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Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Key Idea Code - MST4.LE:
Key Idea - MST4.LE5: Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that sustains life.
Academic Level - MST4.E.LE5:
Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE5A: Students describe basic life functions of common living specimens (guppy, mealworm, gerbil).
Major Understandings - 5.1a : All living things grow, take in nutrients, breathe, reproduce, and eliminate waste.
Major Understandings - 5.1b : An organism’s external physical features can enable it to carry out life functions in its particular environment.