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HE.912.C.1.3:
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Evaluate how environment and personal health are interrelated.
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HE.912.C.1.4:
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Analyze how heredity and family history can impact personal health.
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LA.910.2.2.3:
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The student will organize information to show understanding or relationships among facts, ideas, and events (e.g., representing key points within text through charting, mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing, contrasting, or outlining);
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LA.910.4.2.2:
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The student will record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information;
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MA.912.S.1.2:
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Determine appropriate and consistent standards of measurement for the data to be collected in a survey or experiment.
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Moderate
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MA.912.S.3.2:
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Collect, organize, and analyze data sets, determine the best format for the data and present visual summaries from the following:
bar graph s line graphs stem and leaf plots circle graph s histograms box and whisker plots scatter plots cumulative frequency (ogive) graphs
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High
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SC.912.L.14.1:
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Describe the scientific theory of cells (cell theory) and relate the history of its discovery to the process of science.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.14.2:
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Relate structure to function for the components of plant and animal cells. Explain the role of cell membranes as a highly selective barrier (passive and active transport).
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.14.3:
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Compare and contrast the general structures of plant and animal cells. Compare and contrast the general structures of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.14.5:
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Explain the evidence supporting the scientific theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells (endosymbiosis).
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High
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SC.912.L.14.6:
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Explain the significance of genetic factors, environmental factors, and pathogenic agents to health from the perspectives of both individual and public health.
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High
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SC.912.L.14.7:
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Relate the structure of each of the major plant organs and tissues to physiological processes.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.14.53:
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Discuss basic classification and characteristics of plants. Identify bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.1:
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Explain how the scientific theory of evolution is supported by the fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, biogeography, molecular biology, and observed evolutionary change.
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High
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SC.912.L.15.2:
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Discuss the use of molecular clocks to estimate how long ago various groups of organisms diverged evolutionarily from one another.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.3:
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Describe how biological diversity is increased by the origin of new species and how it is decreased by the natural process of extinction.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.4:
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Describe how and why organisms are hierarchically classified and based on evolutionary relationships.
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High
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SC.912.L.15.5:
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Explain the reasons for changes in how organisms are classified.
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High
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SC.912.L.15.6:
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Discuss distinguishing characteristics of the domains and kingdoms of living organisms.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.8:
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Describe the scientific explanations of the origin of life on Earth.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.10:
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Identify basic trends in hominid evolution from early ancestors six million years ago to modern humans, including brain size, jaw size, language, and manufacture of tools.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.12:
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List the conditions for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in a population and why these conditions are not likely to appear in nature. Use the Hardy-Weinberg equation to predict genotypes in a population from observed phenotypes.
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High
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SC.912.L.15.13:
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Describe the conditions required for natural selection , including: overproduction of offspring, inherited variation, and the struggle to survive, which result in differential reproductive success.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.14:
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Discuss mechanisms of evolutionary change other than natural selection such as genetic drift and gene flow.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.15.15:
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Describe how mutation and genetic recombination increase genetic variation.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.1:
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Use Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment to analyze patterns of inheritance.
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High
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SC.912.L.16.2:
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Discuss observed inheritance patterns caused by various modes of inheritance, including dominant, recessive, codominant, sex-linked, polygenic, and multiple alleles.
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High
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SC.912.L.16.3:
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Describe the basic process of DNA replication and how it relates to the transmission and conservation of the genetic information.
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High
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SC.912.L.16.4:
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Explain how mutations in the DNA sequence may or may not result in phenotypic change. Explain how mutations in gametes may result in phenotypic changes in offspring.
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High
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SC.912.L.16.5:
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Explain the basic processes of transcription and translation, and how they result in the expression of genes.
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High
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SC.912.L.16.8:
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Explain the relationship between mutation, cell cycle, and uncontrolled cell growth potentially resulting in cancer.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.9:
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Explain how and why the genetic code is universal and is common to almost all organisms.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.10:
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Evaluate the impact of biotechnology on the individual, society and the environment, including medical and ethical issues.
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High
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SC.912.L.16.13:
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Describe the basic anatomy and physiology of the human reproductive system . Describe the process of human development from fertilization to birth and major changes that occur in each trimester of pregnancy.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.14:
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Describe the cell cycle, including the process of mitosis. Explain the role of mitosis in the formation of new cells and its importance in maintaining chromosome number during asexual reproduction .
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.15:
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Compare and contrast binary fission and mitotic cell division.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.16:
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Describe the process of meiosis, including independent assortment and crossing over. Explain how reduction division results in the formation of haploid gametes or spores.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.16.17:
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Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis and relate to the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction and their consequences for genetic variation.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.2:
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Explain the general distribution of life in aquatic systems as a function of chemistry, geography, light, depth, salinity, and temperature.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.4:
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Describe changes in ecosystems resulting from seasonal variations, climate change and succession.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.17.5:
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Analyze how population size is determined by births, deaths, immigration, emigration, and limiting factors (biotic and abiotic) that determine carrying capacity.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.8:
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Recognize the consequences of the losses of biodiversity due to catastrophic events, climate changes, human activity, and the introduction of invasive, non-native species.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.9:
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Use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers. Explain the pathway of energy transfer through trophic levels and the reduction of available energy at successive trophic levels.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.17.10:
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Diagram and explain the biogeochemical cycle s of an ecosystem, including water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.17.11:
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Evaluate the costs and benefits of renewable and nonrenewable resource s, such as water, energy, fossil fuels, wildlife, and forests.
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High
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SC.912.L.17.20:
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Predict the impact of individuals on environmental systems and examine how human lifestyles affect sustainability.
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High
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SC.912.L.18.2:
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Describe the important structural characteristics of monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides and explain the functions of carbohydrates in living things.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.3:
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Describe the structures of fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids, and steroids. Explain the functions of lipids in living organisms. Identify some reactions that fatty acids undergo. Relate the structure and function of cell membranes.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.4:
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Describe the structures of proteins and amino acids. Explain the functions of proteins in living organisms. Identify some reactions that amino acids undergo. Relate the structure and function of enzymes.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.6:
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Discuss the role of anaerobic respiration in living things and in human society.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.7:
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Identify the reactants, products, and basic functions of photosynthesis.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.8:
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Identify the reactants, products, and basic functions of aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.9:
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Explain the interrelated nature of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.10:
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Connect the role of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to energy transfers within a cell.
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High
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SC.912.L.18.11:
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Explain the role of enzymes as catalysts that lower the activation energy of biochemical reactions. Identify factors, such as pH and temperature, and their effect on enzyme activity.
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Moderate
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SC.912.L.18.12:
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Discuss the special properties of water that contribute to Earth's suitability as an environment for life: cohesive behavior, ability to moderate temperature, expansion upon freezing, and versatility as a solvent.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.1:
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Define a problem based on a specific body of knowledge, for example: biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science, and do the following:
- pose questions about the natural world,
- conduct systematic observations,
- examine books and other sources of information to see what is already known,
- review what is known in light of empirical evidence,
- plan investigations,
- use tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data (this includes the use of measurement in metric and other systems, and also the generation and interpretation of graphical representations of data, including data tables and graphs),
- pose answers, explanations, or descriptions of events,
- generate explanations that explicate or describe natural phenomena (inferences),
- use appropriate evidence and reasoning to justify these explanations to others,
- communicate results of scientific investigations, and
- evaluate the merits of the explanations produced by others.
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High
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SC.912.N.1.3:
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Recognize that the strength or usefulness of a scientific claim is evaluated through scientific argumentation, which depends on critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain the data presented.
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Low
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SC.912.N.1.4:
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Identify sources of information and assess their reliability according to the strict standards of scientific investigation.
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High
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SC.912.N.1.6:
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Describe how scientific inferences are drawn from scientific observations and provide examples from the content being studied.
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Moderate
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SC.912.N.1.7:
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Recognize the role of creativity in constructing scientific questions, methods and explanations.
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Low
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SC.912.N.2.1:
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Identify what is science, what clearly is not science, and what superficially resembles science (but fails to meet the criteria for science).
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High
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SC.912.N.2.2:
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Identify which questions can be answered through science and which questions are outside the boundaries of scientific investigation, such as questions addressed by other ways of knowing, such as art, philosophy, and religion.
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High
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SC.912.N.3.1:
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Explain that a scientific theory is the culmination of many scientific investigations drawing together all the current evidence concerning a substantial range of phenomena thus, a scientific theory represents the most powerful explanation scientists have to offer.
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High
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SC.912.N.3.4:
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Recognize that theories do not become laws, nor do laws become theories theories are well supported explanations and laws are well supported descriptions.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.7:
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Interpret formula representations of molecules and compounds in terms of composition and structure.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.8.12:
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Describe the properties of the carbon atom that make the diversity of carbon compounds possible.
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Moderate
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SC.912.P.10.1:
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Differentiate among the various forms of energy and recognize that they can be transformed from one form to others.
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Moderate
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