High School
Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales.
Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales.
Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.