Adaptation and Modification - Science Connections Student Expectation
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K.9b
The student knows that plants and animals have basic needs and depend on the living and nonliving things around them for survival. The student is expected to examine evidence that living organisms have basic needs such as food, water, and shelter for animals and air, water, nutrients, sunlight, and space for plants.
K.10a
The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to sort plants and animals into groups based on physical characteristics such as color, size, body covering, or leaf shape.
1.9c
The student knows that the living environment is composed of relationships between organisms and the life cycles that occur. The student is expected to gather evidence of interdependence among living organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for shelter.
1.10a
The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats.
2.9c
The student knows that living organisms have basic needs that must be met for them to survive within their environment. The student is expected to compare and give examples of the ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains within a garden, park, beach, lake, and wooded area.
2.10a
The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to observe, record, and compare how the physical characteristics and behaviors of animals help them meet their basic needs such as fins help fish move and balance in the water.
3.9a
The student knows that organisms have characteristics that help them survive and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments. The student is expected to observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities within an ecosystem.
3.10a
The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment.
4.10a
The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environment. The student is expected to explore how adaptations enable organisms to survive in their environment such as comparing birds' beaks and leaves on plants.
5.9a
The student knows that there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. The student is expected to observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and non-living elements.
5.10a
The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals.
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Adaptation and Modification - Social Studies Connections Student Expectation
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K.5b
The student understands physical and human characteristics of place. The student is expected to identify how the human characteristics of place such as ways of earning a living, shelter, clothing, food, and activities are based upon geographic location.
1.6c
The student understands various physical and human characteristics. The student is expected to identify and describe how the human characteristics of place such as shelter, clothing, food, and activities are based upon geographic location.
2.7a
The student understands how physical characteristics of places and regions affect people's activities and settlement patterns. The student is expected to describe how weather patterns and seasonal patterns affect activities and settlement patterns.
2.7b
The student understands how physical characteristics of places and regions affect people's activities and settlement patterns. The student is expected to describe how natural resources and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns.
2.7c
The student understands how physical characteristics of places and regions affect people's activities and settlement patterns. The student is expected to explain how people depend on the physical environment and natural resources to meet basic needs.
2.8a
The student understands how humans use and modify the physical environment. The student is expected to identify ways in which people have modified the physical environment such as building roads, clearing land for urban development and agricultural use, and drilling for oil.
2.8b
The student understands how humans use and modify the physical environment. The student is expected to identify positive and negative consequences of human modification of the physical environment such as the use of irrigation to improve crop yields,
3.4a
The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment. The student is expected to describe and explain variations in the physical environment, including climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards.
3.4b
The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment. The student is expected to identify and compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment in which they live such as deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains.
3.4c
The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment. The student is expected to describe the effects of physical processes such as volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes in shaping the landscape.
3.4d
The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment. The student is expected to describe the effects of human processes such as building new homes, conservation, and pollution in shaping the landscape.
3.4e
The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment. The student is expected to identify and compare the human characteristics of various regions.
4.9a
The student understands how people adapt to and modify their environment. The student is expected to describe ways people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas, past and present, such as timber clearing, agricultural production, wetlands drainage, energy production, and construction of dams.
4.9b
The student understands how people adapt to and modify their environment. The student is expected to identify reasons why people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas, past and present, such as the use of natural resources to meet basic needs, facilitate transportation, and enhance recreational activities
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Adaptation and Modification - Social Studies Connections Student Expectation
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4.9c
The student understands how people adapt to and modify their environment. The student is expected to compare the positive and negative consequences of human modification of the environment in Texas, past and present, both governmental and private, such as economic development and the impact on habitats and wildlife as well as air and water quality.
5.9a
The student understands how people adapt to and modify their environment. The student is expected to describe how and why people have adapted to and modified their environment in the United States, past and present, such as the use of human resources to meet basic needs.
5.9b
The student understands how people adapt to and modify their environment. The student is expected to analyze the positive and negative consequences of human modification of the environment in the United States, past and present.
6.7a
The student understands the impact of interactions between people and the physical environment on the development and conditions of places and regions. The student is expected to identify and analyze ways people have adapted to the physical environment in various places and regions.
6.7b
The student understands the impact of interactions between people and the physical environment on the development and conditions of places and regions. The student is expected to identify and analyze ways people have modified the physical environment such as mining, irrigation, and transportation infrastructure.
6.7c
The student understands the impact of interactions between people and the physical environment on the development and conditions of places and regions. The student is expected to describe ways in which technology influences human interactions with the environment such as humans building dams for flood control.
7.10a
The student understands the effects of the interaction between humans and the environment in Texas during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The student is expected to identify ways in which Texans have adapted to and modified the environment and analyze the positive and negative consequences of the modifications
7.10b
The student understands the effects of the interaction between humans and the environment in Texas during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The student is expected to explain ways in which geographic factors such as the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Dust Bowl, limited water resources, and alternative energy sources have affected the political, economic, and social development of Texas.
8.11b
The student understands the physical characteristics of North America and how humans adapted to and modified the environment through the mid-19th century. The student is expected to describe the positive and negative consequences of human modification of the physical environment of the United States.
8.11c
The student understands the physical characteristics of North America and how humans adapted to and modified the environment through the mid-19th century. The student is expected to describe how different immigrant groups interacted with the environment in the United States during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
US 12a
The student understands the impact of geographic factors on major events. The student is expected to analyze the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the settlement of the Great Plains, the Klondike Gold Rush, the Panama Canal, the Dust Bowl, and the levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
US 14a
The student understands the relationship between population growth and modernization on the physical environment. The student is expected to identify the effects of population growth and distribution on the physical environment.
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Adaptation and Modification - Social Studies Connections Student Expectation
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US 14b
The student understands the relationship between population growth and modernization on the physical environment. The student is expected to identify the roles of governmental entities and private citizens in managing the environment such as the establishment of the National Park System, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Endangered Species Act.
WH 16b
The student understands the impact of geographic factors on major historic events and processes. The student is expected to analyze the influence of human and physical geographic factors on major events in world history, including the development of river valley civilizations, trade in the Indian Ocean, and the opening of the Panama and Suez canals.
WG 8a
The student understands how people, places, and environments are connected and interdependent. The student is expected to compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment, including the influences of culture and technology.
WG 8b
The student understands how people, places, and environments are connected and interdependent. The student is expected to describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences of extreme weather and other natural disasters such as El Niño, floods, tsunamis, and volcanoes.
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Define It
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Draw It
Adaptation is important because…
What Adaptation Is Not
Adaptation
Example
Example
Example
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Define It
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2
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Draw It
Modification is important because…
What Adaptation Is Not
Modification
Example
Example
Example
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This is only an adaptation because…
This is only a modification because…
This is both a modification and an adaptation because…
A man cuts down trees to make his house
A farmer clears land to plant crops to eat
A child puts on a coat before going outside to play
An electrician installs ceiling fans in a house
A city drained a swamp in order to build a city park
Using wind power to created electricity
A city on the Gulf of Mexico builds a seawall to prevent storm waves from damaging the buildings
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Companies are Villages are carving constructing large pumps terraces into the sides of and drills to discover new hills for agriculture sources for fossil fuels
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Adaptation and Modification
Adaptation is…
Modification is…
They are Similar Because…
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They are Different Because…
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QCE Question:
Claim (What conclusion can you make based on the evidence?)
How have people in different communities adapted to and modified their environment? Evidence (What evidence are you using to answer the question?)
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