I teach a 9th-grade Integrated Science course. This means I need to incorporate the disciplines of life science, earth and space, and physical science all into my class. That's a lot of standards to cover! Earth and Space and Physical Science are my wheelhouse and where I focus most of our classroom time on. My class is our students' only exposure to the Earth and Space concepts in high school and the 11th-grade state science test cover these standards, so I spend the majorit