Science Education Standards:

Grades 5-8:

Science As Inquiry

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• Understandings about scientific inquiry

Physical Science

• Structure of atoms
• Properties and changes of properties in matter
• Motions and forces
• Transfer of energy
• Interactions of matter and energy

Science and Technology

• Understandings about science and technology

History and Nature of Science

• Science as a human endeavor
• Nature of science and scientific knowledge
• History of science and historical perspectives

Grades 9-12

Science As Inquiry

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• Understandings about scientific inquiry

Earth and Space Science

• Earth in the solar system
• The origin and evolutions of the Earth system
• Energy in the Earth system

Physical Science

• Structure of atoms
• Properties and changes of properties in matter
• Motions and forces
• Transfer of energy
• Interactions of matter and energy

Science and Technology

• Understandings about science and technology

History and Nature of Science

• Science as a human endeavor
• Nature of science and scientific knowledge
• History of science and historical perspectives

Short Description: Students use iron powder to model the solar wind, moving under pressure created by a pipette, encountering and interacting with an enclosed magnetic field. The student text introduces the idea of planetary diversity not only in the shape, size and strength of the planetary magnetospheres, but also in the types and sources of the high-energy charged particles that occupy them.