Standards Referenced on a Learning Label

Standard: NGSS - MS-ETS1 - MS-ETS1-1
Short Description: Engineering Design
Long Description: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-ETS1 - MS-ETS1-2
Short Description: Engineering Design
Long Description: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-ETS1 - MS-ETS1-3
Short Description: Engineering Design
Long Description: Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-ETS1 - MS-ETS1-4
Short Description: Engineering Design
Long Description: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-PS3 - MS-PS3-2
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to two objects and electric, magnetic, and gravitational interactions.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on relative amounts of potential energy, not on calculations of potential energy. Examples of objects within systems interacting at varying distances could include: the Earth and either a roller coaster cart at varying positions on a hill or objects at varying heights on shelves, changing the direction/orientation of a magnet, and a balloon with static electrical charge being brought closer to a classmate’s hair. Examples of models could include representations, diagrams, pictures, and written descriptions of systems.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-PS3 - MS-PS3-4
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample.
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include calculating the total amount of thermal energy transferred.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Examples of experiments could include comparing final water temperatures after different masses of ice melted in the same volume of water with the same initial temperature, the temperature change of samples of different materials with the same mass as they cool or heat in the environment, or the same material with different masses when a specific amount of energy is added.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-PS3 - MS-PS3-3
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include calculating the total amount of thermal energy transferred.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Examples of devices could include an insulated box, a solar cooker, and a Styrofoam cup.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-PS3 - MS-PS3-5
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include calculations of energy.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Examples of empirical evidence used in arguments could include an inventory or other representation of the energy before and after the transfer in the form of temperature changes or motion of object.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School

Standard: NGSS - MS-PS3 - MS-PS3-1
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on descriptive relationships between kinetic energy and mass separately from kinetic energy and speed. Examples could include riding a bicycle at different speeds, rolling different sizes of rocks downhill, and getting hit by a wiffle ball versus a tennis ball.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: Middle School