BARC 2015(Bighelp Boston Area Regional Contests 2015)

BigHelp BARC Science Bee

Students will be tested for a variety of life, physical, and earth science skills and information based on the grade level

1st Grade and 2nd Grade Science Syllabus

Life Science
• Plants
• Animals
• Where plants and animals live

Physical Science
• Grouping objects
• Sound, Light, and Heat
• Moving and Working

Earth Science
• The Earth
• Weather
• The Sky

Human Body
• The Senses
• Growing and Changing
• Taking care of your health

3rd Grade and 4th Grade Science Syllabus

How Plants Live and Grow
• Plants parts and their purposes
• Pollen's purpose
• Flower's and cones
• Life cycle of flowering plants and conifers

How Animals Grow and Change
• Importance of egg in life cycles
• Life Cycles of mammals
• Life Cycles of spiders, insects, fish, and frogs.

Ecosystem, Living Things and Their Changing Environments
• Mammals grow and learn
• Habitats are changed
• Mammals make adaptations

Matter and how it Changes
• Characteristics of matter
• Matter changes
• Three stages of Matter
• Chemical changes of Matter

Forces, Machines, and Work
• Friction and Gravity
• Simple machines effect work

Magnets
• How magnets work
Weather
• Clouds form differently
• Stages of the water cycle
• Differences in tornadoes, thunderstorms and hurricanes

Rocks and Minerals of the Earth
• Fossils form
• Locations of fossils
• Different types of fossils

Healthy Human Bodies
• Body Systems
• Fighting Germs
• Good nutrition

5th Grade Science Syllabus

1. Life Science
Classifying Plants and Animals
• The building blocks of life
• Grouping living things
• Classifying plants
• Classifying animals
• Animal adaptations

Energy From Plants
•Plants' characteristics
• Parts of plants
• How plants reproduce
• Life cycle of a plant

Ecosystems
• The parts of ecosystems
• Energy flow in ecosystems
• Matter flow in ecosystems
• Balance
• Organism interaction

2. Physical Science
Properties of Matter
• Define matter
• Measure matter
• Mixtures and solutions
• How matter changes

Heat
• Why matter has energy
• How heat moves

Electricity & Magnetism
• How matter becomes charged
• How electric charges flow
• How electricity transforms to magnetism
• How magnetism transforms to electricity

Sound and Light
• Define sound energy
• How sound is made
• Define light energy
• How light and matter interact

Objects in Motion
• Define motion
• How force affects moving objects
• How force, mass, and energy relate to one another

3. Earth Science
Minerals and Rocks
• Define minerals
• Formation of sedimentary rocks
• Explore igneous and metamorphic rocks

Changes to Earth's Surface
• How Earth's surface wears away
• How weathered materials move
• How Earth's surface can change rapidly

Using Natural Resources
• Define natural resources
• How resources are used for energy

4. Space and Technology/Health
Earth's Cycles
• How Earth moves
• Patterns in the sky

Inner and Outer Planets
• The makeup of the universe
• Explore the inner planets
• What we know about Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus
• What we know about Neptune and beyond

Effects of Technology
• How technology effects our lives
• How technology has changed communication and transportation

5. Systems of the Human Body
• Skeletal, Muscular, Digestive, Respiratory, Circulatory, Respiratory, and Nervous systems

6th Grade Science Syllabus

1. Scientific Method
• Lab Safety
• Science Fair Projects
• Data and graphing

2. Earth and Space Science
• Atmosphere
• Weather
• Air Pollution
• Water
• Oceans

3. Life Science
• Cells
• Bacteria, Protists, and Fungi
• Plants
• Animals

4. Physical Science
• Rocks and minerals
• Weathering and Erosion
• Resources

5. Scientific enquiry
• Scientific Method, design and experimentation
• Skills of inquiry, Metric system and measurement
• Dependent variable, independent variable, control variable,
• Hypothesis, observation, gathering data, reaching conclusions and inference.

7th & 8th Grade Science Syllabus

State prescribed syllabus.