Redding School District is currently in the process of a Science Adoption to align with the Next Generation Science Standards.
Natural processes and human activities cause energy to flow and matter to cycle through Earth's systems.
Life Science
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Earth & Space Sciences
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Physical Science
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Engineering, Technology, and applications to Science
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Living and nonliving things are made of atoms
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Organisms are made of molecules of mostly six different elements.
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Earth materials are mostly made of eight different elements.
Earth has mineral, energy, and water resources.
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The interaction and motions of atoms explain the properties of matter.
Thermal energy affects particle motion and physical state.
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Matter cycles and energy flows in systems of all scales within the Earth system.
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Organisms grow and get energy by rearranging atoms in food molecules.
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Earth’s cycles of matter are driven by solar energy, Earth’s internal thermal energy, and gravity.
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Chemical reactions make new substances and can release or absorb thermal energy.
Mass is conserved in physical changes and chemical reactions.
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Design Criteria
Evaluate Solutions
Analyze data
Iteratively test and modify
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Natural processes and human activities have shaped Earth’s resources and ecosystems.
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Matter cycles and energy flows among living and nonliving parts of ecosystems.
Resource availability affects organisms and ecosystem populations.
Ecosystems have common patterns of organism interactions.
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Fossils, rocks, continental shape, and seafloor structures provide evidence of plate motion.
Geoscience processes unevenly distribute Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources.
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Chemical reactions make new substances.
Mass is conserved in physical changes and chemical reactions.
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Human activities help sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing world.
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Biotic and abiotic changes affect ecosystem populations.
Design solutions can help maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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Geoscience processes change Earth’s surface.
Damage from natural hazards can be reduced.
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Synthetic materials impact society.
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Design criteria
Evaluate solutions
Analyze data
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