All of Pine Valley’s classes focus on science, teamwork/leadership, and/or physical education. For Christian schools and homeschool groups, there is an additional spiritual focus in all classes. Science classes fit Next Generation Science Standards for middle school. Click here to read specific educational standards.
The Art of Science: Science
NGSS-MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms
NGSS-MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
NGSS-MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
NGSS-MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
NGSS-MS-LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Balloon Drop Challenge: Teamwork/Leadership, Science
NGSS-MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-4: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
NGSS-MS-PS2-2: Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the object and the mass of the object.
Chemical Engineering: Science
NGSS-MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-4: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
NGSS-MS-PS1-2: Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
NGSS-MS-PS1-6: Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
Critter Scene Investigation: Science, Teamwork/Leadership
NGSS MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
NGSS MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
NGSS-MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
NGSS-MS-ESS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Dirt Scooters: Physical Education
Electricity: Science
NGSS-MS-PS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.
NGSS-MS-PS3-5: Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
NGSS-MS-PS4-2: Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reelected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-4: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
Entomology: Science
NGSS-MS-LS4-4: Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
NGSS-MS-LS1-1: Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells, either one cell or different numbers and types of cells.
NGSS-MS-LS1-3: Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.
NGSS-MS-LS1-4: Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
NGSS-MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
Environmental Engineering: Science, Teamwork/Leadership
NGSS-MS-LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria.
NGSS-MS-ETS1-4: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
NGSS-MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
NGSS-MS-ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.
NGSS-MS-ESS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
NGSS-5-ESS2-2: Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Geology: Science, Physical Education
NGSS MS-ESS2-1: Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the glow of energy that drives this process.
NGSS-MS-ESS2-2: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
NGSS-MS-ESS2-3: Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
NGSS MS-ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distribution of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the results of past and current geoscience processes.
Giant’s Golf: Teamwork/Leadership, Physical Education
Heights and Balances: Teamwork/Leadership, Physical Education
Laser Tag: Physical Education, Teamwork/Leadership, Science
NGSS-MS-PS2-5: Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
NGSS-MS-PS4-2: Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reelected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
Meteorology and Physics: Science
NGSS MS-ESS2-1: Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the glow of energy that drives this process.
NGSS-MS-ESS2-4: Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.
NGSS-MS-ESS2-5: Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.
NSI (Nature Science Investigators): Science, Physical Education
NGSS-MS-LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
NGSS-MS-ESS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
NGSS-MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
NGSS-MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
Target Practice: Physical Education, Science
NGSS-MS-PS2-2: Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the object and the mass of the object.
NGSS-MS-PS3-2: Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
NGSS-MS-PS3-5: Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
Team Building: Teamwork/Leadership, Physical Education
Theatrics: Teamwork/Leadership
Trees & Me: Science, Teamwork/Leadership
NGSS-4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
NGSS-MS-ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
NGSS-HS-LS2-6 Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
NGSS-HS-LS2-7 Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
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