| Science | 3 | Life Sciences | 3-LS4-1 | Biological Evolution: Unity & Diversity | Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. North Dakota Connection: Consider reaching out to oil, natural gas, and coal industries. Connect ND natural resources to fossilization. |
| Health Education | 3-5 | | 7.5.3 | -- | Demonstrate health behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks. |
| Science | 3-6 | Science and Engineering Practices | 1 | Asking questions and defining problems | Ask questions that can be investigated based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships. |
| Science | 3-6 | Science and Engineering Practices | 2 | Developing and using models | Develop models to describe phenomena. |
| Science | 3-6 | Science and Engineering Practices | 3 | Planning and carrying out investigations | Make observations . . . to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence for an explanation of a phenomenon . . . |
| Science | 3-6 | Science and Engineering Practices | 4 | Analyzing and interpreting data | Analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena using logical reasoning. |
| Science | 3-6 | Science and Engineering Practices | 6 | Constructing explanations and designing solutions | Use evidence (e.g., observations, patterns) to support an explanation. |
| Science | 3-6 | Science and Engineering Practices | 7 | Engaging an argument from evidence | Construct an argument with evidence, data, and/or a model. |
| Science | 4 | Earth Science | 4-ESS3-1 | Earth and Human Activity | Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. |
| Science | 4 | Physical Science | 4-PS3-2 | Energy | Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. |
| Science | 4 | Physical Science | 4-PS3-4 | Energy | Using the engineering design process build a device that converts energy from one form to another. |
| Science | 4 | Science and Engineering Practices | 2 | Developing and using models | Develop a model using an analogy, example, or abstract representation to describe a scientific principle. |
| Science | 5 | Physical Science | 5-PS1-3 | Matter and its Interactions | Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. |
| Health Education | 6 | | 7.6.3 | -- | Demonstrate health behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others. |
| Science | 6 | Earth Science | MS-ESS3-1 | Earth and Human Activity | 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. |
| Science | 6 | Earth Science | MS-PS1-3 | Earth and Human Activity | Gather and analyze information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society. Examples could include . . . alternative fuels. |
| Health Education | K-6 | | Standard 4 | -- | Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. |
