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Subject Area - 4:
Environment and Ecology
Environment and Ecology
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.PK: GRADE PK
Standard - 4.3.PK.A
Identify how the environment provides for the needs of people in their daily lives.
Standard - 4.3.PK.C
• Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion. • Ask questions about objects, organisms and events. • Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known. • Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations. • Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information. • Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge. • Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.K: GRADE K
Standard - 4.3.K.A
Identify some renewable resources used in the classroom.
Standard - 4.3.K.B
Recognize the importance of conserving natural resources.
Standard - 4.3.K.C
• Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion. • Ask questions about objects, organisms and events. • Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known. • Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations. • Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information. • Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge. • Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.1: GRADE 1
Standard - 4.3.1.C
• Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion. • Ask questions about objects, organisms and events. • Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known. • Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations. • Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information. • Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge. • Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.2: GRADE 2
Standard - 4.3.2.A
Describe the jobs/hobbies people have in the community that relate to natural resources.
Standard - 4.3.2.B
Identify products and by-products derived from renewable resources.
Standard - 4.3.2.C
• Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion. • Ask questions about objects, organisms and events. • Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known. • Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations. • Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information. • Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge. • Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.3: GRADE 3
Standard - 4.3.3.A
Identify the natural resources used to make various products.
Standard - 4.3.3.C
- Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion.
- Ask questions about objects, organisms and events.
- Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known.
- Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations.
- Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information.
- Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge.
- Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding that scientists make their results public, describe their investigations so they can be reproduced and review and ask questions about the work of other scientists.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.4: GRADE 4
Standard - 4.3.4.A
Identify ways humans depend on natural resources for survival.
- Identify resources used to provide humans with energy, food, employment, housing and water.
Standard - 4.3.4.C
- Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion.
- Ask questions about objects, organisms and events.
- Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known.
- Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations.
- Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information.
- Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge.
- Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding that scientists make their results public, describe their investigations so they can be reproduced and review and ask questions about the work of other scientists.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.5: GRADE 5
Standard - 4.3.5.C
- Understand how theories are developed.
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations and evaluate the appropriateness of questions.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation and understand that current scientific knowledge guides scientific investigations.
- Describe relationships using inference and prediction.
- Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data and understand that it enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories.
- Analyze alternative explanations and understanding that science advances through legitimate skepticism.
- Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific investigations may result in new ideas for study, new methods or procedures for an investigation, or new technologies to improve data collection.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.6: GRADE 6
Standard - 4.3.6.C
- Understand how theories are developed.
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations and evaluate the appropriateness of questions.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation and understand that current scientific knowledge guides scientific investigations.
- Describe relationships using inference and prediction.
- Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data and understand that it enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories.
- Analyze alternative explanations and understanding that science advances through legitimate skepticism.
- Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific investigations may result in new ideas for study, new methods or procedures for an investigation, or new technologies to improve data collection.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.7: GRADE 7
Standard - 4.3.7.A
Explain how products are derived from natural resources.
- Describe the process of converting raw materials to consumer goods.
- Differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources
Standard - 4.3.7.B
Explain the distribution and management of natural resources.
- Differentiate between resource uses: conservation, preservation, and exploitation
Standard - 4.3.7.C
- Understand how theories are developed.
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations and evaluate the appropriateness of questions.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation and understand that current scientific knowledge guides scientific investigations.
- Describe relationships using inference and prediction.
- Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data and understand that it enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories.
- Analyze alternative explanations and understanding that science advances through legitimate skepticism.
- Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific investigations may result in new ideas for study, new methods or procedures for an investigation, or new technologies to improve data collection.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.8: GRADE 8
Standard - 4.3.8.A
Compare and contrast alternative sources of energy.
Standard - 4.3.8.C
- Compare and contrast scientific theories.
- Know that both direct and indirect observations are used by scientists to study the natural world and universe.
- Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations.
- Formulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.10: GRADE 10
Standard - 4.3.10.A
Evaluate factors affecting the use of natural resources.
- Evaluate the effect of consumer demands on the use of natural resources.
- Analyze how technologies such as modern mining, harvesting, and transportation equipment affect the use of our natural resources.
- Describe how local and state agencies manage natural resources.
Standard - 4.3.10.B
Analyze how humans manage and distribute natural resources.
- Describe the use of a natural resource with an emphasis on the environmental consequences of extracting, processing, transporting, using, and disposing of it.
- Analyze the impact of technology on the management, distribution, and disposal of natural resources.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.1 Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e., organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.2 Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.1 Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs, energy pyramids).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.2 Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.3 Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.4 Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e.g., climate changes, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.5 Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction.
- Compare and contrast scientific theories.
- Know that both direct and indirect observations are used by scientists to study the natural world and universe.
- Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations.
- Formulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
Standard - 4.3.10.C
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Grade Level - 4.3.12: GRADE 12
Standard - 4.3.12.A
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using renewable and nonrenewable resources.
- Explain how consumption rate affects the sustainability of resource use.
- Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using renewable resources such as solar power, wind power, and biofuels.
- Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.1
Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e., organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.2
Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.1
Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs, energy pyramids).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.2
Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.3
Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.4
Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e.g., climate changes, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.5
Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction.
Standard - 4.3.12.B
Analyze factors that influence the local, regional, national, and global availability of natural resources.
- Compare the use of natural resources in different countries.
- Analyze the social, economic, and political factors that affect the distribution of natural resources (e.g., wars, political systems, classism, racism).
Standard - 4.3.12.C
- Examine the status of existing theories.
- Evaluate experimental information for relevance and adherence to science processes.
- Judge that conclusions are consistent and logical with experimental conditions.
- Interpret results of experimental research to predict new information, propose additional investigable questions, or advance a solution.
- Communicate and defend a scientific argument.
