Alignment to the Tennessee Science Curriculum Standards and Accomplishments for grades:

| Kindergarten | First | Second | Third |
| Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth |

1) FOREST ECOLOGY

Life Science

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment:

6.2.1 Understand the nature of symbiotic relationships

o        Describe commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.

6.2.2 Examine the competitive relationships among organisms within an ecosystem.

a. Distinguish between predators and prey.

b. Describe the impact of competition among species within an ecosystem.

c. Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Food Production and Energy for Life:

6.3.1 Recognize relationships within food chains.

a.       Classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers.

b.      Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:

6.5.1 Understand how organisms are adapted for surviving in particular environments.

?         Explain how the relationship between the form and function of an organism is associated with survival in a given environment.

2) STREAM ANALYSIS

Life Science

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment:

6.2.1 Understand the nature of symbiotic relationships

o        Describe commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.

6.2.2 Examine the competitive relationships among organisms within an ecosystem.

a. Distinguish between predators and prey.

b. Describe the impact of competition among species within an ecosystem.

c. Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Food Production and Energy for Life:

6.3.1 Recognize relationships within food chains.

a.       Classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers.

b.      Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:

6.5.1 Understand how organisms are adapted for surviving in particular environments.

?         Explain how the relationship between the form and function of an organism is associated with survival in a given environment.

3) WILDLIFE CLASS: TOUCH PELTS, SKULLS, ANIMAL TRACKS, LIVE SPECIMENS.

Life Science

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment:

6.2.1 Understand the nature of symbiotic relationships

o        Describe commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.

6.2.2 Examine the competitive relationships among organisms within an ecosystem.

a. Distinguish between predators and prey.

b. Describe the impact of competition among species within an ecosystem.

c. Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Food Production and Energy for Life:

6.3.1 Recognize relationships within food chains.

a.       Classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers.

b.      Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:

6.5.1 Understand how organisms are adapted for surviving in particular environments.

?         Explain how the relationship between the form and function of an organism is associated with survival in a given environment.

4)  RECYCLED TURTLE CRAFT: CREATE A TURTLE FROM A TWO-LITER DRINK BOTTLE.

5) LOW ROPES INITIATIVE COURSE:  BUILD SELF CONFIDENCE AND DEVELOP TEAMWORK

6) TEAM BUILDING GAMES: INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

7) CANOEING

8) LEATHERCRAFT: TURTLE CHANGE PURSE, SMALL ADDITIONAL CHARGE

9) ORIENTEERING: USE G.P.S.

10) DISSOLVED OXYGEN TEST

11) ARCHERY

12) pH TEST AND POLLUTION TEST KITS

13) FOSSIL DISCOVERY  Students given opportunity to handle museum quality collection.

Biological Change:

6.6.1 Investigate the fossil evidence found in sedimentary rock layers.

a.       Differentiate between the relative age of fossils in a sedimentary rock diagram.

b.      Determine the geologic age of an object .

6.6.2 Recognize various types of evidence which indicate that life forms have changed over time.

o        Identify additional lines of scientific evidence, other than fossils, that support the idea of change over time.

6.6.3 Reason how environmental changes are associated with the extinction of a species.

a.       Predict how a specific environmental change might affect the survival of a plant or animal species.

b.      Evaluate possible causes of extinction.

14) TELESCOPE :SPACE ENCOUNTERS : OVERNIGHT GROUPS

Earth and Space Science

Earth and Its Place in the Universe:

6.7.1 Recognize the basic features of the universe.

o        Differentiate among the components of the universe.

                        6.7.3 Describe the positional relationships among the earth, moon, and sun

6.7.4 Understand that gravity is the force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun and governs movement in the solar system.

a.       Identify the pull of gravity as the force that holds the planets and their moons in orbit.

b.      Relate tidal conditions with the position of the moon.

6.7.5 Explore the role of technology and careers associated with the study of space.

15) FOREST ECOLOGY: ABIOTIC

16) BUGS AND BIRDS THROUGH BINOCULARS

Life Science

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment:

6.2.1 Understand the nature of symbiotic relationships

o        Describe commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.

6.2.2 Examine the competitive relationships among organisms within an ecosystem.

a. Distinguish between predators and prey.

b. Describe the impact of competition among species within an ecosystem.

c. Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Food Production and Energy for Life:

6.3.1 Recognize relationships within food chains.

a.       Classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers.

b.      Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:

6.5.1 Understand how organisms are adapted for surviving in particular environments.

?         Explain how the relationship between the form and function of an organism is associated with survival in a given environment.

17) RIFLERY

18) MUZZLE LOADING

19) OWL PELLETS

Life Science

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment:

6.2.1 Understand the nature of symbiotic relationships

o        Describe commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.

6.2.2 Examine the competitive relationships among organisms within an ecosystem.

a. Distinguish between predators and prey.

b. Describe the impact of competition among species within an ecosystem.

c. Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Food Production and Energy for Life:

6.3.1 Recognize relationships within food chains.

a.       Classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers.

b.      Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:

6.5.1 Understand how organisms are adapted for surviving in particular environments.

?         Explain how the relationship between the form and function of an organism is associated with survival in a given environment.

20) LAKE STUDY: WITH CANOES

21) WOODWORKING: SMALL ADDITIONAL CHARGE

22) NIGHT HIKE: BAT DETECTOR, NIGHT SCOPE, OWL TAPES

23) SWIMMING IN MAY

24) COMPUTERS: DICHOTOMOUS KEY, STREAM STUDY

Life Science

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment:

6.2.1 Understand the nature of symbiotic relationships

o        Describe commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.

6.2.2 Examine the competitive relationships among organisms within an ecosystem.

a. Distinguish between predators and prey.

b. Describe the impact of competition among species within an ecosystem.

c. Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Food Production and Energy for Life:

6.3.1 Recognize relationships within food chains.

a.       Classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers.

b.      Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:

6.5.1 Understand how organisms are adapted for surviving in particular environments.

?         Explain how the relationship between the form and function of an organism is associated with survival in a given environment.

25) ECOLOGICAL GAMES

Life Science

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment:

6.2.1 Understand the nature of symbiotic relationships

o        Describe commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.

6.2.2 Examine the competitive relationships among organisms within an ecosystem.

a. Distinguish between predators and prey.

b. Describe the impact of competition among species within an ecosystem.

c. Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Food Production and Energy for Life:

6.3.1 Recognize relationships within food chains.

a.       Classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers.

b.      Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:

6.5.1 Understand how organisms are adapted for surviving in particular environments.

?         Explain how the relationship between the form and function of an organism is associated with survival in a given environment.

26) ROCKETRY: DESIGNING, BUILDING, AND FLYING, 2 LITER BOTTLE

27) COLLECTING SPECIMENS: OVERNIGHT GROUP: TRAP FISH, SMALL MAMMALS, INSECTS (OBSERVE AND RELEASE)

| Kindergarten | First | Second | Third |
| Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth |

Science
Curriculum Standards

Approved by the Tennessee State Board of Education
August 31, 2001