Standards

So, I'm teaching this unit, but... how does this tie into what my state is wanting me to teach?  This is a single bug!  I guess it's time to search Georgia's standards at www.georgiastandards.org/ to see what I need!

Well!  Look what I found!

Standards

GPS

S7L1. Students will investigate the diversity of living organisms and how they can be compared scientifically.

a. Demonstrate the process for the development of a dichotomous key.

b. Classify organisms based on physical characteristics using a dichotomous key of the six kingdom system (archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals).

S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their environments.

d. Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually beneficial.

e. Describe the characteristics of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes (i.e. tropical rain forest, savannah, temperate, desert, taiga, tundra, and mountain) and aquatic communities (i.e. freshwater, estuaries, and marine).

CCGPS

L6-8RST7: Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

L6-8WHST2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.

a.       Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

L6-8WHST6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.

L6-8WHST7: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

L6-8WHST9: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.

**I can use the basic GPS for 7th Grade Science to integrate this topic, but to make sure that I'm also covering the new Common Core GPS, I have found some relative topics that can be integrated to align my standards!