(Framing Text): Co-Requisite - Characteristics of Science

B.SCSh3: Students will identify and investigate problems scientifically.

B.SCSh3.b: Develop procedures for solving scientific problems.

Estimating Population Size

B.SCSh3.c: Collect, organize and record appropriate data.

Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock

B.SCSh5: Students will demonstrate the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and developing reasonable scientific explanations.

B.SCSh5.d: Express appropriate numbers of significant figures for calculated data, using scientific notation where appropriate.

Unit Conversions 2 - Scientific Notation and Significant Digits

B.SCSh6: Students will communicate scientific investigations and information clearly.

B.SCSh6.d: Participate in group discussions of scientific investigation and current scientific issues.

Diffusion

B.SCSh8: Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry.

B.SCSh8.a: Scientific investigators control the conditions of their experiments in order to produce valuable data.

Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
Sight vs. Sound Reactions

(Framing Text): Co-Requisite - Content

B.SB1: Students will analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells.

B.SB1.a: Explain the role of cell organelles for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, including the cell membrane, in maintaining homeostasis and cell reproduction.

Paramecium Homeostasis

B.SB1.c: Identify the function of the four major macromolecules (i.e., carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids).

RNA and Protein Synthesis

B.SB1.d: Explain the impact of water on life processes (i.e., osmosis, diffusion).

Osmosis
Paramecium Homeostasis

B.SB2: Students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.

B.SB2.a: Distinguish between DNA and RNA.

RNA and Protein Synthesis

B.SB2.b: Explain the role of DNA in storing and transmitting cellular information.

DNA Fingerprint Analysis
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
RNA and Protein Synthesis

B.SB2.f: Examine the use of DNA technology in forensics, medicine, and agriculture.

DNA Fingerprint Analysis
Human Karyotyping

B.SB3: Students will derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems.

B.SB3.a: Explain the cycling of energy through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration.

Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
Pond Ecosystem

B.SB3.c: Examine the evolutionary basis of modern classification systems.

Human Evolution - Skull Analysis

B.SB3.d: Compare and contrast viruses with living organisms.

Virus Lytic Cycle

B.SB4: Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems.

B.SB4.a: Investigate the relationships among organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, and biomes.

Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season

B.SB4.b: Explain the flow of matter and energy through ecosystems by

B.SB4.b.1: Arranging components of a food chain according to energy flow.

Food Chain

B.SB4.b.3: Explaining the need for cycling of major nutrients (C, O, H, N, P).

Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
Pond Ecosystem

B.SB4.d: Assess and explain human activities that influence and modify the environment such as global warming, population growth, pesticide use, and water and power consumption.

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Greenhouse Effect

B.SB4.f: Relate animal adaptations, including behaviors, to the ability to survive stressful environmental conditions.

Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks

B.SB5: Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution.

B.SB5.c: Explain how fossil and biochemical evidence support the theory.

Human Evolution - Skull Analysis

B.SB5.d: Relate natural selection to changes in organisms.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks