Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards
Pennsylvania

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is designed for Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards

Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards

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Frog Life Cycle PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Selecting Traits PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Food Webs PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Plant Structures PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Selecting Traits PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Mealworm Senses PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.G [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Mealworm Senses PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.H [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Selecting Traits PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.3.H [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Plant Structures PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.4.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Frog Life Cycle PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.4.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Mealworm Senses PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.4.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Mealworm Senses PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

Food Webs PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Plant Structures PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Food Webs PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.1.5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Waves and Energy PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.3.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.3.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Current Electricity PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.3.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.3.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Energy and Collisions PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Energy Transfer and Levers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Current Electricity PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Pitch and Volume PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Energy and Collisions PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Waves and Energy PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Pitch and Volume PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.4.G [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Properties of Matter PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Current Electricity PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Waves and Energy PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Water Erosion PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Pitch and Volume PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Current Electricity PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Properties of Matter PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Forces and Levers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Food Webs PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.G [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Frog Life Cycle PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.2.5.G [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Earth Materials and Water Flow PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.3.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Earth Materials and Water Flow PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.3.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.3.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.3.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Changing Earth's Surface PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Water Erosion PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Changing Earth's Surface PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

Changing Earth's Surface PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Earth Materials and Water Flow PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.4.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Earth Materials and Water Flow PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.5.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Earth Materials and Water Flow PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.5.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.5.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.5.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.3.5.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Generate and design possible solutions to a current environmental issue, threat, or concern.

Mealworm Senses PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.4.3-5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze how living organisms, including humans, affect the environment in which they live, and how their environment affects them.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.4.3-5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make a claim about the environmental and social impacts of design solutions and civic actions, including their own actions

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.4.3-5.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine ways you influence your local environment and community by collecting and displaying data.

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.4.3-5.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop a model to demonstrate how local environmental issues are connected to larger local environment and human systems.

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.4.3-5.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an argument to support whether action is needed on a selected environmental issue and propose possible solutions.

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.4.3-5.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Critique ways that people depend on and change the environment.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.A [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.B [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.BB [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.BB [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.BB [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.BB [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.C [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.CC [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.CC [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

Pitch and Volume PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.CC [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.CC [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.D [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.DD [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.DD [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.DD [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.DD [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.E [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.EE [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.EE [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.EE [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.EE [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Classify resources used to create technologies as either renewable or nonrenewable.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.F [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Classify resources used to create technologies as either renewable or nonrenewable.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.FF [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.FF [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.FF [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.FF [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.G [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the helpful and harmful effects of technology.

Properties of Matter PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.GG [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.GG [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.GG [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.GG [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.GG [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.H [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.H [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.H [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.H [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

Properties of Matter PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.HH [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.HH [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.HH [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.HH [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.HH [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.I [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.I [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.I [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.I [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.J [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.J [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.J [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.J [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.K [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.K [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.K [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.K [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.L [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.L [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.L [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.L [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.M [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.M [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.M [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.M [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.N [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.N [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.N [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.N [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.O [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.O [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.O [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.O [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.P [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.P [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.P [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.P [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Q [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Practice successful design skills. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Q [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Practice successful design skills. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Q [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Practice successful design skills. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Q [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Practice successful design skills. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.R [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.R [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.R [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.R [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.S [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.S [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.S [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.S [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.T [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.T [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.T [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.T [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.U [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.U [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.U [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.U [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.V [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.V [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.V [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.V [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.W [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the properties of different materials. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.W [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the properties of different materials. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.W [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the properties of different materials. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.W [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Describe the properties of different materials. 

Engineering Permeable Concrete PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.X [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.X [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.X [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.X [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Y [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Y [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Y [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Y [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Z [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

Engineering Launchers PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Z [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

Engineering Electric Cars PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Z [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

Engineering Information Transfer PA Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. 3.5.3-5.Z [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

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Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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 : Selecting Traits
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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 : Food Webs
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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 : Mealworm Senses
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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 : Mealworm Senses
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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 : Current Electricity
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Science Lesson : Properties of Matter
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Properties of Matter
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
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: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

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

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Generate and design possible solutions to a current environmental issue, threat, or concern.

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Analyze how living organisms, including humans, affect the environment in which they live, and how their environment affects them.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make a claim about the environmental and social impacts of design solutions and civic actions, including their own actions

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Examine ways you influence your local environment and community by collecting and displaying data.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to demonstrate how local environmental issues are connected to larger local environment and human systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument to support whether action is needed on a selected environmental issue and propose possible solutions.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Critique ways that people depend on and change the environment.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Classify resources used to create technologies as either renewable or nonrenewable.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Classify resources used to create technologies as either renewable or nonrenewable.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the helpful and harmful effects of technology.

Science Lesson : Properties of Matter
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure. 

Science Lesson : Properties of Matter
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify why a product or system is not working properly. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Practice successful design skills. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Practice successful design skills. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Practice successful design skills. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Practice successful design skills. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the properties of different materials. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the properties of different materials. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the properties of different materials. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe the properties of different materials. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is designed for Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards

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Other State Standards

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.