var sub1gr0="<h2>Kindergarten Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Changes, Water, Senses <strong>Concepts</strong>: Most things undergo change; Water in its various states is all around us; People experience the world through sensory perceptions. <strong>Skills</strong>: Observation, experimentation, measurement in cooking, caring for pets, vocabulary development, using simple tools to gather data. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Bread Faire and Sea Creature Parade</p>"; var sub1gr1="<h2>1st Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: How living things in communities live and work; where food comes from; balls and ramps. <strong>Concepts</strong>: Gravity, friction, force and motion; classification of living things; experimentation; life cycles; habitats; nutrition. <strong>Skills</strong>: Vocabulary development; using tools and technology to gather scientific information; scientific observation; recording data; applying information learned."; var sub1gr2="<h2>2nd Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Solids and Liquids, Air and Weather, Plants <strong>Concepts</strong>: Properties of matter, Water Cycle, Plant life Cycles, The role of energy in the process of phase changes, the role of plants in the environment and culture. <strong>Skills</strong>: Describe and compare properties of solids and liquids; identify the states of water; measure and record aspects of weather; understand the role of air and air pressure in making weather; identify plant structures and their function; work independently and collaboratively to do and understand scientific inquiry; ask questions, conduct simple investigations, gather data, and develop plausible explanations. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Science Fair</p>"; var sub1gr3="<h2>3rd Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Earth Materials, Human Body and Metric Measurement <strong>Concepts</strong>: Properties and characteristics of rocks and minerals, characteristics and knowledge of the basic structural systems of the human body and how these systems work together to provide movement, the use of appropriate tools in situations calling for measurement <strong>Skills</strong>: Asking questions, investigating, observing, predicting, recording, classifying and grouping, drawing conclusions from results, choosing correct tools to conduct investigation. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Building human joint models, Dissecting Owl Pellets</p>"; var sub1gr4="<h2>4th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Water, Structures of Life, Electricity <strong>Concepts</strong>: Energy sources and conversions, life cycles, structure and function in characteristics of living things, habitats, biological traits, water as resource for living things and environment, properties of water. <strong>Skills</strong>: Asking questions, investigating, observing, predicting, recording, classifying, drawing conclusions from results, using and creating tools to collect scientific information, using technology to gather information, investigating properties and motion of objects. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Raising crayfish.</p>"; var sub1gr5="<h2>5th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Environments; Mixtures and Solutions <strong>Concepts</strong>: Density; solubility; states of matter; measurable properties of matter; elements of habitats; change in living things over time; adaptation; interactions within ecosystems; environmental conservation. <strong>Skills</strong>: Asking questions; investigating; observing; predicting; recording; classifying; drawing conclusions from results; using and creating tools to collect scientific information; using technology to gather information; exploring properties; communicating scientific reasoning in variety of ways. <strong>Highlights</strong>: 3 day experiential journey at the Marin Headlands Institute; visit to Ano Nuevo State Park to view the life cycle of the elephant seal.</p>"; var sub1gr6="<h2>6th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Earth Science: Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Minerals, Rocks. Environmental Science: Populations, Ecosystems and Biomes, Living Resources Land and Soil Resources, Air and Water Resources, Energy Resources, Year-End Ecology Project. <strong>Process + Skills</strong>: Understanding an individual's role, responsibility and power in the environment; Use of scientific method (hypothesis development, observation, data collection, graphing, conclusions and summary); Learning from success and failure in the scientific process; Laboratory procedures and safety; Research skills; Use of technology in scientific inquiry; Presentation skills; Group work</p>"; var sub1gr7="<h2>7th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: The physical and biological science of the 5 senses (sound and the ear, light and the eye, pressure and touch, the chemistry of smell and taste), The brain (science of neurons, divisions of the nervous system and brain, chemistry and drug effects), The science behind passive-solar-design architecture (sun-earth connections, specific heat, convection). <strong>Process + Skills</strong>: The context for discovery and inquiry will be at the core of how students are exposed to science. Students will become more familiar with each aspect of the scientific process. As new concepts are explored, the history of scientific discovery and the way knowledge builds upon itself will be explored. Students will develop their abilities to think like scientists (question, observe, form hypothesis, design and conduct experiments, collect and analyze data, discuss patterns and come to consensus with their peers). Students will make connections between discoveries to better the history of science and how concepts build upon one another. Students will demonstrate their understanding through visual models, graphical representations of data and oral presentations.</p>"; var sub1gr8="<h2>8th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Physics and Astronomy (shadows and eclipses, refraction and Galileo's telescope, stars, galaxies and the universe), Forces and Motion (on Earth, planetary, space interactions), Exploring the Possibility of Life on other Planets (characteristics of living things, cell biology, genetics and evolution). <strong>Process + Skills</strong>: The 8th grade process and skills involve increased expectations around the skills they developed in 7th grade. In 8th grade students will become more independent in their experiment implementation. They will become better at designing and modifying experimental design. Students will learn to analyze patterns with more complexity and to ask deeper questions. In the end of the year, students will study for and take a cumulative test and show their grasp of the concepts discovered through the course of the year.</p>";