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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.7:
Human decisions and activities have had a profound impact on the physical and living environment.

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Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE.7.1:
Students identify ways in which humans have changed their environments and the effects of those changes.

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Major Understandings - MST4.E.LE.7.1a:
Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments.

Major Understandings - MST4.E.LE.7.1b:
Over time humans have changed their environment by cultivating crops and raising animals, creating shelter, using energy, manufacturing goods, developing means of transportation, changing populations, and carrying out other activities.

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Major Understandings - MST4.E.LE.7.1c:
Humans, as individuals or communities, change environments in ways that can be either helpful or harmful for themselves and other organisms.