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The Spartanburg Science
Center
can help teachers and students achieve
PACT STANDARDS
Kindergarten
- Characteristics of organisms
- Basic needs of plant and animals
- Life cycles
- Human Body – body structures and
functions
- Seasons – daily and seasonal weather
changes
- Properties of matter
1st Grade
- Basic needs, life cycles and structures
found in plants
- Sun and moon – moon’s cycle, day
and night, rise and set
- Earth Science – rocks and sand, soil
and plants, properties of soil and water
- Exploring motion – production of
sound, energy needed to move an object, speed, and direction of
motion as related to energy source
2nd Grade
- Animals – habitats, basic needs, life
cycles, adaptations
- Weather – moving air, seasons, weather
vocabulary
- Liquids and solids – their
changeability and forces that can work to change them
- Magnetism – attract and repel, which
materials magnets work on, magnets can cause motion without direct
contact
3rd Grade
- Habitats and adaptations – varying
life cycles, physical structures and physical behavior adaptations
equips an organism for survival in a particular habitat
- Simple food chains
- Earth Science – rock and soil types,
fossils and water and the change in landforms due to weathering
and erosion. Earth’s land features and earth materials
used by people
- Heat – changes in matter, properties
of liquid, solid and gas, movement and production of heat
(insulators, conductors and function)
- Sound, gravity, motion, volume, pitch and
vibrations, push and pull force in objects and gravity
4th Grade
- Organisms and their environment,
classification, inherited and acquired behavior, use of senses,
habitat influence on organisms, factors such as food and water
which influence the number and types of organisms present
- Astronomy – causes of day and night,
year and seasons, moon phases, properties of and location of
earth, moon, sun and planets
- Weather – water cycle, clouds, weather
patterns and changes daily and seasonal and causes and effects of
severe weather
- Properties of light and electricity, light
and color, behavior of light, how light travels, what happens when
lights hits an object, circuits, conductors, insulators, static
and current electricity, properties of magnets
5th Grade
- Ecosystems – land and water,
characteristics of Earth’s varying ecosystems, food chains
and food webs, role of organisms in their environment (predator,
producer, etc.), limiting factors in an environment and
composition of the ecosystem
- Landforms and oceans – how natural
processes change the earth, effect of humans on land and oceans,
effect of waves and tides and storms on shoreline, geological
landforms of the ocean floor and their similarity to continental
landforms
- Properties of matter – use of
filtration, sifting, evaporation and floating to respective
mixtures, mixing of substances to form a new substance and mixing
and dissolving of substances in relationships to pollution
- Forces and motion – different types of
forces and their effect on motion, changes in force, shape or size
effects the motion of an object, relationship of texture, function
and surface area on the motion of an object
6th Grade
- Plants – classification of organisms,
life cycles and structures of flowering plants, reproduction of
flowering plants, photosynthesis and processes for plant survival,
structures of varying groups of plants, disease causing fungi
- Animals – structure comparisons of
vertebrates and invertebrates, compare warm and cold blooded,
compare learned to inherited behaviors, effects of environmental
stimuli on physical and behavioral responses, how animal anatomy
allows them to survive
- Earth’s atmosphere and weather –
Earth’s atmospheric layers and their composition, water
cycle, clouds, air masses, pressure systems, fronts, severe
weather, solar energy on Earth’s surface, effects of
convection
- Conservation of energy - simple machines and
how they reduce force needed to do work and their use in tools and
machines, directional transfer of heat, electrical currents
involved in energy transformations
7th Grade
- Cells and heredity – human systems and
disease
- Ecology – populations, communities,
food chains, food webs, biomes and food pyramids, effects of
overpopulation and natural disasters on ecosystems, natural
compared to human impact on the environment, movement of water as
groundwater or in a watershed, renewable and nonrenewable
resources
8th Grade
- Earth’s biological history –
varying types of fossils, geologic time scale, effect of disasters
on life on earth, rock layers, causes of extinction, population
adaptations enhance survival
- Earth systems - layers of earth, rock cycle,
minerals and ores and fossil fuels, plate tectonics and their
effect on landforms, volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain building
- Astronomy – movement of objects in
solar system, how features of the sun may effect Earth, motion of
Earth and moon and how these motions cause day, year phases,
eclipses and tides, how Earth’s tilt affects day length,
cause of seasons, how gravity causes orbits and tides, galaxies
and light years
- Light waves – refraction, reflection
transmission and absorption of light, wavelength, ultraviolet,
infrared and visible light, light waves and color, light waves and
vision
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