K-3

• The Earth is sitting on something
• The Earth is larger than the sun
• The Sun disappears at night

• The Earth is round like a pancake
• We see because light brightens things
• We do not live on Earth; it is in the sky.

• We live on the flat middle of a sphere.
• There is a definite up and down in space.
• Seasons are caused by the Earth's distance from the Sun.
• Phases of the Moon are caused by a shadow from the Earth
• Different countries see different phases of the Moon on the same day.
• The Moon goes around the earth in a single day.
• The Moon makes light the same way the Sun does.
• The Sun is directly overhead at noon.
• The amount of daylight increases each day of summer.
• The Earth’s revolution around the sun causes night and day
• Day and night are caused by the Sun going around the Earth
• Planets cannot be seen with the naked eye
• Planets appear in the sky in the same place every night.

• Astrology is able to predict the future.
• Gravity is selective; it acts differently or not at all on some matter.
• Gravity increases with height.
• Gravity cannot exist without air.
• Gravity requires a medium to act through.
• Rockets in space require a constant force

• The Sun goes around the Earth.
• The Sun goes around the Earth in less than a year
• The Sun will never burn out
• The Universe is a static, not expanding
• The Universe contains only the planets in our solar system

5-College

• Any crystal that scratches glass is a diamond.
• Chicago could not be severely damaged by an earthquake in the near future.

• Rocks must be heavy

• Soil must have always been in its present form
• Mountains are rapidly created

• Earth is molten, except for its crust
• Earth’s gravitational attraction is drastically reduced on mountain tops

• Continents do not move
• Radiation can be reduced by boiling radioactive material.
• All radioactivity is manmade.
• The Earth is 6-20 thousand years old

4-12

• Coral reefs exist throughout the Gulf and North Atlantic waters.
• Dinosaurs and cavemen lived at the same time.
• Acquired characteristics can be inherited.

• Winter weather can be predicted by studying the thickness of the fur on some animals

• Humans are responsible for the extinction of the dinosaur.
• Dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time.

• Some human races have not evolved as much as others.
• The Garden of Eden is where human life began
• Evolution is goal-directed
• Evolutionary changes are driven by need

• Human beings did not evolve from earlier species of animals

K-9

• Rain comes from holes in clouds.
• Rain comes from clouds sweating
• Rain occurs because we need it.
• Rain falls from funnels in the clouds
• Rain occurs when clouds get scrambled and melt.
• Rain occurs when clouds are shaken
• God an angels cause thunder and lightening
• Clouds move because we move.
• Clouds come from somewhere above the sky.
• Empty clouds are refilled by the sea.
• Clouds are formed by vapor from kettles.
• The Sun boils the sea to create water vapor.
• Clouds are made of cotton, wool, or smoke.
• Clouds are bags of water.

• Frontal rain is caused by "cooling by contact" between fronts.

• The oxygen we breath does not come from plants
• Gas makes things lighter.
• One degree of temperature is smaller on the Celsius and Kelvin scales than on the Fahrenheit.

5-College

• Floods along rivers happen only after snow melts in the spring

• All rivers flow "down" from north to south
• Ground water typically occurs as basin, lakes, and fast-flowing streams.

• Salt added to water does not change the weight of the water.