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Science In A Snapshot · Pilot Appendix

Sample Standards Coverage Map

Every tested Arkansas science standard for grades 3–5 — the PS/LS/ESS reporting categories on the ATLAS summative blueprint — matched against the Science In A Snapshot gallery, showing which standards already have phenomenon lessons and the handful that need filling.

tested standards across grades 3–5 already covered by existing gallery photos.
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At a glance

Coverage by grade

Each standard is rated by how many gallery photos are tagged to it: Covered (3+ photos), Thin (1–2), or Gap (none). Green is what a teacher can run tomorrow.

The detail

Every standard, every match

Grouped by discipline. “Example photos” are real gallery titles a teacher would open for that standard — a sample, not the full list.

The short list

What needs filling

Out of 42 tested standards, only these fall short of “Covered.” Each is a one-photo fix — shoot it and build the lesson set, or drop in a single supplemental resource.

Ready to teach

Suggested weekly pacing

One phenomenon lesson per week, sequenced by discipline so every tested standard is taught before the spring test window. Engineering design runs as a single mini-unit.

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How this was built

The blueprint is the set of tested Arkansas K–12 Science Standards Performance Expectations for grades 3–5, verified against the Arkansas ATLAS science summative blueprint (October 2023). The blueprint’s three reporting categories — Physical Science, Life Science, and Earth & Space Science — total 42 tested PEs (15 in grade 3, 14 in grade 4, 13 in grade 5). Per the blueprint, engineering design (ETS) is not a separate reporting category: it is embedded in the tested PS/LS/ESS clusters, so it is shown for teaching reference but excluded from the 42-standard count. Coverage reflects how many gallery photographs are aligned to each standard — every published photo counted once. Counts recompute live from the gallery on load, and firm up after a standards-validation pass during the pilot’s setup phase.

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