6th-12th Grade Resources

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Relevant State Standards

6th Grade

• SC.6.E.6.1 - Describe and give examples of ways in which Earth's surface is built up and torn down by physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition.
• SC.6.E.6.2 - Recognize that there are a variety of different landforms on Earth's surface such as coastlines, dunes, rivers, mountains, glaciers, deltas, and lakes and relate these landforms as they apply to Florida.
• SC.6.E.7.4 - Differentiate and show interactions among the geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
• SC.6.L.15.1 - Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of Domains.

7th Grade

• SC.7.E.6.6 - Identify the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water.
• SC.7.L.17.1 - Explain and illustrate the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web.
• SC.7.L.17.2 - Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism.
• SC.7.L.17.3 - Describe and investigate various limiting factors in the local ecosystem and their impact on native populations, including food, shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism, predation, and nesting sites.

8th Grade

• SC.8.N.4.1 - Explain that science is one of the processes that can be used to inform decision making at the community, state, national, and international levels.
• SC.8.L.18.1 - Describe and investigate the process of photosynthesis, such as the roles of light, carbon dioxide, water and chlorophyll; production of food; release of oxygen.
• SC.8.L.18.2 - Describe and investigate how cellular respiration breaks down food to provide energy and releases carbon dioxide.
• SC.8.L.18.3 - Construct a scientific model of the carbon cycle to show how matter and energy are continuously transferred within and between organisms and their physical environment.

9th-12th Grades

• SC.912.E.6.2 - Connect surface features to surface processes that are responsible for their formation.
• SC.912.E.7.1 - Analyze the movement of matter and energy through the different biogeochemical cycles, including water and carbon.
• SC.912.E.7.3 - Differentiate and describe the various interactions among Earth systems, including: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
• SC.912.L.17.2 - Explain the general distribution of life in aquatic systems as a function of chemistry, geography, light, depth, salinity, and temperature.
• SC.912.L.17.20 - Predict the impact of individuals on environmental systems and examine how human lifestyles affect sustainability.
• SC.912.L.17.4 - Describe changes in ecosystems resulting from seasonal variations, climate change and succession.
• SC.912.L.17.6 - Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms, including predation, parasitism, competition, commensalism, and mutualism.
• SC.912.L.17.8 - Recognize the consequences of the losses of biodiversity due to catastrophic events, climate changes, human activity, and the introduction of invasive, non-native species.
• SC.912.L.17.9 - Use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers. Explain the pathway of energy transfer through trophic levels and the reduction of available energy at successive trophic levels.
• SC.912.L.17.10 - Diagram and explain the biogeochemical cycles of an ecosystem, including water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle
• SC.912.L.17.13 - Discuss the need for adequate monitoring of environmental parameters when making policy decisions.