Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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Forces and Levers UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3-PS2-1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Provide evidence to explain the effect of multiple forces, including friction, on an object. Include balanced forces that do not change the motion of the object and unbalanced forces that do change the motion of the object.
Earth Materials and Water Flow UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.1.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data to reveal patterns that indicate typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. Emphasize students gathering data in a variety of ways and representing data in tables and graphs.
Earth Materials and Water Flow UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.1.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain and communicate information to describe climate patterns in different regions of the world. Emphasize how climate patterns can be used to predict typical weather conditions.

Engineering Permeable Concrete UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.1.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design a solution that reduces the effects of a weather-related hazard. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution.

Frog Life Cycle UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.2.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop and use models to describe changes that organisms go through during their life cycles. Emphasize that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but follow a pattern of birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Selecting Traits UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.2.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns of traits that plants and animals have inherited from parents. Emphasize the similarities and differences in traits between parent organisms and offspring and variation of traits in groups of similar organisms.

Selecting Traits UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.2.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an explanation that the environment can affect the traits of an organism.

Selecting Traits UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.2.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an explanation showing how variations in traits and behaviors can affect the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce.
Selecting Traits UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.2.5 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Engage in argument from evidence that in a particular habitat (system) some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. Emphasize that organisms and habitats form systems in which the parts depend upon each other.

Energy and Collisions UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time.
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time
Energy Transfer and Levers UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time.
Engineering Launchers UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time.
Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an explanation that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward, toward the center of the spherical Earth. Emphasize that "downward" is a local description depending on one's position on Earth.

Energy Transfer and Levers UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an explanation that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward, toward the center of the spherical Earth. Emphasize that "downward" is a local description depending on one's position on Earth.

Current Electricity UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions to plan and carry out an investigation cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. Emphasize how static electricity and magnets can cause objects to move without touching
Engineering Electric Cars UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 3.3.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions to plan and carry out an investigation cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. Emphasize how static electricity and magnets can cause objects to move without touching.

Water Erosion UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4-ESS3-1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain information to describe that energy and fuels humans use are derived from natural resources and that some energy and fuel sources are renewable and some are not.

Forces and Levers UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4-PS3-2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Waves and Energy UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4-PS3-2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Waves and Energy UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4-PS4-1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop a model of a simple mechanical wave (including sound) to communicate that waves (a) are regular patterns of motion along which energy travels and (b) can cause objects to move.
Plant Structures UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Frog Life Cycle UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Mealworm Senses UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Selecting Traits UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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

Mealworm Senses UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Develop and use a model of a system to describe how animals receive different types of information from their environment through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information. Emphasize how animals are able to use their perceptions and memories to guide their actions.
Changing Earth's Surface UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the stability and change in organisms and environments from long ago. Emphasize using the structures of fossils to make inferences about ancient organisms.

Water Erosion UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Engage in argument from evidence based on patterns in rock layers and fossils found in those layers to support an explanation that environments have changed over time. Emphasize the relationship between fossils and past environments.
Changing Earth's Surface UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.1.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Engage in argument from evidence based on patterns in rock layers and fossils found in those layers to support an explanation that environments have changed over time. Emphasize the relationship between fossils and past environments.

Energy and Collisions UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an explanation to describe the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Emphasize using qualitative descriptions of the relationship between speed and energy like fast, slow, strong, or weak.
Energy and Collisions UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions and make observations about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. Emphasize that energy is transferred when objects collide and may be converted to different forms of energy.
Engineering Electric Cars UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Pitch and Volume UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Engineering Information Transfer UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Current Electricity UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Engineering Information Transfer UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design a device that converts energy from one form to another. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution. Emphasize identifying the initial and final forms of energy.

Engineering Launchers UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.2.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design a device that converts energy from one form to another. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution. Emphasize identifying the initial and final forms of energy.

Pitch and Volume UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.3.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop and use a model to describe the regular patterns of waves. Emphasize patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength.
Engineering Information Transfer UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.3.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop and use a model to describe how visible light waves reflected from objects enter the eye causing objects to be seen. Emphasize the reflection and movement of light.

Engineering Information Transfer UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 4.3.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design a solution to an information transfer problem using wave patterns. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution.

Waves and Energy UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5-PS1-1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use a particle model of matter to explain common phenomena involving gases, and phase changes between gas and liquid and between liquid and solid.
Forces and Levers UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5-PS2-1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Support an argument with evidence that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed toward Earth’s center.
Food Webs UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5-PS3-1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use a model to describe that the food animals digest (a) contains energy that was once energy from the sun, and (b) provides energy and nutrients for life processes, including body repair, growth, motion, body warmth, and reproduction.
Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.1.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data to describe patterns of Earth's features. Emphasize most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans while major mountain chains may be found inside continents or near their edges.
Changing Earth's Surface UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.1.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Analyze and interpret data to describe patterns of Earth's features. Emphasize most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans while major mountain chains may be found inside continents or near their edges.
Earth Materials and Water Flow UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.1.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Use mathematics and computational thinking to compare the quantity of saltwater and freshwater in various reservoirs to provide evidence for the distribution of water on Earth. Emphasize reservoirs such as oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, groundwater, and polar ice caps.
Water Erosion UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.1.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence for the effects of weathering and the rate of erosion on the geosphere. Emphasize weathering and erosion by water, ice, wind, gravity, or vegetation.

Changing Earth's Surface UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.1.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence for the effects of weathering and the rate of erosion on the geosphere. Emphasize weathering and erosion by water, ice, wind, gravity, or vegetation.
Earth Materials and Water Flow UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.1.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop a model to describe interactions between Earth's systems including the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere. Emphasize interactions between only two systems at a time.

Engineering Permeable Concrete UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.1.5 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Design solutions to reduce the effects of naturally occurring events that impact humans. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution. Emphasize that humans cannot eliminate natural hazards, but they can take steps to reduce their impacts.

Pitch and Volume UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Properties of Matter UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

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.

Current Electricity UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 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.
Engineering Electric Cars UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations to identify substances based on patterns of their properties. Emphasize using properties to identify substances.
Engineering Information Transfer UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations to identify substances based on patterns of their properties. Emphasize using properties to identify substances.

Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations to identify substances based on patterns of their properties. Emphasize using properties to identify substances.

Current Electricity UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations to identify substances based on patterns of their properties. Emphasize using properties to identify substances.
Pitch and Volume UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4 Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations to identify substances based on patterns of their properties. Emphasize using properties to identify substances.
Water Erosion UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.2.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Plan and carry out investigations to determine the effect of combining two or more substances. Emphasize whether a new substance is or is not created by the formation of a new substance with different properties
Plant Structures UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.3.1 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Construct an explanation that plants use air, water, and energy from sunlight to produce plant matter needed for growth. Emphasize photosynthesis at a conceptual level and that plant matter comes mostly from air and water, not from the soil.

Food Webs UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.3.2 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information that animals obtain energy and matter from the food they eat for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth. Emphasize that the energy used by animals was once energy from the Sun.
Food Webs UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.3.3 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Develop and use a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Emphasize that matter cycles between the air and soil and among plants, animals, and microbes as these organisms live and die.

Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment UT Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards 5.3.4 [{id=111674358584, createdAt=1681899835616, updatedAt=1681899838563, 1='{type=string, value=4}'}] 4

Evaluate design solutions whose primary function is to conserve Earth's environments and resources. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, analyze available data on proposed solutions, and determine an optimal solution.
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Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards.

Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation: Provide evidence to explain the effect of multiple forces, including friction, on an object. Include balanced forces that do not change the motion of the object and unbalanced forces that do change the motion of the object.
Grades: 4
State ID: 3-PS2-1
Science Lesson : Earth Materials and Water Flow
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data to reveal patterns that indicate typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. Emphasize students gathering data in a variety of ways and representing data in tables and graphs.
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.1.1
Science Lesson : Earth Materials and Water Flow
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and communicate information to describe climate patterns in different regions of the world. Emphasize how climate patterns can be used to predict typical weather conditions.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.1.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Permeable Concrete
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Design a solution that reduces the effects of a weather-related hazard. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.1.3
Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Develop and use models to describe changes that organisms go through during their life cycles. Emphasize that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but follow a pattern of birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.2.1
Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns of traits that plants and animals have inherited from parents. Emphasize the similarities and differences in traits between parent organisms and offspring and variation of traits in groups of similar organisms.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.2.2
Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Construct an explanation that the environment can affect the traits of an organism.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.2.3
Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Construct an explanation showing how variations in traits and behaviors can affect the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce.
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.2.4
Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Engage in argument from evidence that in a particular habitat (system) some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. Emphasize that organisms and habitats form systems in which the parts depend upon each other.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.2.5
Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time.
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.1
Science Lesson : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.1
Science Lesson : Energy Transfer and Levers
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time.
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time.
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.1
Science Lesson : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Forces
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Construct an explanation that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward, toward the center of the spherical Earth. Emphasize that "downward" is a local description depending on one's position on Earth.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.3
Science Lesson : Energy Transfer and Levers
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Construct an explanation that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward, toward the center of the spherical Earth. Emphasize that "downward" is a local description depending on one's position on Earth.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.3
Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to plan and carry out an investigation cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. Emphasize how static electricity and magnets can cause objects to move without touching
Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.4
Science Lesson : Engineering Electric Cars
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to plan and carry out an investigation cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. Emphasize how static electricity and magnets can cause objects to move without touching.

Grades: 4
State ID: 3.3.4
Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Obtain information to describe that energy and fuels humans use are derived from natural resources and that some energy and fuel sources are renewable and some are not.

Grades: 4
State ID: 4-ESS3-1
Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation: Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4-PS3-2
Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4-PS3-2
Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model of a simple mechanical wave (including sound) to communicate that waves (a) are regular patterns of motion along which energy travels and (b) can cause objects to move.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4-PS4-1
Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

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

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.1
Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

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

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.1
Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

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

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.1
Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

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

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.1
Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation: Develop and use a model of a system to describe how animals receive different types of information from their environment through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information. Emphasize how animals are able to use their perceptions and memories to guide their actions.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.2
Science Lesson : Changing Earth's Surface
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the stability and change in organisms and environments from long ago. Emphasize using the structures of fossils to make inferences about ancient organisms.

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.3
Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Engage in argument from evidence based on patterns in rock layers and fossils found in those layers to support an explanation that environments have changed over time. Emphasize the relationship between fossils and past environments.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.4
Science Lesson : Changing Earth's Surface
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Engage in argument from evidence based on patterns in rock layers and fossils found in those layers to support an explanation that environments have changed over time. Emphasize the relationship between fossils and past environments.

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.1.4
Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Construct an explanation to describe the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Emphasize using qualitative descriptions of the relationship between speed and energy like fast, slow, strong, or weak.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4.2.1
Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions and make observations about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. Emphasize that energy is transferred when objects collide and may be converted to different forms of energy.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4.2.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Electric Cars
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 4.2.3
Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 4.2.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Information Transfer
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 4.2.3
Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 4.2.3
Science Lesson : Engineering Information Transfer
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Design a device that converts energy from one form to another. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution. Emphasize identifying the initial and final forms of energy.

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.2.4
Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Design a device that converts energy from one form to another. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution. Emphasize identifying the initial and final forms of energy.

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.2.4
Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Develop and use a model to describe the regular patterns of waves. Emphasize patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength.
Grades: 4
State ID: 4.3.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Information Transfer
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Develop and use a model to describe how visible light waves reflected from objects enter the eye causing objects to be seen. Emphasize the reflection and movement of light.

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.3.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Information Transfer
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Design a solution to an information transfer problem using wave patterns. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution.

Grades: 4
State ID: 4.3.3
Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Use a particle model of matter to explain common phenomena involving gases, and phase changes between gas and liquid and between liquid and solid.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5-PS1-1
Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument with evidence that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed toward Earth’s center.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5-PS2-1
Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Use a model to describe that the food animals digest (a) contains energy that was once energy from the sun, and (b) provides energy and nutrients for life processes, including body repair, growth, motion, body warmth, and reproduction.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5-PS3-1
Science Lesson : Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data to describe patterns of Earth's features. Emphasize most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans while major mountain chains may be found inside continents or near their edges.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5.1.1
Science Lesson : Changing Earth's Surface
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data to describe patterns of Earth's features. Emphasize most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans while major mountain chains may be found inside continents or near their edges.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5.1.1
Science Lesson : Earth Materials and Water Flow
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Use mathematics and computational thinking to compare the quantity of saltwater and freshwater in various reservoirs to provide evidence for the distribution of water on Earth. Emphasize reservoirs such as oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, groundwater, and polar ice caps.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5.1.2
Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence for the effects of weathering and the rate of erosion on the geosphere. Emphasize weathering and erosion by water, ice, wind, gravity, or vegetation.

Grades: 4
State ID: 5.1.3
Science Lesson : Changing Earth's Surface
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation: Ask questions to plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence for the effects of weathering and the rate of erosion on the geosphere. Emphasize weathering and erosion by water, ice, wind, gravity, or vegetation.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5.1.3
Science Lesson : Earth Materials and Water Flow
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe interactions between Earth's systems including the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere. Emphasize interactions between only two systems at a time.

Grades: 4
State ID: 5.1.4
Science Lesson : Engineering Permeable Concrete
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Design solutions to reduce the effects of naturally occurring events that impact humans. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution. Emphasize that humans cannot eliminate natural hazards, but they can take steps to reduce their impacts.

Grades: 4
State ID: 5.1.5
Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.1
Science Lesson : Properties of Matter
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.1
Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.1
Science Lesson : Engineering Electric Cars
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.2
Science Lesson : Engineering Information Transfer
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.2
Science Lesson : Plate Tectonics and Landform Patterns
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.2
Science Lesson : Current Electricity
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.2
Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
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: 4
State ID: 5.2.2
Science Lesson : Water Erosion
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out investigations to determine the effect of combining two or more substances. Emphasize whether a new substance is or is not created by the formation of a new substance with different properties
Grades: 4
State ID: 5.2.3
Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Construct an explanation that plants use air, water, and energy from sunlight to produce plant matter needed for growth. Emphasize photosynthesis at a conceptual level and that plant matter comes mostly from air and water, not from the soil.

Grades: 4
State ID: 5.3.1
Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information that animals obtain energy and matter from the food they eat for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth. Emphasize that the energy used by animals was once energy from the Sun.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5.3.2
Science Lesson : Food Webs
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Develop and use a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Emphasize that matter cycles between the air and soil and among plants, animals, and microbes as these organisms live and die.

Grades: 4
State ID: 5.3.3
Science Lesson : Hydroelectric Dams and the Environment
State: UT
Standards: Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Performance Expectation:

Evaluate design solutions whose primary function is to conserve Earth's environments and resources. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, analyze available data on proposed solutions, and determine an optimal solution.
Grades: 4
State ID: 5.3.4
This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom's K-8 hands-on integrated curriculum aligns with Utah Science With Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards.
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