Arizona K–6 science standards

Observe, record, and ask questions about temperature, precipitation, and other weather data to identify patterns or changes in local weather.

Observe, describe, ask questions, and predict seasonal weather patterns; and how those patterns impact plants and animals (including humans).

Observe and ask questions about patterns of the motion of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how organisms use different body parts for survival.

Observe, ask questions and explain how specialized structures found on a variety of plants and animals (including humans) help them sense and respond to their environment.

Observe, ask questions, and explain the differences between the characteristics of living and non-living things.

Investigate how senses can detect light, sound, and vibrations even when they come from far away; use the collected evidence to develop and support an explanation.

Design and evaluate a tool that helps people extend their senses.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the properties of Earth materials and investigate how humans use natural resources in everyday life.

Observe, describe, and predict life cycles of animals and plants.

Construct an explanation describing how organisms obtain resources from the environment including materials that are used again by other organisms.

Develop and use models about how living things use resources to grow and survive; design and evaluate habitats for organisms using earth materials.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to support an evidence-based explanation that plants and animals produce offspring of the same kind, but offspring are generally not identical to each other or their parents.

Develop a model to describe how animals and plants are classified into groups and subgroups according to their similarities.

Ask questions and explain how factors can cause species to go extinct.

Plan and carry out investigations demonstrating the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light and predict how objects with similar properties will affect the beam of light.

Use models to provide evidence that vibrating matter creates sound and sound can make matter vibrate.

Plan and carry out investigations which demonstrate how equal forces can balance objects and how unequal forces can push, pull, or twist objects, making them change their speed, direction, or shape.

Design and evaluate ways to increase or reduce heat from friction between two objects.

Observe and investigate how wind and water change the shape of the land resulting in a variety of landforms.

Develop and use models to represent that water can exist in different states and is found in oceans, glaciers, lakes, rivers, ponds, and the atmosphere.

Analyze patterns in weather conditions of various regions of the world and design, test, and refine solutions to protect humans from severe weather conditions.

Construct an argument from evidence regarding positive and negative changes in water and land systems that impact humans and the environment.

Observe and explain the Sun's position at different times during a twenty-four-hour period and changes in the apparent shape of the Moon from one night to another.

Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence that organisms need a source of energy, air, water, and certain temperature conditions to survive.

Develop a model representing how life on Earth depends on energy from the Sun and energy from other organisms.

Plan and carry out an investigation to determine that matter has mass, takes up space, and is recognized by its observable properties; use the collected evidence to develop and support an explanation.

Plan and carry out investigations to gather evidence to support an explanation on how heating or cooling can cause a phase change in matter.

Obtain, evaluate and communicate information about ways heat energy can cause change in objects or materials.

Construct an explanation describing how the Sun is the primary source of energy impacting Earth systems.

Develop and use models to explain that plants and animals (including humans) have internal and external structures that serve various functions that aid in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction.

Plan and carry out investigations to demonstrate ways plants and animals react to stimuli.

Develop and use system models to describe the flow of energy from the Sun to and among living organisms.

Construct an argument from evidence that organisms are interdependent.

Ask questions and investigate the relationship between light, objects, and the human eye.

Plan and carry out an investigation to explore how sound waves affect objects at varying distances.

Develop and use models to describe how light and sound waves transfer energy.

Use models to explain seismic waves and their effect on the Earth.

Plan and carry out an investigation to explore and explain the interactions between Earth's major systems and the impact on Earth's surface materials and processes.

Develop and/or revise a model using various rock types, fossils location, and landforms to show evidence that Earth’s surface has changed over time.

Collect, analyze, and interpret data to explain weather and climate patterns.

Define problem(s) and design solution(s) to minimize the effects of natural hazards.

Construct and support an evidence-based argument about the availability of water and its impact on life.

Analyze and interpret environmental data to demonstrate that species either adapt and survive, or go extinct over time.

Develop and use a model to demonstrate magnetic forces.

Develop and use a model to demonstrate how a system transfers energy from one object to another even when the objects are not touching.

Develop and use a model that explains how energy is moved from place to place through electric currents.

Engage in argument from evidence on the use and impact of renewable and nonrenewable resources to generate electricity.

Develop, revise, and use models based on evidence to construct explanations about the movement of the Earth and Moon within our solar system.

Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence to support an explanation that the gravitational force of Earth on objects is directed toward the planet's center.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about patterns between the offspring of plants, and the offspring of animals (including humans); construct an explanation of how genetic information is passed from one generation to the next.

Construct an explanation based on evidence that the changes in an environment can affect the development of the traits in a population of organisms.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate evidence about how natural and human-caused changes to habitats or climate can impact populations.

Construct an argument based on evidence that inherited characteristics can be affected by behavior and/or environmental conditions.

Analyze and interpret data to explain that matter of any type can be subdivided into particles too small to see and, in a closed system, if properties change or chemical reactions occur, the amount of matter stays the same.

Plan and carry out investigations to demonstrate that some substances combine to form new substances with different properties and others can be mixed without taking on new properties.

Construct an explanation using evidence to demonstrate that objects can affect other objects even when they are not touching.

Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence of the effects that balanced and unbalanced forces have on the motion of objects.

Define problems and design solutions pertaining to force and motion.

Analyze and interpret data to determine how and where energy is transferred when objects move.

Investigate and construct an explanation demonstrating that radiation from the Sun provides energy and is absorbed to warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere.

Use ratios and proportions to analyze and interpret data related to scale, properties, and relationships among objects in our solar system.

Develop and use models to explain how constellations and other night sky patterns appear to move due to Earth's rotation and revolution.

Develop and use models to construct an explanation of how eclipses, moon phases, and tides occur within the Sun-Earth-Moon system.

Use a model to show how the tilt of Earth's axis causes variations in the length of the day and gives rise to seasons.

Develop and use models to demonstrate the interdependence of organisms and their environment including biotic and abiotic factors.

Construct a model that shows the cycling of matter and flow of energy in ecosystems.

Use evidence to construct an argument regarding the impact of human activities on the environment and how they positively and negatively affect the competition for energy and resources in ecosystems.

Engage in argument from evidence to support a claim about the factors that cause species to change and how humans can impact those factors.

Analyze and interpret data to show that changes in states of matter are caused by different rates of movement of atoms in solids, liquids, and gases (Kinetic Theory).

Plan and carry out an investigation to demonstrate that variations in temperature and/or pressure affect changes in state of matter.

Develop and use models to represent that matter is made up of smaller particles called atoms.

Develop and use a model to predict how forces act on objects at a distance.

Analyze how humans use technology to store (potential) and/or use (kinetic) energy.