Digital Frog International educational software &
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science

Section:

The student is expected to:

(a) Introduction.

4. (B) Within the natural environment, students learn how changes occur on Earth’s surface…

Bog Formation; Mechanisms

Mechanisms

Mechanisms: Landscape Formation

(C) Within the living environment, students learn that structure and function of organisms can improve the survival of members of a species. Students learn to differentiate between inherited traits and learned behaviors. Students learn that life cycles occur in animals and plants and that the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle occurs naturally to support the living environment.

Adaptations; Organism screens; Photosynthesis screens; Carbon Cycle

Study section; Biodiversity section, Organism screens

Adaptations screens; Organism screens:

Niches; Anatomy screens; Life Cycle

(b) Knowledge and skills.

7. (A) explore the processes that led to the formation of sedimentary rocks …

Rocks and Minerals

7. (B) recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth’s surface by wind, water, and ice:

Refer to Landscape Formation screens

8. (A) differentiate between weather and climate

Refer to Climate screens

8. (B) explain how the Sun and the ocean interact in the water cycle

Water Cycle

Refer to Water Cycle

9. (A) observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and non-living elements;

Food Web screens

Dependency Web screens

Build-a- Desert screens

9. (B) describe how the flow of energy derived from the Sun, used by producers to create their own food, is transferred through a food chain and food web to consumers and decomposers;

Food Web screens

Refer to Dependency Web

9. (C) predict the effects of changes in ecosystems caused by living organisms, including humans, such as the overpopulation of grazers or the building of highways; and

Endangered Wetlands screens

Endangered Rainforest screens

Human Impact screens

Ecology: Environmental Concerns

9. (D) identify the significance of the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle to the survival of plants and animals.

Refer to Carbon Cycle

Refer to Productivity

10. (A) compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals;

Adaptations; Organism screens;

Study screens; Organism screens

Adaptations screens; Organism screens:

10. (B) differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle

Refer to Organism screens

Refer to Biodiversity & Organism screens

Refer to Adaptations & Organism screens