Indiana Educational Standards
Science Standard 4
The Living Environment
Students learn about an increasing variety of organisms � familiar, exotic,
fossil, and microscopic. They use appropriate tools in identifying
similarities and differences among these organisms. Students explore how
organisms satisfy their needs in their environments.
Diversity of Life
5.4.5 Explain how changes in an organism�s habitat are sometimes
beneficial and sometimes harmful.
Interdependence of Life and Evolution
5.4.4 Explain that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and
animals survive well, some do not survive as well, and some cannot survive
at all.
5.4.5 Explain how changes in an organism�s habitat are sometimes
beneficial and sometimes harmful.