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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. |
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Develop and use models to show multiple solutions in which patterns are used to transfer information. |
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Construct a model to explain that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eyes. |
Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence of the effects that balanced and unbalanced forces have on the motion of objects.
Evaluate a design solution (e.g., flood barriers, wind-resistant roofs, lightning rods) that reduces the impact of a weather-related hazard.
Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment.
Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment.
Design solutions, test, and revise a process for cleaning a polluted environment.
Plan and carry out investigations to examine properties of soils and soil types.
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.
Collect information from a variety of sources to describe climates in different regions of the world.
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.
Collect information from a variety of sources to describe climates in different regions of the world.
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.
Identify the distribution of freshwater and salt water on Earth and construct a graphical representation depicting the amounts and percentages found in different reservoirs.
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.
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.
Describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean using data from maps.
Describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean using data from maps.
Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans.
Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans.
Formulate and evaluate solutions to limit the effects of natural Earth processes on humans.
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.
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.
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.
Display data graphically and in tables to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
Use a model to represent how any two systems, specifically the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and/or hydrosphere, interact and support life.
Use a model to represent how any two systems, specifically the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and/or hydrosphere, interact and support life.
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.
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.
Create a model to illustrate the transfer of matter among producers; consumers, including scavengers and decomposers; and the environment.
Defend the position that plants obtain materials needed for growth primarily from air and water.
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.
Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Compile information to describe how the use of energy derived from natural renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment.
Compile information to describe how the use of energy derived from natural renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans, including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
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.
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.
Engage in argument from evidence to justify that traits can be influenced by the environment.
Engage in argument from evidence to justify that traits can be influenced by the environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Examine matter through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
Investigate how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and including that waves can cause objects to move.
Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and including that waves can cause objects to move.
Develop and use models to show multiple solutions in which patterns are used to transfer information.
Construct a model to explain that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eyes.
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