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3-LS4-2 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

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3-5
3

3-LS4-3 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

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Grade: 
3-5
3

3-LS4-4 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.*

Performance Expectation

Grade: 
3-5
3

3-ESS2-1 Earth's Systems

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

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Grade: 
3-5
3

3-ESS2-2 Earth's Systems

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

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Grade: 
3-5
3

3-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.*

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Grade: 
3-5
3

4-PS3-1 Energy

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

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3-5
4

4-PS3-2 Energy

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

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3-5
4

4-PS3-3 Energy

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

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3-5
4

4-PS3-4 Energy

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

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Grade: 
3-5
4