In the New York State Learning Standards, statements are arranged within standard areas from the very broad standard statements to the less general key ideas down to more specific performance indicators. Printer Friendly Version|Send to a Friend Curriculum  >  Standard Areas  > Standards  > Key Ideas  > Performance Indicators  > Major Understandings  >  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. The Living Environment Key Idea MST4.LE7: Human decisions and activities have had a profound impact on the physical and living environment. Elementary Performance Indicator  MST4.E.LE7A: Students identify ways in which humans have changed their environments and the effects of those changes. Major Understandings 7.1a Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments. Major Understandings 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. Major Understandings 7.1c Humans, as individuals or communities, change environments in ways that can be either helpful or harmful for themselves and other organisms.

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