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Overall Expectations

6s35 2. investigate the characteristics of static and current electricity, and construct simple circuits.

Specific Expectations

6s39 2.1 follow established safety procedures for working with electricity (e.g., ensure hands are completely dry when working with electricity; be aware of electrical hazards at home, at school, and in the community)

Overall Expectations

6s35 2. investigate the characteristics of static and current electricity, and construct simple circuits.

Specific Expectations

6s39 2.1 follow established safety procedures for working with electricity (e.g., ensure hands are completely dry when working with electricity; be aware of electrical hazards at home, at school, and in the community)
6s44 2.6 use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including current, battery, circuit, transform, static, electrostatic, and energy, in oral and written communication

Overall Expectations

• demonstrate an understanding of the properties and uses of fluids.

Specific Expectations

• explain the difference between solids, liquids, and gases in terms of density, using the particle theory of matter
• explain the difference between liquids and gases in terms of their compressibility
• explain in qualitative terms the relationship between pressure, volume, and temperature when a liquid (e.g.,
  water) or a gas (e.g., air) is compressed or heated

Overall Expectations

investigate the properties of fluids

Specific Expectations

• follow established safety practices for using apparatus, tools, and materials (e.g., use syringes and tubing for the purposes for which they were designed)
• investigate and compare the density of a variety of liquids
• investigate and compare the densities of a variety of liquids
• use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including viscosity, density, particle theory of matter, hydraulic, and pneumatic, in oral and written communication
  

Electric motors and generators

Rationale

Why are you spending class time on this? Why would their futures be ruined if they didn't know this?

Unit Goals