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Reference	Science Concepts	Wetlands	Rainforest	Desert
The students knows that:
8.6. Interdependence occurs among living systems.
(C)	Describe interactions within ecosystems	Wetlands Mechanisms, Photosynthesis, Food Chains, Web Energy, Producers, Consumers, Decomposers, Organisms, Migration, Web Game	Rainforest Mechanisms, Dependency Types, Organisms, Web Game, Niches, Impact Screens	Build-a-Desert Game, Human Impact screens, Desertification
8.11. Traits of species can change through generations and that the instructions for traits are contained in the genetic material of the organisms.
(A)	Identify that change in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individuals and of species	Plant & Animal Adaptations, Organisms, Migration, Web Game	Organisms, New Species, How Species Change, Web Game, Niches	Build-A-Desert Game, Organisms, What is an Adaptation?, Human Impact screens
(B)	Distinguish between inherited traits and other characteristics that result from interactions with the environment	Plant & Animal Adaptations, Organisms, Migration, Web Game	Organisms, New Species, How Species Change, Web Game, Plant & Animal Characteristics	What is an Adaptation?, Plant & Animal Adaptations, Organisms, Build-A-Desert Game

 

Reference	Science Concepts	The Digital Frog 2
The student knows:
8.6. That interdependence occurs among living systems.
(A)	Describe interactions among systems in the human organism	How Systems Interact, Use all body system sections, complete with human comparisons