Science & Engineering Practices
Asking questions and defining problems
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Disciplinary Core Ideas
MS-PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
MS-PS3.A: Definitions of Energy
HS-PS3.C: Relationship between Energy and Forces
Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Cause and effect
Scale, proportion, and quantity
Systems and system models
Energy and matter
Stability and change
Performance Expectations
MS-ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.