NGSS Correlations
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Lesson 1: What Is on Earth's Surface?
Lesson 2: What Kinds of Land and Water Are Found on Earth?
Lesson 3: How Do Maps Show Land and Water?
Lesson 4: How Does Earth's Surface Change?
Lesson 5: How Do Earthquakes and Volcanoes Change the Land?
Lesson 6: How Do Wind and Water Change the Land?
Lesson 7: How Can Problems Caused by Wind and Water Be Solved?

  1. PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION

    2. 2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence ...more

    2-ESS2-1. Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wi...more

    2-ESS2-2. Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land...more

    2-ESS2-3. Obtain information to identify where water is found on Ea...more

    K-2-ETS1-3. Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solv...more

  2. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES

    3. Analyzing and Interpreting Data

    Asking Questions and Defining Problems

    Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

    Developing and Using Models

    Engaging in Argument from Evidence

    Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

    Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

  3. CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS

    4. Cause and Effect

    Energy and Matter

    Patterns

    Stability and Change

    Systems and System Models

  4. DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS

    5. ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth

    ESS2.A: Earth's Materials and Systems

    ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

    ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes

    ETS1.C: Optimizing the Design Solution