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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.2: Physical Sciences: Chemistry and Physics
- Organizing Category - 3.2.B: Physics
- Grade Level - 3.2.6.B: GRADE 6
Standard - 3.2.6.B7
- Understand how theories are developed.
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations and evaluate the appropriateness of questions.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation and understand that current scientific knowledge guides scientific investigations.
- Describe relationships using inference and prediction.
- Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data and understand that it enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments, and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories.
- Analyze alternative explanations and understanding that science advances through legitimate skepticism.
- Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific investigations may result in new ideas for study, new methods, or procedures for an investigation or new technologies to improve data collection.
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Assessment Anchor - S6.C.2 Forms, Sources, Conversion, and Transfer of Energy
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.C.2.1 Explain how energy can be transformed from one form to another and describe the results of the transformation.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.2.1.1 Describe how heat moves in predictable ways from warmer objects to cooler ones until they reach the same temperature.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.2.1.2 Describe the effect of heat on particle motion during phase changes.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.2.1.3 Compare various energy sources (i.e., oil, coal, natural gas, solar, wind, and moving water) and describe how these energy sources are transformed into useful forms of energy.
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Assessment Anchor - S6.C.3 Principles of Motion and Force
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.C.3.1 Explain why an object’s motion is the result of all forces acting on it.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.3.1.1 Compare speed and velocity.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.3.1.2 Explain why gravitational force depends on how much mass the objects have and the distance between them.
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.C.3.2 Describe how magnets and electricity produce related forces.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.3.2.1 Describe how moving electric charges produce magnetic forces and moving magnets produce electric forces.
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Eligible Content - S6.C.3.2.2 Describe the relationships between voltage, current, and resistance (Ohm's Law).
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Eligible Content - S6.C.3.2.3 Distinguish between gravity and electromagnetism.
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Assessment Anchor - S6.D.2 Weather, Climate, and Atmospheric Processes
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.D.2.1 Explain basic elements of weather and climate.
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Eligible Content - S6.D.2.1.1 Describe cloud types and measurable factors (i.e., wind direction, temperature, barometric pressure, moisture, and precipitation) that are associated with various weather patterns.
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Eligible Content - S6.D.2.1.2 Interpret weather data to develop a weather forecast.
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Eligible Content - S6.D.2.1.3 Explain how global patterns (jet stream, water currents) influence weather inmeasurable terms (e.g., wind direction, temperature, barometric pressure, precipitation).
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