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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Biodiversity Counts 
Biodiversity Counts, an online curriculum from the American Museum of Natural History, takes students into their backyards and schoolyards to inventory the plants and arthropods that live there. Students observe behavior, collect data, make identifications, and interpret and share their findings. Resources at the site include online dichotomous keys for plants and arthropods as well as a look at plant and arthropod morphology.
Intended Audience: Teachers/Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No Science: Life Science
Curriculum Standard 3a.
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to recognize patterns and products of evolution, including genetic variation, specialization, adaptation, and natural selection.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Classify a variety of organisms based on their characteristics, and use this scheme as a tool to organize information about the diversity of life forms.
- Identify major body structures of some common organisms, e.g. when shown a picture of the human skeleton students can identify, by common name, the major bones in their body.
- Relate the structure of body parts to function, e.g. when presented with teeth (or models of teeth) from various animals, students can make inferences concerning what the animal eats.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Identify and give examples of representative life forms in the five kingdoms of living things.
- Identify and describe similarities and differences among organisms of different, but closely related taxa (groups), e.g. conifers, rodents, big cats, etc.
- Relate different kinds of animals and plants to their habitat by observing their physical characteristics.
- Estimate the degree of kinship among organisms or species, e.g. from the similarity of their DNA base-pair sequences, anatomy, physiology, or behavior.
Curriculum Standard 3d
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand fundamental structures, functions, and mechanisms of inheritance found in microorganisms, fungi, protists, plants, and animals.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Identify the major anatomical features of plants and animals, and the major function of each.
- Observe and describe major characteristics of various life forms, e.g. microorganisms, fungi, protists, plants and animals.
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