Kindergarten
Earth is composed of land, air, and water.
1st Grade
Weather can be observed, measured, and described.
2nd Grade
Earth is made of materials that have distinct properties and provide resources for human activities.
3rd Grade
Objects in the sky move in regular and predictable patterns.
4th Grade
The properties of rocks and minerals reflect the processes that formed them.
Waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape Earth's land surface.
5th Grade
Water on Earth moves between the oceans and land through the processes of evaporation and condensation.
Energy from the Sun heats Earth unevenly, causing air movements that result in changing weather patterns.
The solar system consists of planets and other bodies that orbit the Sun in predictable paths.
6th Grade
Plate Tectonics and Earth's Structure, Shaping Earth's Surface, Heat (Thermal Energy) (Physical Sciences), Energy in the Earth System, Ecology (Life Sciences), Resources
Plate tectonics accounts for important features of Earth's surface and major geologic events.
Topography is reshaped by the weathering of rock and soil and by the transportation and deposition of sediment.
Heat moves in a predictable flow from warmer objects to cooler objects until all the objects are at the same temperature.
Many phenomena on Earth's surface are affected by the transfer of energy through radiation and convection currents.
Organisms in ecosystems exchange energy and nutrients among themselves and with the environment.
Sources of energy and materials differ in amounts, distribution, usefulness, and the time required for their formation.