NGSS Correlations
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Lesson 1: What Are Earth's Four Systems?
Lesson 2: How Do Earth's Systems Produce Weather and Climate?
Lesson 3: How Do Earth's Systems Change Earth's Surface?
Lesson 4: How Do Farming and Industry Affect Earth's Systems?
Lesson 5: How Do People's Everyday Lives Affect Earth's Systems?
Lesson 6: What Can People Do to Protect Earth's Systems?

  1. PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION

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

    5-ESS2-1. Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geo...more

    5-ESS2-2. Describe and graph the amounts of salt water and fresh wa...more

    5-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual comm...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

    Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

    Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

    Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

  3. CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS

    4. Cause and Effect

    Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

    Structure and Function

    Systems and System Models

  4. DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS

    5. ESS2.A: Earth's Materials and Systems

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

    ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems

    ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

    ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions

    LS1.D: Information Processing