Michigan Science Standards

Kindergarten

Life and the Environment

K-LS1-1: Plant and Animal Needs
K-ESS2-2: Environmental Change
K-ESS3-1: Environmental Relationships
K-ESS3-3: Environmental Solutions

Weather and Climate

K-ESS2-1: Weather Patterns
K-ESS3-2 Forecasting Severe Weather
K-PS3-1: Sunlight Warms the Earth
K-PS3-2: Shade Structure Desig

Pushes and Pulls

K-PS2-1: Pushes, Pulls, and Motion
K-PS2-2: Motion Design Solution

Grade 1

Life: Structures and Functions

1-LS1-1: Biomimicry Design Solution
1-LS1-2: Behavior - Parents and Offspring
1-LS3-1: Plant and Animal Structures 

The Earth in Space

1-ESS1-1: Sun, Moon, and Star Patterns
1-ESS1-2: Seasonal Sunlight

Light and Sound

1-PS4-1: Sound and Vibrating Materials
1-PS4-2: Illumination and Darkness
1-PS4-3: Light and Materials
1-PS4-4: Communication Device Design

Grade 2

Biodiversity and Ecosystems

2-LS2-1: Environmental Plant Needs
2-LS2-2: Seed Dispersal and Pollinatio
2-LS4-1: Habitats and Biodiversity

A Changing Earth

2-ESS1-1: Earth Events - Slow and Quick
2-ESS2-1: Erosion Design Solution
2-ESS2-2: Mapping Land and Water*
2-ESS2-3: Water on Earth**

Structure and Properties of Matter

2-PS1-1: Material Properties
2-PS1-2: Materials Testing
2-PS1-3: Objects and Pieces
2-PS1-4: Reversible and Irreversible Changes

*2-ESS2-2 MI Develop a model to represent the state of Michigan and the Great Lakes, or a more local land area and water body.
**2-ESS2-3 MI Obtain information to identify where fresh water is found on Earth, including the Great Lakes and Great Lakes Basin.

Grade 3

Ecosystem Change

3-LS2-1: Animal Groups
3-LS4-1: Fossil Evidence of Past Environments
3-LS4-3: Habitats and Organism Survival
3-LS4-4: Environmental Change Solution

Life Cycles and Traits

3-LS1-1: Plant and Animal Life Cycles
3-LS3-1: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
3-LS3-2: Environmental Influence of Traits
3-LS4-2: Variation, Survival, and Reproduction

Weather and Climate

3-ESS2-1: Seasonal Weather Conditions
3-ESS2-2: World Climates
3-ESS3-1: Weather-Related Hazard Solution

Forces and Interactions

3-PS2-1: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
3-PS2-2: Predicting Future Motion
3-PS2-3: Electric and Magnetic Forces
3-PS2-4: Magnetic Design Solution

Grade 4

Life: Structures and Senses

4-LS1-1: Internal and External Structures
4-LS1-2: Sensation, Processing, and Response
4-PS4-2: Light and Vision

Earth: Features and Processes

4-ESS1-1: Evidence from Rock Layers*
4-ESS2-1: Weathering and Erosion
4-ESS2-2: Mapping Earth's Features
4-ESS3-2: Natural Hazard Design Solution**

Energy

4-ESS3-1: Renewable and Non-renewable Energy
4-PS3-1: Motion Energy
4-PS3-2: Energy Transfer
4-PS3-3: Energy in Collisions
4-PS3-4: Energy Conversion Device 

Waves and Information

4-PS4-1: Wave Model
4-PS4-3: Information Transfer Solution

*4-ESS1-1 MI Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support.

**4-ESS3-2 MI Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on Michigan’s people and places.

Grade 5

Matter and Energy in Life

5-LS1-1: Plant Requirements - Air and Water
5-LS2-1: Environmental Matter Cycling
5-PS3-1: Food Energy from the Sun

Earth: Systems and Interactions

5-ESS2-1: Earth Sphere Interactions*
5-ESS2-2: Water Availability and Distribution**
5-ESS3-1: Protecting Earth's Resources and Environment

Earth, Space, and Stars

5-ESS1-1: Stellar Brightness and Distance
5-ESS1-2: Daily and Seasonal Sky Changes
5-PS2-1: Earth's Gravitational Force

Matter: Structure and Properties

5-PS1-1: Particle Model of Matter
5-PS1-2: Conservation of Matter
5-PS1-3: Material Properties
5-PS1-4: Mixing Substances

*5-ESS2-1MI Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact in Michigan and the Great Lakes basin.

**5-ESS2-2MI Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in the Great Lakes to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.