| CCSS ELA Literacy | 3 | Reading Informational Text | CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7 | Integration of Knowledge and Ideas | Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). |
| NGSS Earth Sciences | 4 | Energy | 4-ESS3.A | Natural Resources | Energy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources, and their use affects the environment in multiple ways. Some resources are renewable over time, and others are not. |
| NGSS Earth Sciences | 5 | Human Impacts on Earth Systems | 5-ESS3.C | -- | Human activities in . . . everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments. |
| NGSS Earth Sciences | 6 | Earth Materials and Systems | ESS2.A | -- | All Earth processes are the result of energy flowing and matter cycling within and among the planet's systems. This energy is derived from the sun and Earth's hot interior. The energy that flows and matter that cycles produce chemical and physical changes in Earth's materials and living organisms. |
| NGSS Earth Sciences | 6 | Earth and Human Activity | ESS3.C | -- | Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth's environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. |
| NGSS Life Sciences | 6 | Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics | LS2.A | -- | Organisms, and populations of organisms, are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors. |
