The NGSS in Alabama

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

• Changes in Motion

  • 1 Plan and carry out investigations to determine the effects of forces of different strengths and directions on the motion of an object, including speed, direction, and distance traveled.

    • Fast and slow (K-C.4)
    • Push and pull (K-F.1)
    • Investigate pushes and pulls (K-F.2)
    • The ways things move (K-F.3)

  • 2 Analyze data from investigations to determine whether a design solution provides sufficient force to change the speed or direction of an object.

    • Design a race car track (K-O.1)

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

• Structures and Processes

  • 3 Use data from observations to distinguish characteristics of living and nonliving things.

    • Identify living and nonliving things (K-I.1)

  • 4 Use observations to determine patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive, including light, water, and nutrients.

    • What do animals need to survive? (K-G.1)
    • What do plants need to survive? (K-H.1)

• Interdependent Relationships

  • 5 Gather information from observations and media to explain how plants and animals can provide for their needs by changing their environment.

    • How do living things change their environments to meet their needs? (K-J.1)
    • How do gray squirrels change the forest to meet their needs? (K-J.2)

  • 6 Use models of natural habitats to represent the interdependence among plants and animals native to their community.

    • What do animals need to survive? (K-G.1)
    • Where do dromedary camels and polar bears live? (K-G.4)
    • Where do giraffes and beavers live? (K-G.5)
    • Where do whale sharks and tree frogs live? (K-G.6)
    • What do plants need to survive? (K-H.1)
    • Where do water lilies and saguaros live? (K-H.6)
    • Where do bearberries and powdery strap air plants live? (K-H.7)
    • Where do turtle grass and giant sequoias live? (K-H.8)

Earth's Systems

• Energy Transfer

  • 7 Make observations and describe the effects of sunlight on Earth's surface.

    • Investigate sunlight and shade (K-M.2)

  • 8 Design, construct, and test a device to reduce the effects of sunlight.

    • Design a sunshade (K-O.2)

• Weather

  • 9 Observe, record, and communicate local weather patterns over a period of time.

    • Describe the weather (K-M.1)
    • Weather patterns (K-M.4)

  • 10 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about using weather forecasts to make plans and prepare for severe weather.

    • Severe weather: blizzards (K-M.5)
    • Severe weather: tornadoes (K-M.6)
    • Severe weather: hurricanes (K-M.7)

Earth and Human Activity

• Human Impact

  • 11 Identify a problem and design possible solutions that lessen the human impact on the local environment.

    • Reduce, reuse, recycle (K-L.1)