Standards
Additional Resources

 

AUSTRALIA

ASTA TryScience Project Final Report
The Australian Teachers Association's comprehensive report on the suitability of TryScience in a range of primary teaching and learning contexts. Includes a report on the appropriateness of TryScience for designated age groups, and demonstrates that teachers can link TryScience activities with their respective curriculum frameworks with relative ease.
(Microsoft Word document, 447K)

UNITED KINGDOM

Using www.tryscience.org with the UK Curricula
Suggests how TryScience activities might be used within the UK classroom. In particular, Experiments are sorted by Key Stage suitability, and classified for inclusion into up to four activity types. Correlations between QCA scheme for KS2 and KS3 are suggested for some experiments.
(Microsoft Word document, 218K)

UNITED STATES

TryScience US Curriculum Map A spreadsheet compiled by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Webwatchers' Team correlating many of the TryScience experiments with National Science Education Standards (NSES) and SciLinks codes. (Microsoft Excel document, 41K)

TEKS/TAKS Correlation to TryScience
An assessment of the TryScience experiments versus the Texas TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) Standards. It includes the objectives of each experiment and compares them by grade to Texas standards.
(Microsoft Word document, 296K)

• AAAS Benchmarks for Science Literacy
  http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/bolframe.htm
  Benchmarks for Science Literacy presents the K-12 science learning goals developed by Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• NAS national science standards
  http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/
  These are the national science learning goals developed by the National Research Council.
• National mathematics standards
  http://www.nctm.org/standards/
  Here's where you'll find the math standards prescribed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
• K-12 educational standards database
  http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
  Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) provides a compilation of content standards for K-12 curriculum in both searchable and browsable formats.
• State educational standards site
  http://edstandards.org/StSu/Science.html#State
  This website lists science standards from a variety of sources, allowing you to look up learning goals in science by your state or by the organization that developed them.
• StateStandards.com
  StateStandards.com, a free service from Scantron, is a single site for accessing lesson plans based on state curriculum standards. For schools and districts that have not yet published their local curriculum standards documents on the Web, teachers can search for lesson plans from their state standards on this new Web site. StateStandards.com contains search-enabled curriculum standards documents for 40+ U.S. states.