Science Lesson | State | Standards | State ID | Grades | Performance Expectation |
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Windy Weather | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0E.1.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather. |
The Water Cycle | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0E.1.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather. |
Heat and Water | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0E.1.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather. |
Extreme Weather | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0E.1.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather. |
Earth and Human Activity | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0E.1.1.1.2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Ask questions about how a person may reduce the amount of natural resources the individual uses. |
Weather Patterns | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0E.2.1.1.2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Make daily and seasonal observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time. |
Weather and Seasons | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0E.2.1.1.2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Make daily and seasonal observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time. |
Living Things in Their Habitat | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.1.2.1.2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. |
Animal Habitats | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.1.2.1.2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. |
Characteristics of Living Things | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.1.2.1.2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. |
Parts of Plants | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.2.1.1.3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. |
Growing Plants | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.2.1.1.3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. |
Living, Nonliving, and Once-Living | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.2.1.1.3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. |
Earth and Human Activity | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.2.1.1.3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. |
Germinating Seeds | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.2.1.1.3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. |
Human Shelter | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.2.1.1.3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. |
Characteristics of Living Things | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.2.1.1.3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. |
Living Things in Their Habitat | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.3.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live. |
Animal Habitats | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.3.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live. |
Germinating Seeds | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.3.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live. |
Parts of Plants | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.3.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live. |
Growing Plants | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0L.3.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live. |
Sunlight and Temperature | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.1.2.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. |
Sun and Shade | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.1.2.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. |
Color and Temperature | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.1.2.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. |
Sunlight and Engineering | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.1.2.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. |
Who Scientists Are | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.2.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Sort objects in terms of natural/human-made, color, size, shape, and texture, then communicate the reasoning for the sorting system. |
Pushes and Pulls | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.2.2.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K | Identify and describe patterns that emerge from the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object. |
Forces and Motion | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.2.2.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K | Identify and describe patterns that emerge from the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object. |
Sunlight and Engineering | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.3.2.2.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Design and build a structure to reduce the warming effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. |
Engineering Marble Movers | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.4.1.1.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Construct an argument supported by evidence for whether a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull. |
Sunlight and Engineering | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | 0P.4.2.2.1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Communicate design ideas for a structure that reduces the warming effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface. |
Engineering Marble Movers | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | ETS1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
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. |
Sunlight and Engineering | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | ETS1 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
sk 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. |
Sunlight and Engineering | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | ETS2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
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 Marble Movers | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | ETS2 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
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. |
Sunlight and Engineering | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | ETS3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs. |
Engineering Marble Movers | MN | Minnesota’s K-8 Academic Standards in Science | ETS3 | [{id=111674358579, createdAt=1681899815574, updatedAt=1681899818274, 1='{type=string, value=K}'}] K |
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs. |
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather.
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather.
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather.
Ask questions to obtain information from weather forecasts to prepare for and respond to severe weather.
Ask questions about how a person may reduce the amount of natural resources the individual uses.
Make daily and seasonal observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
Make daily and seasonal observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Record and use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
Develop a simple model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
Collect and organize observational data to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
Sort objects in terms of natural/human-made, color, size, shape, and texture, then communicate the reasoning for the sorting system.
Design and build a structure to reduce the warming effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
Construct an argument supported by evidence for whether a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.
Communicate design ideas for a structure that reduces the warming effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.
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.
sk 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.
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
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