Teacher curriculum map
NGSS topic map for MYP Science, Grades 6–10
All 130 middle- and high-school NGSS performance expectations, arranged by official topic. Read across a row for vertical alignment (how a thread grows from Grades 6–8 into 9–10), and down a discipline for horizontal alignment across a year. Every standard shows its MYP criteria and links to the EduLib lessons that teach it.
- Performance expectations
- 130
- NGSS topics
- 32
- Progression threads
- 16
- Covered by a lesson
- 130
130 of 130 performance expectations shown
Matter and its properties
Physical ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Structure and Properties of Matter
How can particles combine to produce a substance with different properties? How does thermal energy affect particles?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Structure and Properties of Matter
How can one explain the structure and properties of matter?
4 performance expectations · 4 with lessons
Chemical reactions
Physical ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Chemical Reactions
What happens when new materials are formed? What stays the same and what changes?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Chemical Reactions
How do substances combine or change to make new substances, and how can these reactions be explained and predicted?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Forces and interactions
Physical ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Forces and Interactions
How can one describe physical interactions between objects and within systems of objects?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Forces and Interactions
How can one explain and predict interactions between objects and within systems of objects?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Energy
Physical ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Energy
How can energy be transferred from one object or system to another?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Energy
How is energy transferred and conserved?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Waves and information
Physical ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation
What are the characteristic properties of waves and how can they be used?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation
How are waves used to transfer energy and to send and store information?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Structure and function
Life ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Structure, Function, and Information Processing
How do the structures of organisms carry out life’s functions and process information?
4 performance expectations · 4 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Structure and Function
How do the structures of organisms enable life’s functions?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Matter and energy in ecosystems
Life ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
How do organisms obtain and use the energy they need to live and grow? How does matter cycle through ecosystems?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
How do organisms obtain and use energy, and how do matter and energy move through ecosystems?
6 performance expectations · 6 with lessons
Interdependence in ecosystems
Life ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
How do organisms interact with the living and non-living environment to obtain matter and energy?
2 performance expectations · 2 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
How do organisms interact to obtain matter and energy, and what makes ecosystems stable or unstable?
6 performance expectations · 6 with lessons
Heredity and variation
Life ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms
How do organisms grow and reproduce, and how are traits passed from one generation to the next?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Inheritance and Variation of Traits
How are the characteristics of one generation related to the previous generation?
4 performance expectations · 4 with lessons
Natural selection and evolution
Life ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Natural Selection and Adaptations
How do organisms change over time in response to changes in the environment?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Natural Selection and Evolution
How can there be so many similarities among organisms yet so many different species? How does biodiversity affect humans?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Space systems
Earth and Space ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Space Systems
What is Earth’s place in the solar system, and how do patterns in the sky arise?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Space Systems
What is the universe, and what is Earth’s place in it?
4 performance expectations · 4 with lessons
History of Earth
Earth and Space ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
History of Earth
How do people reconstruct and date events in Earth’s planetary history?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
History of Earth
How do people figure out that Earth and life on Earth have changed through time?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Earth’s systems
Earth and Space ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Earth’s Systems
How do Earth’s major systems interact to shape its surface and distribute its resources?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Earth’s Systems
How do the properties and movements of water and rock shape Earth’s systems?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Weather and climate
Earth and Space ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Weather and Climate
What factors interact and influence weather and climate?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Weather and Climate
What regulates weather and climate?
2 performance expectations · 2 with lessons
Human impacts and sustainability
Earth and Space ScienceGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Human Impacts
How do humans change the planet, and how can those impacts be reduced?
3 performance expectations · 3 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Human Sustainability
How do humans depend on Earth’s resources, and how can they be sustained?
5 performance expectations · 5 with lessons
Engineering design
Engineering DesignGrades 6–8 · MYP 1–3
Engineering Design
How do engineers define, develop and optimise solutions to problems?
4 performance expectations · 4 with lessons
Grades 9–10 · MYP 4–5
Engineering Design
How can engineering design be used to solve major global challenges?
4 performance expectations · 4 with lessons
Topic arrangement follows the NGSS Topic Arrangements (September 2017), ©2013 Achieve, Inc. Standards text is used for curriculum planning.