Iowa Classrooms
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Life Sciences
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Understands how species depend on one another and on the environment for survival
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5-8 Knows populations and ecosystems
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To understand this Interval Benchmark, a fifth grade student:
• . Knows the main external source of energy is the sun
• . Knows the transfer of energy is essential to all living organisms
• . Knows organisms serve different functions in the transfer of energy in the food chain
• . Understands how matter is recycled within living systems
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Instructional Resources
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.  Supporting Knowledge
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Vocabulary, Information, Skills
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Best Practices, Strategies, Discovery
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General Resources
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.  Curriculum Planning
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Create Grade 5 planning worksheets
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Select supporting knowledge to:
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. . Examine key vocabulary, terms, and phrases unique to the content area that students should know
. . Determine what information student should understand (Declarative Knowledge)
. . Determine what skills student are able to do (Procedural Knowledge)
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Learning requires students to know declarative knowledge (vocabulary and information). Using or applying information (declarative knowledge) results in procedural knowledge, referred to as skills.
 
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Select instructional strategies to:
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. . Examine research-based best practices or links to other web-sites and resources
. . Identify appropriate strategies matched to student needs
. . Discover ongoing compilation of teacher-developed strategies
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