Missouri State Standards
Strand 4 - Changes in Ecosystems and Interactions of Organisms with their Environments
4.1.A.a – Explain the nature of interactions between organisms in predator/prey relationships and different symbiotic relationships (e.g. mutualism, commensalism, parasitism).
4.1.A.b – Explain how cooperative (e.g. symbiosis) and competitive (e.g. predator/prey) relationships helps maintain balance in ecosystems.
4.1.A.c - The functional role of a species is not limited to its placement along a food pyramid; it also includes the interactions of a species with other organisms while obtaining food. For example, the methods used to tolerate the physical factors of its environment, such as climate, water, nutrients, soils, and parasites, are all part of its functional role. In other words, the ecological niche of an organism is its natural history: all the interactions and interrelationships of the species with other organisms and the environment.
4.1.B.b. - Predict how populations within an ecosystem may change in number and/or structure in response to hypothesized changes in biotic and/or abiotic factors
4.3.C.b. - Explain how environmental factors (e.g., habitat loss, climate change, pollution, introduction of non-native species) can be agents of natural selection.
Strand 7 – Scientific Inquiry - Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking
7.1.A.a. – Formulate testable questions and hypotheses
7.1.A.c. – Design and conduct a valid experiment
7.1.A.d.- Recognize it is not always possible, for practical or ethical reasons, to control some conditions (e.g., when sampling or testing humans, when observing animal behaviors in nature)
7.1.C.a - Use quantitative and qualitative data as support for reasonable explanations (conclusions)
7.1.C.b.-Analyze experimental data to determine patterns, relationships, perspectives, and credibility of explanations (e.g., predict/extrapolate data, explain the relationship between the independent and dependent variable)
Strand 4 - Changes in Ecosystems and Interactions of Organisms with their Environments
4.1.A.a – Explain the nature of interactions between organisms in predator/prey relationships and different symbiotic relationships (e.g. mutualism, commensalism, parasitism).
4.1.A.b – Explain how cooperative (e.g. symbiosis) and competitive (e.g. predator/prey) relationships helps maintain balance in ecosystems.
4.1.A.c - The functional role of a species is not limited to its placement along a food pyramid; it also includes the interactions of a species with other organisms while obtaining food. For example, the methods used to tolerate the physical factors of its environment, such as climate, water, nutrients, soils, and parasites, are all part of its functional role. In other words, the ecological niche of an organism is its natural history: all the interactions and interrelationships of the species with other organisms and the environment.
4.1.B.b. - Predict how populations within an ecosystem may change in number and/or structure in response to hypothesized changes in biotic and/or abiotic factors
4.3.C.b. - Explain how environmental factors (e.g., habitat loss, climate change, pollution, introduction of non-native species) can be agents of natural selection.
Strand 7 – Scientific Inquiry - Science understanding is developed through the use of science process skills, scientific knowledge, scientific investigation, reasoning, and critical thinking
7.1.A.a. – Formulate testable questions and hypotheses
7.1.A.c. – Design and conduct a valid experiment
7.1.A.d.- Recognize it is not always possible, for practical or ethical reasons, to control some conditions (e.g., when sampling or testing humans, when observing animal behaviors in nature)
7.1.C.a - Use quantitative and qualitative data as support for reasonable explanations (conclusions)
7.1.C.b.-Analyze experimental data to determine patterns, relationships, perspectives, and credibility of explanations (e.g., predict/extrapolate data, explain the relationship between the independent and dependent variable)
National Science Standards
Unifying Concepts and Process Standard:
Evidence, Models and explanation
Science as Inquiry:
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understandings about scientific inquiry
Life Science:
Molecular basis of heredity
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives:
Personal and community health
Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
Science and Technology:
Understandings about science and technology
Unifying Concepts and Process Standard:
Evidence, Models and explanation
Science as Inquiry:
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understandings about scientific inquiry
Life Science:
Molecular basis of heredity
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives:
Personal and community health
Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
Science and Technology:
Understandings about science and technology