GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades 3-5
Strand D: Processes That Shape the Earth
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Standard 1: The student recognizes that processes in the lithosphere,
atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere interact to shape the Earth.
Benchmark SC.D.1.2.1: The student knows that larger rocks can
be broken down into smaller rocks, which in turn can be broken down
to combine with organic material to form soil.
Third Grade
1. knows that smaller rocks come from the breaking and weathering of
bedrock and larger rocks.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Fourth Grade
1. understands the stages of the rock cycle.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Stories
in Stone
2. knows the properties of different types of soil.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Stories
in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. knows that rocks are constantly being formed and worn away.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Stories in Stone
Benchmark SC.D.1.2.2: The student knows that 75 percent of the
surface of the Earth is covered by water.
Third Grade
1. knows that approximately 75 percent of the surface of the Earth is
covered by water.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Benchmark SC.D.1.2.3: The student knows that the water cycle is
influenced by temperature, pressure, and the topography of the land.
Third Grade
1. understands the stages of the water cycle (for example, evaporation,
condensation, precipitation).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
1. understands how atmospheric pressure affects the water cycle.
Third Grade
1. understands the processes of weathering and erosion.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Fourth Grade
1. understands how processes of weathering and erosion constantly change
the surface of the Earth.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores, Stories in Stone
Fifth Grade
1. understands how eroded materials are transported and deposited over
time in new areas to form new features (for example, deltas, beaches,
dunes).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Stories in Stone
2. understands that geological features result from the movement of
the crust of the Earth (for example, mountains, volcanic islands).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Stories
in Stone
Benchmark SC.D.1.2.5: The student knows that some changes in the
Earth’s surface are due to slow processes and some changes are
due to rapid processes.
Fifth Grade
1. understands how the surface of the Earth is shaped by both slow processes
(for example, weathering, erosion, deposition) and rapid, cataclysmic
events (for example, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Stories
in Stone, Plate Tectonics
Standard 2: The student understands the need for protection of the natural
systems on Earth.
Benchmark SC.D.2.2.1: The student knows that reusing, recycling,
and reducing the use of natural resources improve and protect the quality
of life.
Third Grade
1. knows that reusing, recycling, and reducing the use of natural resources
improve and protect the quality of life.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Fourth Grade
1. knows ways in which people can conserve natural resources.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, On Sandy Shores
2. knows ways misuse of natural resources affects the quality of life
for all species.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Fifth Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge of ways people can reuse, recycle,
and reduce the use of resources to improve and protect the quality of
life.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Ocean Currents,
Only One Ocean
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