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Indiana State Standards:

·        6.1.6   Explain that computers have become invaluable in science because they speed up and extend people’s ability to collect, store, compile, and analyze data; prepare research reports; and share data and ideas with investigators all over the world.

·        6.1.7   Explain that technology is essential to science for such purposes as access to outer space and other remote locations, sample collection and treatment, measurement, data collection and storage, computation, and communication of information.

·        6.2.7  Locate information in reference books, back issues of newspapers and magazines, CD-ROMs, and computer databases.

·        6.3.1  Compare and contrast the size, composition, and surface features of the planets that comprise the solar system, as well as the objects orbiting them. Explain that the planets, except Pluto, move around the sun in nearly circular orbits.

·        6.3.2  Observe and describe that planets change their position relative to the background of stars.

·        6.3.3  Explain that Earth is one of several planets that orbit the sun, and that the moon, as well as many artificial satellites and debris, orbit around Earth.

·        6.3.4  Explain that we live on a planet which appears at present to be the only body in the solar system capable of supporting life.

·        6.4.3  Describe some of the great variety of body plans and internal structures animals and plants have that contribute to their being able to make or find food and reproduce.