A student expectation is directly related to the knowledge and skills statement, is more specific about how students demonstrate their learning, and always begins with a verb. Student expectations are further broken down into their component parts, often referred to as “breakouts.”
Vertical alignment shows student expectations in the same subject area at different grade levels that are related to or build upon one another.
classify living and nonliving things based upon whether they have basic needs and produce young;
describe and record examples of interactions and dependence between living and nonliving components in terrariums or aquariums; and
describe how the physical characteristics of environments, including the amount of rainfall, support plants and animals within an ecosystem;
explain how temperature and precipitation affect animal growth and behavior through migration and hibernation and plant responses through dormancy;
Cause-and-effect relationships are relationships between two or more variables or phenomena whereby one variable or event leads to a predictable response. Events have causes—sometimes simple, sometimes multi-faceted.
The presence and quantity of different resources (cause) in an ecosystem effects the number and types of organisms that can live there.
A system is a whole made of parts that work together. It has components and boundaries. It can interact with or be part of other systems.
The ecosystem contains organisms and the biotic and abiotic factors (parts) that support them. Organisms depend on the biotic and abiotic factors for survival.
Matter and energy are conserved, changing forms but maintaining quantities. Energy flows within a system or between systems through transfers and transformations. Matter is cycled within systems through physical and chemical processes.
The biotic factors that organisms interact with are modeled through food webs and food chains, demonstrating the cycling of matter and flow of energy through ecosystems.
Stability describes a system that does not change at the observed scale. In a stable system, a small disturbance will die out and the system will return to a stable state. Change in the system can come from modifying a factor or condition.
A healthy and sustainable ecosystem is stable. Overuse of resources caused by an increase in population or an event such as a fire causes a change to the ecosystem, impacting the survival of the organisms within it.
ELAR.5.13.E demonstrate understanding of information gathered