Georgia Performance Standards

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Georgia Performance Standards

• Where does Mistletoe fit in?

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Concepts/Skills to Maintain

• Biological Relationships
• Matter-Energy Relationships
• Cellular Structure and Function
• Ecosystems
• Biological Evolution

• Characteristics of science
• Records investigations clearly and accurately
• Uses scientific tools
• Interprets graphs, tables, and charts
• Writes Clearly
• Uses proper units
• Organizes data into graphs, tables, and charts
• Analyzes scientific data via calculations and
  inference
• Uses Models
• Asks quality questions
• Uses technology
• Uses safety techniques
• Recognizes the importance of explaining data with
  precision and accuracy

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Characteristics of Science

• What role do they play?

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Habits of Mind

• Evaluate the importance of curiosity, honesty,
  openness, and skepticism
• Standard safety practices for field activities
• Identify and investigate problems scientifically
• Use tools and instruments for observing,
  measuring, and manipulating scientific equipment
  and materials
• Demonstrate computation and estimation skills
  necessary for analyzing data and developing
  reasonable scientific explanations
• Communicate scientific investigations and
  information clearly

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The Nature of Science

• Analyze how scientific knowledge is developed
• Understand important features of the process of
  scientific inquiry

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High School Biology

• SB1. Students will analyze the nature of the
  relationships between structures and functions in
  living cells
• a. Explain the role of cell organelles for both
  prokaryotic and eukarytoic cells, including the
  cell membrane, in maintaining homeostasis and
  cell reproduction.

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High School Biology

• SB2. Students will analyze how biological traits
  are passed on to successive generations.
• e. Compare the advantages of sexual
  reproduction and asexual reproduction in
  different situations.

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High School Biology

• SB3. Students will derive the relationship
  between single-celled and multi-celled organisms
  and the increasing complexity of systems.
• Relate the complexity and organization or
  organisms to their ability for obtaining,
  transforming, transporting, releasing, and
  eliminating the matter and energy used to sustain
  the organism
• Examine the evolutionary basis of modern
  classification systems

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High School Biology

• SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all
  organisms on one another and the flow of energy
  and matter within their ecosystem.
• a. Investigate the relationships among
  organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems,
  and biomes.

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High School Biology

• Explain the flow of energy and cycle of matter
  through ecosystems
• Food chain and energy flow
• Quantity of energy at each trophic level
• Cycling of C, O, H, N, P

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High School Biology

• SB5. Students will evaluate the role of natural
  selection in the development of the theory of
  evolution.
• d. Relate natural selection to changes in
  organisms

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Life Science

• Major Concepts/Skills
• Diversity of living organisms
• Dichotomous key/classify (6 Kingdoms)
• Structure and function of cells
• Tissues, organs, and organ systems
• Ecosystems
• Cycling of matter and energy
• Biological evolution
• Natural selection and fossil record

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Life Science

• S7L1. Students will investigate the diversity of
  living organisms and how they can be compared
  scientifically.
• a. Demonstrate the process for the
  development of a dichotomous key.
• b. Classify organisms based on a
  six-kingdom system and a dichotomous key.

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Life Science

• S7L2. Students will describe the structure and
  functions of cells, tissues, organs, and organ
  systems.
• c. Explain that cells are organized into
  tissues, tissues into organs, organs into organ
  systems, and systems into organisms.
• d. Explain how tissues, organs, and organ
  systems serve the needs cells have for oxygen,
  food, and waste removal.

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Life Science

• S7L3. Students will recognize how biological
  traits are passed on to successive generations.
• b. Compare and contrast sexual and asexual
  reproduction in organisms (bacteria, protists,
  fungi, plants, animals)

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Life Science

• S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of
  organisms on one another and their environments.
• a. Demonstrate in a food web that matter is
  transferred from one organism to another and can
  recycle between organisms and their environment
• b. Explain in a food web that sunlight is
  the source of energy and that this energy moves
  from organism to organism
• c. Recognize that changes in environmental
  conditions can affect the survival of both
  individuals and entire species.
• d. Categorize relationships between
  organisms that are competitive or mutually
  beneficial.

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Life Science

• S7L5. Students will examine the evolution of
  living organisms through inherited
  characteristics that promote the survival of
  organisms and the survival of successive
  generations of their offspring.
• b. Describe ways which species on earth have
  evolved due to natural selection