2023 Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
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Kindergarten
Grade 5
Grades 6–8
- MS-ESS3-3
Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring, evaluating, and managing a human impact on the environmen...
- MS-ETS2-2
Develop a model defining and prioritizing the impacts of human activity on a particular aspect of the environment, ident...
- MS-LS1-2
Develop and use models to describe the parts, functions, and basic processes of cells.
High School
- HS-ESS3-3
Use computational tools to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of hum...
- HS-ESS3-5
Analyze data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global...
- HS-ETS1-5
Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in a variety of materials.
- HS-LS1-6
Construct explanations and revise, as needed, based on evidence for: 1) how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen may combine wit...
- HS-LS2-6
Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex biotic and abiotic interactions in ecosystems maintain rel...
- HS-LS2-7
Evaluate and assess impacts on the environment and biodiversity in order to refine or design a solution for detrimental ...
- HS-LS4-6
Create and/or use a simulation to evaluate the impacts of human activity on biodiversity.
- HS-PS1-2
Construct an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states of atoms, ...
- HS-PS1-6
Evaluate the design of a chemical system by changing conditions to produce increased amounts of products at equilibrium,...
- HS-PS2-6
Communicate scientific and technical information about why the molecular-level structure is important in the functioning...