College and Career Ready Standards
SC.3.1.1.A: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
SC.3.1.1.B: Make observations and/or measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Measuring Motion
Pendulum Clock
SC.3.1.1.C: Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electrical or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
SC.3.7.2.A: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
SC.3.7.2.B: Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and environments in which they lived long ago.
SC.3.7.2.C: 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.
Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Pond Ecosystem
SC.3.7.2.E: 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.
Digestive System
Programmable Rover
Trebuchet
SC.3.9.3.A: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Flower Pollination
Honeybee Hive
SC.3.9.3.B: 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.
SC.3.9.3.C: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Growing Plants
Inheritance
Measuring Trees
SC.3.9.3.D: Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
SC.3.12.4.A: Represent data in table, pictograph, and bar graph displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Observing Weather (Customary)
Observing Weather (Metric)
SC.3.12.4.B: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Observing Weather (Customary)
Observing Weather (Metric)
Correlation last revised: 9/15/2020