• 3-5: 3A/E3. Measuring instruments can be used to gather accurate information for making scientific comparisons of objects and events and for designing and constructing things that will work properly.

• 3-5: 3B/E2. Even a good design may fail. Sometimes steps can be taken ahead of time to reduce the likelihood of failure, but it cannot be entirely eliminated.

• 3-5: 4E/E2c. A warmer object can warm a cooler one by contact or at a distance.

• 3-5: 4F/E3. Light travels and tends to maintain its direction of motion until it interacts with an object or material. Light can be absorbed, redirected, bounced back, or allowed to pass through.

• 3-5: 8C/E2. Sunlight is used to run many devices.
• 3-5: 8C/E4. Some people try to reduce the amount of fuels they use in order to conserve resources, reduce pollution, or save money.

• 3-5: 9B/E2. Tables and graphs can show how values of one quantity are related to values of another.

• 9-12: 11C/H4. Graphs and equations are useful (and often equivalent) ways for depicting and analyzing patterns of change.
• 9-12: 11C/H10. Whatever happens within a system, such as parts exploding, decaying, or reorganizing, some features, such as the total amount of matter and energy, remain precisely the same.

• 3-5: 12C/E1. Choose appropriate common materials for making simple mechanical constructions and repairing things.
• 3-5: 12C/E3. Keep written or electronic records of information so that the records are understandable weeks or months later.

• 5.G.1 Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
• 5.G.2 Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.

Multimedia activity combines a hands-on lab with digital temperature graphing. Kids investigate heat transfer as they design and build a simple solar oven, then test its effectiveness by using a $40 temperature sensing device. Plug the device into a laptop, and the graph is automatically generated by data captured from the solar oven as it heats up from the sun's warmth.

• Physical Sciences K-8 Renewable Energy Sources Unit

Multimedia activity combines a hands-on lab with digital temperature graphing. Kids investigate heat transfer as they design and build a simple solar oven, then test its effectiveness by using a $40 temperature sensing device. Plug the device into a laptop, and the graph is automatically generated by data captured from the solar oven as it heats up from the sun's warmth.

• Physical Sciences K-8 Teaching Energy in the Elementary Grades Unit