Pond Study:

Connecticut State Social Studies Standards:

Content Standard 10: Physical Systems  K-4:

·    (in part) Explain the factors that affect the location, distribution and associations of features of the physical environment.

·    Define local environmental features.

Connecticut Core Science Curriculum Framework:

3.2 - Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their

         basic needs.

4.2 - All organisms depend on the living and non living features of the environment for     

        survival.

4.3 - Water has a major role in shaping the Earth's surface.

5.2 - Perceiving and responding to information about the environment is critical to the      

         survival of organisms.

6.2 - An ecosystem is composed of all the populations that are living in a certain space

        and the physical factors with which they interact.

6.4 - Water moving across and through earth materials carries with it the products of

         human activities.