Content Standard: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment.
Note: For more details of the content of life and environmental sciences, see National Science Education Standards* (1996, p. 115 - 201).
Rationale
Students will enhance their natural curiosity about living things
and their environment through study of the structure and function
of living things, ecosystems, life cycles, energy movement (transfer),
energy change (transformation), and changes in populations of
organisms through time. Knowledge of these concepts and processes
of life and environmental science will assist students in making
informed choices regarding their lifestyles and the impact they
have on communities of living things in their environment.