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7. Fields of Knowledge - Science, Math, and Technology

Systems

Draft July 1997


SYSTEMS 7.11 ANALYSIS: Grades K-2, (5-8 year-olds) Grades 3-5, (8-11 year-olds) Grades 6-8, (11-14 year-olds)
Students analyze and understand living and non-living systems as collections of interrelated parts and interconnected systems. This is evident when students:

7.11 Analysis

· Understand that most things are made of parts.

· Show that something may not work if some of its parts are missing.

· Show that when parts are put together, they can do things that they could not do by themselves.

· Can apply knowledge about systems to explain systems such as food chains or solar system.

· Show that a system may not work as well (or at all) if a part of it is missing, worn out, mismatched, or misconnected.

· Demonstrate understanding that systems include inputs, processes, and outputs (e.g. food chains).

· Use physical and mathematical models to show how, in a system, inputs affect outputs.

· Demonstrate understanding that systems are connected to other systems, and that one system affects how others work (.e.g. agricultural systems (watershed, forests).

· Demonstrate that systems are effectively designed with specifications and that constraints are understood.

· Construct and use physical and mathematical models to express how systems behave, given a set of inputs or outputs (e.g. water cycle).

· Understand that a system can include processes as well as things.

· Understand that any system is usually connected to other systems, both internally and externally. Thus, a system may be thought of as containing subsystems and as being a subsystem of a larger system.

Areas of Study for All Shelburne Students on Standard

7.11

Plants

Nutrition

The Body

Body Systems

Weather

Geology

Living Systems

Environmental Issues

Examples of Classroom Activities for Standard

7.11.

This may vary from team to team

Construct-a-Gut

Growing plants

Oceans

Lake Champlain

Transportation
Examples of Assessment Strategies for Standards

7.11


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