3rd
•Science
-Describe ways energy from the sun is used.
-Describe the life cycle of plants, including seed, seed germination, growth, and reproduction.
-Determine habitat conditions that support plant growth and survival.
-Describe ways to sustain natural resources, including recycling, reusing, conserving, and protecting the environment.
•Social Studies
-Describe physical characteristics, including landforms, bodies of water, soil, and vegetation of various places on Earth.
-Identify components of various ecosystems.
-Describe the relationship between locations of resources and patterns of population distribution in the Western Hemisphere.
-Identify significant historical sites in Alabama, including locations of civil rights activities.
4th
•Science
-Recognize how light interacts with transparent, translucent, and opaque materials.
-Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
-Describe geological features of Earth, including bodies of water, beaches, ocean ridges,
continental shelves, plateaus, faults, canyons, sand dunes, and ice caps.
•Social Studies
-Identify cultural, economic, and political aspects of the lifestyles of early nineteenth-century farmers, plantation owners, slaves, and townspeople.
-Describe political, social, and economic conditions in Alabama during Reconstruction.
-Describe the impact of population growth on cities, major road systems, demographics, natural resources, and the natural environment of Alabama during the twentieth century.
5th
•Science
-Identify evidence of chemical changes through color, gas formation, solid formation, and temperature change.
-Describe the relationship of populations within a habitat to various communities and ecosystems.
•Social Studies
-Describe the early colonization of North America and reasons for settlement in the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies.
6th
•Science
-Describe factors that cause changes to Earth’s surface over time.
-Describe water and carbon biogeochemical cycles and their effects on Earth.
-Describe Earth’s biomes.
•Social Studies
-Identify cultural and economic developments in the society of the United States from 1877 through the 1930s.
7th
•Science
-Describe characteristics common to living things, including growth and development, reproduction, cellular organization, use of energy, exchange of gases, and response to the environment.
-Describe biotic and abiotic factors in the environment.
-Describe evidence of species variation due to climate, changing landforms, interspecies interaction, and genetic mutation.
-Identify major differences between plants and animals, including internal structures, external
structures, methods of locomotion, methods of reproduction, and stages of development.
•Social Studies
-Analyze regional characteristics for factors that contribute to change and for their relative importance.
-Describe processes that shape the physical environment, including long-range effects of extreme weather phenomena and human activity
-Describe positive and negative environmental effects of human actions on the four basic components of Earth’s physical systems: atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.
-Analyze environmental consequences of major technological changes in human history for both intended and unintended outcomes.
-Describe problems involved in balancing the impact of human habitation on the environment and the need for natural resources essential for sustaining human life.
8th
•Science
-Describe states of matter based on kinetic energy of particles in matter.
-Identify steps within the scientific process.
