The School District of Beloit has a vision for science education that engages all students in science by working with rigorous, relevant, and real-life problems.  We do this through the use of curricular resources that are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. These resources encourage students to discover the world around them, in order to provide foundational knowledge to all and encourage all students to continue to learn and to keep wonder alive. The goal of the science program is to prepare our students for their future, which could be very different from the world we live in today. As a result, we have developed a scope that allows students to build upon and revise prior knowledge and encourages all students to engage in the practices of science and engineering.

• identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
• analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
• generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impact of natural Earth processes on humans.
• develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
• use a model to describe how animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
• use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
• apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
• generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
• make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
• develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
• generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
• ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.