Kindergarten ♦ First Grade ♦ Second Grade ♦ Third Grade ♦ Fourth Grade ♦ Fifth Grade ♦ Sixth Grade ♦ Eighth Grade
Kindergarten
PS.K.2.1 Use models to compare the relative position of various objects observed in the classroom and outside using position words such as: in front of, behind, between, on top of, under, above, below, beside.
PS.K.2.2 Carry out investigations to illustrate different ways objects and organisms move (to include falling to the ground when dropped): straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow.
1st Grade
ESS.1.2.1 Obtain, evaluate and communicate information to summarize the physical properties of Earth materials, including rocks, minerals, soils, and water.
ESS.1.3.1 Obtain, evaluate and communicate information to summarize ways in which humans use natural resources.
PS.1.1.1 Use models to explain the effect of a push or pull on the motion of an object, with or without contact.
2nd Grade
PS.2.1.1 Carry out investigations to illustrate examples of matter that can change from a solid to a liquid and from a liquid to a solid by heating and cooling.
3rd Grade
PS.3.1.2 Carry out investigations to classify solids, liquids, and gases based on their basic properties.
PS.3 1.3 Engage in argument from evidence to explain observable changes to the properties of matter when heated or cooled.
PS.3.2.3 Use models to explain the effect of Earth’s gravity on the motion of any object on or near the Earth.
ESS.3.2.2 Use models to compare Earth’s land features (including volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, caverns, and islands).
4th Grade
LS.4.2.1 Analyze and interpret data to compare fossils to one another and living organisms.
LS.4.2.2 Analyze and interpret data to explain how fossils suggest ideas about Earth’s early environment.
ESS.4.2.1 Carry out investigations to classify minerals using tests for the physical properties of hardness, color, luster, cleavage and streak.
ESS.4.2.2 Carry out investigations to classify rocks as metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous based on their composition, how they are formed, and the processes that create them.
ESS.4.2.3 Use models to explain changes in Earth’s surface over time (to include slow changes of erosion and weathering, and fast changes of earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic activity).
5th Grade
PS 5.1.3 Carry out investigations to compare how heating and cooling affect some materials and how this relates to their purpose and practical applications.
PS.5.2.1 Carry out investigations to explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects.
ESS.5.1.4 Use models to explain how the sun’s energy drives the processes of the water cycle (including evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation).
6th Grade
ESS.6.2.1 Use models to summarize the structure of the earth, including the layers, the mantle and core based on the relative position, composition and density.
ESS.6.2.2 Construct an explanation to illustrate how the movement of lithospheric plates can create geologic landforms and cause major geologic events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
ESS.6.2.3 Use models to explain the rock cycle and its relationship to the formation of soil (including how different types of soil come from different types of rocks).
PS.6.2.2 Use models to explain how the transfer of heat and resulting change of temperature impacts the behavior of matter to include expansion, and contraction.
LS.6.1.1 Use models to explain how the processes of photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration work together to meet the needs of plants.
8th Grade
ESS.8.1.1 Analyze and interpret data to conclude the relative age of Earth and relative age of rocks and fossils from index fossils and ordering of rock layers.
ESS.8.1.2 Engage in argument from evidence to explain the use of fossils, composition of sedimentary rocks, faults, and igneous rock formations found in rock layers as evidence of the history of the Earth and its life forms.
ESS.8.2.1 Use models to explain the structure of the hydrosphere including: water distribution on earth, local river basins, estuaries, and water availability.