Standards
NEW YORK STATE STANDARDS
STANDARD 4: The Physical Setting
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Key Idea 4:
Energy exists in many forms, and when these forms change energy is conserved.
Students should understand that energy exists in a variety of forms. Students should observe the results of simple energy transformations from one form to another in their physical environment. The safe use and respect of various energy forms should be stressed in the classroom.
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Key Idea 7:
Human decisions and activities have had a profound impact on the physical and living environments.
Humans are dependent upon and have an impact on their environment. Students should recognize how human decisions cause environmental changes to occur.
Students should be given opportunities to identify and investigate the factors that positively or negatively affect the physical environment and its resources.
Identify ways in which humans have changed their environment and the effects of those changes.
Major Understandings:
7.1a Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments.
7.1b Over time humans have changed their environment by cultivating crops and raising animals, creating shelter, using energy, manufacturing goods, developing means of transportation, changing populations, and carrying out other activities.
7.1c Humans, as individuals or communities, change environments in ways that can be
either helpful or harmful for themselves and other organisms.