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Environmental Education Programs and Corresponding Massachusetts Science Curriculum Frameworks
MA Curriculum Frameworks Outline: Environmental Education Programs and Corresponding Massachusetts Elementary Curriculum Frameworks Massachusetts Learning Standards-Life Science, Grades PreK - 2: 1. Recognize that animals and plants are living things that grow, reproduce, and need food, air, and water. * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Coastal Explorations * Willowbrook 2. Differentiate between living and nonliving things. Group both living and nonliving things according to the characteristics that they share. * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Coastal Explorations * Willowbrook 3. Recognize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles vary for different living things. * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Coastal Explorations * Willowbrook 4. Describe ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance. * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Wetlands * Coastal Explorations * Willowbrook 5. Recognize that fossils provide us with information about living things that inhabited the earth years ago. * Tremendous Trees * Journey Through Time * Native Americans 6. Recognize that people and other animals interact with the environment through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Finding Your Way * Journey Through Time * Native Americans* Wetlands * Coastal Explorations * Willowbrook 7. Recognize changes in appearance that animals and plants go through as the seasons change. * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Native Americans * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Coastal Explorations * Willowbrook 8. Identify the ways in which an organism’s habitat provides for its basic needs (plants require air, water, nutrients, and light; animals require food, water, air, and shelter). * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Native Americans * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Coastal Explorations * Willowbrook Massachusetts Learning Standards-Life Science, Grades 3 - 5: 1. Classify plants and animals according to the physical characteristics that they share. * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Willowbrook 2. Identify the structures in plants (leaves, roots, flowers, stem, bark, wood) that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection. * Maple Sugaring * Willowbrook 3. Recognize that plants and animals go through predictable life cycles that include birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death. * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds *Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * Wetlands * Willowbrook 4. Describe the major stages that characterize the life cycle of the frog and butterfly as they go through metamorphosis. * Pond Life * Wetlands * Willowbrook 6. Give examples of how inherited characteristics may change over time as adaptations to changes in the environment that enable organisms to survive, e.g., shape of beak or feet, placement of eyes on head, length of neck, shape of teeth, color. * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Journey Through Time * Wetlands * Willowbrook 7. Give examples of how changes in the environment (drought, cold) have caused some plants and animals to die or move to new locations (migration). * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Journey Through Time * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Willowbrook 8. Describe how organisms meet some of their needs in an environment by using behaviors (patterns of activities) in response to information (stimuli) received from the environment. Recognize that some animal behaviors are instinctive (e.g., turtles burying their eggs), and others are learned (e.g., humans building fires for warmth, chimpanzees learning how to use tools). * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Wetlands * Willowbrook 9. Recognize plant behaviors, such as the way seedlings’ stems grow toward light and their roots grow downward in response to gravity. Recognize that many plants and animals can survive harsh environments because of seasonal behaviors, e.g., in winter, some trees shed leaves, some animals hibernate, and other animals migrate. * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Willowbrook 10. Give examples of how organisms can cause changes in their environment to ensure survival. Explain how some of these changes may affect the ecosystem. * Habitats * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Journey Through Time * Native Americans * Maple Sugaring * Wetlands * Willowbrook 11. Describe how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photosynthesis) and is transferred within a food chain from producers (plants) to consumers to decomposers. * Pond Life * Backyard Botany * Woodlands * Tremendous Trees * Backyard Birds * Mammals * Reptiles and Amphibians * New England Owls * Wetlands * Willowbrook Massachusetts Learning Standards-Earth & Space Science, Grades PreK - 2: 1. Recognize that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on the earth’s surface. * Habitats * Pond Life * Woodlands * Wetlands * Willowbrook Massachusetts Learning Standards-Earth & Space Science, Grades 3 - 5: 4. Explain and give examples of the ways in which soil is formed (the weathering of rock by water and wind and from the decomposition of plant and animal remains). * Woodlands * Willowbrook 5. Recognize and discuss the different properties of soil, including color, texture (size of particles), the ability to retain water, and the ability to support the growth of plants. * Willowbrook 12. Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. * Journey Through Time * Willowbrook MA Curriculum Frameworks Grid:
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