Standards

North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Science

• 3.E.2 Compare the structures of the Earth’s surface using models or three-dimensional diagrams.

3.E.2.1 Compare Earth’s saltwater and freshwater features (including oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and glaciers).

• 4.L.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats.

4.L.1.1 Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful.

4.L1.3 Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion).

• 5.L.2 Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem.

5.L.2.1 Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands.

5.L.2.3 Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem.

Sources

NC DPI. “SCIENCE.” Science, www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/science/.