NGSS Correlations
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Lesson 1: What Do Plants Need?
Lesson 2: What Do Animals Need?
Lesson 3: What Do People Need?
Lesson 4: Where Are Plants and Animals Found?
Lesson 5: How Do Plants and Animals Change Earth?
Lesson 6: How Do People Change Earth?
Lesson 7: How Can People Take Care of Earth?

  1. PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION

    2. K-2-ETS1-2. Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to ...more

    K-ESS2-2. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plant...more

    K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the nee...more

    K-ESS3-3. Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of huma...more

    K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and a...more

  2. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES

    3. Analyzing and Interpreting Data

    Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

    Developing and Using Models

    Engaging in Argument from Evidence

    Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

    Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

  3. CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS

    4. Cause and Effect

    Energy and Matter

    Patterns

    Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

    Stability and Change

    Structure and Function

    Systems and System Models

  4. DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS

    5. ESS2.E: Biogeology

    ESS3.A: Natural Resources

    ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems

    ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

    ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions

    LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms