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Hands On Elementary School Science 

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Electricity and Magnetism Science Standards

CA Science Standards-4th

National Standards: Electricity and Magnetism - K-4th

1. Electricity and magnetism related effects that have many useful applications in everyday life.  
a. Students know how to design and build simple series and parallel circuits by using components such as wires, batteries, and bulbs.
Electrical circuits require a complete loop through which an electrical current can pass.
b. Students know how to build a simple compass and use it to detect magnetic effects, including Earth's magnetic field.
f. Students know that magnets have two poles (north and south) and that like poles repel each other while unlike poles attract each other.
Magnets attract and repel each other and certain kinds of other materials.
c. Students know electric currents produce magnet fields and know how to build a simple electromagnet.
d. Students know the role of electromagnets in the construction of electric motors, electric generators, and simple devices such as doorbells and earphones.
Electricity in circuits can produce magnetic effects.
e. Students know electrically charged objects attract or repel each other.
g. Students know electrical energy can be converted to heat, light, and motion. Electricity in circuits can produce light, heat, sound.

Weather Science Standards

CA Science Standards:         Physical & Earth Science - 1st Grade 
Weather Kit by Linda Poore

National Standards: Changes in the Earth & Sky-Weather
Properties of Objects - K-4th

1. Materials come in different forms (states) including solids, liquids, and gases. 
a. Students know solids, liquids, and gases have different properties.
Materials can exist in different states - solid, liquid, and gas.
b. Students know the properties of substances can change when the substances are mixed, cooled, or heated. Some common materials, such as water, can be changed from one state to another by heating or cooling.
3. Weather can be observed, measured, and described.
a. Students know how to use simple tools (e.g., thermometer, wind vane) to measure weather conditions and record changes from day to day and across the seasons.
b. Students know the weather changes from day to day, but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season.
c. The sun warms the land, air, and water
Weather changes from day to day and over the seasons.  Weather can be described by measurable quantities, such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.

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