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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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. |
Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
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.
Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
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.
Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
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.
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
Make and communicate observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make and communicate observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make and communicate observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make and communicate observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make and communicate observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Make and communicate observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Make and communicate observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Make and communicate observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Make and communicate observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Make and communicate observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Make and communicate observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
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.
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.
Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
Make a claim supported by evidence about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
Describe and graph the amounts of salt water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Describe and graph the amounts of salt water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Generate and design possible solutions to a current environmental issue, threat, or concern.
Analyze how living organisms, including humans, affect the environment in which they live, and how their environment affects them.
Make a claim about the environmental and social impacts of design solutions and civic actions, including their own actions
Examine ways you influence your local environment and community by collecting and displaying data.
Develop a model to demonstrate how local environmental issues are connected to larger local environment and human systems.
Construct an argument to support whether action is needed on a selected environmental issue and propose possible solutions.
Critique ways that people depend on and change the environment.
Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems.
Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems.
Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems.
Use appropriate symbols, numbers, and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems.
Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system.
Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system.
Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system.
Examine information to assess the trade-offs to using a product or system.
Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.
Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.
Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.
Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.
Follow directions to complete a technological task.
Follow directions to complete a technological task.
Follow directions to complete a technological task.
Follow directions to complete a technological task.
Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.
Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.
Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.
Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.
Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies.
Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies.
Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies.
Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies.
Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.
Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.
Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.
Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.
Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.
Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.
Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.
Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.
Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces.
Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces.
Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces.
Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces.
Classify resources used to create technologies as either renewable or nonrenewable.
Classify resources used to create technologies as either renewable or nonrenewable.
Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.
Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.
Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.
Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.
Describe the helpful and harmful effects of technology.
Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation.
Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation.
Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation.
Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation.
Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation.
Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure.
Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure.
Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure.
Determine factors that influence changes in a society’s technological systems or infrastructure.
Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.
Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.
Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.
Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.
Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.
Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills.
Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills.
Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills.
Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills.
Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change.
Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change.
Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change.
Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change.
Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need.
Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need.
Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need.
Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need.
Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing.
Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing.
Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing.
Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing.
Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.
Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.
Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.
Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.
Identify why a product or system is not working properly.
Identify why a product or system is not working properly.
Identify why a product or system is not working properly.
Identify why a product or system is not working properly.
Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system.
Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system.
Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system.
Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions.
Practice successful design skills.
Practice successful design skills.
Practice successful design skills.
Practice successful design skills.
Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process.
Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process.
Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process.
Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process.
Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design.
Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design.
Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design.
Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design.
Apply universal principles and elements of design.
Apply universal principles and elements of design.
Apply universal principles and elements of design.
Apply universal principles and elements of design.
Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.
Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.
Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.
Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.
Interpret how good design improves the human condition.
Interpret how good design improves the human condition.
Interpret how good design improves the human condition.
Interpret how good design improves the human condition.
Describe the properties of different materials.
Describe the properties of different materials.
Describe the properties of different materials.
Describe the properties of different materials.
Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas.
Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas.
Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas.
Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas.
Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time.
Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time.
Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time.
Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time.
Create a new product that improves someone's life.
Create a new product that improves someone's life.
Create a new product that improves someone's life.
Create a new product that improves someone's life.
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