D1: Students describe the positions and apparent motions of different objects in and beyond our solar system and how these objects can be viewed from Earth.
D1.a: Show the locations of the sun, Earth, moon, and planets and their orbits.
Comparing Earth and Venus
Gravity Pitch
Solar System
D2: Students describe the properties of Earth's surface materials, the processes that change them, and cycles that affect the Earth.
D2.a: Explain the effects of the rotation of Earth on the day/night cycle, and how that cycle affects local temperature.
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
D2.b: Describe the various forms water takes in the air and how that relates to weather.
Water Cycle
D3: Students describe properties of objects and materials before and after they undergo a change or interaction.
D3.f: Explain that the properties of a material may change but the total amount of material remains the same.
Chemical Changes
D4: Students summarize how various forces affect the motion of objects.
D4.a: Predict the effect of a given force on the motion of an object.
Force and Fan Carts
D4.b: Describe how fast things move by how long it takes them to go a certain distance.
Free Fall Tower
Measuring Motion
D4.c: Describe the path of an object.
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time Graphs - Metric
Free Fall Tower
D4.d: Give examples of how gravity, magnets, and electrically charged materials push and pull objects.
Charge Launcher
Magnetism
E2: Students describe ways organisms depend upon, interact within, and change the living and non-living environment as well as ways the environment affects organisms.
E2.a: Explain how changes in an organism's habitat can influence its survival.
Rabbit Population by Season
E2.d: Explain how the food of most animals can be traced back to plants and how animals use food for energy and repair.
Prairie Ecosystem
E4: Students describe characteristics of organisms, and the reasons why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents.
E4.a: Name some likenesses between children and parents that are inherited, and some that are not.
Inheritance
E4.b: Explain that in order for offspring to look like their parents, information related to inherited likenesses must be handed from parents to offspring in a reliable manner.
Inheritance
Correlation last revised: 9/22/2020