Alabama Course of Study: Science
Alabama
This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s K-5 integrated science curriculum is aligned with the 2015  Alabama Course of Study: Science.

Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Alabama Science Standards

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Energy and Collisions AL Alabama Course of Study: Science 5.P1U1.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence of the effects that balanced and unbalanced forces have on the motion of objects.

Engineering Permeable Concrete AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth and Human Activity 15 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate a design solution (e.g., flood barriers, wind-resistant roofs, lightning rods) that reduces the impact of a weather-related hazard.

Engineering Permeable Concrete AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth and Human Activity 16 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth and Human Activity 16 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth and Human Activity 17 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design solutions, test, and revise a process for cleaning a polluted environment. 

Earth Materials and Water Flow AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 13 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations to examine properties of soils and soil types.

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 14 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explore information to support the claim that landforms are the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition as well as a result of destructive forces, including erosion and weathering.

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 14 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Collect information from a variety of sources to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Water Erosion AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 14 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explore information to support the claim that landforms are the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition as well as a result of destructive forces, including erosion and weathering.

Earth Materials and Water Flow AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 14 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Collect information from a variety of sources to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Changing Earth's Surface AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 14 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explore information to support the claim that landforms are the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition as well as a result of destructive forces, including erosion and weathering.

Earth Materials and Water Flow AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 15 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify the distribution of freshwater and salt water on Earth and construct a graphical representation depicting the amounts and percentages found in different reservoirs.

Water Erosion AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 15 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data to determine effects of weathering and rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation using one single form of weathering or erosion at a time.

Changing Earth's Surface AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 15 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data to determine effects of weathering and rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation using one single form of weathering or erosion at a time.

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 16 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean using data from maps.

Changing Earth's Surface AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 16 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean using data from maps.

Engineering Permeable Concrete AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 17 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 17 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans. 

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth's Systems 17 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans.

Water Erosion AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth’s Systems 12 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct explanations by citing evidence found in patterns of rock formations and fossils in rock layers that Earth changes over time through both slow and rapid processes.

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth’s Systems 12 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct explanations by citing evidence found in patterns of rock formations and fossils in rock layers that Earth changes over time through both slow and rapid processes.

Changing Earth's Surface AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth’s Systems 12 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct explanations by citing evidence found in patterns of rock formations and fossils in rock layers that Earth changes over time through both slow and rapid processes.

Earth Materials and Water Flow AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth’s Systems 13 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Display data graphically and in tables to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Engineering Permeable Concrete AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth’s Systems 14 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

 Use a model to represent how any two systems, specifically the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and/or hydrosphere, interact and support life.

Earth Materials and Water Flow AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Earth’s Systems 14 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use a model to represent how any two systems, specifically the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and/or hydrosphere, interact and support life.

Food Webs AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics 10 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

 Construct and interpret models to explain that energy in animals’ food is used for body repair, growth, motion, and maintenance of body warmth and was once energy from the sun.

Frog Life Cycle AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics 10 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct and interpret models to explain that energy in animals’ food is used for body repair, growth, motion, and maintenance of body warmth and was once energy from the sun.

Food Webs AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics 11 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Create a model to illustrate the transfer of matter among producers; consumers, including scavengers and decomposers; and the environment.

Plant Structures AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics 8 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Defend the position that plants obtain materials needed for growth primarily from air and water.

Plant Structures AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics 9 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an illustration to explain how plants use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into a storable fuel, carbohydrates, and a waste product, oxygen, during the process of photosynthesis.

Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Energy Transfer and Levers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Waves and Energy AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Engineering Electric Cars AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Engineering Information Transfer AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Pitch and Volume AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Engineering Launchers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Current Electricity AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Engineering Information Transfer AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Forces and Levers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Energy Transfer and Levers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Engineering Launchers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Engineering Electric Cars AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Changing Earth's Surface AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 5 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Compile information to describe how the use of energy derived from natural renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Energy 5 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Compile information to describe how the use of energy derived from natural renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment. 

Selecting Traits AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 10 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and communicate information explaining that humans have systems that interact with one another for digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, movement, control, coordination, and protection from disease. 

Mealworm Senses AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 11 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Investigate different ways animals receive information through the senses, process that information, and respond to it in different ways.
Food Webs AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 5 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

Frog Life Cycle AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 5 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

Plant Structures AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 5 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

Frog Life Cycle AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 6 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans, including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Selecting Traits AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 9 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Frog Life Cycle AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 9 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Plant Structures AL Alabama Course of Study: Science From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 9 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Selecting Traits AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits 7 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine data to provide evidence that plants and animals, excluding humans, have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in groups of similar organisms.

Mealworm Senses AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits 7 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine data to provide evidence that plants and animals, excluding humans, have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in groups of similar organisms.

Selecting Traits AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits 8 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Engage in argument from evidence to justify that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Plant Structures AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits 8 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Engage in argument from evidence to justify that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.

Engineering Launchers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.

Energy Transfer and Levers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.

Forces and Levers AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.
Current Electricity AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explore objects that can be manipulated in order to determine cause-and-effect relationships of electric interactions between two objects not in contact with one another or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with one another.

Engineering Electric Cars AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explore objects that can be manipulated in order to determine cause-and-effect relationships of electric interactions between two objects not in contact with one another or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with one another.

Engineering Electric Cars AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Pitch and Volume AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Water Erosion AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Current Electricity AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Engineering Information Transfer AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and Its Interactions 3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Properties of Matter AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and It’s Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Current Electricity AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and It’s Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Engineering Electric Cars AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and It’s Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Waves and Energy AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Matter and It’s Interactions 1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Waves and Energy AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions 6 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

Engineering Electric Cars AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions 6 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions 6 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

Engineering Information Transfer AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions 6 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

Food Webs AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Unity and Diversity 10 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Mealworm Senses AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Unity and Diversity 10 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
Selecting Traits AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Unity and Diversity 10 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Mealworm Senses AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Unity and Diversity 11 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Construct an argument from evidence to explain the likelihood of an organism’s ability to survive when compared to the resources in a certain habitat.
Waves and Energy AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer 6 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and including that waves can cause objects to move.

Pitch and Volume AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer 6 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and including that waves can cause objects to move.

Engineering Information Transfer AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer 7 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop and use models to show multiple solutions in which patterns are used to transfer information.

Engineering Information Transfer AL Alabama Course of Study: Science Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer 8 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct a model to explain that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eyes.

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Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Alabama Science Standards.

Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence of the effects that balanced and unbalanced forces have on the motion of objects.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate a design solution (e.g., flood barriers, wind-resistant roofs, lightning rods) that reduces the impact of a weather-related hazard.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment. 

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment. 

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Design solutions, test, and revise a process for cleaning a polluted environment. 

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations to examine properties of soils and soil types.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Explore information to support the claim that landforms are the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition as well as a result of destructive forces, including erosion and weathering.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Collect information from a variety of sources to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Explore information to support the claim that landforms are the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition as well as a result of destructive forces, including erosion and weathering.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Collect information from a variety of sources to describe climates in different regions of the world.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Explore information to support the claim that landforms are the result of a combination of constructive forces, including crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions, and sediment deposition as well as a result of destructive forces, including erosion and weathering.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Identify the distribution of freshwater and salt water on Earth and construct a graphical representation depicting the amounts and percentages found in different reservoirs.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data to determine effects of weathering and rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation using one single form of weathering or erosion at a time.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data to determine effects of weathering and rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation using one single form of weathering or erosion at a time.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean using data from maps.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean using data from maps.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans. 

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans. 

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct explanations by citing evidence found in patterns of rock formations and fossils in rock layers that Earth changes over time through both slow and rapid processes.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct explanations by citing evidence found in patterns of rock formations and fossils in rock layers that Earth changes over time through both slow and rapid processes.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct explanations by citing evidence found in patterns of rock formations and fossils in rock layers that Earth changes over time through both slow and rapid processes.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Display data graphically and in tables to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

 Use a model to represent how any two systems, specifically the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and/or hydrosphere, interact and support life.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Use a model to represent how any two systems, specifically the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and/or hydrosphere, interact and support life.

Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

 Construct and interpret models to explain that energy in animals’ food is used for body repair, growth, motion, and maintenance of body warmth and was once energy from the sun.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct and interpret models to explain that energy in animals’ food is used for body repair, growth, motion, and maintenance of body warmth and was once energy from the sun.

Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Create a model to illustrate the transfer of matter among producers; consumers, including scavengers and decomposers; and the environment.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Defend the position that plants obtain materials needed for growth primarily from air and water.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct an illustration to explain how plants use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into a storable fuel, carbohydrates, and a waste product, oxygen, during the process of photosynthesis.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Compile information to describe how the use of energy derived from natural renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment. 

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Compile information to describe how the use of energy derived from natural renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment. 

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and communicate information explaining that humans have systems that interact with one another for digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, movement, control, coordination, and protection from disease. 

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation: Investigate different ways animals receive information through the senses, process that information, and respond to it in different ways.
Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans, including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine data to provide evidence that plants and animals, excluding humans, have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in groups of similar organisms.

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine data to provide evidence that plants and animals, excluding humans, have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in groups of similar organisms.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Engage in argument from evidence to justify that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Engage in argument from evidence to justify that traits can be influenced by the environment.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.

Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation: Plan and carry out an experiment to determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object using one variable at a time, including number, size, direction, speed, position, friction, or air resistance, and communicate these findings graphically.
Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Explore objects that can be manipulated in order to determine cause-and-effect relationships of electric interactions between two objects not in contact with one another or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with one another.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Explore objects that can be manipulated in order to determine cause-and-effect relationships of electric interactions between two objects not in contact with one another or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with one another.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Properties of Matter
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct explanations from observations to determine how the density of an object affects whether the object sinks or floats when placed in a liquid. Construct an explanation from evidence to illustrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed downward towards the center of Earth.

Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation: Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation: Construct an argument from evidence to explain the likelihood of an organism’s ability to survive when compared to the resources in a certain habitat.
Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and including that waves can cause objects to move.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and including that waves can cause objects to move.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop and use models to show multiple solutions in which patterns are used to transfer information.

State: AL
Standards: Alabama Course of Study: Science
Performance Expectation:

Construct a model to explain that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eyes.

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s K-5 integrated science curriculum is aligned with the 2015  Alabama Course of Study: Science.
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