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Content Standards and Benchmarks

McREL organizes benchmarks (learning objectives) under Subjects and Topics.
Click on a subject or topic below to find McREL benchmarks and related Science Friday Kids' Connection Resource Pages.

Subjects

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Topics

Ability to support life
Addition/subtraction
Atoms and molecules
Body systems
Body weight
Characteristics of organisms
Characteristics of the Earth system
Chemical reactions
Classification of organisms
Community health
Computer hardware
Computer networks/Internet
Computer software
Conservation of matter and energy
Culture and health
Data distribution
Data organization and display
Decimals
Design implementation
Design process
Design test and refinement
Disease prevention and treatment
Diversity and unity among organisms
Drug use and abuse
Drugs and health consequences
Earth's history
Earth's surface features
Electricity and Magnetism
Emotional health
Energy transfer and entropy
Environmental issues
Environmental protection
Ethics in science
Exponents/logarithms/roots
Fitness and health
Forces and motion
Forms of energy
Formulating/testing hypotheses
Fractions
Government and health
Gravity
Health condition
Health information
Health product
Health services
Illness and disease
Impact of technology
Integers
Interdependence of organisms
Invention and innovation
Mathematical enterprise
Matter and energy in living systems
Molecular basis of heredity
Motion of the Earth and Moon
Multiplication/division
Natural selection and biological evolution
Nuclear reactions and forces
Number systems
Nutrition and diet
Patterns
People in science
Personal health
Plate tectonics
Populations and ecosystems
Position and motion
Precision/accuracy
Properties of substances
Rate
Reasoning and predicting from data
Regulation and behavior
Representing problems
Reproduction
Rock cycle
Science, technology, and society
Science, technology, and society
Scientific collaboration and communication
Scientific data collection/analysis/interpretation
Scientific explanations
Scientific investigation
Scientific investigations/repeatability
Scientific knowledge
Seasons, weather, and climate
Solution strategies
States of matter
Structure and function in organisms
Survival and extinction
Technological design and development
The Solar System
The Sun and other stars
The universe
Triangles
Typing
Uses of Mathematics
Uses of technology
Vibrations and waves
Water in the Earth system
Whole numbers/place value/numeration

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About the Kids’ Connection:

an educational resource based on National Public Radio’s award-winning radio program, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, hosted each Friday afternoon by veteran science journalist and author, Ira Flatow
each content page has a summary of the radio program, discussion ideas, activities, links to the audio, selected resources, and related science standards, all found on the web
science standards are selected from a national list developed by McREL, the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning in Denver, Colorado. McREL is a nationally recognized, private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a difference in the quality of education for all through applied research, product development, and service. For information on their Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education: 4th Edition, go to http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
used together, educators can make Talk of the Nation: Science Friday their weekly backgrounder, and the Kids’ Connection a springboard to curriculum enhancements, extra credit projects, or an accelerated learning program.
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Science Friday Kids’ Connection Staff:
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Arna Cohen
Peg Kolm, Editor

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