1: Life Science

1.2: Ecosystems

HS.L2U3.18: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate about the positive and negative ethical, social, economic, and political implications of human activity on the biodiversity of an ecosystem.

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

HS+B.L2U1.1: Develop a model showing the relationship between limiting factors and carrying capacity, and use the model to make predictions on how environmental changes impact biodiversity.

Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season

HS+B.L4U1.2: Engage in argument from evidence that changes in environmental conditions or human interventions may change species diversity in an ecosystem.

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Pond Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem

1.4: Ecosystems

HS.L2U1.19: Develop and use models that show how changes in the transfer of matter and energy within an ecosystem and interactions between species may affect organisms and their environment.

Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
Photosynthesis Lab
Prairie Ecosystem
Ecosystems

HS+B.L2U1.3: Use mathematics and computational thinking to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy through trophic levels in an ecosystem.

Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
Ecosystems

1.6: Cells & Organisms

HS.L1U1.20: Ask questions and/or make predictions based on observations and evidence to demonstrate how cellular organization, structure, and function allow organisms to maintain homeostasis.

Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
Homeostasis

HS+B.L1U1.4: Develop and use models to explain the interdependency and interactions between cellular organelles.

Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Structure
RNA and Protein Synthesis
Enzymes
Photosynthesis

HS+B.L1U1.5: Analyze and interpret data that demonstrates the relationship between cellular function and the diversity of protein functions.

Enzymes
Photosynthesis
Protein Synthesis

HS+B.L1U1.6: Develop and use models to show how transport mechanisms function in cells.

Osmosis
Homeostasis
Osmosis
Photosynthesis

HS+B.L1U1.7: Develop and use models to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms (plant and animal).

Senses
Homeostasis
Photosynthesis

1.8: Cells & Organisms

HS.L2U1.21: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate data showing the relationship of photosynthesis and cellular respiration; flow of energy and cycling of matter.

Carbon Cycle
Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Respiration
Photosynthesis

HS+B.L2U1.8: Develop and use models to develop a scientific explanation that illustrates how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy and how cellular respiration breaks down macromolecules for use in metabolic processes.

Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Respiration
Photosynthesis

1.10: Cells and Organisms

HS.L1U1.22: Construct an explanation for how cellular division (mitosis) is the process by which organisms grow and maintain complex, interconnected systems.

Cell Division
Embryo Development

HS.L1U3.23: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate the ethical, social, economic and/or political implications of the detection and treatment of abnormal cell function.

Protein Synthesis

HS+B.L1U1.9: Develop and use a model to communicate how a cell copies genetic information to make new cells during asexual reproduction (mitosis).

Cell Division
Meowsis

1.12: Genetics

HS.L3U1.24: Construct an explanation of how the process of sexual reproduction contributes to genetic variation.

Human Karyotyping
Meiosis
Meowsis

HS.L3U1.25: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the causes and implications of DNA mutation.

Building DNA
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Meowsis

HS.L3U3.26: Engage in argument from evidence regarding the ethical, social, economic, and/or political implications of a current genetic technology.

GMOs and the Environment
Genetic Engineering

HS+B.L3U1.11: Construct an explanation for how the structure of DNA and RNA determine the structure of proteins that perform essential life functions.

Building DNA
RNA and Protein Synthesis
Protein Synthesis

HS+B.L3U1.12: Analyze and interpret data on how mutations can lead to increased genetic variation in a population.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Microevolution
Meowsis

1.14: Evolution

HS.L4U1.27: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate evidence that describes how changes in frequency of inherited traits in a population can lead to biological diversity.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Evolution

HS.L4U1.28: Gather, evaluate, and communicate multiple lines of empirical evidence to explain the mechanisms of biological evolution.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Microevolution
Evolution

HS+B.L4U1.13: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate multiple lines of empirical evidence to explain the change in genetic composition of a population over successive generations.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Evolution

HS+B.L4U1.14: Construct an explanation based on scientific evidence that the process of natural selection can lead to adaption.

Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
Evolution