Oklahoma Standards Alignment
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| Stile unit | Grade | Disciplinary Core Idea | Standard | Performance Expectation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cells | 6 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 6.LS1.1 | Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells. |
| Cells | 6 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 6.LS1.2 | Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function |
| Cells | 6 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 6.LS1.3 | Use an argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. |
| Body Systems | 6 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 6.LS1.3 | Use an argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. |
| Body Systems | 6 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 6.LS1.8 | Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories. |
| Active Earth | 6 | Earth’s Place in the Universe | 6.ESS1.4 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s geologic history. |
| Active Earth | 6 | Earth's Systems | 6.ESS2.1 | Develop and revise a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives these processes within and among Earth’s systems. |
| Active Earth | 6 | Earth's Systems | 6.ESS2.2 | Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatialscales. |
| Active Earth | 6 | Earth's Systems | 6.ESS2.3 | Analyze and interpret data on the patterns of distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structuresto provide evidence of the past plate motions. |
| Active Earth | 6 | Earth and Human Activity | 6.ESS3.2 | Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. |
| Earth Systems | 6 | Earth's Systems | 6.ESS2.4 | Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity. |
| Earth Systems | 6 | Earth's Systems | 6.ESS2.5 | Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions |
| Earth Systems | 6 | Earth's Systems | 6.ESS2.6 | Develop or modify a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth causes patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates. |
| States of Matter | 6 | Matter and Its Interactions | 6.PS1.4 | Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed. |
| Energy | 6 | Energy | 6.PS3.3* | Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.* |
| Energy | 6 | Energy | 6.PS3.4* | Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample. |
| Energy | 6 | Engineering Design | MS.ETS1.4 | Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved. |
| Heat | 6 | Energy | 6.PS3.3 | Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.* |
| Heat | 6 | Energy | 6.PS3.4 | Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample. |
| Heat | 6 | Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer | 6.PS4.2 | Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials. |
| Food Chains and Food Webs | 7 | Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics | 7.LS2.2 | Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. |
| Food Chains and Food Webs | 7 | Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics | 7.LS2.3 | Develop or modify a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem. |
| The Importance of Biodiversity | 7 | Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics | 7.LS2.4 | Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. |
| The Importance of Biodiversity | 7 | Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics | 7.LS2.5 | Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.* |
| The Importance of Biodiversity | 7 | Engineering Design | MS.ETS1.1 | Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions. |
| The Importance of Biodiversity | 7 | Engineering Design | MS.ETS1.2 | Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. |
| Physical and Chemical Change | 7 | Matter and Its Interaction | 7.PS1.1 | Develop and use models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. |
| Physical and Chemical Change | 7 | Matter and Its Interaction | 7.PS1.2 | Analyze and interpret patterns of data related to the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. |
| Physical and Chemical Change | 7 | Matter and Its Interaction | 7.PS1.5 | Develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved. |
| Physical and Chemical Change | 7 | Matter and Its Interaction | 7.PS1.6 | Construct, test, and modify a device that releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes to solve a problem.* |
| Resources | 7 | Earth and Human Activities | 7.ESS3.1 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. |
| Ecosystems | 7 | Matter and Its Interaction | 7.PS1.3 | Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.* |
| Ecosystems | 7 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 7.LS1.6 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms. |
| Ecosystems | 7 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 7.LS1.7 | Develop a model to describe how food molecules in plants and animals are broken down and rearranged through chemical reactions to form new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as matter moves through an organism. |
| Ecosystems | 7 | Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics | 7.LS2.1 | Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. |
| Energy Conservation | 7 | Energy | 7.PS3.1 | Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the proportional relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object. |
| Energy Conservation | 7 | Energy | 7.PS3.2 | Develop a model to describe that when objects interacting at a distance change their arrangement, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system. |
| Energy Conservation | 7 | Energy | 7.PS3.5 | Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object. |
| Climate Change | 7 | Earth and Human Activities | 7.ESS3.3 | Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment.* |
| Climate Change | 7 | Earth and Human Activities | 7.ESS3.4 | Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.* |
| Climate Change | 7 | Earth and Human Activities | 7.ESS3.5 | Obtain, evaluate, and communicate evidence of the factors that have caused changes in global temperatures over the past century. |
| Our Place in Space | 8 | Earth’s Place in the Universe | 8.ESS1.1 | Develop and use a model of the Earth-Sun-Moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and seasons. |
| Our Place in Space | 8 | Earth’s Place in the Universe | 8.ESS1.2 | Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solarsystem. |
| Our Place in Space | 8 | Earth’s Place in the Universe | 8.ESS1.3 | Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.* |
| Netwon's Laws of Motion | 8 | Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions | 8.PS2.1 | Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two objects in a system.* |
| Netwon's Laws of Motion | 8 | Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions | 8.PS2.2 | Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object. |
| Netwon's Laws of Motion | 8 | Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions | 8.PS2.4 | Construct and present arguments using evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions are attractive and depend on the masses of interacting objects. |
| Waves | 8 | Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer | 8.PS4.1 | Use mathematical representations to describe patterns in a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave. |
| Waves | 8 | Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer | 8.PS4.3 | Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals (sent as wave pulses) are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information.* |
| Non-contact Forces | 8 | Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions | 8.PS2.3 | Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces. |
| Non-contact Forces | 8 | Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions | 8.PS2.5 | Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact |
| Non-contact Forces | 8 | Engineering Design | MS.ETS1.3 | Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success. |
| Plants | 8 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 8.LS1.4 | Use arguments based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively. |
| Plants | 8 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 8.LS1.5 | Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms |
| Plants | 8 | Heredity: Inheritance and Variation in Traits | 8.LS3.2 | Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction resultsin offspring with genetic variation. |
| Survival of Species | 8 | From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes | 8.LS1.4 | Use arguments based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively. |
| Survival of Species | 8 | Heredity: Inheritance and Variation in Traits | 8.LS3.2 | Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction resultsin offspring with genetic variation. |
| Genetics | 8 | Heredity: Inheritance and Variation in Traits | 8.LS3.1 | Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism. |
| Genetics | 8 | Heredity: Inheritance and Variation in Traits | 8.LS3.2 | Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation. |
| Genetics | 8 | Biological Unity and Diversity | 8.LS4.5 | Gather and synthesize information about the practices that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. |
| Evolution | 8 | Biological Unity and Diversity | 8.LS4.1 | Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns within the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth. |
| Evolution | 8 | Biological Unity and Diversity | 8.LS4.2 | Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the patterns of anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer ancestral relationships. |
| Evolution | 8 | Biological Unity and Diversity | 8.LS4.3 | Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy. |
| Evolution | 8 | Biological Unity and Diversity | 8.LS4.4 | Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. |
| Evolution | 8 | Biological Unity and Diversity | 8.LS4.5 | Gather and synthesize information about the practices that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. |
| Evolution | 8 | Biological Unity and Diversity | 8.LS4.6 | Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time. |
