State Content Standards and Learning Expectations

Life Science

Content standard: 1.0 Cell Structure and Function

The student will investigate the function of plant and animal cells

Learning Expectations: 1.1 Know that all organisms are made of one or more cells.

Content standard: 2.0 Interactions between Living Things and Their Environment.

The student will investigate how things interact with one another and with non-living elements of their environment.

Learning Expectations: 2.1 investigate the relationships among organisms in a specific ecosystem.

2.2 Recognize that organism’s area able to change their environment.

Content Standard: 3.0 Food Productions and Energy for Life

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

Learning Expectations: 3.1 realize that plants and animals use food for energy.

3.2 Recognize the function of specific structures in organisms that allow them to obtain and use energy.

Content Standard: 4.0 Heredity and Reproduction

The student will understand the basic principles of inheritance.

Learning Expectations: 4.1 realize that certain characteristics are passed from parent to offspring.

4.2 Realize that reproduction is necessary for the survival of species.

4.3 Investigate the life cycles of different organisms.

Content Standard: 5.0 Diversity and Adaptation among Living Things

The student will understand that living things have characteristics that enable them to survive in their environment.

Learning Expectations: 5.1 realize that plants and animals can be grouped according to similarities and differences in their characteristics.

5.2 Determine that adaptations help organisms to survive in their environment.

Content Standard: 6.0 Biological Change

The student will understand that living things have changed over time.

Learning Expectations: 6.1 realize that fossils show connections between organisms that lived in the past and those that live in the present.

6.2 recognize that extinction has occurred in the past and continues today.