correlation to the national standards

This program can help you teach the National Science Education Content Standards listed below. Viewing the Cosmic Collisions Space Show will help students gain an understanding of:

Elementary School
S1b: motions of objects and materials;
S1c: light, heat, electricity, and magnetism;
S2c: change over time, such as evolution and fossil evidence depicting the great diversity of organisms over geologic history;
S3b: objects in the sky;
S3c: changes in Earth and sky;

Middle School
S1b: motions and forces, inertia;
S1c: transfer of energy such as transformation of energy as heat; light, mechanical motion;
S2e: the evolution and adaptation of living organisms;
S3a: the structure of the Earth system;
S3c: Earth in the Solar System;

High School
S1a: the structure of atoms;
S1d: motions and forces, gravitational and electrical; magnetism;
S1f: interactions of energy and matter;
S3a: energy in the Earth system;
S3c: origin and evolution of the Earth system; geologic time; evolution of the Solar System;
S3d: the origin and evolution of the universe; nuclear reactions.