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From this browse and search tool, you will find the New York State (NYS) Learning Standards statements for all seven standard areas across grades Pre K - 12. The NYS Learning Standards provides the foundation for the NYS Assessments and the local core curriculum.

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Standard Area - MST: Math, Science & Technology

Standard - MST4: Science
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

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Academic Level - MST4.E: Elementary

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Key Idea Code - MST4.E.LE: The Living Environment

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Key Idea - MST4.E.LE.2:
Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that result in continuity of structure and function between parents and offspring.

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Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE.2.1:
Students recognize that traits of living things are both inherited and acquired or learned.

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Major Understandings - MST4.E.LE.2.1a:
Some traits of living things have been inherited (e.g., color of flowers and number of limbs of animals).

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Major Understandings - MST4.E.LE.2.1b:
Some characteristics result from an individual’s interactions with the environment and cannot be inherited by the next generation (e.g., having scars; riding a bicycle).