Recurring themes and concepts

6.5(G)

What Keeps Things Stable or Changing

Analyze and explain how factors or conditions impact stability and change in objects, organisms, and systems.

Part of The student understands that recurring themes and concepts provide a framework for making connections across disciplines

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Stability or Change?

By the end of this lesson you will analyze how factors or conditions cause an object, organism, or system to stay stable or to change. Stability means something keeps its overall condition even while small things happen inside it. Ask three questions: what is changing, what factors act on it, and which factor is strongest?