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Standard Area - 3.4: Technology and Engineering Education
Organizing Category - 3.4.E: The Designed World
Grade Level - 3.4.8.E: GRADE 8

Standard - 3.4.8.E7

Analyze factors that determine structural design (e.g., building laws and codes, style, convenience, cost, climate, and function).

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Assessment Anchor - S8.B.2
Continuity of Life
- Anchor Descriptor - S8.B.2.1 Explain the basic concepts of natural selection.
  - Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.1 Explain how inherited structures or behaviors help organisms survive and reproduce in different environments.
    
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    Alternate Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.1a Identify structures or behaviors that enable plats or animals to survive in their environment (e.g., size of plant, leaf shape or appendages, coverings, nocturnal behaviors.)
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