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Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
Performance Expectation
Grade: 3-5, 3
Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
Performance Expectation
Grade: Middle School (6-8)
Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
Performance Expectation
Grade: Middle School (6-8)
Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy.
Performance Expectation
Grade: Middle School (6-8)
Communicate scientific information that common ancestry and biological evolution are supported by multiple lines of empirical evidence.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Topic Arrangements
Grade: 3-5, 3