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Videos and Activities Correlated to State Standards

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Everglades Classroom: Animals

Everglades Classroom: Life Cycles



Everglades Classroom: Habitats


Print and Color your Everglades Classroom Badges!

Conservation Action at Home

Other Worksheets and Activities

Pre Field Trip Guide

Relevant State Standards
Kindergarten SC.K.L.14.3 Observe plants and animals, describe how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do. SC.K.N.1.2 Make observations of the natural world and know that they are descriptors collected using the five senses. SC.K.N.1.3 Keep records as appropriate -- such as pictorial records -- of investigations conducted. First Grade SC.1.E.6.1 Recognize that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on Earth's surface. SC.1.E.6.2 Describe the need for water and how to be safe around water. SC.1.L.14.1 Make observations of living things and their environment using the five senses. SC.1.L.14.2 Identify the major parts of plants, including stem, roots, leaves, and flowers. SC.1.L.17.1 Through observation, recognize that all plants and animals, including humans, need the basic necessities of air, water, food, and space. SC.1.N.1.2 Using the five senses as tools, make careful observations, describe objects in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion, and compare their observations with others. SC.1.N.1.3 Keep records as appropriate - such as pictorial and written records - of investigations conducted. Second Grade SC.2.L.16.1 Observe and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants and animals, including beans and butterflies. SC.2.L.17.1 Compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival. SC.2.L.17.2 Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs. SC.2.N.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration and systematic observations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.

3rd - 5th Grade

Everglades Classroom: Threatened and Endangered Species


Everglades Classroom: Animals

Everglades Classroom: Life Cycles


Print and Color your Everglades Classroom Badges!

Conservation Action at Home

Other 3rd-5th Grade Worksheets

Pre Field Trip Guide

Relevant State Standards
Third Grade SC.3.L.15.1 Classify animals into major groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods, vertebrates and invertebrates, those having live births and those which lay eggs) according to their physical characteristics and behaviors. SC.3.L.17.2 Recognize that plants use energy from the sun, air, and water to make their own food. SC.3.N.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them individually and in teams through free exploration and systematic investigations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations. Fourth Grade SC.4.E.6.3 Recognize that humans need resources found on Earth and that these are either renewable or nonrenewable. SC.4.L.16.4 Compare and contrast the major stages in the life cycles of Florida plants and animals, such as those that undergo incomplete and complete metamorphosis, and flowering and nonflowering seed-bearing plants. SC.4.L.17.3 Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers. SC.4.L.17.4 Recognize ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment. SC.4.N.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world, use appropriate reference materials that support understanding to obtain information (identifying the source), conduct both individual and team investigations through free exploration and systematic investigations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations. Fifth Grade SC.5.E.7.2 Recognize that the ocean is an integral part of the water cycle and is connected to all of Earth's water reservoirs via evaporation and precipitation processes. SC.5.L.14.2 Compare and contrast the function of organs and other physical structures of plants and animals, including humans, for example: some animals have skeletons for support -- some with internal skeletons others with exoskeletons -- while some plants have stems for support. SC.5.L.17.1 Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals and plants that enable them to survive in different environments such as life cycles variations, animal behaviors and physical characteristics.

Middle & High School

Everglades Classroom: Endangered Species




Everglades Classroom: Animals

History & Ecology of Grassy Waters Preserve

Other Activities for Middle and High School Students

Pre Field Trip Videos


Relevant State Standards
Sixth Grade SC.6.E.6.1 Describe and give examples of ways in which Earth's surface is built up and torn down by physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition. SC.6.E.6.2 Recognize that there are a variety of different landforms on Earth's surface such as coastlines, dunes, rivers, mountains, glaciers, deltas, and lakes and relate these landforms as they apply to Florida. SC.6.E.7.4 Differentiate and show interactions among the geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. SC.6.L.15.1 Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of Domains. Seventh Grade SC.7.E.6.6 Identify the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water. SC.7.L.17.1 Explain and illustrate the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web. SC.7.L.17.2 Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism. SC.7.L.17.3 Describe and investigate various limiting factors in the local ecosystem and their impact on native populations, including food, shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism, predation, and nesting sites. Eighth Grade SC.8.N.4.1 Explain that science is one of the processes that can be used to inform decision making at the community, state, national, and international levels. SC.8.L.18.1 Describe and investigate the process of photosynthesis, such as the roles of light, carbon dioxide, water and chlorophyll; production of food; release of oxygen. SC.8.L.18.2 Describe and investigate how cellular respiration breaks down food to provide energy and releases carbon dioxide. SC.8.L.18.3 Construct a scientific model of the carbon cycle to show how matter and energy are continuously transferred within and between organisms and their physical environment. High School SC.912.E.6.2 Connect surface features to surface processes that are responsible for their formation. SC.912.E.7.1 Analyze the movement of matter and energy through the different biogeochemical cycles, including water and carbon. SC.912.E.7.3 Differentiate and describe the various interactions among Earth systems, including: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere. SC.912.L.17.2 Explain the general distribution of life in aquatic systems as a function of chemistry, geography, light, depth, salinity, and temperature. SC.912.L.17.20 Predict the impact of individuals on environmental systems and examine how human lifestyles affect sustainability. SC.912.L.17.4 Describe changes in ecosystems resulting from seasonal variations, climate change and succession. SC.912.L.17.6 Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms, including predation, parasitism, competition, commensalism, and mutualism. SC.912.L.17.8 Recognize the consequences of the losses of biodiversity due to catastrophic events, climate changes, human activity, and the introduction of invasive, non-native species. SC.912.L.17.9 Use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers. Explain the pathway of energy transfer through trophic levels and the reduction of available energy at successive trophic levels. SC.912.L.17.10 Diagram and explain the biogeochemical cycles of an ecosystem, including water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle SC.912.L.17.13 Discuss the need for adequate monitoring of environmental parameters when making policy decisions.

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