Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable outcomes based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.

Make predictions about what would happen if a variable changes.

Ask questions about what would happen if a variable is changed.

Use evidence (e.g., measurements, observations, patterns) to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.

Respectfully provide and receive critiques from peers about a proposed procedure, explanation, or model by citing relevant evidence and posing specific questions.

Use data to evaluate claims about cause and effect.

Read and comprehend grade appropriate complex texts and/or other reliable media to summarize and obtain scientific and technical ideas and describe how they are supported by evidence.

Combine information in written text with that contained in corresponding tables, diagrams, and/or charts to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.

Communicate scientific and/or technical information orally and/or in written formats, including various forms of media as well as tables, diagrams, and charts.

Students routinely identify and test causal relationships and use these relationships to explain change. They understand events that occur together with regularity might or might not signify a cause and effect relationship.

Particular organisms can only survive in particular environments. Populations of organisms live in a variety of habitats. Change in those habitats affects the organisms living there.