New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Science Snacks 
Check out these bite-size science exhibits and demonstrations that teachers can make using common, inexpensive, easily available materials. Covering a wide-variety of science topics, these exhibits were designed by the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco with the help of classroom teachers.
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Science: Science as Inquiry
Curriculum Standard 1a
Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how the scientific enterprise operates.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Solve problems using a variety of strategies.
- Pose questions for scientific investigations and make predictions about the outcomes.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation exploring the relationship between two variables.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, organize, and interpret data.
- Compare and estimate very large/very small numbers.
- Use appropriate measurement units.
- Read bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and tables.
- Construct explanations, including the development of simple models, for observations made.
- Work in small teams to investigate problems, but form own conclusions.
- Discuss the relationship between evidence and explanations.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and procedures.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
- Make hypotheses and design simple experiments to test hypotheses made.
- Recognize the variables in a situation and the importance of controlling them when conducting a scientific investigation.
- Seek information for comparing past and present scientific ideas and theories.
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