Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Understand forms of energy, energy transfer and transformation and conservation in mechanical systems.

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Learning Domain: Forces and Motion

Standard: Explain the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces acting on an object (including friction, gravity and magnets).

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Learning Domain: Forces and Motion

Standard: Explain how the motion of an object can be described by its position, direction of motion, and speed with respect to some other object.

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Learning Domain: Forces and Motion

Standard: Understand motion, the effects of forces on motion and the graphical representations of motion.

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Summarize the hierarchical organization of multi-cellular organisms from cells to tissues to organs to systems to organisms.

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Compare the structures and functions of plant and animal cells, including major organelles (cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, chloroplasts, mitochondria, and vacuoles).

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Compare the structures and life functions of single-celled organisms that carry out all of the basic functions of life including: Euglena; Amoeba ;Paramecium; Volvox

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Learning Domain: Forces and Motion

Standard: Interpret distance versus time graphs for constant speed and variable motion.

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Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain how simple machines such as inclined planes, pulleys, levers and wheel and axels are used to create mechanical advantage and increase efficiency.

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Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain how kinetic and potential energy contribute to the mechanical energy of an object.

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Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain how energy can be transformed from one form to another (specifically potential energy and kinetic energy) using a model or diagram of a moving object (roller coaster, pendulum, or cars on ramps as examples).

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Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Recognize that energy can be transferred from one system to another when two objects push or pull on each other over a distance (work) and electrical circuits require a complete loop through which an electrical current can pass.

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Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Explain why offspring that result from sexual reproduction (fertilization and meiosis) have greater variation than offspring that result from asexual reproduction (budding and mitosis).

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Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Infer patterns of heredity using information from Punnett squares and pedigree analysis.

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Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Explain the impact of the environment and lifestyle choices on biological inheritance (to include common genetic diseases) and survival.

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Understand how the cycling of matter (water and gases) in and out of the atmosphere relates to Earth's atmosphere, weather and climate and the effects of the atmosphere on humans.

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

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

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Predict weather conditions and patterns based on information obtained from: Weather data collected from direct observations and measurement (wind speed and direction, air temperature, humidity and air pressure); Weather maps, satellites and radar; Cloud shapes and types and associated elevation

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Explain the influence of convection, global winds and the jet stream on weather and climatic conditions.

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Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Understand the relationship of the mechanisms of cellular reproduction, patterns of inheritance and external factors to potential variation among offspring.

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Explain the relationship between the movement of air masses, high and low pressure systems, and frontal boundaries to storms (including thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes) and other weather conditions that may result.

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Understand the processes, structures and functions of living organisms that enable them to survive, reproduce and carry out the basic functions of life.

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Learning Domain: Forces and Motion

Standard: Illustrate the motion of an object using a graph to show a change in position over a period of time.

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Summarize the general functions of the major systems of the human body (digestion, respiration, reproduction, circulation, and excretion) and ways that these systems interact with each other to sustain life.

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Explain how the cycling of water in and out of the atmosphere and atmospheric conditions relate to the weather patterns on Earth.

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