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K-12 Scope and Sequence Concept Flow Diagrams

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There is a Conceptual Flow Diagram (CFD) for each of the seven Essential Principles and the four grade bands (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12).

Essential Principle 5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.

Grade Bands and Topics

Use the links on the following table to go to either the CFD for a particular grade band for this particular Principle (by clicking on the grade band link in the left column) or (coming soon) a CFD containing a particular topic (by clicking on the topic label).

Grade Band

Principle 5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.

Primary Productivity

Diversity of Ecosystems

Diversity of Life

K-2

 

  1. Adaptations
  2. Habitats
  1. Adaptations
  2. Organism diversity
  3. Size and scale of life

 

3-5

 

  1. Coastal ecosystems
  2. Conditions for photosynthesis
  3. Coral reefs
  4. Deep water ecosystems
  5. Estuaries
  6. Open ocean
  7. Physical properties of the ocean
  8. Phytoplankton
  1. Adaptations
  2. Adaptations for living in the ocean
  3. Life cycles
  4. Metamorphosis
  5. Migration Organism diversity
  6. Physical properties of the ocean
  7. Size and scale of life

 

6-8
  1. Abundance of life
  2. Chemosynthesis
  3. Chemosynthetic ecosystems
  4. Conditions for photosynthesis
  5. Coral reefs
  6. Coriolis effect
  7. Estuaries
  8. Food webs
  9. Kelp forests
  10. Mangroves
  11. Photosynthetic organisms
  12. Polar seas
  13. Symbiosis
  14. Upwelling
  1. Abiotic factors
  2. Adaptations for living in the ocean
  3. Climate change effect on environments
  4. Ecosystems
  5. Food webs
  6. Habitats
  7. Habitat zonation
  8. Human effect on environments
  9. Physical properties of the ocean

 

  1. Adaptations for living in the ocean
  2. Biomass
  3. Conditions for diversity
  4. Life cycles
  5. Life histories
  6. Migration
  7. Organism diversity
  8. Physics of sound
  9. Reproduction
  10. Size and scale of life

 

9-12
  1. Autotrophs
  2. Chlorophyll
  3. Carbon fixation
  4. Heterotrophs
  5. Microbes
  6. Nutrient cycling
  7. Nutrients in photosynthesis
  8. Organic molecules
  9. Primary production definition
  10. Upwelling

 

  1. Abiotic factors
  2. Abundance of life
  3. Adaptations to environmental conditions
  4. Chemosynthetic organisms
  5. Coral reefs
  6. Diversity of life
  7. Estuaries
  8. Food webs
  9. Habitat zonation
  10. Hydrothermal vent communities
  11. Intertidal habitats Niches
  12. Kelp forests
  13. Niches
  14. Open Ocean
  15. Physical properties of the ocean
  16. Productivity
  17. Upwelling
  1. Diversity of adaptations to environmental factors
  2. Diversity of feeding behaviors
  3. Diversity of life cycles and reproductive strategies
  4. Phyletic diversity

 



Grade Band

Principle 5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.

Diversity of Life: Adaptations to Environmental Factors (9-12 only)

Diversity of Life: Life Cycles & Reproductive Strategies (9-12 only)

Diversity of Life: Feeding Behaviors
(9-12only)

Diversity of Life: Phyletic Diversity
(9-12 only)

9-12
  1. Adaptations for diving
  2. Adaptations to varying light levels
  3. Bioluminescence
  4. Camouflage
  5. Coral bleaching
  6. Features of sound
  7. Light filtration
  8. Human effects on organisms
  9. Ocean acidification and its effects
  10. Osmoregulation
  11. Physical characteristics of the ocean
  12. Plankton adaptations
  13. Sound as communication
  1. Alternation of generations
  2. Asexual reproduction
  3. Broadcast spawning
  4. Hermaphroditism
  5. Parasitism as a reproductive strategy
  6. Parental care strategies
  7. Population density effects on reproductive strategies
  8. Sexual reproduction
  9. Strategies for maximizing dispersal
  10. Strategies for maximizing fertilization
  11. Transitions between lifestyles

 

  1. Buoyancy
  2. Filter feeding
  3. Mutualisms
  4. Physical characteristics of the ocean
  5. Strategies for capturing food
  6. Strategies for exploiting patchy distribution of food
  7. Symbiosis

 

  1. Bioluminescence
  2. Biomass
  3. Chemosynthetic organisms
  4. Cyanobacteria
  5. Diatoms
  6. Dinoflagellates
  7. Eukaryotes
  8. Fish diversity
  9. Fungi
  10. Heterotrophs
  11. Invertebrate diversity
  12. Land to ocean transition
  13. Phyla found in the ocean
  14. Physical characteristics of the ocean
  15. Phytoplankton
  16. Productivity
  17. Prokaryotes
  18. Ocean to land transition
  19. Origins of life
  20. Seaweed diversity
  21. Size and scale of life
  22. Symbiosis
  23. Vertebrate evolution

 

 

Fundamental Concepts and Grade Bands

Each Essential Principle has several Fundamental Concepts associated with it. The Ocean Literacy Alignment Matrices show how the Conceptual Flow Diagrams in the Scope and Sequence align with the 7 Essential Ocean Literacy Principles and 44 Fundamental Concepts.

There is one matrix for each principle with the grade bands running horizontally across the top and the fundamental concepts for that principle running vertically along the left column. There are three levels of alignment.

[blank]= no alignment
x = mentions concepts
X = addresses concepts in depth

Placing the cursor over the labels for the Fundamental Concepts in the left column will open a small text window while clicking on the label will open a screen with all the Fundamental Concepts for this Essential Principle. You can access the CFD for particular grade bands by clicking on the grade band labels in the second row.

Fundamental
Concepts

Principle 5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.

K-2

3-5

6-8

9-12

5a

x

x

X

X

5b

 

x

X

X

5c

x

x

X

X

5d

x

X

X

X

5e

 

X

x

x

5f

x

X

X

X

5g

x

x

x

x

5h

 

 

X

X

5i

 

x

x

x