Earth and Space Science

• Using graphs to describe and predict local weather during a season

• Obtaining information about different climates to illustrate variations in weather by region

• Evaluating a design that reduces the impact of a weather-related hazard

Life Science

• Using graphic representations to show the unique life cycles of organisms

• Providing evidence to explain traits are inherited from parents and can vary within a group of organisms

• Distinguishing between inherited characteristics and ones influenced by the environment

• Using fossils to compare environments and organisms from today and the past

• Explaining how variations in individual characteristics may provide advantages for survival

• Constructing an argument that some organisms can survive better in certain environments

• Using data to describe how environmental changes can affect some organisms’ ability to survive and reproduce

• Providing evidence that survival of a population depends on reproduction

Physical Science

• Explaining the effect of various forces on an object

• Investigating forces between magnets

• Defining a design problem that can be solved using interactions between magnets

Technology/Engineering

• Defining a design problem that reflects a need or want

• Generating and comparing several solutions to a design problem

• Presenting representations of various solutions to a design problem