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3.1 Biological Sciences

• 3.1.A Organisms and Cells

  • 3.1.2.A1 Common Characteristics of Life

  • 3.1.2.A2 Energy Flow

  • 3.1.2.A3 Life Cycles

    • Identify similarities and differences in the life cycles of plants and animals.

      • Read animal life cycle diagrams (2-J.1)
      • Construct animal life cycle diagrams (2-J.2)
      • Read and construct flowering plant life cycle diagrams (2-K.3)
      • Compare stages of an animal's life cycle (3-K.3)
      • Compare different animals' life cycles (3-K.4)

  • 3.1.2.A4 Cell Cycles

  • 3.1.2.A5 Form and Function

    • Explain how different parts of a plant work together to make the organism function.

      • Identify plant parts and their functions (2-K.2)
      • How do flowering plants make new plants? (2-K.4)

  • 3.1.2.A6 Organization

  • 3.1.2.A7 Molecular Basis of Life

  • 3.1.2.A8 Unifying Themes

  • 3.1.2.A9 Science as Inquiry

• 3.1.B. Genetics

  • 3.1.2.B1 Heredity

  • 3.1.2.B2 Reproduction

  • 3.1.2.B3 Molecular Basis of Life

  • 3.1.2.B4 Biotechnology

  • 3.1.2.B5 Unifying Themes

  • 3.1.2.B6 Science as Inquiry

• 3.1.C. Evolution

  • 3.1.2.C1 Natural Selection

  • 3.1.2.C2 Adaptation

    • Explain that living things can only survive if their needs are being met.

      • Identify living and nonliving things (2-I.1)

  • 3.1.2.C3 Unifying Themes

    • Describe some plants and animals that once lived on Earth, (e.g., dinosaurs) but cannot be found anymore. Compare them to now living things that resemble them in some way (e.g. lizards and birds).

      • Introduction to fossils (3-R.1)
      • Compare fossils to modern organisms (3-R.2)
      • Compare ancient and modern organisms: use observations to support a hypothesis (3-R.3)

  • 3.1.2.C4 Science as Inquiry