Iowa Science Content Standards for Grade 6
Standard 1: Students can understand and apply skills used in scientificinquiry.
Benchmark:Students can understand and apply the processes andskills of scientific inquiry.
Benchmark:Students can analyze and interpret scientific information.
Standard 2: Students can understand concepts and relationships inphysical science.
Benchmark:Students can understand and apply concepts relatedto mechanics, forces, and motion
Benchmark:Students can understand and apply the concepts of energy.
Benchmark:Students can understand and identify properties and changes of matter.
Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades 6-8:
Understand and apply knowledge of motions and forces.
Understand and apply knowledge of forms of energy and energy transfer.
Understand and apply knowledge of:
- Elements, compounds, mixtures, and solutionsbased on the nature of their physical and chemical properties.
- Physical and chemical changes and theirrelationship to the conservation of matter and energy.