Science Games
Alignment to Missouri's Show-Me Standards and the School District of Washington Curriculum
The Show-Me Standards
School District of Washington Science Curriculum
Animals
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of characteristics and interactions of living organisms.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding of organisms' characteristics.
- The learner will be able to plan and perform investigations on how an organism is specially adapted to a specific function for enhancing its survival.
- The learner will be able to understand that every structure in an organism is specially adapted to a specific function which enables the organism to survive.
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding of organisms and the environments in which they live.
- The learner will be able to understand the adaptations and diversity of organisms.
- The learner will be able to understand that living things can be grouped into five kingdoms based on similarities and differences.
- The learner will be able to organize data to show the diverse characteristics of groups of living things.
- The learner will be able to understand that organisms can be classified by structure.
Cells
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of characteristics and interactions of living organisms.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to investigate the structure and function of organelles in the cell.
- The learner will be able to recognize that the cell is the basic unit of life.
- The learner will be able to utilize technology, as well as other resources, in order to visually comprehend the cell as the basic unit of life.
- The learner will be able to utilize technology in order to visually comprehend organelles.
- The learner will be able to understand that cells contain organelles which determine the functions of the cell.
Dinosaurs
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of changes in ecosystems and interactions of organisms with their environments.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to understand how fossils provide evidence of prehistoric life and environmental conditions.
- The learner will be able to understand the Universe's origin and evolution.
Ecology
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of changes in ecosystems and interactions of organisms with their environments.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding about environmental quality.
- The learner will be able to recognize food webs.
- The learner will be able to recognize specifics in food chains.
- The learner will be able to identify the members of a food chain.
- The learner will be able to understand that materials are recycled in ecosystems.
- The learner will be able to recognize changes in the environment that affect the variety and balance of an ecosystem.
- The learner will be able to understand that all living things are part of the food web, starting from the bottom of the energy pyramid.
- The learner will be able to track the path of matter and energy in a food web.
- The learner will be able to understand that as energy flows through the ecosystem, all living things must capture the energy available to them and change it into useful forms.
- The learner will be able to begin to understand ecosystems.
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding of organisms and the environments in which they live.
- The learner will be able to understand that living things interact with one another as producers and consumers.
Energy
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of . properties and principles of matter and energy.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding of electricity.
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding of energy.
- The learner will be able to identify the different types of energy.
- The learner will be able to understand that in order for electricity to travel, the electrical circuit must have a complete loop.
Human Body
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of characteristics and interactions of living organisms.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to understand that the human body has parts which ensure that it will survive.
- The learner will be able to use a food pyramid to explain good food choices.
- The learner will be able to understand and identify the excretory system.
- The learner will be able to understand and identify the digestive system.
- The learner will be able to understand and identify the nervous system.
- The learner will be able to understand and identify the respiratory system.
- The learner will be able to understand and identify the cardiovascular system.
- The learner will be able to identify and understand the musculoskeletal system.
Matter
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of properties and principles of matter and energy.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to understand that an atom is the smallest particle of an element.
- The learner will be able to comprehend that most matter is made from elements which occur freely in nature.
- The learner will be able to comprehend that the placement, movement, and interaction of molecules in matter is what determines its state.
Natural Disasters
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of processes (such as plate movement, water cycle, air flow) and interactions of earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to understand that the results of constructive and destructive forces from the center of the Earth are connected to plate tectonics.
Oceanography
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of processes (such as plate movement, water cycle, air flow) and interactions of earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding of organisms' characteristics.
- The learner will be able to develop an understanding of organisms and the environments in which they live.
Space
Show Me Standard
- Performance Standard
- Goal 1 -- Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
- Knowledge Standards
- In Science, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of composition and structure of the universe and the motions of the objects within it.
School District of Washington Curriculum Objectives
- The learner will be able to understand Earth as it exists in our solar system.
- The learner will be able to comprehend the most pertinent ideas and principles of Earth/Space science.
- The learner will be able to recognize that gravity is responsible for the orbits of the planets and moons.
- The learner will be able to describe solar and lunar eclipses as well as lunar phases.
- The learner will be able to analyze and judge data which is connected to distances between our solar system and other points in the galaxy and universe.
- The learner will be able to comprehend that rotation and revolution are responsible for the angles that the sun's light hits the Earth which cause seasonal variations in weather and climate
- The learner will be able to understand that the phases of the moon and eclipses are caused by the angle from which we view the moon.
- The learner will be able to comprehend that the solar system is a piece of the Milky Way which is one of many galaxies.
- The learner will be able to comprehend that the planets, their moons, comets, asteroids, and meteorites all orbit the sun.
- The learner will be able to compare and contrast the celestial bodies within our own solar system.