Standard
Benchmark
Indicator | Description | Lesson Plans | Thinkfinity | Resources |
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The student will apply process skills to explore and understand structure and function in living systems, reproduction and heredity, regulation and behavior, populations and ecosystems, and diversity and adaptations of organisms.
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3.1
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The student will model structures of organisms and relate functions to the structures.
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3.1.1
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The student will understand the cell theory; that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, cells are the basic unit of life and that cells come from other cells.
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3.1.2
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The student relates the structure of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms to their functions.
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3.1.3
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The student compares organisms composed of single cells with organisms that are multi-cellular.
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3.1.4
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The student concludes that breakdowns in structure or function may be caused by disease, damage, heredity, or aging.
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3.2
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The student will understand the role of reproduction and heredity for all living things.
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3.2.1
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The student differentiates between asexual and sexual reproduction of organisms.
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3.2.2
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The student understands how hereditary information of each cell is passed from one generation to the next.
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3.2.3
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The student infers that the characteristics of an organism result from heredity and interaction with the environment.
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3.3
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The student will describe homeostasis, the regulation and balance of internal conditions in response to a changing external environment.
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3.3.1
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The student understands that internal and/or environmental conditions affect an organism's behavior and/or response in order to maintain and regulate stable internal conditions to survive in a continually changing environment.
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3.3.2
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The student recognizes that the survival of all organisms requires the ingestion of materials, the intake and release of energy, growth, release of wastes and responses to environmental change.
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3.4
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The student will identify and relate interactions of populations of organisms within an ecosystem.
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3.4.1
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The student recognizes that all populations living together (biotic resources) and the physical factors (abiotic resources) with which they interact compose an ecosystem.
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3.4.2
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The student understands how limiting factors determine the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.
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3.4.3
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The student traces the energy flow from the sun (source of radiant energy) to producers (via photosynthesis - chemical energy) to consumers and decomposers in food webs.
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3.5
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The student will observe the diversity of living things and relate their adaptations to their survival or extinction.
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3.5.1
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The student concludes that species of animals, plants, and microorganisms may look dissimilar on the outside but have similarities in internal structures, developmental characteristics, chemical processes, and genomes.
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3.5.2
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The student understands that adaptations of organisms (changes in structure, function, or behavior that accumulate over successive generations) contribute to biological diversity.
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3.5.3
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The student associates extinction of species with environmental changes and insufficient adaptive characteristics.
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