WY.SCI.1.LS3.1
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grade 1
Learning Domain: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
Standard: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
WY.SCI.2.LS4.1
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grade 2
Learning Domain: Biological Unity and Diversity
Standard: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
WY.SCI.3.LS4.3
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grade 3
Learning Domain: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Standard: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
WY.SCI.3.LS4.4
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grade 3
Learning Domain: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Standard: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
Learning Domain: Earth's Systems
Standard: Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
WY.SCI.5.LS2.1
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grade 5
Learning Domain: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Standard: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
WY.SCI.K.LS1.1
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Kindergarten
Learning Domain: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures & Processes
Standard: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
NGSS.K.LS1.1
Next Generation Science Standards
Kindergarten-K
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment
Standard: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. [Clarification Statement: Examples of patterns could include that animals need to take in food but plants do not; the different kinds of food needed by different types of animals; the requirement of plants to have light; and, that all living things need water.]
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Standard: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. [Clarification Statement: Examples of patterns could include features plants or animals share. Examples of observations could include leaves from the same kind of plant are the same shape but can differ in size; and, a particular breed of dog looks like its parents but is not exactly the same.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include inheritance or animals that undergo metamorphosis or hybrids.]
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Standard: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the diversity of living things in each of a variety of different habitats.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include specific animal and plant names in specific habitats.]
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts on Organisms
Standard: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. [Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence could include needs and characteristics of the organisms and habitats involved. The organisms and their habitat make up a system in which the parts depend on each other.]
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts on Organisms
Standard: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change. [Clarification Statement: Examples of environmental changes could include changes in land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to a single environmental change. Assessment does not include the greenhouse effect or climate change.]
Science Domain: Earth and Space Sciences
Topic: Earth's Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth
Standard: Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. [Clarification Statement: Examples of variables to test could include angle of slope in the downhill movement of water, amount of vegetation, speed of wind, relative rate of deposition, cycles of freezing and thawing of water, cycles of heating and cooling, and volume of water flow.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to a single form of weathering or erosion.]
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
Standard: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. [Clarifcation Statement: Emphasis is on the idea that matter that is not food (air, water, decomposed materials in soil) is changed by plants into matter that is food. Examples of systems could include organisms, ecosystems, and the Earth.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include molecular explanations.]