4th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0407.3.1- Demonstrate that plants require light energy to grow and survive.
- 0407.3.1- Create a food web that illustrates the energy relationships between plants and animals and the key issues or assumptions found in the model.
- SPI 0407.3.1- Determine how different organisms function within an environment in terms of their location on an energy pyramid.
- GLE 0407.3.2- Investigate different ways that organisms meet their energy needs.
- 0407.3.2- Classify organisms as carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores.
- 0407.3.3- Identify how a variety of organisms meet their energy needs.
5th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0507.2.1- Investigate different nutritional relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.
- 0507.2.1- Evaluate producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships.
- SPI 0507.2.1- Describe the different types of nutritional relationships that exist among organisms.
- GLE 0507.3.1- Demonstrate how all living things rely on the process of photosynthesis to obtain energy.
- SPI 0507.3.1- Identify photosynthesis as the food manufacturing process in plants.
- SPI 0507.3.2- Compare how plants and animals obtain energy.
- 0507.5.1- Classify animals according to their physical characteristics.
- 0507.2.3- Create a simple model illustrating the inner specific relationships within an ecosystem.
6th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0607.2.1- Examine the roles of consumers, producers, and decomposers in a biological community.
- 0607.2.1- Compare and contrast the different methods used by organisms to obtain nutrition in a biological community.
- SPI 0607.2.1- Classify organisms as producers, consumers, scavengers, or decomposers according to their role in a food chain or food web.
- GLE 0607.2.2- Describe how matter and energy are transferred through an ecosystem.
- 0607.2.3- Use a food web or energy pyramid to demonstrate the interdependence or organisms within a specific biome.
7th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0707.3.1- Distinguish between the basic features of photosynthesis and respiration.
- SPI 0707.3.1- Compare the chemical compounds that make up the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration.
- GLE 0707.3.2- Investigate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living things and the environment.
- 0707.3.3- Identify the materials used by plants to make food.
8th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0807.5.3- Analyze how structural, behavioral, and physiological adaptations within a population enable it to survive in a given environment.
- SPI 0807.5.2- Analyze structural, behavioral, and physiological adaptations to predict which populations are likely to survive in a particular environment.
