National Standards:

• Life Science
  1. Structure and function in living systems
• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives:
1. Students understand environmental quality
• Science as Inquiry:
1. Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
2. Understandings about scientific inquiry

State Standards:

• Student knows the structure and function of Earth systems and describes the atmosphere including oxygen, nitrogen and water vapor
• Student uses scientific inquiry methods during field and laboratory investigations
• Student uses critical thinking and scientific problem solving to make informed decisions.