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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science

Section:

The student is expected to:

(a) Introduction.

4. (C) Students explore patterns, systems, and cycles within environments by investigating characteristics of organisms, life cycles, and interactions among all components of the natural environment. Students examine how the environment plays a key role in survival. Students know that when changes in the environment occur organisms may thrive, become ill, or perish.

Study section; Wetlands Mechanisms; Endangered Wetlands

Study section; Mechanisms; Endangered screens

Desert Study;

Mechanisms; Human Impact

Ecology section; Life Cycle

(b) Knowledge and skills.

2. (A) plan and implement descriptive investigations, including asking and answering questions, making inferences, and selecting and using equipment or technology needed, to solve a specific problem in the natural world;

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

2. (B) collect data by observing and measuring using the metric system and recognize differences between observed and measured data;

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

2. (C) construct maps, graphic organizers, simple tables, charts, and bar graphs using tools and current technology to organize, examine, and evaluate measured data;

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

7. (A) explore and record how soils are formed by weathering of rock and the decomposition of plant and animal remains

Decomposers

Soils & Decomposition

Landscape Formation

9. (A) observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities within an ecosystem;

Wetlands Mechanisms; Types; Bog Study

Mechanisms; Types; Dependency Web

Mechanisms; Types; Desert Study

9. (B) identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field; and

Bog Study: Food Web; Endangered Wetlands

Dependency Web; Endangered screens

Desert Study: Build-A- Desert; Human Impact

9. (C) describe environmental changes such as floods and droughts where some organisms thrive and others perish or move to new locations.

Endangered Wetlands

Endangered screens

Human Impact

Ecology section

10. (A) explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment;

Adaptations: Animal, Plant

Study: Plants, Animals, Dependency Web

Desert Study: Organism screens, Adaptations

Ecology section

10. (B) explore that some characteristics of organisms are inherited such as the number of limbs on an animal or flower color and recognize that some behaviors are learned in response to living in a certain [from the] environment such as animals using tools to get food; and

Biodiversity screens; Study section

Desert Study: Adaptations

Ecology: Biodiversity, Niches

10. (C) investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, [mealworms,] and lady bugs.

Refer to Organism screens

Refer to Organism screens

Refer to Organism screens

Ecology: Life Cycle