Pushes and Pulls; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-PS2-1 | Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object. | 1 |
Pushes and Pulls; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-PS2-2 | Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull. | 1 |
Sunlight Warms the Earth; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-PS3-1 | Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. | 1 |
Sunlight Warms the Earth; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-PS3-2 | Use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area. | 1 |
Plants Need Water And Light; Animals Need Food; Living vs. Non-Living Things; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-LS1-1 | Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. | 1 |
Introduction to Weather; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-ESS2-1 | Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time. | 1 |
Living Things Change Their Environment; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-ESS2-2 | Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs. | 1 |
Habitats; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-ESS3-1 | Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live. | 1 |
Introduction to Weather; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-ESS3-2 | Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather. | 1 |
Reducing Our Impact on Earth; Natural Resources; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-ESS3-3 | Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment. | 1 |
What is Engineering?; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-2-ETS1-1 | Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool. | 1 |
What is Engineering?; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-2-ETS1-2 | Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. | 1 |
What is Engineering?; | IA | Core Curriculum | Kindergarten | K-2-ETS1-3 | Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs. | 1 |
Introduction to Sound; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-PS4-1 | Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate. | 1 |
Introduction to Light; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-PS4-2 | Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated. | 1 |
Introduction to Light; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-PS4-3 | Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light. | 1 |
Communication Over Distances; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-PS4-4 | Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. | 1 |
Inspired by Nature (Biomimicry); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-LS1-1 | Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. | 1 |
Animals Help Their Babies Survive; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-LS1-2 | Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive. | 1 |
Introduction to Traits; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-LS3-1 | Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. | 1 |
Patterns in the Sky; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-ESS1-1 | Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. | 1 |
Four Seasons and Day Length; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 1 | 1-ESS1-2 | Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year. | 1 |
Classification of Materials; Material Properties and Purposes; Solids, Liquids and Gases; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-PS1-1 | Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. | 1 |
Material Properties and Purposes; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-PS1-2 | Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose. | 1 |
What is Engineering?; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-PS1-3 | Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object. | 1 |
Heating and Cooling; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-PS1-4 | Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot. | 1 |
Plant Growth Conditions; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-LS2-1 | Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow. | 1 |
Pollination and Seed Dispersal; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-LS2-2 | Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants. | 1 |
Biodiversity of Life on Earth; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-LS4-1 | Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. | 1 |
Timescale of Earth's Events; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-ESS1-1 | Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly. | 1 |
Changing the Shape of Land; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-ESS2-1 | Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land. | 1 |
Maps of Landforms; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-ESS2-2 | Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. | 1 |
Oceans, Lakes and Rivers; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 2 | 2-ESS2-3 | Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid. | 1 |
Animal Group Behavior; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS2-1 | Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive. | 2 |
Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS1-1 | Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death. | 2 |
Balanced & Unbalanced Forces; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-PS2-1 | Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. | 2 |
Balanced & Unbalanced Forces; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-PS2-1 | Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down. | 2 |
Brain Processing of Senses; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-LS1-2 | Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways. | 2 |
Brain Processing of Senses; Human Body Systems; Structure of Living Things; Adaptations and the Environment; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-LS1-1 | Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. | 2 |
Collisions; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-PS3-1 | Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object | 2 |
Collisions; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-PS3-3 | Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. | 2 |
Conservation of Matter; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-PS1-2 | Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved. | 2 |
Earth’s Orbit and Rotation; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-ESS1-2 | Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky. | 2 |
Earth's Landscapes; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-ESS1-1 | Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. | 2 |
Ecosystems; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS4-4 | Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change. | 2 |
Ecosystems; Adaptations and the Environment; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS4-3 | Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. | 2 |
Energy Transfer; Wave Properties; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-PS3-2 | Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. | 2 |
Extreme Weather Solutions; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-ESS3-1 | Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard. | 2 |
Extreme Weather Solutions; Natural Disasters; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-ESS3-2 | Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans | 2 |
Food Webs; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-LS2-1 | Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. | 2 |
Fossils & Extinction; Earth's Landscapes; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS4-1 | Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. | 2 |
How Do We Use Food; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-LS1-1 | Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water. | 2 |
How Do We Use Food; Food Webs; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-PS3-1 | Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun. | 2 |
Information Transfer; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-PS4-3 | Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information. | 2 |
Light Reflection & Vision; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-PS4-2 | Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. | 2 |
Magnets & Static Electricity; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-PS2-3 | Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. | 2 |
Magnets & Static Electricity; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-PS2-4 | Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets. | 2 |
Natural Disasters; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-ESS2-2 | Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features. | 2 |
Particle Nature of Matter; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-PS1-1 | Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. | 2 |
Patterns of Motion & Friction; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-PS2-2 | Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion. | 2 |
Properties of Matter; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-PS1-3 | Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. | 2 |
Properties of Matter; Chemical vs. Physical Changes; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-PS1-4 | Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances. | 2 |
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-ESS3-1 | Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. | 2 |
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Energy Transfer; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-PS3-4 | Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another. | 2 |
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Extreme Weather Solutions; Natural Disasters; What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grades 3-5 Engineering Design | 3-5-ETS1-1 | Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. | 2 |
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Extreme Weather Solutions; Natural Disasters; What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grades 3-5 Engineering Design | 3-5-ETS1-2 | Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. | 2 |
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Extreme Weather Solutions; Natural Disasters; What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grades 3-5 Engineering Design | 3-5-ETS1-3 | Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved. | 2 |
Sun and Other Stars; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-ESS1-1 | Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth. | 2 |
Variation of Traits; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS3-1 | Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms. | 2 |
Variation of Traits; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS3-2 | Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment. | 2 |
Variation of Traits; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-LS4-2 | Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing. | 2 |
Water Cycle (3-5 Version); Interactions of Earth’s Spheres; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-ESS2-1 | Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact. | 2 |
Water Quality & Distribution; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-ESS2-2 | Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth. | 2 |
Water Quality & Distribution; Interactions of Earth’s Spheres; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 5 | 5-ESS3-1 | Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment. | 2 |
Wave Properties; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-PS4-1 | Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move. | 2 |
Weather vs. Climate; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-ESS2-1 | Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. | 2 |
Weather vs. Climate; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 3 | 3-ESS2-2 | Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. | 2 |
Weathering & Erosion; Interactions of Earth’s Spheres; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 4 | 4-ESS2-1 | Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. | 2 |
Atoms & Molecules; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-PS1-1 | Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. | |
Chemical Reactions; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-PS1-2 | Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. | |
Intro to Thermal Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-PS1-4 | Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed. | |
Chemical Reactions; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-PS1-5 | Develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved. | |
Intro to Thermal Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-PS1-6 | Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes. | |
Rocks & Minerals (Including Rock Cycle); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-ESS2-1 | Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process. | |
Tectonic Plates; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-ESS2-2 | Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales. | |
Tectonic Plates; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-ESS2-3 | Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. | |
Natural Resource Distribution; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-ESS3-1 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. | |
Predicting Natural Disasters; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-ESS3-2 | Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. | |
Plant & Animal Cells; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-LS1-1 | Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells. | |
Plant & Animal Cells; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-LS1-2 | Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function. | |
Multicellular Organisms; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-LS1-3 | Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. | |
Multicellular Organisms; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-LS1-8 | Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories. | |
Reproduction of Living Things; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6 | MS-LS3-2 | Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation. | |
Electric & Magnetic Fields; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-PS2-3 | Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces. | |
Gravitational Forces Between Objects; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-PS2-4 | Construct and present arguments using evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions are attractive and depend on the masses of interacting objects. | |
Electric & Magnetic Fields; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-PS2-5 | Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact. | |
Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-PS3-2 | Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system. | |
Heat: Transfer of Thermal Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-PS3-4 | Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample. | |
Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-PS3-5 | Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object. | |
Solar & Lunar Eclipses; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-ESS1-1 | Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons. | |
The Solar System; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-ESS1-2 | Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system. | |
The Solar System; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-ESS1-3 | Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system. | |
Rock Layers (Geologic Time); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-ESS1-4 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. | |
Reproduction of Living Things; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS1-4 | Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively. | |
Competition in Ecosystems; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS1-5 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. | |
Photosynthesis & Respiration; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS1-6 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms. | |
Food Webs: Cycling of Matter & Flow of Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS1-7 | Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism. | |
Competition in Ecosystems; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS2-1 | Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. | |
Symbiosis (Interactions Between Organisms); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS2-2 | Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. | |
Food Webs: Cycling of Matter & Flow of Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS2-3 | Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem. | |
Competition in Ecosystems; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS2-4 | Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. | |
Genes & Mutations; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 7 | MS-LS3-1 | Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism. | |
Synthetic Materials; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS1-3 | Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society. | |
Newton’s Laws of Motion; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS2-1 | Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects. | |
Newton’s Laws of Motion; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS2-2 | Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object. | |
Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS3-1 | Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object. | |
Heat: Transfer of Thermal Energy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS3-3 | Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer. | |
Wave Reflection, Absorption & Transmittance; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS4-1 | Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave. | |
Wave Reflection, Absorption & Transmittance; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS4-2 | Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials. | |
Digital vs. Analog Signals; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-PS4-3 | Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals. | |
Maintaining Biodiversity; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-LS2-5 | Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. | |
The Fossil Record; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-LS4-1 | Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past. | |
Comparative Anatomy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-LS4-2 | Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships. | |
Comparative Anatomy; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-LS4-3 | Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy. | |
Natural Selection; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-LS4-4 | Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. | |
Biotechnology; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-LS4-5 | Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. | |
Natural Selection; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-LS4-6 | Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time. | |
Water Cycle (6-8 Version); | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-ESS2-4 | Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity. | |
Air Masses & Weather Fronts; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-ESS2-5 | Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions. | |
Climate Zones & Ocean Currents; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-ESS2-6 | Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates. | |
Human Impacts on the Environment; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-ESS3-3 | Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment. | |
Human Impacts on the Environment; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-ESS3-4 | Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems. | |
Intro to Climate Change; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 8 | MS-ESS3-5 | Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. | |
Engineering Design Process; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6-8 | MS-ETS1-1 | Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions. | |
Engineering Design Process; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6-8 | MS-ETS1-2 | Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. | |
Engineering Design Process; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6-8 | MS-ETS1-3 | Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success. | |
Engineering Design Process; | IA | Core Curriculum | Grade 6-8 | MS-ETS1-4 | Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved. | |