All learning goals, lessons, and assessments are based on the National Next Generation Science Standards & Utah Science with Engineering Education Standards 

Matter & Energy Interact in the Physical World: 
-Students can develop a model to describe the scale and proportion of atoms and molecules and describe how they make up all matter.
-Students can use valid resources to obtain information about the properties of matter.
-Students can evaluate how the properties allow them to be used for particular functions and communicate their findings.
-Students can plan and investigate changes in a substance's properties during a chemical reaction.  
-Students can identify patterns in the data to determine if a chemical reaction took place.
-Students can obtain information to explain how synthetic materials are made from natural resources.
-Students can describe how the uses of synthetic materials are based on their functions.
-Students can create a model of what the molecules are doing while adding or removing heat energy.
-Students can make graphs that illustrate the cause and effect relationships of particle motion, temperature, density, and state of a pure substance when you add or remove heat.
-Students can develop a model that shows the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction. 
-Students can engineer a device that affects the rate of a phase change.
-Students can analyze data from the tests to modify and improve the device.

Energy Storage & Energy Transfer: 
-Students can use numerical data to identify the relationship between mass of an object and its kinetic energy.
-Students can use numerical data to identify the relationship between speed of an object and kinetic energy.
-Students can develop and test questions that demonstrate how distance affects the amount of potential energy of an object. 
-Students can engage in an argument using evidence to support the claim that an object in motion can change or transfer its energy.
-Students can draw a model that shows the patterns of how a wave’s amplitude is related to the energy of the wave. 
-Students can develop a model to show the structure of a wave.
-Students can use a model to demonstrate how waves get reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials. 
-Students can research different ways that waves can be used for communication.
-Students can evaluate the reliability of digital vs analog signals.

Life Systems Store & Transfer Matter & Energy: 
-Students can conduct an investigation and provide evidence to explain how photosynthetic organisms use energy to change water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen. 
-Students can develop a model to show how the food (matter) organisms consume is changed through chemical reactions to form new products, release energy and support growth.
-Students can find information to answer questions about the cycling of matter and the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
-Students can ask questions, find information, and evaluate how specific changes to the environment affect the stability of the ecosystem.

Interactions with Natural Systems & Resources: 
-Students can construct a scientific explanation based on evidence that explains why the earth’s resources are unevenly distributed.
-Students can use evidence to support an argument that per-capita consumption of natural resources can affect the availability of resources that may be non-renewable.
-Students can design a solution to monitor or control the effects of the use of natural resources. 
-Students can evaluate how well the design solutions that others have created help resolve the problem of overuse of natural resources.
-Students can analyze and interpret data on factors affecting changes in global temperatures and regional climates.  
-Students can analyze data and identify patterns in the occurrences of natural hazards to predict future catastrophic events.
-Students can obtain information on how data can be used to develop new technologies to limit the effects of catastrophic events.