Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards
Pennsylvania

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is designed for Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards

Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards

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State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Science Lesson : Ant Behavior and Food
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

Science Lesson : Sounds and Senses
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Science Lesson : Light
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.

Science Lesson : Materials and Light
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.

Science Lesson : Seasonal Patterns
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Science Lesson : Earth and Moon Patterns
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Science Lesson : Earth and Moon Patterns
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

Science Lesson : Seasonal Patterns
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

Science Lesson : Seasonal Patterns
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

Science Lesson : Ant Behavior and Food
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain ways that places differ in their physical characteristics, their meaning, and their value and/or importance.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain ways that places differ in their physical characteristics, their meaning, and their value and/or importance.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out an investigation to address an issue in the local environment and community.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out an investigation to address an issue in the local environment and community.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Plan and carry out an investigation to address an issue in the local environment and community.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify and use everyday symbols.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify and use everyday symbols.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Identify and use everyday symbols.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe qualities of everyday products.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Describe qualities of everyday products.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Describe qualities of everyday products.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare the natural world and human-made world. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare the natural world and human-made world. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare the natural world and human-made world. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss the roles of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others who work with technology.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss the roles of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others who work with technology.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss the roles of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others who work with technology.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Select ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle resources in daily life.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

Science Lesson : Ant Behavior and Food
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Collaborate effecively as a member of a team.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate helpful and harmful effects of technology.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate helpful and harmful effects of technology.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Illustrate helpful and harmful effects of technology.
Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Investigate the use of technologies in the home and community. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Use tools and materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Investigate the use of technologies in the home and community. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain the tools and techniques that people use to help them do things. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain the tools and techniques that people use to help them do things. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Explain the tools and techniques that people use to help them do things. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain the needs and wants of individuals and societies. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain the needs and wants of individuals and societies. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Explain the needs and wants of individuals and societies. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare simple technologies to evaluate their impacts. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Compare simple technologies to evaluate their impacts. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Compare simple technologies to evaluate their impacts. 
Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Design new technologies that could improve their daily lives.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Design new technologies that could improve their daily lives.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Design new technologies that could improve their daily lives.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Safely use tools to complete tasks.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Safely use tools to complete tasks.

Science Lesson : Materials and Light
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Safely use tools to complete tasks.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explore how technologies are developed to meet individual and societal needs and wants.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explore how technologies are developed to meet individual and societal needs and wants.

Science Lesson : Materials and Light
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explore how technologies are developed to meet individual and societal needs and wants.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Analyze how things work. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Analyze how things work. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Analyze how things work. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Analyze how things work. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss that all designs have different characteristics that can be described. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss that all designs have different characteristics that can be described. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Discuss that all designs have different characteristics that can be described. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply skills necessary for making in design. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply skills necessary for making in design. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Apply skills necessary for making in design. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Draw connections between technology and human experience. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Draw connections between technology and human experience. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Draw connections between technology and human experience. 
Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate that designs have requirements. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Demonstrate that designs have requirements. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Demonstrate that designs have requirements. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain that design is a response to wants and needs.

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain that design is a response to wants and needs.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Explain that design is a response to wants and needs.
Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics. 
Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple areas.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple areas.

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple areas.
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Develop a plan in order to complete a task. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Develop a plan in order to complete a task. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation: Develop a plan in order to complete a task. 
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Discuss how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal. 

Science Lesson : Engineering Dams
State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal. 

State: PA
Standards: Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards.
Performance Expectation:

Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal. 

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is designed for Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards

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