4. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:||CA Science||Grade 1||04. Investigation and Experimentation|||4. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:||CA Science||Grade 2||04. Investigation and Experimentation|||5. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions & conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept, and to address the content of the other strands, students will develop questions and perform investigations.||CA Science||Grade 3||04. Investigation and Experimentation|||6. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions & conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept, and to address the content of the other strands, students will develop questions & perform investigations.||CA Science||Grade 4||04. Investigation and Experimentation|||1.f. Differences in chemical and physical properties of substances are used to separate mixtures and identify compounds.||CA Science||Grade 5||01. Physical Sciences||1. Elements and their combinations account for all the varied types of matter in the world.|||6. Sources of energy and materials differ in amounts, distribution, usefulness, and the time required for their formation.||CA Science||Grade 6||06. Resources|||3.c. Atoms and molecules form solids by building up repeating patterns such as the crystal structure of NaCl or long chain polymers.||Grade 8||01. Physical Sciences||3. Structure of Matter||3. Elements have distinct properties and atomic structure. All matter is comprised of one or more of over 100 elements.|||10.a. Large molecules (polymers) such as proteins, nucleic acids, and starch are formed by repetitive combinations of simple sub-units.||Grade 9-12||02. Chemistry||10. Organic and Biochemistry||10. The bonding characteristics of carbon lead to many different molecules with varied sizes, shapes, and chemical properties, providing the biochemical basis of life.