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    6th Grade Next Generation Science Standards

    Unit 1: Ecosystems

    LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

    LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.

    LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

    LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

    LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

    ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.

    Unit 2: Earth's Resources

    ESS1-4: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth's 4.6-billion-year-old history.

    ESS2-1: Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.

    ESS2-2: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.

    ESS2-3: Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.

    ESS2-4: Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.

    ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.

    ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.

    Unit 3: Weather

    ESS2-4: Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.

    ESS2-5: Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.

    ESS2-6: 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.

    ESS3-2: Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

    ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused climate change over the past century.

    Unit 4: Outer Space

    ESS1-1: Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

    ESS1-2: Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.

    ESS1-3: Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.

    Unit 5: Waves

    PS4-1: Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave.

    PS4-2: Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.

    PS4-3: Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals.