Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Three Levels

Standard 6 - Interconnectedness: Common Themes - Elementary

Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

Equilibrium and Stability

4. Equilibrium is a state of stability due either to a lack of changes (static equilibrium) or a balance between opposing forces (dynamic equilibrium).

Students:

cite examples of systems in which some features stay the same while other features change.
distinguish between reasons for stability-from lack of changes to changes that counterbalance one another to changes within cycles.

This is evident, for example, when students:

record their body temperatures in different weather conditions and observe that the temperature of a healthy human being stays almost constant even though the external temperature changes.
identify the reasons for the changing amount of fresh water in a reservoir and determine how a constant supply is maintained.