Standard(s):
[SC2015] (0) 3 : 3 ) Distinguish between living and nonliving things and verify what living things need to survive (e.g., animals needing food, water, and air; plants needing nutrients, water, sunlight, and air).
[SC2015] (0) 6 : 6 ) Identify and plan possible solutions (e.g., reducing, reusing, recycling) to lessen the human impact on the local environment.*
[SC2015] (3) 11 : 11 ) Construct an argument from evidence to explain the likelihood of an
organism's ability to survive when compared to the resources in a certain
habitat (e.g., freshwater organisms survive well, less well, or not at all in
saltwater; desert organisms survive well, less well, or not at all in
woodlands).
a. Construct explanations that forming groups helps some organisms survive.
b. Create models that illustrate how organisms and their habitats make up a
system in which the parts depend on each other.
c. Categorize resources in various habitats as basic materials (e.g.,
sunlight, air, freshwater, soil), produced materials (e.g., food, fuel, shelter), or as nonmaterial (e.g., safety, instinct, nature-learned behaviors).
[SC2015] (3) 12 : 12 ) Evaluate engineered solutions to a problem created by environmental
changes and any resulting impacts on the types and density of plant and animal
populations living in the environment (e.g., replanting of sea oats in coastal areas due to destruction by hurricanes, creating property development restrictions in vacation areas to reduce displacement and loss of native animal
populations).*
[SC2015] (5) 16 : 16 ) Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can
use to protect Earth's natural resources and its environment (e.g., terracing
land to prevent soil erosion, utilizing no-till farming to improve soil
fertility, regulating emissions from factories and automobiles to reduce air
pollution, recycling to reduce overuse of landfill areas).
[DLIT] (3) 24 : 18) Identify a broad range of digital devices, the services they provide, and appropriate uses for them.
Examples: Computers, smartphones, tablets, robots, e-textiles, driving directions apps that access remote map services, digital personal assistants that access remote information services.
