Nebraska

SC.6.4 Energy

• SC.6.4.1 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of energy.

  • SC.6.4.1.A Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.

    • Predict heat flow and temperature changes (6-I.1)
    • Compare thermal energy transfers (6-I.3)

  • SC.6.4.1.B Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principle and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.

    • Identify parts of the engineering-design process (6-C.1)
    • Explore the engineering-design process: going to the Moon! (6-C.4)
    • Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: evaluate solutions (6-Y.2)

  • SC.6.4.1.C 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.

    • How does particle motion affect temperature? (6-J.1)

  • SC.6.4.1.D 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.

    • Explore energy transformations: roller coaster ride (6-H.3)
    • Explore energy transformations: bike ride (6-H.4)

SC.6.6 Structure and Function and Information Processing

• SC.6.6.2 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of the relationship between structure and function in living things.

  • SC.6.6.2.A Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.

    • Understanding cells (6-O.1)

  • SC.6.6.2.B Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.

    • Understanding cells (6-O.1)
    • Identify functions of plant cell parts (6-O.2)
    • Identify functions of animal cell parts (6-O.3)
    • Plant cell diagrams: label parts (6-O.4)
    • Animal cell diagrams: label parts (6-O.5)
    • Compare cells and cell parts (6-O.6)

  • SC.6.6.2.C Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

    • Organization in the human body: the heart and the circulatory system (6-P.5)

  • SC.6.6.2.D Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.

    • Body systems: perception and motion (6-P.4)
    • Science literacy: how does the nervous system produce phantom pain? (6-P.6)

SC.6.9 Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms

• SC.6.9.3 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of the inheritance and variation of traits.

  • SC.6.9.3.A Construct an argument based on evidence for how plant and animal adaptations affect the probability of successful reproduction.

  • SC.6.9.3.B Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.

    • Inherited and acquired traits: use evidence to support a statement (6-Q.1)
    • How do genes and the environment affect plant growth? (6-Q.9)

  • SC.6.9.3.C 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 vocabulary: genotype and phenotype (6-Q.2)
    • Genetics vocabulary: dominant and recessive (6-Q.3)
    • Genetic variation in sexual reproduction (6-Q.4)
    • Complete and interpret Punnett squares (6-Q.5)
    • Use Punnett squares to calculate ratios of offspring types (6-Q.6)
    • Flowering plant and conifer life cycles (6-T.1)
    • Moss and fern life cycles (6-T.2)

SC.6.12 Weather and Climate

• SC.6.12.4 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of factors and interactions that affect weather and climate.

  • SC.6.12.4.A Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.

    • Explore air masses (6-EE.4)
    • Identify and compare air masses (6-EE.5)
    • How do air masses form? (6-EE.6)

  • SC.6.12.4.B Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

    • Factors affecting climate: latitude (6-EE.)
    • Factors affecting climate: distance from the ocean (6-EE.)

  • SC.6.12.4.C Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the change in global temperatures over thousands of years.

    • Evaluate claims about natural resource use: fossil fuels (6-Z.2)
    • The greenhouse effect (6-FF.1)

  • SC.6.12.4.D Analyze and interpret data on weather and climate to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effect.

    • Analyze natural hazard maps (6-GG.1)

SC.6.13 Earth's Systems

• SC.6.13.5 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of the flow of energy and cycling of matter associated with Earth's materials and processes.

  • SC.6.13.5.A Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.

    • Label parts of water cycle diagrams (6-DD.1)
    • Select parts of water cycle diagrams (6-DD.2)