NYS Learning Standards
Core Curriculum MST
Living Environment: Standard 4
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.
• Key Idea 1: Living things are
both similar to and different from
each other and nonliving things.
• Key Idea 4: The continuity of life
is sustained through reproduction
and development.
• Key Idea 5: Organisms maintain a
dynamic equilibrium that sustains
life.