This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is designed for the Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS)
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Earth and Moon Patterns | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-ESS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. |
Sun Position and Shadow Patterns | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-ESS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. |
Seasonal Temperatures and Water Cycles | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-ESS1-2 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year. |
Seasonal Patterns | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-ESS1-2 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year. |
Engineering Litter Collectors | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
Insect Anatomy - Structure and Function | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
Ant Behavior and Food | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
Bird Beak Structure and Function | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
Plant Structures | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
Living and Nonliving Things | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
Engineering Dams | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
Parent and Offspring Behaviors | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS1-2 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive. |
Living and Nonliving Things | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS3-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. |
Plant Structures | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS3-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. |
Parent and Offspring Behaviors | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-LS3-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. *Students focus on animals in this unit. |
Light | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-PS4-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated. |
Sounds and Senses | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-PS4-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 | Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate. |
Engineering Communication Devices | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-PS4-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 | Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. |
Making Sounds and Instruments | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-PS4-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate. |
Materials and Light | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | 1-PS4-3 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light. |
Engineering Litter Collectors | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool. |
Engineering Dams | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool. |
Engineering Communication Devices | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-1 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 | Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool. |
Engineering Dams | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-2 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. |
Engineering Litter Collectors | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-2 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. |
Engineering Communication Devices | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-2 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. |
Engineering Litter Collectors | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-3 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each perform. |
Engineering Dams | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-3 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 |
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each perform. |
Engineering Communication Devices | MI | Michigan K-12 Science Standards (NGSS) | K-2-ETS1-3 | [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 | Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each perform. |
Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. *Students focus on animals in this unit.
Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each perform.
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each perform.
Standards citation: NGSS Lead States. 2013. Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.