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Subject Area - 4:
Environment and Ecology
Environment and Ecology
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.PK: GRADE PK
Standard - 4.5.PK.B
Identify things in the natural environment that can be harmful to people, pets and other living things.
Standard - 4.5.PK.F
• 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.K: GRADE K
Standard - 4.5.K.B
Identify common pests in our homes, gardens and neighborhoods.
Standard - 4.5.K.C
Identify different types of pollution (land, water or air) and their sources.
Standard - 4.5.K.F
• 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.1: GRADE 1
Standard - 4.5.1.A
Identify resources humans use from the environment.
Standard - 4.5.1.B
Describe why people consider some insects, plants and other living things to be pests, and ways to control their population numbers.
Standard - 4.5.1.D
Identify where waste from the home, school and community goes for disposal.
Standard - 4.5.1.F
• 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.2: GRADE 2
Standard - 4.5.2.A
Identify the natural resources used to make various products.
Standard - 4.5.2.D
Describe how people can help the environment by reducing, reusing, recycling and composting.
Standard - 4.5.2.F
• 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.3:
GRADE 3
Standard - 4.5.3.A
Identify resources humans take from the environment for their survival.
Standard - 4.5.3.B
Define the term pest and identify various plants and animals that humans may call pests.
Standard - 4.5.3.C
Identify different types of pollution and their sources.
Standard - 4.5.3.D
Describe how waste is generated.
- Identify and propose a solution for a waste issue in the school setting (e.g., litter in the hallway).
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.3.F
- 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.4:
GRADE 4
Standard - 4.5.4.AIdentify how people use natural resources in sustainable and non-sustainable ways.
Standard - 4.5.4.BDetermine the circumstances that cause humans to identify an organism as a pest.
Standard - 4.5.4.CDescribe how human activities affect the environment.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.4.D
Describe a waste stream.
- Identify sources of waste derived from the use of natural resources.
- Identify those items that can be recycled and those that can not.
- Describe how everyday activities may affect the environment
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.A.4:
Homeostasis and Transport
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.4.1.1 Describe how the structure of the plasma membrane allows it to function as a regulatory structure and/or protective barrier for a cell.
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.4.1.2 Compare and contrast the mechanisms that transport materials across the plasma membrane (i.e., passive transport -- diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion; active transport -- pumps, endocytosis, exocytosis).
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.4.1.3 Describe how endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and other membrane-bound cellular organelles facilitate transport of materials within cells.
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.4.2.1 Explain how organisms maintain homeostasis (e.g., thermoregulation, water regulation, oxygen regulation).Standard - 4.5.4.E
Identify different ways human health can be affected by pollution.
Standard - 4.5.4.F- 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.5:
GRADE 5
Standard - 4.5.5.CExplain the difference between point and non-point source pollution.
Standard - 4.5.5.DExplain how different items are recycled and reused.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.5.F
- Understand how theories are developed.
- entify 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.6:
GRADE 6
Standard - 4.5.6.AExamine how historical events have shaped the sustainable use of natural resources.
Standard - 4.5.6.CIdentify key people and events that shaped the environmental history in the United States.
Standard - 4.5.6.DIdentify reasons why organisms become threatened, endangered, and extinct.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.6.F
- 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.7:
GRADE 7
Standard - 4.5.7.ADescribe how the development of civilization affects the use of natural resources.
- Compare and contrast how people use natural resources in sustainable and non-sustainable ways throughout the world.
Standard - 4.5.7.BDescribe the impact of pests in different geographic locations and techniques used to manage those pests.
- Identify introduced species that are classified as pests in their new environments.
- Research integrated pest management practices.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.7.C
Explain how human actions affect the health of the environment.
- Identify residential and industrial sources of pollution and their effects on environmental health.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.7.D
Describe the wastes derived from using resources, how the waste is managed, and the potential impact on the environment.
Standard - 4.5.7.EDescribe how length and degree of exposure to pollutants may affect human health.
- Identify diseases/ conditions that have been associated with exposure to pollutants
Standard - 4.5.7.F- 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.8:
GRADE 8
Standard - 4.5.8.AExplain how Best Management Practices (BMP) can be used to mitigate environmental problems.
Standard - 4.5.8.CDescribe how humans can reduce pollution.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.8.D
Compare and contrast waste generated from various sources of energy.
Standard - 4.5.8.F- 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.10:
GRADE 10
Standard - 4.5.10.AExplain how public policy encourages or discourages the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Research laws and polices that address the sustainable use of natural resources (e.g., solid and liquid waste management, industry, agriculture and enterprise).
Standard - 4.5.10.BDescribe the impact of integrated pest management practices on the environment.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.10.C
Analyze real-world data and explain how point and non-point source pollution can be detected and eliminated.
- Compare and contrast the environmental effects of different industrial strategies.
Standard - 4.5.10.DEvaluate various methods of managing waste as related to economic, environmental, and technological factors.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.10.E
Describe the impact of occupational exposure to pollutants.
- Analyze laws and regulations designed to protect human health.
- Analyze efforts to prevent, control, and/or reduce pollution through cost and benefit analysis and risk management.
Standard - 4.5.10.F- 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 - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.12:
GRADE 12
Standard - 4.5.12.AResearch how technology influences the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Analyze how consumer demands drive the development of technology enabling the sustainable use of natural resources.
Standard - 4.5.12.BEvaluate pest management using methods such as cost/benefit analysis, cumulative effects analysis, environmental impact analysis, ethical analysis, and risk analysis.
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- 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.Standard - 4.5.12.C
Analyze the costs and benefits of means to control pollution.
- Analyze the role of technology in the reduction of pollution.
- Research and analyze the local, state, and national laws that deal with point and non-point source pollution.
- Explain mitigation and its role in maintaining environmental health.
Standard - 4.5.12.DEvaluate waste management practices.
- Analyze current solid waste regulations.
- Research the impact of new and emerging technologies in the use, reuse, recycling and disposal of materials.
- Evaluate ways that waste could be reduced during the production of specific product.
Standard - 4.5.12.EAnalyze how consumer demands promote the production of pollutants that affect human health.
Standard - 4.5.12.F- 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.
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