Assessment Frameworks
II.I.I: Know the forms and properties of matter and how matter interacts.
II.I.I.1: Understand that substances have characteristic properties and identify the properties of various substances (e.g., density, boiling point, solubility, chemical reactivity).
II.I.I.2: Use properties to identify substances (e.g., for minerals: the hardness, streak, color, reactivity to acid, cleavage, fracture).
II.I.I.4: Know the differences between chemical and physical properties and how these properties can influence the interactions of matter.
Chemical Changes
Mineral Identification
Phases of Water
II.I.II: Explain the physical processes involved in the transfer, change, and conservation of energy.
II.I.II.1: Identify various types of energy (e.g., heat, light, mechanical, electrical, chemical, nuclear).
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy Conversions
Heat Absorption
Herschel Experiment - Metric
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Radiation
II.I.II.2: Understand that heat energy can be transferred through conduction, radiation and convection.
Conduction and Convection
Heat Absorption
Heat Transfer by Conduction
Herschel Experiment - Metric
Radiation
II.I.II.3: Know that there are many forms of energy transfer but that the total amount of energy is conserved (i.e., that energy is neither created nor destroyed).
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
II.I.II.4: Understand that some energy travels as waves (e.g., seismic, light, sound), including:
II.I.II.4.b: different wavelengths of sunlight (e.g., visible, ultraviolet, infrared)
Herschel Experiment - Metric
Radiation
II.I.II.4.c: vibrations of matter (e.g., sound, earthquakes)
II.I.II.4.d: different speeds through different materials.
Longitudinal Waves
Ripple Tank
II.I.III: Describe and explain forces that produce motion in objects.
II.I.III.2: Know that gravitational force is hard to detect unless one of the objects (e.g., Earth) has a lot of mass.
II.II.I: Explain the diverse structures and functions of living things and the complex relationships between living things and their environments.
II.II.I.1: Understand how organisms interact with their physical environments to meet their needs (i.e., food, water, air) and how the water cycle is essential to most living systems.
II.III.I: Describe how the concepts of energy, matter, and force can be used to explain the observed behavior of the solar system, the universe, and their structures.
II.III.I.SS: Solar System
II.III.I.SS.3: Identify the components of the solar system, and describe their defining characteristics and motions in space, including:
II.III.I.SS.3.c: nine planets, their moons, asteroids.
Comparing Earth and Venus
Solar System
II.III.I.SS.4: Know that the regular and predictable motions of the Earth-moon-sun system explain phenomena on Earth, including:
II.III.I.SS.4.a: Earth’s motion in relation to a year, a day, the seasons, the phases of the moon, eclipses, tides, and shadows
2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Comparing Earth and Venus
Phases of the Moon
Seasons in 3D
Summer and Winter
Tides - Metric
II.III.I.SS.4.b: moon’s orbit around Earth once in 28 days in relation to the phases of the moon.
II.III.II: Describe the structure of Earth and its atmosphere and explain how energy, matter, and forces shape Earth's systems.
II.III.II.SE: Structure of Earth
II.III.II.SE.2: Know that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that move very slowly, in response to movements in the mantle.
II.III.II.SE.3: Know that sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks contain evidence of the materials, temperatures, and forces that created them.
II.III.II.WC: Weather and Climate
II.III.II.WC.5: Understand factors that create and influence weather and climate, including:
II.III.II.WC.5.a: heat, air movement, pressure, humidity, oceans
Coastal Winds and Clouds - Metric
Relative Humidity
II.III.II.WC.5.c: how weather patterns are related to atmospheric pressure
II.III.II.WC.6: Understand how to use weather maps and data (e.g., barometric pressure, wind speeds, humidity) to predict weather.
Hurricane Motion - Metric
Weather Maps - Metric
II.III.II.CE: Changes to Earth
II.III.II.CE.7: Know that landforms are created and change through a combination of constructive and destructive forces, including:
II.III.II.CE.7.c: impact of volcanoes and faults on New Mexico geology.
Correlation last revised: 9/22/2020