Parent Power!

Helping you make sense of schooling today

February 2000, Vol. II - Issue 2


 

Parent Power!
Helping You Make Sense of Schooling Today

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MORE ON SCIENCE:

Here Is One Reason Our Kids May Be Ill Prepared

These words do not appear ANYWHERE in the Illinois Learning Standards for Science for ANY grade level from first grade through senior high school:

artery
astronomy
brain
charge
circuit
crystal
Da Vinci
Darwin
desert
digest
dioxide
Einstein
electricity
electron
electronics
evaporate
evolve
eye
fat
fish
forest
gear
glacier
Goodall
grassland
greenhouse
hear
helium
Hubble
inorganic
insectintestine
kingdom
lake
larva
level
machine
magma
Mendel
Mercury
metamorphic
microscope
mineral
missile
mountain
muscle
negative
neutron
nitrogen
organic
oxygen
ozone
phylum
pollen
positive
proton
pulley
rainforest
respiration
rocket
screw
sediment
shadow
skeleton
skin
smell
soil
spine
stomach
sugar
sunrise
switch
taste
telescope
tornado
vacuum
vein
vitamin
volcano
Galileo
Metal

Also in this issue: Science Education: Are Our Children Lagging Behind?


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