New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations

Molecular Expressions
What does chalk look like under the microscope? How about DNA? This site has thousands of color photographs taken through an optical microscope from burgers and fries and ice cream to integrated circuits and ceramic superconductors. After visiting the photogallery, check out the interactive Java-powered virtual microscopes that let you explore specimen focus, illumination intensity, magnification, and translation.
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Science: Science as Inquiry

  Curriculum Standard 1a
Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how the scientific enterprise operates.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Use technologies as tools in conducting investigations, e.g. microscopes, computer, calculator.

Science: Science, Technology, and Society

  Curriculum Standard 2a
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to use measuring instruments to gather accurate and/or precise information.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:

  • Use technology to explore events in nature, e.g. telescopes, microscopes, computer probes.
Curriculum Standard 2b
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to use technology to observe nature.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

  • Explore nature with technology, e.g. microscopes, telescopes, computer probes, and spectroscopes.

Science: Physical Science

  Curriculum Standard 5b
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that matter is composed of dynamic interactive units or particles and that all the properties and changes in matter can be explained in terms of the forces involved in the interactions of these units.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
  • Explain that the arrangement, configuration and/or motion of atoms, molecules, and ions of a particular substance determine the structure and, thus, the properties of that substance.