This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s K-8 integrated science curriculum is aligned with Tennessee Academic Standards for Science.
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Earth Materials and Water Flow | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.ESS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain the cycle of water on Earth. |
Earth Materials and Water Flow | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.ESS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Associate major cloud types (cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus, stratus, nimbostratus) with weather conditions. |
Earth Materials and Water Flow | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.ESS2.4 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Incorporate weather data to describe major climates (polar, temperate, tropical) in different regions of the world. |
Engineering Permeable Concrete | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.ESS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) impact humans and the environment. |
Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.ESS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) impact humans and the environment. |
Engineering Permeable Concrete | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.ESS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Design solutions to reduce the impact of natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) on the environment. |
Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.ESS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Design solutions to reduce the impact of natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) on the environment. |
Mealworm Senses | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.LS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. |
Frog Life Cycle | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.LS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. |
Plant Structures | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.LS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. |
Mealworm Senses | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.LS4.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Explain the cause-and-effect relationship between a naturally changing environment and an organism's ability to survive. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.LS4.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Infer that plant and animal adaptations help them survive in land and aquatic biomes. |
Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.LS4.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how changes to an environment's biodiversity influence human resources. |
Properties of Matter | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe the properties of solids, liquids, and gases and identify that matter is made up of particles too small to be seen. |
Properties of Matter | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS1.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Differentiate between changes caused by heating or cooling that can be reversed and that cannot. |
Properties of Matter | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS1.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe and compare the physical properties of matter including color, texture, shape, length, mass, temperature, volume, state, hardness, and flexibility. |
Current Electricity | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain the cause-and-effect relationship of magnets. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another. |
Energy Transfer and Levers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another. |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another. |
Waves and Energy | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another. |
Current Electricity | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts electrical energy to another form of energy, using open or closed simple circuits. |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 3.PS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refiane a device that converts electrical energy to another form of energy, using open or closed simple circuits. |
Water Erosion | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms. |
Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms. |
Changing Earth's Surface | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms. |
Earth Materials and Water Flow | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms. |
Water Erosion | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Collect and analyze data from observations to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering (frost wedging, abrasion, tree root wedging) and are transported by water, ice, wind, gravity, and vegetation. |
Changing Earth's Surface | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Collect and analyze data from observations to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering (frost wedging, abrasion, tree root wedging) and are transported by water, ice, wind, gravity, and vegetation. |
Earth Materials and Water Flow | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Collect and analyze data from observations to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering (frost wedging, abrasion, tree root wedging) and are transported by water, ice, wind, gravity, and vegetation. |
Changing Earth's Surface | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Interpret maps to determine that the location of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes occur in patterns. |
Mealworm Senses | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Provide examples to support the claim that organisms affect the physical characteristics of their regions. |
Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS2.4 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze and interpret data on the four layers of the Earth, including thickness, composition, and physical states of these layers. |
Changing Earth's Surface | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS2.4 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Analyze and interpret data on the four layers of the Earth, including thickness, composition, and physical states of these layers. |
Earth Materials and Water Flow | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS3.1 | [{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 that some energy and fuel sources are renewable (sunlight, wind, water) and some are not (fossil fuels, minerals). |
Engineering Permeable Concrete | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Create an argument, using evidence from research, that human activity (farming, mining, building) can affect the land and ocean in positive and/or negative ways. |
Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ESS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Create an argument, using evidence from research, that human activity (farming, mining, building) can affect the land and ocean in positive and/or negative ways. |
Engineering Information Transfer | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints. |
Engineering Permeable Concrete | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints. |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints. |
Engineering Information Transfer | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model. |
Engineering Permeable Concrete | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model. |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model. |
Engineering Permeable Concrete | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints. |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints. |
Engineering Information Transfer | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones). |
Engineering Information Transfer | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones). |
Engineering Permeable Concrete | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones). |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.ETS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones). |
Frog Life Cycle | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Support an argument with evidence that plants get the materials they need for growth and reproduction chiefly through a process in which they use carbon dioxide from the air, water, and energy from the sun to produce sugars, plant materials, and waste (oxygen); and that this process is called photosynthesis. |
Plant Structures | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Support an argument with evidence that plants get the materials they need for growth and reproduction chiefly through a process in which they use carbon dioxide from the air, water, and energy from the sun to produce sugars, plant |
Food Webs | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe the movement of energy among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers. |
Food Webs | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Using information about the roles of organisms (producers, consumers, decomposers), evaluate how those roles in food chains are interconnected in a food web, and communicate how the organisms are continuously able to meet their needs in a stable food web. |
Mealworm Senses | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Using information about the roles of organisms (producers, consumers, decomposers), evaluate how those roles in food chains are interconnected in a food web, and communicate how the organisms are continuously able to meet their needs in a stable food web. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.4 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Develop and use models to determine the effects of introducing a species to, or removing a species from, an ecosystem and how either one can damage the balance of an ecosystem. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.5 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze and interpret data about changes (land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms) in the environment and describe what mechanisms organisms can use to affect their ability to survive and reproduce. |
Food Webs | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS2.5 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze and interpret data about changes (land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms) in the environment and describe what mechanisms organisms can use to affect their ability to survive and reproduce. |
Changing Earth's Surface | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.LS4.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Obtain information about what a fossil is and ways a fossil can provide information about the past. |
Energy and Collisions | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object. |
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object. |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object. |
Energy Transfer and Levers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Observe and explain the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Observe and explain the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy. |
Forces and Levers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Waves and Energy | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Engineering Information Transfer | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Pitch and Volume | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Current Electricity | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Engineering Electric Cars | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Energy Transfer and Levers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS3.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use. |
Waves and Energy | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS4.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction. |
Pitch and Volume | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS4.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction. |
Engineering Information Transfer | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS4.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Describe how the colors of available light sources and the bending of light waves determine what we see. |
Engineering Information Transfer | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 4.PS4.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Investigate how lenses and digital devices like computers or cell phones use waves to enhance human senses. |
Changing Earth's Surface | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.ESS1.7 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Use evidence from the presence and location of fossils to determine the order in which rock strata were formed. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Compare and contrast animal responses that are instinctual versus those that are gathered through the senses, processed, and stored as memories to guide their actions. |
Mealworm Senses | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Compare and contrast animal responses that are instinctual versus those that are gathered through the senses, processed, and stored as memories to guide their actions. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Distinguish between inherited characteristics and those characteristics that result from a direct interaction with the environment. Apply this concept by giving examples of characteristics of living organisms that are influenced by both inheritance and the environment. |
Mealworm Senses | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS3.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Distinguish between inherited characteristics and those characteristics that result from a direct interaction with the environment. Apply this concept by giving examples of characteristics of living organisms that are influenced by both inheritance and the environment. |
Plant Structures | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Provide evidence and analyze data that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms. |
Frog Life Cycle | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Provide evidence and analyze data that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS3.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Provide evidence and analyze data that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS4.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze and interpret data from fossils to describe types of organisms and their environments that existed long ago. Compare similarities and differences of those to living organisms and their environments. Recognize that most kinds of animals (and plants) that once lived on Earth are now extinct. |
Selecting Traits | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.LS4.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use evidence to construct an explanation for how variations in characteristics among individuals within the same species may provide advantages to these individuals in their survival and reproduction. |
Properties of Matter | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS1.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements of the physical properties of matter to explain phase changes between a solid, liquid, or gas. |
Properties of Matter | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS1.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Analyze and interpret data to show that the amount of matter is conserved even when it changes form, including transitions where matter seems to vanish. |
Properties of Matter | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS1.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Design a process to measure how different variables (temperature, particle size, stirring) affect the rate of dissolving solids into liquids. |
Properties of Matter | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS1.4 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Evaluate the results of an experiment to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances result in a change of properties. |
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed and direction of motion of objects. |
Forces and Levers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 | Test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed and direction of motion of objects. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.1 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed and direction of motion of objects. |
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.2 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.3 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Use evidence to support that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed toward the Earth’s center. |
Forces and Levers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.4 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain the cause and effect relationship of two factors (mass and distance) that affect gravity. |
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.4 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain the cause and effect relationship of two factors (mass and distance) that affect gravity. |
Energy and Collisions | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.5 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur |
Forces and Levers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.5 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur. |
Engineering Launchers | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.5 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur. |
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces | TN | Tennessee Academic Standards for Science | 5.PS2.5 | [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 |
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur. |
Explain the cycle of water on Earth.
Associate major cloud types (cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus, stratus, nimbostratus) with weather conditions.
Incorporate weather data to describe major climates (polar, temperate, tropical) in different regions of the world.
Explain how natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) impact humans and the environment.
Explain how natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) impact humans and the environment.
Design solutions to reduce the impact of natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) on the environment.
Design solutions to reduce the impact of natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) on the environment.
Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Infer that plant and animal adaptations help them survive in land and aquatic biomes.
Explain how changes to an environment's biodiversity influence human resources.
Describe the properties of solids, liquids, and gases and identify that matter is made up of particles too small to be seen.
Differentiate between changes caused by heating or cooling that can be reversed and that cannot.
Describe and compare the physical properties of matter including color, texture, shape, length, mass, temperature, volume, state, hardness, and flexibility.
Explain the cause-and-effect relationship of magnets.
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts electrical energy to another form of energy, using open or closed simple circuits.
Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refiane a device that converts electrical energy to another form of energy, using open or closed simple circuits.
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms.
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms.
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms.
Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms.
Collect and analyze data from observations to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering (frost wedging, abrasion, tree root wedging) and are transported by water, ice, wind, gravity, and vegetation.
Collect and analyze data from observations to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering (frost wedging, abrasion, tree root wedging) and are transported by water, ice, wind, gravity, and vegetation.
Collect and analyze data from observations to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering (frost wedging, abrasion, tree root wedging) and are transported by water, ice, wind, gravity, and vegetation.
Analyze and interpret data on the four layers of the Earth, including thickness, composition, and physical states of these layers.
Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that some energy and fuel sources are renewable (sunlight, wind, water) and some are not (fossil fuels, minerals).
Create an argument, using evidence from research, that human activity (farming, mining, building) can affect the land and ocean in positive and/or negative ways.
Create an argument, using evidence from research, that human activity (farming, mining, building) can affect the land and ocean in positive and/or negative ways.
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints.
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints.
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints.
Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by comparing them to specified criteria for constraints.
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model.
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model.
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model.
Use appropriate tools and measurements to build a model.
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints.
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints.
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints.
Determine the effectiveness of multiple solutions to a design problem given the criteria and the constraints.
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones).
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones).
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones).
Explain how engineers have improved existing technologies to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands (artificial limbs, seatbelts, cell phones).
Support an argument with evidence that plants get the materials they need for growth and reproduction chiefly through a process in which they use carbon dioxide from the air, water, and energy from the sun to produce sugars, plant materials, and waste (oxygen); and that this process is called photosynthesis.
Support an argument with evidence that plants get the materials they need for growth and reproduction chiefly through a process in which they use carbon dioxide from the air, water, and energy from the sun to produce sugars, plant
materials, and waste (oxygen); and that this process is called photosynthesis.
Using information about the roles of organisms (producers, consumers, decomposers), evaluate how those roles in food chains are interconnected in a food web, and communicate how the organisms are continuously able to meet their needs in a stable food web.
Develop and use models to determine the effects of introducing a species to, or removing a species from, an ecosystem and how either one can damage the balance of an ecosystem.
Analyze and interpret data about changes (land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms) in the environment and describe what mechanisms organisms can use to affect their ability to survive and reproduce.
Analyze and interpret data about changes (land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms) in the environment and describe what mechanisms organisms can use to affect their ability to survive and reproduce.
Obtain information about what a fossil is and ways a fossil can provide information about the past.
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Observe and explain the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy.
Observe and explain the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy.
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction.
Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction.
Describe how the colors of available light sources and the bending of light waves determine what we see.
Investigate how lenses and digital devices like computers or cell phones use waves to enhance human senses.
Compare and contrast animal responses that are instinctual versus those that are gathered through the senses, processed, and stored as memories to guide their actions.
Distinguish between inherited characteristics and those characteristics that result from a direct interaction with the environment. Apply this concept by giving examples of characteristics of living organisms that are influenced by both inheritance and the environment.
Provide evidence and analyze data that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms.
Provide evidence and analyze data that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms.
Provide evidence and analyze data that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variations of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms.
Analyze and interpret data from fossils to describe types of organisms and their environments that existed long ago. Compare similarities and differences of those to living organisms and their environments. Recognize that most kinds of animals (and plants) that once lived on Earth are now extinct.
Use evidence to construct an explanation for how variations in characteristics among individuals within the same species may provide advantages to these individuals in their survival and reproduction.
Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements of the physical properties of matter to explain phase changes between a solid, liquid, or gas.
Analyze and interpret data to show that the amount of matter is conserved even when it changes form, including transitions where matter seems to vanish.
Design a process to measure how different variables (temperature, particle size, stirring) affect the rate of dissolving solids into liquids.
Evaluate the results of an experiment to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances result in a change of properties.
Test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed and direction of motion of objects.
Test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed and direction of motion of objects.
Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Use evidence to support that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed toward the Earth’s center.
Explain the cause and effect relationship of two factors (mass and distance) that affect gravity.
Explain the cause and effect relationship of two factors (mass and distance) that affect gravity.
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur.
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur.
Explain how forces can create patterns within a system (moving in one direction, shifting back and forth, or moving in cycles), and describe conditions that affect how fast or slowly these patterns occur.
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