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Scoop! Teachers Guide

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Description: Teachers Guide for Soil! Get the Inside Scoop book. Site includes readings, slides, activities related to soil properties, and biomes.
Grade Levels: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Keywords: biomes, Soils and Climate
Lesson Area: Soils and Climate
Resource Type: Activity, Slides/Photos/Figures, Teacher's Guide

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade	Discipline	Core Idea
PreK-2	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Wind and water change the shape of the land.
3-5	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Four major Earth systems interact. Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller pieces and move them around.
6-8	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Energy flows and matter cycles within and among Earth's systems, including the sun and Earth's interior as primary energy sources. Plate tectonics is one result of these processes.
9-12	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems.
3-5	ESS3.A: Natural resources	Energy and fuels humans use are derived from natural sources and their use affects the environment. Some resources are renewable over time, others are not.
6-8	ESS3.A: Natural resources	Humans depend on Earth's land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for different resources, many of which are limited or not renewable. Resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes.
9-12	ESS3.A: Natural resources	Resource availability has guided the development of human society and use of natural resources has associated costs, risks, and benefits.
PreK-2	LS2.A: Interdependent relationships in ecosystems	Plants depend on water and light to grow, and also depend on animals for pollination or to move their seeds around.
3-5	LS2.A: Interdependent relationships in ecosystems	The food of almost any animal can be traced back to plants. Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants, while decomposers restore some materials back to the soil.
6-8	LS2.A: Interdependent relationships in ecosystems	Organisms and populations are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors, any of which can limit their growth. Competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial interactions vary across ecosystems but the patterns are shared.
9-12	LS2.A: Interdependent relationships in ecosystems	Ecosystems have carrying capacities resulting from biotic and abiotic factors. The fundamental tension between resource availability and organism populations affects the abundance of species in any given ecosystem.
PreK-2	LS2.C: Ecosystem dynamics, functioning, and resilience	N/A
3-5	LS2.C: Ecosystem dynamics, functioning, and resilience	When the environment changes some organisms survive and reproduce, some move to new locations, some move into the transformed environment, and some die.
6-8	LS2.C: Ecosystem dynamics, functioning, and resilience	N/A
9-12	LS2.C: Ecosystem dynamics, functioning, and resilience	If a biological or physical disturbance to an ecosystem occurs, including one induced by human activity, the ecosystem may return to its more or less original state or become a very different ecosystem, depending on the complex set of interactions within the ecosystem.
PreK-2	LS4.D: Biodiversity and humans	A range of different organisms lives in different places.
3-5	LS4.D: Biodiversity and humans	Populations of organisms live in a variety of habitats. Change in those habitats affects the organisms living there.
6-8	LS4.D: Biodiversity and humans	Changes in biodiversity can influence humans' resources and ecosystem services they rely on.
9-12	LS4.D: Biodiversity and humans	Biodiversity is increased by formation of new species and reduced by extinction. Humans depend on biodiversity but also have adverse impacts on it. Sustaining biodiversity is essential to supporting life on Earth.