Learning Domain: Geography
Standard: (World) Identify the location of places and regions in the world and understand their physical and cultural characteristics
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Learning Domain: Geography
Standard: (US) Explain and analyze physical and cultural characteristics of places and regions in the United States
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Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Create and use research questions to guide inquiry on an issue or event
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Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Engage in discussion, analyzing multiple viewpoints on public issues
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Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Analyze multiple factors, make generalizations, and interpret sources to formulate a thesis in a paper or presentation, while observing rules related to plagiarism and copyright
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WY.SCI.MS.LS2.1
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Standard: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
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Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
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Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
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Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
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Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
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Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
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Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
Standard: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on cause and effect relationships between resources and growth of individual organisms and the numbers of organisms in ecosystems during periods of abundant and scarce resources.]
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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
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Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
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This unit is an indepth classroom experience to examine our relationship and cultural impacts of food. It provides a good progression to analyzing the challenge of food security and gives multiple opportunities to analyze data to deepen understanding of this issue. It does touch tangentially on a science performance expectation and the the Disciplinary Core Ideas LS2-A and ETS1-A for middle school and provides opportunities for students to use several Science and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts just not in the context of a strongly addressed Disciplinary Core Idea. The real strength of this unit lies in the way it addresses several Social Studies issues and standards as well as uses of English Language Arts standards to do so.