Standard Area - MST:
Math, Science & Technology
- 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.LE6: Plants and animals depend on each other and their physical environment.
- Academic Level - MST4.E.LE6:
- Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE6B: Students describe the relationship of the sun as an energy source for living and nonliving cycles.
- Major Understandings - 6.2a : Plants manufacture food by utilizing air, water, and energy from the Sun.
- Major Understandings - 6.2b : The Sun’s energy is transferred on Earth from plants to animals through the food
chain.
- Major Understandings - 6.2c : Heat energy from the Sun powers the water cycle (see Physical Science Key
Idea 2).
