Academic Content Standards
1.A.1: Explain how scientists obtain information about the universe by using technology to detect electromagnetic radiation that is emitted, reflected or absorbed by stars and other objects.
1.A.3: Explain how information about the universe is inferred by understanding that stars and other objects in space emit, reflect or absorb electromagnetic radiation, which we then detect.
1.A.4: Explain how astronomers infer that the whole universe is expanding by understanding how light seen from distant galaxies has longer apparent wavelengths than comparable light sources close to Earth.
Doppler Shift
Doppler Shift Advanced
2.A.1: Recognize that information stored in DNA provides the instructions for assembling protein molecules used by the cells that determine the characteristics of the organism.
2.A.3: Explain that the Sun is essentially the primary source of energy for life. Plants capture energy by absorbing light and using it to form strong (covalent) chemical bonds between the atoms of carbon-containing (organic) molecules.
2.C.5: Examine the inheritance of traits through one or more genes and how a single gene can influence more than one trait.
2.D.10: Explain additional components of the evolution theory, including genetic drift, immigration, emigration and mutation.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
2.E.8: Based on the structure and stability of ecosystems and their nonliving components, predict the biotic and abiotic changes in such systems when disturbed (e.g. introduction of non-native species, climatic change, etc.).
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
2.E.9: Explain why and how living systems require a continuous input of energy to maintain their chemical and physical organization. Explain that with death and the cessation of energy input, living systems rapidly disintegrate toward more disorganized states.
2.G.12: Describe advances in life sciences that have important, long-lasting effects on science and society (e.g., biotechnology).
3.A.2: Describe how a physical, chemical or ecological system in equilibrium may return to the same state of equilibrium if the disturbances it experiences are small. Large disturbances may cause it to escape that equilibrium and eventually settle into some other state of equilibrium.
Equilibrium and Concentration
Equilibrium and Pressure
3.B.10: Explain the characteristics of isotopes. The nucleus of radioactive isotopes is unstable and spontaneously decays emitting particles and/or wavelike radiation. It cannot be predicted exactly when, if ever, an unstable nucleus will decay, but a large group of identical nuclei decay at a predictable rate.
3.B.11: Use the predictability of decay rates and the concept of half-life to explain how radioactive substances can be used in estimating the age of materials.
3.C.12: Describe how different atomic energy levels are associated with the electron configurations of atoms and electron configurations (and/or conformations) of molecules.
3.C.13: Explain how atoms and molecules can gain or lose energy in particular discrete amounts (quanta or packets); therefore they can only absorb or emit light at the wavelengths corresponding to these amounts.
3.D.5: Use and apply the laws of motion to analyze, describe and predict the effects of forces on the motions of objects mathematically.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
3.D.8: Describe how the observed wavelength of a wave depends upon the relative motion of the source and the observer (Doppler effect). If either is moving towards the other, the observed wavelength is shorter; if either is moving away, the observed wavelength is longer (e.g., weather radar, bat echoes, police radar).
Doppler Shift
Doppler Shift Advanced
3.D.9: Describe how gravitational forces act between all masses and always create a force of attraction. Recognize that the strength of the force is proportional to the masses and weakens rapidly with increasing distance between them.
Coulomb Force (Static)
Determining a Spring Constant
Gravitational Force
Pith Ball Lab
Correlation last revised: 8/29/2016