Discovery Labs - Standards

School Programs – Alignment to CA State Standards

Spinning Tops

Physical Science: motion, force, energy, properties

Investigation and Experimentation: Making predictions, measuring, comparing and sorting, following instructions.

Optical Illusions

Physical Science: light, color, energy

Investigation and Experimentation: Developing hypotheses, selecting tools, communicating results, analyzing evidence.

That’s Gross-No, it’s SNOT!

Life Science: Body systems, respiration, waste transportation

Investigation and Experimentation: Developing questions, planning and conducting investigations, measuring, drawing conclusions, following instructions

Disgusting Digestion

Life Science: Body systems, digestion, circulation

Investigation and Experimentation: Developing questions, planning and conducting investigations, measuring, drawing conclusions, following instructions

The Art of Geometry

Measurement and Geometry: identify and describe objects, plane, space, solid geometric figures

Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability: Patterns, identifying shapes, sizes, or colors.

Mathematical Reasoning: making decisions about how to set up and approach a problem.

A Fresh Perspective

Measurement and Geometry: attributes and properties of plane, solid and two-dimensional geometric figures

Mathematical Reasoning: Students make decisions about how to approach problems.

Puzzling Polygons

Measurement and Geometry: attributes and properties of plane, solid and two-dimensional geometric figures

Mathematical Reasoning: Students make decisions about how to approach problems.

Adventures in Wild California

Life Science: Weather, landforms, topography

Investigation and Experimentation: Planning and conducting investigations, identifying variables, drawing conclusions, selecting tools, record data.

Amazing Journeys

Life Science: structures of plants and animals, environments, plants, adaptations, life cycles, variation, characteristics, pollination

Investigation and Experimentation: Making predictions, measuring, comparing and sorting, following instructions.

Under the Sea

Life Science: Adaptations, environments, organisms, environmental changes, life cycles, variation, characteristics

Investigation and Experimentation: Observation, interpretation, measure, predicting, conduct investigations.

Stars in the Sky

Physical Science: Energy, light, matter, motion, gravity, forces

Earth Science: Orbits, moon, lunar cycle, planets, Sun

Investigation and Experimentation: Making predications, measuring, comparing and sorting

Voyage to a Black Hole

Physical Science: Energy, light, matter, motion, gravity, forces

Earth Science: Solar System, orbital paths, gravitational pull, Sun

Investigation and Experimentation: Developing hypotheses, selecting tools, communicating results, analyzing evidence.