NGSS Correlations
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Lesson 1: What Is an Ecosystem?
Lesson 2: What Is the Role of Producers in an Ecosystem?
Lesson 3: What Is the Role of Consumers in an Ecosystem?
Lesson 4: What Is the Role of Decomposers in an Ecosystem?
Lesson 5: How Do Matter and Energy Move in an Ecosystem?
Lesson 6: What Makes an Ecosystem Healthy or Unhealthy?
Lesson 7: How Do Ecosystems Change?
Lesson 8: How Do Humans Change Ecosystems?

  1. PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION

    2. 3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a w...more

    3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a p...more

    5-LS1-1. Support an argument that plants get the materials they nee...more

    5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among p...more

    5-PS3-1. Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used ...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

    Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

    Stability and Change

    Structure and Function

    Systems and System Models

  4. DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS

    5. ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions

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

    LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

    LS2.B: Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems

    PS3.D: Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life