The NGSS in Alabama

Matter and Its Interactions

• Structure and Properties

  • 1 Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

    • Particles of matter (5-B.)

  • 2 Analyze data collected through observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties, including color, hardness, and reflectivity.

    • Compare properties of objects (5-A.1)

• Physical and Chemical Changes

  • 3 Conduct investigations to provide evidence that the total weight of matter is conserved during phase changes when substances are heated, cooled, or mixed.

    • Compare properties of objects (5-A.1)

  • 4 Analyze data from tests to determine whether a new substance is formed after two or more substances are combined.

    • Compare physical and chemical changes (5-D.1)

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

• Non-Contact Forces

  • 5 Make a claim, supported by evidence, that the gravitational force exerted by Earth pulls objects towards the center of Earth.

  • 6 Design and conduct a test to modify the speed of an object falling due to gravity.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

• Matter and Energy Flow

  • 7 Support an argument from evidence that plants primarily use air and water to process matter needed for growth.

    • How do plants make food? (5-N.3)

  • 8 Use evidence to explain that energy from the sun is present in animals' food and is used for body repair, growth, motion, and maintenance of body warmth.

    • Body systems: digestion (5-M.5)
    • How do plants make food? (5-N.3)
    • Identify the photosynthetic organism (5-N.7)
    • Identify roles in food chains (5-R.3)
    • How does matter move in food chains? (5-R.4)

  • 9 Create and use a model to explain the transfer of matter and energy between the environment and organisms within it.

    • Identify roles in food chains (5-R.3)
    • How does matter move in food chains? (5-R.4)
    • Interpret food webs I (5-R.5)
    • Interpret food webs II (5-R.6)

Earth's Place in the Universe

• Sun, Moon, and Stars

  • 10 Obtain and communicate information to explain why the sun appears to be larger and brighter than other stars.

    • Brightness of the Sun and other stars (5-Y.4)

  • 11 Analyze data that reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, phases of the moon, and seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

    • Shadows (5-Y.1)
    • Earth's rotation and orbit (5-Y.2)
    • Day and night (5-Y.3)
    • Constellations and the changing night sky (5-Y.5)

Earth's Systems

• System Interactions

  • 12 Use a model to represent how any two of Earth's systems (atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere) interact and support life.

    • Label parts of rock cycle diagrams (5-T.6)
    • Select parts of rock cycle diagrams (5-T.7)
    • Label parts of water cycle diagrams (5-W.2)
    • Select parts of water cycle diagrams (5-W.3)
    • Describe the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere (5-W.4)

• Water

  • 13 Construct a model to represent the distribution of freshwater and saltwater on Earth.

    • Describe and graph water on Earth (5-W.1)

Earth and Human Activity

• Human Impact

  • 14 Obtain and evaluate information to communicate how science-based solutions are being used to protect Earth's natural resources and its environment.

    • Science literacy: how can a community protect sea turtles? (5-S.1)

  • 15 Design, test, and revise solutions to clean a polluted environment.