All Standards
| Title | Standard Topic | Definition |
Type of Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Nature of Science | B. Scientific Inquiry |
Use simple tools to observe/describe natural world. |
MnSS |
| HS-LS4-5 | HS.Natural Selection and Evolution |
Evaluate claims about the effects of environmental change. |
NGSS |
| HS-ESS3-4 | Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems. | NGSS | |
| HS-ESS3-2 | Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios. | NGSS | |
| HS-ESS3-1 | Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity. | NGSS | |
| MS-LS4-2 | MS.Natural Selection and Adaptations |
Compare similarities and differences between modern and fossil organisms. |
NGSS |
| MS-LS2-4 | MS.Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems |
Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. |
NGSS |
| MS-LS1-8 | MS.Structure, Function, and Information Processing |
Show that sensory receptors send messages to the brain. |
NGSS |
| MS-LS1-5 | MS.Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms |
Explain how environment and genetics influence organisms' growth. |
NGSS |
| MS-LS1-3 | MS.Structure, Function, and Information Processing |
Argue that the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of cells. |
NGSS |
| MS-LS1-2 | MS.Structure, Function, and Information Processing |
Model the function of a cell. |
NGSS |
| MS-LS1-1 | MS.Structure, Function, and Information Processing |
Provide evidence that living things are made of cells |
NGSS |
| MS-ETS1-4 | MS.Engineering Design |
Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing... |
NGSS |
| MS-ETS1-3 | MS.Engineering Design |
Analyze test results to come up with better solutions. |
NGSS |
| MS-ETS1-1 | MS.Engineering Design |
Precisely define the criteria and constraints of a design problem. |
NGSS |
| 1-LS1-1 | 1.Structure, Function, and Information Processing |
Mimic plants and animals to design a solution to a human problem. |
NGSS |
| HS-LS2-8 | HS.Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems |
Evaluate the role of group behavior in survival. |
NGSS |
| HS-LS1-3 | HS.Structure and Function |
...provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis. |
NGSS |
| HS-LS1-2 | HS.Structure and Function |
Model how interacting systems provide specific functions within multicellular organisms. |
NGSS |
| 5-PS1-1 | 5.Structure and Properties of Matter |
Model how matter is made of particles too small to be seen. |
NGSS |
| 4-LS1-2 | 4.Structure, Function, and Information Processing |
Model how animals receive, process, and respond to information. |
NGSS |
| 4-LS1-1 | 4.Structure, Function, and Information Processing |
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures... |
NGSS |
| 3-LS4-4 | 3.Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems |
Environmental change and its influence on plants and animals |
NGSS |
| 3-LS4-3 | 3.Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems |
In a particular habitat, show how some organisms can survive well while others cannot. |
NGSS |
| 3-LS4-2 | 3.Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits |
Variations in a species may provide survival advantages. |
NGSS |
| 3-LS3-2 | 3.Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits |
Show that traits can be influenced by the environment. |
NGSS |
| 3-5-ETS1-2 | 3-5.Engineering Design |
Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem... |
NGSS |
| 2-PS1-1 | 2.Structure and Properties of Matter |
Describe and classify materials by observable properties. |
NGSS |
| 2-LS4-1 | 2.Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems |
...compare the diversity of life in different habitats. |
NGSS |