology,
Stories in Stone
Standard 3: The student understands that science, technology, and society
are interwoven and interdependent.
Benchmark SC.H.3.2.1: The student understands that people, alone
or in groups, invent new tools to solve problems and do work that affects
aspects of life outside of science.
Third Grade
1. understands the relationships between science concepts and the history
of science and the contributions of scientists.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Investigating
Artifacts, Mystery Festival, Schoolyard Ecology, Secret Formulas
2. uses reference materials to obtain information related to science
concepts.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology
Fourth Grade
1. knows that technologies often have costs, as well as benefits, and
can have an enormous effect on people and other living things.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, On Sandy Shores
2. researches and reports on a science topic.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Fifth Grade
1. knows areas in which technology has improved human lives (for example,
transportation, communication, nutrition, sanitation, health care, entertainment).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology,
Color Analyzers, Environmental Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight, Messages From Space, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean
2. knows that new inventions often lead to other new inventions and
ways of doing things.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology,
Color Analyzers, Environmental Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight, Messages From Space, Ocean Currents
Benchmark SC.H.3.2.2: The student knows that data are collected
and interpreted in order to explain an event or concept.
Third Grade
1. knows that data are collected and interpreted in order to explain
an event or concept.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, Investigating Artifacts, Liquid Explorations,
Mystery Festival, On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Secret Formulas
2. understands that scientific information can be presented in several
ways (for example, using numbers and mathematics, drawings, words, graphs,
tables).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Investigating Artifacts, Liquid Explorations, Mystery Festival,
On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Secret Formulas
Fourth Grade
1. constructs and analyzes graphs, tables, maps, and charts to organize,
examine, and evaluate information.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Investigating
Artifacts, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Of Cabbages and Chemistry,
On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. selects appropriate graphical representations (for example, graphs,
charts, diagrams) to collect, record, and report data.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Environmental
Detectives, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight,
Investigating Artifacts, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages From Space,
Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Only One
Ocean, Paper Towel Testing, Schoolyard Ecology
Benchmark SC.H.3.2.3: The student knows that before a group of
people build something or try something new, they should determine how
it may affect other people.
Third Grade
1. understands how scientific discoveries have helped or hindered progress
regarding human health and lifestyles.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores, Secret Formulas
Fourth Grade
1. uses criteria to understand and analyze the impact of scientific
discoveries (for example, determines whether or not scientific claims
are backed by sufficient evidence and logical arguments).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Investigating Artifacts, Moons of Jupiter,
Mystery Festival, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, On Sandy Shores, Oobleck,
Schoolyard Ecology
Fifth Grade
1. understands how a solution to one scientific problem can create another
problem.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Crime
Lab Chemistry, Environmental Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes From
Sunlight, Mapping Animal Movements, Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents,
Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Only One Ocean, Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing
Benchmark SC.H.3.2.4: The student knows that, through the use
of science processes and knowledge, people can solve problems, make
decisions, and form new ideas.
Third Grade
1. knows that, through the use of science processes and knowledge, people
can solve problems, make decisions, and form new ideas.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Liquid Explorations, Mystery Festival, On Sandy Shores, Schoolyard
Ecology, Secret Formulas
Fourth Grade
1. knows ways that, through the use of science processes and knowledge,
people can solve problems, make decisions, and form new ideas.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Crime Lab Chemistry, Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, On Sandy Shores,
Oobleck, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge of ways that, through the use of science
processes and knowledge, people can solve problems, make decisions,
and form new ideas.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Bubble-ology, Color Analyzers, Crime Lab
Chemistry, Earth, Moon, and Stars, Environmental Detectives, Fingerprinting,
Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Mapping Animal Movements, Messages
From Space, Moons of Jupiter, Mystery Festival, Ocean Currents, Only
One Ocean, Oobleck, Paper Towel Testing, Schoolyard Ecology, Stories
in Stone
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