| Science | 3 | Engineering & Technology | 3-ET1-1 | -- | Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. |
| 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 | 2 | Developing and using models | Develop models to describe phenomena. |
| Science | 4 | Earth Science | 4-ESS1-1 | Earth's Place in the Universe | Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. |
| 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 | 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 | Earth Science | 5-ESS3-1 | Earth and Human Activity | Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment. |
| Science | 5 | Physical Science | 5-PS1-1 | Matter and its Interactions | Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. |
| Health Education | 6 | | 7.6.3 | -- | Demonstrate health behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others. |
| Science | 6 | Earth Science | MS-ESS3-3 | Earth and Human Activity | Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment. |
| Health Education | K-6 | | Standard 4 | -- | Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. |
