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STANDARDS: Earth and Human Activity
-Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
STANDARD: Earth’s Systems
-Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact. -Describe and graph the amounts of saltwater and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
-Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
STANDARD: Engineering Design
-Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. -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. -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.
STANDARD: Matter and Its Interactions
-Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. -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. -Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. -Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
-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.
STANDARD: Earth’s Systems
-Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. -Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features. -Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
STANDARD: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
-Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
STANDARD: Earth and Human Activity
-Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live. -Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather. -Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
STANDARD: Earth’s Systems
-Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time. -Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
STANDARD: Energy
-Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. -Use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area.
STANDARD: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
-Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
STANDARD: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
-Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
STANDARD: Earth’s Place in the Universe
-Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
STANDARD: Earth’s Systems
-Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land. -Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. -Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
STANDARD: Engineering Design
-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. -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. -Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
STANDARD: Matter and its Interactions
-Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. -Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose. -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. -Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.
STANDARD: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
-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. -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.
STANDARDS: Earth and Human Activity
-Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
STANDARD: Earth’s Systems
-Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
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