K-8 NGSS Connections & Kits

Grade K

NGSS

Description: Students explore how animals change the environment to meet their needs. (NGSS: K-LS1-1, K-ESS2-2)

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Grade K

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students explore the warming effects of the sun and learn about the engineering design process as they help design and build a covering to block the sun. (NGSS: K-PS3-2)

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Grade K

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students explore slopes and speed as they help study a real-world example to design safe ways to slow a bicycle. (NGSS: K-PS2-1, K-PS2-2)

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Grade K

NGSS

Description: Students learn about needs of organisms (iʻa) in the tidepools (kāheka) to create a model showing the relationship between the needs of organisms and the places they live.

Uses Pāhana ʻĀina Lupalupa Books

(NGSS: K-LS1-1, K-ESS3-1)

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Grade 1

NGSS

Description: Students explore how vibrating materials make sounds and how sounds make things vibrate. Students build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. (NGSS: 1-PS4-1, 1-PS4-4)

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Grade 1

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students explore various materials and shadows to help create the scenery of a shadow box theater. (NGSS: 1-PS4-3)

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Grade 1

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students learn about fair tests to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different helicopter designs to build a helicopter. (NGSS: K-2-ETS1-2, K-2 ETS1-3,1-LS1-1)

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Grade 3

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students study animal needs, habitats, and range. Then they plan, build, and test a model of a wildlife corridor that will help animals cross a busy road safely. (NGSS: 3-LS4-4)

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Grade 3

NGSS

Description: Students learn about life cycles of organisms found in Hawaiʻi to explain the impact of Lā Holoholo Days at Paepae O Heʻeia. Uses Pāhana ʻĀina Lupalupa Books

(NGSS: 3-LS1-1)

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Grade 4

NGSS

Description: Students explore the effects of different types of flooding to develop a design that prevents flood damage. (NGSS: 4-PS3-1, 4-ESS3-1, 3-5 ETS1-1)

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Grade 4

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students learn how to use codes to protect information. then they design, build, and test a code transmission system. (NGSS 4-PS4-3)

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Grade 4

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students explore the effects of erosion, weathering, and landslides on the Earth’s surface. Their challenge is to code a robot to collect minerals that have surfaces in areas unsafe for humans to go. (NGSS: 4-ESS1-1, 4-ESS2-1, 5-PS1-3)

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Grade 4

NGSS

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Grade 5

STEM

Description: Students investigate open and closed systems and how certain factors influence the reaction rate of Alka Seltzer and water. Students develop a rocket fuel mixture based on evidence from investigations and create a model to describe what caused the rocket to launch. (NGSS: 5-PS1-1, 5-PS1-2)

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Grade 5

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students investigate sources and types of water pollution. Then they design, build, and test a model of subsoil that filters water through a rain garden. (NGSS: 5-PS1-3, 5-ESS2-1, 5-ESS2-2, 5-ESS3-1)

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Grade 5

STEM

(hand2mind)

Description: Students identify materials based on their properties, evaluate competitor's toys, and design a superior toy to sell. (NGSS: 5-PS1-2, 5-PS1-3)

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Grade 6

NGSS

Description: Students learn about what coral need to survive and how changes in global temperatures affect them.  Students develop a system that allows coral to grow and propagate. (NGSS: MS-PS3-3, MS-LS1-5, ESS3-5, MS-ETS1-3)

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Grade 6

NGSS

Description: Students investigate different forms of energy and observe how the energy is transferred all around us in our daily lives. Students create an argument to justify whether a car collision is a weak or strong transfer of energy. (NGSS: MS-PS3-5, CCSS Math 6.SP.2, CCSS Math 6.RP.3)

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Grade 6

STEM

Description: Students investigate how the amount of Alka Seltzer and temperature of water influence the amount of energy transferred in an Alka Seltzer and water reaction. Students develop a rocket fuel mixture based on evidence from investigations. (NGSS: MS-PS3-4, MS-PS3-5, CCSS Math 6.RP.3)

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Grade 7

NGSS

Description: Students learn about what coral need to survive and how changes in global temperatures affect them.  Students develop a system that allows coral to grow and propagate. (NGSS: MS-PS3-3, MS-LS1-5, ESS3-5, MS-ETS1-3)

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Grade 8

NGSS

Description: Students investigate different forms of energy and observe how the energy is transferred all around us in our daily lives. Students create an argument to justify whether a car collision is a weak or strong transfer of energy. (NGSS: MS-PS3-5, CCSS Math 6.SP.2, CCSS Math 6.RP.3)

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