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Standard 3.0 Life Science: The students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the dynamic nature of living things, their interactions, and the results from the interactions that occur over time.
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A. Diversity of Life
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B. Cells
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1. Explore the world of minute living things to describe what they look like, how they live, and how they interact with their environment.
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a. Use magnifying instruments to observe and describe using drawings or text (oral or written) minute organisms, such as brine shrimp, algae, aphids, etc. that are found in different environments.
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b. Describe any observable activity displayed by these organisms.
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c. Provide reasons that support the conclusion that these organisms are alive.
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d. Use information gathered about these minute organisms to compare mechanisms they have to satisfy their basic needs to those used by larger organisms.
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C. Genetics
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D. Evolution
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E. Flow of Matter and Energy
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1. Recognize that materials continue to exist even though they change from one form to another.
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a. Identify and compile a list of materials that can be recycled.
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b. Identify what happens to materials when they are recycled.
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c. Observe and record the sequence of changes that occur to plants and animals that die and decay.
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d. Ask and develop possible answers to questions about what happens to the materials that living things are made of when they die.
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F. Ecology
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