Life+Science

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 * Life Science Standards and Resources **

Elementary Grades
and different from other animals and nonliving things. ||  || behaviors of humans that enable plants and animals to survive. ||  || essential for life: protection, movement and support. ||  || and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. ||  || (to include the human body) perform functions necessary for life. ||  || their ecosystem. ||  ||
 * ||  || RESOURCES ||
 * Kindergarten || 1. Compare characteristics of animals that make them alike
 * 1st Grade || 1. Understand characteristics of various environments and
 * || 2. Summarize the needs of living organisms for energy andgrowth. ||  ||
 * 2nd Grade || 1. Understand animal life cycles. ||  ||
 * || 2. Remember that organisms differ from or are similar to theirparents based on the characteristics of the organism. ||  ||
 * 3rd Grade || 1. Understand human body systems and how they are
 * || 2. Understand how plants survive in their environments. ||  ||
 * 4th Grade || 1. Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations
 * || 2. Understand food and the benefits of vitamins, mineralsand exercise. ||  ||
 * 5th Grade || 1. Understand how structures and systems of organisms
 * || 2. Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with
 * || 3. Understand why organisms differ from or are similar totheir parents based on the characteristics of the organism. ||  ||

Middle Grades
plants that enable them to survive and reproduce. ||  || the responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment. ||  || living organisms that enable them to survive, reproduce and carry out the basic functions of life. ||  || to potential variation among offspring. ||  || effect living organisms. ||  || over time. ||  || materials for growth and repair of organisms. ||  ||
 * ||  || RESOURCES ||
 * 6th Grade || 1. Understand the structures, processes and behaviors of
 * || 2. Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and
 * 7th Grade || 1. Understand the processes, structures and functions of
 * || 2. Understand the relationship of the mechanisms of cellularreproduction, patterns of inheritance and external factors
 * 8th Grade || 1. Understand the hazards caused by agents of diseases that
 * || 2. Understand how biotechnology is used to affect livingorganisms. ||  ||
 * || 3. Understand how organisms interact with and respond to thebiotic and abiotic components of their environment. ||  ||
 * || 4. Understand the evolution of organisms and landforms basedon evidence, theories and processes that impact the Earth
 * || 5. Understand the composition of various substances as it relatesto their ability to serve as a source of energy and building

Biology
functions of cells and their organelles. ||  || (one generation affects the next). ||  || alleles, influences the expression of genetic traits. ||  ||
 * || RESOURCES ||
 * 1. Understand the relationship between the structures and
 * 2. Analyze the cell as a living system. ||  ||
 * 3. Analyze the interdependence of living organisms within theirenvironments. ||  ||
 * 4. Understand the impact of human activities on the environment
 * 5. Explain how traits are determined by the structure andfunction of DNA. ||  ||
 * 6. Understand how the environment, and/or the interaction of
 * 7. Understand the application of DNA technology. ||  ||
 * 8. Explain the theory of evolution by natural selection as amechanism for how species change over time. ||  ||
 * 9. Analyze how classification systems are developed basedupon speciation. ||  ||
 * 10. Understand how biological molecules are essential to thesurvival of living organisms ||  ||
 * 11. Analyze the relationships between biochemical processesand energy use in the cell. ||  ||