Science - Gen Sci Life Q2/Q4

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Science - Gen Sci Life Q2/Q4

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Content of Science Strandard II | Strand III Science and Society

Strand III Science and Society

Science Influence
The learner will be able to understand how scientific discoveries, inventions, practices, and knowledge influence, and are influenced by, individuals and societies.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science Discoveries	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I

Science Discoveries
The learner will be able to examine and analyze how scientific discoveries and their applications affect the world, and explain how societies influence scientific investigations and applications.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science Discoveries	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I

Science Enable Technology
The learner will be able to know how science enables technology but also constrains it, and recognize the difference between real technology and science fiction (e.g., rockets vs. antigravity machines; nuclear reactors vs. perpetual-motion machines; medical X-rays vs. Star-Trek tricorders).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.1

Advances in Technology
The learner will be able to understand how advances in technology enable further advances in science (e.g., microscopes and cellular structure; telescopes and understanding of the universe).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.2

Influence of Technology/Society
The learner will be able to evaluate the influences of technology on society (e.g., communications, petroleum, transportation, nuclear energy, computers, medicine, genetic engineering) including both desired and undesired effects, and including some historical examples (e.g., the wheel, the plow, the printing press, the lightning rod).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.3

Scientific Foundations of Technology
The learner will be able to understand the scientific foundations of common technologies (e.g., kitchen appliances, radio, television, aircraft, rockets, computers, medical X-rays, selective breeding, fertilizers and pesticides, agricultural equipment).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.4

Applications of Genetics
The learner will be able to understand that applications of genetics can meet human needs and can create new problems (e.g., agriculture, medicine, cloning).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.5

Human Activities
The learner will be able to describe how human activities have affected ozone in the upper atmosphere and how it affects health and the environment.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.7

Digital Technologies
The learner will be able to analyze the impact of digital technologies on the availability, creation, and dissemination of information.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.6

Uses of Radioactivity
The learner will be able to describe uses of radioactivity (e.g., nuclear power, nuclear medicine, radiometric dating).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Technology	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.8

Scientific Knowledge
The learner will be able to describe how scientific knowledge helps decision makers with local, national, and global challenges (e.g., Waste Isolation Pilot Project [WIPP], mining, drought, population growth, alternative energy, climate change).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Society	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.9

Scientific Perspectives
The learner will be able to describe major historical changes in scientific perspectives (e.g., atomic theory, germs, cosmology, relativity, plate tectonics, evolution) and the experimental observations that triggered them.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Society	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.10

Social Factors
The learner will be able to know that societal factors can promote or constrain scientific discovery (e.g., government funding, laws and regulations about human cloning and genetically modified organisms, gender and ethnic bias, AIDS research, alternative-energy research).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Society	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.11

Change Ecosystems
The learner will be able to explain how societies can change ecosystems and how these changes can be reversible or irreversible.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Society	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.12

Resource Management
The learner will be able to describe how environmental, economic, and political interests impact resource management and use in New Mexico.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Society	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.13

Science Produced Knowledge
The learner will be able to identify how science has produced knowledge that is relevant to individual health and material prosperity.

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Individuals	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.15

Reasonable People
The learner will be able to understand that reasonable people may disagree about some issues that are of interest to both science and religion (e.g., the origin of life on Earth, the cause of the Big Bang, the future of Earth).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Individuals	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.16

Important Questions
The learner will be able to identify important questions that science cannot answer (e.g., questions that are beyond today's science, decisions that science can only help to make, questions that are inherently outside of the realm of science).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Individuals	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.17

Characteristics in Common
The learner will be able to understand that scientists have characteristics in common with other individuals (e.g., employment and career needs, curiosity, desire to perform public service, greed, preconceptions and biases, temptation to be unethical, core values including honesty and openness).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Individuals	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.18

Science Careers
The learner will be able to know that science plays a role in many different kinds of careers and activities (e.g., public service, volunteers, public office holders, researchers, teachers, doctors, nurses, technicians, farmers, ranchers).

Strand	Scope	Source
Science and Individuals	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard I Benchmark(a) I 9.1.19

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Content of Science Strandard II

Classification Scheme
The learner will be able to uUnderstand and explain the hierarchical classification scheme (i.e., domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species), including: classification of an organism into a category similarity inferred from molecular structure (DNA) closely matching classification based on anatomical similarities similarities of organisms reflecting evolutionary relationships .

Strand	Scope	Source
Biodiversity	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.8

Variation Among Species
The learner will be able to understand variation within and among species, including: mutations and genetic drift factors affecting the survival of an organism natural selection .

Strand	Scope	Source
Biodiversity	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.9

Plate Tectonic Theory
The learner will be able to explain plate tectonic theory and understand the evidence that supports it. Energy in Earth's System .

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy in Earth's System	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard III Benchmark(a) II 9.2.5

Circulation of Air/ Water
The learner will be able to describe the patterns and relationships in the circulation of air and water driven by the sun's radiant energy, including: o patterns in weather systems related to the transfer of energy o differences between climate and weather o global climate, global warming, and the greenhouse effect o El Niño, La Niña, and other climatic trends. Geochemical Cycles .

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy in Earth's System	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard III Benchmark(a) II 9.2.8

Fixed Amounts of Natural Resources
The learner will be able to know that Earth's system contains a fixed amount of natural resources that cycle among land, water, the atmosphere, and living things (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles, rock cycle, water cycle, ground water, aquifers).

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy in Earth's System	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard III Benchmark(a) II 9.2.9

Earth's Materials
The learner will be able to describe the composition and structure of Earth's materials, including: the major rock types (i.e., sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic) and their formation natural resources (e.g., minerals, petroleum) and their formation .

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy in Earth's System	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard III Benchmark(a) II 9.2.10

Layer/Atmosphere
The learner will be able to explain how layers of the atmosphere (e.g., ozone, ionosphere) change naturally and artificially.

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy in Earth's System	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard III Benchmark(a) II 9.2.11

Ground Water
The learner will be able to explain how the availability of ground water through aquifers can fluctuate based on multiple factors (i.e., rate of use, rate of replenishment, surface changes, and changes in temperature).

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy in Earth's System	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard III Benchmark(a) II 9.2.12

Sun Through Plants
The learner will be able to describe how energy flows from the sun through plants to herbivores to carnivores and decomposers.

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy Flow in the Environment	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.6

Photosynthesis
The learner will be able to understand and explain the principles of photosynthesis (i.e., chloroplasts in plants convert light energy, carbon dioxide, and water into chemical energy).

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy Flow in the Environment	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.7

Survival Depends
The learner will be able to understand how the survival of species depends on biodiversity and on complex interactions, including the cycling of matter and the flow of energy.

Strand	Scope	Source
Ecosystems	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I

Ecosystem Is Complex
The learner will be able to know that an ecosystem is complex and may exhibit fluctuations around a steady state or may evolve over time.

Strand	Scope	Source
Ecosystems	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.1

Organisms Cooperate
The learner will be able to describe how organisms cooperate and compete in ecosystems (e.g., producers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, predator-prey, symbiosis, mutualism).

Strand	Scope	Source
Ecosystems	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.2

Available Resources/ Limit
The learner will be able to understand and describe how available resources limit the amount of life an ecosystem can support (e.g., energy, water, oxygen, nutrients).

Strand	Scope	Source
Ecosystems	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.3

Humans Modify Ecosystems
The learner will be able to critically analyze how humans modify and change ecosystems (e.g., harvesting, pollution, population growth, technology).

Strand	Scope	Source
Ecosystems	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.4

Matter/ Energy Flow
The learner will be able to explain how matter and energy flow through biological systems (e.g., organisms, communities, ecosystems), and how the total amount of matter and energy is conserved but some energy is always released as heat to the environment.

Strand	Scope	Source
Energy Flow in the Environment	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) I 9.1.5

3.5 Billion Years
The learner will be able to describe the evidence for the first appearance of life on Earth as one-celled organisms, over 3.5 billion years ago, and for the later appearance of a diversity of multicellular organisms over millions of years.

Strand	Scope	Source
Biological Evolution	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) II 9.2.8

Ancestral One-Celled Organisms
The learner will be able to critically analyze the data and observations supporting the conclusion that the species living on Earth today are related by descent from the ancestral one-celled organisms.

Strand	Scope	Source
Biological Evolution	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) II 9.2.9

Species Evolved
The learner will be able to understand the data, observations, and logic supporting the conclusion that species today evolved from earlier, distinctly different species, originating from the ancestral one-celled organisms.

Strand	Scope	Source
Biological Evolution	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) II 9.2.10

Evolution Many Factors
The learner will be able to understand that evolution is a consequence of many factors, including the ability of organisms to reproduce, genetic variability, the effect of limited resources, and natural selection.

Strand	Scope	Source
Biological Evolution	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) II 9.2.11

Natural Selection
The learner will be able to explain how natural selection favors individuals who are better able to survive, reproduce, and leave offspring.

Strand	Scope	Source
Biological Evolution	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) II 9.2.12

Cell Function/Chemical Reactions
The learner will be able to describe how most cell functions involve chemical reactions, including: promotion or inhibition of biochemical reactions by enzymes processes of respiration (e.g., energy production, ATP) communication from cell to cell by secretion of a variety of chemicals (e.g., hormones) .

Strand	Scope	Source
Biochemical Mechanisms	Master	NM: State Standards: Standard II Benchmark(a) III 9.3.7

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