1: The student knows and applies scientific concepts and principles to understand the properties, structures, and changes in physical, earth/space, and living systems.
1.1: Understand how properties are used to identify, describe, and categorize substances, materials, and objects and how characteristics are used to categorize living things.
1.1.2: Understand the positions, relative speeds, and changes in speed of objects.
1.1.2.b: Describe an object’s motion as speeding up, slowing down, or moving with constant speed using models, numbers, words, diagrams, and graphs.
Distance-Time GraphsDistance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
1.1.2.c: Measure and describe the speed of an object relative to the speed of another object.
Distance-Time GraphsDistance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
1.1.5: Understand how to classify rocks, soils, air, and water into groups based on their chemical and physical properties.
1.1.5.a: Describe properties of minerals and rocks that give evidence of how they were formed (e.g., crystal size and arrangement, texture, luster, cleavage, hardness, layering, reaction to acid).
Rock Classification
1.1.5.c: Describe how Earth’s water (i.e., oceans, fresh waters, glaciers, ground water) can have different properties (e.g., salinity, density).
Water Cycle
1.2: Understand how components, structures, organizations, and interconnections describe systems.
1.2.1: Analyze how the parts of a system interconnect and influence each other.
1.2.1.a: Describe the flow of matter and energy through a system (i.e., energy and matter inputs, outputs, transfers, transformations).
Energy Conversion in a System
1.2.4: Understand the components and interconnections of Earth's systems.
1.2.4.a: Describe the components of the Earth’s systems (i.e., the core, the mantle, oceanic and crustal plates, landforms, the hydrosphere and atmosphere).
Plate Tectonics
1.2.4.b: Describe the interactions among the components of Earth’s systems (i.e., the core, the mantle, oceanic and crustal plates, landforms, the hydrosphere and atmosphere).
Plate Tectonics
1.3: Understand how interactions within and among systems cause changes in matter and energy.
1.3.1: Understand factors that affect the strength and direction of forces.
1.3.1.b: Describe how forces acting on an object may balance each other (e.g., the downward force of gravity on an object sitting on a table is balanced by an upward force from the table).
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Pith Ball Lab
Uniform Circular Motion
1.3.1.c: Measure and describe how a simple machine can change the strength and/or direction of a force (i.e., levers and pulleys).
Pulley LabTorque and Moment of Inertia
1.3.2: Understand how balanced and unbalanced forces can change the motion of objects.
1.3.2.a: Describe how an unbalanced force changes the speed and/or direction of motion of different objects moving along a straight line, 2nd Law of Motion (e.g., a larger unbalanced force is needed to equally change the motion of more massive objects).
Atwood MachineFan Cart PhysicsInclined Plane - Sliding ObjectsRoller Coaster Physics
1.3.2.b: Describe how frictional forces act to stop the motion of objects.
Roller Coaster Physics
1.3.2.c: Investigate and describe the balanced and unbalanced forces acting on an object (e.g., a model car speeding up on a table has both an unbalanced force pulling it forward and a gravitational force pulling it down balanced by the table pushing upward).
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Pith Ball Lab
Roller Coaster Physics
Uniform Circular Motion
1.3.2.d: Investigate and describe pressure differences that result in unbalanced forces moving objects (e.g., pressure differences cause forces that move air masses, move blood through the heart, cause volcanic eruptions).
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Roller Coaster Physics
Uniform Circular Motion
1.3.3: Understand that matter is conserved during physical and chemical changes.
1.3.3.a: Observe and describe evidence of physical and chemical changes of matter (e.g., change of state, size, shape, temperature, color, gas production, solid formation, light).
Density Experiment: Slice and DiceFreezing Point of Salt Water
1.3.3.b: Observe and describe that substances undergoing physical changes produce matter with the same chemical properties as the original substance and the same total mass (e.g., tearing paper, freezing water, breaking wood, sugar dissolving in water).
Freezing Point of Salt Water
1.3.3.c: Observe and describe that substances may react chemically to form new substances with different chemical properties and the same total mass (e.g., baking soda and vinegar; light stick mass before, during, and after reaction).
Balancing Chemical EquationsChemical Equation BalancingLimiting Reactants
1.3.4: Understand the processes that continually change the surface of the Earth.
1.3.4.b: Describe how heat (thermal) energy flow and movement (convection currents) beneath Earth’s crust cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
Plate Tectonics
1.3.4.c: Describe how constructive processes change landforms (e.g., crustal deformation, volcanic eruption, deposition of sediment).
Rock Cycle
1.3.4.e: Describe the processes involved in the rock cycle (e.g., magma cools into igneous rocks; rocks are eroded and deposited as sediments; sediments solidify into sedimentary rocks; rocks can be changed by heat and pressure to form metamorphic rocks).
Rock Cycle
1.3.5: Understand how fossils and other evidence are used to document life and environmental changes over time.
1.3.5.c: Describe how fossils and other artifacts provide evidence of how life has changed over time (e.g., extinction of species).
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
1.3.6: Analyze the relationship between weather and climate and how ocean currents and global atmospheric circulation affect weather and climate.
1.3.6.a: Compare weather and climate.
Coastal Winds and Clouds
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3DSeasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
1.3.6.b: Explain the effect of the water cycle on weather (e.g., cloud formation, storms).
Water Cycle
1.3.6.c: Explain how ocean currents influence the atmosphere in terms of weather and climate.
Coastal Winds and Clouds
1.3.8: Understand how individual organisms, including cells, obtain matter and energy for life processes.
1.3.8.d: Describe that both plants and animals extract energy from food, but plants produce their own food from light, air, water, and mineral nutrients, while animals consume energy-rich foods.
Cell Energy CycleFood ChainPhotosynthesis Lab
1.3.9: Understand how the theory of biological evolution accounts for species diversity, adaptation, natural selection, extinction, and change in species over time.
1.3.9.a: Describe how fossils show that extinction is common and that most organisms that lived long ago have become extinct.
Natural Selection
1.3.9.b: Describe how individual organisms with certain traits are more likely than others to survive and have offspring (i.e., natural selection, adaptation).
Evolution: Mutation and SelectionNatural Selection
1.3.9.c: Describe how biological evolution accounts for the diversity of species developed through gradual processes over many generations.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
1.3.10: Understand how organisms in ecosystems interact with and respond to their environment and other organisms.
1.3.10.a: Describe how energy flows through a food chain or web.
Food Chain
1.3.10.b: Describe how substances such as air, water, and mineral nutrients are continually cycled in ecosystems.
Water Cycle
1.3.10.c: Explain the role of an organism in an ecosystem (e.g., predator, prey, consumer, producer, decomposer, scavenger, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore).
Food Chain
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