From this browse and search tool, you will find the New York State (NYS) Learning Standards statements for all seven standard areas across grades PreK - 12. The NYS Learning Standards provides the foundation for the NYS Assessments and the local core curriculum.
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Major Understandings - 4.1g :
Interactions with forms of energy can be either helpful or harmful.
Major Understandings - 4.1f : Heat can be released in many ways, for example, by burning, rubbing (friction), or
combining one substance with another.
Major Understandings - 4.1e : Electricity travels in a closed circuit.
Major Understandings - 4.1d : Energy and matter interact: water is evaporated by the Sun’s heat; a bulb is lighted
by means of electrical current; a musical instrument is played to produce sound; dark
colors may absorb light, light colors may reflect light.
Major Understandings - 4.1c : Some materials transfer energy better than others (heat and electricity).
Major Understandings - 4.1b : Energy can be transferred from one place to another.
Major Understandings - 4.1a : Energy exists in various forms: heat, electric, sound, chemical, mechanical, light.
Major Understandings - 4.2b : Humans utilize interactions between matter and energy.
- chemical to electrical, light, and heat: battery and bulb
- electrical to sound (e.g., doorbell buzzer)
- mechanical to sound (e.g., musical instruments, clapping)
- light to electrical (e.g., solar-powered calculator)
Major Understandings - 4.2a : Everyday events involve one form of energy being changed to another.
- animals convert food to heat and motion
- the Sun’s energy warms the air and water
Major Understandings - 4.1e :
Energy can be considered to be either kinetic energy, which is the energy of
motion, or potential energy, which depends on relative position.
Major Understandings - 4.1d : Different forms of energy include heat, light, electrical, mechanical, sound, nuclear,
and chemical. Energy is transformed in many ways.
Major Understandings - 4.1c : Most activities in everyday life involve one form of energy being transformed into
another. For example, the chemical energy in gasoline is transformed into mechanical
energy in an automobile engine. Energy, in the form of heat, is almost always one of the
products of energy transformations.
Major Understandings - 4.1b : Fossil fuels contain stored solar energy and are considered nonrenewable resources.
They are a major source of energy in the United States. Solar energy, wind, moving water,
and biomass are some examples of renewable energy resources.
Major Understandings - 4.1a : The Sun is a major source of energy for Earth. Other sources of energy include
nuclear and geothermal energy.
Major Understandings - 4.2e :
Temperature affects the solubility of some substances in water.
Major Understandings - 4.2d : Most substances expand when heated and contract when cooled. Water is an
exception, expanding when changing to ice.
Major Understandings - 4.2c : During a phase change, heat energy is absorbed or released. Energy is absorbed
when a solid changes to a liquid and when a liquid changes to a gas. Energy is released
when a gas changes to a liquid and when a liquid changes to a solid.
Major Understandings - 4.2b : Heat can be transferred through matter by the collisions of atoms and/or molecules (conduction) or through space (radiation). In a liquid or gas, currents will facilitate
the transfer of heat (convection).
Major Understandings - 4.2a : Heat moves in predictable ways, flowing from warmer objects to cooler ones, until
both reach the same temperature.
Major Understandings - 4.3a :
In chemical reactions, energy is transferred into or out of a system. Light, electricity, or mechanical motion may be involved in such transfers in addition to heat.
Major Understandings - 4.4g :
Without direct contact, a magnet attracts certain materials and either attracts or
repels other magnets. The attractive force of a magnet is greatest at its poles.
Major Understandings - 4.4f : Without touching them, material that has been electrically charged attracts
uncharged material, and may either attract or repel other charged material.
Major Understandings - 4.4e : Electrical circuits provide a means of transferring electrical energy.
Major Understandings - 4.4d : Electrical energy can be produced from a variety of energy sources and can be
transformed into almost any other form of energy.
Major Understandings - 4.4c : Vibrations in materials set up wave-like disturbances that spread away from the
source. Sound waves are an example. Vibrational waves move at different speeds in
different materials. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Major Understandings - 4.4b : Light passes through some materials, sometimes refracting in the process.
Materials absorb and reflect light, and may transmit light. To see an object, light from
that object, emitted by or reflected from it, must enter the eye.
Major Understandings - 4.4a : Different forms of electromagnetic energy have different wavelengths. Some examples of electromagnetic energy are microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet
light, X-rays, and gamma rays.
Major Understandings - 4.5b :
Energy can change from one form to another, although in the process some energy
is always converted to heat. Some systems transform energy with less loss of heat than
others.
Major Understandings - 4.5a : Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form into
another.
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