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Use mathematical representations to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.*

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Evaluate evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Ask questions to clarify relationships about the role of DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for characteristic traits passed from parents to offspring.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Make and defend a claim based on evidence that inheritable genetic variations may result from (1) new genetic combinations through meiosis, (2) viable errors occurring during replication, and/or (3) mutations caused by environmental factors.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Apply concepts of statistics and probability to explain the variation and distribution of expressed traits in a population.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Communicate scientific information that common ancestry and biological evolution are supported by multiple lines of empirical evidence.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)
Construct an explanation based on evidence that the process of evolution primarily results from four factors: (1) the potential for a species to increase in number, (2) the heritable genetic variation of individuals in a species due to mutation and sexual reproduction, (3) competition for limited resources, and (4) the proliferation of those organisms that are better able to survive and reproduce in the environment.

Performance Expectation

Grade:  High School (9-12)