What does a student learn in StateTexas,GradeGrade 9,SubjectScience?

The student plans and safely conducts classroom, laboratory, and field investigations using scientific methods, equipment, and tools to answer testable questions.

The student uses scientific and engineering practices to ask questions, design solutions, model phenomena, and analyze and interpret data.

The student uses age-appropriate tools, including SI units, to collect, record, and analyze quantitative data.

The student communicates valid conclusions supported by data through written, oral, and visual representations.

The student recognizes recurring themes and concepts such as systems, models, patterns, and cause-and-effect across scientific domains.

The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties that determine how it is classified, changed, and used.

The student knows that energy occurs in different forms and is transferred during interactions between objects.

The student knows that forces cause changes in motion and investigates the relationship between force, mass, and motion.

The student observes, measures, and predicts patterns of motion in objects and systems.

The student investigates the components and interactions of Earth's systems including the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.

The student investigates patterns of weather and the factors that produce climate, including the influence of human activity.

The student knows the patterns and movements of objects in the solar system and how they relate to Earth.

The student knows that organisms and environments interact and that organisms have structures and behaviors that help them survive within their environments.

The student investigates how energy and matter cycle through ecosystems and how populations interact within communities.

The student knows that organisms reproduce, develop, and transmit genetic information.