Delaware Science Standards
High School Course Models
9th Grade Physical/Earth Science
How can one explain the structure and properties of matter?
HS-PS1-1: Valence Electrons and Properties of Elements
How do substances combine or change to make new substances? How does one characterize and explain these reactions and make predictions about them?
HS-PS1-2: Simple Chemical Reactions
HS-PS1-5: Collision Theory and Rates of Reaction
HS-PS1-7: Conservation of Atoms in Chemical Reactions
How do people reconstruct and date events in Earth’s Planetary history?
HS-ESS1-2: The Big Bang Theory
HS-ESS1-3: Stellar Nucleosynthesis
HS-ESS1-5: Evidence of Plate Tectonics
HS-ESS1-6: Evidence of the Earth's History
HS-ESS2-1: The Creation of Landforms
HS-ESS2-2: Feedback in Earth's Systems
HS-ESS2-4: Energy Variation and Climate Change
HS-ESS2-5: Interactions of the Hydrologic and Rock Cycles
HS-ESS2-6: Carbon Cycling in Earth's Systems
HS-ESS3-5: Climate Change and Future Impacts
How can one explain and predict interactions between
objects and within systems of objects?
HS-PS2-3: Reducing Force in Collisions Device
HS-PS2-4: Gravitational and Electrostatic Forces Between Objects
HS-PS2-5: Electric Current and Magnetic Fields
How is energy transferred and conserved? How are waves used to transferred energy and send and store information?
HS-PS3-1: Energy Change in Components of a System
HS-PS3-2: Macroscopic Energy Due to Particle Position and Motion
HS-PS3-3: Energy Conversion Device Design
HS-PS3-4: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
HS-PS3-5: Energy Change Due to Interacting Fields
HS-PS4-1: Wave Properties in Various Media
HS-PS3-2: Macroscopic Energy Due to Particle Position and Motion
10th Grade: Biological Sciences
How are characteristics of one generation passed to the next? How can individuals of the same species and even siblings have different characteristics?
HS-LS3-1: Chromosomal Inheritance
HS-LS3-2: Inheritable Genetic Variation
HS-LS3-3: Variation and Distribution of Traits
What evidence shows that different species are related?
HS-LS4-1: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
HS-LS4-2: Four Factors of Natural Selection
HS-LS4-3: Adaptation of Populations
HS-LS4-4: Natural Selection Leads to Adaptation
HS-LS4-5: Environmental Change - Speciation and Extinction
HS-LS4-6: Human Impact on Biodiversity Solution
Additional Standards
HS-PS1-7: Conservation of Atoms in Chemical Reactions
HS-PS3-1: Energy Change in Components of a System
How do organisms live and grow?
HS-LS1-1: Genes, Proteins, and Tissues
HS-LS1-2: Interacting Body Systems
HS-LS1-3: Feedback Mechanisms and Homeostasis
HS-LS1-4: Cellular Division and Differentiation
HS-LS1-5: Photosynthesis and Energy Transformation
HS-LS1-6: Formation of Carbon-Based Molecules
HS-LS1-7: Cellular Respiration and Energy Transfer
How and why do organism interact with their environment, and what are the effects of these interacts?
HS-LS2-1: Carrying Capacity of Ecosystems
HS-LS2-2: Biodiversity and Populations in Ecosystems
HS-LS2-3: Aerobic and Anaerobic Cycling of Matter
HS-LS2-4: Biomass and Trophic Levels
HS-LS2-5: Cycling of Carbon in Ecosystems
HS-LS2-6: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
HS-LS2-7: Human Impact Reduction Solution
HS-LS2-8: Social Interactions and Group Behavior
HS-ESS2-6: Carbon Cycling in Earth's Systems
HS-ESS2-7: Coevolution of Life and Earth's Systems
11/12th Grade: Earth’s Natural Resources vs. Human’s Needs for Technology
All Standards
HS-ESS3-1: Global Impacts on Human Activity
HS-ESS3-2: Cost-Benefit Ratio Design Solutions
HS-ESS3-3: Biodiversity, Natural Resources, and Human Sustainability
HS-ESS3-4: Reducing Human Impact Design Solutions
HS-ESS3-5: Climate Change and Future Impacts
HS-ESS3-6: Human Impacts on Earth Systems
HS-ESS1-1: Nuclear Fusion and the Sun's Energy
HS-ESS1-4: Orbital Motions
HS-PS1-6: Increased Products Design Solution
HS-PS1-5: Collision Theory and Rates of Reaction
HS-PS3-1: Energy Change in Components of a System
HS-PS2-1: Newton's Second Law of Motion
HS-PS2-2: Conservation of Momentum
HS-PS2-4: Gravitational and Electrostatic Forces Between Objects
HS-PS2-6: Molecular-Level Structure of Designed Materials
HS-PS4-3: Wave-Particle Duality of Electromagnetic Radiation
HS-PS4-4: Absorption of Electromagnetic Radiation
HS-PS4-5: Waves and Information Technology
HS-PS1-4: Total Bond Energy Change in Chemical Reactions
HS-PS1-8: Fission, Fusion, and Radioactive Decay
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HS-PS4-2: Digital Transmission and Storage of Information
HS-LS2-8: Social Interactions and Group Behavior
Image By Mandy Jansen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.0] |The Reflecting Pool in the garden of Gibraltar in Wilmington, Delaware.
