GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades 68
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.1.3.1: The student knows that mechanical and chemical
activities shape and reshape the Earths land surface by eroding
rock and soil in some areas and depositing them in other areas, sometimes
in seasonal layers.
Sixth Grade
l. understands that the surface of the Earth is constantly changing
due to mechanical and chemical action.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, River Cutters, Stories in Stone, Plate Tectonics
Seventh Grade
1. knows the relationship between run-off and the development of a river
system.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: River
Cutters
2. understands the action of ground water to form aquifers, caverns,
and sinkholes.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives
3. knows the ways in which the Earths surface is eroded and reshaped
(for example, weathering, erosion, deposition).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, River Cutters, Stories in
Stone, Plate Tectonics
Eighth Grade
1. uses observations and tests to identify mineral samples.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Stories
in Stone
2. understands how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks are formed
and categorized.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Stories
in Stone
Benchmark SC.D.1.3.2: The student knows that over the whole Earth,
organisms are growing, dying, and decaying as new organisms are produced
by the old ones.
Sixth Grade
2. knows ways the systems of Earth change over time and predicts the
causes of the change.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Stories in Stone, Plate Tectonics
Eighth Grade
1. knows that over the whole Earth, organisms are growing, dying, and
decaying and new organisms are being produced.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain
Benchmark SC.D.1.3.3: The student knows how conditions that exist
in one system influence the conditions that exist in other systems.
Sixth Grade
1. knows that different events on the Earth change features on Earth
(for example, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: River
Cutters, Stories in Stone, Plate Tectonics
Seventh Grade
1. understands that changes on the surface of the Earth affect living
systems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Global
Warming
Eighth Grade
1. knows ways conditions that exist in one system influence the conditions
that exist in other systems (for example, the relationship between mountain
building, island formation, and trench formation; interactions between
the atmosphere and hydrosphere affect weather patterns).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Convection,
Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Plate Tectonics
Benchmark SC.D.1.3.4: The student knows the ways in which plants
and animals reshape the landscape (e.g., bacteria, fungi, worms, rodents,
and other organisms add organic matter to the soil, increasing soil
fertility, encouraging plant growth, and strengthening resistance to
erosion).
Sixth Grade
2. knows ways that plants and animals reconstitute the soil and alter
the landscape.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, River Cutters
3. understands the processes that prevent or cause erosion.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, River Cutters, Stories in Stone
Seventh Grade
1. knows the ways in which living things reshape the landscape (for
example, bacteria, fungi, worms, rodents, and other organisms add organic
matter to the soil, increasing soil fertility, encouraging plant growth,
and strengthening resistance to erosion).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives
Eighth Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge of ways in which living things reshape
the landscape.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives
Benchmark SC.D.1.3.5: The student understands concepts of time
and size relating to the interaction of Earths processes (e.g.,
lightning striking in a split second as opposed to the shifting of the
Earths plates altering the landscape, distance between atoms measured
in Angstrom units as opposed to distance between stars measured in light-years).
Sixth Grade
1. understands the range of time over which natural events occur (for
example, lightning in seconds, mountains form over many years).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Global Warming, River Cutters, Stories in Stone, Plate Tectonics
Seventh Grade
1. uses a geologic timeline to illustrate the occurrence of processes
on Earth.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Global
Warming, River Cutters, Plate Tectonics
Eighth Grade
1. understands concepts of time and size relating to the interaction
of Earths processes (for example, the distance between atoms measured
in Angstrom units as opposed to distance between stars measured in light-years).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Global
Warming, River Cutters, Plate Tectonics
Benchmark SC.D.2.3.1: The student understands that quality of
life is relevant to personal experience.
Sixth Grade
1. knows that a change in the environment affects the quality of life
in different ways for different organisms.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Aquatic Habitats, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Ocean
Currents, Only One Ocean
Seventh Grade
1. knows ways to conserve and recycle resources (for example, develops
and uses a personal action plan to use recyclable materials whenever
possible).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Only
One Ocean
Eighth Grade
1. understands that quality of life is relevant to personal experience.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Only
One Ocean
Benchmark SC.D.2.3.2: The student knows the positive and negative
consequences of human action on the Earths systems.
Sixth Grade
1. knows positive and negative consequences of human action on the Earths
systems (for example, farming, transportation, mining, manufacturing).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Only
One Ocean, River Cutters
Seventh Grade
1. knows roles of various public and private environmental agencies
(for example, Florida Water Management Districts, Environmental Protection
Agency).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Only One Ocean, River
Cutters
Eighth Grade
1. knows that legislation can be adopted to protect the Earth from detrimental
human activities.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Environmental
Detectives, Global Warming, Only One Ocean
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