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Maryland NGSS Standard AlignmentGradeLocal Unit NameNGSS: PE TopicPE PE TextMosa Mack Unit
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 1: EcologyEarth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-1Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.Renewable Resources
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 1: EcologyEarth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-2Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.Earthquakes & Volcanoes
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 1: EcologyEarth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-3Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.Climate Change & Ecological Footprint
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 1: EcologyEarth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-4Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systemsClimate Change & Ecological Footprint
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 1: EcologyEarth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-5Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused climate change over the past century.Climate Change & Ecological Footprint
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 2: Earth's SytemsEarth's SystemsMS-ESS2-1Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.Rock Cycle & Earth's History & Earthquakes & Volcanoes
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 2: Earth's SytemsEarth's SystemsMS-ESS2-2Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.Rock Cycle & Earth's History
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 2: Earth's SytemsEarth's SystemsMS-ESS2-3Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.Plate Tectonics
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 2: Earth's SytemsEarth's SystemsMS-ESS2-4Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.Water Cycle
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 2: Earth's SytemsEarth's SystemsMS-ESS2-5Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditionsWeather
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 2: Earth's SytemsEarth's SystemsMS-ESS2-6Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.Oceans & Climate
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 3: AstronomyEarth's Place in the UniverseMS-ESS1-1Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.Sun-Earth & Solar System Gravity
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 3: AstronomyEarth's Place in the UniverseMS-ESS1-2Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 3: AstronomyEarth's Place in the UniverseMS-ESS1-3Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.Scale in the Solar System
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 3: AstronomyEarth's Place in the UniverseMS-ESS1-4Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history.Rock Cycle & Earth's History
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Maryland NGSS Standard AlignmentUnit 4: Waves, Electricity & MagnetismMotion and Stability: Forces and InteractionsMS-PS2-3Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.Electricity & Magnetism
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 4: Waves, Electricity & MagnetismWaves and Electromagnetic RadiationMS-PS4-1Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave.Waves
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 4: Waves, Electricity & MagnetismWaves and Electromagnetic RadiationMS-PS4-2Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment6Unit 4: Waves, Electricity & MagnetismWaves and Electromagnetic RadiationMS-PS4-3Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals.
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 1: Human Anatomy and PhysiologyFrom Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesMS-LS1-3Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.Interactions of Body Systems
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 2: Diversity and Unity of LifeBiological Evolution: Unity and DiversityMS-LS4-4Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. Selection & Adaptations
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 3: Interactions of MatterMatter and Its InteractionsMS-PS1-4Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.States of Matter
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 4: Cell InquiryFrom Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesMS-LS1-1Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.Cells
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 4: Cell InquiryFrom Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesMS-LS1-2Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.Cells
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 5: Inheritance and Variation of TraitsHeredity: Inheritance and Variation of TraitsMS-LS3-2Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.Genetic Variation
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 6: Humans in the EnvironmentEarth and Space Science: Earth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-1Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. Renewable Resources
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 6: Humans in the EnvironmentEarth and Space Science: Earth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-2Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and
inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.		Earthquakes & Volcanoes
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment7Unit 6: Humans in the EnvironmentEarth and Space Science: Earth and Human ActivityMS-ESS3-3Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.Renewable Resources
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 1: Weather & ClimateEarth and Space Science: Earth's SystemsMS-ESS2-5Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air
masses results in changes in weather conditions. 		Weather
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 1: Weather & ClimateEarth and Space Science: Earth's SystemsMS-ESS2-6Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates. Oceans & Climate
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 2: MechanicsEarth and Space Science: Earth's SystemsMS-ESS2-3Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.Plate Tectonics
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 2: MechanicsEarth and Space Science: Earth's SystemsMS-ESS2-4Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity. Water Cycle
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 3: Evolution and AdaptationBiological Evolution: Unity and DiversityMS-LS4-1Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.Evidence of Evolution
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 3: Evolution and AdaptationBiological Evolution: Unity and DiversityMS-LS4-2Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.Evidence of Evolution
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 3: Evolution and AdaptationBiological Evolution: Unity and DiversityMS-LS4-3Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy.Evidence of Evolution
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 4: ChemistryMatter and Its InteractionsMS-PS1-1Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structuresAtoms & Molecules
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 4: ChemistryMatter and Its InteractionsMS-PS1-2Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.Chemical & Physical Changes
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 4: ChemistryMatter and Its InteractionsMS-PS1-3Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.Chemical & Physical Changes
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 4: ChemistryMatter and Its InteractionsMS-PS1-4Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.States of Matter
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 4: ChemistryMatter and Its InteractionsMS-PS1-5Develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.Atoms & Molecules
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Maryland NGSS Standard Alignment8Unit 4: ChemistryMatter and Its InteractionsMS-PS1-6Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.Chemical & Physical Changes
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