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SubjectGrade LevelsBroad Standard ReferenceSpecific Standard CodeSpecific Standard NameSpecific Wording of Standard
CCSS ELA Literacy3Reading Informational TextCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1Key Ideas and DetailsAsk and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
NGSS Science4Earth and Human Activity4-ESS3--Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
NGSS Science4Earth and Human Activity4-ESS3.ANatural ResourcesEnergy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources, and their use affects the environment in multiple ways. Some resources are renewable over time, and others are not.
NGSS Science5Earth and Human Activity5-ESS3-1--Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.
NGSS Science5Earth and Human Activity5-ESS3.CDisciplinary Core Ideas: Human Impacts on Earth SystemsHuman activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.
NGSS Science5Matter and Its Interactions5-PS1-1Science and Engineering Practices: Developing and Using ModelsDevelop a model to describe phenomena.
NGSS Science5Matter and Its Interactions5-PS1-3Science and Engineering Practices: Planning and Carrying Out InvestigationsMake observations and measurements to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence for an explanation of a phenomenon.
CCSS ELA-Literacy6Science and Technical Subjects6-8.RST.7Integration of Knowledge and IdeasIntegrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
CCSS ELA-Literacy6Science and Technical Subjects6-8.RST.9Integration of Knowledge and IdeasCompare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.
NGSS Science6Earth and Human Activity6-ESS3.DDisciplinary Core Ideas: Global Climate ChangeHuman activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth's mean surface temperature (global warming). Reducing the level of climate change and reducing human vulnerability to whatever climate changes do occur depend on the understanding of climate science, engineering capabilities, and other kinds of knowledge, such as understanding of human behavior and on applying that knowledge wisely in decisions and activities.
NGSS Science6Earth and Human Activity6-MS-ESS3-3--Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
NGSS Science6Earth and Human Activity6-MS-ESS3-3Science and Engineering Practices: Constructing Explanations and Designing SolutionsApply scientific principles to design an object, tool, process, or system.
NGSS Science6Earth and Human Activity6-MS-ESS3-5--Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
NGSS Science6Energy6-MS-PS3-3Science and Engineering Practices: Constructing Explanations and Designing SolutionsApply scientific ideas or principles to design, construct, and test a design of an object, tool, process, or system.
NGSS Science6Energy6-MS-PS3-3Crosscutting Concepts: Energy and MatterThe transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows through a designed or natural system.
NGSS Science6Energy6-MS-PS3-4Connections to Nature of Science: Scientific Knowledge Is Based on Empirical EvidenceScience knowledge is based upon logical and conceptual connections between evidence and explanations.
NGSS Science6Energy6-MS-PS3-5Science and Engineering Practices: Engaging in Argument from EvidenceConstruct, use, and present oral and written arguments supported by empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support or refute an explanation or a model for a phenomenon.