| CCSS ELA Literacy | 3 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1 | Key Ideas and Details | Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 3 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.4 | Craft and Structure | Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area. |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 3 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7 | Integration of Knowledge and Ideas | Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 4 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1 | Key Ideas and Details | Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text states explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 4 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4 | Craft and Structure | Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area. |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 4 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7 | Integration of Knowledge and Ideas | Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, animations, or interactive elements on webpages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears. |
| MA-Modified NGSS | 4 | Earth and Space Sciences | 4-ESS1-1 | Earth's Place in the Universe | Use evidence from a given landscape that includes simple landforms and rock layers to support a claim about the role of erosion or deposition in the formation of the landscape over long periods of time. |
| MA-Modified NGSS | 4 | Earth and Space Sciences | 4-ESS3-1 | Earth and Human Activity | Obtain information to describe that energy and fuels humans use are derived from natural resources and that some energy and fuel sources are renewable and some are not. |
| MA-Modified NGSS | 4 | Physical Science | 4-PS3-2 | Energy | Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 5 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.10 | Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity | Independently and proficiently read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, mathematical, and technical texts, exhibiting complexity appropriate for at least grade 5. |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 5 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.4 | Craft and Structure | Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area. |
| MA-Modified NGSS | 5 | Earth and Space Sciences | 5-ESS3-1 | Earth and Human Activity | Obtain and combine information about ways communities reduce human impact on the Earth's resources and environment by changing an agricultural, industrial, or community practice or process. |
| MA-Modified NGSS | 5 | Physical Science | 5-PS1-1 | Matter and Its Interactions | Use a particle model of matter to explain common phenomena involving gases, and phase changes between gas and liquid and between liquid and solid. |
| MA-Modified NGSS | 5 | Physical Science | 5-PS1-3 | Matter and Its Interactions | Make observations . . . of substances to describe characteristic properties of each, including color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, response to magnetic forces, and solubility. |
| CCSS ELA Literacy | 6-8 | Science and Technical Subjects | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.2 | Key Ideas and Details | Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. |
| MA Health | K-5 | Ecological Health | 13.1 | -- | Describe types of natural resources and their connection with health. |
