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Focus Question #1: How does energy move and change?

1. Evidence of energy is all around us.

2. Energy can change and can move from place to place.

3. Energy can move via electric currents.

4. Motion, light, and stored energy can be converted to electrical energy.

Focus Question #2: What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different energy resources used to generate electricity?

1. Motion, light, and stored energy can be converted to electrical energy on a large scale.

2. Obtaining and using energy resources can impact the environment.

3. Obtaining and using energy resources can impact the environment.

4. Some energy resources are renewable and others are not, but all impact the environment in some way.

5. Solutions to problems consider criteria and constraints and are based on research.

Focus Question #3: How does electricity power our devices?

1. Solutions to problems consider criteria and constraints and are based on research.

2. Electric circuits are designed so that electrical energy can power devices.

3. Electric circuits are designed so that electrical energy can power devices.

Science Challenge

Focus Question #4: How can you design a house that runs on renewable energy?

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Focus Question #1: How do volcanoes and earthquakes affect humans?

1. Maps and globes represent major features on Earth.

2. There are patterns in the location of some features of Earth.

3. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions can cause hazards for humans.

4. The periodic motion of water waves affects objects differently in deep water and when coming ashore.

Focus Question #2: How can humans protect themselves from earthquakes?

5. Earthquake shaking hazards vary with distance.

6. Earthquake impacts on humans can be reduced through engineering.

7. Buildings can be designed to keep humans safe during earthquakes.

Focus Question #3: How do Earth processes change the landscape?

8. Erosion by wind, water, glacier movement, and earthquake shaking can change landscapes.

9. Weathering and erosion processes break up rocks and move the pieces around.

10. Plants can both contribute to weathering and erosion and limit the effects of these processes.

Focus Question #4: How do rock layers show that landscape change?

11. Rock layers hold evidence of past landscapes.

12. Rock layers hold evidence of past landscapes and landscape changes (Landscape Match Game)

13. Rock layers hold evidence of past landscapes and landscape changes (Red Rock Story)

Science Challenge

Focus Question #5: How can we use evidence to tell the story of a changing Earth?

14. Part 1: Evidence of a changing Earth comes in many forms and can be found all around us.

15. Part 2: Evidence of a changing Earth comes in many forms and can be found all around us.

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Focus Question #1: How does motion energy move and change? 

1. Moving objects have motion energy.

2. Heat, light, and sound are evidence for energy.

3. Motion energy can change into heat, light, and sound.

4. Motion energy can move to another object in a collision.

Focus Question #2: How does speed affect motion energy?

5. Faster objects produce more sound in a collision.

6. Faster objects have more motion energy.

7. Plants and animals have structures that help them move fast.

Focus Question #3: What causes moving objects to slow down?

8. Motion energy changes to heat when an object slides on a surface.

9. Motion energy changes to heat when an object moves through the air.

10. Motion energy changes to heat when a soft object deforms.

Science Challenge

Focus Question #4: How can we protect our brains in a collision?

11. It is important to protect our brain.

12. Several solutions to a problem need to be considered.

13. A solution to a problem needs to be tested.