South Dakota Science Standards (2024)

Plan and carry out observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

Engage in argument from evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their ...

Use a model to represent the characteristics of and the relationship between various plants and animals in the places th...

Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and living things in the local envi...

Describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area.

Construct an explanation and design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their exter...

Construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Construct an evidence-based account for how objects can be seen only when illuminated.

Design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

Use information from several sources to construct an explanation that Earth events like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes,...

Compare multiple solutions to develop a model designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the l...

Obtain and evaluate information about the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in your local areas.

Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid, liquid, or gas.

Construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a n...

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe weather conditions during a particular season.

Make an evidence-based claim about the validity of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazar...

Use evidence and reasoning to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Use evidence and reasoning to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of th...

Make an evidence-based claim about the validity of a solution to a change in the environment that affects the types of p...

Ask questions about cause-and-effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in conta...

Make observations to provide evidence for how energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and e...

Design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and to provide evidence that waves ca...

Develop a model to describe the interaction of geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of salt water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence a...

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter and energy among producers, consumers, decomposers, and the environme...

Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling...

Plan and carry out an investigation to determine if the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

Analyze and interpret data on the age of the Earth, distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor ...

Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that may have caused a change in global temperatures over the past cent...

Plan and carry out an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many di...

Construct an evidence-based argument for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells,...

Construct an evidence-based argument to support an explanation for a) how characteristic animal behaviors affect the pro...

Construct an evidence-based argument that articulates how changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem a...

Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem preservation practices and services.

Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and cha...

Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for similarities and differences among modern organisms and between m...

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how technological advances have changed the way humans influence the...

Design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects that illustrates Newton’s Third Law.

Design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.

Engage in argument from evidence to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is trans...

Develop and use a model to describe how waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.

Obtain, evaluate and communicate information to support an evidence-based claim for the reliability of digitized signals...

Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria for constraints for solutions that acc...

Evaluate a solution to a complex real-word problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range...

Construct an evidence-based explanation for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins which carry ou...

Use a model of the major inputs and outputs of cellular respiration (aerobic and anaerobic) to exemplify the chemical pr...

Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent ...

Use a simulation to research and analyze possible solutions for the adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity.

Construct an explanation based on evidence about the effects of changing the temperature or concentration of the reactin...

Design, evaluate, and refine a device that minimizes the force on a macroscopic object during a collision.

Communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level structure (intermolecular forces) is impo...

Plan and carry out an investigation to provide evidence for the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Engage in an evidence-based argument for the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when a...