STEM Golf Kit

Next Generation Science Standards*:

• 3-ESS2-1: Analyze data to determine patterns in the natural world, such as weather and seasonal changes.

• 3-ESS2-2: Obtain and communicate information about how weather affects people and the environment.

• 3-ESS3-1: Evaluate and communicate solutions for reducing human impact on the environment.

• 3-PS2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.

• 4-PS3-3: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

• 5-ESS2-1: Use evidence to explain how Earth's surface changes due to natural forces.

• 5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth primarily from air and water.

• 5-PS1-3: Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

• 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
• 3-5-ETS1-2: Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

• MS-ESS2-5: Analyze data to determine the effects of human activities on Earth’s systems.

• MS-ESS2-6: Develop and use models to predict the effects of human activity on natural systems.

• MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution.

• MS-ETS1-2: Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the design.

• MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data to determine the best solution to a design problem.

• MS-PS1-3: Gather and synthesize information to explain how the law of conservation of mass is applied during a chemical reaction.

• MS-PS2-2: Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of force on the motion of an object.

• MS-PS3-1: Develop a model to describe that energy in food can be transferred to other objects or systems.

• MS-PS3-5: Design and evaluate a device that converts energy from one form to another, using appropriate scientific principles.

*The Next Generation Science Standards are a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.

Common Core Math Standards*:

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NBT.A.2: Fluently add and subtract within 1000, using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.G.A.1: Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.2: Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, and money, and data involving measurements.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.A.1: Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.6: Understand a rational number as a point on the number line.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.A.2: Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.B.4: Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a multi-step problem to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.B.5: Use informal arguments to establish facts about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.B.6: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.7: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems.

*National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards. Washington, DC: Authors.

National Standards for K-12 Physical Education*:

• Standard 1: Develops a variety of motor skills.
• Standard 2: Applies knowledge related to movement and fitness concepts.
• Standard 4: Develops personal skills, identifies personal benefits of movement, and chooses to engage in physical activity.

*SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators. (2024). National Physical Education Standards.