Grade Level

Standards

6th Grade

6-1.4, 6-3.2, 6-3.4, 6-3.5, 6-3.6

7th Grade

7-4.1, 7-4.2, 7-4.3, 7-4.5, 7-4.6

8th Grade

8-2.1, 8-2.7

Use a technological design process to plan and produce a solution to a problem or a product (including identifying a problem, designing a solution or a product, implementing the design, and evaluating the solution or the product).

Explain how environmental stimuli cause physical responses in animals (including shedding, blinking, shivering, sweating, panting, and food gathering).

Illustrate animal behavioral responses (including hibernation, migration, defense, and courtship) to environmental stimuli.

Summarize how the internal stimuli (including hunger, thirst, and sleep) of animals ensure their survival.

Summarize the characteristics of the levels of organization within ecosystems (including populations, communities, habitats, niches, and biomes).

Illustrate energy flow in food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids

Explain the interaction among changes in the environment due to natural hazards (including landslides, wildfires, and floods), changes in populations, and limiting factors (including climate and the availability of food and water, space, and shelter).

Summarize how the location and movement of water on Earth’s surface through groundwater zones and surface-water drainage basins, called watersheds, are important to ecosystems and to human activities.

Classify resources as renewable or nonrenewable and explain the implications of their depletion and the importance of conservation.

Explain how biological adaptations of populations enhance their survival in a particular environment.