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Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
Performance Expectation
Grade: K-2, K, 1, 2
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.*
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
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.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3