Nevada Science Education Standards
addressed in
Student Activities for the Map of the
Truckee-Carson-Walker River Systems
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Educational Series E-29
Nevada Science Standards addressed:
- Physical Science
- Content Standard 1.0: Forces and Motion
- 1.K.1: Description of Motion: Investigate and describe how objects move.
- 1.2.1: Description of Motion: Observe and describe objects moving at different speeds.
- 1.5.2: Gravity: Investigate and describe that objects usually move downward when they fall or are released.
- 1.K.4: Pressure, Density, and Buoyancy: Observe and describe how objects behave when placed in water.
- 1.4.4: Pressure, Density, and Buoyancy: Investigate and describe how objects can sink or float in water.
- 1.5.4: Pressure, Density, and Buoyancy: Classify objects by whether they sink or float in air or water.
- 1.6.4: Pressure, Density, and Buoyancy: Investigate and describe the relationship between the mass and the volume of various objects.
- 1.7.4: Pressure, Density, and Buoyancy: Investigate and describe the density of solids, liquids, and gases.
- Content Standard 3.0: Energy and Matter: Interactions and Forms
- 3.8.6: Descriptions of Energy and Order: Identify the energy involved in a particular process as potential (energy of position and stored chemical energy) or kinetic (energy of motion).
- 3.12.6: Descriptions of Energy and Order: Investigate and describe how systems tend to become less ordered over time.
- Content Standard 4.0: Chemical Reaction
- 4.5.1: Conservation of matter: Observe and describe how observable changes in matter may occur when different materials are heated, mixed, or cooled.
- 4.8.1: Conservation of matter: Investigate and describe how in chemical reactions the total mass is conserved and the elements involved do not change into other elements.
- 4.12.1: Conservation of matter: Investigate and describe how in chemical reactions elements combine in predictable ratios and the numbers of atoms of each element do not change.
- Earth and Space Science
- Content Standard 10: Earth Structures and Composition
- 10.3.2: Landforms: Describe how the Earth is composed of different landforms.
- 10.4.2: Landforms: Compare and contrast the location of landforms.
- 10.5.2: Landforms: Investigate and describe how erosion and deposition rates can be affected by the slope of the land and by human activities.
- 10.8.2: Landforms: Investigate and describe how the combination of constructive and destructive forces result in the formation of landforms.
- 10.12.2: Landforms: Investigate and describe how landforms are the result of a combination of constructive and destructive forces resulting from weathering, erosion, and the movement of lithosphere plates.
- 10.8.6: Geologic Processes and Features: Explain that earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, and floods are geologic phenomena.
- 10.12.6: Geologic Processes and Features: Compare and contrast the geologic features of Nevada and local geologic features.
- Content Standard 11: Earth Models
- 11.3.2: Nevada and the Earth: Locate the state of Nevada on an national map and their own city on a Nevada state map.
- 11.5.2: Nevada and the Earth: Explain how the Nevada state road map is a tool that can be used to navigate from one location to another.
- 11.8.2: Nevada and the Earth: Compare a variety of map types, and locate Nevada and Nevada features on each.
- Content Standard 12: Earth History
- 12.2.1: Change over time: Investigate and describe how changes happen to many things (e.g., weather).
- 12.3.1: Change over time: Investigate and describe how some changes are so slow (e.g. seasons) or so fast (e.g. lightening strikes) that they are hard to see.
- 12.5.1: Change over time: Explain that the surface of the Earth changes due to a variety of factors (e.g., some are abrupt volcanoes and earthquakes, and others happen very slowly, such as the wearing down of mountains).
- 12.8.1: Change over time: Explain how some changes on the Earth's surface are due to slow processes, and others due to rapid processes.
- 12.12.1: Change over time: Explain how catastrophic events have occurred and greatly influenced Earth's history.
- Content Standard 13: Cycles of Matter and Energy
- 13.5.2: Weather: Investigate and describe various meteorological phenomena (e.g., flooding, thunderstorms, and drought).
- 13.8.2: Weather: Explain how global patterns of atmospheric movement, topography, and proximity t bodies of water influence local weather, and seasons are caused by variations in the amount of the sun's energy hitting the surface due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.
- 13.12.2: Weather: Explain how uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the sun forms convection currents within the atmosphere and ocean, producing wind and ocean currents that are modified by the Earth's rotation.
- 13.3.3: Water: Investigate and describe how water can be a liquid or a solid and can go back and forth from one form to the other.
- 13.4.3: Water: Investigate and the forms and uses of water.
- 13.5.3: Water: Investigate and describe the factors which affect the processes such as evaporation and condensation.
- 13.8.3: Water: Explain how water, which covers the majority of the Earth's surface, circulates through the crust, oceans, and atmosphere.
- 13.12.3: Water: Investigate and describe how water is a solvent (e.g., how it dissolves minerals and gases as it passes trough the water cycle and carries them to oceans and lakes).
- 13.8.4: Climate: Simulate and describe how clouds, latitude, altitude, topographical features, and proximity to large bodies of water affect weather and climate.
- 13.5.5: The Nature of Change: Investigate and describe how change is an ongoing process that can be seen throughout the natural world.
- 13.8.5: The Nature of Change: Investigate and describe some changes that are reversible and others that are not.
- 13.12.5: The Nature of Change: Explain how large-scale, long-term equilibrium can accommodate small-scale changes.
- Environmental Sciences
- Content Standard 16: Natural Resources
- 16.2.1: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Investigate and describe how some resources can be used and reused.
- 16.3.1: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Explain that natural resources are used for many purposes.
- 16.4.1: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Identify the natural resources of Nevada.
- 16.5.1: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Investigate and describe how resources have distinct properties which determine their usefulness.
- 16.8.1: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Investigate and describe the identifying characteristics of renewable and non-renewable resources.
- 16.12.1: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Evaluate the consequences of changing patterns of resource use.
- 16.2.2: Acquisition and Use of Natural Resources: Describe the various resources that provide the necessary things that are used by people in their daily lives.
- 16.3.2: Acquisition and Use of Natural Resources: Describe how humans have obtained resources for thousands of years through farming, mining, and hunting and gathering.
- 16.4.2: Acquisition and Use of Natural Resources: Investigate and describe resources which can be used and reused or renewed.
- 16.5.2: Acquisition and Use of Natural Resources: Investigate and describe how resources have distinct properties which determine their usefulness.
- 16.8.2: Acquisition and Use of Natural Resources: Explain how some natural resources are limited in their abundance and/or accessible location (e.g., water in the desert).
- 16.12.2: Acquisition and Use of Natural Resources: Investigate and describe the various processes involved in obtaining, using, and recycling materials such as wood products, minerals, food, and manufactured objects.
- 16.5.3: Traditional and Innovative Uses of Natural Resources: Explain how Earth materials, including those found in Nevada, provide many of the resources that humans use.
- 16.8.3: Traditional and Innovative Uses of Natural Resources: Investigate and describe the location and distribution of various natural resources.
- 16.12.3: Traditional and Innovative Uses of Natural Resources: Investigate and describe the career opportunities associated with the study, exploration, extraction, utilization, protection, and restoration of natural resources.
- 16.5.4: Environmental Consequences of Natural Resource Use: Explain that humans tend to use resources to meet more than their minimal needs for food, shelter and warmth.
- 16.8.4: Environmental Consequences of Natural Resource Use: Investigate and describe how organisms alter their local environment through their use of natural resources.
- 16.12.4: Environmental Consequences of Natural Resource Use: Analyze and describe the limitations of the Earth's ability to respond to stresses produced by human or natural activities.
- Content Standard 17: Conservation
- 17.5.1: Conservation: Investigate and describe how consumptive patterns of people vary in different places.
- 17.7.1: Conservation: Investigate and explain that Nevada has a variety of useful resources.
- 17.8.1: Conservation: Analyze different conservation options for Nevada's resources.
- 17.12.1: Conservation: Analyze and evaluate how consumption patterns, conservation efforts, and cultural or social practices in countries have varying environmental impacts.
- 17.5.3: The Scientific Nature of Environmental Issues: Explain that changes in environments can be natural events or influenced by human activities.
- 17.8.3: The Scientific Nature of Environmental Issues: Evaluate how changes in environments can be beneficial or harmful.
- 17.12.3: The Scientific Nature of Environmental Issues: Explain that there is scientific uncertainty regarding many environmental issues.
- 17.8-12.4: Responsible Behavior: Investigate and describe how actions which might affect Nevada's environment can be evaluated in terms of tradeoffs that may have regional, national, or global effects.
- 17.12.4: Responsible Behavior: Evaluate and describe actions which affect the global environment in terms of tradeoffs that may have effects on local environments or economics.
- Science Inquiry: Processes and Skills
- Content Standard 21: Scientific Values and Attitudes
- 21.K.1: Scientific Investigations: Ask questions about the world.
- 21.1.1: Scientific Investigations: Make observations and give descriptions.
- 21.2.1: Scientific Investigations: Make observations and give descriptions using words, numbers, and drawings.
- 21.3.1: Scientific Investigations: Observe and raise questions about the world, then seek answers through investigation.
- 21.4.1: Scientific Investigations: Conduct fair tests to make observations.
- 21.5.1: Scientific Investigations: Keep records of investigations and observations, without changing those records later.
- 21.8.1: Scientific Investigations: Explain why it is important to keep honest, clear, and accurate records.
- 21.12.1: Scientific Investigations: Demonstrate curiosity, honesty, and skepticism in doing science.
- 21.2.2: Repeating Scientific Trials: Record observations of investigations over time in a notebook or journal (e.g., growth of a plant, changes in weather).
- 21.3.2: Repeating Scientific Trials: Record observations of investigations over time in a notebook or journal (e.g., changes in an aquarium or terrarium).
- 21.5.2: Repeating Scientific Trials: Make careful observations and test things more than once.
- 21.8.2: Repeating Scientific Trials: Explain that hypotheses are valuable even if they turn out to be incorrect, if they lead to fruitful investigations.
- Content Standard 22: Communication Skills
- 22.1.2: Working with Graphical Models: Draw pictures that describe observations.
- 22.2.2: Working with Graphical Models: Produce simple pictographs to describe observations.
- 22.3.2: Working with Graphical Models: Create illustrations, graphs, and charts to convey ideas and record observations.
- 22.5.2: Working with Graphical Models: Organize information into charts, tables, and graphs.
- 22.K.3: Working with Others: Share information and ideas with others.
- 22.1.3: Working with Others: Respect ideas and contributions of others.
- 22.2.3: Working with Others: Cooperate and contribute ideas within a group.
- 22.3.2: Working with Others: Cooperate and contribute ideas within a group.
- 22.5.3: Working with Others: Collaborate on a group project.
- 22.8.3: Working with Others: Discuss scientific topics by paraphrasing, asking for clarification or elaboration, and expressing alternative positions using multimedia resources.
- Content Standard 24: Laboratory Skills and Safety
- 24.1.4: Recording Data: Record observations
- 24.2.4: Recording Data: Keep a record of observations and measurements taken over time.
- 24.3.4: Recording Data: Keep a record of observations and measurements taken over time.
- 24.5.4: Recording Data: Label measurements and diagrams properly.
- 24.8.4: Recording Data: Keep an organized record of scientific investigations.
- 24.12.4: Recording Data: Maintain a permanent record of procedures, data, analyses, decisions, and understandings of scientific investigations.