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Physical Science
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Generate resourceExplain specific protections provided in the Bill of Rights to individuals and the importance of these amendments to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Generate resourceAnalyze the Preamble and sections of the Constitution to understand the establishment and limitations of democratic principles. Note: Teachers may choose the section of the Constitution that are most accessible and relevant for their classroom.
Generate resourceExamine and critique how colonial and new states’ governments established, expanded, limited, or denied rights and responsibilities of specific groups and individuals with particular attention to citizens, enslaved peoples, foreigners, nobles, religious groups, women, class systems, and Tribes.
Generate resourceAnalyze how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic, religious, and current social events and situations in the United States.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast how the governments of the British monarchy, American colonies, and Indigenous Tribes shaped interactions with one another.
Generate resourceAnalyze the significance of the decisions and laws of the newly formed federal and state governments in establishing, expanding, limiting, and denying rights to individuals 1789-1865.
Generate resourceMap out a savings and budget plan designed to achieve a future purchase objective.
Generate resourceAnalyze career choices with consideration of necessary qualifications, income potential, and time commitment.
Generate resourceDiscuss how life circumstances and experiences can cause people to differ in their values and attitudes about saving and their ability to save.
Generate resourceDescribe why the government collects taxes and what goods and services it provides society.
Generate resourceExplain the United States’ development from a mercantilist to a market economy.
Generate resourceExamine the significance of the slave trade among and between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Generate resourceExplain why cultures and civilizations choose to specialize in producing selected goods or services.
Generate resourceSupport an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun and stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.
Generate resourceRepresent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.
Generate resourceDevelop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
Generate resourceDescribe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Generate resourceObtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.
Generate resourceDefine a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Generate resourceGenerate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Generate resourcePlan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
Generate resourceUse geographic tools such as maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to investigate and compare the process of constructing, recognizing, and utilizing, boundaries and borders (geographic and/or human-made) in the United States.
Generate resourceLocate states, capital cities, and important geographic features on a United States map.
Generate resourceLocate and examine significant physical geographic features of the thirteen British colonies that became the United States.
Generate resourceDescribe how physical, human, and political features influence events, movements, and adaptation to the environment.
Generate resourceDescribe how technological developments, societal decisions, and personal practices affect sustainability in the United States.
Generate resourceTrace on a map Indigenous Tribes' encounters with Europeans in North America and the Caribbean Islands in the 15th through the 18th centuries.
Generate resourceInvestigate the effects of exploration, conquest, exploitation, and colonial settlement on Indigenous Tribes in at least two geographic regions.
Generate resourceIdentify and analyze the implications and ramifications for Native American Tribes of the movement of people, goods, ideas, and cultural patterns to what became the United States, considering past, present, and future trends.
Generate resourceInvestigate the causes behind domestic and global migration, distinguishing between voluntary relocation and forced displacement, including scenarios like refugees, individuals compelled to leave their homeland and those enslaved.
Generate resourceExamine how the decisions of those in power affected those with less political/economic power in past and current movements for equality, freedom, and justice with connections to the present day.
Generate resourceAnalyze how instances of cooperation and conflict between Indigenous peoples and British, French, and Spanish colonial settlers contributed to political, economic, religious, and social conditions between 1500-1776.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effect of policies of assimilation and erasure, including cultural and physical genocide on Indigenous cultures in what became the United States.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the leadership and daily life of the founders of the United States, including the political, social, and economic interactions with the local and regional Indigenous peoples.
Generate resourceExplain multiple perspectives and causes and effects of events leading to colonial independence from British Rule.
Generate resourceExamine the effects Indigenous Tribes of North America had in the early development of the United States.
Generate resourceAnalyze the distinct way of knowing and living amongst the different Indigenous peoples of North America before contact.
Generate resourceExplain the ideas and actions of individuals and groups resisting enslavement, indigenous genocide, and denial of equality and justice with connections to present-day issues.
Generate resourceIdentify the significant role of the enslavement of Indigenous peoples and Africans in the establishment of North American colonies and the United States, the gradual abolition of slavery in the Northern states, and the expansion of slavery into Western states.
Generate resourceUse maps and other sources to trace European exploration, conquest, exploitation, and colonial settlement of North America and the Caribbean Islands in the 15th through 18th centuries, and identify the reasons and effects of the voyages, including on the Indigenous Tribes already living in the region.
Generate resourceSupport an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
Generate resourceDevelop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
Generate resourceDevelop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Generate resourceMeasure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
Generate resourceMake observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
Generate resourceConduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
Generate resourceSupport an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
Generate resourceUse models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
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