National Standards Program 3
Selected "NSES/2061 Benchmarks" met by the video, hands-on and online resources:
Program 3
| 4.3.1 Knows ways in which living things can be classified (e.g., ...groups based on functions served within an ecosystem such as producers, consumers, and decomposers) |
| 6.3.1 Knows that all organisms are composed of cells, which are the fundamental units of life; most organisms are single cells, but other organisms ...are multi-cellular |
| 7.2.3 Knows that changes in the environment can have different effects on different organisms (e.g., some organisms move in, others move out; some organisms survive and reproduce, others die) |
| 7.3.2 Knows that organisms can react to internal and environmental stimuli through behavioral response (e.g., plants have tissues and organs that react to light, water, and other stimuli...) |
| 7.3.3 Knows ways in which species interact and depend on one another in an ecosystem (e.g., producer/consumer, predator/prey, parasite/host, relationships that are mutually beneficial or competitive) |
| 7.3.5 Knows factors that affect the number and types of organisms an ecosystem can support (e.g., available resources; abiotic factors such as quantity of light and water, range of temperatures ...competition ...predation) |
| 7.3.6 Knows relationships that exist among organisms in food chains and food webs |
| 8.3.1 Knows how energy is transferred through food webs in an ecosystem (e.g., energy enters ...as sunlight, and green plants transfer this energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis; this chemical energy is passed from organism to organism... |
| 8.3.2 Knows how matter is recycled within ecosystems (e.g., matter is transferred from one organism to another repeatedly, and between organisms and their physical environment...) |
| 15.3.2 Designs and conducts a scientific investigation (e.g., formulates questions, designs and executes investigations, interprets data, synthesizes evidence into explanations, proposes alternative explanations for observations, critiques explanations and procedures) |