Environment and Ecology
4.1.4 Watersheds and Wetlands
A. Identify various types of water environments
C. Identify living things found in water environments.
4.2.4 Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
A. Identify needs of people.
B. Identify products derived from natural resources.
C. Know that some natural resources have limited life spans.
D. Identify by-products and their use of natural resources.
4.2.7 Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
A. Know that raw materials come from natural resources
B. Examine the renewability of resources
C. Explain natural resource distribution
D. Describe the role of recycling and waste management
4.3.4 Environmental Health
A. Know that plants and animals and humans are dependent on air and water.
B. Identify how human actions affect environmental health.
C. Understand that the elements of natural systems are interdependent.
4.3.7 Environmental Health
A. Identify environmental health issues
B. Describe how human actions affect the health of the environment.
C. Explain biological diversity.
4.6.7 Ecosystems and their Interactions
A. Explain the flows of energy and matter from organization to organism within an ecosystem.
B. Explain the concept of cycles.
C. Explain how ecosystems change over time.
4.7.7 Threatened/ Endangered and Extinct Species
A. Describe diversity of plants and animals in ecosystems.
B. Explain how species of living organizations adapt to their environment.
C. Explain natural or human actions in relation to the loss of species.
4.8.4 Humans and the Environment
A. Identify the biological requirements of humans.
B. Know that environment conditions influence where and how people live.
C. Explain how human activities may change the environment.
D. Know the importance of natural resources in daily life.
4.9.7 Environment Laws and Regulations
A. Explain the role of environment laws and regulations.
Science
3.1.7 Unifying Themes
A. Explain the parts of a simple system and their relationship to each other.
B. Describe the use of models as an application of scientific or technological concepts.
C. Identify patterns as repeated processes or recurring elements in science and technology
D. Explain scale as a way of relating concepts and ideas to one another by some measures.
E. Identify change as a variable in describing natural and physical systems.
3.2.7 Inquiry and Design
A. Explain and apply scientific and technological knowledge.
B. Apply process knowledge to make and interpret observations.
C. Identify and use the elements of scientific inquiry to solve.
D.Know and use the technological design process to solve problems.
3.3.4 Biological Science
B. Know that living things are made up of parts that have specific functions
3.3.7 Biological Science
A. Describe the similarities and differences that characterize diverse living things.
3.5.4 Earth Sciences
A. Know basic landforms and earth history
D. Recognize the earth's different water resources.
3.5.7 Earth Sciences
A Describe the earth's features and processes.
B. Recognize earth resources and how they affect everyday life.
D. Describe the behavior and impact of the earth's water systems.
History
8.1.6 Historical Analysis and Skills Development
A. Understand chronological thinking and distinguish between past, present and future time.
B. Explain and analyze historical sources
C. Explain the fundamentals of historical interpretation.
D. Describe and explain historical research.
8.3.6 United States History
B. Identify and explain primary documents, material artifacts and historical sites important in United States history from Beginnings to 1824.
8.4.9 World History
D. Explain how conflict and cooperation among social groups and organizations affected world history.
Geography
7.1.6 Basic Geographic Literacy
A. Describe geographic tool and their uses.
B. Describe and locate places and regions.
7.2.6 Physical Characteristics of Places and Regions
A. Describe the physical characteristics of places and regions.
B. Describe the physical processes that shape patterns on the Earth's surface.
7.3.6 Human Characteristics of Places and Regions
A. Describe human characteristics of places and regions by their population characteristics.
B. Describe human characteristics of places and regions by their cultural characteristics.
C. Describe human characteristics of places and regions by their settlement characteristics.
D. Describe human characteristics of places and regions by their economic characteristics.
7.4.6 Interaction Between People and Places
A. Describe the impacts of physical systems on people.
B. Describe the impacts of people on physical systems.
C. Ways humans adjust their impact on the habitat.
Technology
3.6.7 Technology Education
B. Explain information technologies of encoding, transmitting, receiving, storing, retrieving and decoding.
C. Explain physical technologies of structural design, analysis and engineering, personnel relations. financial affairs, structural production, marketing, research and design.
3.7.7 Technological Devices
A. Describe the safe and appropriate use of tools, materials and techniques to answer questions and solve problems.
B. Use the appropriate instruments and apparatus to study materials.
C. Explain and demonstrate basic computer operations and concepts.
D. Apply computer software to solve specific problems.
E. Explain basic computer systems.
3.8.7 Science Technology and Human Endeavors
A. Explain how sciences and technologies are limited in their effects and influences on society.
B. Explain how human ingenuity and technological resources satisfy specific human needs and improve the quality of life.
C. Identify the pros and cons of applying technological and scientific solutions to address problems and the effect upon society.
