Millen, Lori / NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards)

Physical Science (Motion + Stability)

In this unit, students will learn about Isaac Newton and his 3 Laws of Motion. In addition, this unit will teach about simple and complex machines and the different forces that bring objects together.

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Physical Science (Chemical Reactions/Properties of Matter)

This unit helps students develop the concepts of "substances" and "chemical reactions." Students see that chemical reactions enable us to make new materials by transforming the ones we have. The results of thesse reactions are interesting and sometimes profoundly useful.

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Life Science (Web of Life)

The food materials and energy that our bodies use for growth ultimately come from plants. Plants in turn derive their materials from air, water, and soil and their energy from the sun. Thus in a very real way, our bodies come from the earth and sun. When we die, decomposers return our materials and energy to the earth, to be used again by future organisms. The whole of nature forms a great system-the ecosystem.

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Earth and Space Science (Water Planet)

This unit helps students develop the idea that water is a profoundly important natural resource, but one which requires surprising ingenuity to find and maintain.

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Earth and Space Science (Space)

This astronomy unit helps students develop a new perspective on the world they're standing on. They will be given evidence that the Earth beneath our feet is actually moving through space, both spinning on its axis, and traveling in a great orbit around the Sun. They will see how these movements account for the patterns we see in our sky (the path of our Sun across the sky, the changing seasons, the moon's patterns, and the changing constellations).

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Physical Science (Motion + Stability)

Physical Science (Chemical Reactions/Properties of Matter)

Life Science (Web of Life)

Earth and Space Science (Water Planet)

Earth and Space Science (Space)