Appendix on Implementation of District Standards
Virginia Department of Education Standards of Learning
SOL 4.3 The student will investigate and understand that organisms, including humans, interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key ideas include
- interrelationships exist in populations, communities, and ecosystems;
- food webs show the flow of energy within an ecosystem;
- changes in an organism’s niche and habitat may occur at various stages in its life cycle;
- classification can be used to identify organisms
Next Generation Science Standards
While my district does not utilize the Next Generation Science Standards, my unit can be adapted to the following standards:
3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
3-LS4-4. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
In addition, my unit. Implementing my unit will provide opportunity for vertically aligns with the following middle school standards:
MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
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