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Standard 6.0 Environmental Science
Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
Topic
A. Natural Resources and Human Needs
Indicator
- 1. Recognize and explain the impact of a changing human population on the use of natural resources and on environmental quality.
Objectives
- Based on data identify and describe the positive and negative impacts of an increasing human population on the use of natural resources
- Recognize and describe the decreasing dependence on local resources due to the impact of available transportation.
Topic
B. Environmental Issues
Indicator
- 1. Recognize and describe that environmental changes can have local, regional, and global consequences.
Objectives
- Identify and describe a local, regional, or global environmental issue.
- Identify and describe that different individual people or groups of people are affected by an issue in different ways.
Note: Highlighting identifies assessment limits. All highlighted Indicators will be tested on the Grades 5 and 8 MSA. The highlighted Objectives under each highlighted Indicator identify the limit to which MSA items can be written. Although all content standards are tested on MSA, not all Indicators and Objectives are tested. Objectives that are not highlighted will not be tested on MSA, however are an integral part of Instruction.
January 2008
