Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Summarize the basic structures and functions of flowering plants required for survival, reproduction and defense.

Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Understand the structures, processes and behaviors of plants that enable them to survive and reproduce.

Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Compare the physical properties of pure substances that are independent of the amount of matter present including density, melting point, boiling point, and solubility to properties that are dependent on the amount of matter present to include volume, mass and weight.

Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Explain the effect of heat on the motion of atoms through a description of what happens to particles during a change in phase.

Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Recognize that all matter is made up of atoms and atoms of the same element are all alike, but are different from the atoms of other elements.

Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Understand the structure, classifications and physical properties of matter.

Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Forces and Motion

Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain the suitability of materials for use in technological design based on a response to heat (to include conduction, expansion, and contraction) and electrical energy (conductors and insulators).

Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain the effects of electromagnetic waves on various materials to include absorption, scattering, and change in temperature.

Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Illustrate the transfer of heat energy from warmer objects to cooler ones using examples of conduction, radiation and convection and the effects that may result.

Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Understand characteristics of energy transfer and interactions of matter and energy.

Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Summarize how the abiotic factors (such as temperature, water, sunlight, and soil quality) of biomes (freshwater, marine, forest, grasslands, desert, Tundra) affect the ability of organisms to grow, survive and/or create their own food through photosynthesis.

Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Explain how plants respond to external stimuli (including dormancy and forms of tropism) to enhance survival in an environment.

Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Summarize how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photosynthesis) and is transferred within food chains and food webs (terrestrial and aquatic) from producers to consumers to decomposers.

Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and the responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment.

Learning Domain: Earth in the Universe

Standard: Summarize space exploration and the understandings gained from them.

Learning Domain: Earth in the Universe

Standard: Explain why Earth sustains life while other planets do not based on their properties (including types of surface, atmosphere and gravitational force) and location to the Sun.

Learning Domain: Earth in the Universe

Standard: Explain how the relative motion and relative position of the sun, Earth and moon affect the seasons, tides, phases of the moon, and eclipses.

Learning Domain: Earth in the Universe

Standard: Understand the earth/moon/sun system, and the properties, structures and predictable motions of celestial bodies in the Universe.

Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures and Processes

Standard: Conclude that the good health of humans requires: monitoring the lithosphere, maintaining soil quality and stewardship.

Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures and Processes

Standard: Explain how the formation of soil is related to the parent rock type and the environment in which it develops.

Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures and Processes

Standard: Explain how crustal plates and ocean basins are formed, move and interact using earthquakes, heat flow and volcanoes to reflect forces within the earth.

Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures and Processes

Standard: Summarize the structure of the earth, including the layers, the mantle and core based on the relative position, composition and density.

Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures and Processes

Standard: Understand the structure of the earth and how interactions of constructive and destructive forces have resulted in changes in the surface of the Earth over time and the effects of the lithosphere on humans.