Central idea: Environmental changes can pose danger on living things
- Environmental dangers
- Impact on living things
- Choices that help sustain the environment
Central idea: Societies have governments and structures that help meet the people’s needs’
- Role of the government
- How decisions influence the people of the nation
- Differing needs of people in a society
Central idea: Communities provide interconnected services
designed to meet people’s needs.
- Reasons people live in the local community
- Services needed to support a community
- Planning services of the future for a community
Central idea: Energy exists in different forms and is changed,
stored, and used in different ways.
- Forms of energy
- How energy works in everyday life
- Sustainability of energy
Central idea: The effective interactions between human body
systems contributes to health and survival
- Systems in the human body
- The function of the systems in the human body
- Changes that happen within a system
Central idea: People use a variety of languages to
communicate their ideas and feelings
- Communication through languages
- How ideas and feelings are communicated
- Changes in language through time