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Standard Area - MST:
  • Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
  • Key Idea Code - MST4.PS:
  • Key Idea - MST4.PS5: Energy and matter interact through forces that result in changes in motion.
  • Academic Level - MST4.E.PS5:
  • Performance Indicator - MST4.E.PS5A: Students describe the effects of common forces (pushes and pulls) on objects, such as those caused by gravity, magnetism, and mechanical forces.
  • Major Understandings - 5.1a : The position of an object can be described by locating it relative to another object or the background (e.g., on top of, next to, over, under, etc.).

  • Major Understandings - 5.1b : The position or direction of motion of an object can be changed by pushing or pulling.

  • Major Understandings - 5.1c : The force of gravity pulls objects toward the center of Earth.

  • Major Understandings - 5.1d : The amount of change in the motion of an object is affected by friction.

  • Major Understandings - 5.1e : Magnetism is a force that may attract or repel certain materials.

  • Major Understandings - 5.1f : Mechanical energy may cause change in motion through the application of force and through the use of simple machines such as pulleys, levers, and inclined planes.
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