Academic Standards
3.3.7: Biological Sciences
3.3.7.A: Describe the similarities and differences that characterize diverse living things.
3.3.7.A.1: Describe how the structures of living things help them function in unique ways.
3.3.7.A.3: Account for adaptations among organisms that live in a particular environment.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
3.3.7.B: Describe the cell as the basic structural and functional unit of living things.
3.3.7.B.1: Identify the levels of organization from cell to organism.
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
3.3.7.B.3: Explain that cells and organisms have particular structures that underlie their functions.
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
3.3.7.B.4: Describe and distinguish among cell cycles, reproductive cycles and life cycles.
3.3.7.C: Know that every organism has a set of genetic instructions that determines its inherited traits.
3.3.7.C.1: Identify and explain inheritable characteristics.
Chicken Genetics
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Microevolution
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
Natural Selection
3.3.7.C.2: Identify that the gene is the basic unit of inheritance.
Chicken Genetics
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Microevolution
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
Natural Selection
3.3.7.C.3: Identify basic patterns of inheritance (e.g., dominance, recessive, co- dominance).
Chicken Genetics
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
3.3.7.C.4: Describe how traits are inherited.
Chicken Genetics
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Microevolution
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
Natural Selection
3.3.7.C.5: Distinguish how different living things reproduce (e.g., vegetative budding, sexual).
3.3.7.C.6: recognize that mutations can alter a gene.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
3.3.7.C.7: Describe how selective breeding, natural selection and genetic technologies can change genetic makeup of organisms.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
3.3.7.D: Explain basic concepts of natural selection.
3.3.7.D.1: Identify adaptations that allow organisms to survive in their environment.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
3.3.7.D.3: know that differences in individuals of the same species may give some advantage in surviving and reproducing.
3.3.7.D.4: recognize that populations of organisms can increase rapidly.
3.3.7.D.5: Describe the role that fossils play in studying the past.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
3.3.7.D.6: Explain how biologic extinction is a natural process.
3.4.7: Physical Science, Chemistry and Physics
3.4.7.A: Describe concepts about the structure and properties of matter.
3.4.7.A.1: Identify elements as basic building blocks of matter that cannot be broken down chemically.
3.4.7.A.3: Describe and conduct experiments that identify chemical and physical properties.
3.4.7.A.4: Describe reactants and products of simple chemical reactions.
3.4.7.B: Relate energy sources and transfers to heat and temperature.
3.4.7.B.1: Identify and describe sound changes in moving objects.
Doppler Shift
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
3.4.7.B.2: Know that the sun is a major source of energy that emits wavelengths of visible light, infrared and ultraviolet radiation.
3.4.7.B.3: Explain the conversion of one form of energy to another by applying knowledge of each form of energy.
Energy Conversion in a System
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Period of a Pendulum
3.4.7.B.4: Explain the parts and functions in an electrical circuit.
3.4.7.C: Identify and explain the principles of force and motion.
3.4.7.C.3: Explain various motions using models.
Freefall Laboratory
Uniform Circular Motion
3.4.7.C.4: Explain how convex and concave mirrors and lens change light images.
Laser Reflection
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
3.4.7.C.5: Explain how sound and light travel in waves of differing speeds, sizes and frequencies.
3.4.7.D: Describe essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe and the earth's place in it.
3.4.7.D.1: Compare various planets’ characteristics.
3.4.7.D.2: Describe basic star types and identify the sun as a star type.
3.4.7.D.4: Identify gravity as the force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun and governs the rest of the movement of the solar system and the universe.
Gravitational Force
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Tides
3.5.7: Earth Sciences
3.5.7.A: Describe earth features and processes.
3.5.7.A.2: Describe the processes involved in the creation of geologic features (e.g., folding, faulting, volcanism, sedimentation) and that these processes seen today (e.g., erosion, weathering crustal plate movement) are similar to those in the past.
3.5.7.A.4: Explain how the rock cycle affected rock formations in the state of Pennsylvania.
3.5.7.C: Describe basic elements of meteorology.
3.5.7.C.3: Identify how cloud types, wind directions and barometric pressure changes are associated with weather patterns in different regions of the country.
Coastal Winds and Clouds
Hurricane Motion
Weather Maps
3.5.7.C.4: Explain and illustrate the processes of cloud formation and precipitation.
3.5.7.C.6: Identify different air masses and global wind patterns and how they relate to the weather patterns in different regions of the U.S.
Coastal Winds and Clouds
Weather Maps
3.5.7.D: Explain the behavior and impact of the earth's water systems.
3.5.7.D.1: Explain the water cycle using the processes of evaporation and condensation.
3.5.7.D.2: Describe factors that affect evaporation and condensation.
3.5.7.D.3: Distinguish salt from fresh water (e.g., density, electrical conduction).
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Determining Density via Water Displacement
Correlation last revised: 12/8/2009