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Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.
Generate resourceDevelop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.
Generate resourceApply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Generate resourceConstruct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
Generate resourceAsk questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the change in global temperatures over time.
Generate resourceDefine the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, considering relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
Generate resourceEvaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Generate resourceAnalyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.
Generate resourceDevelop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
Generate resourceConstruct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
Generate resourceConstruct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
Generate resourceDevelop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
Generate resourceDevelop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.
Generate resourceDevelop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.
Generate resourceAnalyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
Generate resourceApply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer relationships.
Generate resourceAnalyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy.
Generate resourceConstruct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
Generate resourceGather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
Generate resourceUse mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
Generate resourceDevelop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
Generate resourceAnalyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
Generate resourceConstruct an argument supported by evidence that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.
Generate resourceDevelop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.
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