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“Earth Science”
Grade 4 · Earth Science
Mapping Earth's Features: Mountains, Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Analyze maps of mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, and ocean trenches to describe where Earth's features form clusters, lines, and overlapping spatial patterns.
50 min · ~10 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 5 · Earth Science
Earth's Systems Working Together
Classify Earth components and build focused models of interactions between two systems.
55 min · ~10 min prep · 6 materials
Grade 5 · Earth Science
Protecting Earth’s Resources: Community Science Solutions
Obtain and combine prepared source information to explain and monitor community resource solutions.
50 min · ~10 min prep · 3 materials
Grade 5 · Earth Science
Where Is Earth's Water?
Use a rounded 100-part model and scaled graphs to describe how Earth's water and freshwater are distributed among major reservoirs.
51 min · ~9 min prep · 6 materials
Grade 2 · Earth Science
Fast & Slow Changes to Earth
Use several sources to compare Earth events that happen quickly with processes that change the surface slowly over time.
40 min · ~9 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 2 · Earth Science
Water on Earth: Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, Ponds & Ice
Use pictures, labels, captions, and short text to identify water locations and states.
40 min · ~7 min prep · 2 materials
Grade 4 · Earth Science
Volcanoes, Earthquakes & Reducing Hazard Impacts
Compare multiple solutions that can reduce earthquake and volcanic-eruption impacts.
50 min · ~12 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 6 · Earth Science
Plate Tectonics: A Changing Earth
Use maps and models to connect plate motion with earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, and pathways through the rock cycle.
55 min · ~10 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 2 · Earth Science
How Water and Wind Change the Land
Observe how water and wind move loose land material, then compare solution designs under matched test conditions.
40 min · ~12 min prep · 6 materials
Grade 2 · Earth Science
Landforms & Bodies of Water
Use pictures, simple maps, and models to identify landforms and bodies of water, show where features are located, and distinguish liquid water from solid ice.
40 min · ~8 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 2 · Earth Science
Soil Properties: Which Material Holds Water Best?
Compare prepared sand, silt-rich soil, and clay-rich soil with equal water tests to describe how different earth materials let water pass through or remain in the sample.
45 min · ~15 min prep · 7 materials
Grade 2 · Earth Science
Weather & Seasons: Patterns We Can Observe
Read simple weather graphs and compare seasons to find patterns in temperature, clouds, rain, snow, and wind while remembering that daily weather can still vary.
40 min · ~8 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 3 · Earth Science
Fossils & Past Environments
Organize fossil data, find distribution patterns, and use evidence to infer broad features of past environments.
45 min · ~12 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 3 · Earth Science
Weather vs. Climate: Finding Patterns in Data
Read tables, pictographs, and bar graphs to find seasonal weather patterns. Then use long-term information to compare climates in two regions.
45 min · ~10 min prep · 6 materials
Grade 4 · Earth Science
Rock Layers, Fossils & Past Landscapes
Use relative time and fossil patterns to explain how a landscape changed from earlier land to later water.
45 min · ~10 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 4 · Earth Science
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
See how rock breaks down, sediment moves, and material settles. Use measurements from a water-erosion model to explain how Earth's surface changes.
50 min · ~12 min prep · 8 materials
Grade 5 · Earth Science
How Water Moves Underground: Infiltration, Permeability & Aquifers
Model how water infiltrates Earth materials, compare permeability, and explain how groundwater can collect and move through aquifers.
50 min · ~12 min prep · 8 materials
Grade 6 · Earth Science
Ocean Currents: How Oceans Shape Regional Climate
Use long-term coastal climate evidence and ocean-circulation models to explain how ocean currents can redistribute thermal energy—and why currents are not the sole cause of climate.
55 min · ~12 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 6 · Earth Science
The Water Cycle: Driven by Sunlight and Gravity
Build and revise a multi-pathway model of water moving among ocean, land, living things, and atmosphere; distinguish solar-powered phase changes from gravity-driven flows.
50 min · ~12 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 6 · Earth Science
Weather Forecasting: Air Masses, Pressure & Fronts
Collect and interpret weather data to explain how moving air masses and fronts change local conditions and support probabilistic forecasts.
55 min · ~10 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 5 · Space Science
Earth’s Rotation, Shadows & Sky Patterns
Analyze shadow measurements and sky records to identify daily and seasonal patterns, then support careful claims with graphed evidence.
55 min · ~10 min prep · 4 materials
Grade 5 · Physical Science
Gravity Pulls Toward Earth
Use observations, diagrams, and models to support an argument that Earth's gravitational force pulls nearby objects toward Earth's center.
55 min · ~8 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 1 · Space Science
Sun, Moon & Stars: Patterns in the Sky
Use repeated sky observations to notice patterns in the Sun, Moon, stars, day and night, and the amount of daylight at different times of year.
35 min · ~10 min prep · 4 materials
Grade 4 · Space Science
Moon Phase Modeling: Why Does the Moon Seem to Change Shape?
Use a light-and-ball model to explain why the Moon's visible illuminated part changes as the Moon orbits Earth, and test common phase misconceptions.
50 min · ~10 min prep · 5 materials
Grade 5 · Space Science
Why Does the Sun Look So Bright?
Use a controlled model and relative-distance evidence to explain apparent brightness.
55 min · ~8 min prep · 3 materials
Grade 6 · Physical Science
Kinetic & Potential Energy: Mass, Speed & Position
Use graphs to analyze how object-scale kinetic energy relates to mass and speed, then model how relative position changes gravitational potential energy in an Earth-object system.
55 min · ~10 min prep · 5 materials