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| Generation Genius Lesson | State | Standards Document | Grade | State ID | Standards | Sort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.1.K.C3 | Describe changes that occur as a result of climate. | 1 | |
| PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A.4 | Know that technologies include physical technology systems (e.g., construction, manufacturing, transportation), informational systems and biochemical-related systems. | 2 | |
| PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A1 | Describe basic landforms. | 2 | |
| PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A6 | Identify basic landforms using models and simple maps. | 2 | |
| PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A.3 | Describe the purpose of analyzing systems. | 2 | |
| PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.E.1 | Recognize change as fundamental to science and technology concepts. | 2 | |
| PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B.2 | Use observations to develop a descriptive vocabulary. | 2 | |
| Adaptations and the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.C1 | Recognize that plants survive through adaptations, such as stem growth towards light and root growth downward in response to gravity. | 2 |
| Adaptations and the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.1.5.C2 | Give examples of how inherited characteristics (e.g., shape of beak, length of neck, location of eyes, shape of teeth) may change over time as adaptations to changes in the environment that enable organisms to survive. | 2 |
| Animal & Planet Life Cycles | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A.3 | Describe basic needs of plants and animals. | 2 |
| Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.1.2.A3 | Identify similarities and differences in the life cycles of plants and animals. | 1 |
| Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.1.K.A3 | Observe, compare, and describe stages of life cycles for plants and/or animals. | 1 |
| Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.A3 | Identify differences in the life cycles of plants and animals. | 2 |
| Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A3 | Identify differences in the life cycles of plants and animals. | 2 |
| Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A8 | Construct and interpret models and diagrams of various animal and plant life cycles. | 2 |
| Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.B2 | Recognize that reproduction is necessary for the continuation of life. | 2 |
| Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.1.5.A3 | Compare and contrast the similarities and differences in life cycles of different organisms. | 2 |
| Animal Group Behavior; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.1.5.C1 | Describe how organisms meet some of their needs in an environment by using behaviors (patterns of activities) in response to information (stimuli) received from the environment. | 2 |
| Animal Group Behavior; Adaptations and the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.C1 | Identify different characteristics of plants and animals that help some populations survive and reproduce in greater numbers. | 2 |
| Balanced & Unbalanced Forces; Collisions | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.B1 | Explain how mass of an object resists change to motion. | 2 |
| Brain Processing of Senses; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B.1 | Recognize observational descriptors from each of the five senses (e.g., see-blue, feel-rough) | 2 |
| Brain Processing of Senses; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.C.3 | Conduct an experiment. | 2 |
| Brain Processing of Senses; How Do We Use Food; Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A.1 | Identify life processes of living things (e.g., growth, digestion, react to environment). | 2 |
| Brain Processing of Senses; Structure of Living Things; Adaptations and the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.C2 | Describe plant and animal adaptations that are important to survival. | 2 |
| Chemical vs. Physical Changes; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.2.2.A4 | Experiment and explain what happens when two or more substances are combined (e.g. mixing, dissolving, and separated (e.g. filtering, evaporation). | 1 |
| Chemical vs. Physical Changes; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A4 | Recognize that combining two or more substances may make new materials with different properties. | 2 |
| Classification of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A1 | Classify plants and animals according to the physical characteristics that they share. | 2 |
| Climate Zones & Ocean Currents; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.3.5.A5 | Explain how the cycling of water, both in and out of the atmosphere, has an effect on climate. | 2 |
| Collisions; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.B3 | Demonstrate how heat energy is usually a byproduct of an energy transformation. | 2 |
| Collisions; Energy Transfer; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B6 | Give examples of how energy can be transformed from one form to another. | 2 |
| Collisions; Energy Transfer; Wave Properties; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B2 | Explore energy’s ability to cause motion or create change. | 2 |
| Conservation of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.E.2 | Examine and explain change by using time and measurement. | 2 |
| Conservation of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A3 | Demonstrate the conservation of mass during physical changes such as melting or freezing. | 2 |
| Earth’s Orbit and Rotation; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B2 | Explain time (days, seasons) using solar system motions. | 2 |
| Earth’s Orbit and Rotation; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.3.5.B1 | Provide evidence that the earth revolves around (orbits) the sun in a year’s time and that the earth rotates on its axis once approximately every 24 hours. | 2 |
| Ecosystems; Structure of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A5 | Describe common functions living things share to help them function in a specific environment. | 2 |
| Electricity & Circuits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B4 | Identify and classify objects and materials that are conductors or insulators of electricity. | 2 |
| Electricity & Circuits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B4 | Apply knowledge of basic electrical circuits to the design and construction of simple direct current circuits. | 2 |
| Electricity & Circuits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B4 | Compare and contrast series and parallel circuits. | 2 |
| Energy Transfer; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B2 | Explore how energy can be found in moving objects, light, sound, and heat. | 2 |
| Energy Transfer; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.B2 | Examine how energy can be transferred from one form to another. | 2 |
| Energy Transfer; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B3 | Understand that objects that emit light often emit heat. | 2 |
| Energy Transfer; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.B4 | Demonstrate how electrical circuits provide a means of transferring electrical energy when heat, light, sound, and chemical changes are produced. | 2 |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A.2 | Identify system parts that are natural and human-made (e.g., ball point pen, simple electrical circuits, plant anatomy). | 2 |
| External Plant Parts (K-2 Series) | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.A5 | Identify the structures in plants that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection. | 2 |
| Extreme Weather Solutions; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.D.4 | Describe the solution, identify its impacts and modify if necessary. | 2 |
| Extreme Weather Solutions; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.D.2 | Identify possible solutions and their course of action. | 2 |
| Extreme Weather Solutions; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.D.3 | Try a solution. | 2 |
| Fossils & Extinction; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.1.2.C3 | Describe some plants and animals that once lived on Earth, (e.g., dinosaurs) but cannot be found anymore. Compare them to now living things that resemble them in some way (e.g. lizards and birds). | 1 |
| Fossils & Extinction; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.D.1 | Compare extinct life forms with living organisms. | 2 |
| Fossils & Extinction; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.C3 | Compare fossils to one another and to currently living organisms according to their anatomical similarities and differences. | 2 |
| Fossils & Extinction; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A3 | Recognize that fossils provide evidence about the plants and animals that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time. | 2 |
| Fossils & Extinction; Earth's Landscapes; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.C3 | Recognize that fossils provide us with information about living things that inhabited the Earth long ago. | 2 |
| Fossils & Extinction; Ecosystems; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.C1 | Describe how environmental changes can cause extinction in plants and animals. | 2 |
| Four Seasons and Day Length; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.1.K.C2 | Describe changes animals and plants undergo throughout the seasons. | 1 |
| Four Seasons and Day Length; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.3.K.A5 | Identify seasonal changes in the environment. | 1 |
| Habitats; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.1.1.C3 | Describe changes that occur as a result of habitat. | 1 |
| Heating and Cooling; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.A3 | Identify how heating, melting, cooling, etc., may cause changes in properties of materials. | 1 |
| Heating and Cooling; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.A4 | Observe and describe what happens when substances are heated or cooled. Distinguish between changes that are reversible (melting, freezing) and not reversible (e.g. baking a cake, burning fuel). | 1 |
| Heating and Cooling; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.2.2.A3 | Demonstrate how heating and cooling may cause changes in the properties of materials. | 1 |
| How Do We Use Food; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.B6 | Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow. | 1 |
| How Do We Use Food; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.2.2.B6 | Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow. | 1 |
| How Do We Use Food; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.2.K.B6 | Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow. | 1 |
| How Do We Use Food; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A2 | Describe the different resources that plants and animals need to live. | 2 |
| How Do We Use Food; Food Webs; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.1.5.A2 | Describe how life on earth depends on energy from the sun. | 2 |
| How Do We Use Food; Food Webs; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B6 | Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow. | 2 |
| How Do We Use Food; Living vs. Non-Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.A2 | Describe the basic needs of living things and their dependence on light, food, air, water, and shelter. | 2 |
| Human Body Systems; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B.2 | Determine how different parts of a living thing work together to make the organism function. | 2 |
| Interactions of Earth’s Spheres; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B3 | Explore temperature changes that result from the addition or removal of heat. | 2 |
| Introduction to Light; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.B5 | Compare and contrast how light travels through different materials. Explore how mirrors and prisms can be used to redirect a light beam. | 1 |
| Introduction to Sound (K-2 Series) | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.B5 | Relate the rate of vibration to the pitch of the sound. | 2 |
| Introduction to Traits; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.1.K.B1 | Observe and describe how young animals resemble their parents and other animals of the same kind. | 1 |
| Introduction to Weather; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.3.1.A5 | Become familiar with weather instruments. Collect, describe, and record basic information about weather over time. | 1 |
| Introduction to Weather; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.B3 | Observe and record daily temperatures. Draw conclusions from daily temperature records as related to heating and cooling. | 1 |
| Introduction to Weather; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.3.K.A5 | Distinguish between types of precipitation. | 1 |
| Introduction to Weather; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.3.K.A5 | Record daily weather conditions using simple charts and graphs | 1 |
| Light Reflection & Vision; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.B.3 | Apply appropriate simple modeling tools and techniques. | 2 |
| Light Reflection & Vision; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.B.2 | Identify and apply models as tools for prediction and insight. | 2 |
| Light Reflection & Vision; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B5 | Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one material to another. | 2 |
| Living vs. Non-Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.1.1.A1 | Categorize living and nonliving things by external characteristics. | 1 |
| Living vs. Non-Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.1.2.C2 | Explain that living things can only survive if their needs are being met. | 1 |
| Living vs. Non-Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.1.K.A1 | Identify the similarities and differences of living and nonliving things. | 1 |
| Magnets & Static Electricity; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B4 | Identify and classify objects and materials as magnetic or non-magnetic. | 2 |
| Magnets & Static Electricity; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B4 | Demonstrate that magnets have poles that repel and attract each other. | 2 |
| Magnets & Static Electricity; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.B4 | Demonstrate how electromagnets can be made and used. | 2 |
| Material Properties and Purposes; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.2.K.A1 | Identify and classify objects by observable properties of matter. Compare different kinds of materials and discuss their uses. | 1 |
| Moon & Its Phases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.A.1 | Identify and describe what parts make up a system. | 2 |
| Moon & Its Phases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.C.2 | Use knowledge of natural patterns to predict next occurrences (e.g., seasons, leaf patterns, lunar phases). | 2 |
| Moon & Its Phases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.3.3.B1 | Describe the changes that occur in the observable shape of the moon over the course of a month. | 2 |
| Moon & Its Phases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B2 | Identify major lunar phases. | 2 |
| Moon & Its Phases; Earth’s Orbit and Rotation; Sun and Other Stars; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.3.3.B1 | Relate the rotation of the earth and day/night, to the apparent movement of the sun, moon, and stars across the sky. | 2 |
| Moon & Its Phases; Sun and Other Stars; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B2 | Know the basic characteristics and uses of telescopes. | 2 |
| Multicellular Organisms; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B.1 | Identify examples of unicellular and multicellular organisms. | 2 |
| Natural Resource Distribution; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A2 | Identify basic properties and uses of Earth’s materials including rocks, soils, water, and gases of the atmosphere. | 2 |
| Natural Resources; Plant Growth Conditions; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.3.1.A1 | Observe, describe, and sort earth materials. Compare the composition of different soils. | 1 |
| Oceans, Lakes and Rivers; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.3.1.A4 | Identify and describe types of fresh and salt-water bodies (ocean, rivers, lakes, ponds). | 1 |
| Oceans, Lakes and Rivers; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.3.K.A4 | Identify sources of water for human consumption and use. | 1 |
| Oceans, Lakes and Rivers; Water Cycle (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.3.2.A4 | Explore and describe that water exists in solid (ice) and liquid (water) form. Explain and illustrate evaporation and condensation. | 1 |
| Particle Nature of Matter | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.D.1 | Identify the use of scale as it relates to the measurement of distance, volume and mass. | 2 |
| Particle Nature of Matter | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.D.2 | Describe scale as a ratio (e.g., map scales). | 2 |
| Particle Nature of Matter | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A2 | Demonstrate that materials are composed of parts that are too small to be seen without magnification. | 2 |
| Particle Nature of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.B.4 | Identify theories that serve as models (e.g., molecules). | 2 |
| Particle Nature of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.A1 | Differentiate between the three states of matter, classifying a substance as a solid, liquid, or gas. | 2 |
| Particle Nature of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.A3 | Demonstrate how heating and cooling may cause changes in the properties of materials including phase changes. | 2 |
| Particle Nature of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A1 | Compare and contrast solids, liquids, and gases based on their properties. | 2 |
| Particle Nature of Matter; Water Cycle (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.B.1 | Identify different types of models. | 2 |
| Parts of a Plant; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.1.1.A5 | Identify and describe plant parts and their function. | 1 |
| Parts of a Plant; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.1.2.A5 | Explain how different parts of a plant work together to make the organism function. | 1 |
| Patterns in the Sky; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.3.2.B1 | Observe, describe, and predict seasonal patterns of sunrise and sunset. | 1 |
| Patterns in the Sky; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.3.1.B1 | Explain why shadows fall in different places at different times of the day. | 1 |
| Patterns in the Sky; Moon & Its Phases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.3.2.B1 | Observe and record - location of the Sun and the Moon in the sky over a day. - changes in the appearance of the Moon over a month. | 1 |
| Patterns of Motion & Friction | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.E.3 | Describe relative motion. | 2 |
| Patterns of Motion & Friction; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.B1 | Explain how movement can be described in many ways. | 2 |
| Patterns of Motion & Friction; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B1 | Explain how an object’s change in motion can be observed and measured. | 2 |
| Plant & Animal Cells; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.1.5.A5 | Explain the concept of a cell as the basic unit of life. | 2 |
| Plant & Animal Cells; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.1.5.A5 | Compare and contrast plant and animal cells. | 2 |
| Plant Growth Conditions; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.3.K.A1 | Distinguish between three types of earth materials – rock, soil, and sand. | 1 |
| Plants Need Water And Light; Animal & Plant Life Cycles; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.1.1.B1 | Grow plants from seed and describe how they grow and change. Compare to adult plants. | 1 |
| Plants Need Water And Light; Animals Need Food; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.1.1.A2 | Investigate the dependence of living things on the sun’s energy, water, food/nutrients, air, living space, and shelter. | 1 |
| Properties of Matter | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.A2 | Recognize that all objects and materials in the world are made of matter. | 2 |
| Properties of Matter | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.A5 | Recognize that everything is made of matter. | 2 |
| Properties of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A1 | Identify and classify objects based on their observable and measurable physical properties. | 2 |
| Properties of Matter; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.A1 | Differentiate between properties of objects such as size, shape, and weight and properties of materials that make up the objects such as color, texture, and hardness. | 2 |
| Properties of Matter; Chemical vs. Physical Changes; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.E.4 | Describe the change to objects caused by heat, cold, light or chemicals. | 2 |
| Properties of Matter; Chemical vs. Physical Changes; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.2.3.A4 | Use basic reactions to demonstrate observable changes in properties of matter (e.g., burning, cooking). | 2 |
| Pushes and Pulls; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.B1 | Observe and describe how pushes and pulls change the motion of objects. | 1 |
| Pushes and Pulls; Patterns of Motion & Friction; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.B1 | Demonstrate various types of motion. | 1 |
| Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.3.5.A2 | Describe the usefulness of Earth’s physical resources as raw materials for the human made world. | 2 |
| Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Energy Transfer; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B2 | Identify types of energy and their ability to be stored and changed from one form to another. | 2 |
| Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Extreme Weather Solutions; Natural Disasters; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.D.5 | Show the steps taken and the results. | 2 |
| Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources; Extreme Weather Solutions; Natural Disasters; What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.D.1 | Recognize and explain basic problems. | 2 |
| Rocks & Minerals (Including Rock Cycle) | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.3.3.A2 | Identify the physical properties of minerals and demonstrate how minerals can be tested for these different physical properties. | 2 |
| Seasons and Day Length (K-2 Series) | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.C1 | Recognize that many plants and animals can survive harsh environments because of seasonal behaviors (e.g. hibernation, migration, trees shedding leaves). | 2 |
| Solids, Liquids and Gases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.A1 | Observe and describe the properties of liquids and solids. Investigate what happens when solids are mixed with water and other liquids are mixed with water. | 1 |
| Solids, Liquids and Gases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 1 | 3.2.1.A5 | Recognize that everything is made of matter. | 1 |
| Solids, Liquids and Gases; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.2.2.A5 | Recognize that everything is made of matter. | 1 |
| Solids, Liquids and Gases; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.2.K.A5 | Recognize that everything is made of matter. | 1 |
| Solids, Liquids and Gases; Heating and Cooling; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.2.K.A3 | Describe the way matter can change. | 1 |
| Structure of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A.2 | Know that some organisms have similar external characteristics (e.g., anatomical characteristics; appendages, type of covering, body segments) and that similarities and differences are related to environmental habitat. | 2 |
| Structure of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.A1 | Describe characteristics of living things that help to identify and classify them. | 2 |
| Structure of Living Things; Adaptations and the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.C.1 | Identify characteristics for animal and plant survival in different climates. | 2 |
| Structure of Living Things; Animal Group Behavior; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.C2 | Describe animal characteristics that are necessary for survival. | 2 |
| Sun and Other Stars; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.D.3 | Explain the importance of scale in producing models and apply it to a model. | 2 |
| Sunlight Warms the Earth; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.2.K.B3 | Describe how temperature can affect the body. | 1 |
| Sunlight Warms the Earth; Introduction to Sound; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 2 | 3.2.2.B2 | Explore and describe how different forms of energy cause changes. (e.g., sunlight, heat, wind) | 1 |
| Tectonic Plates; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A1 | Identify the layers of the earth. | 2 |
| The Five Senses; External Animal Parts; | PA | Academic Standards | Kindergarten | 3.1.K.A5 | Observe and describe structures and behaviors of a variety of common animals. | 1 |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B1 | Describe the earth’s place in the solar system that includes the sun (a star), planets, and many moons. | 2 |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B1 | Identify planets in our solar system and their basic characteristics. | 2 |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.B1 | Recognize that the universe contains many billions of galaxies and that each galaxy contains many billions of stars. | 2 |
| Variation of Traits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.B1 | Understand that plants and animals closely resemble their parents. | 2 |
| Variation of Traits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.1.3.B5 | Identify characteristics that appear in both parents and offspring. | 2 |
| Variation of Traits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.B1 | Describe features that are observable in both parents and their offspring. | 2 |
| Variation of Traits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.B5 | Identify observable patterns in the physical characteristics of plants or groups of animals. | 2 |
| Variation of Traits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.1.5.B1 | Differentiate between inherited and acquired characteristics of plants and animals. | 2 |
| Variation of Traits; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.C.2 | identify physical characteristics that appear in both parents and offspring and differ between families, strains or species. | 2 |
| Water Cycle (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A5 | Use models to demonstrate the physical change as water goes from liquid to ice and from liquid to vapor. | 2 |
| Water Cycle (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.A1 | Describe how water can be changed from one state to another by adding or taking away heat. | 2 |
| Water Cycle (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A4 | Describe phase changes in the forms of water on Earth. | 2 |
| Water Cycle (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.3.5.A4 | Explain the basic components of the water cycle. | 2 |
| Water Cycle (3-5 Version); Weathering & Erosion; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A6 | Identify simple changes in the earth system as air, water, soil and rock interact. | 2 |
| Water Quality & Distribution; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A4 | Recognize Earth’s different water resources, including both fresh and saltwater. | 2 |
| Wave Properties; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B5 | Demonstrate how vibrating objects make sound and sound can make things vibrate. | 2 |
| Wave Properties; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.2.5.B5 | Compare the characteristics of sound as it is transmitted through different materials. | 2 |
| Wave Properties; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.1.4.C.1 | Identify observable patterns (e.g., growth patterns in plants, crystal shapes in minerals, climate, structural patterns in bird feathers). | 2 |
| Wave Reflection, Absorption & Transmittance; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.B5 | Demonstrate how light can be reflected, refracted, or absorbed by an object. | 2 |
| Weather vs. Climate; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.3.3.A4 | Connect the various forms of precipitation to the weather in a particular place and time. | 2 |
| Weather vs. Climate; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.3.3.A5 | Explain how air temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and precipitation make up the weather in a particular place and time. | 2 |
| Weather vs. Climate; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A5 | Describe basic weather elements. | 2 |
| Weather vs. Climate; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A5 | Identify weather patterns over time. | 2 |
| Weather vs. Climate; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A6 | Explain how basic weather elements are measured. | 2 |
| Weather vs. Climate; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.3.5.A5 | Differentiate between weather and climate. | 2 |
| Weathering & Erosion; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A.2 | Provide clear explanations that account for observations and results. | 2 |
| Weathering & Erosion; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 3-2012 | 3.3.3.A1 | Explain and give examples of the ways in which soil is formed. | 2 |
| Weathering & Erosion; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.3.5.A1 | Describe how landforms are the result of a combination of destructive forces such as erosion and constructive erosion, deposition of sediment, etc. | 2 |
| Weathering & Erosion; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 5 | 3.3.5.A3 | Explain how geological processes observed today such as erosion, movement of lithospheric plates, and changes in the composition of the atmosphere are similar to those in the past. | 2 |
| Weathering & Erosion; | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.3.4.A1 | Recognize that the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes and rapid processes. | 2 |
| What Is Science? (3-5 Version) | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A.1 | Distinguish between a scientific fact and a belief. | 2 |
| What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.A.3 | Relate how new information can change existing perceptions. | 2 |
| What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.C.1 | Generate questions about objects, organisms and/or events that can be answered through scientific investigations. | 2 |
| What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.C.2 | Design an investigation. | 2 |
| What Is Science? (3-5 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | Grade 4 | 3.2.4.C.4 | State a conclusion that is consistent with the information. | 2 |
| What is Science? (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.A3 | Explain how knowledge from other fields of study (STEM) integrate to create new technologies. | |
| What is Science? (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.C3 | Explain why some technological problems are best solved through experimentation. | |
| What is Science? (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.D3 | Design and use instruments to evaluate data. | |
| What is Science? (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.A3 | Explain how knowledge gained from other fields of study has a direct effect on the development of technological products and systems. | |
| What is Science? (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.C3 | Analyze how a multidisciplinary (STEM) approach to problem solving will yield greater results. | |
| What is Science? (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.D3 | Interpret and evaluate the accuracy of the information obtained and determine its usefulness. | |
| Wave Reflection, Absorption & Transmittance; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B5 | Demonstrate that visible light is a mixture of many different colors. | |
| Wave Reflection, Absorption & Transmittance; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B5 | Describe how sound and light energy are transmitted by waves. | |
| Water Cycle (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A4 | Describe how water on earth cycles in different forms and in different locations, including underground and in the atmosphere. | |
| Water Cycle (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A4 | Differentiate among Earth’s water systems. | |
| Water Cycle (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A1 | Compare and contrast the types of energy that drive Earth’s systems. | |
| Water Cycle (6-8 Version); | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A5 | Compare and contrast water vapor, clouds, and humidity. | |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.B1 | Compare and contrast the size, composition, and surface features of the planets that comprise the solar system as well as the objects orbiting them. | |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.B1 | Describe how the planets change their position relative to the background of the stars. | |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.B1 | Compare and contrast properties and conditions of objects in the solar system to those on Earth. | |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.B1 | Explain how gravity is the major force in the formation of the planets, stars, and the solar system. | |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.B2 | Describe repeating patterns in the Sun- Earth-Moon system and the positions of stars. | |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.B2 | Identify a variety of instruments used to gather evidence about the universe. | |
| The Solar System; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.B2 | Relate planetary size and distance in our solar system using an appropriate scale model. | |
| Tectonic Plates; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A6 | Create models of Earth’s common physical features. | |
| Tectonic Plates; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A1 | Describe the layers of the earth. | |
| Tectonic Plates; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A1 | Differentiate among the mechanisms by which heat is transferred through the Earth’s system. | |
| Synthetic Materials; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.D2 | Select and safely use appropriate tools, products and systems for specific tasks. | |
| Synthetic Materials; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.E2 | Examine specialized equipment and practices used to improve the production of food, fiber, fuel, and other useful products and in the care of animals. | |
| Symbiosis (Interactions Between Organisms); | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A8 | Apply the appropriate models to show interactions among organisms in an environment. | |
| Rocks & Minerals (Including Rock Cycle); | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A1 | Define basic features of the rock cycle. | |
| Rock Layers (Geologic Time); | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A3 | Compare geologic processes over time. | |
| Rock Layers (Geologic Time); | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A3 | Explain and give examples of how physical evidence, such as fossils and surface features of glaciation support theories that the Earth has evolved over geologic time. | |
| Rock Layers (Geologic Time); | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A6 | Describe geologic time as it relates to earth processes. | |
| Reproduction of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A4 | Explain how cells arise from pre-existing cells. | |
| Reproduction of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.B1 | Identify Mendelian patterns of inheritance. | |
| Reproduction of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.B2 | Compare sexual reproduction with asexual reproduction. | |
| Properties of Elements; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.A1 | Differentiate between volume and mass. Investigate that equal volumes of different substances usually have different masses. | |
| Properties of Elements; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.A5 | Identify characteristic properties of matter that can be used to separate one substance from the other. | |
| Properties of Elements; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.A1 | Differentiate between elements, compounds, and mixtures. | |
| Properties of Elements; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.A1 | Explain how materials are characterized by having a specific amount of mass in each unit of volume (density). | |
| Properties of Elements; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.A1 | Identify groups of elements that have similar properties. | |
| Properties of Elements; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.A2 | Identify characteristics of elements derived from the periodic table. | |
| Predicting Natural Disasters; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.B2 | Describe how technologies can be used to repair damage caused by natural disasters and to break down waste from the use of various products and systems. | |
| Predicting Natural Disasters; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.E7 | Examine subsystems found in the construction of a building. | |
| Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B2 | Differentiate between potential and kinetic energy. | |
| Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B2 | Describe how energy can be changed from one form to another (transformed) as it moves through a system or transferred from one system to another system. | |
| Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.B2 | Identify situations where kinetic energy is transformed into potential energy, and vice versa. | |
| Plant & Animal Cells; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.1.6.A4 | Recognize that all organisms are composed of cells and that many organisms are unicellular and must carry out all life functions in one cell. | |
| Plant & Animal Cells; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.1.6.A8 | Explain why the details of most cells are visible only through a microscope. | |
| Plant & Animal Cells; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B6 | Investigate that materials may be composed of parts too small to be seen without magnification. | |
| Plant & Animal Cells; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A5 | Explain how the cell is the basic structural and functional unit of living things. | |
| Photosynthesis & Respiration; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A2 | Describes how organisms obtain and use energy throughout their lives. | |
| Newton’s Laws of Motion; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B1 | Explain how changes in motion require a force. | |
| Newton’s Laws of Motion; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B1 | Analyze how observations of displacement, velocity, and acceleration provide necessary and sufficient evidence for the existence of forces. | |
| Newton’s Laws of Motion; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B1 | Describe how unbalanced forces acting on an object change its velocity. | |
| Natural Selection; Biotechnology; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.B4 | Describe how selective breeding and biotechnology can alter the genetic composition of organisms. | |
| Natural Selection; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.C1 | Describe how natural selection is an underlying factor in a population’s ability to adapt to changes. | |
| Natural Selection; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.1.8.A8 | Explain mechanisms organisms use to adapt to their environment. | |
| Natural Selection; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.1.8.C1 | Explain how reproductive success coupled with advantageous traits over many generations contributes to natural selection. | |
| Natural Resource Distribution; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A6 | Explain how satellite images, models, and maps are used to identify Earth’s resources. | |
| Natural Resource Distribution; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A2 | Explain land use in relation to soil type and topography. | |
| Multicellular Organisms; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.1.6.A6 | Identify examples of unicellular and multicellular organisms. | |
| Multicellular Organisms; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A6 | Identify the levels of organization from cell to organism. | |
| Multicellular Organisms; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A7 | Compare life processes (e.g. growth, digestion) at the organism level with life processes at the cellular level. | |
| Moon & Its Phases; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.B2 | Use models to demonstrate that the phases of the moon are a result of its orbit around Earth. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.A1 | Distinguish the differences in properties of solids, liquids, and gases. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B3 | Explain the effect of heat on particle motion by describing what happens to particles during a phase change. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B3 | Give examples of how heat moves in predictable ways, normally flowing from warmer objects to cooler ones until they reach the same temperature. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B6 | Demonstrate that heat moves in predictable ways from warmer objects to cooler ones. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.A3 | Explain how energy transfer can affect the chemical and physical properties of matter. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B3 | Explain why heat energy consists of the random motion and vibrations of the particles of matter. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B6 | Demonstrate how the transfer of heat energy causes temperature changes. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.A3 | Explain how changes in matter are accompanied by changes in energy. | |
| Intro to Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.B3 | Explain how changes in temperature are accompanied by changes in kinetic energy. | |
| Intro to Climate Change; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A5 | Explain how the curvature of the earth contributes to climate. | |
| Human Impacts on the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E2 | Identify how emerging agricultural technologies have an effect on ecosystem dynamics and human/ animal food resources. | |
| Human Impacts on the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.B2 | Explain how decisions to develop and use technologies may be influenced by environmental and economic concerns. | |
| Human Impacts on the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.E3 | Examine the efficiency of energy use in our environment. | |
| Human Impacts on the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.E6 | Examine the processes involved in extracting (e.g., harvesting, drilling, mining) raw materials from the earth for use in manufacturing processes. | |
| Human Impacts on the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A2 | Describe renewable and nonrenewable energy resources. | |
| Human Impacts on the Environment; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.B1 | Evaluate the societal implications of the management of waste produced by technology. | |
| Heat: Transfer of Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B3 | Differentiate among convection, conduction, and radiation. | |
| Heat: Transfer of Thermal Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B6 | Demonstrate that heat is often produced as energy is transformed through a system. | |
| Gravitational Forces Between Objects; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.B1 | Explain why the planets orbit the sun in nearly circular paths. | |
| Gravitational Forces Between Objects; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.B1 | Recognize the role of gravity as a force that pulls all things on or near the earth toward the center of the earth and in the formation of the solar system and the motions of objects in the solar system. | |
| Gravitational Forces Between Objects; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.B1 | Describe gravity as a major force in determining the motions of planets, stars, and the solar system. | |
| Gravitational Forces Between Objects; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.A1 | Differentiate between mass and weight. | |
| Genes & Mutations; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.C2 | Explain that mutations can alter a gene and are the original source of new variations in a population. | |
| Food Webs: Cycling of Matter & Flow of Energy | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.1.6.A2 | Describe how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photosynthesis) and is transferred within a food chain from producers (plants) to consumers to decomposers. | |
| Food Webs: Cycling of Matter & Flow of Energy | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A3 | Explain how matter on earth is conserved throughout the geological processes over time. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.A2 | Describe how systems thinking involves considering how every part relates to others. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.B1 | Describe how economic, political, and cultural issues are influenced by the development and use of technology. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.B3 | Interpret how societal and cultural priorities are reflected in technological devices. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.B4 | Demonstrate how new technologies are developed based on people’s needs, wants, values, and/ or interests. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.C1 | Recognize that requirements for a design include such factors as the desired elements and features of a product or system or the limits that are placed on the design. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.C2 | Show how models are used to communicate and test design ideas and processes. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.D1 | Apply a design process to solve problems beyond the laboratory classroom. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.D2 | Use computers appropriately to access and organize and apply information. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E6 | Identify key aspects of manufacturing systems that use mechanical processes to change the form of natural materials (e.g., separating, forming, combining, conditioning). | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E7 | Explain how the type of structure determines the way the parts are put together. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.A1 | Explain how technology is closely linked to creativity, which has resulted in innovation and invention. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.A2 | Explain how different technologies involve different sets of processes. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.B1 | Explain how the use of technology can have consequences that affect humans in many ways. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.B3 | Describe how invention and innovation lead to changes in society and the creation of new needs and wants. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.B4 | Explain how many inventions and innovations have evolved by using deliberate and methodical processes of tests and refinements. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.C1 | Describe how design, as a creative planning process, leads to useful products and systems. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.C2 | Explain how modeling, testing, evaluating, and modifying are used to transform ideas into practical solutions. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.C3 | Describe how troubleshooting as a problem-solving method may identify the cause of a malfunction in a technological system. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.D1 | Identify and collect information about everyday problems that can be solved by technology and generate ideas and requirements for solving a problem. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.D3 | Use data collected to analyze and interpret trends in order to identify the positive or negative effects of a technology. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.B6 | Explain how physics principles underlie everyday phenomena and important technologies. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.C1 | Evaluate the criteria and constraints of a design. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.C2 | Explore the design process as a collaborative endeavor in which each person in the group presents his or her ideas in an open forum. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.D1 | Test and evaluate the solutions for a design problem. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.B3 | Explain how throughout history, new technologies have resulted from the demands, values, and interests of individuals, businesses, industries, and societies. | |
| Electromagnetic Spectrum; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B5 | Explain the construct of the electromagnetic spectrum. | |
| Electricity & Circuits; Potential vs. Kinetic Energy; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B2 | Describe energy as a property of objects associated with heat, light, electricity, magnetism, mechanical motion, and sound. | |
| Electricity & Circuits; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B4 | Explain how electrical current is produced by the flow of electrons. | |
| Electricity & Circuits; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.B4 | Compare and contrast atomic properties of conductors and insulators. | |
| Electric & Magnetic Fields; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B4 | Describe how electric current produces magnetic forces and how moving magnets produce electric current. | |
| Electric & Magnetic Fields; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.B4 | Explain and demonstrate how electric current produces magnetic forces and how moving magnets produce electric current. | |
| Digital vs. Analog Signals; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E4 | Examine how communications information technologies are used to help humans make decisions and solve problems. | |
| Digital vs. Analog Signals; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.E4 | Illustrate how information can be acquired and sent through a variety of technological sources, including print and electronic media. | |
| Competition in Ecosystems; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.1.6.A5 | Describe basic structures that plants and animals have that contribute to their ability to make or find food and reproduce. | |
| Competition in Ecosystems; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.B1 | Explain how genetic instructions influence inherited traits. | |
| Competition in Ecosystems; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.C2 | Explain why the extinction of a species may occur when the environment changes. | |
| Comparative Anatomy; The Fossil Record; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.C3 | Identify evidence drawn from geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy that provides the basis for the theory of evolution. | |
| Climate Zones & Ocean Currents; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A5 | Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and water currents influence local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation. | |
| Climate Zones & Ocean Currents; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A5 | Explain the effects of oceans on climate. | |
| Climate Zones & Ocean Currents; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A4 | Explain how the oceans form one interconnected circulation system powered by wind, tides, the Earth’s rotation, and water density differences. | |
| Climate Zones & Ocean Currents; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A6 | Explain changes in earth systems in terms of energy transformation and transport. | |
| Classification of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.1.6.A1 | Describe the similarities and differences of major physical characteristics in plants, animals, fungi, protists, and bacteria. | |
| Classification of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A1 | Describe the similarities and differences of physical characteristics in diverse organisms. | |
| Classification of Living Things; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.B5 | Compare and contrast observable patterns in the physical characteristics across families, strains and species. | |
| Chemical Reactions; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.A4 | Differentiate between physical changes and chemical changes. | |
| Chemical Reactions; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.A4 | Describe how reactants change into products in simple chemical reactions. | |
| Chemical Reactions; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.A4 | Compare and contrast physical and chemical changes in terms of products. | |
| Causes of Seasons; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.B1 | Explain how the tilt of the earth and its revolution around the sun cause an uneven heating of the earth which in turn causes the seasons and weather patterns. | |
| Causes of Seasons; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.B2 | Use models to demonstrate that earth has different seasons and weather patterns. | |
| Causes of Seasons; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A4 | Describe the motions of tides and identify their causes. | |
| Causes of Seasons; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A5 | Explain the relationship between the energy provided by the sun and the temperature differences among water, land and atmosphere. | |
| Biotechnology; | PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E1 | Describe how advances and innovations in medical technologies are used to improve health care. | |
| Biotechnology; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.E1 | Investigate recent advancements in medical technologies and their impact on quality of life. | |
| Biotechnology; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.E1 | Analyze what technologies are used in genetic engineering and predict how it may change the future of medicine. | |
| Biotechnology; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.E2 | Describe how biotechnology applies the principles of biology to create commercial products or processes. | |
| Atoms & Molecules; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.2.7.A2 | Identify atoms as the basic building blocks of matter and that elements are composed of one type of atom. | |
| Air Masses & Weather Fronts; | PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A6 | Describe changes in atmospheric conditions associated with various weather patterns. | |
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A1 | Recognize and interpret various mapping representations of Earth’s common features. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.A1 | Identify how creative thinking and economic and cultural influences shape technological development. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.A2 | Compare and contrast pure substances with mixtures. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A2 | Examine how soil fertility, composition, resistance to erosion, and texture are affected by many factors. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.A3 | Explain and give examples of how mass is conserved in a closed system. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A5 | Describe the composition and layers of the atmosphere. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.3.6.A6 | Describe the scales involved in characterizing Earth and its atmosphere. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.2.6.B4 | Derive Ohm’s Law through investigation of voltage, current, and resistance. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.1.6.C1 | Differentiate between instinctive and learned animal behaviors that relate to survival. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E3 | Investigate that power is the rate at which energy is converted from one form to another or transferred from one place to another. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E4 | Illustrate how communication systems are made up of a source, encoder, transmitter, receiver, decoder, and destination. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 6th Grade | 3.4.6.E5 | Demonstrate how transporting people and goods involves a combination of individuals and subsystems, such as structural, propulsion, suspension, guidance, control, and support. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.1.7.A3 | Explain why the life cycles of different organisms have varied lengths. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A5 | Describe basic elements of meteorology. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.3.7.A6 | Locate significant geologic structures using various mapping representations. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 7th Grade | 3.4.7.E5 | Explain how processes, such as receiving, holding, storing, loading, moving, unloading, delivering, evaluating, marketing, managing and communicating are necessary for the entire system to operate efficiently. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.A1 | Distinguish between physical and chemical weathering. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.A1 | Analyze the development of technology based on affordability or urgency. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.A2 | Explain how controls are steps that people perform using information about the system that causes systems to change. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.A3 | Compare how a product, system, or environment developed for one setting may be applied to another setting. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.B1 | Explain how inertia is a measure of an object’s mass. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.2.8.B1 | Explain how momentum is related to the forces acting on an object. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.B1 | Explain how light, measured remotely, can be used to classify objects in the universe. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.3.8.B2 | Explain measurements and evidence indicating the age of the universe. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.B2 | Compare and contrast decisions to develop and use technologies as related to environmental and economic concerns. | ||
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.B4 | Explain how societal and cultural priorities and values are reflected in technological devices. | |
| Engineering Design Process; | PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.D2 | Operate and maintain systems in order to achieve a given purpose. | |
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.E3 | Examine power systems are used to drive and provide propulsion to other technological products or systems. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.E4 | Describe how the design of the message is influenced by such factors as the intended audience, medium, purpose, and nature of the message. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.E5 | Describe how governmental regulations influence the design, operation and efficiency of transportation systems. | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.E6 | Analyze the steps involved in the manufacturing process (e.g., design, development, production, marketing and servicing of products and systems). | ||
| PA | Academic Standards | 8th Grade | 3.4.8.E7 | Analyze factors that determine structural design (e.g., building laws and codes, style, convenience, cost, climate, and function). |
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