KINDERGARTEN
Characteristics
of Organisms
Standard K-2:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the characteristics of organisms. (Life Science)
Indicators
K-2.1 Recognize what organisms need to stay alive (including air,
water, food, and shelter).
GRADE
1
Exploring
Motion
Standard 1-5:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the positions and motions of objects. (Physical
Science)
Indicators
1-5.2 Explain the importance of pushing and pulling to the motion of
an object.
1-5.4 Illustrate ways in which objects can move in terms of direction
and speed (including straight forward, back and forth, fast or slow,
zigzag, and circular).
GRADE
2
Animals
Standard 2-2:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the needs and characteristics of animals as they
interact in their own distinct environments. (Life Science)
Indicators
2-2.1 Recall the basic needs of animals (including air, water, food,
and shelter) for energy, growth, and protection.
2-2.2 Classify animals (including mammals, birds, amphibians,
reptiles, fish, and insects) according to their physical
characteristics.
2-2.3 Explain how distinct environments throughout the world support
the life of different types of animals.
GRADE
3
Habitats
and Adaptations
Standard 3-2:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the structures, characteristics, and adaptations of
organisms that allow them to function and survive within their
habitats. (Life Science)
Indicators
3-2.2 Explain how physical and behavioral adaptations allow organisms
to survive (including hibernation, defense, locomotion, movement,
food obtainment, and camouflage for animals and seed dispersal,
color, and response to light for plants).
3-2.3 Recall the characteristics of an organism’s habitat
that
allow the organism to survive there.
3-2.4 Explain how changes in the habitats of plants and animals
affect their survival.
Motion
and Sound
Standard 3-5:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of how motion and sound are affected by a push or pull
on an object and the vibration of an object. (Physical Science)
Indicators
3-5.2 Compare
the motion of common
objects in terms of speed and direction.
3-5.3 Explain how the motion of an object is affected by the strength
of a push or pull and the mass of the object.
3-5.4 Explain
the relationship between the motion of an object and the pull of
gravity.
GRADE
4
Organisms
and Their Environments
Standard 4-2:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the characteristics and patterns of behavior that
allow organisms to survive in their own distinct environments. (Life
Science)
Indicators
4-2.1 Classify organisms into major groups (including plants or
animals, flowering or nonflowering plants, and vertebrates [fish,
amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or invertebrates) according
to their physical characteristics.
4-2.2
Explain
how humans and other animals use their senses and sensory organs to
detect signals from the environment and how their behaviors are
influenced by these signals.
4-2.4 Distinguish between the characteristics of an organism that are
inherited and those that are acquired over time.
4-2.5 Explain how an organism’s patterns of behavior are
related to
its environment (including the kinds and the number of other
organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and
the physical characteristics of the environment).
GRADE
5
Ecosystems:
Terrestrial and Aquatic
Standard 5-2:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of relationships among biotic and abiotic factors
within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. (Life Science)
Indicators
5-2.4 Identify the roles of organisms as they interact and depend on
one another through food chains and food webs in an ecosystem,
considering producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, and
omnivores), decomposers (microorganisms, termites, worms, and fungi),
predators and prey, and parasites and hosts.
5-2.5 Explain how limiting factors (including food, water, space, and
shelter) affect populations in ecosystems.
Forces
and Motion
Standard 5-5:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the nature of force and motion. (Physical Science)
Indicators
5-5.1 Illustrate the affects of force (including magnetism,
gravity, and friction) on motion.
5-5.3 Explain how unbalanced forces affect the rate and direction of
motion in objects.
5-5.4 Explain ways to change the effect that friction has on the
motion of objects (including changing the texture of the surfaces,
changing the amount of surface area involved, and adding
lubrication).
5-5.6 Explain how a change of force or a change in mass affects the
motion of an object.
GRADE
6
Structures,
Processes, and Responses of Animals
Standard 6-3:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of structures, processes, and responses of animals that
allow them to survive and reproduce. (Life Science)
Indicators
6-3.1 Summarize
the basic functions of the structures of animals that allow them to
defend themselves, to move, and to obtain resources.
6-3.2 Compare
the response that a warm-blooded (endothermic) animal makes to a
fluctuation in environmental temperature with the response that a
cold-blooded (ectothermic) animal makes to such a fluctuation.
6-3.3 Explain
how environmental stimuli cause physical responses in animals
(including shedding, blinking, shivering, sweating, panting, and food
gathering).
6-3.4 Illustrate
animal behavioral responses (including hibernation, migration, defense,
and courtship) to environmental stimuli.
6-3.5 Summarize
how the internal stimuli (including hunger, thirst, and sleep) of
animals ensure their survival.
6-3.6 Compare
learned to inherited behaviors in animals.
GRADE
7
Ecology:
The Biotic and Abiotic Environment
Standard 7-4:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of how organisms interact with and respond to the
biotic and abiotic components of their environment. (Earth Science,
Life Science)
Indicators
7-4.1 Illustrate
energy flow in food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids
7-4.2 Explain
the interaction among changes in the environment due to natural hazards
(including landslides, wildfires, and floods), changes in populations,
and limiting factors (including climate and the availability of food
and water, space, and shelter).
7-4.6 Classify resources as renewable or nonrenewable and explain the
implications of their depletion and the importance of conservation.
GRADE
8
Forces
and Motion
Standard 8-5:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the effects of forces on the motion of an object.
(Physical Science)
Indicators
8-5.3 Analyze the effects of forces (including gravity and friction)
on the speed and direction of an object.
8-5.4 Predict how varying the amount of force or mass will affect the
motion of an object.
8-5.5 Analyze the resulting effect of balanced and unbalanced forces
on an object’s motion in terms of magnitude and direction.
8-5.6 Summarize
and illustrate the concept of inertia.
High
School BIOLOGY
Standard B-3:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the flow of energy within and between living
systems.
Indicators
B-3.6 Illustrate the flow of energy through ecosystems (including
food chains, food webs, energy pyramids, number pyramids, and biomass
pyramids).
Standard B-5:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of biological evolution and the diversity of life.
Indicators
B-5.1 Summarize the process of natural selection.
B-5.2 Explain how genetic processes result in the continuity of
life-forms over time.
B-5.3 Explain how diversity within a species increases the chances of
its survival.
B-5.4 Explain how genetic variability and environmental factors lead
to biological evolution.
Standard B-6:
The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the interrelationships among organisms and the
biotic and abiotic components of their environments.
Indicators
B-6.1 Explain how the interrelationships among organisms (including
predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism)
generate stability within ecosystems.
B-6.2 Explain how populations are affected by limiting factors
(including density-dependent, density-independent, abiotic, and
biotic factors).
B-6.6 Explain how human activities (including population growth,
technology, and consumption of resources) affect the physical and
chemical cycles and processes of Earth.
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