4th Grade Educational Standards:
- 0407.3.2- Classify organisms as carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores.
- GLE 0407.5.1- Analyze physical and behavioral adaptations that enable organisms to survive in their environment.
- 0407.5.1- Classify animals according to their physical adaptations for obtaining food, oxygen, and surviving within a particular environment.
- GLE 0407.5.2- Describe how environmental changes caused the extinction of various plant and animal species.
5th Grade Educational Standards:
- SPI 0507.2.1- Describe the different types of nutritional relationships that exist among organisms.
- SPI 0507.5.1- Identify physical and behavioral adaptations that enable animals such as amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish and mammals to survive in a particular environment.
- GLE 0507.2.3- Establish the connections between human activities and natural disasters and their impact on the environment.
- GLE 0507.Inq.2- Select and use appropriate tools and equipment to conduct an investigation.
6th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0607.2.1- Examine the roles of consumers, producers, and decomposers in a biological community.
7th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0707.7.6- Evaluate how human activities affect the earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere.
- SPI 0707.7.7- Analyze and evaluate the impact of man’s use of earth’s land, water, and atmospheric resources.
8th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0807.5.3- Analyze how structural, behavioral, and physiocological adaptations within a population enable it to survive in a given environment.
- GLE 0807.5.5- Describe the importance of maintaining the earth’s biodiversity.
- SPI 0807.5.4- Identify several reasons for the importance of maintaining the earth’s biodiversity.
