Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science (2026)

Ask questions to understand the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for and respond to severe weather.

Obtain information from media and/or text to determine patterns in the behavior of plants and animals that help offsprin...

Develop and use models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have a common pattern of b...

Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species...

Plan and conduct investigations on the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Plan and conduct an investigation to gather evidence on the effects of water, ice, wind, and vegetation on the rate of w...

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from renewable and non-renewable resources ...

Develop and use a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and to show that waves can c...

Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in the length and direction of shadows, in addi...

Develop a model to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Describe and graph amounts of saltwater and freshwater in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution ...

Use models to explain or predict factors that upset the stability of local ecosystems.

Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organiz...

Develop and revise a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives these process...

Develop or modify a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth causes patterns of atmospheric and o...

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate evidence of the factors that have caused changes in global temperatures over the past ...

Develop a model to describe how food molecules in plants and animals are broken down and rearranged through chemical rea...

Develop or modify a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ec...

Develop and use models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.

Analyze and interpret patterns of data related to the properties of substances before and after the substances interact ...

Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the proportional relationships of kinetic energy to the m...

Develop or modify a model to describe that when objects interacting at a distance change their arrangement, different am...

Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns within the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinct...

Gather and synthesize information about the practices that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desi...

Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two objects in a system.*

Use mathematical representations to describe patterns in a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a w...

Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals (sent as wave pul...

Develop an argument for how scientific evidence supports the explanation that electromagnetic radiation can be described...

Use mathematical representations as evidence to support and revise explanations about factors affecting biodiversity and...

Construct an explanation based on evidence that biological diversity is influenced by (1) the potential for a species to...

Construct and revise an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states...

Refine the design of a chemical system by specifying a change in conditions that would affect the amounts of reactants o...

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of energy between components in a closed system ...

Develop an argument for how scientific evidence supports the explanation that electromagnetic radiation can be described...

Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedback and interactions that c...

Analyze and interpret data to explore how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems cause changes...

Plan and conduct investigations of how the structure and resulting properties of water interact with the Earth's materia...

Engage in argument from evidence for how the simultaneous co-evolution of Earth's systems and life on Earth led to perio...

Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrences of natural hazards...

Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost b...

Use computational simulations to illustrate changes in the relationships between natural resources, human populations, a...

Evaluate design solutions for a major global or local environmental problem that reduces or stabilizes the impacts of hu...

Use evidence to construct an explanation that describes how a designed solution mitigates adverse impacts of human activ...

Develop a model based on evidence to illustrate the life span of the sun and the role of nuclear fusion in the sun's cor...

Construct an explanation about the process that causes stars to produce elements throughout their life cycle.

Use models to determine patterns that can be used to predict the motion of orbiting objects in the Solar System.

Evaluate patterns in evidence of the past and current movements of continental and oceanic crust and the theory of plate...

Apply scientific reasoning and evidence from ancient Earth materials, meteorites, and other planetary surfaces to constr...

Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedback and interactions that c...

Analyze and interpret data to explore how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems cause changes...

Plan and conduct investigations of how the structure and resulting properties of water interact with the Earth's materia...

Engage in argument from evidence for how the simultaneous co-evolution of Earth's systems and life on Earth led to perio...

Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost b...

Construct a scientific explanation from evidence for how geological processes cause uneven distribution of natural resou...

Develop models to support explanations of the changes in stability and composition of the nucleus of the atom and the as...

Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as either motions of part...

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy between components in a closed...

Evaluate questions about the advantages and disadvantages of using digital transmission and storage of information.

Develop an argument for how scientific evidence supports the explanation that electromagnetic radiation can be described...

Construct and revise an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states...

Analyze and interpret data to support the claim that a causal relationship exists between the net force exerted on an ob...

Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as either motions of part...

Use mathematical representations to explain both qualitative and quantitative relationships among frequency, wavelength,...

Evaluate questions about the advantages and disadvantages of using a digital transmission and storage of information.