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MN.6.13.Reading Benchmarks: Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6-12
Reading Benchmarks: Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 6-12
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
6.13.7.7. Compare and integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, table, map).
6.13.9.9. Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.
6.13.4.4. Determine the meaning of symbols, equations, graphical representations, tabular representations, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
6.14.2.2. Write informative/explanatory texts, as they apply to each discipline and reporting format, including the narration of historical events, of scientific procedures/ experiments, or description of technical processes.
6.14.2.2.a. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when usefu
6.14.2.2.b. Develop the topic with relevant, credible, sufficient, and well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
7.1.1.2. The student will understand that scientific inquiry uses multiple interrelated processes to investigate questions and propose explanations about the natural world.
7.1.1.2.3. Generate a scientific conclusion from an investigation, clearly distinguishing between results (evidence) and conclusions (explanation).
7.1.3. Interactions Among Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Society
7.1.3.4. The student will understand that current and emerging technologies have enabled humans to develop and use models to understand and communicate how natural and designed systems work and interact.
7.1.3.4.2. Determine and use appropriate safety procedures, tools, measurements, graphs and mathematical analyses to describe and investigate natural and designed systems in a life science context.
7.2.1.1. The student will understand that the idea that matter is made up of atoms and molecules provides the basis for understanding the properties of matter.
7.2.1.1.1. Recognize that all substances are composed of one or more of approximately one hundred elements and that the periodic table organizes the elements into groups with similar properties.
7.2.1.1.3. Recognize that a chemical equation describes a reaction where pure substances change to produce one or more different substances whose properties are different from the original substance(s).
7.4.1.1. The student will understand that tissues, organs and organ systems are composed of cells and function to serve the needs of all cells for food, air and waste removal.
7.4.1.1.2. Describe how the organs in the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous, skin and urinary systems interact to serve the needs of vertebrate organisms.
7.4.1.2. The student will understand that all organisms are composed of one or more cells which carry on the many functions needed to sustain life.
7.4.1.2.1. Recognize that cells carry out life functions, and that these functions are carried out in a similar way in all organisms, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria and protists.
7.4.2.1. The student will understand that natural systems include a variety of organisms that interact with one another in several ways.
7.4.2.1.1. Identify a variety of populations and communities in an ecosystem and describe the relationships among the populations and communities in a stable ecosystem.
7.4.2.2. The student will understand that the flow of energy and the recycling of matter are essential to a stable ecosystem.
7.4.2.2.1. Recognize that producers use the energy from sunlight to make sugars from carbon dioxide and water through a process called photosynthesis. This food can be used immediately, stored for later use, or used by other organisms.
7.4.2.2.2. Describe the roles and relationships among producers, consumers and decomposers in changing energy from one form to another in a food web within an ecosystem.
7.4.2.2.3. Explain that the total amount of matter in an ecosystem remains the same as it is transferred between organisms and their physical environment, even though its form and location change.
7.4.3.1. The student will understand that reproduction is a characteristic of all organisms and is essential for the continuation of a species. Hereditary information is contained in genes which are inherited through asexual or sexual reproduction.
7.4.3.1.1. Recognize that cells contain genes and that each gene carries a single unit of information that either alone, or with other genes, determines the inherited traits of an organism.
7.4.3.1.2. Recognize that in asexually reproducing organisms all the genes come from a single parent, and that in sexually reproducing organisms half of the genes come from each parent.
7.4.3.2. The student will understand that individual organisms with certain traits in particular environments are more likely than others to survive and have offspring.
7.4.3.2.1. Explain how the fossil record documents the appearance, diversification and extinction of many life forms.
7.4.4.1. The student will understand that human activity can change living organisms and ecosystems.
7.4.4.1.1. Describe examples where selective breeding has resulted in new varieties of cultivated plants and particular traits in domesticated animals.
7.4.4.2.2. Recognize that a microorganism can cause specific diseases and that there are a variety of medicines available that can be used to combat a given microorganism.
7.4.4.2.4. Recognize that the human immune system protects against microscopic organisms and foreign substances that enter from outside the body and against some cancer cells that arise from within.