The STANDARDS CORRELATION chart suggests which Alabama Course of Study science standards you can cover using PASSPORT TO THE RAINFOREST in your classroom. We hope you will discover additional standards you can use. These are the ones our Instructional Materials Development team felt most directly related to the activities contained in PASSPORT TO THE RAINFOREST.
For additional Alabama Course of Study science standards you can cover see the STANDARDS CORRELATION chart for the following PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE projects:
PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Elementary Standards: Kindergarten, First Grade,
Second Grade, Third Grade,
Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade
Middle School Standards: Sixth Grade, Seventh Grade,
Eighth Grade
High School Starndards: Physical Science,
Biology, Astronomy Elective Core,
Botany,
Environmental Science,
PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
Examples: Do bees sleep? What is rain made of?
video 2. Use appropriate tools and technology resources to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: hand lenses, balances, droppers, computers, maps
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, living organisms, scientific equipment, and technology.
Examples: identifying ways to care properly for fish in an aquarium, wearing safety goggles
video 4. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 5. Think critically and logically to make inferences and describe relationships between evidence and explanations.
Example: basing conclusion that mealworms move toward dark areas instead of light areas on observations of mealworm behavior
video 6. Investigate alternative explanations of experimental results.
Example: conducting experiments to determine if size or thickness of certain objects affects the darkness of shadows
video 7. Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
Example: description of quantity using nonstandard units of measure such as papeface="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">video 8. Recognize that scientists use technology in scientific research.
Example: using hand-lens to enhance the naked eye
video 9. Recognize the importance of science and technology to many careers.
Examples: doctors using stethoscopes, astronomers using telescopes
video 10. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions.
Examples: cutting trees destroys animal homes, littering pollutes the soil/water
video 11. Recognize the relationship among science, technology, and society.
Examples: medicines used to prevent/cure illness, paying taxes to support research
video PHYSICAL SCIENCE
LIFE SCIENCE
Organisms and Environments
20. Describe a variety of living things in the environment.
video 21. Describe ways in which living and nonliving things react to changing conditions.
Examples: persons wearing sweaters in the fall, animals' coats changing, ponds freezing/melting
video 22. Describe a variety of habitats.
Examples: classroom, fish tank, school ground, park
video 23. Describe natural homes of animals.
Examples: beaver lodge, woodland for deer, bird nest, bear den, prairie dog hole, anthill
video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
Example: questions about the relationship of amount of water and pitch of a jar/glass when struck
video 2. Use appropriate tools and technology resources to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: hand lenses, clocks, computers, thermometers, balances
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, living organisms, scientific equipment, and technology.
Example: explaining how to release butterflies
video 4. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 5. Think critically and logically to make inferences and describe relationships between evidence and explanations.
Example: push and pull of magnets indicating force between them
video 6. Investigate alternative explanations of experimental results.
Example: measured student growth resulting from amount or kind of food eaten
video 7. Use mathematics in scientific inquiry. video 8. Recognize that scientists use technology in scientific research.
Example: balances used to measure weight of an object
video 9. Recognize the importance of science and technology to many careers.
Example: teachers using computers in classrooms
video 10. Recognize the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions.
Example: erosion resulting from removal of grass and trees during house construction
video 11. Recognize the relationship among science, technology, and society.
Example: airplanes making travel faster
video LIFE SCIENCE
Structure and Function of Living Systems
Students will:
15. Describe characteristics of plants and animals that help them to survive.
Examples: protection-cactus spines, poison ivy sap, camouflage;
predation-dinosaur teeth, claws, poison
video Diversity and Adaptations
16. Classify plants and animals according to characteristics.
Examples: color, shape, size, texture, covering
video Organisms and Environments
17. Describe the basic needs of plants and animals. video 18. Describe interactions of organisms with their environments.
Examples: butterflies with plants, snails with light
video 19. Explain how organisms are dependent upon each other for survival.
Examples: offspring upon parents for basic needs, flowering plants upon bees for pollination, bees upon flowers for food
video EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Dynamic Earth
Students will:
22. Describe the need to protect the Earth's resources.
video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
Example: questions regarding light as it comes in contact with different materials
video 2. Use appropriate tools and technology resources to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: rulers, meter sticks, measuring cups, clocks, hand lenses, computers, thermometers, balances, maps
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, living organisms, scientific equipment, and technology.
Examples: explaining why students do not taste substances without the teacher's permission, wearing protective goggles when handling substances
video 4. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 5. Think critically and logically to make inferences and describe relationships between evidence and explanations.
Example: identifying weather conditions that might affect plant growth
video 6. Investigate alternative explanations of experimental results.
Example: conducting experiments to determine if color of light and/or kind of substance used (water, glass) causes light rays to refract (bend)
video 7. Use mathematics in scientific inquiry. video 8. Recognize that scientists use technology in scientific research.
Example: paleontologists using picks, hand-lens, sonar, and brushes
video 9. Recognize the importance of science and technology to many careers.
Example: meteorologists using maps, data, and satellite imagery to predict long-range weather for crops
video 10. Recognize the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions.
Example: government establishment of national park or wilderness area
video 11. Recognize the relationship among science, technology, and society.
Example: aircraft flying faster and safer because of radar
video LIFE SCIENCE
Structure and Function of Living Systems
Students will:
19. Relate structure to function in plants and animals.
Examples: stems, leaves, and roots for food production and storage in plants; plant roots for support; fish fins and bird wings for locomotion; claws, beaks, and coverings for protection and/or food acquisition
video Diversity and Adaptations
20. Identify characteristics and behaviors of organisms that help them survive. video 21. Compare models of extinct animals to those that exist today.
Examples: stegosaurus and lizard, pterodactyl and bird
video Organisms and Environments
23. Describe interdependence of plants and animals.
Examples: animals using plants for shelter, food, and nests; insects or other animals pollinating plants or carrying seeds
video 24. Identify factors that affect the environment. video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
video 2. Use appropriate tools and technology resources to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: calculators, microscopes, cameras, sound recorders, clocks, computers, thermometers, hand lenses, meter sticks, rulers, balances, maps, star charts
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, living organisms, scientific equipment, and technology.
video 4. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 5. Think critically and logically to make inferences and describe relationships between evidence and explanations.
Example: relating condensation in a terrarium to stages of the water cycle
video 6. Investigate alternative explanations of experimental results.
video 7. Use available technology to communicate scientific procedures and to defend explanations.
video 8. Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
video 9. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships among science, technology, and society past and present. video LIFE SCIENCE
Structure and Function of Living Systems
Students will:
24. Relate plant structures to their function(s). video 25. Classify plants according to their features.
Examples: evergreen or deciduous, flowering or nonflowering
video Diversity and Adaptations
26. Identify basic needs of plants. video 28. Recognize helpful and harmful effects of plants.
Examples: helpful-make food, control erosion;
harmful-cause allergies, produce poisons
video Heredity and Reproduction
29. Describe the life cycle of plants. video Organisms and Environments
30. Explain the ways that environmental conditions can determine how well plants grow and survive in a particular habitat.
video 31. Identify useful products that are the results of recycling plants.
Examples: mulch, compost piles, manufactured wood (from wood by-products), fish habitat (created from sinking trees in water)
video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
video 2. Use appropriate tools and technology resources to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: calculators, microscopes, cameras, sound recorders, computers, hand lenses, rulers, thermometers, meter sticks, timing devices, balances, compasses, maps
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, living organisms, scientific equipment, and technology.
video 4. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 5. Think critically and logically to make inferences and describe relationships between evidence and explanations.
Example: relating sinking and floating to weight and size
video 6. Investigate alternative explanations of experimental results.
video 7. Use available technology to communicate scientific procedures and to defend explanations.
video 8. Apply mathematical knowledge and skills to scientific investigations. video 9. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships among science, technology, and society past and present. video LIFE SCIENCE
Structure and Function of Living Systems
Students will:
22. Relate structural characteristics and behavior of various animals to their roles within an ecosystem. video 23. Relate structures to functions in animals.
Examples: coverings, feet, beaks, eyes
video Diversity and Adaptations
24. Classify animals into groups according to specific characteristics. video Organisms and Environments
28. Identify behaviors and body structures that help animals survive in a particular habitat.
Examples: behaviors-migration, hibernation;
body structures-quills, fangs, stingers, webbed feet
video 29. Identify living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) factors that affect animal life. video EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Dynamic Earth
Students will:
31. Recognize evidence of the sun as the Earth's major source of energy. video 32. Identify processes that require time for changes to be noticeable.
Examples: growth, erosion, weathering, flowing (water, lava), deposition
video 34. Describe changes to the Earth's surface caused by natural and man-made forces. video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
video 2. Use appropriate tools and technology resources to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: calculators, microscopes, cameras, sound recorders, computers, hand lenses, rulers, temperature probes, balances, meter sticks, timing devices, compasses, collecting nets, maps
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, living organisms, scientific equipment, and technology.
video 4. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 5. Think critically and logically to make inferences and describe relationships between evidence and explanations.
Example: relating length of string to frequency of pendulum swings
video 6. Investigate alternative explanations of experimental results.
video 7. Use available technology to communicate scientific procedures and to defend explanations.
video 8. Apply mathematical knowledge and skills to scientific investigations. video 9. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships among science, technology, and society past and present. video LIFE SCIENCE
Structure and Function of Living Systems
Students will:
18. Recognize cumulative change over time by comparing similarities and differences of fossils to living organisms.
video Diversity and Adaptations
20. Develop classification systems for specific purposes.
video Organisms and Environments
23. Relate populations within a habitat to communities, ecosystems, and biomes.
video 24. Describe a variety of ecosystems.
video 25. Identify the effects of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components on ecosystems. video 26. Trace energy transfer within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
video 2. Design experiments and use appropriate tools and technology to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: thermometers, microscopes, balances, computers, electronic probeware
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, scientific equipment, and technology.
video 4. Use proper procedures in the handling and care of living organisms and specimens derived from living things.
video 5. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 6. Express measurements in appropriate Systeme International (SI) units.
video 7. Use scientific evidence to develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models.
video 8. Explain relationships between evidence and explanations.
video 9. Evaluate explanations and scientific theories of natural phenomena.
video 10. Communicate orally and in writing scientific procedures and explanations.
Examples: laboratory reports, science projects, PowerPoint presentations, science journals
video 11. Use appropriate mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
Examples: graphs, ratio and proportions, estimation, fractions, percents
video 12. Explain the use of technology in scientific research.
video 13. Explain the importance of science and technology to many careers.
video 14. Exhibit legal and ethical behaviors necessary for responsible scientific investigations.
Examples: avoiding plagiarism; altering data, hypotheses, or results; proper care of animals
video 15. Demonstrate the use of computer skills in scientific investigations.
Examples: electronic reference sources; data management and analysis; preparation, presentation, and communication of results
video 16. Explain how scientific discoveries have been influenced by historical events and cultures, including technological advances.
video LIFE SCIENCE
Diversity and Adaptations
30. Compare distinguishing characteristics of organisms. video 31. Distinguish the major differences between plants and animals and explain why some organisms do not fit into either classification.
video Organisms and Environments
32. Analyze how geographic factors cause diversity in flora and fauna.
Examples: elevation, location, climate
video 33. Describe the Earth's biomes and the interdependence among their populations.
Examples: rainforest, grassland, tundra, desert, chaparral
video 34. Explain the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions.
video 35. Explain the need for management and conservation of natural resources.
video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
video 2. Design experiments and use appropriate tools and technology to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: thermometers, microscopes, balances, computers, electronic probeware
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, scientific equipment, and technology.
video 4. Use proper procedures in the handling and care of living organisms and specimens derived from living things.
video 5. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 6. Express measurements in appropriate Systeme International (SI) units.
video 7. Use scientific evidence to develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models.
video 8. Explain relationships between evidence and explanations.
video 9. Evaluate explanations and scientific theories of natural phenomena.
video 10. Communicate orally and in writing scientific procedures and explanations.
Examples: laboratory reports, science projects, PowerPoint presentations, science journals
video 11. Use appropriate mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
video 12. Explain the use of technology in scientific research.
video 13. Explain the importance of science and technology to many careers.
video 14. Exhibit legal and ethical behaviors necessary for responsible scientific investigations.
Examples: avoiding plagiarism; altering data, hypotheses, or results; caring properly for animals
video 15. Demonstrate the use of computer skills in scientific investigations.
Examples: electronic reference sources; data management and analysis; preparation, presentation, and communication of results
video 16. Explain how scientific discoveries have been influenced by historical events and cultures, including technological advances.
video LIFE SCIENCE
Organisms and Environments
37. Identify the sun as the source of energy for all organisms.
video 38. Analyze ways by which matter and energy flow through an ecosystem. video 39. Explain different relationships among living organisms. video 40. Describe factors that affect the growth and survival of organisms in an ecosystem.
Examples: food, shelter, water, climate, nutrients, physical space, other populations, disease, pollution, natural disasters
video 41. Describe responses in organisms produced by environmental stimuli. video EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
video 2. Design experiments and use appropriate tools and technology to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
Examples: thermometers, microscopes, balances, computers, electronic probeware
video 3. Demonstrate the ability to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, scientific equipment, and technology.
video 4. Use proper procedures in the handling and care of living organisms and specimens derived from living things.
video 5. Use appropriate skills to design and conduct a scientific investigation. video 6. Express measurements in appropriate Systeme International (SI) units.
video 7. Use scientific evidence to develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models.
video 8. Explain relationships between evidence and explanations.
video 9. Evaluate how observation, experimentation, and data analysis lead to the development of scientific theories.
video 10. Communicate orally and in writing scientific procedures and explanations.
Examples: laboratory reports, science projects, PowerPoint presentations, science journals
video 11. Use appropriate mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
video 12. Explain the use of technology in scientific research.
video 13. Explain the importance of science and technology to many careers.
video 14. Exhibit legal and ethical behaviors necessary for responsible scientific investigations.
Examples: avoiding plagiarism; altering data, hypotheses, or results; caring properly for animals
video 15. Demonstrate the use of computer skills in scientific investigations.
Examples: electronic reference sources; data management and analysis; preparation, presentation, and communication of results
video 16. Explain how scientific discoveries have been influenced by historical events and cultures, including technological advances.
video LIFE SCIENCE
Diversity and Adaptations
27. Analyze scientific models of evolution.
Examples: gradualism, natural selection, genetic drift
video 28. Describe the impact of selective breeding, natural selection, genetic defects, and environmental adaptations on the development and survival of species.
video Organisms and Environments
35. Explain the impact of human activity and natural causes on long-range changes in the surface and climate of the Earth. video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Understand fundamental assumptions about the universe upon which the scientific enterprise is based. video 2. Discuss science as a body of knowledge and an investigative process. video 3. Conduct scientific investigations systematically. video 4. Exhibit behaviors appropriate to the scientific enterprise consistently.
Examples: curiosity, creativity, integrity, patience, skepticism, logical reasoning, attention to detail, openness to new ideas
video 5. Demonstrate correct care and safe use of instruments, equipment, and living organisms.
video 6. Demonstrate the ability to choose, construct, and/or assemble appropriate equipment for scientific investigations.
video 7. Apply critical and integrated science thinking skills. video 8. Use mathematical models, simple statistical models, and graphical models to express patterns and relationships determined from sets of scientific data.
Example: calculate mean, median, and mode from sample data
video 9. Solve for unknowns by manipulating variables.
Examples: blood typing, methods of pollination, color of light in photosynthesis
video 10. Use written and oral communication skills to present and explain scientific phenomena and concepts individually or in collaborative groups using technical and non-technical language.
Examples: laboratory reports, journal entries, computer-based slide show presentations, daily log reports, student project presentations
video 11. Choose appropriate technology to retrieve relevant information from the Internet such as electronic encyclopedias, indices, and databases.
video 12. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of widespread use of and reliance on technology.
video 13. Practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software such as following copyright laws.
video 14. Evaluate technology-based options for lifelong learning.
Examples: Internet usage, online/distance learning
video 15. Identify the uses of technology in scientific applications.
Examples: lasers and optics in industrial and medical technology, protein crystal growth in microgravity on drug production
video 16. Collect data and construct and analyze graphs, tables, and charts using tools such as computer-based or calculator-based probeware.
video Matter, Energy, and Organization in Living Systems
23. Identify the levels of organization of living things. video 24. Analyze the flow of matter and energy through different trophic levels and between organisms and the physical environment. video 25. Describe selected biogeochemical cycles. video DIVERSITY AND ADAPTATIONS
Biological Evolution
Students will:
26. Analyze the theory of evolution by natural selection. video 28. Use taxonomic groupings to differentiate structures, life cycles, and major characteristics of each kingdom. video 29. Discuss the relationships among organisms as the basis for biological systems of classification.
video 30. Understand why natural selection and genetic drift affect populations rather than individuals.
video 31. Describe the use of isotopic dating in determining the geologic age of fossils.
video ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENTS
Interdependence of Organisms
Students will:
38. Relate the biotic and abiotic factors of the environment.
video 39. Discuss factors that affect the dynamic equilibrium of ecosystems. video 40. Describe biomes.
Examples: salt and fresh water, deciduous forests, tropical rainforests, tundra
video 41. Explain different relationships among living organisms. video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Understand fundamental assumptions about the universe upon which the scientific enterprise is based. video 2. Discuss science as a body of knowledge and an investigative process. video 3. Conduct scientific investigations systematically. video 4. Exhibit behaviors appropriate to the scientific enterprise.
Examples: curiosity, creativity, integrity, patience, skepticism, logical reasoning, attention to detail, openness to new ideas
video 5. Demonstrate correct care and safe use of instruments, equipment, and living organisms.
Examples: allergies, poisons in plants and animals
video 6. Demonstrate the ability to choose, construct, and/or assemble appropriate equipment for scientific investigations.
video 7. Apply critical and integrated science thinking skills. video 8. Use mathematical models, simple statistical models, and graphical models to express patterns and relationships determined from sets of scientific data.
Example: calculate mean, median, and mode from sample data
video 9. Solve for unknowns by manipulating variables.
Example: dihybrid cross, methods of pollination, color of light in photosynthesis
video 10. Use written and oral communication skills to present and explain scientific phenomena and concepts individually or in collaborative groups using technical and non-technical language.
Examples: laboratory reports, journal entries, computer-based slide show presentations, daily log reports, student project presentations
video 11. Choose appropriate technology to retrieve relevant information from the Internet such as electronic encyclopedias, indices, and databases.
video 12. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of widespread use of and reliance on technology.
video 13. Practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software such as following copyright laws.
video 14. Evaluate technology-based options for lifelong learning.
Examples: Internet usage, online/distance learning
video 15. Identify the uses of technology in botanic applications.
Examples: genetic cloning, tissue culturing, hydroponics
video 16. Collect data and construct and analyze graphs, tables, and charts using tools such as computer-based or calculator-based probeware.
video STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF LIVING SYSTEMS
Matter, Energy, and Organization in Living Systems
19. Analyze the process of photosynthesis. video DIVERSITY AND ADAPTATIONS
Biological Evolution
Students will:
20. Identify major plant divisions by comparing adaptations in structure, reproduction, and life cycle. video 23. Describe how natural selection affects populations rather than individuals during species formation. video HEREDITY AND REPRODUCTION
ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENTS
Interdependence of Organisms
Students will:
27. Relate the biotic and abiotic factors of the environment. video 28. Analyze the role of plants as producers in biomes.
Examples: salt and fresh water, deciduous forests, tropical rain forests
video PROCESS AND APPLICATION
Students will:
1. Understand fundamental assumptions about the universe upon which the scientific enterprise is based. video 2. Discuss science as a body of knowledge and an investigative process. video 3. Conduct scientific investigations systematically. video 4. Exhibit behaviors appropriate to the scientific enterprise consistently.
Examples: curiosity, creativity, integrity, patience, skepticism, logical reasoning, attention to detail, openness to new ideas
video 5. Demonstrate correct care and safe use of instruments, equipment, and living organisms.
Examples: allergies, poisons in plants and animals
video 6. Demonstrate the ability to choose, construct, and/or assemble appropriate equipment for scientific investigations.
video 7. Apply critical and integrated science thinking skills. video 8. Use mathematical models, simple statistical models, and graphical models to express patterns and relationships determined from sets of scientific data.
Example: calculate mean, median, and mode from sample data
video 9. Solve for unknown quantities by manipulating variables.
Examples: water quality analysis, nutrient load, population change
video 10. Use written and oral communication skills to present and explain scientific phenomena and concepts individually or in collaborative groups using technical and non-technical language.
Examples: laboratory reports, journal entries, computer-based slide show presentations, daily log reports, student project presentations
video 11. Choose appropriate technology to retrieve relevant information from the Internet such as electronic encyclopedias, indices, and databases.
video 12. Analyze the environmental advantages and disadvantages of widespread use of and reliance on technology.
video 13. Practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software such as following copyright laws.
video 14. Evaluate technology-based options for lifelong learning.
Examples: Internet usage, online/distance learning
video 15. Identify uses of technology in daily environmental applications.
Examples: air quality, pollution index, satellite sensing
video 16. Collect data and construct and analyze graphs, tables, and charts using tools such as computer-based or calculator-based probeware.
video STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF LIVING SYSTEMS
Matter, Energy, and Organization in Living Systems
Students will:
18. Distinguish among the various biomes. video 19. Describe the interaction of matter and energy in the biosphere. video 20. Describe the biogeochemical cycles in the biosphere. video DIVERSITY AND ADAPTATIONS
Biological Evolution
Students will:
22. Analyze succession in various ecosystems. video ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENTS
Interdependence of Organisms
Students will:
24. Investigate the human impact on the environment. video 25. Illustrate how regional environmental changes have had global effects.
video 26. Analyze the management of natural resources. video 27. Identify methods of stewardship of natural resources to ensure a sustainable quality of life for future generations.
video DYNAMIC EARTH
30. Identify the relationships between landforms and types of biomes. videoKindergarten
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· Acquiring, processing, and interpreting data
Example: identifying objects that make darkest shadows
· Discussing cause and effect (dependent and independent variables) in experiments
Example: explaining why thick objects cause darkest shadows
· Sorting and classifying
Example: grouping objects according to darkness of shadows
· Experimenting
Example: determining objects that make darkest shadows
· Analyzing investigations
Example: drawing conclusions about objects that make dark shadows
· Developing hypotheses
Example: using experiences to guess which objects might make darkest shadows
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
Example: making a class data chart
· Observing
Example: examining objects and their shadows
· Measuring
Example: ranking shadows according to darkness
· Defining operationally
Example: deciding how to judge shadows as dark shadows
· Communicating
Examples: drawing pictures of shadows, describing or explaining observations
· Predicting
Example: predicting darkness of shadows of different objects
· Collaborating
Examples: sharing learning experiences, discussing ideas about shadows
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· Acquiring, processing, and interpreting data
Example: listening and deciding which is high pitch and which is low pitch
· Discussing cause and effect (dependent and independent variables) in experiments
Example: relating levels of water to different pitches
· Sorting and classifying
Examples: grouping jars of water into low and high pitches, arranging jars from lowest to highest pitch
· Experimenting
Example: determining which jar has the highest pitch using different amounts of water
· Analyzing investigations
Example: drawing conclusions about the effect of water amount on pitch
· Developing hypotheses
Example: using reasons for guessing how different pitches will be heard
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
Example: recording high/low pitch and amount of water in jars
· Observing
Example: listening to pitches created by striking jars containing different amounts of water
· Measuring
Example: using non-traditional units to quantify length of water columns in jars
· Defining operationally
Example: deciding how to distinguish low, medium, or high pitches
· Communicating
Example: describing the experiment and reasons for conclusions
· Predicting
Example: predicting pitch of jars with different shapes or liquids
· Collaborating
Example: working in groups to make and play a jar xylophone
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· Applying standard whole units to measure an object or substance
· Applying nonstandard whole units to measure an object or substance
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· Water
· Shelter
· Air
· Space/area
· Light
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· Acquiring, processing, and interpreting data
Example: grouping materials that reflect, refract (bend), or absorb light
· Discussing cause and effect (dependent and independent variables) in experiments
Example: discussing how light's path is changed by aluminum foil
· Sorting and classifying
Example: sorting materials according to characteristics believed to favor reflection or absorption of light
· Experimenting
Example: determining factors, one at a time, of materials that cause reflection of light
· Analyzing investigations
Example: drawing conclusions from observations about factors affecting light reflecting ability of objects
· Developing hypotheses
Example: using observations and experiences to propose that smooth, shiny objects always reflect light
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
Example: drawing/dramatizing how light rays bounce off a mirror
· Observing
Example: examining effects of shining a light on different materials with similar/different characteristics
· Measuring
Example: measuring how far away light can illuminate an object
· Defining operationally
Example: mixing all colors of light to make white light
· Communicating
Example: writing about procedures to investigate light and resulting conclusions
· Predicting
Example: predicting whether a new material will reflect or absorb light
· Collaborating
Example: working in groups to explain experiments with light to others
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· Applying standard whole units (metric and English) to measure an object or substance
· Applying nonstandard whole units to measure an object or substance
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· Physical
Examples: color, size, shape, covering
· Responsive
Examples: migration, hibernation
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· Natural
Examples: weather, seasons, earthquakes/volcanoes
· Man-made
Examples: pollution, conservation
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· Acquiring, processing, recording, and interpreting data
· Identifying dependent and independent variables (cause and effect) and their relationships
· Sorting and classifying
· Experimenting
· Analyzing
· Developing hypotheses
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
· Observing
· Measuring
· Defining operationally
· Communicating
· Predicting
· Collaborating
· Writing lab reports/scientific journals
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· Explaining how scientists use technology in scientific research
· Recognizing the importance of science and technology to many careers
· Demonstrating an understanding of the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions
· Recognizing contributions of science to development of technology and changes in society
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· Leaves
· Stems
· Roots
· Flowers
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· Space
· Light
· Nutrients
· Water
· Air
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· Germination
· Growth
· Reproduction
Examples: seeds, bulbs, tubers, cuttings, spores
· Decomposition
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Fourth Grade
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· Acquiring, processing, recording, and interpreting data
· Identifying dependent and independent variables (cause and effect) and their relationships
· Sorting and classifying
· Experimenting
· Analyzing
· Developing hypotheses
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
· Observing
· Measuring
· Defining operationally
· Communicating
· Predicting
· Collaborating
· Writing lab reports/scientific journals
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· Computation
· Probability (most/least likely outcomes)
· Graphing (bar, line, circle, pictograph)
· Fractions and decimals
· Arithmetic mean
· Measurement (metric)
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· Explaining how scientists use technology in scientific research
· Recognizing the importance of science and technology to many careers
· Demonstrating an understanding of the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions
· Identifying contributions of Alabama scientists
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· Predator
· Prey
· Consumer
· Decomposer
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· Vertebrates
· Invertebrates
· Warm-blooded
· Cold-blooded
· Body coverings
· Locomotion
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· Other animals
· Plants
· Climate
· Water
· Air
· Soil
· Location (topography)
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· Plant growth
· Creation of winds
· Water cycle
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· Natural-earthquakes, volcanoes, weathering, rock cycle, erosion, glacial scouring/deposition
· Man-made-mining/reclamation, deforestation/reforestation
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Fifth Grade
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· Acquiring, processing, recording, and interpreting data
· Identifying dependent and independent variables (cause and effect) and their relationships
· Sorting and classifying
· Experimenting
· Analyzing
· Developing hypotheses
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
· Observing
· Measuring
· Defining operationally
· Communicating
· Predicting
· Collaborating
· Writing lab reports/scientific journals
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· Computation
· Probability
· Graphing (bar, line, circle, pictograph)
· Variables
· Fractions and decimals
· Arithmetic mean, mode, median, range
· Measurement (metric)
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· Explaining how scientists use technology in scientific research
· Recognizing the importance of science and technology to many careers
· Demonstrating an understanding of the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions
· Recognizing contributions of science to development and design of technology
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· Biotic-plants, animals (including humans)
· Abiotic-light, temperature ranges, soil composition
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· Food chains
· Food webs
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Sixth Grade
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· Acquiring, processing, and interpreting data
· Identifying dependent and independent variables and their relationships
· Identifying cause and effect
· Sorting and classifying
· Controlling and manipulating variables
· Designing and analyzing investigations
· Developing hypotheses
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
· Keeping accurate records
· Observing
· Measuring
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· Anatomical features
· Methods of locomotion
· Methods of reproduction
· Patterns of development
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Seventh Grade
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· Acquiring, processing, and interpreting data
· Identifying dependent and independent variables and their relationships
· Identifying cause and effect
· Sorting and classifying
· Controlling and manipulating variables
· Designing and analyzing investigations
· Developing hypotheses
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
· Keeping accurate records
· Observing
· Measuring
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· Photosynthesis
· Cellular respiration
· Food chain
· Food web
· Energy pyramid
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· Competition
· Producer/consumer/decomposer
· Predator/prey
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· Migration/hibernation
· Fight or flight
· Homeostasis
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Eighth Grade
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· Acquiring, processing, and interpreting data
· Identifying dependent and independent variables and their relationships
· Identifying cause and effect
· Sorting and classifying
· Controlling and manipulating variables
· Designing and analyzing investigations
· Developing hypotheses
· Formulating models, tables, charts, and graphs
· Keeping accurate records
· Observing
· Measuring
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· Deforestation
· Ozone depletion
· Point and non-point sources of pollution
· Management and conservation of the Earth's wildlife and natural resources
· Volcanic eruption
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The Senior High Grades
Biology Core
· Concern with natural phenomena
· Operation of the universe that is discoverable and understandable
· Linkage of natural causes with natural effects
· Operation of the universe that is consistent and predictable
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· Unified, open-ended structure of observations set in a testable framework of ideas
· Common purpose and philosophy among the science disciplines
· Limited scope and certainty
· Simple solutions, comprehensive results, clearest and reliable explanations, accurate basis for predictions
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· Identifying and framing the question carefully
· Forming a hypothesis
· Identifying and managing variables effectively
· Developing a practical and logical procedure
· Presenting conclusions based on investigation/previous research
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· Observing
· Classifying
· Measuring with appropriate units and significant figures
· Inferring
· Predicting
· Solving problems
· Interpreting data
· Designing experiments
· Formulating hypotheses
· Communicating
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· Cells
· Tissues
· Organs
· Systems
· Organisms
· Population
· Community
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· Food chain
· Food web
· Food pyramid
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· Water
· Carbon
· Nitrogen
· Phosphorus
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· Identifying theoretical bases
Examples: comparative anatomy, DNA sequence, embryology
· Identifying types of adaptations to environmental conditions
Examples: behavioral, physiological, structural
· Identifying theoretical mechanisms
Examples: genetic drift, isolation, acquired characteristics
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· Nonvascular plants
· Vascular plants
· Gymnosperms
· Angiosperms
· Invertebrates
· Vertebrates
· Protista
Examples: ciliates, flagellates, sarcodinas
· Fungi
Examples: bread molds, penicillin, mildew
· Monera (Bacteria)
Examples: archaebacteria, eubacteria
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· Disasters
Examples: fire, flood
· Climate changes
· Introduction of new species
· Activities of organisms
Example: human impact-destruction, management, and conservation of natural resources
· Succession
Examples: primary, secondary
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· Competition
· Symbiosis (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism)
· Producer/consumer/decomposer (autotrophs, heterotrophs)
· Predator/prey (mimicry, camouflage)
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Botany Elective Core
· Concern with natural phenomena
· Discoverable and understandable operation of the universe
· Linking of natural causes with natural effects
· Consistent and predictable operation of the universe
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· Unified, open-ended structure of observations set in a testable framework of ideas
· Common purpose and philosophy among the science disciplines
· Limited scope and certainty
· Simple solutions, comprehensive results, clearest and reliable explanations, accurate basis for predictions
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· Identifying and framing the question carefully
· Forming a hypothesis
· Identifying and managing variables effectively
· Developing a practical and logical procedure
· Presenting conclusions based on investigation/previous research
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· Observing
· Classifying
· Measuring with appropriate units and significant figures
· Inferring
· Predicting
· Solving problems
· Interpreting data
· Designing experiments
· Formulating hypotheses
· Communicating
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· Raw materials and end products
· Structure and function of pigments
· Absorption of photo-activating wavelengths
· ATP synthesis
· C3 and C4 metabolism
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· Bryophytes (mosses)
· Lycophytes (club mosses)
· Sphenophytes (horsetails)
· Gymnosperms
· Angiosperms
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· Geographical isolation
· Temporal isolation
· Behavioral isolation
· Reproductive isolation
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· Local flora
· Introduction of a new species
Example: kudzu
· Succession
· Soil
· Water
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Environmental Science Elective Core
· Concern with natural phenomena
· Discoverable and understandable operation of the universe
· Linking of natural causes with natural effects
· Consistent and predictable operation of the universe
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· Unified, open-ended structure of observations set in a testable framework of ideas
· Common purpose and philosophy among the science disciplines
· Limited scope and certainty
· Simple solutions, comprehensive results, clearest and reliable explanations, accurate basis for predictions
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· Identifying and framing questions carefully
· Forming a hypothesis
· Identifying and managing variables effectively
· Developing a practical and logical procedure
· Presenting conclusions based on investigation/previous research
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· Observing
· Classifying
· Measuring with appropriate units and significant figures
· Inferring
· Predicting
· Solving problems
· Interpreting data
· Designing experiments
· Formulating hypotheses
· Communicating
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· Desert and tundra
· Grassland
· Forest
Examples: tropical rain forest, temperate rain forest, temperate deciduous forest, taiga
· Freshwater
· Marine
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· Producers, consumers, decomposers (autotrophs and heterotrophs)
· Food chain/food web
· Energy pyramids
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· Carbon cycle
· Nitrogen cycle
· Oxygen cycle
· Phosphorus cycle
· Water cycle
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· Isolated ecosystems
Examples: Australia, Galapagos Islands
· Sea floor vents
Examples: worms, chemosynthetic bacteria
· Devastated environments
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· Depletion of natural resources
· Point and nonpoint pollution
· Air and water quality
· Ozone depletion
· Habitat destruction
· Introduction/removal of non-native organisms
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· Renewable and nonrenewable resources
· Economic significance of natural resources
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· Beaches
· Piedmonts
· Deserts
· Plateaus
· Plains
· Mountains
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