Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
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Phenomena Based Lessons Aligned to NGSS Science Standards

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Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

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Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

 Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the type of plants and animals that live there may change.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
Science Lesson : Current Electricity
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Frog Life Cycle
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Selecting Traits
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

Science Lesson : Mealworm Senses
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky. *In this unit, students are introduced to the concept of patterns caused by the relative motions of the sun, moon, and Earth.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Science Lesson : Energy and Collisions
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun and stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky. *In this unit, students are introduced to the concept of patterns caused by the relative motions of the sun, moon, and Earth.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

Science Lesson : Food Webs
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

Science Lesson : Plant Structures
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

Science Lesson : Properties of Matter
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Science Lesson : Waves and Energy
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Current Electricity
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

 Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Pitch and Volume
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

Science Lesson : Water Erosion
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Science Lesson : Engineering Launchers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

Science Lesson : Forces and Levers
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation: Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
Science Lesson : Food Webs
Standards: NGSS
Performance Expectation:

Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.

This alignment guide shows how KnowAtom’s integrated model of science curriculum is designed for the Next Generation Science Standards.

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Standards citation: NGSS Lead States. 2013. Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.