I can explain how motion energy can move and change in a collision. 

• Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. 

• Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. 

• Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. 

• Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. 

• Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. 

Module Alignment to Next Generation Standards 

I can explain how energy moves and changes, and how people obtain sources of energy and convert them for practical purposes. 

• Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. 

• Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. 

• Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved. 

• Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. 

• Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.* 

• Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. 

 Module Alignment to Next Generation Standards 

I can identify, analyze, and explain evidence that we live on a changing planet.  

1. • Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. 

   • Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. 

   • Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features. 

   • Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.* 

   • Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move. 

   • Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. 

Module Alignment to Next Generation Standards 

I can describe how animals, including humans, use their internal and external structures to sense the world around them, process information, communicate information to others, and react accordingly. 

1. • Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. 

   • Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways. 

   • Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. 

   • Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.* 

   • Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.  

Module Alignment to Next Generation  Standards