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Science and Technology/Engineering | Grade : 6
Discipline - Earth and Space Sciences
Core Idea - Earth's Place in the Universe
[6.ESS.1.1] - Develop and use a model of the Earth-Sun-Moon system to explain the causes of lunar phases and eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
Clarification Statement: Examples of models can be physical, graphical, or conceptual and should emphasize relative positions and distances.
[RCA-ST.6-8.7] -
Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
[5.NF.B.5] -
Interpret multiplication as scaling (resizing), by:
[5.ESS.1.2] -
Use a model to communicate Earth’s relationship to the Sun, Moon, and other stars that explain (a) why people on Earth experience day and night, (b) patterns in daily changes in length and direction of shadows over a day, and (c) changes in the apparent position of the Sun, Moon, and stars at different times during a day, over a month, and over a year. Clarification Statement: Models should illustrate that the Earth, Sun, and Moon are spheres; include orbits of the Earth around the Sun and of the Moon around Earth; and demonstrate Earth’s rotation about its axis.
State Assessment Boundary: Causes of lunar phases or seasons, or use of Earth’s tilt are not expected in state assessment.
[8.ESS.1.1] -
Develop and use a model of the Earth-Sun system to explain the cyclical pattern of seasons, which includes Earth’s tilt and differential intensity of sunlight on different areas of Earth across the year. Clarification Statement: Examples of models can be physical or graphical.
[8.ESS.1.2] -
Explain the role of gravity in ocean tides, the orbital motions of planets, their moons, and asteroids in the solar system.
State Assessment Boundary: Kepler’s laws of orbital motion or the apparent retrograde motion of the planets as viewed from Earth are not expected in state assessment.