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Note: The Iowa Core Essential Elements are intended only for students with significant cognitive disabilities and who participate in alternate assessments.
Back to topPhysical Science (EE.5-PS)
Matter and Its Interactions (EE.5-PS1)
EE.5-PS1-2.
Target Level: Measure and compare weights of substances before and after heating, cooling, or mixing substances to show that weight of matter is conserved.
Precursor Level: Compare the weight of an object before and after it changes from a liquid to a solid and from a solid to a liquid.
Initial Level: Recognize the change in state from liquid to solid or from solid to liquid of the same material.
EE.5-PS1-3.
Target Level: Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties (e.g., weight, shape, texture, buoyancy, color, or magnetism).
Precursor Level: Classify materials by physical properties (e.g., weight shape, texture, buoyancy, color, or magnetism).
Initial Level: Match materials with similar physical properties.
Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions (EE.5-PS2)
EE.5-PS2-1.
Target Level: Demonstrate that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
Precursor Level: Predict the direction an object will go when dropped.
Initial Level: Recognize the direction an object will go when dropped.
Energy (EE.5-PS3)
EE.5-PS3-1.
Target Level: Create a model to describe that energy in animals' food was once energy from the Sun.
Precursor Level: Use models to describe that plants capture energy from sunlight.
Initial Level: Identify simple models that show that plants need sunlight to grow.
Back to topLife Science (EE.5-LS)
From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes (EE.5-LS1)
EE.5-LS1-1
Target Level: Provide evidence that plants need air and water to grow.
Precursor Level: Provide evidence that plants grow.
Initial Level: Distinguish things that grow from things that don't grow.
Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics (EE.5-LS2)
EE.5-LS2-1
Target Level: Create a model that shows the movement of matter (e.g. plant growth, eating, composting) through living things.
Precursor Level: Identify a model that shows the movement of matter from plants to animals (e.g. food chain/food web).
Initial Level: Identify common human foods.
Back to topEarth and Space Sciences (EE.5-ESS)
Earth's Place in the Universe (EE.5-ESS1)
EE.5-ESS1-2
Target Level: Represent and interpret data on a picture, line, or bar graph to show seasonal patterns in the length of daylight hours.
Precursor Level: Recognize patterns about length of daylight hours over time (e.g., week to week, month to month).
Initial Level: Order events in daily routines including sunrise and sunset.
Earth's Systems (EE.5-ESS2)
EE.5-ESS2-1
Target Level: Develop a model showing how water (hydrosphere) affects the living things (biosphere) found in the region.
Precursor Level: Recognize how water (hydrosphere) affects the living things (biosphere) in a region.
Initial Level: Anticipates routine (e.g., clothes to wear, activities to do) to follow when it is raining.
Earth and Human Activity (EE.5-ESS3)
EE.5-ESS3-1
Target Level: Use information to describe how people can help protect the Earth's resources and how that affects the environment.
Precursor Level: Compare two methods that people can use to help protect the Earth's resources.
Initial Level: Identify one way to protect a resource of Earth (e.g., put paper in the recycling bin).
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