GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades 6–8
Strand G: How Living Things Interact with Their Environment
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Standard 1: The student understands the competitive, interdependent,
cyclic nature of living things in the environment.
Benchmark SC.G.1.3.2: The student knows that biological adaptations
include changes in structures, behaviors, or physiology that enhance
reproductive success in a particular environment.
Seventh Grade
1. knows that biological adaptations include changes in structures,
behaviors, or
physiology that enhance reproductive success in a particular environment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Earthworms, Environmental Detectives, Mapping
Animal Movements, Mapping Fish Habitats, Microscopic Explorations, Only
One Ocean
Benchmark SC.G.1.3.3: The student understands that the classification
of living things is based on a given set of criteria and is a tool for
understanding biodiversity and interrelationships.
Sixth Grade
1. understands that living things are sorted for convenience and identification.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Schoolyard Ecology
2. understands that the structural characteristics among animals and
plants are more alike as organisms are closer to the same kind or species
within a classification level.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Mapping Fish Habitats, Microscopic Explorations, Only One
Ocean, Schoolyard Ecology
Seventh Grade
1. knows how to design and use a dichotomous guide to identify organisms
based on structural characteristics.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Schoolyard
Ecology
Benchmark SC.G.1.3.4: The student knows that the interactions
of organisms with each other and with the non-living parts of their
environments result in the flow of energy and the cycling of matter
throughout the system.
Sixth Grade
1. knows the nonliving (abiotic) and living (biotic) aspects of an ecosystem.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping
Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean, Schoolyard Ecology
2. understands how the components of an ecosystem interact.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping
Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean
3. understands that food chains show specific trophic relationships
and food webs are used to illustrate interrelationships of trophic levels.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Environmental Detectives, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One
Ocean
Seventh Grade
1. understands how the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle, water cycle, and
nitrogen cycle are important for the survival of organisms.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping Fish Habitats
2. knows the interrelationships in a local ecosystem.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Only One Ocean
Benchmark SC.G.1.3.5: The student knows that life is maintained
by a continuous input of energy from the sun and by the recycling of
the atoms that make up the molecules of living organisms.
Seventh Grade
1. understands ways matter is recycled (for example, water cycle, carbon
cycle).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping Fish Habitats
2. knows that life on earth is dependent upon a continuous supply of
energy from the sun.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming
3. understands that individual food chains occur within a food web and
that both show the flow of energy.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives
Standard 2: The student understands the consequences of using limited
natural resources.
Benchmark SC.G.2.3.1: The student knows that some resources are
renewable and others are nonrenewable.
Sixth Grade
1. knows renewable and nonrenewable energy sources.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight
Seventh Grade
1. understands the importance of informed use of natural resources.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean
Eighth Grade
1. knows that some resources are renewable and others are nonrenewable.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Hot Water and Warm Homes
From Sunlight, Only One Ocean
Benchmark SC.G.2.3.2: The student knows that all biotic and abiotic
factors are
interrelated and that if one factor is changed or removed, it impacts
the availability of other resources within the system.
Sixth Grade
1. distinguishes between biotic and abiotic factors in the environment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping
Fish Habitats, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean, Schoolyard Ecology
Seventh Grade
1. knows biotic and abiotic components in a small, local area and ways
they interact (for example, field, pond).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming
2. understands the consequences that might result when changes occur
in populations.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping Fish Habitats,
Only One Ocean
3. understands that changes in one part of the ecosystem will affect
other parts of the ecosystem.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Only
One Ocean
Benchmark SC.G.2.3.3: The student knows that a brief change in
the limited resources of an ecosystem may alter the size of a population
or the average size of individual organisms and that long-term change
may result in the elimination of animal and plant populations inhabiting
the Earth.
Sixth Grade
1. understands that changes in the environment may influence the size,
number, or diversity of organisms in an area.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Animals in Action, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives,
Global Warming, Mapping Animal Movements, Mapping Fish Habitats, Only
One Ocean, Schoolyard Ecology
Seventh Grade
1. knows possible causes for a species to become threatened, endangered,
or extinct.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Only One Ocean
Eighth Grade
1. understands that changes in the environment cause changes in populations.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping Animal Movements,
Mapping Fish Habitats, Only One Ocean
Benchmark SC.G.2.3.4: The student understands that humans are
a part of an ecosystem and their activities may deliberately or inadvertently
alter the equilibrium in ecosystems.
Sixth Grade
1. understands that humans are a part of an ecosystem and their activities
may
deliberately or inadvertently alter the equilibrium in the ecosystem.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping
Animal Movements, Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean
Seventh
1. knows ways that human activities may deliberately or inadvertently
alter the
equilibrium in the ecosystem.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping Animal Movements,
Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean
Eighth Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge of ways that human activities may deliberately
or inadvertently alter the equilibrium in the ecosystem.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Mapping Animal Movements,
Ocean Currents, Only One Ocean
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