Learning Standards
9-12.ESS1.A.1: Develop a model based on evidence to illustrate the life span of the sun and the role of nuclear fusion in the Sun’s core to release energy in the form of radiation.
9-12.ESS1.A.2: Construct an explanation of the Big Bang theory based on astronomical evidence of light spectra, motion of distant galaxies, and composition of matter in the universe.
Big Bang Theory - Hubble's Law
9-12.ESS1.A.3: Communicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements.
9-12.ESS1.B.1: Use Kepler’s Law to predict the motion of orbiting objects in the solar system.
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Solar System Explorer
9-12.ESS2.A.1: Develop a model to illustrate how Earth’s interior and surface processes (constructive and destructive) operate at different spatial and temporal scales to form continental and ocean-floor features.
Erosion Rates
Plate Tectonics
River Erosion
Weathering
9-12.ESS2.A.2: Analyze geoscientific data to make the claim that one change to Earth's surface can create changes to other Earth systems.
9-12.ESS2.A.3: Develop a model based on evidence of Earth’s interior to describe the cycling of matter by thermal convection.
Conduction and Convection
Plate Tectonics
9-12.ESS2.A.4: Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate.
9-12.ESS2.C.1: Plan and conduct an investigation of the properties of water and its effects on Earth materials and surface processes.
Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Rock Cycle
Water Cycle
Weathering
9-12.ESS2.D.1: Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
9-12.ESS3.C.1: Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Pond Ecosystem
Water Pollution
9-12.ESS3.C.2: Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems in order to restore stability and or biodiversity of the ecosystem as well as prevent their reoccurences.
9-12.ESS3.D.1: Analyze geoscientific data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.
9-12.ESS3.D.2: Predict how human activity affects the relationships between Earth systems in both positive and negative ways.
Carbon Cycle
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Correlation last revised: 9/6/2022