Voluntary State Curriculum
2.B.2: Recognize and explain that fossils found in layers of sedimentary rock provide evidence of changing life forms.
2.B.2.b: Recognize and explain that the fossil record of plants and animals describes changes in life forms over time.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
2.D.2: Identify and explain celestial phenomena using the regular and predictable motion of objects in the solar system.
2.D.2.c: Identify and explain the cause of the phases of the moon.
2.D.2.d: Describe how lunar and solar eclipses occur.
2.D.3: Recognize and explain the effects of the tilt of Earth?s axis.
2.D.3.a: Recognize and describe that Earth's axis is tilted about 23ยบ from vertical with respect to the plane of its orbit and points in the same direction during the year.
Seasons Around the World
Seasons: Why do we have them?
2.D.3.b: Recognize and describe that as Earth orbits the sun, the tilt of Earth's axis causes
2.D.3.b.1: Changes in the angle of the sun in the sky during the year
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
2.D.3.b.2: Seasonal differences in the northern and southern latitudes
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
2.D.3.c: Recognize and describe how the tilt of Earth's axis affects the climate in Maryland.
Seasons Around the World
Seasons: Why do we have them?
2.D.4: Recognize and explain how the force of gravity causes the tides.
2.D.4.a: Identify and describe the cause of high and low tides.
2.E.1: Cite evidence to explain the relationship between the hydrosphere and atmosphere.
2.E.1.b: Recognize and describe the water cycle as the distribution and circulation of Earth?s water through the glaciers, surface water, groundwater, oceans, and atmosphere.
2.E.1.c: Identify and describe how the temperature and precipitation in a geographic area are affected by surface features and changes in atmospheric and ocean content.
2.E.1.c.3: Proximity (closeness) to large bodies of water
2.E.2: Recognize and describe the various factors that affect climate.
2.E.2.a: Identify and describe how the temperature and precipitation of an area are affected by surface and ocean features.
2.E.2.a.2: Proximity (closeness) to large bodies of water
2.E.2.b: Recognize and describe the global effects of volcanic eruptions, greenhouse gases, and El Nino.
2.E.3: Identify and describe the atmospheric and hydrospheric conditions related to weather systems.
2.E.3.a: Identify and describe weather patterns associated with high and low pressure systems and the four frontal systems using appropriate data displays including weather maps.
2.E.3.b: Identify and describe the atmospheric and hydrospheric conditions associated with the formation and development of hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms.
3.D.1: Recognize and describe that evolutionary change in species over time occurs as a result of natural variation in organisms and environmental changes.
3.D.1.a: Recognize and describe that gradual (climatic) and sudden (floods and fires) changes in environmental conditions affect the survival of organisms and populations.
Natural Selection
Rabbit Population by Season
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
3.D.1.c: Recognize and describe that adaptation and speciation involve the selection of natural variations in a population.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
3.D.1.e: Recognize that evolution accounts for the diversity of species.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
4.C.1: Describe how the motion of atoms and molecules in solids, liquids, and gases changes as heat energy is increased or decreased.
4.C.1.b: Describe what the temperature of a solid, or a liquid, or a gas reveals about the motion of its atoms and molecules.
Temperature and Particle Motion
4.D.2: Cite evidence and give examples of chemical properties of substances.
4.D.2.b: Use information gathered from investigations using indicators and the pH scale to classify materials as acidic, basic, or neutral.
pH Analysis
pH Analysis: Quad Color Indicator
4.D.3: Provide evidence to support the fact that common substances have the ability to change into new substances.
4.D.3.c: Identify the reactants and products involved in a chemical reaction given a symbolic equation, a word equation, or a description of the reaction.
5.A.1: Develop an explanation of motion using the relationships among time, distance, velocity, and acceleration.
5.A.1.a: Observe, describe, and compare the motions of objects using position, speed, velocity, and the direction.
Distance-Time Graphs
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
Measuring Motion
Shoot the Monkey
5.A.1.b: Based on data given or collected, graph and calculate average speed using distance and time.
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Free-Fall Laboratory
5.A.1.c: Compare accelerated and constant motions using time, distance, and velocity.
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
5.A.1.d: Describe and calculate acceleration using change in the speed and time.
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
5.A.2: Identify and relate formal ideas (Newton?s Laws) about the interaction of force and motion to real world experiences.
5.A.2.a: Investigate and explain the interaction of force and motion that causes objects that are at rest to move.
5.A.2.d: Based on data collected and organized, explain qualitatively the relationship between net force applied to an object and its mass for a given acceleration.
Fan Cart Physics
Free-Fall Laboratory
5.A.2.e: Calculate the net force given the mass and acceleration.
Fan Cart Physics
Free-Fall Laboratory
5.A.3: Recognize and explain that every object exerts gravitational force on every other object.
5.A.3.a: Explain the difference between mass and weight.
5.A.3.a.2: Weight is a measure of the force of gravity.
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
5.A.3.b: Describe the relationship between the gravitational force and the masses of the attracting objects.
5.A.3.c: Describe the relationship between the gravitational force and the distance between the attracting objects.
5.A.3.d: Recognize and cite examples showing that mass remains the same in all locations while weight may vary with a change in location (weight on Earth compared to weight on moon).
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
5.A.3.e: Recognize that gravity is the force that holds planets, moons, and satellites in their orbits.
5.A.4: Recognize and explain that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather it changes form or is transferred through the action of forces.
5.A.4.a: Observe and describe the relationship between the distance an object is moved by a force and the change in its potential energy or kinetic energy, such as in a slingshot, in mechanical toys, the position of an object and its potential energy..
2D Collisions
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Pulley Lab
Roller Coaster Physics
5.A.4.b: Identify the relationship between the amount of energy transferred (work) to the product of the applied force and the distance moved in the direction of that force.
Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)
Pulley Lab
5.A.4.c: Identify and describe that simple machines (levers and inclined planes) may reduce the amount of effort required to do work.
5.A.4.c.1: Calculate input and output work using force and distance
5.A.4.c.2: Demonstrate that input work is always greater than output work
Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)
Pulley Lab
5.B.1: Describe and cite evidence that heat can be transferred by conduction, convection and radiation.
5.B.1.a: Based on observable phenomena, identify and describe examples of heat being transferred through conduction and through convection.
Conduction and Convection
Heat Transfer by Conduction
5.B.1.b: Based on observable phenomena, identify examples to illustrate that radiation does not require matter to transfer heat energy.
Heat Absorption
Herschel Experiment
Radiation
5.B.1.c: Research and identify the types of insulators that best reduce heat loss through conduction, convection, or radiation.
Conduction and Convection
Heat Transfer by Conduction
5.B.2: Identify and explain that heat energy is a product of the conversion of one form of energy to another.
5.B.2.a: Identify and describe the various forms of energy that are transformed in order for systems (living and non-living) to operate.
5.B.2.a.2: Mechanical ? Pulleys-Motion
5.B.2.a.4: Chemical - Plant cells
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
5.B.2.b: Explain that some heat energy is always lost from a system during energy transformations.
6.B.1: Recognize and explain how human activities can accelerate or magnify many naturally occurring changes.
6.B.1.b: Identify and describe how human activities produce changes in natural processes:
6.B.1.b.2: Loss of habitat due to construction
6.B.1.b.3: Hunting and fishing
Correlation last revised: 1/19/2015