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• Explain how test results lead to specific design revisions.
• Connect evidence from measurements to targeted changes that improve performance.
• Describe how constraints (safety, materials, cost) shape what revisions are possible.+ Show more

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• Explain how plate tectonics can cause earthquakes along faults and drive volcanic activity.
• Describe how weathering, erosion, and deposition change Earth’s surface over time.
• Use evidence such as fault features, lava flows, and sediment layers to connect geologic processes to landforms.

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• Identify measurable design criteria and explicit constraints in a design problem.
• Explain how trade-offs can affect multiple requirements in engineering design.
• Connect a solution plan to goals, constraints, and evidence of improvement.+ Show more

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• Compare how weather patterns and climate differ using time scales and data variability
• Describe how pressure changes and air mass movement can influence weather at different locations
• Interpret weather data examples to identify patterns across time and location+ Show more

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• Explain how Earth’s axial tilt and yearly orbit affect seasons in each hemisphere.
• Describe how Earth’s rotation creates day length and the sun’s apparent daily motion.
• Use patterns in daylight duration to support basic timekeeping ideas such as calendars.

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• Explain how natural records and modern instruments provide evidence for climate patterns over time.
• Identify major climate drivers that can change Earth’s energy balance and circulation.
• Describe how scientists distinguish past conditions using ice cores, sediment layers, and tree rings.

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• Explain how energy decreases at each trophic level in a food web.
• Describe why only a fraction of energy becomes available to the next level.
• Use trophic energy limits to predict patterns in food-chain length and biomass.

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• Explain how greenhouse gases can alter temperature and precipitation patterns over time.
• Describe how land clearing can change water storage, evaporation, and the biosphere.
• Model how changes in the geosphere can affect erosion and sediment flow into waterways.+ Show more

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• Explain how internal processes (uplift, deformation, earthquakes, eruptions) can reshape Earth’s surface.
• Describe how external processes (erosion, wind and water transport, deposition) form landforms.
• Use surface evidence such as rock strata, landform patterns, and hazard history to support a claim about past events.

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• Identify the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere and describe what each includes.
• Explain how matter and energy move between spheres (for example, water and gases).
• Describe how changes in one Earth system sphere can affect other spheres.

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• Explain how engineered systems transfer motion or force from an input to an output.
• Describe how gears and gear ratios affect speed and torque in a hand-cranked device.
• Match common mechanisms (lever, pulley, linkage, gear) with their functions and where they are used.+ Show more

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• Define design criteria and constraints for a given engineering problem
• Identify desired function, measurable success measures, and limits in a design scenario
• Describe trade-offs between competing requirements when choosing a solution

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• Identify whether an interaction is magnetic (at a distance) or a contact interaction (touching).
• Explain how magnet poles can cause attraction or repulsion.
• Describe how changing distance can affect the strength of magnetic attraction or repulsion.+ Show more

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• Generate two or more solution ideas using simple sketches or models.
• Compare solutions using measurements and stated criteria.
• Explain trade-offs by citing evidence from a model or test.

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• Explain how groups of organisms can increase survival through shared defense, foraging, or care of young.
• Describe how competition for limited resources affects which traits help a population survive.
• Use observable traits and ecological context to support a claim about group survival.

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• Explain how an external or internal structure helps an organism survive and reproduce.
• Identify evidence that links structure (form) to the job it performs (function).
• Compare how different species have different structures for similar life needs.+ Show more

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• Explain how a fair test controls variables to compare prototype designs.
• Identify common failure points and describe what happened during a test.
• Propose targeted design changes based on recorded evidence.+ Show more

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• Make a reasoned claim about which design solution best reduces flooding or strong-wind impacts
• Use observational evidence and simple models to compare solution effectiveness under different weather scenarios
• Explain trade-offs among cost, durability, and fit to local topography

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• Explain how pushes, pulls, and friction change an object's motion
• Describe net force as the overall effect of forces acting on an object
• Distinguish contact forces from gravity as a non-contact force+ Show more

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• Explain how conservation and stewardship practices reduce resource depletion and environmental harm
• Compare how household, agricultural, and industrial actions can affect soil, water, and air quality
• Identify examples of renewable energy, recycling, water conservation, and reforestation+ Show more

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• Explain how roots, leaves, and vascular tissues help plants obtain and move materials needed for growth
• Describe how photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide from air and produces structural plant mass over time
• Compare the roles of air and water as sources of matter in plant growth

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• Identify how the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere interact as one Earth system
• Explain how energy from the Sun drives cycles involving water, gases, and heat
• Use cause-and-effect relationships to describe how change in one system affects others+ Show more

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• Explain how decomposers break down dead organisms and waste
• Describe how nutrients return to soil and water for producers to use
• Model how changes in decomposer activity can affect ecosystem productivity+ Show more

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• Explain how weather and climate differ in time scale and how they are measured.
• Identify variables used to describe weather and climate, such as temperature and precipitation.
• Use observational data to describe patterns that define local climate.

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• Explain how predator and prey populations affect each other over time
• Identify predator-prey dynamics such as prey decline after predator increase and prey recovery after predator decline
• Use evidence from a passage to complete scientific statements about ecosystems

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• Describe how evaporation, precipitation, runoff, and groundwater recharge move water through the water cycle
• Explain how water cycle processes affect usable freshwater availability over time
• Identify ways land cover and temperature influence infiltration and streamflow+ Show more

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• Explain how density compares mass and volume to predict whether objects float or sink in water.
• Use measured or estimated density to support claims about which substance is present in a mixture.
• Match key density vocabulary (mass, volume, density, float, sink) with correct definitions.+ Show more

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• Explain how organisms compete for limited resources in a community.
• Describe how traits and timing can affect which species survives and persists.
• Use examples to predict how population sizes may change over generations due to competition.+ Show more

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• Identify major parts of a cell and describe their basic functions.
• Explain how the cell membrane controls what enters and leaves the cell.
• Use evidence from a passage to fill in missing cell-structure terms.+ Show more

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• Identify safe practices for handling materials and heat sources during science investigations.
• Explain how to present data clearly, including using measurements accurately.
• Describe ethical expectations for reporting results, including limitations and source attribution.

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• Explain how measurable evidence helps answer a scientific question.
• Identify the variables that change and the variables that stay the same in an investigation plan.
• Use evidence-based reasoning to choose and evaluate testable questions.

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• Explain how matter is recycled between living organisms and non-living parts of an ecosystem.
• Identify reservoirs and flows in a matter cycle model.
• Describe how producers, consumers, and decomposers help move matter through an ecosystem.

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• Explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration transform energy in cells
• Describe how diffusion moves materials across cell membranes
• Compare passive and active transport using concentration gradients+ Show more

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• Identify a design need and measurable requirements in a design scenario
• Describe how sketches, dimensions, and constraints help generate and improve solution ideas
• Use criteria to evaluate which solution best reduces damage while meeting limits

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• Describe how evaluation results guide iterative improvement in a design process.
• Identify how changes can target causes found during testing while maintaining constraints.
• Explain the trade-off idea: improving one property may affect other properties.+ Show more

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• Identify common graph patterns such as increasing, decreasing, plateau, and curved change.
• Describe relationships in graphs using quantitative language (e.g., rate-like comparisons).
• Use data from a graph to make predictions and compare patterns across situations.+ Show more

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• Explain how prototype evaluation uses evidence, criteria, and constraints to judge performance.
• Identify what kinds of data (measurements and observations) help reveal how a system works.
• Apply evaluation criteria to decide whether a design improvement is acceptable within limits.

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• Explain how evaporation can separate a soluble solid from a liquid based on state change
• Identify evidence that separation by evaporation worked, such as the disappearance of liquid and recovered mass
• Compare evaporation with size-based separation methods

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• Identify whether data are numerical or categorical and choose an appropriate representation.
• Read information from tables, bar graphs, and line graphs using consistent labels and scales.
• Compare categories and describe how a variable changes over time based on a graph.+ Show more

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• Identify the independent variable and the dependent variable in a fair test scenario.
• Explain why controls are needed to make evidence reliable.
• Match examples of variables to their roles in an investigation.+ Show more

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• Explain how stream or wind energy affects the size of particles that can be transported.
• Describe how settling and deposition cause sediment sorting by grain size.
• Identify the relationships among faster flow, slower flow, and layered sediment structures.

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• Explain how conduction transfers heat through direct contact
• Describe how convection transfers heat through moving fluids
• Identify how radiation transfers heat using electromagnetic waves+ Show more

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• Describe how erosion and deposition reshape Earth’s surface using water, wind, ice, and gravity.
• Explain how losing energy during deposition leads to sediment settling.
• Identify features formed by repeated erosion and deposition, such as river valleys and deltas.+ Show more

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• Describe how cells, tissues, organs, and body systems work together to support life functions
• Identify the level of organization that matches a given body structure or function
• Explain how changes in one structure can affect how well an organ system maintains balance

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• Explain how evidence supports a scientific claim by linking observations to an accepted concept or mechanism.
• Describe evidence using trends, ranges, and comparisons between expected and observed values.
• Compare competing explanations by deciding which one is better supported by the evidence.

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• Describe how filtration separates a mixture using particle size and whether particles can pass through a barrier
• Identify what happens to the solid residue and what happens to the liquid that flows through the filter
• Use evidence such as sediment thickness and liquid clarity to explain filtration results+ Show more

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• Match material properties to a design need such as strength, water resistance, or heat transfer.
• Explain how filtration design factors like membrane thickness and pore size affect contaminant reduction over time.
• Compare material choices using practical limits such as cost, availability, and ease of shaping.

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• Explain how balancing a chemical equation enforces conservation of atoms and mass
• Interpret balanced equations to determine correct reactant-to-product particle ratios
• Connect coefficients in chemical formulas to measurable mass relationships