GRADE BAND THEME: OBSERVATIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
This theme focuses on helping students develop the skills for systematic discovery to understand the science of the natural world around them in greater depth by
using scientific inquiry.
STRANDS
Strand Connections: Living and nonliving things may move. A moving object has energy. Air moving is wind and wind can make a windmill turn. Changes in energy and movement can cause change to organisms and the environments in which they live.
Topic: Interactions within Habitats
This topic focuses on how ecosystems work by observations of simple interactions between the biotic/living and abiotic/nonliving parts of an ecosystem. Just as living things impact the environment in which they live, the environment impacts living things.
CONDENSED CONTENT STATEMENTS
2.LS.1: Living things cause changes on Earth.
2.LS.2: All organisms alive today result from their ancestors, some of which may be extinct. Not all kinds of organisms that lived in the past are represented by living organisms today.