KY SCIENCE STANDARDS

Disciplinary Code Ideas

ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth

• Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old seafloor at trenches. (secondary to MS-ESS2-3)

ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems

• The planet’s systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global in size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years. These interactions have shaped Earth’s history and will determine its future. (MS-ESS2-2)

ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

• Maps of ancient land and water patterns, based on investigations of rocks and fossils, make clear how Earth’s plates have moved great distances, collided, and spread apart. (MS-ESS2-3)

ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes

• Water’s movements—both on the land and underground—cause weathering and erosion, which change the land’s surface features and create underground formations. (MS-ESS2-2)

ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems

• All Earth processes are the result of energy flowing and matter cycling within and among the planet’s systems. This energy is derived from the sun and Earth’s hot interior. The energy that flows and matter that cycles produce chemical and physical changes in Earth’s materials and living organisms. (MS-ESS2-1)

Cross Cutting Concepts

• Patterns in rates of change and other numerical relationships can provide information about natural systems. (MS-ESS2-3)

• Time, space, and energy phenomena can be observed at various scales using models to study systems that are too large or too small. (MS-ESS2-2)

• Explanations of stability and change in natural or designed systems can be constructed by examining the changes over time and processes at different scales, including the atomic scale. (MS-ESS2-1)

NGSS STANDARDS and Learning Targets

NGSS Standards:

ESS2-2. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.

ESS2-3. Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.

ESS2-1.Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.

ESS 2-2

• I can explain how geoscience processes (earthquakes, volcanoes and meteor impacts) behave and shape Earth’s landscape by using a model to demonstrate patterns within various systems and phenomena.

ESS 2-3

• I can use patterns of changes to provide evidence of past plate motion and processes based on investigations of natural systems.

ESS 2-1

• I can explain how constructive and destructive forces and processes create, destroy and recycle matter to change the Earth over time.