Ecosystems and Environments
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Environments and Changes: Migration and Hibernation
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Adaptations
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Biomes: Abiotic and Biotic
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Flow of Energy: Food Webs and Food Chains
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Relationships Among Organisms: Consumer, Decomposer, Predator, Prey
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Diversity in Ecosystems
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Pest Management
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Water Cycles
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PDE: Scientific theory
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PDE: Opinion
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PDE: Evidence
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PDE: Data/information
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PDE: Concept of "practice"
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PDE: Questions answered through: Scientific inquiry
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PDE: Use of Evidence
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PDE: Use of Observations
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PDE: Experimental results
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PDE: Inferences
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PDE: Environmental issues
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PDE: Long term health effects (e.g., pollution, pest controls, vaccinations)
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PDE: Use evidence to describe change
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PDE: Use observations to describe change
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PDE: Use explanations to describe change
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PDE: Use inferences to describe change
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PDE: Change in systems over time (e.g., carrying capacity, succession, population dynamics, loss of mass in chemical reactions, indicator fossils in geologic time scale)
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PDE: Change in systems over time
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PDE: Dynamically changing environments
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PDE: Concept of "sustainability"
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PDE: Living systems
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PDE: Systems (e.g., watershed, circulatory system, heating system, agricultural system)
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PDE: Parts of a system
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PDE: Roles of system parts
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PDE: Observable results
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PDE: Structures of living things
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PDE: Concept of "effective functioning"
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PDE: Concept of "similarity"
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PDE: Concept of "differences"
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PDE: Internal structures (e.g., invertebrate/vertebrate, vascular/nonvascular, single-celled/multi-celled)
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PDE: Characteristic structures of organisms
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PDE: Identifying organisms
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PDE: Categories of organisms (i.e., plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and protista)
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PDE: Organism survival
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PDE: Reproduction
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PDE: Differing environments
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PDE: Concept of "adaptation"
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PDE: Concept of "species"
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PDE: Survival
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PDE: Adaptations are developed over long periods of time
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PDE: Development over time
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PDE: Flow of energy
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PDE: Ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs)
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PDE: Major biomes
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PDE: Abiotic components (different soil types, air, water, sunlight)
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PDE: Biotic components (living organisms)
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PDE: Organism relationships (e.g., producers/consumers, predator/prey)
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PDE: Factors that affect changes in populations (e.g., deforestation, disease, land use, natural disaster, invasive species)
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PDE: Concept of "diversity"
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PDE: Ecological integrity of natural systems
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PDE: Organism response to environmental change (hibernation, migration, coloration)
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PDE: Environmental changes (changes in climate)
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PDE: Concept of "survival"
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PDE: Impact of human activities on local environments
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PDE: Impact of human activities on regional environments
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PDE: Impact of human activities on global environments
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PDE: Long-term effects of using integrated pest management (e.g., herbicides, natural predators, biogenetics)
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PDE: The sun as a major source of energy
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PDE: Impact of sun on the environment
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PDE: Distinguish between a scientific theory and opinion
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PDE: Explain how a theory is supported with evidence
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PDE: Explain how new data may change existing theories
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PDE: Explain how new data may change existing practice
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PDE: Explain how certain questions can be answered through scientific inquiry
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PDE: Use evidence, such as observations, to support inferences about a relationship
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PDE: Use evidence, such as experimental results, to support inferences about a relationship
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PDE: Identify environmental issues
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PDE: Explain potential long term health effects of environmental issues
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PDE: Use evidence to make inferences about change in systems over time
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PDE: Use observations to make inferences about change in systems over time
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PDE: Examine systems changing over time
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PDE: Given a scenario, explain how a dynamically changing environment provides for the sustainability of living systems
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PDE: Describe a system as a group of related parts with specific roles that work together to achieve an observed result.
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PDE: Describe the structures of living things that help them function effectively in specific ways (e.g., adaptations, characteristics).
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PDE: Compare similarities of organisms with regard to internal structures
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PDE: Compare differences of organisms with regard to internal structures
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PDE: Compare similarities of organisms with regard to external structures
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PDE: Compare differences of organisms with regard to external structures
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PDE: Apply knowledge of characteristic structures to identify organisms
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PDE: Apply knowledge of characteristic structures to categorize organisms
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PDE: Explain how inherited structures help organisms survive different environments
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PDE: Explain how inherited structures help organisms reproduce in different environments
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PDE: Explain how inherited behaviors help organisms survive in different environments
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PDE: Explain how inherited behaviors help organisms reproduce in different environments
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PDE: Explain how different adaptations in individuals of the same species may affect survivability
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PDE: Explain how different adaptations in individuals of the same species may affect reproduction success
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PDE: Explain that adaptations are developed over long periods of time
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PDE: Explain that adaptations are passed from one generation to another
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PDE: Explain the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
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PDE: Identify major biomes
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PDE: Describe abiotic components of major biomes
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PDE: Describe biotic components of major biomes
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PDE: Explain relationships among organisms in an ecosystem
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PDE: Use evidence to explain factors that affect changes in populations
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PDE: Use evidence to explain how diversity affects the ecological integrity of natural systems
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PDE: Describe the response of organisms to environmental changes
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PDE: Explain how human activities may affect local environments
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PDE: Explain how human activities may affect regional environments
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PDE: Explain how human activities may affect global environments
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PDE: Explain the long-term effects of using integrated pest management on the environment
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PDE: Describe the sun as a major source of energy
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PDE: Describe the impact on the environment of the sun
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S8.A.1.1 ~ Explain, interpret and apply scientific, environmental, or technological knowledge presented in a variety of formats (e.g., visuals, scenarios, graphs). (Reference: 3.2.7.A, 3.2.7.B)
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S8.A.1.2 ~ Identify and explain the impacts of applying scientific, environmental, or technological knowledge to address solution to practical problems. (Reference: 3.2.7.C, 3.8.7.A, 3.8.7.B, 4.3.7.A)
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S8.A.1.3 ~ Identify evidence that certain variables may have caused measurable changes in natural or human-made systems. (Reference: 3.1.7.E, 4.7.7.C, 4.8.7.C)
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S8.A.3.1 ~ Explain the parts of a simple system, their roles, and their relationships to the system as a whole. (Reference: 3.1.7.A, 3.4.7.B, 4.3.7.C, 4.2.7.D, 4.6.7.A)
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S8.A.3.2 ~ Apply knowledge of models to make predictions, draw inferences, or explain technological concepts. (Reference: 3.1.7.B, 3.2.7.B, 4.1.7.B)
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S8.B.1.1 ~ Describe and compare structural and functional similarities and differences that characterize diverse living things. (Reference: 3.3.7.A, 3.3.7.B, 4.6.7.A, 4.7.7.B)
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S8.B.2.1 ~ Explain the basic concepts of natural selection. (Reference: 3.3.7.D, 4.7.7.A, 4.7.7.B)
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S8.B.3.1 ~ Explain the relationships among and between organisms in different ecosystems and their abiotic and biotic components. (Reference: 4.4.7.B, 4.6.7.A, 4.1.7.C, 4.1.7.D)
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S8.B.3.2 ~ Identify evidence of change to infer and explain the ways different variables may affect change in natural or human-made systems. (Reference: 3.1.7.C, 4.3.7.B, 4.6.7.C, 4.8.7.D, 3.1.7.E, 4.3.7.C)
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S8.B.3.3 ~ Explain how renewable and non-renewable resources provide for human needs or how these needs impact the environment. (Reference: 3.6.7.A, 4.4.7.A, 4.4.7.C, 4.5.7.C, 3.8.7.C)
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S8.C.2.2 ~ Compare the environmental impact of different energy sources chosen to support human endeavors. (Reference: 3.4.7.B, 4.2.7.B)
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S8.D.1.3 ~ Describe characteristic features of Earth’s water systems or their impact on resources. (Reference: 3.5.7.D, 4.3.7.B, 4.1.7.A, 4.1.7.B, 4.1.7.C)
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