Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
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Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.ESS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use data to categorize the planets in the solar system as inner or outer planets according to their physical properties.
Earth's Water TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.ESS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Explain the cycle of water on Earth.
Earth's Interacting Systems TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.ESS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Associate major cloud types (cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus, stratus, nimbostratus) with weather conditions.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.LS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Plant Growth and Acid Rain TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.LS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Plant Growth TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.LS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Plant and Animal Cells TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.LS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5 Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.LS4.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Explain the cause-and-effect relationship between a naturally changing environment and an organism's ability to survive.
Plant Growth and Acid Rain TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.LS4.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Explain the cause-and-effect relationship between a naturally changing environment and an organism's ability to survive.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.LS4.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Infer that plant and animal adaptations help them survive in land and aquatic biomes.
Conservation of Matter TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe the properties of solids, liquids, and gases and identify that matter is made up of particles too small to be seen.
Conservation of Matter TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Differentiate between changes caused by heating or cooling that can be reversed and that cannot.
Conservation of Matter TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS1.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe and compare the physical properties of matter including color, texture, shape, length, mass, temperature, volume, state, hardness, and flexibility.
Magnets and Motors TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Explain the cause-and-effect relationship of magnets.
Friction and Motion TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Sound Energy TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Electrical Currents and Circuits TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Magnets and Motors TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Magnets and Motors TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Electrical Currents and Circuits TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Magnets and Motors TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 3.PS3.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Evaluate how magnets cause changes in the motion and position of objects, even when the objects are not touching the magnet.
Weathering Rocks TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.1.4 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Obtain information about what a fossil is and ways a fossil can provide information about the past.
Sound Energy and Materials TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Plan and carry out an investigation to gather evidence from observations that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical currents.
Sound Energy and Materials TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Develop and use a model to describe the regular patterns of waves. Emphasize patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength.
Weathering Rocks TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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's Water TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Patterns TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use a model to explain how the orbit of the Earth and sun cause observable patterns: a. day and night; b. changes in length and direction of shadows over a day.
Earth's Interacting Systems TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Weathering Rocks TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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's Surface Features TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Interpret maps to determine that the location of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes occur in patterns.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Provide examples to support the claim that organisms affect the physical characteristics of their regions.
Earth's Surface Features TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS2.4 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Analyze and interpret data on the four layers of the Earth, including thickness,
composition, and physical states of these layers.
Engineering Filtration Devices TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.ESS3.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Energy and Matter in Food Webs TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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 Growth TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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 Growth and Acid Rain TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Decomposition TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe the movement of energy among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
Energy and Matter in Food Webs TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe the movement of energy among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe the movement of energy among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
Decomposition TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Energy and Matter in Food Webs TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Energy and Matter in Food Webs TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.4 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.4 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Earth's Interacting Systems TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.5 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Energy and Matter in Food Webs TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.5 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.LS2.5 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Friction and Motion TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Observe and explain the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy.
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Sound Energy TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Electrical Currents and Circuits TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Magnets and Motors TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS3.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS4.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction.
Sound Energy TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS4.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction.
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 4.PS4.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how the colors of available light sources and the bending of light waves determine what we see.
Earth's Surface Features TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Earth's Surface Features TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Sound Energy and Materials TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Develop and use a model to describe that matter is made of particles on a scale that is too small to be seen. Emphasize making observations of changes supported by a particle model of matter. 
Sound Energy and Materials TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations to identify substances based on patterns of their properties. Emphasize using properties to identify substances.
Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ESS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Explain that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth. 
Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ESS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Research and explain the position of the Earth and the solar system within the Milky Way galaxy, and compare the size and shape of the Milky Way to other galaxies in the universe.
Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ESS1.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use data to categorize different bodies in our solar system including moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids according to their physical properties and motion.
Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ESS1.4 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Explain the cause and effect relationship between the positions of the sun, earth, and moon and resulting eclipses, position of constellations, and appearance of the moon.
Patterns TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ESS1.5 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Relate the tilt of the Earth’s axis, as it revolves around the sun, to the varying intensities of sunlight at different latitudes. Evaluate how this causes changes in day-lengths and seasons.
Patterns TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ESS1.6 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use tools to describe how stars and constellations appear to move from the Earth’s perspective throughout the seasons.
Engineering Filtration Devices TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Engineering Filtration Devices TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Engineering Filtration Devices TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use appropriate measuring tools, simple hand tools, and fasteners to construct a prototype of a new or improved technology. 
Engineering Filtration Devices TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS1.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use appropriate measuring tools, simple hand tools, and fasteners to construct a prototype of a new or improved technology. 
Engineering Filtration Devices TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use appropriate measuring tools, simple hand tools, and fasteners to construct a prototype of a new or improved technology. 
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how human beings have made tools and machines (X-ray cameras, microscopes, satellites, computers) to observe and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly or efficiently.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how human beings have made tools and machines (X-ray cameras, microscopes, satellites, computers) to observe and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly or efficiently.
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Describe how human beings have made tools and machines (X-ray cameras, microscopes, satellites, computers) to observe and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly or efficiently.
Engineering Sound Barriers TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Identify how scientific discoveries lead to new and improved technologies.
Engineering Library Scopes TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Identify how scientific discoveries lead to new and improved technologies.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.ETS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Identify how scientific discoveries lead to new and improved technologies.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.LS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.LS3.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.LS3.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Plant Growth TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.LS3.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Plant Growth TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.LS4.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Ecosystem Dynamics TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.LS4.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Conservation of Matter TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS1.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements of the physical properties of matter to explain phase changes between a solid, liquid, or gas.
Conservation of Matter TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS1.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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.
Conservation of Matter TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS1.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Design a process to measure how different variables (temperature, particle size, stirring) affect the rate of dissolving solids into liquids.
Conservation of Matter TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS1.4 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Evaluate the results of an experiment to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances result in a change of properties.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS2.1 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed and direction of motion of objects.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Friction and Motion TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS2.2 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS2.3 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Use evidence to support that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed toward the Earth’s center.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS2.4 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

Explain the cause and effect relationship of two factors (mass and distance) that affect gravity.
Engineering Roller Coasters TN Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 5.PS2.5 [{id=111674358585, createdAt=1681899838675, updatedAt=1681899841076, 1='{type=string, value=5}'}] 5

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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Science Lesson : Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use data to categorize the planets in the solar system as inner or outer planets according to their physical properties.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.ESS1.1
Science Lesson : Earth's Water
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Explain the cycle of water on Earth.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.ESS2.1
Science Lesson : Earth's Interacting Systems
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Associate major cloud types (cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus, stratus, nimbostratus) with weather conditions.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.ESS2.2
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.LS1.1
Science Lesson : Plant Growth and Acid Rain
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.LS1.1
Science Lesson : Plant Growth
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.LS1.1
Science Lesson : Plant and Animal Cells
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation: Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.LS1.1
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Explain the cause-and-effect relationship between a naturally changing environment and an organism's ability to survive.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.LS4.1
Science Lesson : Plant Growth and Acid Rain
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Explain the cause-and-effect relationship between a naturally changing environment and an organism's ability to survive.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.LS4.1
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Infer that plant and animal adaptations help them survive in land and aquatic biomes.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.LS4.2
Science Lesson : Conservation of Matter
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe the properties of solids, liquids, and gases and identify that matter is made up of particles too small to be seen.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS1.1
Science Lesson : Conservation of Matter
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Differentiate between changes caused by heating or cooling that can be reversed and that cannot.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS1.2
Science Lesson : Conservation of Matter
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe and compare the physical properties of matter including color, texture, shape, length, mass, temperature, volume, state, hardness, and flexibility.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS1.3
Science Lesson : Magnets and Motors
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Explain the cause-and-effect relationship of magnets.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS2.1
Science Lesson : Friction and Motion
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.1
Science Lesson : Sound Energy
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.1
Science Lesson : Electrical Currents and Circuits
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.1
Science Lesson : Magnets and Motors
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.1
Science Lesson : Magnets and Motors
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.2
Science Lesson : Electrical Currents and Circuits
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.2
Science Lesson : Magnets and Motors
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate how magnets cause changes in the motion and position of objects, even when the objects are not touching the magnet.
Grades: 5
State ID: 3.PS3.3
Science Lesson : Weathering Rocks
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Obtain information about what a fossil is and ways a fossil can provide information about the past.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.1.4
Science Lesson : Sound Energy and Materials
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out an investigation to gather evidence from observations that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical currents.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.2.3
Science Lesson : Sound Energy and Materials
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop and use a model to describe the regular patterns of waves. Emphasize patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.3.1
Science Lesson : Weathering Rocks
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS1.1
Science Lesson : Earth's Water
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS1.1
Science Lesson : Patterns
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use a model to explain how the orbit of the Earth and sun cause observable patterns: a. day and night; b. changes in length and direction of shadows over a day.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS1.2
Science Lesson : Earth's Interacting Systems
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS2.1
Science Lesson : Weathering Rocks
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS2.1
Science Lesson : Earth's Surface Features
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Interpret maps to determine that the location of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes occur in patterns.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS2.2
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Provide examples to support the claim that organisms affect the physical characteristics of their regions.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS2.3
Science Lesson : Earth's Surface Features
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data on the four layers of the Earth, including thickness,
composition, and physical states of these layers.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS2.4
Science Lesson : Engineering Filtration Devices
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.ESS3.2
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.1
Science Lesson : Energy and Matter in Food Webs
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.1
Science Lesson : Plant Growth
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.1
Science Lesson : Plant Growth and Acid Rain
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.1
Science Lesson : Decomposition
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe the movement of energy among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.2
Science Lesson : Energy and Matter in Food Webs
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe the movement of energy among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.2
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe the movement of energy among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.2
Science Lesson : Decomposition
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.3
Science Lesson : Energy and Matter in Food Webs
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.3
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.3
Science Lesson : Energy and Matter in Food Webs
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.4
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.4
Science Lesson : Earth's Interacting Systems
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.5
Science Lesson : Energy and Matter in Food Webs
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.5
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.LS2.5
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.1
Science Lesson : Friction and Motion
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Observe and explain the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.3
Science Lesson : Sound Energy
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.3
Science Lesson : Electrical Currents and Circuits
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.3
Science Lesson : Magnets and Motors
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS3.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS4.1
Science Lesson : Sound Energy
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use a model of a simple wave to explain regular patterns of amplitude, wavelength, and direction.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS4.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how the colors of available light sources and the bending of light waves determine what we see.
Grades: 5
State ID: 4.PS4.2
Science Lesson : Earth's Surface Features
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.1.1
Science Lesson : Earth's Surface Features
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.1.1
Science Lesson : Sound Energy and Materials
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Develop and use a model to describe that matter is made of particles on a scale that is too small to be seen. Emphasize making observations of changes supported by a particle model of matter. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.2.1
Science Lesson : Sound Energy and Materials
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations to identify substances based on patterns of their properties. Emphasize using properties to identify substances.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.2.2
Science Lesson : Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Explain that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ESS1.1
Science Lesson : Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Research and explain the position of the Earth and the solar system within the Milky Way galaxy, and compare the size and shape of the Milky Way to other galaxies in the universe.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ESS1.2
Science Lesson : Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use data to categorize different bodies in our solar system including moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids according to their physical properties and motion.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ESS1.3
Science Lesson : Scaling the Sun Earth Moon System
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Explain the cause and effect relationship between the positions of the sun, earth, and moon and resulting eclipses, position of constellations, and appearance of the moon.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ESS1.4
Science Lesson : Patterns
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Relate the tilt of the Earth’s axis, as it revolves around the sun, to the varying intensities of sunlight at different latitudes. Evaluate how this causes changes in day-lengths and seasons.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ESS1.5
Science Lesson : Patterns
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use tools to describe how stars and constellations appear to move from the Earth’s perspective throughout the seasons.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ESS1.6
Science Lesson : Engineering Filtration Devices
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Filtration Devices
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Filtration Devices
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out tests on one or more elements of a prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which elements need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign the prototype.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use appropriate measuring tools, simple hand tools, and fasteners to construct a prototype of a new or improved technology. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Filtration Devices
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how failure provides valuable information toward finding a solution.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS1.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use appropriate measuring tools, simple hand tools, and fasteners to construct a prototype of a new or improved technology. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Filtration Devices
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Research, test, re-test, and communicate a design to solve a problem. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use appropriate measuring tools, simple hand tools, and fasteners to construct a prototype of a new or improved technology. 
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how human beings have made tools and machines (X-ray cameras, microscopes, satellites, computers) to observe and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly or efficiently.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how human beings have made tools and machines (X-ray cameras, microscopes, satellites, computers) to observe and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly or efficiently.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Describe how human beings have made tools and machines (X-ray cameras, microscopes, satellites, computers) to observe and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly or efficiently.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Sound Barriers
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Identify how scientific discoveries lead to new and improved technologies.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Library Scopes
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Identify how scientific discoveries lead to new and improved technologies.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Identify how scientific discoveries lead to new and improved technologies.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.ETS2.3
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.LS1.1
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.LS3.1
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.LS3.2
Science Lesson : Plant Growth
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.LS3.2
Science Lesson : Plant Growth
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.LS4.2
Science Lesson : Ecosystem Dynamics
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.LS4.2
Science Lesson : Conservation of Matter
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements of the physical properties of matter to explain phase changes between a solid, liquid, or gas.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS1.1
Science Lesson : Conservation of Matter
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS1.2
Science Lesson : Conservation of Matter
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Design a process to measure how different variables (temperature, particle size, stirring) affect the rate of dissolving solids into liquids.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS1.3
Science Lesson : Conservation of Matter
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate the results of an experiment to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances result in a change of properties.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS1.4
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed and direction of motion of objects.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS2.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS2.2
Science Lesson : Friction and Motion
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS2.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to support that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed toward the Earth’s center.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS2.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

Explain the cause and effect relationship of two factors (mass and distance) that affect gravity.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS2.4
Science Lesson : Engineering Roller Coasters
State: TN
Standards: Tennessee Academic Standards for Science
Performance Expectation:

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.
Grades: 5
State ID: 5.PS2.5

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s K-8 integrated science curriculum is aligned with Tennessee Academic Standards for Science.

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