Bear Creek Educational Forest at Lake Talquin State Forest

Kindergarten

• TBD

First Grade

• SC.1.L.14.2: Identify the major parts of plants, including stem, roots, leaves and flowers.
• SC.1.L.17.1: Through observation, recognize that all plants and animals, including humans, need the basic necessities of air, water, food and space.
• SC.1N.1.4: Ask "How do you know?" in appropriate situations.
• SC.K2.CS-CP.1.2: Collect and manipulate data using a variety of computing methods (e.g., sorting, totaling and averaging).

Second Grade

• SC.2.E.6.2: Describe how small pieces of rock and dead plant and animal parts can be the basis of soil and explain the process by which soil is formed.
• SC.2.N.1.3: Ask "How do you know?" in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when asked the same question by others.
• SC.2.L.17.1: Compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival.
• SC.2.L.17.2: Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs.

Third Grade

• SC.3.L.15.1: Classify animals into major groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods, vertebrates and invertebrates, those having live births and those which lay eggs) according to their physical characteristics and behaviors.
• SC.3.L.15.2: Classify flowering and nonflowering plants into major groups such as those that produce seeds, or those like ferns and mosses that produce spores, according to their physical characteristics.
• SC.3.L.17.2: Recognize that plants use energy from the sun, air and water to make their own food.
• SC.3.P.11.2: Investigate, observe and explain that heat is produced when one object rubs against another, such as rubbing one's hands together.

Fourth Grade

• SC.4.E.6.3: Recognize that humans need resources found on Earth and that these are either renewable or nonrenewable.
• SC.4.L.16.1: Identify processes of sexual reproduction in flowering plants, including pollination, fertilization (seed production), seed dispersal and germination.
• SC.4.L.17.2: Explain that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food and that when animals eat plants or other animals, the energy stored in the food source is passed to them.
• SC.4.L.17.4: Recognize ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment.
• SC.35.CS-CS.1.1: Identify the concepts illustrated by a simulation (e.g., ecosystem, predator/prey and invasive species).

Fifth Grade

• SC.5.E.7.2: Recognize that the ocean is an integral part of the water cycle and is connected to all of Earth's water reservoirs via evaporation and precipitation processes.
• SC.5.E.7.4: Distinguish among the various forms of precipitation (rain, snow, sleet and hail), making connections to the weather in a particular place and time.
• SC.5.L.17.1: Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals and plants that enable them to survive in different environments such as life cycles variations, animal behaviors and physical characteristics.
• SC.35.CS-CS.1.1: Identify the concepts illustrated by a simulation (e.g., ecosystem, predator/prey, and invasive species).

Sixth Grade

• TBD

Seventh Grade

• SC.7.E.6.6: Identify the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water.

Eighth Grade

• SC.8.L.18.1: Describe and investigate the process of photosynthesis, such as the roles of light, carbon dioxide, water and chlorophyll; production of food; release of oxygen.
• SC.8.L.18.2: Describe and investigate how cellular respiration breaks down food to provide energy and releases carbon dioxide.

Ninth–12th Grade

• SC.912.L15.13: Describe the conditions required for natural selection, including: overproduction of offspring, inherited variation, and the struggle to survive, which result in differential reproductive success.
• SC912.L17.9: Use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers and decomposers. Explain the pathway of energy transfer through trophic levels and the reduction of available energy at successive trophic levels.
• SC.912.L.18.9: Explain the interrelated nature of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.