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Content Standards and Objectives
Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Targeted Texas Content Standards and Benchmarks 
Science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
  • Demonstrate safe lab practices
  • Plan and implement investigations 
  • Collect information by observing and measuring
  • Construct explanations
  • Construct graphs, tables, maps, and charts
  • Collect and analyze information using tools
  • Demonstrate that repeated investigations may increase reliability
  • Connect concepts with the history of science and contributions of scientists
  • Use models and identify limitations
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
  • Use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity
  • Use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works
  • Use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources
  • Use technology tools to process data and report results
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:  
  • Understand the difference between effort and work
  • Describe simple machines and tell how they accomplish work
  • Identify how simple machines are used in daily life
  • Identify simple machines that work together as components of more complex machines
  • Measure and record changes in the position and direction of the motion of an object to which a force such as a push or pull has been applied
  • Use a spreadsheet to collect, sort, and display data
  • Use scientific processes to create a new simple machine
  • Evaluate mechanisms of newly designed simple machines
  • Create a multimedia presentation to synthesize learning


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