Connecticut Content Standard 1: Students will experience an inquiry-based learning environment in which they are free to ask questions, seek information and validate explanations in thoughtful and creative ways. Students also will understand that the processes, ways of knowing and conceptual foundations of science are interdependent and inextricably bound.

Specific Learning Objectives: By the end of the unit:

1. Students will recognize that when a scientific investigation is done in the same way in different places or when repeated many times, the investigation generally has the same results.
2. Students will describe things as accurately as possible because careful, complete observations enable people to compare their observations with those of others.
3. Students will use their senses to make observations about the natural world and discuss their findings.
4. Students will conduct a simple experiment, keep an accurate record of their findings, and communicate their findings to others using graphs, charts, maps, and oral and written reports.
5. Students will recognize that measuring instruments can be used to gather accurate information for making scientific comparisons of objects and events.

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