Wisconsin

SCI.LS Life Science

• SCI.LS1 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of structures and processes (on a scale from molecules to organisms) to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.LS1.C Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms

    • SCI.LS1.C.K Animals obtain food they need from plants or other animals. Plants need water and light.

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

SCI.PS Physical Science

• SCI.PS2 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of forces, interactions, motion, and stability to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.PS2.A Forces and Motion

    • SCI.PS2.A.K Pushes and pulls can have different strengths and directions, and can change the speed or direction of an object's motion, or start or stop it. A bigger push or pull makes things speed up or slow down more quickly.

      • Push and pull (K-F.1)
      • Investigate pushes and pulls (K-F.)

  • SCI.PS2.B Types of Interactions

    • SCI.PS2.B.K When objects touch or collide, they push on one another and can result in a change of motion.

      • Investigate pushes and pulls (K-F.)

• SCI.PS3 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of energy to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.PS3.C Relationships between Energy and Forces

    • SCI.PS3.C.K Bigger pushes and pulls cause bigger changes in an object's motion or shape.

      • Investigate pushes and pulls (K-F.)

  • SCI.PS3.D Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life

    • SCI.PS3.D.K Sunlight warms Earth's surface.

SCI.ESS Earth and Space Science

• SCI.ESS2 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of earth's systems to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.ESS2.D Weather and Climate

    • SCI.ESS2.D.K Weather is the combination of sunlight, wind, snow or rain, and temperature in a particular region and time. People record weather patterns over time.

      • Describe the weather (K-M.1)

  • SCI.ESS2.E Biogeology

    • SCI.ESS2.E.K Plants and animals can change their local environment.

• SCI.ESS3 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of earth and human activity to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.ESS3.A Natural Resources

    • SCI.ESS3.A.K Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do.

      • What do animals need to survive? (K-G.1)
      • Where do dromedary camels and polar bears live? (K-G.3)
      • What do plants need to survive? (K-H.1)
      • Where do water lilies and saguaros live? (K-H.5)

  • SCI.ESS3.B Natural Hazards

    • SCI.ESS3.B.K In a region, some kinds of severe weather are more likely than others. Forecasts allow communities to prepare for severe weather.

  • SCI.ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems

    • SCI.ESS3.C.K Things people do can affect the environment but they can make choices to reduce their impacts.

SCI.ETS Engineering, Technology, and Society

• SCI.ETS1 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of engineering design to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.ETS1.A Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

    • SCI.ETS1.A.K A situation that people want to change or create can be approached as a problem to be solved through engineering. Asking questions, making observations, and gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems. Before beginning to design a solution, it is important to clearly understand the problem.

  • SCI.ETS1.B Developing Possible Solutions

    • SCI.ETS1.B.K Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem's solutions to other people.

• SCI.ETS2 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of links among engineering, technology, science, and society to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.ETS2.A Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology

    • SCI.ETS2.A.K Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem's solutions to other people.

  • SCI.ETS2.B Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World

    • SCI.ETS2.B.K Every human-made product is designed by applying some knowledge of the natural world and is built by using natural materials. Taking natural materials to make things impacts the environment.

• SCI.ETS3 Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of the nature of science and engineering to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.

  • SCI.ETS3.A Science and Engineering Are Human Endeavors

    • SCI.ETS3.A.K People of diverse backgrounds can become scientists and engineers. People have practiced science and engineering for a long time. Creativity and imagination are important to science and engineering.

  • SCI.ETS3.B Science and Engineering Are Unique Ways of Thinking With Different Purposes

    • SCI.ETS3.B.K Scientists use evidence to explain the natural world. Science assumes natural events happen today as they happened in the past. Engineers solve problems to meet the needs of people and communities.

  • SCI.ETS3.C Science and Engineering Use Multiple Approaches to Create New Knowledge and Solve Problems

    • SCI.ETS3.C.K Science and engineers use many approaches to answer questions about the natural world and solve problems. Scientific explanations are strengthened by being supported with evidence. An engineering problem can have many solutions. The strength of a solution depends on how well it solves the problem.