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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.1: Biological Sciences
- Organizing Category - 3.1.C: Evolution
- Grade Level - 3.1.6.C: GRADE 6
Standard - 3.1.6.C4
- Understand how theories are developed.
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations and evaluate the appropriateness of questions.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation and understand that current scientific knowledge guides scientific investigations.
- Describe relationships using inference and prediction.
- Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data and understand that it enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments, and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories.
- Analyze alternative explanations and understanding that science advances through legitimate skepticism.
- Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
- Understand that scientific investigations may result in new ideas for study, new methods, or procedures for an investigation or new technologies to improve data collection.
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Assessment Anchor - S6.B.2 Continuity of Life
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.B.2.1 Explain how certain inherited traits and/or behaviors allow some organisms to survive and reproduce more successfully than others.
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Eligible Content - S6.B.2.1.1 Distinguish between instinctive and learned animal behaviors that relate to survival.
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Eligible Content - S6.B.2.1.2 Recognize that extinction of a species occurs when the environment changes and the adaptive characteristics of a species are insufficient to allow its survival.
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Assessment Anchor - S6.B.3 Ecological Behavior and Systems
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.B.3.1 Identify evidence of change to infer and explain the ways different variables may affect change in natural or human-made systems.
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Eligible Content - S6.B.3.1.1 Describe the behavioral and physical responses of organisms to environmental changes and how those responses affect survival.
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Anchor Descriptor - S6.B.3.2 Explain how renewable and nonrenewable resources provide for human needs.
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Eligible Content - S6.B.3.2.1 Compare the usage of fossil fuels and alternative energy resources (e.g., oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, water).
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