A: Interactions and Ecosystems
1.1: Outcomes for Science, Technology and Society (STS) and Knowledge
A.1: Students will: Investigate and describe relationships between humans and their environments, and identify related issues and scientific questions
A.2: Students will: Trace and interpret the flow of energy and materials within an ecosystem
A.3: Students will: Monitor a local environment, and assess the impacts of environmental factors on the growth, health and reproduction of organisms in that environment
A.4: Students will: Describe the relationships among knowledge, decisions and actions in maintaining life-supporting environments
1.2: Skill Outcomes
A.IP: Initiating and Planning
A.PR: Performing and Recording
A.AI: Analyzing and Interpreting
B: Plants for Food and Fibre
2.1: Outcomes for Science, Technology and Society (STS) and Knowledge
B.1: Students will: Investigate plant uses; and identify links among needs, technologies, products and impacts
B.2: Students will: Investigate life processes and structures of plants, and interpret related characteristics and needs of plants in a local environment
B.4: Students will: Identify and interpret relationships among human needs, technologies, environments, and the culture and use of living things as sources of food and fibre
2.2: Skill Outcomes
B.PR: Performing and Recording
B.AI: Analyzing and Interpreting
C: Heat and Temperature
3.1: Outcomes for Science, Technology and Society (STS) and Knowledge
C.2: Students will: Describe the nature of thermal energy and its effects on different forms of matter, using informal observations, experimental evidence and models
C.3: Students will: Apply an understanding of heat and temperature in interpreting natural phenomena and technological devices
3.2: Skill Outcomes
C.IP: Initiating and Planning
C.PR: Performing and Recording
C.AI: Analyzing and Interpreting
D: Structures and Forces
4.1: Outcomes for Science, Technology and Society (STS) and Knowledge
D.1: Students will: Describe and interpret different types of structures encountered in everyday objects, buildings, plants and animals; and identify materials from which they are made
D.4: Students will: Demonstrate and describe processes used in developing, evaluating and improving structures that will meet human needs with a margin of safety
4.2: Skill Outcomes
D.IP: Initiating and Planning
D.PR: Performing and Recording
D.AI: Analyzing and Interpreting
E: Planet Earth
5.1: Outcomes for Science, Technology and Society (STS) and Knowledge
E.1: Students will: Describe and demonstrate methods used in the scientific study of Earth and in observing and interpreting its component materials
E.2: Students will: Identify evidence for the rock cycle, and use the rock cycle concept to interpret and explain the characteristics of particular rocks
E.3: Students will: Investigate and interpret evidence of major changes in landforms and the rock layers that underlie them
5.2: Skill Outcomes
E.PR: Performing and Recording
E.AI: Analyzing and Interpreting
Correlation last revised: 8/10/2026
