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At 11:38 PM 11/27/1999 -0400, Deborah Meier wrote: >Please send details re Periodic Table for 5th >graders.. What's the framework descriptor or the test item? It's so >preposterous that I need credible details. We've got equally funny ones >from MCAS on the 4th grade test. The worst are in history however. California's worst are in history, too, as you can read in Susan Ohanian's book. I'm not a fifth grade teacher, but it appears to me that the statement Rick quoted from the CTA website may not accurately represent the state's science standards (although I can certainly imagine some schools interpreting the standards to require memorization of the periodic table). Below is an excerpt from the California science content standards for grade five (online at http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/science.html). 1. Elements and their combinations account for all the varied types of matter in the world. As a basis for understanding this concept, students know: a. during chemical reactions, the atoms in the reactants rearrange to form products with different properties. b. all matter is made of atoms, which may combine to form molecules. c. metals have properties in common, such as electrical and thermal conductivity. Some metals, such as aluminum (Al), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), silver (Ag), gold (Au), are pure elements while others, such as steel and brass, are composed of a combination of elemental metals. d. each element is made of one kind of atom. These elements are organized in the Periodic Table by their chemical properties. George Sheridan Northside School Black Oak Mine Unified School District P.O. Box 217 Cool, California 95633 Hope is...not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the conviction that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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