Academic Standards
L.1.a: Develop, communicate, and justify an evidence-based explanation for why a given organism with specific traits will or will not survive to have offspring in a given environment
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
L.1.b: Analyze and interpret data about specific adaptations to provide evidence and develop claims about differential survival and reproductive success
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
L.1.d: Use computer simulations to model differential survival and reproductive success associated with specific traits in a given environment
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
L.2.b: Develop, communicate, and justify an evidence-based scientific explanation regarding the functions and interactions of the human body
L.2.c: Gather, analyze, and interpret data and models on the functions and interactions of the human body
L.3.c: Compare and contrast the basic structures and functions of plant cells, animal cells, and single-celled organisms
L.4.a: Gather, analyze, and interpret data regarding the basic functions of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
Pond Ecosystem
L.4.b: Use direct and indirect evidence to describe the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration within plants - and between plants and animals
L.4.c: Use computer simulations to model the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration within plants - and between plants and animals
L.5.a: Interpret and analyze data from the fossil record to support a claim that organisms and environments have evolved over time
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
E.1.a: Gather, analyze, and communicate data that explains Earth's plates, plate motions, and the results of plate motions
E.1.b: Identify, interpret, and explain models of plates motions on Earth
E.1.c: Use maps to locate likely geologic "hot spots", using evidence of earthquakes and volcanic activity
E.1.d: Use web-based or other technology tools to show connections and patterns in data about tectonic plate boundaries and earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain formation
Correlation last revised: 5/20/2019