Illinois Learning Standards

Stage E - Science

Science Classroom Assessments Aligned to the Illinois Learning Standards

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The assessments are coded according to standard and stage. Example: 11A.E is aligned to standard 11A, Stage E (fifth grade). Sample student work, when available, will follow the assessment.

11A.E - Inquiry Overview

Students will apply the concepts, principles and processes of scientific inquiry within classroom investigations.
11B.E - Design Overview

Students will apply the concepts, principles and processes of technological design within classroom investigations.
12A.E - Who Turned the Lights Out?

Students will apply the processes of technological design to explore the patterns of change and stability at the macroscopic levels.
12B.E - Frozen Stiff Connection

Students will apply the process of scientific inquiry to categorize organisms by their energy relationships in theirenvironments.
12C.E - Multi-Talented Electrical Energy

Students will apply the processes of technological design to explore energy conversions.
12D.E - Make It Fly

Students will apply the processes of scientific inquiry and technological design to explain thrust, weight, lift and drag in flight.
12E.E - Illinois Without the Ice

Students will apply the processes of scientific inquiry to analyze topographic features.
12F.E - The Sun Makes a Clock

Students will apply the processes technological design to explain planetary and stellar cycles and investigate their interactions in society.
13A.E - Beware of Poisons

Students will explore appropriate principles of safety.
13B.E - Choices Affect the Environment

Students will apply their understanding of the interactions of societal decisions in science and technology innovations and discoveries.

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