LIFE   SCIENCE  GRADES  4  TO   5

Reference	Content Standards	Wetlands	Rainforest
XI. Characteristics of Organisms
A.	Plants and animals have different structures that enable them to function in their environment	Use Organisms and Migration as examples	Use Organisms as examples
B.	Living organisms can be classified using various characteristics	Use Organisms and Migration (taxonomy)	Use Organisms as examples
C.	Fossils can be compared to one another and to living organisms according to their similarities and differences	None	None
XII. Life Cycles of Organisms
A.	Plants and animals have different life spans	Organisms and Migration (life cycle)	Organisms (life cycle)
B.	Many characteristics of an organism, such as the color of flowers or the number of limbs on an animal, are inherited from the parents	Use Organisms and Migration as examples	Use Organisms as examples
C.	Some characteristics of an organism are learned through interactions with the environment	Organisms and Migration (behavior)	Organisms (behavior), New Species, Species Change,
XIII. Organisms and Environments
A.	Some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow. Energy transfer can be followed in food chains and webs	Food Chains, Web Energy, Web Game, Organisms	Dependency Game, Food, Organisms
B.	Changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms and/or entire species	Plant Adaptations, Animal Adaptations, Habitat, Food Web Game	New Species, Species Change
C.	Organisms in a community depend on each other for food, shelter, and reproduction	Web Game, Producers, Consumers, Decomposers, Habitat,	Food, Habitat, Seed Dispersal, Pollination, Niches, Dependency Game
D.	Human interactions, such as building, pollution, and clearing the land impact the environment	Conservation, Pollution	Impact Screens, Global Benefits, Rainforest Riches
XVI. Changes in Earth and Sky
A.	Objects in the sky have patterns…cycle that last about a month	None	None
B.	The surface of the earth changes. Some changes… are due to rapid processes, such as landslides	Erosion, Productivity, Groundwater, Flooding, Formation	Succession, Soils & Decomposition, Productivity
C.	Weather exhibits daily and seasonal patterns	None	Climate, Seasonality