Missouri Learning Standards: Science
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This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is aligned with the Missouri Learning Standards: Science

Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Missouri Learning Standards: Science

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Earth and Moon Patterns MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ESS1.A.1 [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1

Describe the presence of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky over time.

Sun Position and Shadow Patterns MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ESS1.A.1 [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1

Describe the presence of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky over time.

Sun Position and Shadow Patterns MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ESS1.A.2 [{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.

Earth and Moon Patterns MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ESS1.A.2 [{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 Patterns MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ESS2.D.1 [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1

Identify patterns indicating relationships between observed weather data and weather phenomena (e.g., temperature and types of precipitation, clouds and amounts of precipitation).

Seasonal Temperatures and Water Cycles MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ESS2.D.1 [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1

Identify patterns indicating relationships between observed weather data and weather phenomena (e.g., temperature and types of precipitation, clouds and amounts of precipitation).

Engineering Litter Collectors MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.A.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 Litter Collectors MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.B.1 [{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 Dams MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.B.1 [{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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.B.1 [{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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.C.1 [{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 performs.

Engineering Dams MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.C.1 [{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 performs.

Engineering Communication Devices MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.ETS1.C.1 [{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 performs.

Living and Nonliving Things MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS1.A.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 Litter Collectors MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS1.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS3.A.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 MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.LS3.A.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.

Seasonal Temperatures and Water Cycles MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.PS3.A.1 [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1

Identify the source of energy that causes an increase in the temperature of an object (e.g., Sun, stove, flame, light bulb).

Making Sounds and Instruments MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.PS4.A.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.

Sounds and Senses MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.PS4.A.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.
Light MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.PS4.C.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.

Materials and Light MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.PS4.C.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.

Engineering Communication Devices MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 1.PS4.C.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.
Sounds and Senses MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 2.PS4.A.1 [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1 Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that changes in vibration create changes in sound.
Light MO Missouri Learning Standards: Science 3P.1.1.1.1 [{id=111674358580, createdAt=1681899818338, updatedAt=1681899820544, 1='{type=string, value=1}'}] 1

Ask questions based on observations about why objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated. 

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Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Missouri Learning Standards: Science.

Science Lesson : Earth and Moon Patterns
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe the presence of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky over time.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe the presence of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky over time.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Science Lesson : Earth and Moon Patterns
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Science Lesson : Seasonal Patterns
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Identify patterns indicating relationships between observed weather data and weather phenomena (e.g., temperature and types of precipitation, clouds and amounts of precipitation).

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Identify patterns indicating relationships between observed weather data and weather phenomena (e.g., temperature and types of precipitation, clouds and amounts of precipitation).

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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. 

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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. 

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

Science Lesson : Ant Behavior and Food
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

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.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to construct an evidence based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to construct an evidence based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Identify the source of energy that causes an increase in the temperature of an object (e.g., Sun, stove, flame, light bulb).

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

Science Lesson : Sounds and Senses
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation: Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Science Lesson : Light
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

Science Lesson : Materials and Light
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation: Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
Science Lesson : Sounds and Senses
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation: Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that changes in vibration create changes in sound.
Science Lesson : Light
State: MO
Standards: Missouri Learning Standards: Science
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions based on observations about why objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated. 

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is aligned with the Missouri Learning Standards: Science
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