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From this browse and search tool, you will find the New York State (NYS) Learning Standards statements for all seven standard areas across grades Pre K - 12. The NYS Learning Standards provides the foundation for the NYS Assessments and the local core curriculum.
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Performance Expectation - S.MS.LS.1.6:
Students who demonstrate understanding can construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
Performance Expectation - S.MS.LS.1.7:
Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions form ing new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
Performance Expectation - S.MS.LS.2.1:
Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
Performance Expectation - S.MS.LS.2.3:
Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
Performance Expectation - S.MS.LS.2.4:
Students who demonstrate understanding can construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.