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FOSS AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
The Environments Module encourages students
to develop the skills of investigation in order to build explanations
based on knowledge and evidence. This module supports the
following National Science Education Standards.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
Develop students’ abilities to do and understand scientific
inquiry.
- Identify questions; design and conduct a scientific investigation
to answer those questions.
- Employ tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
- Use data to construct reasonable explanations.
- Develop and communicate explanations using evidence.
- Analyze alternative explanations and predictions.
- Understand that scientists use different kinds of investigations
and tools to develop explanations using evidence and knowledge.
CONTENT: LIFE SCIENCE
Develop students’ understanding of organisms and their
environments.
- The growth and survival of organisms depend on the biotic
and abiotic factors in the environment. Lack of resources
and other factors limit the growth of populations of organisms.
- Organisms cause changes in their environment.
- Behavior is one kind of response an organism can make
to an environmental factor or stimulus.
- For ecosystems, the major source of energy is sunlight.
Energy from the sun passes from organism to organism in
food webs.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
Develop students’ decision-making skills
- Resources are things that we get from the living and nonliving
environment to meet human needs.
- Some environmental changes occur slowly, and others occur
rapidly.
- Causes of environmental degradation and resource depletion
vary from region to region and country to country.
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