Pushes and Pulls; | OK | Academic Standards | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | K-PS3-1 | Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. | 1 |
Sunlight Warms the Earth; | OK | Academic Standards | 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 |
Living vs. Non-Living Things; Plants Need Water And Light; Animals Need Food; | OK | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | K-LS1-1 | Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. | 1 |
Introduction to Weather; | OK | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | K-ESS2-1 | Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time. | 1 |
Living Things Change Their Environment; | OK | Academic Standards | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | K-ESS3-2 | Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather. | 1 |
Introduction to Sound; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 1-PS4-2 | Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated. | 1 |
Introduction to Light; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 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); | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 1-LS1-2 | Read text and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive. | 1 |
Introduction to Traits; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 1-ESS1-1 | Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. | 1 |
Four Seasons and Day Length; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 1-ESS1-2 | Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight and relative temperature to the time of year. | 1 |
Reducing Our Impact on Earth; Natural Resources; | OK | Academic Standards | 1st Grade | 1-ESS3-1 | Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment. | 1 |
Solids, Liquids and Gases; Classification of Materials; Material Properties and Purposes; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 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?; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 2-LS2-1 | Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow. | 1 |
Pollination and Seed Dispersal; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 2-LS4-1 | Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. | 1 |
Timescale of Earth's Events; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 2-ESS2-2 | Develop a model to represent the shapes and kind of land and bodies of water in an area. | 1 |
Oceans, Lakes and Rivers; | OK | Academic Standards | 2nd Grade | 2-ESS2-3 | Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid. | 1 |
Balanced & Unbalanced Forces; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-PS2-1 | Plan and conduct investigations on the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. | 2 |
Patterns of Motion & Friction; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-PS2-2 | Make observations and/or measurements of the object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion. | 2 |
Magnets & Static Electricity; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-PS2-4 | Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets. | 2 |
Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 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 |
Animal Group Behavior; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-LS2-1 | Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive. | 2 |
Variation of Traits; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-LS3-2 | Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment. | 2 |
Fossils & Extinction; Earth's Landscapes; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 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 |
Variation of Traits; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 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 and reproducing. | 2 |
Ecosystems; Adaptations and the Environment; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 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 |
Ecosystems; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 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 |
Weather vs. Climate; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-ESS2-1 | Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. | 2 |
Weather vs. Climate; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-ESS2-2 | Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. | 2 |
Extreme Weather Solutions; | OK | Academic Standards | 3rd Grade | 3-ESS3-1 | Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard. | 2 |
Collisions; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-PS3-1 | Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. | 2 |
Energy Transfer; Wave Properties; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 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 |
Collisions; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-PS3-3 | Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. | 2 |
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Energy Transfer; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-PS3-4 | Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another. | 2 |
Wave Properties; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-PS4-1 | Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and to show that waves can cause objects to move. | 2 |
Light Reflection & Vision; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-PS4-2 | Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. | 2 |
Information Transfer; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-PS4-3 | Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information. | 2 |
Brain Processing of Senses; Human Body Systems; Structure of Living Things; Adaptations and the Environment; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 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 |
Brain Processing of Senses; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 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 |
Earth's Landscapes; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 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 |
Weathering & Erosion; Interactions of Earth’s Spheres; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-ESS2-1 | Plan and conduct investigations on the effects of water, ice, wind, and vegetation on the relative rate of weathering and erosion. | 2 |
Natural Disasters; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-ESS2-2 | Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features. | 2 |
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-ESS3-1 | Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from renewable and non-renewable resources and how their uses affect the environment. | 2 |
Extreme Weather Solutions; Natural Disasters; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 4-ESS3-2 | Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans. | 2 |
Particle Nature of Matter; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 5-PS1-1 | Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. | 2 |
Conservation of Matter; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 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 |
Properties of Matter; | OK | Academic Standards | 4th Grade | 5-PS1-3 | Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. | 2 |
Particle Nature of Matter; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-PS1-1 | Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. | 2 |
Conservation of Matter; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 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 |
Properties of Matter; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-PS1-3 | Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. | 2 |
Properties of Matter; Chemical vs. Physical Changes; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-PS1-4 | Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances. | 2 |
Balanced & Unbalanced Forces; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-PS2-1 | Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by the Earth is directed down. | 2 |
How Do We Use Food; Food Webs; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 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 |
How Do We Use Food; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-LS1-1 | Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water. | 2 |
Food Webs; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-LS2-1 | Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. | 2 |
Ecosystems; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-LS2-2 | Use models to explain factors that upset the stability of local ecosystems. | 2 |
Sun and Other Stars; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 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 |
Earth’s Orbit and Rotation; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 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 |
Water Cycle (3-5 Version); Interactions of Earth’s Spheres; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-ESS2-1 | Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact. | 2 |
Water Quality & Distribution; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 5th Grade | 5-ESS3-1 | Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment. | 2 |
Intro to Thermal Energy; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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. | |
Electric & Magnetic Fields; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | MS-PS2-3 | Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces. | |
Electric & Magnetic Fields; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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. | |
Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | MS-PS3-3 | Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer. | |
Heat: Transfer of Thermal Energy; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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. | |
Plant & Animal Cells; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | MS-LS1-3 | Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. | |
Photosynthesis & Respiration; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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. | |
Competition in Ecosystems; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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); | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | MS-LS2-2 | Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. | |
Food Webs: Cycling of Matter & Flow of Energy; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | MS-LS2-4 | Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. | |
Maintaining Biodiversity; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | MS-LS2-5 | Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. | |
Water Cycle (6-8 Version); | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 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. | |
Human Impacts on the Environment; | OK | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | MS-ESS3-3 | Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment. | |
Atoms & Molecules; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | MS-PS1-1 | Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. | |
Chemical Reactions; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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. | |
Gravitational Forces Between Objects; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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. | |
Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | MS-PS3-6 | 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. | |
Reproduction of Living Things; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | MS-LS1-4 | Use arguments 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | MS-LS1-5 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. | |
Multicellular Organisms; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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. | |
Genes & Mutations; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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. | |
Reproduction of Living Things; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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. | |
Comparative Anatomy; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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. | |
Solar & Lunar Eclipses; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | MS-ESS1-3 | Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system. | |
Air Masses & Weather Fronts; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | MS-ESS2-6 | Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth causes patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates. | |
Synthetic Materials; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | MS-PS1-3 | Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society. | |
Chemical Reactions; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | MS-PS1-6 | Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes. | |
Newton’s Laws of Motion; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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. | |
Wave Reflection, Absorption & Transmittance; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | MS-PS4-2 | Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials. | |
Digital vs. Analog Signals; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | MS-PS4-3 | Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals (sent as wave pulses) are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information. | |
Food Webs: Cycling of Matter & Flow of Energy; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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. | |
The Fossil Record; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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 ancestral relationships. | |
Rock Layers (Geologic Time); | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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 geologic history. | |
Rocks & Minerals (Including Rock Cycle); | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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. | |
Human Impacts on the Environment; | OK | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 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. | |