GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades 68
Strand F: Processes of Life
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Standard 1: The student describes patterns of structure and function
in living things
Benchmark SC.F.1.3.1: The student understands that living things
are composed of major systems that function in reproduction, growth,
maintenance, and regulation.
Sixth Grade
1. knows ways systems in an organism function and interact (for example,
the muscular system provides the ability to move and is supported by
the skeletal system when one is present.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning, Only One Ocean, Schoolyard Ecology
Seventh Grade
1. understands that the systems within living things respond to changes
in the environment (for example, allergens and carcinogens).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Environmental Detectives, Learning About Learning,
Mapping Fish Habitats
Eighth Grade
1. understands that living things are composed of major systems that
function in reproduction, growth, maintenance, and regulation.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean
Benchmark SC.F.1.3.4: The student knows that the levels of structural
organization for function in living things include cells, tissues, organs,
systems, and organisms.
Eighth Grade
1. knows some of the functions of some types of cells, tissues, organs,
and systems in advanced organisms.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning, More Than Magnifiers, Only One Ocean
Benchmark SC.F.1.3.5: The student explains how the life functions
of organisms are related to what occurs within the cell.
Sixth Grade
1. understands that there are structures with particular functions that
are unique to certain types of cells (for example, plant cells have
cell walls, animal cells do not).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Learning
About Learning
Benchmark SC.F.1.3.6: The student knows that the cells with similar
functions have similar structures, whereas those with different structures
have different functions.
Seventh Grade
1. understands that there are many similarities among the great diversity
of living things.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives,
Microscopic Explorations, Only One Ocean
Benchmark SC.F.1.3.7: The student knows that behavior is a response
to the
environment and influences growth, development, maintenance, and reproduction.
Sixth Grade
1. knows that behavior is a response to the environment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Earthworms, Environmental
Detectives, Mapping Animal Movements, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One
Ocean, Schoolyard Ecology
Seventh Grade
1. determines the behavioral responses of different organisms to common
stimuli (for example, temperature, light, pressure, moisture).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Earthworms, Environmental Detectives, Mapping
Animal Movements, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean
Eighth Grade
1. knows ways behaviors that are responses to the environment may alter
the normal growth, development, maintenance, and reproduction of an
organism.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Earthworms, Environmental Detectives, Mapping
Animal Movements, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean
Standard 2: The student understands the process and importance of genetic
diversity.
Benchmark SC.F.2.3.1: The student knows the patterns and advantages
of sexual and asexual reproduction in plants and animals.
Seventh Grade
1. knows the differences between and advantages of sexual and asexual
reproduction.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Only
One Ocean
Benchmark SC.F.2.3.3: The student knows that generally organisms
in a population live long enough to reproduce because they have survival
characteristics.
Sixth Grade
1. knows adaptations that aid in species survival (for example, protective
coloration, hibernation, delayed implantation).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animals
in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives, Mapping Animal
Movements, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean, Schoolyard Ecology
Seventh Grade
1. knows the life cycles of a variety of organisms, including non-flowering
and flowering plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Mapping
Fish Habitats
Eighth Grade
1. knows ways organisms are adapted to their environment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Earthworms, Environmental Detectives, Mapping
Animal Movements, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean
2. understands that species have characteristics that enable their populations
to cycle within varying periods of time (minutes to hundreds of years).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean
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