NC Essential Science Standards - NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas - NGSS Cross Cutting Concepts - STEM Rubric
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
FORCES AND MOTION
Understand motion in terms of speed, velocity, acceleration and momentum
Understand the relationship between forces and motion
MATTER: PROPERTIES AND CHANGE
Understand types, properties and structure of Matter
Understand chemical bonding and chemical interactions
Understand the role of the nucleus in radiation and radioactivity
ENERGY: CONSERVATION AND TRANSFER
Understand the types of energy, conservation of energy and energy transfer
Understand the nature of waves
Understand electricity and magnetism and their relationship
BIOLOGY
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF LIVING ORGANISMS
- Explainer: The Slow Life
- Explainer: The Snake Doctor
- Explainer: Self-Healing Muscles
- The Great Migration
- Micro Organs
- The Liver Takes It All
- Just Moving Along
- Sensational Singing Mice
- Cicada Secrets
- A Model Foot
Understand the relationship between the structure and function of cells and their organelles
Analyze the cell as a living system
ECOSYSTEMS
Analyze the interdependence of living organisms within their environment
- Explainer: Invasion of the Lionfish
- Explainer: The Horse-Human Relationship
- Explainer: Fish Tagging
- New Hope For Hemlocks
- Grave School Lessons
- Small Creatures/Large Lessons
- Leaping Lemurs
- Acorns Count
- The Bee-utiful Bee
- Oh Shuck!
- Where In The World Is Ms. Palma?
- Shark Tagging
Understand the impact of human activities on the environment (one generation affects the next)
EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
Explain how traits are determined by the structure and function of DNA
Understand how the environment and/or interaction of alleles influences the expression of genes
Understand the application of DNA technology
- Explainer: Rapid Water Testing
- Vaccine Hunters
- Just A Spoonful of Soybeans
- New Fields For Food
- Vaccine Hunting: Applying Nucleic Acid Technology
- Precision Medicine
Explain the theory of evolution by natural selection for how species change over time
Analyze how classification systems are developed based upon speciation
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Understand how biological molecules are essential to the survival of living organisms
- Explainer: Fruit Infusion
- Explainer: Library of Plants
- Explainer: The 99% Solution
- Understanding the Small Biological Molecules
- The Peanut Solution
- Super Fruit Science
- What A Pain!
Analyze the relationships between biochemical processes and energy use in the cell.
CHEMISTRY
MATTER: PROPERTIES AND CHANGE
Analyze the structure of atoms and ions
Understand bond type, strength, and properties
Understand the physical and chemical properties of atoms in the periodic table
ENERGY: CONSERVATION AND TRANSFER
Understand the relationship among pressure, temperature, volume, and phase
Analyze chemical reactions in terms of quantities, product formation, and energy
INTERACTIONS OF ENERGY AND MATTER
Understand the factors affecting the rate of reaction and chemical equilibrium
Understand solutions and the solution process
PHYSICS
FORCES AND MOTION
Analyze the motion of objects
Analyze systems of forces and their interaction with matter
Analyze the motion of objects based on the principles of conservation of momentum, conservation of energy and impulse
ENERGY: CONSERVATION AND TRANSFER
Understand the concepts of work, energy, power, as well as the relationship among them
Analyze the behavior of waves
Analyze the nature of moving charges and electric circuits
INTERACTIONS OF ENERGY AND MATTER
Explain charges and electrostatic systems
Explain the concept of magnetism
EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
EARTH IN THE UNIVERSE
Explain the Earth’s role as a body in space
EARTH SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
Explain how process and forces affect the lithosphere
Understand how human influences impact the lithosphere
Explain the structure and processes within the hydrosphere
Evaluate how humans use water
- Explainer: Raincatchers
- Explainer: Greening the Golf Course
- We All Live Downstream
- Catching The Rain
Understand the structure and processes within our atmosphere
Analyze patterns of global climate change over time
Explain how the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere affect the biosphere
- Understanding a Research Question from Antarctica
- Secrets of Tidal Creeks
- Science From The Bottom Of The World
Evaluate human behaviors that ensure the ability to live sustainably on Earth
- Explainer: Gray Seal Tracking
- Aquaponics: Farming For The Future
- New Use For Coal Ash
- Reef Life
- Seeking Sea Power