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Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Connections

• MS-PS1-3 – Matter and its Interactions – Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.
• MS-PS1-4 Matter and its Interactions – Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
• MS-PS4-2 Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer – Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
• MS-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes – Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells
• MS-LS1-6 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes – Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
• MS-LS4-5 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity – Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
• MS-ESS2-3 Earth’s Systems – Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
• MS-ESS3-4 Earth and Human Activity – Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
• MS-ESS3-5 Earth and Human Activity – Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.