LS4+p1

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 * = LS4- Humans are similar to other species in many ways, and yet are unique among Earth's life forms. =

// Click on the GSE numbers, e.g PS1 (K-2) - POC - 2, in the table below to reach additional information about each GSE. // || Grade Span Expectations (5-8) ||  || Grade Span Expectations (HS) ||   ||
 * || Grade Span Expectations (K-4) ||
 * || LS4 (K-2) - 8
 * Students demonstrate an understanding of human body systems by …**

8a identifying the five senses and using senses to identify objects in the environment,

8b observing, identifying, and recording external features of humans and other animals.

8c identifying the senses needed to meet survival needs for a given situation. || LS4 (3-4) - 8
 * Students demonstrate an understanding of human body systems by …**

8a __showing connections between external and internal body structures (i.e., organs and systems) and how they help humans survive.__ 8b __comparing and analyzing__ external features and __characteristics__ of humans and other animals. || LS4 (5-6) - 10
 * Students demonstrate an understanding of human body systems by …**

10a __identifying the biotic factors (e.g., microbes, parasites, food availability, aging process) that have an effect on human body systems.__ 10b __identifying the abiotic factors (e.g., drugs, altitude, weather, pollution) that have an effect on human body systems.__


 * Students demonstrate an understanding patterns of human health/disease by …**

10c __identifying the biotic (e.g., microbes, parasites, food availability, aging process) and abiotic (e.g., radiation, toxic materials, carcinogens) factors that cause disease and affect human health.__ || LS4 (7-8) - 10
 * Students demonstrate an understanding of human body systems by …**

10a __predicting and explaining__ the effects of biotic factors (e.g., microbes, parasites, food availability, aging process) on human body systems.

10b __predicting and explaining__ the effect of abiotic factors (e.g., drugs, environmental conditions) on human body systems.


 * Students demonstrate an understanding of patterns of human health/disease by …**

10c __researching and reporting__ on how biotic (e.g., microbes, parasites, food availability, aging process) and abiotic (e.g., radiation, toxic materials, carcinogens) factors cause disease and affect human health. || LS4 (9-11) - 9
 * Students demonstrate an understanding of how humans are affected by environmental factors and/or heredity by …**

9a __researching scientific information to explain how such things as radiation, chemicals, and other factors can cause gene mutations or disease.__ 9b providing __an explanation of how the human species impacts the environment and other organisms__ (e.g. reducing the amount of the earth’s surface available to those other species, interfering with their food sources, changing the temperature and chemical composition of their habitats, introducing foreign species into their ecosystems, and altering organisms directly through selective breeding and genetic engineering). || **Example Extension(s)** LS4 (Ext) - 9
 * Students demonstrate an understanding of how humans are affected by environmental factors and/or heredity by …**

9bb using a computer simulation to study the effects of human activities on a particular environment (actual or model). ||