NGSS: Science

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.

October 1, 2018
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.

October 1, 2018
3-LS2-1

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

October 1, 2018
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.

October 1, 2018
3-LS3-2

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

October 1, 2018
3-LS4-1

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

October 1, 2018
1-PS4-1

Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

October 1, 2018
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.

October 1, 2018
1-PS4-2

Make observations to contruct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated.

October 1, 2018
1-PS4-3

Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

October 1, 2018
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

October 1, 2018
1-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.

October 1, 2018