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Property Investigators
Duration: 60 minutes
Grade Level: 2
Investigate and analyze the properties of a set of items to determine which materials are best suited for different tasks.
Lab Connection:Grade Level: 2
Duration: 60 minutes
Concepts/Skills: Observation, hypotheses, materials, properties
Objectives:
- Describe and classify a set of objects.
- Analyze and test a set of objects to determine which is suitable for a particular function, based on its properties.
Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 2 | 2-PS1-2 | Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. |
| 2 | 2-PS1-2 | Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. |
| Science and Engineering Practices |
Asking Questions and Defining Problems Planning and Carrying Out Investigations Analyzing and Interpreting Data |
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| Cross Cutting Concepts |
Patterns Cause and Effect Structure and Function |
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