Humans in Nature: Beyond Backyards

This course meets the following National Standards:

• 3.1.2.C Life Science: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
• 3.1.2.C Life Science: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
• 3.1.3.H Life Science: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
• 3.3.4.E Earth and Space Sciences: Earth and Human Activity

Next Generation Science standards:

• 3-LS4-3 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity - 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.
• 3-LS4-4 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity - 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.
• 5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity - Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
• 3-ESS2: Earth’s Systems - 3-ESS2-2: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
• 5-LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics - Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
• K-ESS2-2: Earths’ Systems - Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
• K-LS41-1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes - Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards:

• Reading Standards for Informational Texts - RI.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.

Writing Standards:

• W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
• W.3.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

National Arts Standards:

• Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. VA:Cr1.1.3a: Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
• Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. VA:Cn10.1.3a: Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.
• Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. - VA: Cr1.1.5a: Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.
• Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artist ideas and work. - VA:Cr2.3.3a: Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.
• Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. - a. VA:Re.7.1.1a: Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one’s self or others.

21st Century Learning Skills Addressed in this Module:

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