ARIES - National Science Education Standards Matrix
	Exploring Time	Exploring Time	Exploring the Earth in Motion	Exploring the Earth in Motion	Exploring Light and Color
	Shadow Observations	Creating Own Sundial	Using a Compass to find Directions	ARIES Suntracker	World through Colored Glasses
Science as Inquiry
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry	*	*	*	*	*
Understandings about scientific inquiry	*	*	*	*	*
Physical Science (K-4)
Properties of objects and materials	*	*	*		*
Position and motion of objects	*	*	*	*
Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism	*	*	*	*	*
Earth and Space Science (K-4)
Objects in the sky	*	*	*	*
Changes in earth and sky	*	*	*	*
Physical science (5-8)
Motion and forces	*	*	*	*
Transfer of energy				*	*
Earth and Space Science (5-8)
Earth in the solar system	*	*	*	*
History and Nature of Science (K-12)
Science as a human endeavor	*	*	*	*	*
Nature of science	*	*	*	*	*
History of science	*	*	*	*	*
Unifying Concepts and Processes (K-12)
Systems, order, and organization	*	*	*	*	*
Evidence, models, and explanation	*	*	*	*	*
Change, constancy, and measurement	*	*	*	*	*
Form and function	*	*	*	*	*