Mission Library

The Abyss (4th)
Science Literacy
4th Grade

The Mission
49 min

Storyline

The crew embarks on a groundbreaking journey to the unexplored Abyssal Zone of Tellenor’s ocean to study its bizarre deep-sea creatures.

The crew of the UCS Infini-D dives into an ambitious exploration of Tellenor’s Abyssal Zone, a mysterious region over 23,000 feet beneath the ocean. This unprecedented mission tasks the crew with safely navigating the deep-sea environment and studying its deep-sea marine life, a feat never before achieved by explorers.

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3-Dimensional Science

Science and Engineering Practices

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

  • Construct an explanation of observed relationships.

  • Use evidence to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.

  • Identify the evidence that supports particular points in an explanation.

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

  • Read and comprehend grade-appropriate complex texts and/or other reliable media to summarize and obtain scientific and technical ideas and describe how they are supported by evidence.

  • Compare and/or combine across complex texts and/or other reliable media to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.

  • Communicate scientific and/or technical information orally and/or in written formats.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

LS3.B: Variation of Traits

Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information; the environment also affects the traits that an organism develops.

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