PS: Physical Sciences

PS1-4: Energy

PS1-4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Sled Wars

PS1-4-2: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Circuit Builder
Conduction and Convection
Energy Conversions
Heat Absorption
Radiation

PS1-4-3: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Sled Wars

PS1-4-4: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Circuit Builder
Energy Conversions

PS2-4: Waves

PS2-4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Waves

PS2-4-3: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Programmable Rover

LS: Life Sciences

LS1-4: Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes

LS1-4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Circulatory System
Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Digestive System
Flower Pollination
Honeybee Hive
Senses

LS1-4-2: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

Honeybee Hive
Senses

LS2-4: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

LS2-4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Forest Ecosystem

ESS: Earth and Space Sciences

ESS1-4: Earth’s Place in the Universe

ESS1-4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers for changes in a landscape over time to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Weathering

ESS2-4: Earth’s Systems

ESS2-4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Weathering

ESS2-4-2: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

Building Pangaea
Building Topographic Maps
Reading Topographic Maps

ESS3-4: Earth and Human Activity

ESS3-4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Carbon Cycle
Energy Conversions
Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Effect - Metric