High School (9-12)
Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.
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Grade: High School (9-12)
Use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.
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Grade: High School (9-12)
Use a model to illustrate the role of cellular division (mitosis) and differentiation in producing and maintaining complex organisms.
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Grade: High School (9-12)
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.
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Grade: High School (9-12)
Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
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Grade: High School (9-12)
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins which carry out the essential functions of life through systems of specialized cells.
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Grade: High School (9-12)
Communicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy.*
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Grade: High School (9-12)
Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning behind the idea that electromagnetic radiation can be described either by a wave model or a particle model, and that for some situations one model is more useful than the other.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Evaluate questions about the advantages of using digital transmission and storage of information.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)