var sub1gr0="<h2>Kindergarten Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Changes, Water, The Five 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>: Insects; simple machines; food and nutrition. <strong>Concepts</strong>: Gravity, friction, force and motion; investigable questions; 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>Concepts</strong>: Solar system, states of matter, plants. <strong>Skills</strong>: Understand the phases of the moon, role the sun has on our planet, how the planets and other objects in the sky make up our solar system. Describe and compare properties of solids, liquids and gases; identify plant structures and their function; work independently and collaboratively to understand and use scientific inquiry; ask questions, conduct simple investigations, gather data and develop plausible explanations. <strong>Highlight</strong>: Star Gazing Celebration.</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>: Properties of matter; systems of the human body. <strong>Concepts</strong>: Comparison of molecular models of matter; physical and chemical properties; mixtures and solutions; exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions; data collection and presentation; functions and organs of the major systems of the human body; interdependence of human body systems; the impact of habitat on plant and animal adaptation; native species of the Marin Headlands, environmental conservation. <strong>Skills</strong>: Develop testable inquiry questions; design and conduct lab investigations; write lab reports; separate a mixture using paper chromatography; graph time-temperature data; model and discuss internal structures of the human body responsible for respiration, digestion, waste removal, and transport of materials; observe and document characteristics of local native plants. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Three-day field science program at Marin Headlands Institute; independent chemistry lab investigations; human body research project.</p>"; 
var sub1gr6="<h2>6th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Earth Science: the theory of plate tectonics and its role in earthquakes, sea-floor spreading, mountain building and the formation of volcanoes; properties of rocks and minerals, the rock cycle. Environmental science: populations and ecosystems: the interplay of abiotic and biotic factors in ecosystems, predator and prey relationships, cycles in nature, and focus on freshwater and marine ecosystems. <strong>Process + Skills</strong>: Development of inquiry skills and scientific thinking: use of scientific method (hypothesis development, observation, data collection and analysis, graphing, conclusions and summary); applying scientific concepts in the real world, understanding the nature of science as evidence based and subject to revision. Understanding the individual's role, responsibility and power in the environment; laboratory procedures and safety. <strong>Highlight</strong>Year-end marine ecology project.</p>"; 
var sub1gr7="<h2>7th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Life science: nature of science (what science is and is not, evidence based thinking, evaluating science, proto-science, and pseudo-science); cell structure and functions (comparison of cells of different kingdoms, respiration, photosynthesis, mitosis and meiosis); genetics (structure and function of DNA, how information is passed across generations); evolution and natural selection; animal and plant physiology; ecology; taxonomy. <strong>Process + Skills</strong>: The central focus of the year is how our understanding of the natural world is dependent on the evidence and information we gather from the natural world.  Students gain experience in gathering evidence and information on their own, analyzing and critiquing the evidence and information gathered by others, and acting as teachers by sharing evidence and information with their peers. Students look at how the history of science has unfolded, as well as how their behaviors and decisions impact the world of today.  Hands-on lab experiences are incorporated heavily throughout the year. Student understanding is evaluated through oral presentations, visual displays, model building, and formal evaluations.</p>"; 
var sub1gr8="<h2>8th Grade Science</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Physical Science: Chemistry (atoms and molecules, properties of solids, liquids, and gases, reactions), physics and astronomy (waves and particles, the electromagnetic spectrum, forces and motion on Earth and in space, stars, galaxies and the universe), exploring the possibility of life on other planets (characteristics of living things, cell biology, proposed ideas on the origins of life). <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 ask deeper questions, and learn to analyze more complex patterns in a quantitative way.</p>";