education standards

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.

Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.

Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.

Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface.

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.

Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps its function as needed to solve a given problem.

Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.