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PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

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Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

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Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

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Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

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Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.

LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

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Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles, but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

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Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

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Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

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Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

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Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

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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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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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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.

ESS2: Earth’s Systems

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Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. performance expectation directly related to climate, climate change, or the effects of a changing climate on environmental systems.

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Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. performance expectation directly related to climate, climate change, or the effects of a changing climate on environmental systems.

3-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity

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