Gizmos for Virginia - Science: Life Science (Standards of Learning adopted 2010)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this state's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

LS.1: : The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and the nature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which

LS.1.a: : data are organized into tables showing repeated trials and means;

LS.1.b: : a classification system is developed based on multiple attributes;

LS.1.c: : triple beam and electronic balances, thermometers, metric rulers, graduated cylinders, and probeware are used to gather data;

LS.1.f: : dependent variables, independent variables, and constants are identified;

LS.1.g: : variables are controlled to test hypotheses, and trials are repeated;

LS.1.h: : data are organized, communicated through graphical representation, interpreted, and used to make predictions;

LS.1.i: : patterns are identified in data and are interpreted and evaluated; and

LS.2: : The student will investigate and understand that all living things are composed of cells.

LS.2.a: : cell structure and organelles;

LS.2.b: : similarities and differences between plant and animal cells;

LS.2.c: : development of cell theory; and

LS.2.d: : cell division.

LS.3: : The student will investigate and understand that living things show patterns of cellular organization.

LS.3.a: : cells, tissues, organs, and systems; and

LS.5: : The student will investigate and understand the basic physical and chemical processes of photosynthesis and its importance to plant and animal life.

LS.5.a: : energy transfer between sunlight and chlorophyll;

LS.5.c: : photosynthesis as the foundation of virtually all food webs.

LS.6: : The student will investigate and understand that organisms within an ecosystem are dependent on one another and on nonliving components of the environment.

LS.6.a: : the carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles;

LS.6.b: : interactions resulting in a flow of energy and matter throughout the system;

LS.6.c: : complex relationships within terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems; and

LS.6.d: : energy flow in food webs and energy pyramids.

LS.7: : The student will investigate and understand that interactions exist among members of a population.

LS.7.a: : competition, cooperation, social hierarchy, territorial imperative; and

LS.8: : The student will investigate and understand interactions among populations in a biological community.

LS.8.a: : the relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in food webs;

LS.8.b: : the relationship between predators and prey;

LS.8.e: : niches.

LS.9: : The student will investigate and understand how organisms adapt to biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem.

LS.9.a: : differences between ecosystems and biomes;

LS.9.b: : characteristics of land, marine, and freshwater ecosystems; and

LS.9.c: : adaptations that enable organisms to survive within a specific ecosystem.

LS.10: : The student will investigate and understand that ecosystems, communities, populations, and organisms are dynamic, change over time, and respond to daily, seasonal, and long-term changes in their environment.

LS.10.b: : factors that increase or decrease population size; and

LS.10.c: : eutrophication, climate changes, and catastrophic disturbances.

LS.11: : The student will investigate and understand the relationships between ecosystem dynamics and human activity.

LS.11.a: : food production and harvest;

LS.11.b: : change in habitat size, quality, or structure;

LS.11.d: : population disturbances and factors that threaten or enhance species survival; and

LS.11.e: : environmental issues.

LS.12: : The student will investigate and understand that organisms reproduce and transmit genetic information to new generations.

LS.12.a: : the structure and role of DNA;

LS.12.b: : the function of genes and chromosomes;

LS.12.c: : genotypes and phenotypes;

LS.12.d: : characteristics that can and cannot be inherited;

LS.12.e: : genetic engineering and its applications; and

LS.12.f: : historical contributions and significance of discoveries related to genetics.

LS.13: : The student will investigate and understand that populations of organisms change over time.

LS.13.a: : the relationships of mutation, adaptation, natural selection, and extinction;

LS.13.b: : evidence of evolution of different species in the fossil record; and

LS.13.c: : how environmental influences, as well as genetic variation, can lead to diversity of organisms.

Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020

Virginia - Science: Life Science

Standards of Learning | Adopted: 2010