The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
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Ready Standards for the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)

Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)

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Engineering Skyscrapers KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Flood Control Engineering KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Engineering Hearing Toys KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Engineering Pick-and-Place Devices KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Engineering Water Prisms KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Flood Control Engineering KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem, based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Engineering Skyscrapers KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Engineering Hearing Toys KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Engineering Water Prisms KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Engineering Pick-and-Place Devices KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Flood Control Engineering KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Engineering Skyscrapers KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved. 

Engineering Pick-and-Place Devices KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Engineering Hearing Toys KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Engineering Water Prisms KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-5-ETS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Weather and Climate KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-ESS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Heat and Evaporation KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-ESS2-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Weather and Climate KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-ESS2-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Energy from the Sun KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-ESS2-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. 

Flood Control Engineering KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-ESS3-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

Life Cycles KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Environmental Change KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Life Cycles KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Heredity and Traits KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS3-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Heredity and Traits KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS3-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Fossil Organisms and their Environment KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS4-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

Heredity and Traits KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS4-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Environmental Change KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS4-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Energy from the Sun KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS4-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Fossil Organisms and their Environment KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS4-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Environmental Change KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-LS4-4 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the type of plants and animals that live there may change.

Windmill Forces KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Patterns in Motion KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Forces and Materials KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Engineering Skyscrapers KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Comparing Forces KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Motion in the Solar System KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Static Charge KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Magnets and Magnetic Fields KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Engineering Pick-and-Place Devices KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Engineering Pick-and-Place Devices KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 3-PS2-4 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.

Flood Control Engineering KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-ESS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Flood Control Engineering KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-ESS3-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Energy from the Sun KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-LS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Heredity and Traits KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-LS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Patterns in Motion KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-PS3-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. *Students are introduced to the relationship between energy and speed in this unit.

Windmill Forces KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-PS3-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.*Students are introduced to energy transfer in this unit by focusing on moving substances. They will explore other forms of energy transfer in later units. 

Engineering Water Prisms KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-PS3-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

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

Sound Energy and Mediums KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-PS3-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

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

Engineering Hearing Toys KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-PS3-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

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

Engineering Water Prisms KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 4-PS4-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.

Motion in the Solar System KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-ESS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Support an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun and stars is due to their relative distances from Earth. 

Energy from the Sun KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-ESS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Environmental Change KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-ESS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Heat and Evaporation KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-ESS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Fossil Organisms and their Environment KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-ESS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Heat and Evaporation KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-ESS2-2 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

Energy from the Sun KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-LS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

Energy from the Sun KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-LS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Fossil Organisms and their Environment KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-LS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Static Charge KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Sound Energy and Mediums KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. 

Structure of Matter KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Heat and Matter KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Engineering Water Prisms KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Static Charge KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. 

Engineering Pick-and-Place Devices KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. 

Engineering Hearing Toys KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Magnets and Magnetic Fields KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS1-3 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. 

Forces and Materials KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

 Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Motion in the Solar System KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Engineering Skyscrapers KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS2-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Energy from the Sun KS Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS) 5-PS3-1 [{id=111674358582, createdAt=1681899821720, updatedAt=1681899824999, 1='{type=string, value=3}'}] 3

Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.

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Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS).

Science Lesson : Engineering Skyscrapers
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem, based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Science Lesson : Engineering Skyscrapers
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Science Lesson : Engineering Skyscrapers
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved. 

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Science Lesson : Weather and Climate
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Science Lesson : Heat and Evaporation
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Science Lesson : Weather and Climate
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Science Lesson : Energy from the Sun
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. 

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

Science Lesson : Life Cycles
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Science Lesson : Environmental Change
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Science Lesson : Life Cycles
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Science Lesson : Heredity and Traits
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Science Lesson : Heredity and Traits
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

Science Lesson : Heredity and Traits
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Science Lesson : Environmental Change
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Science Lesson : Energy from the Sun
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Science Lesson : Environmental Change
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the type of plants and animals that live there may change.

Science Lesson : Windmill Forces
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Science Lesson : Patterns in Motion
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Science Lesson : Forces and Materials
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Science Lesson : Engineering Skyscrapers
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Science Lesson : Comparing Forces
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Science Lesson : Static Charge
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Science Lesson : Energy from the Sun
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Heredity and Traits
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Patterns in Motion
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. *Students are introduced to the relationship between energy and speed in this unit.

Science Lesson : Windmill Forces
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.*Students are introduced to energy transfer in this unit by focusing on moving substances. They will explore other forms of energy transfer in later units. 

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

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

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

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

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

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

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun and stars is due to their relative distances from Earth. 

Science Lesson : Energy from the Sun
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Science Lesson : Environmental Change
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Science Lesson : Heat and Evaporation
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Science Lesson : Heat and Evaporation
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

Science Lesson : Energy from the Sun
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

Science Lesson : Energy from the Sun
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

Science Lesson : Static Charge
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. 

Science Lesson : Structure of Matter
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Science Lesson : Heat and Matter
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Static Charge
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. 

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. 

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. 

Science Lesson : Forces and Materials
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

 Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Science Lesson : Engineering Skyscrapers
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Science Lesson : Energy from the Sun
State: KS
Standards: Kansas Science Standards-- The Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)
Performance Expectation:

Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is designed for the Kansas College and Career
Ready Standards for the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science (KCCRSS)

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