Students will blend the core ideas with scientific and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to support students in developing usable knowledge to explain real world phenomena in the physical, biological, and earth and space sciences.

Students will focus on developing an understanding of several scientific practices. This will be done through models, planning, conducting, investigating, analyzing, and interpreting data, using mathematical and computational thinking and constructing explanations; and to use these practices to demonstrate understanding of the core ideas.

40% of instructional time will be conducting laboratory and field investigation in class and/or at home.

• Science investigation and reasoning
• Matter and energy
• Force, motion and energy
• Earth and space
• Organisms and environment

• Unit 1: Matter and motion
• Unit 2: A World of energy
• Unit 3: Living things
• Unit 4: The animal kingdom
• Unit 5: Exploring the Earth’s surface
• Unit 6: Earth systems and structure
• Unit 7: Beyond our planet

• Unit 1: Matter, forces, and motion
• Unit 2: Work, machines, and energy
• Unit 3 Characteristics of living things
• Unit 4: Life on earth
• Unit 5: Earth and its ecosystem
• Unit 6: Dynamic Earth
• Unit 7: The Earth beyond

• Unit 1: Matter and its interactions
• Unit 2: Energy on the move
• Unit 3: Living things and the environment
• Unit 4: Human body systems
• Unit 5: The Earth in transition
• Unit 6: Earth’s water and air
• Unit 7: Beyond our solar system