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 - HS-PS3 - HS-PS3-1
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to basic algebraic expressions or computations; to systems of two or three components; and to thermal energy, kinetic energy, and/or the energies in gravitational, magnetic, or electric fields.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on explaining the meaning of mathematical expressions used in the model.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: High School

Standard: NGSS - HS-PS3 - HS-PS3-3
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Design, build, and refine a device that works within given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy.
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment for quantitative evaluations is limited to total output for a given input. Assessment is limited to devices constructed with materials provided to students.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on both qualitative and quantitative evaluations of devices. Examples of devices could include Rube Goldberg devices, wind turbines, solar cells, solar ovens, and generators. Examples of constraints could include use of renewable energy forms and efficiency.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: High School

Standard: NGSS - HS-PS3 - HS-PS3-4
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (se
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to investigations based on materials and tools provided to students.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on analyzing data from student investigations and using mathematical thinking to describe the energy changes both quantitatively and conceptually. Examples of investigations could include mixing liquids at different initial temperatures or adding objects at different temperatures to water.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: High School

Standard: NGSS - HS-PS3 - HS-PS3-5
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Develop and use a model of two objects interacting through electric or magnetic fields to illustrate the forces between objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to the interaction.
Assessment Boundary: [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to systems containing two objects.]
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Examples of models could include drawings, diagrams, and texts, such as drawings of what happens when two charges of opposite polarity are near each other.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: High School

Standard: NGSS - HS-PS3 - HS-PS3-2
Short Description: Energy
Long Description: Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motion of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative position of particles (objects).
Clarification Statement: [Clarification Statement: Examples of phenomena at the macroscopic scale could include the conversion of kinetic energy to thermal energy, the energy stored due to position of an object above the earth, and the energy stored between two electrically-charged plates. Examples of models could include diagrams, drawings, descriptions, and computer simulations.]
Base Skill: Applied Science
Target Audience: High School