MS claims and evidence

Performance expectations

Claims and evidence

• identifying substances based on their chemical and physical properties, and investigating if a chemical reaction or physical change occurs when substances are mixed; MS-PS1-7, MS-PS1-8, MS-PS1-2
• describing the changes that occur to a substance when thermal energy is added or removed, and developing a device that optimizes either the absorption or release of thermal energy; MS-PS1-4, MS-PS1-6, MS-PS3-3
• modeling the atomic structure of substances, and investigating the conservation of mass in chemical reactions; MS-PS1-1, MS-PS1-5
• describing the societal impacts of developing and using synthetic materials; MS-PS1-3
• investigating the effects of forces on objects by applying Newton’s Laws of Motion; MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2
• investigating magnetic and electric forces and providing evidence that fields exist between objects exerting these forces; MS-PS2-3, MS-PS2-5
• providing evidence for the factors that affect attractive gravitational interactions; MS-PS2-4
• analyzing empirical data pertaining to the factors that affect kinetic energy; MS-PS3-1
• modeling how distance between objects affects the potential energy of a system; MS-PS3-2
• investigating the factors that affect thermal energy transfer in a sample of matter; MS-PS3-4
• providing empirical evidence that when work is done on or by a system, the energy in that system changes; MS-PS3-5
• investigating electric currents and energy transfer; MS-PS3-6
• quantitatively and qualitatively modeling the characteristics and energy of waves; MS-PS4-1
• modeling the interactions between waves and matter; MS-PS4-2
• comparing digital and analog signals using qualitative information. MS-PS4-3