Science and Social Science Tests

Students have taken their notes home to study.

Concepts for the Social Science test:

• Our climate and environment dictates the nature of needs. People who live in cold climates will need warmer clothes and shelter. Children will do different things for fun depending on their climate.
• Living beings have specific survival needs: air, water, food, and shelter (necessarily in that order).
• Some occupations/businesses provide goods (market, bakery, toy store) some provide services (library, bank, salon).
• A tradition is an activity (behavior) that is often repeated through generations. In the United States, many people celebrate holidays such as Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter, and Independence Day (Fourth of July).
• We can find differences and similarities in the past and the present.
• Education/School: 
• In the past, many schools only had one room with one teacher teaching several grades without computers.
• In the present, teachers and students of the same age use computers to learn in schools with many rooms.
• Transportation:
• In the past, people used beasts of burden/animal power for their transportation needs.
• In the present, most forms of road transportation use fuel powered engines.
• Commerce/Stores:
• In the past, people may have shopped in "general stores" which sold a variety of goods and services.
• In the present, there are many more specialty-type stores (grocery stores, clothing stores, toy stores, etc.).

Students will have the opportunity to explain their understanding of the Social Science principles with words and labeled pictures.

Concepts for the Science Test:

• There are 3 states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.
• Matter can change from one state to another by adding or removing heat.
• Some examples of solids are: stone, wood, paper, rubber, and ice.
• Some examples of liquids are: water, gasoline, and milk.
• Some examples of gases are: steam, oxygen, and helium.
• Forms of matter have observable properties;
• liquids take the shape of their container and can be colorless, opaque, bubbly, viscous, transparent, translucent, etc.
• solids do not take the shape of their container and can be hard, cold, soft, flexible, rigid, etc.