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- G7 (Age 12) Human Response to Natural Hazards..Students analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.
- G7 (Age 12) Tectonic Plates..Students analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
- G7 (Age 12) Ecosystems and the Food Web..Students use the food web to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
- G7 (Age 12) Food Undergoes Chemical Reactions That Release Energy And Support Growth..Students develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
- K (Age 5) Weather Forecasting Can Help People Prepare for Severe Weather,,Explain how some kinds of weather are more likely than other kinds in a given region. Explain how scientists use observable patterns to forecast severe weather so that communities can prepare for and respond to these events.
- G7 (Age 12) Synthetic Materials Come From Natural Resources..Students recognize that synthetic materials are derived from natural resources and impact society.
- G7 (Age 12) The Distribution of Earth Resources Is Due to Geoscience Processes..Students construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.
- G7 (Age12) Geoscience Processes Change the Earth's Surface..Students construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
- G7 (Age 12) Biodiversity Is a Measure of an Ecosystem's Health..Students evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
- G7 (Age 12) Mass Is Conserved in a Chemical Reaction..Students develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.
- G7 (Age 12) Energy From the Earth's Interior and the Sun Drive Earth Processes..Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy derived from the sun and Earth’s hot interior that drives this process.
- G7 (Age 12) Changes to Ecosystems Affect Populations..Students construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
- G7 (Age 12) Patterns of Interactions in Ecosystems..Students construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
- G7 (Age 12) Resources Limit The Growth of Organisms in an Ecosystem..Students analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
- G7 (Age 12) Photosynthesis Converts Energy From Light Into Chemical Energy..Students construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
- G7 (Age 12) Chemical Reactions Can Release or Store Energy..Students undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
- G7 (Age 12) Thermal Energy and States of Matter..Students develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
- G7 (Age 12) Chemical Reactions and Properties of Substances,..Students analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
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