Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

This lesson is building toward:

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION (PE)

5-PS1-3

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. [Clarification Statement: Examples of materials to be identified could include baking soda and other powders, metals, minerals, and liquids. Examples of properties could include color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, response to magnetic forces, and solubility; density is not intended as an identifiable property.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include density or distinguishing mass and weight.]

3-5 ETS1-1

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

NGSS Lead States. 2013. Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES (SEP)

Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable outcomes based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.
Use prior knowledge to describe problems that can be solved.
Define a simple design problem that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system and includes several criteria for success and constraints on material, time, or cost.

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Make observations and/or measurements to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence for an explanation of a phenomenon or to test a design solution.

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena, using logical reasoning, mathematics, and/or computation.
Compare and contrast data collected by different groups in order to discuss similarities and differences in their findings.

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Apply scientific ideas to solve problems.
Use evidence (e.g., measurements, observations, patterns) to construct of support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Read and comprehend grade-appropriate complex texts and/or other reliable media to summarize and obtain scientific and technical ideas and describe how they are supported by evidence.
Communicate scientific and/or technical information orally and/or in written formats, including various forms of media, as well as table, diagrams and charts.

DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS (DCI)

PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter

Matter of any type can be subdivided into particles that are too small to see, but even then, the matter still exists and can be detected by other means.

ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

Possible solutions to a problem are limited by available materials and resources (constraints). The success of a designed solution is determined by considering the desired features of a solution (criteria). Different proposals for solutions can be compared on the basis of how well each one meets the specific criteria for success or how well each takes the constraints into account.

ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions

At whatever stage, communicating with peers about proposed solutions is an important part of the design process, and shared ideas can lead to improved designs.

CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS (CCC)

Patterns

Identify similarities and differences in order to sort and classify natural objects and designed products.
Identify patterns related to time, including simple rates of change and cycles and use these patterns to make predictions.

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

Natural objects and/or observable phenomena exist from the very small to the immensely large or from very short to very long time periods.

Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World

People’s needs and wants change over time, as do their demands for new and improved technologies.

“Disciplinary Core Ideas, Science and Engineering Practices, and Crosscutting Concepts” are reproduced verbatim from A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/13165. National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Board on Science Education; Committee on a Conceptual Framework for New K-12 Science Education Standards. National Academies Press, Washington, DC. This material may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes and used by other parties with this attribution. If the original material is altered in any way, the attribution must state that the material is adapted from the original. All other rights reserved.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

CCSS ELA WRITING

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.8
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

MATHEMATICS PRACTICES

MP.2
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

MP.5
Use appropriate tools strategically.

California English Language Development (ELD) Standards

CA ELD

Part 1.5.3: Offering opinions and evaluating others’ opinions in speaking and writing.

EMERGING

EXPANDING

BRIDGING

Negotiate with or persuade others in conversations using basic learned phrases (e.g., I think…), as well as open responses, in order to gain and/or hold the floor.

Negotiate with or persuade others in conversations using an expanded set of learned phrases (e.g., I agree with X, but…), as well as open responses, in order to gain and/or hold the floor, provide counter-arguments, etc.

Negotiate with or persuade others in conversations using a variety of learned phrases (e.g., That’s an interesting idea. However…), as well as open responses, in order to gain and/or hold the floor, provide counter-arguments, elaborate on an idea, etc.

In addition to the standard above, you may find that you touch on the following standards in this lesson as well:

P1.5.1: Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic topics.
P1.5.2: Reading closely informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language.