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Environment and Ecology
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.PK: GRADE PK
• 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.K: GRADE K
Identify common plants and animals found in Pennsylvania agricultural systems.
Observe and describe stages of life cycles for plants and animals.
Identify tools and machinery commonly used in agriculture.
• 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.1: GRADE 1
Describe the role of soil in agricultural systems.
Describe the life cycles of different plants and animals in a terrestrial habitat.
Identify tools used by native Americans and early settlers in agriculture.
• 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.2: GRADE 2
Identify agriculture as a living system and that food and fiber originate from plants and animals.
Examine life cycles of plants and animals in an aquatic habitat.
• 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.3: GRADE 3
Identify Pennsylvania crops that provide food for the table and fiber for textiles.
Explain how agriculture meets the basic needs of humans.
Use scientific inquiry to investigate what animals and plants need to grow.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- 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.
- Identify tools and machinery used in agricultural processes.
- 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.
Identify technology used in agriculture.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.4: GRADE 4
Describe the journey of local/global agricultural commodities from production to consumption.
Describe how humans rely on the food and fiber system.
- Identify Pennsylvania’s important agricultural products.
Use scientific inquiry to investigate the composition of various soils.
Identify how technology affects the development of civilizations through agricultural production.
- 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.5: GRADE 5
Investigate the factors influencing plant and animal growth. (e.g., soil, water, nutrients, and light)
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
- 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.6: GRADE 6
Explain how different plants and animals in the United States have specific growing requirements related to climate and soil conditions.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
Analyze how soil types and geographic regions have impacted agriculture in Pennsylvania.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
- 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.7: GRADE 7
Describe how agricultural practices, the environment, and the availability of natural resources are related.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.2:
Genetics
Describe the economic importance of agriculture to society.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.2:
Genetics
Investigate resources, their relation to land use, and their impact on the food and fiber system.
Identify the positive and negative effects of technology used in agriculture and its effects on the food and fiber system and the environment over time.
- Understand how theories are developed.
- dentify 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.8: GRADE 8
Identify and describe how food safety issues have impacted the food and fiber system.
- 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 - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.10: GRADE 10
Explain the relationships between and among the components of the food and fiber system.
(i.e., production, processing, research and development, marketing, distribution, and regulations.)
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.2:
Genetics
Analyze the effects of agriculture on a society’s economy, environment, standard of living, and foreign trade.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.2:
Genetics
Analyze how agricultural sciences and technologies strive to increase efficiency while balancing the needs of society with the conservation of our natural resources.
Evaluate the use of technologies to increase plant and animal productivity.
- 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.
- rmulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Grade Level - 4.4.12: GRADE 12
Research and analyze the social, political, economic, and environmental factors that affect agricultural systems.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.2:
Genetics
Research and evaluate laws and policies that affect the food and fiber system.
- Standard Area - 4.4: Agriculture and Society
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.2:
Genetics
Analyze research and development initiatives as they relate to agriculture.
Describe how policies, regulations, and laws affect the technologies adopted in agriculture.
- 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.