STEAM grade level expectations

Grade level expectation for Ocean Theme:  

K – SC.K.N.1.2 (3) Observation of natural word using 5 sentences (they can take picture records of the beach and beach life)

1st – SC.1.1.2 Observations describing objects using shape, texture, size, weight, color and motion.  (Classifying animals, plants, tides)

2nd – SC.2.3.6.3 – Classifying soil based on color, texture, size of particles (study of sand of different parts of the beach) or SC.2.r.7.1 compare and describe patterns in nature (temper water or air. Weather conditions.)

3rd -  SC.3.L.13.2 (3) Plants rile in food production or plants respond to heat, light, gravity.  How stems/roots react to sandy soil. Or Sc.3.p.10.1 forms of energy – solar energy and water energy.

4th – SC.4.E.6.3 – Human needs of resources: water, phosphate, oil, limestone, silicon, wind and solar.  Might do a natural disinflation of salt water.

Grade 4 has food webs:  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. (Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: Moderate)

SC.4.L.17.3 - Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers. (Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: Moderate)

For grade 5: 

Adaptation-SC.5.L.15.1 - Describe how, when the environment changes, differences between individuals allow some plants and animals to survive and reproduce while others die or move to new locations. (Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: High)

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. (Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: Moderate)                                                 

Grade 6 can use characteristics of living things:

SC.6.L.15.1 - Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of Domains. (Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: High)

OR

Erosion by Water: 

SC.6.E.6.1 - Describe and give examples of ways in which Earth's surface is built up and torn down by physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition. (Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: Moderate)

SC.6.E.6.2 - Recognize that there are a variety of different landforms on Earth's surface such as coastlines, dunes, rivers, mountains, glaciers, deltas, and lakes and relate these landforms as they apply to Florida. (Cognitive Complexity/Depth of Knowledge Rating: Moderate)