Grade Level Performance Indicator Progression for Science
	Kids Invent Correlation with Standards
Benchmarks Grade 5	Correlation	Notes
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
Identify the variables in scientific investigations and recognize the imporatance of controlling variables in scientific experiments	√	All invention projects
Formulate and defend conclusions based on evidence	√	All invention projects
NATURE OF SCIENCE
Use models and/or simulations to represent and investigate features of objects, events, and processes in the real world	√	All invention projects
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Describe the cycle of energy among producers, consumers, and decomposers
Describe the interdependent relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem in cycles of matter
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN ORGANISMS
Describe the structures of the human body and howthey work together to sustain life
DIVERSITY, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
Recognize that some traits of living things are inherited and others are learned
NATURE OF MATTER
Identify different forms of energy (e.g., thermal, electrical, nuclear, light, sound) and how they can change and transfer energy to another	√	Motor, solar, magnetism invention projects
Describe ways that heat can be transferred from one object to another	√	Motor, solar, magnetism invention projects
Compare what happends to light when it is reflected, refracted, and absorbed	√	Solar invention projects
FORCE AND MOTION
Explain how electrically charged materials can push or pull other charged materials	√	Magnetism invention projects
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Describe the relationship (size and distance) of Earth to other components in the solar system
Describe examples of what astronomers have discovered using telescopes
Explain that the planets orbit the sun and that the moon orbits the Earth