| COMPETENCIES
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Identify and describe structures and functions in living systems.
(L, E) |
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wks
1-6
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Investigate levels of organization in organisms including cells, tissues,
organs, |
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systems, whole organisms, and ecosystems. |
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wks
1-6
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Explore ecosystems and biomes. |
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wks
1-8
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wks
1-6
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Identify and describe reproduction and heredity of organisms. (L,
P) |
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wks
1-6
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Define and recognize examples of sexual and asexual reproduction. |
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Explore how traits are used to classify individual inheritance patterns. |
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| 3.
Determine the factors that influence the regulation and behavior of
organisms. (L, E) |
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wks
1-6
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Identify and describe resources needed to grow, reproduce, maintain,
and survive in a changing environment. |
wks
1-8
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wks
3-6
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Investigate ways organisms adapt to their environment. |
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wks
1-6
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| 4.
Examine the physical factors of populations as they relate to the
formation of an ecosystem. (L, E) |
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wks
1-6
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| a. Identify, describe, and illustrate the roles among producers, consumers, and decomposers in a food web. |
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wks 1-6
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Investigate resources and other factors (living and nonliving) that
promote and limit growth of populations in an ecosystem. |
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wks 3-6
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Explore the diversity and adaptations of organisms. (L, E) |
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wks
1-6
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Classify organisms by their similarities. |
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wks
1-6
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Explore and explain biological adaptations in a particular environment. |
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wks
3-6
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Research and investigate environmental changes and the inability of
a species to adapt. |
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wks
1-8
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| 6.
Investigate the structure of the Earth. (E) |
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wks
6-8
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Investigate the structure of the atmosphere (gas-air), hydrosphere
(liquidwater), and lithosphere (solid-land). |
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| b. Examine how organisms affect the composition of the Earth and its atmosphere. |
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wks
1-8
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Analyze processes that cause changes on Earth. |
wks
1-8
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wks
1-8
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Explore fossils as indicators of how life and environmental conditions
have changed. |
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Investigate the Earth as a part of the solar system. (E, P) |
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wks
6-8
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| a. Explore how the Earth's motion defines the day and the year and influences the phases of the moon and eclipses. |
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wks 6-8
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Explain how gravity influences the action of the tides. |
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wks
3-4
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| c. Explain and illustrate how the tilt of the Earth's axis and Earth's revolution around the Sun create the seasons. |
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wks 6-8
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Identify properties and changes of matter. (E, P) |
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wks
1-3, 6-8
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Observe and explore physical and chemical properties such as density,
boiling/freezing point, and solubility of a substance. |
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wks 1-8
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Explore, observe, discuss, and record physical and chemical changes
using everyday substances. |
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wks
1-8
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Recognize elements that combine chemically to produce compounds. |
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wks
7-8
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Demonstrate the ability to use simple measuring devices using metric
and English units. |
wks
1-8
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wks
1-8
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wks
1-8
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wks
1-6
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Investigate the effect motions and forces have on objects. (E, L,
P) |
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wks
1-5
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Explore, measure, and graph the motion of an object. |
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wks
2 & 4
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Explore and measure the effect of force on an object. |
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wk
1
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Examine the transformations of forms of energy. (P) |
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Design and construct simple and compound machines. |
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4
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Design and construct electrical circuits (open, closed, series, parallel). |
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Design and construct an electromagnet. |
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