LIFE SCIENCELS.1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and the nature of science by planning and conducting investigations in whichLS.1.a) Data are organized into tables showing repeated trials and means.
LS.1.b) A classification system is developed based on multiple attributes.
LS.1.c) Triple beam and electronic balances, thermometers, metric rulers, graduated cylinders, and probeware are used to gather data.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells
LS.1.d) Models and simulations are constructed and used to illustrate and explain phenomena.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis
LS.1.f) Dependent variables, independent variables, and constants are identified.
LS.1.g) Variables are controlled to test hypotheses, and trials are repeated.
LS.1.h) Data are organized, communicated through graphical representation, interpreted, and used to make predictions.
LS.1.i) Patterns are identified in data and are interpreted and evaluated.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells
LS.1.j) Current applications are used to reinforce life science concepts.
LS.10. The student will investigate and understand that ecosystems, communities, populations, and organisms are dynamic, change over time, and respond to daily, seasonal, and long-term changes in their environment. Key concepts includeLS.10.a) Phototropism, hibernation, and dormancy.
LS.10.c) Eutrophication, climate changes, and catastrophic disturbances.
LS.11. The student will investigate and understand the relationships between ecosystem dynamics and human activity. Key concepts includeLS.11.a) Food production and harvest.
LS.11.b) Change in habitat size, quality, or structure.
LS.11.d) Population disturbances and factors that threaten or enhance species survival.
LS.11.e) Environmental issues.
LS.12. The student will investigate and understand that organisms reproduce and transmit genetic information to new generations. Key concepts includeLS.12.a) The structure and role of DNA.
LS.12.b) The function of genes and chromosomes.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Mitosis
LS.12.c) Genotypes and phenotypes.
LS.12.d) Characteristics that can and cannot be inherited.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis
LS.12.e) Genetic engineering and its applications.
LS.12.f) Historical contributions and significance of discoveries related to genetics.
LS.13. The student will investigate and understand that populations of organisms change over time. Key concepts includeLS.13.a) The relationships of mutation, adaptation, natural selection, and extinction.
LS.13.b) Evidence of evolution of different species in the fossil record.
LS.13.c) How environmental influences, as well as genetic variation, can lead to diversity of organisms.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis
LS.2. The student will investigate and understand that all living things are composed of cells. Key concepts includeLS.2.a) Cell structure and organelles.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Mitosis
LS.2.b) Similarities and differences between plant and animal cells.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells
LS.2.c) Development of cell theory.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells
LS.2.d) Cell division.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Mitosis
LS.3. The student will investigate and understand that living things show patterns of cellular organization. Key concepts includeLS.3.a) Cells, tissues, organs, and systems.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells
LS.3.b) Patterns of cellular organization and their relationship to life processes in living things.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Mitosis
LS.4. The student will investigate and understand how organisms can be classified. Key concepts includeLS.4.a) The distinguishing characteristics of domains of organisms.
LS.4.b) The distinguishing characteristics of kingdoms of organisms.
LS.4.c) The distinguishing characteristics of major animal phyla and plant divisions.
LS.5. The student will investigate and understand the basic physical and chemical processes of photosynthesis and its importance to plant and animal life. Key concepts includeLS.5.a) Energy transfer between sunlight and chlorophyll.
LS.5.b) Transformation of water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen.
LS.5.c) Photosynthesis as the foundation of virtually all food webs.
LS.6. The student will investigate and understand that organisms within an ecosystem are dependent on one another and on nonliving components of the environment. Key concepts includeLS.6.a) The carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles.
LS.6.b) Interactions resulting in a flow of energy and matter throughout the system.
LS.6.c) Complex relationships within terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
LS.6.d) Energy flow in food webs and energy pyramids.
LS.7. The student will investigate and understand that interactions exist among members of a population. Key concepts includeLS.7.a) Competition, cooperation, social hierarchy, territorial imperative.
LS.7.b) Influence of behavior on a population.
LS.8. The student will investigate and understand interactions among populations in a biological community. Key concepts includeLS.8.a) The relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in food webs.
LS.8.b) The relationship between predators and prey.
LS.8.c) Competition and cooperation.
LS.8.d) Symbiotic relationships.
LS.9. The student will investigate and understand how organisms adapt to biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. Key concepts includeLS.9.a) Differences between ecosystems and biomes.
LS.9.b) Characteristics of land, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.
LS.9.c) Adaptations that enable organisms to survive within a specific ecosystem.