Teaching Standards by Standard - Unit 1
Next Generation Science Standards: Disciplinary Core Ideas
Earth Science
ESS2.E Biogeology (3-5)
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ESS3.A Natural resources (K-2)
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
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ESS3.C Human impacts on Earth systems (3-5)
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Life Science
LS1.C Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms (K-2)
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
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LS1.C Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms (3-5)
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
LS2.A Interdependent relationships in ecosystems (K-2)
- Lesson 2 Plants Around Us
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
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LS2.A Interdependent relationship in ecosystems (3-5)
- Lesson 2 Plants Around Us
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
LS2.A Interdependent relationships in ecosystems (6-8)
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LS2.C Ecosystem dynamics, functioning, and resilience (3-5)
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LS3.B Variation of Traits (3)
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LS4.B Natural Selection (3)
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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LS4.C Adaptations (3-5)
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
LS4.D Biodiversity and humans (K-2)
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
- Lesson 2 Plants Around Us
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
LS4.D Biodiversity and humans (3-5)
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
- Lesson 2 Plants Around Us
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
Next Generation Science Standards: Science and Engineering Practices
The eight practices of science and engineering that the Framework identifies as essential for all students to learn and describes in detail are listed below.
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
Next Generation Science Standards: Crosscutting Concepts
1. Patterns. Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification, and they prompt questions about relationships and the factors that influence them.
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
2. Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation. Events have causes, sometimes simple, sometimes multifaceted. A major activity of science is investigating and explaining causal relationships and the mechanisms by which they are mediated. Such mechanisms can then be tested across given contexts and used to predict and explain events in new contexts.
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
- Lesson 2 Plants Around Us
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
3. Scale, proportion, and quantity. In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance.
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
4. Systems and system models. Defining the system under study—specifying its boundaries and making explicit a model of that system—provides tools for understanding and testing ideas that are applicable throughout science and engineering.
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
5. Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation. Tracking fluxes of energy and matter into, out of, and within systems helps one understand the systems’ possibilities and limitations.
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
6. Structure and function. The way in which an object or living thing is shaped and its substructure determine many of its properties and functions.
7. Stability and change. For natural and built systems alike, conditions of stability and determinants of rates of change or evolution of a system are critical elements of study.
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change
Common Core State Standards Connections
CCSS: English Language Arts/ Literacy: Reading
RI.3.1
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RI.3.2
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RI.3.3
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
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RI.3.7
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RI.4.7
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RI.5.7
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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RI.5.9
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CCSS: ELA/Literacy: Writing
W.3.2
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W.3.7
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W.3.8
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W.4.2
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W.4.7
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W.4.8
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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W.5.7
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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W.5.8
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
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CCSS: ELA/Literacy: Speaking and Listening
SL.3.4
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CCSS: Mathematics: Mathematical Practice
MP.2
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MP.5
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CCSS: Mathematics: Measurement & Data
3.MD.B.4
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National Geography Standards
1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
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2. How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environment
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4. The physical and human characteristics of places
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5. That people create regions to interpret Earth’s complexity
- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
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8. The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems and biomes on Earth’s surface
- Lesson 1 Animals Around Us
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- Lesson 3 Habitats and Communities
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14. How human actions modify the physical environment
- Lesson 4 How Habitats Change