Wisconsin State Standards for Science:

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.4.1. When conducting science investigations, ask and answer questions that will help decide the general areas of science being addressed. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.1.

A.4.2. When faced with a science-related problem, decide what evidence, models, or explanations previously studied can be used to better understand what is happening now. 19
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.2.

A.4.3. When investigating a science-related problem, decide what data can be collected to determine the most useful explanations. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.3.

A.4.4. When studying science-related problems, decide which of the science themes are important. 131
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.4.

A.4.5. When studying a science-related problem, decide what changes over time are occurring or have occurred. 36
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.5.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.4.1. Use encyclopedias, source books, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources, to help answer science-related questions and plan investigations. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.1.

B.4.2. Acquire information about people who have contributed to the development of major ideas in the sciences and learn about the cultures in which these people lived and worked. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.2.

B.4.3. Show how the major developments of scientific knowledge in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences have changed over time. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.3.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.4.1. Use the vocabulary of the unifying themes to ask questions about objects, organisms, and events being studied. 91
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.1.

C.4.2. Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.2.

C.4.3. Select multiple sources of information to help answer questions selected for classroom investigations. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.3.

C.4.4. Use simple science equipment safely and effectively, including rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, hand lenses, thermometers, and computers, to collect data relevant to questions and investigations. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.4.

C.4.5. Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer questions generated by investigations. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.5.

C.4.6. Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means, to display their answers. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.6.

C.4.7. Support their conclusions with logical arguments. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.7.

C.4.8. Ask additional questions that might help focus or further an investigation. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.8.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that objects are made of more than one substance, by observing, describing and measuring the properties of earth materials, including properties of size, weight, shape, color, temperature, and the ability to react with other substances. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.1.

D.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Group and/or classify objects and substances based on the properties of earth materials. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.2.

D.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that substances can exist in different states-solid, liquid, gas. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.3.

D.4.4. Properties of Earth Materials: Observe and describe changes in form, temperature, color, speed, and direction of objects and construct explanations for the changes. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.4.

D.4.5. Properties of Earth Materials: Construct simple models of what is happening to materials and substances undergoing change, using simple instruments or tools to aid observations and collect data. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.5.

D.4.6. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events in objects at rest or in motion. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.6.

D.4.7. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events involving objects and develop record-keeping systems to follow these events by measuring and describing changes in their properties, including: position relative to another object, motion over time, and position due to forces. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.7.

D.4.8. Light, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism: Ask questions and make observations to discover the differences between substances that can be touched (matter) and substances that cannot be touched (forms of energy, light, heat, electricity, sound, and magnetism). 16
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.8.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Investigate that earth materials are composed of rocks and soils and correctly use the vocabulary for rocks, minerals, and soils during these investigations. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.1.

E.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Show that earth materials have different physical and chemical properties, including the properties of soils found in Wisconsin. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.2.

E.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Develop descriptions of the land and water masses of the earth and of Wisconsin's rocks and minerals, using the common vocabulary of earth and space science. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.3.

E.4.4. Objects in the Sky: Identify celestial objects (stars, sun, moon, planets) in the sky, noting changes in patterns of those objects over time. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.4.

E.4.5. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Describe the weather commonly found in Wisconsin in terms of clouds, temperature, humidity, and forms of precipitation, and the changes that occur over time, including seasonal changes. 68
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.5.

E.4.6. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, find patterns and cycles in Changes in The Earth and Sky: the earth's daily, yearly, and long-term changes. 83
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.6.

E.4.7. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, describe resources used in the home, community, and nation as a whole. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.7.

E.4.8. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Illustrate human resources use in mining, forestry, farming, and manufacturing in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the world. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.4.1. The Characteristics of Organisms: Discover how each organism meets its basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy in order to survive. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.1.

F.4.2. The Characteristics of Organisms: Investigate how organisms, especially plants, respond to both internal cues (the need for water) and external cues (changes in the environment). 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.2.

F.4.3. Life Cycles of Organisms: Illustrate the different ways that organisms grow through life stages and survive to produce new members of their type. 63
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.3.

F.4.4. Organisms and Their Environment: Using the science themes, develop explanations for the connections among living and non-living things in various environments. 30
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.4.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.4.1. Identify the technology used by someone employed in a job or position in Wisconsin and explain how the technology helps. 7
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.1.

G.4.2. Discover what changes in technology have occurred in a career chosen by a parent, grandparent, or an adult friend over a long period of time. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.2.

G.4.3. Determine what science discoveries have led to changes in technologies that are being used in the workplace by someone employed locally. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.3.

G.4.4. Identify the combinations of simple machines in a device used in the home, the workplace, or elsewhere in the community, to make or repair things, or to move goods or people. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.4.

G.4.5. Ask questions to find answers about how devices and machines were invented and produced. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.5.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.4.1. Describe how science and technology have helped, and in some cases hindered, progress in providing better food, more rapid information, quicker and safer transportation, and more effective health care. 44
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.1.

H.4.2. Using the science themes, identify local and state issues that are helped by science and technology and explain how science and technology can also cause a problem. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.2.

H.4.3. Show how science has contributed to meeting personal needs, including hygiene, nutrition, exercise, safety, and health care. 62
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.3.

H.4.4. Develop a list of issues that citizens must make decisions about and describe a strategy for becoming informed about the science behind these issues. 1
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.4.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.4.1. When conducting science investigations, ask and answer questions that will help decide the general areas of science being addressed. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.1.

A.4.2. When faced with a science-related problem, decide what evidence, models, or explanations previously studied can be used to better understand what is happening now. 18
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.2.

A.4.3. When investigating a science-related problem, decide what data can be collected to determine the most useful explanations. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.3.

A.4.4. When studying science-related problems, decide which of the science themes are important. 121
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.4.

A.4.5. When studying a science-related problem, decide what changes over time are occurring or have occurred. 46
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.5.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.4.1. Use encyclopedias, source books, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources, to help answer science-related questions and plan investigations. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.1.

B.4.2. Acquire information about people who have contributed to the development of major ideas in the sciences and learn about the cultures in which these people lived and worked. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.2.

B.4.3. Show how the major developments of scientific knowledge in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences have changed over time. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.3.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.4.1. Use the vocabulary of the unifying themes to ask questions about objects, organisms, and events being studied. 91
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.1.

C.4.2. Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.2.

C.4.3. Select multiple sources of information to help answer questions selected for classroom investigations. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.3.

C.4.4. Use simple science equipment safely and effectively, including rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, hand lenses, thermometers, and computers, to collect data relevant to questions and investigations. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.4.

C.4.5. Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer questions generated by investigations. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.5.

C.4.6. Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means, to display their answers. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.6.

C.4.7. Support their conclusions with logical arguments. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.7.

C.4.8. Ask additional questions that might help focus or further an investigation. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.8.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that objects are made of more than one substance, by observing, describing and measuring the properties of earth materials, including properties of size, weight, shape, color, temperature, and the ability to react with other substances. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.1.

D.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Group and/or classify objects and substances based on the properties of earth materials. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.2.

D.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that substances can exist in different states-solid, liquid, gas. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.3.

D.4.4. Properties of Earth Materials: Observe and describe changes in form, temperature, color, speed, and direction of objects and construct explanations for the changes. 16
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.4.

D.4.5. Properties of Earth Materials: Construct simple models of what is happening to materials and substances undergoing change, using simple instruments or tools to aid observations and collect data. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.5.

D.4.6. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events in objects at rest or in motion. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.6.

D.4.7. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events involving objects and develop record-keeping systems to follow these events by measuring and describing changes in their properties, including: position relative to another object, motion over time, and position due to forces. 34
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.7.

D.4.8. Light, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism: Ask questions and make observations to discover the differences between substances that can be touched (matter) and substances that cannot be touched (forms of energy, light, heat, electricity, sound, and magnetism). 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.8.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Investigate that earth materials are composed of rocks and soils and correctly use the vocabulary for rocks, minerals, and soils during these investigations. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.1.

E.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Show that earth materials have different physical and chemical properties, including the properties of soils found in Wisconsin. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.2.

E.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Develop descriptions of the land and water masses of the earth and of Wisconsin's rocks and minerals, using the common vocabulary of earth and space science. 35
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.3.

E.4.4. Objects in the Sky: Identify celestial objects (stars, sun, moon, planets) in the sky, noting changes in patterns of those objects over time. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.4.

E.4.5. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Describe the weather commonly found in Wisconsin in terms of clouds, temperature, humidity, and forms of precipitation, and the changes that occur over time, including seasonal changes. 68
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.5.

E.4.6. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, find patterns and cycles in Changes in The Earth and Sky: the earth's daily, yearly, and long-term changes. 83
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.6.

E.4.7. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, describe resources used in the home, community, and nation as a whole. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.7.

E.4.8. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Illustrate human resources use in mining, forestry, farming, and manufacturing in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the world. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.4.1. The Characteristics of Organisms: Discover how each organism meets its basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy in order to survive. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.1.

F.4.2. The Characteristics of Organisms: Investigate how organisms, especially plants, respond to both internal cues (the need for water) and external cues (changes in the environment). 38
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.2.

F.4.3. Life Cycles of Organisms: Illustrate the different ways that organisms grow through life stages and survive to produce new members of their type. 63
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.3.

F.4.4. Organisms and Their Environment: Using the science themes, develop explanations for the connections among living and non-living things in various environments. 30
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.4.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.4.1. Identify the technology used by someone employed in a job or position in Wisconsin and explain how the technology helps. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.1.

G.4.2. Discover what changes in technology have occurred in a career chosen by a parent, grandparent, or an adult friend over a long period of time. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.2.

G.4.3. Determine what science discoveries have led to changes in technologies that are being used in the workplace by someone employed locally. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.3.

G.4.4. Identify the combinations of simple machines in a device used in the home, the workplace, or elsewhere in the community, to make or repair things, or to move goods or people. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.4.

G.4.5. Ask questions to find answers about how devices and machines were invented and produced. 7
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.5.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.4.1. Describe how science and technology have helped, and in some cases hindered, progress in providing better food, more rapid information, quicker and safer transportation, and more effective health care. 28
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.1.

H.4.2. Using the science themes, identify local and state issues that are helped by science and technology and explain how science and technology can also cause a problem. 16
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.2.

H.4.3. Show how science has contributed to meeting personal needs, including hygiene, nutrition, exercise, safety, and health care. 47
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.3.

H.4.4. Develop a list of issues that citizens must make decisions about and describe a strategy for becoming informed about the science behind these issues. 2
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.4.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.4.1. When conducting science investigations, ask and answer questions that will help decide the general areas of science being addressed. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.1.

A.4.2. When faced with a science-related problem, decide what evidence, models, or explanations previously studied can be used to better understand what is happening now. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.2.

A.4.3. When investigating a science-related problem, decide what data can be collected to determine the most useful explanations. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.3.

A.4.4. When studying science-related problems, decide which of the science themes are important. 134
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.4.

A.4.5. When studying a science-related problem, decide what changes over time are occurring or have occurred. 67
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.5.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.4.1. Use encyclopedias, source books, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources, to help answer science-related questions and plan investigations. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.1.

B.4.2. Acquire information about people who have contributed to the development of major ideas in the sciences and learn about the cultures in which these people lived and worked. 37
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.2.

B.4.3. Show how the major developments of scientific knowledge in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences have changed over time. 52
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.3.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.4.1. Use the vocabulary of the unifying themes to ask questions about objects, organisms, and events being studied. 134
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.1.

C.4.2. Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.2.

C.4.3. Select multiple sources of information to help answer questions selected for classroom investigations. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.3.

C.4.4. Use simple science equipment safely and effectively, including rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, hand lenses, thermometers, and computers, to collect data relevant to questions and investigations. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.4.

C.4.5. Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer questions generated by investigations. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.5.

C.4.6. Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means, to display their answers. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.6.

C.4.7. Support their conclusions with logical arguments. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.7.

C.4.8. Ask additional questions that might help focus or further an investigation. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.8.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that objects are made of more than one substance, by observing, describing and measuring the properties of earth materials, including properties of size, weight, shape, color, temperature, and the ability to react with other substances. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.1.

D.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Group and/or classify objects and substances based on the properties of earth materials. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.2.

D.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that substances can exist in different states-solid, liquid, gas. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.3.

D.4.4. Properties of Earth Materials: Observe and describe changes in form, temperature, color, speed, and direction of objects and construct explanations for the changes. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.4.

D.4.5. Properties of Earth Materials: Construct simple models of what is happening to materials and substances undergoing change, using simple instruments or tools to aid observations and collect data. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.5.

D.4.6. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events in objects at rest or in motion. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.6.

D.4.7. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events involving objects and develop record-keeping systems to follow these events by measuring and describing changes in their properties, including: position relative to another object, motion over time, and position due to forces. 31
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.7.

D.4.8. Light, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism: Ask questions and make observations to discover the differences between substances that can be touched (matter) and substances that cannot be touched (forms of energy, light, heat, electricity, sound, and magnetism). 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.8.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Investigate that earth materials are composed of rocks and soils and correctly use the vocabulary for rocks, minerals, and soils during these investigations. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.1.

E.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Show that earth materials have different physical and chemical properties, including the properties of soils found in Wisconsin. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.2.

E.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Develop descriptions of the land and water masses of the earth and of Wisconsin's rocks and minerals, using the common vocabulary of earth and space science. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.3.

E.4.4. Objects in the Sky: Identify celestial objects (stars, sun, moon, planets) in the sky, noting changes in patterns of those objects over time. 51
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.4.

E.4.5. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Describe the weather commonly found in Wisconsin in terms of clouds, temperature, humidity, and forms of precipitation, and the changes that occur over time, including seasonal changes. 105
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.5.

E.4.6. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, find patterns and cycles in Changes in The Earth and Sky: the earth's daily, yearly, and long-term changes. 114
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.6.

E.4.7. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, describe resources used in the home, community, and nation as a whole. 34
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.7.

E.4.8. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Illustrate human resources use in mining, forestry, farming, and manufacturing in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the world. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.4.1. The Characteristics of Organisms: Discover how each organism meets its basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy in order to survive. 86
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.1.

F.4.2. The Characteristics of Organisms: Investigate how organisms, especially plants, respond to both internal cues (the need for water) and external cues (changes in the environment). 33
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.2.

F.4.3. Life Cycles of Organisms: Illustrate the different ways that organisms grow through life stages and survive to produce new members of their type. 137
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.3.

F.4.4. Organisms and Their Environment: Using the science themes, develop explanations for the connections among living and non-living things in various environments. 64
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.4.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.4.1. Identify the technology used by someone employed in a job or position in Wisconsin and explain how the technology helps. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.1.

G.4.2. Discover what changes in technology have occurred in a career chosen by a parent, grandparent, or an adult friend over a long period of time. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.2.

G.4.3. Determine what science discoveries have led to changes in technologies that are being used in the workplace by someone employed locally. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.3.

G.4.4. Identify the combinations of simple machines in a device used in the home, the workplace, or elsewhere in the community, to make or repair things, or to move goods or people. 12
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.4.

G.4.5. Ask questions to find answers about how devices and machines were invented and produced. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.5.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.4.1. Describe how science and technology have helped, and in some cases hindered, progress in providing better food, more rapid information, quicker and safer transportation, and more effective health care. 53
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.1.

H.4.2. Using the science themes, identify local and state issues that are helped by science and technology and explain how science and technology can also cause a problem. 37
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.2.

H.4.3. Show how science has contributed to meeting personal needs, including hygiene, nutrition, exercise, safety, and health care. 52
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.3.

H.4.4. Develop a list of issues that citizens must make decisions about and describe a strategy for becoming informed about the science behind these issues. 2
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.4.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.4.1. When conducting science investigations, ask and answer questions that will help decide the general areas of science being addressed. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.1.

A.4.2. When faced with a science-related problem, decide what evidence, models, or explanations previously studied can be used to better understand what is happening now. 25
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.2.

A.4.3. When investigating a science-related problem, decide what data can be collected to determine the most useful explanations. 36
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.3.

A.4.4. When studying science-related problems, decide which of the science themes are important. 69
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.4.

A.4.5. When studying a science-related problem, decide what changes over time are occurring or have occurred. 61
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.5.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.4.1. Use encyclopedias, source books, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources, to help answer science-related questions and plan investigations. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.1.

B.4.2. Acquire information about people who have contributed to the development of major ideas in the sciences and learn about the cultures in which these people lived and worked. 41
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.2.

B.4.3. Show how the major developments of scientific knowledge in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences have changed over time. 48
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.3.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.4.1. Use the vocabulary of the unifying themes to ask questions about objects, organisms, and events being studied. 49
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.1.

C.4.2. Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations. 36
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.2.

C.4.3. Select multiple sources of information to help answer questions selected for classroom investigations. 38
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.3.

C.4.4. Use simple science equipment safely and effectively, including rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, hand lenses, thermometers, and computers, to collect data relevant to questions and investigations. 33
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.4.

C.4.5. Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer questions generated by investigations. 35
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.5.

C.4.6. Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means, to display their answers. 35
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.6.

C.4.7. Support their conclusions with logical arguments. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.7.

C.4.8. Ask additional questions that might help focus or further an investigation. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.8.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that objects are made of more than one substance, by observing, describing and measuring the properties of earth materials, including properties of size, weight, shape, color, temperature, and the ability to react with other substances. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.1.

D.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Group and/or classify objects and substances based on the properties of earth materials. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.2.

D.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that substances can exist in different states-solid, liquid, gas. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.3.

D.4.4. Properties of Earth Materials: Observe and describe changes in form, temperature, color, speed, and direction of objects and construct explanations for the changes. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.4.

D.4.5. Properties of Earth Materials: Construct simple models of what is happening to materials and substances undergoing change, using simple instruments or tools to aid observations and collect data. 35
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.5.

D.4.6. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events in objects at rest or in motion. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.6.

D.4.7. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events involving objects and develop record-keeping systems to follow these events by measuring and describing changes in their properties, including: position relative to another object, motion over time, and position due to forces. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.7.

D.4.8. Light, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism: Ask questions and make observations to discover the differences between substances that can be touched (matter) and substances that cannot be touched (forms of energy, light, heat, electricity, sound, and magnetism). 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.8.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Investigate that earth materials are composed of rocks and soils and correctly use the vocabulary for rocks, minerals, and soils during these investigations. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.1.

E.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Show that earth materials have different physical and chemical properties, including the properties of soils found in Wisconsin. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.2.

E.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Develop descriptions of the land and water masses of the earth and of Wisconsin's rocks and minerals, using the common vocabulary of earth and space science. 58
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.3.

E.4.4. Objects in the Sky: Identify celestial objects (stars, sun, moon, planets) in the sky, noting changes in patterns of those objects over time. 33
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.4.

E.4.5. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Describe the weather commonly found in Wisconsin in terms of clouds, temperature, humidity, and forms of precipitation, and the changes that occur over time, including seasonal changes. 97
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.5.

E.4.6. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, find patterns and cycles in Changes in The Earth and Sky: the earth's daily, yearly, and long-term changes. 99
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.6.

E.4.7. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, describe resources used in the home, community, and nation as a whole. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.7.

E.4.8. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Illustrate human resources use in mining, forestry, farming, and manufacturing in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the world. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.4.1. The Characteristics of Organisms: Discover how each organism meets its basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy in order to survive. 139
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.1.

F.4.2. The Characteristics of Organisms: Investigate how organisms, especially plants, respond to both internal cues (the need for water) and external cues (changes in the environment). 25
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.2.

F.4.3. Life Cycles of Organisms: Illustrate the different ways that organisms grow through life stages and survive to produce new members of their type. 120
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.3.

F.4.4. Organisms and Their Environment: Using the science themes, develop explanations for the connections among living and non-living things in various environments. 89
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.4.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.4.1. Identify the technology used by someone employed in a job or position in Wisconsin and explain how the technology helps. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.1.

G.4.2. Discover what changes in technology have occurred in a career chosen by a parent, grandparent, or an adult friend over a long period of time. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.2.

G.4.3. Determine what science discoveries have led to changes in technologies that are being used in the workplace by someone employed locally. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.3.

G.4.4. Identify the combinations of simple machines in a device used in the home, the workplace, or elsewhere in the community, to make or repair things, or to move goods or people. 19
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.4.

G.4.5. Ask questions to find answers about how devices and machines were invented and produced. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.5.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.4.1. Describe how science and technology have helped, and in some cases hindered, progress in providing better food, more rapid information, quicker and safer transportation, and more effective health care. 47
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.1.

H.4.2. Using the science themes, identify local and state issues that are helped by science and technology and explain how science and technology can also cause a problem. 40
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.2.

H.4.3. Show how science has contributed to meeting personal needs, including hygiene, nutrition, exercise, safety, and health care. 40
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.3.

H.4.4. Develop a list of issues that citizens must make decisions about and describe a strategy for becoming informed about the science behind these issues. 2
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.4.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.4.1. When conducting science investigations, ask and answer questions that will help decide the general areas of science being addressed. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.1.

A.4.2. When faced with a science-related problem, decide what evidence, models, or explanations previously studied can be used to better understand what is happening now. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.2.

A.4.3. When investigating a science-related problem, decide what data can be collected to determine the most useful explanations. 34
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.3.

A.4.4. When studying science-related problems, decide which of the science themes are important. 89
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.4.

A.4.5. When studying a science-related problem, decide what changes over time are occurring or have occurred. 58
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.4.5.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.4.1. Use encyclopedias, source books, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources, to help answer science-related questions and plan investigations. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.1.

B.4.2. Acquire information about people who have contributed to the development of major ideas in the sciences and learn about the cultures in which these people lived and worked. 45
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.2.

B.4.3. Show how the major developments of scientific knowledge in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences have changed over time. 42
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.4.3.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.4.1. Use the vocabulary of the unifying themes to ask questions about objects, organisms, and events being studied. 72
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.1.

C.4.2. Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.2.

C.4.3. Select multiple sources of information to help answer questions selected for classroom investigations. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.3.

C.4.4. Use simple science equipment safely and effectively, including rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, hand lenses, thermometers, and computers, to collect data relevant to questions and investigations. 33
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.4.

C.4.5. Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer questions generated by investigations. 44
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.5.

C.4.6. Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means, to display their answers. 44
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.6.

C.4.7. Support their conclusions with logical arguments. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.7.

C.4.8. Ask additional questions that might help focus or further an investigation. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.4.8.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that objects are made of more than one substance, by observing, describing and measuring the properties of earth materials, including properties of size, weight, shape, color, temperature, and the ability to react with other substances. 18
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.1.

D.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Group and/or classify objects and substances based on the properties of earth materials. 18
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.2.

D.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Understand that substances can exist in different states-solid, liquid, gas. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.3.

D.4.4. Properties of Earth Materials: Observe and describe changes in form, temperature, color, speed, and direction of objects and construct explanations for the changes. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.4.

D.4.5. Properties of Earth Materials: Construct simple models of what is happening to materials and substances undergoing change, using simple instruments or tools to aid observations and collect data. 44
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.5.

D.4.6. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events in objects at rest or in motion. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.6.

D.4.7. Position and Motion of Objects: Observe and describe physical events involving objects and develop record-keeping systems to follow these events by measuring and describing changes in their properties, including: position relative to another object, motion over time, and position due to forces. 19
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.7.

D.4.8. Light, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism: Ask questions and make observations to discover the differences between substances that can be touched (matter) and substances that cannot be touched (forms of energy, light, heat, electricity, sound, and magnetism). 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.4.8.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.4.1. Properties of Earth Materials: Investigate that earth materials are composed of rocks and soils and correctly use the vocabulary for rocks, minerals, and soils during these investigations. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.1.

E.4.2. Properties of Earth Materials: Show that earth materials have different physical and chemical properties, including the properties of soils found in Wisconsin. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.2.

E.4.3. Properties of Earth Materials: Develop descriptions of the land and water masses of the earth and of Wisconsin's rocks and minerals, using the common vocabulary of earth and space science. 51
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.3.

E.4.4. Objects in the Sky: Identify celestial objects (stars, sun, moon, planets) in the sky, noting changes in patterns of those objects over time. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.4.

E.4.5. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Describe the weather commonly found in Wisconsin in terms of clouds, temperature, humidity, and forms of precipitation, and the changes that occur over time, including seasonal changes. 53
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.5.

E.4.6. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, find patterns and cycles in Changes in The Earth and Sky: the earth's daily, yearly, and long-term changes. 91
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.6.

E.4.7. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Using the science themes, describe resources used in the home, community, and nation as a whole. 36
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.7.

E.4.8. Changes in The Earth and Sky: Illustrate human resources use in mining, forestry, farming, and manufacturing in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the world. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.4.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.4.1. The Characteristics of Organisms: Discover how each organism meets its basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy in order to survive. 126
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.1.

F.4.2. The Characteristics of Organisms: Investigate how organisms, especially plants, respond to both internal cues (the need for water) and external cues (changes in the environment). 18
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.2.

F.4.3. Life Cycles of Organisms: Illustrate the different ways that organisms grow through life stages and survive to produce new members of their type. 97
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.3.

F.4.4. Organisms and Their Environment: Using the science themes, develop explanations for the connections among living and non-living things in various environments. 84
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.4.4.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.4.1. Identify the technology used by someone employed in a job or position in Wisconsin and explain how the technology helps. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.1.

G.4.2. Discover what changes in technology have occurred in a career chosen by a parent, grandparent, or an adult friend over a long period of time. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.2.

G.4.3. Determine what science discoveries have led to changes in technologies that are being used in the workplace by someone employed locally. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.3.

G.4.4. Identify the combinations of simple machines in a device used in the home, the workplace, or elsewhere in the community, to make or repair things, or to move goods or people. 19
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.4.

G.4.5. Ask questions to find answers about how devices and machines were invented and produced. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.4.5.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.4.1. Describe how science and technology have helped, and in some cases hindered, progress in providing better food, more rapid information, quicker and safer transportation, and more effective health care. 53
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.1.

H.4.2. Using the science themes, identify local and state issues that are helped by science and technology and explain how science and technology can also cause a problem. 44
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.2.

H.4.3. Show how science has contributed to meeting personal needs, including hygiene, nutrition, exercise, safety, and health care. 46
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.3.

H.4.4. Develop a list of issues that citizens must make decisions about and describe a strategy for becoming informed about the science behind these issues. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.4.4.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.8.1. Develop their understanding of the science themes by using the themes to frame questions about science-related issues and problems. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.1.

A.8.2. Describe limitations of science systems and give reasons why specific science themes are included in or excluded from those systems. 89
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.2.

A.8.3. Defend explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that supports them and critique explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that conflicts with them. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.3.

A.8.4. Collect evidence to show that models developed as explanations for events were (and are) based on the evidence available to scientists at the time. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.4.

A.8.5. Show how models and explanations, based on systems, were changed as new evidence accumulated (the effects of constancy, evolution, change, and measurement should all be part of these explanations). 25
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.5.

A.8.6. Use models and explanations to predict actions and events in the natural world. 16
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.6.

A.8.7. Design real or thought investigations to test the usefulness and limitations of a model. 12
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.7.

A.8.8. Use the themes of evolution, equilibrium, and energy to predict future events or changes in the natural world. 44
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.8.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.8.1. Describe how scientific knowledge and concepts have changed over time in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences. 52
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.1.

B.8.2. Identify and describe major changes that have occurred over in conceptual models and explanations in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences and identify the people, cultures, and conditions that led to these developments. 66
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.2.

B.8.3. Explain how the general rules of science apply to the development and use of evidence in science investigations, model-making, and applications. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.3.

B.8.4. Describe types of reasoning and evidence used outside of science to draw conclusions about the natural world. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.4.

B.8.5. Explain ways in which science knowledge is shared, checked, and extended, and show how these processes change over time. 89
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.5.

B.8.6. Explain the ways in which scientific knowledge is useful and also limited when applied to social issues. 41
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.6.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.8.1. Identify questions they can investigate using resources and equipment they have available. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.1.

C.8.2. Identify data and locate sources of information including their own records to answer the questions being investigated. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.2.

C.8.3. Design and safely conduct investigations that provide reliable quantitative or qualitative data, as appropriate, to answer their questions. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.3.

C.8.4. Use inferences to help decide possible results of their investigations, use observations to check their inferences. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.4.

C.8.5. Use accepted scientific knowledge, models, and theories to explain their results and to raise further questions about their investigations. 16
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.5.

C.8.6. State what they have learned from investigations, relating their inferences to scientific knowledge and to data they have collected. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.6.

C.8.7. Explain their data and conclusions in ways that allow an audience to understand the questions they selected for investigation and the answers they have developed. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.7.

C.8.8. Use computer software and other technologies to organize, process, and present their data. 35
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.8.

C.8.9. Evaluate, explain, and defend the validity of questions, hypotheses, and conclusions to their investigations. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.9.

C.8.10. Discuss the importance of their results and implications of their work with peers, teachers, and other adults. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.10.

C.8.11. Raise further questions which still need to be answered. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.11.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.8.1. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Observe, describe, and measure physical and chemical properties of elements and other substances to identify and group them according to properties such as density, melting points, boiling points, conductivity, magnetic attraction, solubility, and reactions to common physical and chemical tests. 72
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.1.

D.8.2. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Use the major ideas of atomic theory and molecular theory to describe physical and chemical interactions among substances, including solids, liquids, and gases. 16
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.2.

D.8.3. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Understand how chemical interactions and behaviors lead to new substances with different properties. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.3.

D.8.4. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: While conducting investigations, use the science themes to develop explanations of physical and chemical interactions and energy exchanges. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.4.

D.8.5. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects by describing the forces acting on them. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.5.

D.8.6. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects using concepts of speed, velocity, acceleration, friction, momentum, and changes over time, among others, and apply these concepts and explanations to real-life situations outside the classroom. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.6.

D.8.7. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations of common physical and chemical interactions occurring in the laboratory and the outside world, use commonly accepted definitions of energy and the idea of energy conservation. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.7.

D.8.8. Transfer of Energy: Describe and investigate the properties of light, heat, gravity, radio waves, magnetic fields, electrical fields, and sound waves as they interact with material objects in common situations. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.8.

D.8.9. Transfer of Energy: Explain the behaviors of various forms of energy by using the models of energy transmission, both in the laboratory and in real-life situations in the outside world. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.9.

D.8.10. Transfer of Energy: Explain how models of the atomic structure of matter have changed over time, including historical models and modern atomic theory. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.10.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.8.1. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, explain and predict changes in major features of land, water, and atmospheric systems. 47
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.1.

E.8.2. Structure of Earth System: Describe underlying structures of the earth that cause changes in the earth's surface. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.2.

E.8.3. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes during the process of investigation, describe climate, weather, ocean currents, soil movements and changes in the forces acting on the earth. 37
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.3.

E.8.4. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, analyze the influence living organisms have had on the earth's systems, including their impact on the composition of the atmosphere and the weathering of rocks. 43
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.4.

E.8.5. Earth's History: Analyze the geologic and life history of the earth, including change over time, using various forms of scientific evidence. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.5.

E.8.6. Earth's History: Describe through investigations the use of the earth's resources by humans in both past and current cultures, particularly how changes in the resources used for the past 100 years are the basis for efforts to conserve and recycle renewable and non-renewable resources. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.6.

E.8.7. Earth in the Solar System: Describe the general structure of the solar system, galaxies, and the universe, explaining the nature of the evidence used to develop current models of the universe. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.7.

E.8.8. Earth in the Solar System: Using past and current models of the structure of the solar system, explain the daily, monthly, yearly, and long-term cycles of the earth, citing evidence gained from personal observation as well as evidence used by scientists 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.8.1. Structure and Function in Living Things: Understand the structure and function of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms. 52
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.1.

F.8.2. Structure and Function in Living Things: Show how organisms have adapted structures to match their functions, providing means of encouraging individual and group survival within specific environments. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.2.

F.8.3. Structure and Function in Living Things: Differentiate between single-celled and multiple-celled organisms (humans) through investigation, comparing the cell functions of specialized cells for each type of organism. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.3.

F.8.4. Reproduction and Heredity: Investigate and explain that heredity is comprised of the characteristic traits found in genes within the cell of an organism. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.4.

F.8.5. Reproduction and Heredity: Show how different structures both reproduce and pass on characteristics of their group. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.5.

F.8.6. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism is regulated both internally and externally. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.6.

F.8.7. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. 32
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.7.

F.8.8. Populations and Ecosystems: Show through investigations how organisms both depend on and contribute to the balance or imbalance of populations and/or ecosystems, which in turn contribute to the total system of life on the planet. 29
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.8.

F.8.9. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Explain how some of the changes on the earth are contributing to changes in the balance of life and affecting the survival or population growth of certain species. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.9.

F.8.10. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Project how current trends in human resource use and population growth will influence the natural environment, and show how current policies affect those trends. 42
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.10.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.8.1. Identify and investigate the skills people need for a career in science or technology and identify the academic courses that a person pursuing such a career would need. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.1.

G.8.2. Explain how current scientific and technological discoveries have an influence on the work people do and how some of these discoveries also lead to new careers. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.2.

G.8.3. Illustrate the impact that science and technology have had, both good and bad, on careers, systems, society, environment, and quality of life. 52
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.3.

G.8.4. Propose a design (or re-design) of an applied science model or a machine that will have an impact in the community or elsewhere in the world and show how the design (or re-design) might work, including potential side-effects. 40
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.4.

G.8.5. Investigate a specific local problem to which there has been a scientific or technological solution, including proposals for alternative courses of action, the choices that were made, reasons for the choices, any new problems created, and subsequent community satisfaction. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.5.

G.8.6. Use current texts, encyclopedias, source books, computers, experts, the popular press, or other relevant sources to identify examples of how scientific discoveries have resulted in new technology. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.6.

G.8.7. Show evidence of how science and technology are interdependent, using some examples drawn from personally conducted investigations. 25
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.7.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.8.1. Evaluate the scientific evidence used in various media (for example, television, radio, Internet, popular press, and scientific journals) to address a social issue, using criteria of accuracy, logic, bias, relevance of data, and credibility of sources. 41
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.1.

H.8.2. Present a scientific solution to a problem involving the earth and space, life and environmental, or physical sciences and participate in a consensus-building discussion to arrive at a group decision. 57
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.2.

H.8.3. Understand the consequences of decisions affecting personal health and safety. 19
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.3.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.8.1. Develop their understanding of the science themes by using the themes to frame questions about science-related issues and problems. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.1.

A.8.2. Describe limitations of science systems and give reasons why specific science themes are included in or excluded from those systems. 89
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.2.

A.8.3. Defend explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that supports them and critique explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that conflicts with them. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.3.

A.8.4. Collect evidence to show that models developed as explanations for events were (and are) based on the evidence available to scientists at the time. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.4.

A.8.5. Show how models and explanations, based on systems, were changed as new evidence accumulated (the effects of constancy, evolution, change, and measurement should all be part of these explanations). 25
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.5.

A.8.6. Use models and explanations to predict actions and events in the natural world. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.6.

A.8.7. Design real or thought investigations to test the usefulness and limitations of a model. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.7.

A.8.8. Use the themes of evolution, equilibrium, and energy to predict future events or changes in the natural world. 39
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.8.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.8.1. Describe how scientific knowledge and concepts have changed over time in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.1.

B.8.2. Identify and describe major changes that have occurred over in conceptual models and explanations in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences and identify the people, cultures, and conditions that led to these developments. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.2.

B.8.3. Explain how the general rules of science apply to the development and use of evidence in science investigations, model-making, and applications. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.3.

B.8.4. Describe types of reasoning and evidence used outside of science to draw conclusions about the natural world. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.4.

B.8.5. Explain ways in which science knowledge is shared, checked, and extended, and show how these processes change over time. 28
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.5.

B.8.6. Explain the ways in which scientific knowledge is useful and also limited when applied to social issues. 41
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.6.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.8.1. Identify questions they can investigate using resources and equipment they have available. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.1.

C.8.2. Identify data and locate sources of information including their own records to answer the questions being investigated. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.2.

C.8.3. Design and safely conduct investigations that provide reliable quantitative or qualitative data, as appropriate, to answer their questions. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.3.

C.8.4. Use inferences to help decide possible results of their investigations, use observations to check their inferences. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.4.

C.8.5. Use accepted scientific knowledge, models, and theories to explain their results and to raise further questions about their investigations. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.5.

C.8.6. State what they have learned from investigations, relating their inferences to scientific knowledge and to data they have collected. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.6.

C.8.7. Explain their data and conclusions in ways that allow an audience to understand the questions they selected for investigation and the answers they have developed. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.7.

C.8.8. Use computer software and other technologies to organize, process, and present their data. 25
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.8.

C.8.9. Evaluate, explain, and defend the validity of questions, hypotheses, and conclusions to their investigations. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.9.

C.8.10. Discuss the importance of their results and implications of their work with peers, teachers, and other adults. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.10.

C.8.11. Raise further questions which still need to be answered. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.11.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.8.1. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Observe, describe, and measure physical and chemical properties of elements and other substances to identify and group them according to properties such as density, melting points, boiling points, conductivity, magnetic attraction, solubility, and reactions to common physical and chemical tests. 66
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.1.

D.8.2. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Use the major ideas of atomic theory and molecular theory to describe physical and chemical interactions among substances, including solids, liquids, and gases. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.2.

D.8.3. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Understand how chemical interactions and behaviors lead to new substances with different properties. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.3.

D.8.4. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: While conducting investigations, use the science themes to develop explanations of physical and chemical interactions and energy exchanges. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.4.

D.8.5. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects by describing the forces acting on them. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.5.

D.8.6. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects using concepts of speed, velocity, acceleration, friction, momentum, and changes over time, among others, and apply these concepts and explanations to real-life situations outside the classroom. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.6.

D.8.7. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations of common physical and chemical interactions occurring in the laboratory and the outside world, use commonly accepted definitions of energy and the idea of energy conservation. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.7.

D.8.8. Transfer of Energy: Describe and investigate the properties of light, heat, gravity, radio waves, magnetic fields, electrical fields, and sound waves as they interact with material objects in common situations. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.8.

D.8.9. Transfer of Energy: Explain the behaviors of various forms of energy by using the models of energy transmission, both in the laboratory and in real-life situations in the outside world. 20
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.9.

D.8.10. Transfer of Energy: Explain how models of the atomic structure of matter have changed over time, including historical models and modern atomic theory. 12
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.10.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.8.1. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, explain and predict changes in major features of land, water, and atmospheric systems. 49
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.1.

E.8.2. Structure of Earth System: Describe underlying structures of the earth that cause changes in the earth's surface. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.2.

E.8.3. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes during the process of investigation, describe climate, weather, ocean currents, soil movements and changes in the forces acting on the earth. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.3.

E.8.4. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, analyze the influence living organisms have had on the earth's systems, including their impact on the composition of the atmosphere and the weathering of rocks. 43
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.4.

E.8.5. Earth's History: Analyze the geologic and life history of the earth, including change over time, using various forms of scientific evidence. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.5.

E.8.6. Earth's History: Describe through investigations the use of the earth's resources by humans in both past and current cultures, particularly how changes in the resources used for the past 100 years are the basis for efforts to conserve and recycle renewable and non-renewable resources. 48
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.6.

E.8.7. Earth in the Solar System: Describe the general structure of the solar system, galaxies, and the universe, explaining the nature of the evidence used to develop current models of the universe. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.7.

E.8.8. Earth in the Solar System: Using past and current models of the structure of the solar system, explain the daily, monthly, yearly, and long-term cycles of the earth, citing evidence gained from personal observation as well as evidence used by scientists 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.8.1. Structure and Function in Living Things: Understand the structure and function of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms. 30
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.1.

F.8.2. Structure and Function in Living Things: Show how organisms have adapted structures to match their functions, providing means of encouraging individual and group survival within specific environments. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.2.

F.8.3. Structure and Function in Living Things: Differentiate between single-celled and multiple-celled organisms (humans) through investigation, comparing the cell functions of specialized cells for each type of organism. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.3.

F.8.4. Reproduction and Heredity: Investigate and explain that heredity is comprised of the characteristic traits found in genes within the cell of an organism. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.4.

F.8.5. Reproduction and Heredity: Show how different structures both reproduce and pass on characteristics of their group. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.5.

F.8.6. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism is regulated both internally and externally. 28
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.6.

F.8.7. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.7.

F.8.8. Populations and Ecosystems: Show through investigations how organisms both depend on and contribute to the balance or imbalance of populations and/or ecosystems, which in turn contribute to the total system of life on the planet. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.8.

F.8.9. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Explain how some of the changes on the earth are contributing to changes in the balance of life and affecting the survival or population growth of certain species. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.9.

F.8.10. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Project how current trends in human resource use and population growth will influence the natural environment, and show how current policies affect those trends. 47
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.10.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.8.1. Identify and investigate the skills people need for a career in science or technology and identify the academic courses that a person pursuing such a career would need. 67
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.1.

G.8.2. Explain how current scientific and technological discoveries have an influence on the work people do and how some of these discoveries also lead to new careers. 65
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.2.

G.8.3. Illustrate the impact that science and technology have had, both good and bad, on careers, systems, society, environment, and quality of life. 105
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.3.

G.8.4. Propose a design (or re-design) of an applied science model or a machine that will have an impact in the community or elsewhere in the world and show how the design (or re-design) might work, including potential side-effects. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.4.

G.8.5. Investigate a specific local problem to which there has been a scientific or technological solution, including proposals for alternative courses of action, the choices that were made, reasons for the choices, any new problems created, and subsequent community satisfaction. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.5.

G.8.6. Use current texts, encyclopedias, source books, computers, experts, the popular press, or other relevant sources to identify examples of how scientific discoveries have resulted in new technology. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.6.

G.8.7. Show evidence of how science and technology are interdependent, using some examples drawn from personally conducted investigations. 19
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.7.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.8.1. Evaluate the scientific evidence used in various media (for example, television, radio, Internet, popular press, and scientific journals) to address a social issue, using criteria of accuracy, logic, bias, relevance of data, and credibility of sources. 44
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.1.

H.8.2. Present a scientific solution to a problem involving the earth and space, life and environmental, or physical sciences and participate in a consensus-building discussion to arrive at a group decision. 48
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.2.

H.8.3. Understand the consequences of decisions affecting personal health and safety. 23
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.3.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.8.1. Develop their understanding of the science themes by using the themes to frame questions about science-related issues and problems. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.1.

A.8.2. Describe limitations of science systems and give reasons why specific science themes are included in or excluded from those systems. 68
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.2.

A.8.3. Defend explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that supports them and critique explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that conflicts with them. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.3.

A.8.4. Collect evidence to show that models developed as explanations for events were (and are) based on the evidence available to scientists at the time. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.4.

A.8.5. Show how models and explanations, based on systems, were changed as new evidence accumulated (the effects of constancy, evolution, change, and measurement should all be part of these explanations). 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.5.

A.8.6. Use models and explanations to predict actions and events in the natural world. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.6.

A.8.7. Design real or thought investigations to test the usefulness and limitations of a model. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.7.

A.8.8. Use the themes of evolution, equilibrium, and energy to predict future events or changes in the natural world. 68
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.8.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.8.1. Describe how scientific knowledge and concepts have changed over time in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.1.

B.8.2. Identify and describe major changes that have occurred over in conceptual models and explanations in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences and identify the people, cultures, and conditions that led to these developments. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.2.

B.8.3. Explain how the general rules of science apply to the development and use of evidence in science investigations, model-making, and applications. 7
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.3.

B.8.4. Describe types of reasoning and evidence used outside of science to draw conclusions about the natural world. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.4.

B.8.5. Explain ways in which science knowledge is shared, checked, and extended, and show how these processes change over time. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.5.

B.8.6. Explain the ways in which scientific knowledge is useful and also limited when applied to social issues. 81
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.6.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.8.1. Identify questions they can investigate using resources and equipment they have available. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.1.

C.8.2. Identify data and locate sources of information including their own records to answer the questions being investigated. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.2.

C.8.3. Design and safely conduct investigations that provide reliable quantitative or qualitative data, as appropriate, to answer their questions. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.3.

C.8.4. Use inferences to help decide possible results of their investigations, use observations to check their inferences. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.4.

C.8.5. Use accepted scientific knowledge, models, and theories to explain their results and to raise further questions about their investigations. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.5.

C.8.6. State what they have learned from investigations, relating their inferences to scientific knowledge and to data they have collected. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.6.

C.8.7. Explain their data and conclusions in ways that allow an audience to understand the questions they selected for investigation and the answers they have developed. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.7.

C.8.8. Use computer software and other technologies to organize, process, and present their data. 45
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.8.

C.8.9. Evaluate, explain, and defend the validity of questions, hypotheses, and conclusions to their investigations. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.9.

C.8.10. Discuss the importance of their results and implications of their work with peers, teachers, and other adults. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.10.

C.8.11. Raise further questions which still need to be answered. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.11.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.8.1. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Observe, describe, and measure physical and chemical properties of elements and other substances to identify and group them according to properties such as density, melting points, boiling points, conductivity, magnetic attraction, solubility, and reactions to common physical and chemical tests. 30
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.1.

D.8.2. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Use the major ideas of atomic theory and molecular theory to describe physical and chemical interactions among substances, including solids, liquids, and gases. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.2.

D.8.3. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Understand how chemical interactions and behaviors lead to new substances with different properties. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.3.

D.8.4. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: While conducting investigations, use the science themes to develop explanations of physical and chemical interactions and energy exchanges. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.4.

D.8.5. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects by describing the forces acting on them. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.5.

D.8.6. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects using concepts of speed, velocity, acceleration, friction, momentum, and changes over time, among others, and apply these concepts and explanations to real-life situations outside the classroom. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.6.

D.8.7. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations of common physical and chemical interactions occurring in the laboratory and the outside world, use commonly accepted definitions of energy and the idea of energy conservation. 34
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.7.

D.8.8. Transfer of Energy: Describe and investigate the properties of light, heat, gravity, radio waves, magnetic fields, electrical fields, and sound waves as they interact with material objects in common situations. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.8.

D.8.9. Transfer of Energy: Explain the behaviors of various forms of energy by using the models of energy transmission, both in the laboratory and in real-life situations in the outside world. 34
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.9.

D.8.10. Transfer of Energy: Explain how models of the atomic structure of matter have changed over time, including historical models and modern atomic theory. 34
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.10.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.8.1. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, explain and predict changes in major features of land, water, and atmospheric systems. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.1.

E.8.2. Structure of Earth System: Describe underlying structures of the earth that cause changes in the earth's surface. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.2.

E.8.3. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes during the process of investigation, describe climate, weather, ocean currents, soil movements and changes in the forces acting on the earth. 25
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.3.

E.8.4. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, analyze the influence living organisms have had on the earth's systems, including their impact on the composition of the atmosphere and the weathering of rocks. 82
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.4.

E.8.5. Earth's History: Analyze the geologic and life history of the earth, including change over time, using various forms of scientific evidence. 18
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.5.

E.8.6. Earth's History: Describe through investigations the use of the earth's resources by humans in both past and current cultures, particularly how changes in the resources used for the past 100 years are the basis for efforts to conserve and recycle renewable and non-renewable resources. 89
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.6.

E.8.7. Earth in the Solar System: Describe the general structure of the solar system, galaxies, and the universe, explaining the nature of the evidence used to develop current models of the universe. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.7.

E.8.8. Earth in the Solar System: Using past and current models of the structure of the solar system, explain the daily, monthly, yearly, and long-term cycles of the earth, citing evidence gained from personal observation as well as evidence used by scientists 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.8.1. Structure and Function in Living Things: Understand the structure and function of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms. 55
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.1.

F.8.2. Structure and Function in Living Things: Show how organisms have adapted structures to match their functions, providing means of encouraging individual and group survival within specific environments. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.2.

F.8.3. Structure and Function in Living Things: Differentiate between single-celled and multiple-celled organisms (humans) through investigation, comparing the cell functions of specialized cells for each type of organism. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.3.

F.8.4. Reproduction and Heredity: Investigate and explain that heredity is comprised of the characteristic traits found in genes within the cell of an organism. 40
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.4.

F.8.5. Reproduction and Heredity: Show how different structures both reproduce and pass on characteristics of their group. 40
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.5.

F.8.6. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism is regulated both internally and externally. 38
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.6.

F.8.7. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.7.

F.8.8. Populations and Ecosystems: Show through investigations how organisms both depend on and contribute to the balance or imbalance of populations and/or ecosystems, which in turn contribute to the total system of life on the planet. 10
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.8.

F.8.9. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Explain how some of the changes on the earth are contributing to changes in the balance of life and affecting the survival or population growth of certain species. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.9.

F.8.10. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Project how current trends in human resource use and population growth will influence the natural environment, and show how current policies affect those trends. 82
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.10.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.8.1. Identify and investigate the skills people need for a career in science or technology and identify the academic courses that a person pursuing such a career would need. 67
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.1.

G.8.2. Explain how current scientific and technological discoveries have an influence on the work people do and how some of these discoveries also lead to new careers. 40
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.2.

G.8.3. Illustrate the impact that science and technology have had, both good and bad, on careers, systems, society, environment, and quality of life. 35
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.3.

G.8.4. Propose a design (or re-design) of an applied science model or a machine that will have an impact in the community or elsewhere in the world and show how the design (or re-design) might work, including potential side-effects. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.4.

G.8.5. Investigate a specific local problem to which there has been a scientific or technological solution, including proposals for alternative courses of action, the choices that were made, reasons for the choices, any new problems created, and subsequent community satisfaction. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.5.

G.8.6. Use current texts, encyclopedias, source books, computers, experts, the popular press, or other relevant sources to identify examples of how scientific discoveries have resulted in new technology. 18
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.6.

G.8.7. Show evidence of how science and technology are interdependent, using some examples drawn from personally conducted investigations. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.7.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.8.1. Evaluate the scientific evidence used in various media (for example, television, radio, Internet, popular press, and scientific journals) to address a social issue, using criteria of accuracy, logic, bias, relevance of data, and credibility of sources. 81
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.1.

H.8.2. Present a scientific solution to a problem involving the earth and space, life and environmental, or physical sciences and participate in a consensus-building discussion to arrive at a group decision. 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.2.

H.8.3. Understand the consequences of decisions affecting personal health and safety. 54
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.3.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.8.1. Develop their understanding of the science themes by using the themes to frame questions about science-related issues and problems. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.1.

A.8.2. Describe limitations of science systems and give reasons why specific science themes are included in or excluded from those systems. 30
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.2.

A.8.3. Defend explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that supports them and critique explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that conflicts with them. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.3.

A.8.4. Collect evidence to show that models developed as explanations for events were (and are) based on the evidence available to scientists at the time. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.4.

A.8.5. Show how models and explanations, based on systems, were changed as new evidence accumulated (the effects of constancy, evolution, change, and measurement should all be part of these explanations). 27
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.5.

A.8.6. Use models and explanations to predict actions and events in the natural world. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.6.

A.8.7. Design real or thought investigations to test the usefulness and limitations of a model. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.7.

A.8.8. Use the themes of evolution, equilibrium, and energy to predict future events or changes in the natural world. 53
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard A.8.8.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.8.1. Describe how scientific knowledge and concepts have changed over time in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.1.

B.8.2. Identify and describe major changes that have occurred over in conceptual models and explanations in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences and identify the people, cultures, and conditions that led to these developments. 14
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.2.

B.8.3. Explain how the general rules of science apply to the development and use of evidence in science investigations, model-making, and applications. 7
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.3.

B.8.4. Describe types of reasoning and evidence used outside of science to draw conclusions about the natural world. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.4.

B.8.5. Explain ways in which science knowledge is shared, checked, and extended, and show how these processes change over time. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.5.

B.8.6. Explain the ways in which scientific knowledge is useful and also limited when applied to social issues. 60
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard B.8.6.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.8.1. Identify questions they can investigate using resources and equipment they have available. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.1.

C.8.2. Identify data and locate sources of information including their own records to answer the questions being investigated. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.2.

C.8.3. Design and safely conduct investigations that provide reliable quantitative or qualitative data, as appropriate, to answer their questions. 5
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.3.

C.8.4. Use inferences to help decide possible results of their investigations, use observations to check their inferences. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.4.

C.8.5. Use accepted scientific knowledge, models, and theories to explain their results and to raise further questions about their investigations. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.5.

C.8.6. State what they have learned from investigations, relating their inferences to scientific knowledge and to data they have collected. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.6.

C.8.7. Explain their data and conclusions in ways that allow an audience to understand the questions they selected for investigation and the answers they have developed. 6
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.7.

C.8.8. Use computer software and other technologies to organize, process, and present their data. 30
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.8.

C.8.9. Evaluate, explain, and defend the validity of questions, hypotheses, and conclusions to their investigations. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.9.

C.8.10. Discuss the importance of their results and implications of their work with peers, teachers, and other adults. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.10.

C.8.11. Raise further questions which still need to be answered. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard C.8.11.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.8.1. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Observe, describe, and measure physical and chemical properties of elements and other substances to identify and group them according to properties such as density, melting points, boiling points, conductivity, magnetic attraction, solubility, and reactions to common physical and chemical tests. 17
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.1.

D.8.2. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Use the major ideas of atomic theory and molecular theory to describe physical and chemical interactions among substances, including solids, liquids, and gases. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.2.

D.8.3. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: Understand how chemical interactions and behaviors lead to new substances with different properties. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.3.

D.8.4. Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter: While conducting investigations, use the science themes to develop explanations of physical and chemical interactions and energy exchanges. 8
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.4.

D.8.5. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects by describing the forces acting on them. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.5.

D.8.6. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects using concepts of speed, velocity, acceleration, friction, momentum, and changes over time, among others, and apply these concepts and explanations to real-life situations outside the classroom. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.6.

D.8.7. Motions and Forces: While conducting investigations of common physical and chemical interactions occurring in the laboratory and the outside world, use commonly accepted definitions of energy and the idea of energy conservation. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.7.

D.8.8. Transfer of Energy: Describe and investigate the properties of light, heat, gravity, radio waves, magnetic fields, electrical fields, and sound waves as they interact with material objects in common situations. 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.8.

D.8.9. Transfer of Energy: Explain the behaviors of various forms of energy by using the models of energy transmission, both in the laboratory and in real-life situations in the outside world. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.9.

D.8.10. Transfer of Energy: Explain how models of the atomic structure of matter have changed over time, including historical models and modern atomic theory. 21
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard D.8.10.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E.8.1. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, explain and predict changes in major features of land, water, and atmospheric systems. 72
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.1.

E.8.2. Structure of Earth System: Describe underlying structures of the earth that cause changes in the earth's surface. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.2.

E.8.3. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes during the process of investigation, describe climate, weather, ocean currents, soil movements and changes in the forces acting on the earth. 11
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.3.

E.8.4. Structure of Earth System: Using the science themes, analyze the influence living organisms have had on the earth's systems, including their impact on the composition of the atmosphere and the weathering of rocks. 60
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.4.

E.8.5. Earth's History: Analyze the geologic and life history of the earth, including change over time, using various forms of scientific evidence. 24
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.5.

E.8.6. Earth's History: Describe through investigations the use of the earth's resources by humans in both past and current cultures, particularly how changes in the resources used for the past 100 years are the basis for efforts to conserve and recycle renewable and non-renewable resources. 54
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.6.

E.8.7. Earth in the Solar System: Describe the general structure of the solar system, galaxies, and the universe, explaining the nature of the evidence used to develop current models of the universe. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.7.

E.8.8. Earth in the Solar System: Using past and current models of the structure of the solar system, explain the daily, monthly, yearly, and long-term cycles of the earth, citing evidence gained from personal observation as well as evidence used by scientists 9
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard E.8.8.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.8.1. Structure and Function in Living Things: Understand the structure and function of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms. 42
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.1.

F.8.2. Structure and Function in Living Things: Show how organisms have adapted structures to match their functions, providing means of encouraging individual and group survival within specific environments. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.2.

F.8.3. Structure and Function in Living Things: Differentiate between single-celled and multiple-celled organisms (humans) through investigation, comparing the cell functions of specialized cells for each type of organism. 26
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.3.

F.8.4. Reproduction and Heredity: Investigate and explain that heredity is comprised of the characteristic traits found in genes within the cell of an organism. 28
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.4.

F.8.5. Reproduction and Heredity: Show how different structures both reproduce and pass on characteristics of their group. 28
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.5.

F.8.6. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism is regulated both internally and externally. 30
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.6.

F.8.7. Regulation and Behavior: Understand that an organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.7.

F.8.8. Populations and Ecosystems: Show through investigations how organisms both depend on and contribute to the balance or imbalance of populations and/or ecosystems, which in turn contribute to the total system of life on the planet. 3
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.8.

F.8.9. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Explain how some of the changes on the earth are contributing to changes in the balance of life and affecting the survival or population growth of certain species. 22
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.9.

F.8.10. Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms: Project how current trends in human resource use and population growth will influence the natural environment, and show how current policies affect those trends. 60
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard F.8.10.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.8.1. Identify and investigate the skills people need for a career in science or technology and identify the academic courses that a person pursuing such a career would need. 47
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.1.

G.8.2. Explain how current scientific and technological discoveries have an influence on the work people do and how some of these discoveries also lead to new careers. 45
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.2.

G.8.3. Illustrate the impact that science and technology have had, both good and bad, on careers, systems, society, environment, and quality of life. 77
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.3.

G.8.4. Propose a design (or re-design) of an applied science model or a machine that will have an impact in the community or elsewhere in the world and show how the design (or re-design) might work, including potential side-effects. 13
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.4.

G.8.5. Investigate a specific local problem to which there has been a scientific or technological solution, including proposals for alternative courses of action, the choices that were made, reasons for the choices, any new problems created, and subsequent community satisfaction. 4
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.5.

G.8.6. Use current texts, encyclopedias, source books, computers, experts, the popular press, or other relevant sources to identify examples of how scientific discoveries have resulted in new technology. 41
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.6.

G.8.7. Show evidence of how science and technology are interdependent, using some examples drawn from personally conducted investigations. 15
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard G.8.7.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.8.1. Evaluate the scientific evidence used in various media (for example, television, radio, Internet, popular press, and scientific journals) to address a social issue, using criteria of accuracy, logic, bias, relevance of data, and credibility of sources. 60
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.1.

H.8.2. Present a scientific solution to a problem involving the earth and space, life and environmental, or physical sciences and participate in a consensus-building discussion to arrive at a group decision. 63
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.2.

H.8.3. Understand the consequences of decisions affecting personal health and safety. 64
Suggested Titles for Wisconsin Science State Standard H.8.3.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.12.1. Apply the underlying themes of science to develop defensible visions of the future.

A.12.2. Show how conflicting assumptions about science themes lead to different opinions and decisions about evolution, health, population, longevity, education, and use of resources, and show how these opinions and decisions have diverse effects on an individual, a community, and a country, both now and in the future.

A.12.3. Give examples that show how partial systems, models, and explanations are used to give quick and reasonable solutions that are accurate enough for basic needs.

A.12.4. Construct arguments that show how conflicting models and explanations of events can start with similar evidence.

A.12.5. Show how the ideas and themes of science can be used to make real-life decisions about careers, work places, life-styles, and use of resources.

A.12.6. Identify and, using evidence learned or discovered, replace inaccurate personal models and explanations of science-related events.

A.12.7. Re-examine the evidence and reasoning that led to conclusions drawn from investigations, using the science themes.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.12.1. Show how cultures and individuals have contributed to the development of major ideas in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

B.12.2. Identify the cultural conditions that are usually present during great periods of discovery, scientific development, and invention.

B.12.3. Relate the major themes of science to human progress in understanding science and the world.

B.12.4. Show how basic research and applied research contribute to new discoveries, inventions, and applications.

B.12.5. Explain how science is based on assumptions about the natural world and themes that describe the natural world.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.12.1. When studying science content, ask questions suggested by current social issues, scientific literature, and observations of phenomena, build hypotheses that might answer some of these questions, design possible investigations, and describe results that might emerge from such investigations.

C.12.2. Identify issues from an area of science study, write questions that could be investigated, review previous research on these questions, and design and conduct responsible and safe investigations to help answer the questions.

C.12.3. Evaluate the data collected during an investigation, critique the data-collection procedures and results, and suggest ways to make any needed improvements.

C.12.4. During investigations, choose the best data-collection procedures and materials available, use them competently, and calculate the degree of precision of the resulting data.

C.12.5. Use the explanations and models found in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences to develop likely explanations for the results of their investigations.

C.12.6. Present the results of investigations to groups concerned with the issues, explaining the meaning and implications of the results, and answering questions in terms the audience can understand.

C.12.7. Evaluate articles and reports in the popular press, in scientific journals, on television, and on the Internet, using criteria related to accuracy, degree of error, sampling, treatment of data, and other standards of experimental design.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.12.1. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Describe atomic structure and the properties of atoms, molecules, and matter during physical and chemical interactions.

D12.2. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain the forces that hold the atom together and illustrate how nuclear interactions change the atom.

D.12.3. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain exchanges of energy in chemical interactions and exchange of mass and energy in atomic/nuclear reactions.

D.12.4. Chemical Reactions: Explain how substances, both simple and complex, interact with one another to produce new substances.

D.12.5. Chemical Reactions: Identify patterns in chemical and physical properties and use them to predict likely chemical and physical changes and interactions.

D.12.6. Chemical Reactions: Through investigations, identify the types of chemical interactions, including endothermic, exothermic, oxidation, photosynthesis, and acid/base reactions.

D.12.7. Motions and Forces: Qualitatively and quantitatively analyze changes in the motion of objects and the forces that act on them and represent analytical data both algebraically and graphically.

D.12.8. Motions and Forces: Understand the forces of gravitation, the electromagnetic force, intermolecular force, and explain their impact on the universal system.

D.12.9. Motions and Forces: Describe models of light, heat, and sound and through investigations describe similarities and differences in the way these energy forms behave.

D.12.10. Conservation of Energy and The Increase in Disorder: Using the science themes, illustrate the law of conservation of energy during chemical and nuclear reactions.

D.12.11. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes, explain common occurrences in the physical world.

D.12.12. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes and knowledge of chemical, physical, atomic, and nuclear interactions, explain changes in materials, living things, earth's features, and stars.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E. 12.1. Energy in the Earth System: Using the science themes, distinguish between internal energies (decay of radioactive isotopes, gravity) and external energies (sun) in the earth's systems and show how these sources of energy have an impact on those systems.

E.12.2. Geochemical Cycles: Analyze the geochemical and physical cycles of the earth and use them to describe movements of matter.

E.12.3. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Using the science themes, describe theories of the origins and evolution of the universe and solar system, including the earth system as a part of the solar system, and relate these theories and their implications to geologic time on earth.

E.12.4. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Analyze the benefits, costs, and limitations of past, present, and projected use of resources and technology and explain the consequences to the environment.

E.12.5. The Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Using the science themes, understand that the origin of the universe is not completely understood, but that there are current ideas in science that attempt to explain its origin.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.12.1. The Cell: Evaluate the normal structures and the general and special functions of cells in single-celled and multiple-celled organisms.

F.12.2. The Cell: Understand how cells differentiate and how cells are regulated.

F.12.3. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: Explain current scientific ideas and information about the molecular and genetic basis of heredity.

F.12.4. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: State the relationships between functions of the cell and functions of the organism as related to genetics and heredity.

F.12.5. Biological Evolution: Understand the theory of evolution, natural selection, and biological classification.

F.12.6. Biological Evolution: Using concepts of evolution and heredity, account for changes in species and the diversity of species, include the influence of these changes on science, e.g. breeding of plants or animals.

F.12.7. The Interdependence of Organisms: Investigate how organisms both cooperate and compete in ecosystems.

F.12.8. The Interdependence of Organisms: Using the science themes, infer changes in ecosystems prompted by the introduction of new species, environmental conditions, chemicals, and air, water, or earth pollution.

F.12.9. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Using the science themes, investigate energy systems (related to food chains) to show how energy is stored in food (plants and animals) and how energy is released by digestion and metabolism.

F.12.10. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Understand the impact of energy on organisms in living systems.

F.12.11. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Investigate how the complexity and organization of organisms accommodates the need for obtaining, transforming, transporting, releasing, and eliminating the matter and energy used to sustain an organism.

F.12.12. The Behavior of Organisms: Trace how the sensory and nervous systems of various organisms react to the internal and external environment and transmit survival or learning stimuli to cause changes in behavior or responses.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.12.1. Identify personal interests in science and technology, implications that these interests might have for future education, and decisions to be considered.

G.12.2. Design, build, evaluate, and revise models and explanations related to the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

G.12.3. Analyze the costs, benefits, or problems resulting from a scientific or technological innovation, including implications for the individual and the community.

G.12.4. Show how a major scientific or technological change has had an impact on work, leisure, or the home.

G.12.5. Choose a specific problem in our society, identify alternative scientific or technological solutions to that problem and argue it merits.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.12.1. Using the science themes and knowledge of the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences, analyze the costs, risks, benefits, and consequences of a proposal concerning resource management in the community and determine the potential impact of the proposal on life in the community and the region.

H.12.2. Evaluate proposed policy recommendations (local, state, and/or national) in science and technology for validity, evidence, reasoning, and implications, both short and long-term.

H.12.3. Show how policy decisions in science depend on social values, ethics, beliefs, and time-frames as well as considerations of science and technology.

H.12.4. Advocate a solution or combination of solutions to a problem in science or technology.

H.12.5. Investigate how current plans or proposals concerning resource management, scientific knowledge, or technological development will have an impact on the environment, ecology, and quality of life in a community or region.

H.12.6. Evaluate data and sources of information when using scientific information to make decisions.

H.12.7. When making decisions, construct a plan that includes the use of current scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.12.1. Apply the underlying themes of science to develop defensible visions of the future.

A.12.2. Show how conflicting assumptions about science themes lead to different opinions and decisions about evolution, health, population, longevity, education, and use of resources, and show how these opinions and decisions have diverse effects on an individual, a community, and a country, both now and in the future.

A.12.3. Give examples that show how partial systems, models, and explanations are used to give quick and reasonable solutions that are accurate enough for basic needs.

A.12.4. Construct arguments that show how conflicting models and explanations of events can start with similar evidence.

A.12.5. Show how the ideas and themes of science can be used to make real-life decisions about careers, work places, life-styles, and use of resources.

A.12.6. Identify and, using evidence learned or discovered, replace inaccurate personal models and explanations of science-related events.

A.12.7. Re-examine the evidence and reasoning that led to conclusions drawn from investigations, using the science themes.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.12.1. Show how cultures and individuals have contributed to the development of major ideas in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

B.12.2. Identify the cultural conditions that are usually present during great periods of discovery, scientific development, and invention.

B.12.3. Relate the major themes of science to human progress in understanding science and the world.

B.12.4. Show how basic research and applied research contribute to new discoveries, inventions, and applications.

B.12.5. Explain how science is based on assumptions about the natural world and themes that describe the natural world.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.12.1. When studying science content, ask questions suggested by current social issues, scientific literature, and observations of phenomena, build hypotheses that might answer some of these questions, design possible investigations, and describe results that might emerge from such investigations.

C.12.2. Identify issues from an area of science study, write questions that could be investigated, review previous research on these questions, and design and conduct responsible and safe investigations to help answer the questions.

C.12.3. Evaluate the data collected during an investigation, critique the data-collection procedures and results, and suggest ways to make any needed improvements.

C.12.4. During investigations, choose the best data-collection procedures and materials available, use them competently, and calculate the degree of precision of the resulting data.

C.12.5. Use the explanations and models found in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences to develop likely explanations for the results of their investigations.

C.12.6. Present the results of investigations to groups concerned with the issues, explaining the meaning and implications of the results, and answering questions in terms the audience can understand.

C.12.7. Evaluate articles and reports in the popular press, in scientific journals, on television, and on the Internet, using criteria related to accuracy, degree of error, sampling, treatment of data, and other standards of experimental design.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.12.1. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Describe atomic structure and the properties of atoms, molecules, and matter during physical and chemical interactions.

D12.2. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain the forces that hold the atom together and illustrate how nuclear interactions change the atom.

D.12.3. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain exchanges of energy in chemical interactions and exchange of mass and energy in atomic/nuclear reactions.

D.12.4. Chemical Reactions: Explain how substances, both simple and complex, interact with one another to produce new substances.

D.12.5. Chemical Reactions: Identify patterns in chemical and physical properties and use them to predict likely chemical and physical changes and interactions.

D.12.6. Chemical Reactions: Through investigations, identify the types of chemical interactions, including endothermic, exothermic, oxidation, photosynthesis, and acid/base reactions.

D.12.7. Motions and Forces: Qualitatively and quantitatively analyze changes in the motion of objects and the forces that act on them and represent analytical data both algebraically and graphically.

D.12.8. Motions and Forces: Understand the forces of gravitation, the electromagnetic force, intermolecular force, and explain their impact on the universal system.

D.12.9. Motions and Forces: Describe models of light, heat, and sound and through investigations describe similarities and differences in the way these energy forms behave.

D.12.10. Conservation of Energy and The Increase in Disorder: Using the science themes, illustrate the law of conservation of energy during chemical and nuclear reactions.

D.12.11. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes, explain common occurrences in the physical world.

D.12.12. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes and knowledge of chemical, physical, atomic, and nuclear interactions, explain changes in materials, living things, earth's features, and stars.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E. 12.1. Energy in the Earth System: Using the science themes, distinguish between internal energies (decay of radioactive isotopes, gravity) and external energies (sun) in the earth's systems and show how these sources of energy have an impact on those systems.

E.12.2. Geochemical Cycles: Analyze the geochemical and physical cycles of the earth and use them to describe movements of matter.

E.12.3. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Using the science themes, describe theories of the origins and evolution of the universe and solar system, including the earth system as a part of the solar system, and relate these theories and their implications to geologic time on earth.

E.12.4. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Analyze the benefits, costs, and limitations of past, present, and projected use of resources and technology and explain the consequences to the environment.

E.12.5. The Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Using the science themes, understand that the origin of the universe is not completely understood, but that there are current ideas in science that attempt to explain its origin.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.12.1. The Cell: Evaluate the normal structures and the general and special functions of cells in single-celled and multiple-celled organisms.

F.12.2. The Cell: Understand how cells differentiate and how cells are regulated.

F.12.3. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: Explain current scientific ideas and information about the molecular and genetic basis of heredity.

F.12.4. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: State the relationships between functions of the cell and functions of the organism as related to genetics and heredity.

F.12.5. Biological Evolution: Understand the theory of evolution, natural selection, and biological classification.

F.12.6. Biological Evolution: Using concepts of evolution and heredity, account for changes in species and the diversity of species, include the influence of these changes on science, e.g. breeding of plants or animals.

F.12.7. The Interdependence of Organisms: Investigate how organisms both cooperate and compete in ecosystems.

F.12.8. The Interdependence of Organisms: Using the science themes, infer changes in ecosystems prompted by the introduction of new species, environmental conditions, chemicals, and air, water, or earth pollution.

F.12.9. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Using the science themes, investigate energy systems (related to food chains) to show how energy is stored in food (plants and animals) and how energy is released by digestion and metabolism.

F.12.10. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Understand the impact of energy on organisms in living systems.

F.12.11. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Investigate how the complexity and organization of organisms accommodates the need for obtaining, transforming, transporting, releasing, and eliminating the matter and energy used to sustain an organism.

F.12.12. The Behavior of Organisms: Trace how the sensory and nervous systems of various organisms react to the internal and external environment and transmit survival or learning stimuli to cause changes in behavior or responses.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.12.1. Identify personal interests in science and technology, implications that these interests might have for future education, and decisions to be considered.

G.12.2. Design, build, evaluate, and revise models and explanations related to the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

G.12.3. Analyze the costs, benefits, or problems resulting from a scientific or technological innovation, including implications for the individual and the community.

G.12.4. Show how a major scientific or technological change has had an impact on work, leisure, or the home.

G.12.5. Choose a specific problem in our society, identify alternative scientific or technological solutions to that problem and argue it merits.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.12.1. Using the science themes and knowledge of the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences, analyze the costs, risks, benefits, and consequences of a proposal concerning resource management in the community and determine the potential impact of the proposal on life in the community and the region.

H.12.2. Evaluate proposed policy recommendations (local, state, and/or national) in science and technology for validity, evidence, reasoning, and implications, both short and long-term.

H.12.3. Show how policy decisions in science depend on social values, ethics, beliefs, and time-frames as well as considerations of science and technology.

H.12.4. Advocate a solution or combination of solutions to a problem in science or technology.

H.12.5. Investigate how current plans or proposals concerning resource management, scientific knowledge, or technological development will have an impact on the environment, ecology, and quality of life in a community or region.

H.12.6. Evaluate data and sources of information when using scientific information to make decisions.

H.12.7. When making decisions, construct a plan that includes the use of current scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.12.1. Apply the underlying themes of science to develop defensible visions of the future.

A.12.2. Show how conflicting assumptions about science themes lead to different opinions and decisions about evolution, health, population, longevity, education, and use of resources, and show how these opinions and decisions have diverse effects on an individual, a community, and a country, both now and in the future.

A.12.3. Give examples that show how partial systems, models, and explanations are used to give quick and reasonable solutions that are accurate enough for basic needs.

A.12.4. Construct arguments that show how conflicting models and explanations of events can start with similar evidence.

A.12.5. Show how the ideas and themes of science can be used to make real-life decisions about careers, work places, life-styles, and use of resources.

A.12.6. Identify and, using evidence learned or discovered, replace inaccurate personal models and explanations of science-related events.

A.12.7. Re-examine the evidence and reasoning that led to conclusions drawn from investigations, using the science themes.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.12.1. Show how cultures and individuals have contributed to the development of major ideas in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

B.12.2. Identify the cultural conditions that are usually present during great periods of discovery, scientific development, and invention.

B.12.3. Relate the major themes of science to human progress in understanding science and the world.

B.12.4. Show how basic research and applied research contribute to new discoveries, inventions, and applications.

B.12.5. Explain how science is based on assumptions about the natural world and themes that describe the natural world.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.12.1. When studying science content, ask questions suggested by current social issues, scientific literature, and observations of phenomena, build hypotheses that might answer some of these questions, design possible investigations, and describe results that might emerge from such investigations.

C.12.2. Identify issues from an area of science study, write questions that could be investigated, review previous research on these questions, and design and conduct responsible and safe investigations to help answer the questions.

C.12.3. Evaluate the data collected during an investigation, critique the data-collection procedures and results, and suggest ways to make any needed improvements.

C.12.4. During investigations, choose the best data-collection procedures and materials available, use them competently, and calculate the degree of precision of the resulting data.

C.12.5. Use the explanations and models found in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences to develop likely explanations for the results of their investigations.

C.12.6. Present the results of investigations to groups concerned with the issues, explaining the meaning and implications of the results, and answering questions in terms the audience can understand.

C.12.7. Evaluate articles and reports in the popular press, in scientific journals, on television, and on the Internet, using criteria related to accuracy, degree of error, sampling, treatment of data, and other standards of experimental design.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.12.1. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Describe atomic structure and the properties of atoms, molecules, and matter during physical and chemical interactions.

D12.2. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain the forces that hold the atom together and illustrate how nuclear interactions change the atom.

D.12.3. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain exchanges of energy in chemical interactions and exchange of mass and energy in atomic/nuclear reactions.

D.12.4. Chemical Reactions: Explain how substances, both simple and complex, interact with one another to produce new substances.

D.12.5. Chemical Reactions: Identify patterns in chemical and physical properties and use them to predict likely chemical and physical changes and interactions.

D.12.6. Chemical Reactions: Through investigations, identify the types of chemical interactions, including endothermic, exothermic, oxidation, photosynthesis, and acid/base reactions.

D.12.7. Motions and Forces: Qualitatively and quantitatively analyze changes in the motion of objects and the forces that act on them and represent analytical data both algebraically and graphically.

D.12.8. Motions and Forces: Understand the forces of gravitation, the electromagnetic force, intermolecular force, and explain their impact on the universal system.

D.12.9. Motions and Forces: Describe models of light, heat, and sound and through investigations describe similarities and differences in the way these energy forms behave.

D.12.10. Conservation of Energy and The Increase in Disorder: Using the science themes, illustrate the law of conservation of energy during chemical and nuclear reactions.

D.12.11. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes, explain common occurrences in the physical world.

D.12.12. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes and knowledge of chemical, physical, atomic, and nuclear interactions, explain changes in materials, living things, earth's features, and stars.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E. 12.1. Energy in the Earth System: Using the science themes, distinguish between internal energies (decay of radioactive isotopes, gravity) and external energies (sun) in the earth's systems and show how these sources of energy have an impact on those systems.

E.12.2. Geochemical Cycles: Analyze the geochemical and physical cycles of the earth and use them to describe movements of matter.

E.12.3. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Using the science themes, describe theories of the origins and evolution of the universe and solar system, including the earth system as a part of the solar system, and relate these theories and their implications to geologic time on earth.

E.12.4. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Analyze the benefits, costs, and limitations of past, present, and projected use of resources and technology and explain the consequences to the environment.

E.12.5. The Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Using the science themes, understand that the origin of the universe is not completely understood, but that there are current ideas in science that attempt to explain its origin.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.12.1. The Cell: Evaluate the normal structures and the general and special functions of cells in single-celled and multiple-celled organisms.

F.12.2. The Cell: Understand how cells differentiate and how cells are regulated.

F.12.3. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: Explain current scientific ideas and information about the molecular and genetic basis of heredity.

F.12.4. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: State the relationships between functions of the cell and functions of the organism as related to genetics and heredity.

F.12.5. Biological Evolution: Understand the theory of evolution, natural selection, and biological classification.

F.12.6. Biological Evolution: Using concepts of evolution and heredity, account for changes in species and the diversity of species, include the influence of these changes on science, e.g. breeding of plants or animals.

F.12.7. The Interdependence of Organisms: Investigate how organisms both cooperate and compete in ecosystems.

F.12.8. The Interdependence of Organisms: Using the science themes, infer changes in ecosystems prompted by the introduction of new species, environmental conditions, chemicals, and air, water, or earth pollution.

F.12.9. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Using the science themes, investigate energy systems (related to food chains) to show how energy is stored in food (plants and animals) and how energy is released by digestion and metabolism.

F.12.10. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Understand the impact of energy on organisms in living systems.

F.12.11. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Investigate how the complexity and organization of organisms accommodates the need for obtaining, transforming, transporting, releasing, and eliminating the matter and energy used to sustain an organism.

F.12.12. The Behavior of Organisms: Trace how the sensory and nervous systems of various organisms react to the internal and external environment and transmit survival or learning stimuli to cause changes in behavior or responses.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.12.1. Identify personal interests in science and technology, implications that these interests might have for future education, and decisions to be considered.

G.12.2. Design, build, evaluate, and revise models and explanations related to the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

G.12.3. Analyze the costs, benefits, or problems resulting from a scientific or technological innovation, including implications for the individual and the community.

G.12.4. Show how a major scientific or technological change has had an impact on work, leisure, or the home.

G.12.5. Choose a specific problem in our society, identify alternative scientific or technological solutions to that problem and argue it merits.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.12.1. Using the science themes and knowledge of the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences, analyze the costs, risks, benefits, and consequences of a proposal concerning resource management in the community and determine the potential impact of the proposal on life in the community and the region.

H.12.2. Evaluate proposed policy recommendations (local, state, and/or national) in science and technology for validity, evidence, reasoning, and implications, both short and long-term.

H.12.3. Show how policy decisions in science depend on social values, ethics, beliefs, and time-frames as well as considerations of science and technology.

H.12.4. Advocate a solution or combination of solutions to a problem in science or technology.

H.12.5. Investigate how current plans or proposals concerning resource management, scientific knowledge, or technological development will have an impact on the environment, ecology, and quality of life in a community or region.

H.12.6. Evaluate data and sources of information when using scientific information to make decisions.

H.12.7. When making decisions, construct a plan that includes the use of current scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning.

WI.A. Science Connections: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

A.12.1. Apply the underlying themes of science to develop defensible visions of the future.

A.12.2. Show how conflicting assumptions about science themes lead to different opinions and decisions about evolution, health, population, longevity, education, and use of resources, and show how these opinions and decisions have diverse effects on an individual, a community, and a country, both now and in the future.

A.12.3. Give examples that show how partial systems, models, and explanations are used to give quick and reasonable solutions that are accurate enough for basic needs.

A.12.4. Construct arguments that show how conflicting models and explanations of events can start with similar evidence.

A.12.5. Show how the ideas and themes of science can be used to make real-life decisions about careers, work places, life-styles, and use of resources.

A.12.6. Identify and, using evidence learned or discovered, replace inaccurate personal models and explanations of science-related events.

A.12.7. Re-examine the evidence and reasoning that led to conclusions drawn from investigations, using the science themes.

WI.B. Nature of Science: Students in Wisconsin will understand that science is ongoing and inventive, and that scientific understandings have changed over time as new evidence is found.

B.12.1. Show how cultures and individuals have contributed to the development of major ideas in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

B.12.2. Identify the cultural conditions that are usually present during great periods of discovery, scientific development, and invention.

B.12.3. Relate the major themes of science to human progress in understanding science and the world.

B.12.4. Show how basic research and applied research contribute to new discoveries, inventions, and applications.

B.12.5. Explain how science is based on assumptions about the natural world and themes that describe the natural world.

WI.C. Science Inquiry: Students in Wisconsin will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate these understandings to others.

C.12.1. When studying science content, ask questions suggested by current social issues, scientific literature, and observations of phenomena, build hypotheses that might answer some of these questions, design possible investigations, and describe results that might emerge from such investigations.

C.12.2. Identify issues from an area of science study, write questions that could be investigated, review previous research on these questions, and design and conduct responsible and safe investigations to help answer the questions.

C.12.3. Evaluate the data collected during an investigation, critique the data-collection procedures and results, and suggest ways to make any needed improvements.

C.12.4. During investigations, choose the best data-collection procedures and materials available, use them competently, and calculate the degree of precision of the resulting data.

C.12.5. Use the explanations and models found in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences to develop likely explanations for the results of their investigations.

C.12.6. Present the results of investigations to groups concerned with the issues, explaining the meaning and implications of the results, and answering questions in terms the audience can understand.

C.12.7. Evaluate articles and reports in the popular press, in scientific journals, on television, and on the Internet, using criteria related to accuracy, degree of error, sampling, treatment of data, and other standards of experimental design.

WI.D. Physical Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of matter, the forms and properties of energy, and the ways in which matter and energy interact.

D.12.1. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Describe atomic structure and the properties of atoms, molecules, and matter during physical and chemical interactions.

D12.2. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain the forces that hold the atom together and illustrate how nuclear interactions change the atom.

D.12.3. Structure of Atoms and Matter: Explain exchanges of energy in chemical interactions and exchange of mass and energy in atomic/nuclear reactions.

D.12.4. Chemical Reactions: Explain how substances, both simple and complex, interact with one another to produce new substances.

D.12.5. Chemical Reactions: Identify patterns in chemical and physical properties and use them to predict likely chemical and physical changes and interactions.

D.12.6. Chemical Reactions: Through investigations, identify the types of chemical interactions, including endothermic, exothermic, oxidation, photosynthesis, and acid/base reactions.

D.12.7. Motions and Forces: Qualitatively and quantitatively analyze changes in the motion of objects and the forces that act on them and represent analytical data both algebraically and graphically.

D.12.8. Motions and Forces: Understand the forces of gravitation, the electromagnetic force, intermolecular force, and explain their impact on the universal system.

D.12.9. Motions and Forces: Describe models of light, heat, and sound and through investigations describe similarities and differences in the way these energy forms behave.

D.12.10. Conservation of Energy and The Increase in Disorder: Using the science themes, illustrate the law of conservation of energy during chemical and nuclear reactions.

D.12.11. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes, explain common occurrences in the physical world.

D.12.12. Interactions of Matter and Energy: Using the science themes and knowledge of chemical, physical, atomic, and nuclear interactions, explain changes in materials, living things, earth's features, and stars.

WI.E. Earth and Space Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and systems of earth and other bodies in the universe and of their interactions.

E. 12.1. Energy in the Earth System: Using the science themes, distinguish between internal energies (decay of radioactive isotopes, gravity) and external energies (sun) in the earth's systems and show how these sources of energy have an impact on those systems.

E.12.2. Geochemical Cycles: Analyze the geochemical and physical cycles of the earth and use them to describe movements of matter.

E.12.3. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Using the science themes, describe theories of the origins and evolution of the universe and solar system, including the earth system as a part of the solar system, and relate these theories and their implications to geologic time on earth.

E.12.4. The Origin and Evolution of the Earth System: Analyze the benefits, costs, and limitations of past, present, and projected use of resources and technology and explain the consequences to the environment.

E.12.5. The Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Using the science themes, understand that the origin of the universe is not completely understood, but that there are current ideas in science that attempt to explain its origin.

WI.F. Life and Environmental Science: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.

F.12.1. The Cell: Evaluate the normal structures and the general and special functions of cells in single-celled and multiple-celled organisms.

F.12.2. The Cell: Understand how cells differentiate and how cells are regulated.

F.12.3. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: Explain current scientific ideas and information about the molecular and genetic basis of heredity.

F.12.4. The Molecular Basis of Heredity: State the relationships between functions of the cell and functions of the organism as related to genetics and heredity.

F.12.5. Biological Evolution: Understand the theory of evolution, natural selection, and biological classification.

F.12.6. Biological Evolution: Using concepts of evolution and heredity, account for changes in species and the diversity of species, include the influence of these changes on science, e.g. breeding of plants or animals.

F.12.7. The Interdependence of Organisms: Investigate how organisms both cooperate and compete in ecosystems.

F.12.8. The Interdependence of Organisms: Using the science themes, infer changes in ecosystems prompted by the introduction of new species, environmental conditions, chemicals, and air, water, or earth pollution.

F.12.9. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Using the science themes, investigate energy systems (related to food chains) to show how energy is stored in food (plants and animals) and how energy is released by digestion and metabolism.

F.12.10. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Understand the impact of energy on organisms in living systems.

F.12.11. Matter, Energy and Organization in Living Systems: Investigate how the complexity and organization of organisms accommodates the need for obtaining, transforming, transporting, releasing, and eliminating the matter and energy used to sustain an organism.

F.12.12. The Behavior of Organisms: Trace how the sensory and nervous systems of various organisms react to the internal and external environment and transmit survival or learning stimuli to cause changes in behavior or responses.

WI.G. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between science and technology and the ways in which that relationship influences human activities.

G.12.1. Identify personal interests in science and technology, implications that these interests might have for future education, and decisions to be considered.

G.12.2. Design, build, evaluate, and revise models and explanations related to the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences.

G.12.3. Analyze the costs, benefits, or problems resulting from a scientific or technological innovation, including implications for the individual and the community.

G.12.4. Show how a major scientific or technological change has had an impact on work, leisure, or the home.

G.12.5. Choose a specific problem in our society, identify alternative scientific or technological solutions to that problem and argue it merits.

WI.H. Science Applications: Students in Wisconsin will use scientific information and skills to make decisions about themselves, Wisconsin, and the world in which they live.

H.12.1. Using the science themes and knowledge of the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences, analyze the costs, risks, benefits, and consequences of a proposal concerning resource management in the community and determine the potential impact of the proposal on life in the community and the region.

H.12.2. Evaluate proposed policy recommendations (local, state, and/or national) in science and technology for validity, evidence, reasoning, and implications, both short and long-term.

H.12.3. Show how policy decisions in science depend on social values, ethics, beliefs, and time-frames as well as considerations of science and technology.

H.12.4. Advocate a solution or combination of solutions to a problem in science or technology.

H.12.5. Investigate how current plans or proposals concerning resource management, scientific knowledge, or technological development will have an impact on the environment, ecology, and quality of life in a community or region.

H.12.6. Evaluate data and sources of information when using scientific information to make decisions.

H.12.7. When making decisions, construct a plan that includes the use of current scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning.