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The Living Environment Core Curriculum has been written to assist teachers and supervisors as they prepare curriculum, instruction, and assessment for the Living Environment component of __Standard 4__ of the New York State //Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science,  //and //Technology//. This standard states: 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. This Core Curriculum is an elaboration of the science content of the mathematics, science, and technology learning standards document and its Key Ideas and Performance Indicators. Key Ideas are broad, unifying, general statements of what students need to know. The Performance Indicators for each Key Idea are statements of what students should be able to do to provide evidence that they understand the Key Idea. This Core Curriculum presents Major Understandings that give more specific detail to the concepts underlying the Performance Indicators in Standard 4.