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.
describe how natural changes to the environment such as floods and droughts cause some organisms to thrive and others to perish or move to new locations; and
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.
If there are variations among the traits of a population (cause), then some of the organisms in the population can survive an environmental change (effect).
A structure is an organized arrangement of particles, parts, or elements in a substance, body, or entity. A function is the purpose or reason for something to exist in a system. The function of a structure depends on the shapes of and relationships among its essential parts.
Variations in the structures of organisms within a population, such as leg length in grasshoppers, determine how well those structures function within their environment.
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.
The ability of a population to adapt to changes in environmental conditions is what makes the population stable.
ELAR.6.5.F make inferences and use evidence to support understanding