Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Environmental factors can influence growth.
- Genetic factors can influence growth.
- Changes in the growth of organisms can occur as specific environmental and genetic factors change.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Organize given data on how both environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms to allow for analysis and interpretation.
- Analyze the data to identify possible causal relationships between environmental and genetic factors and the growth of organisms.
- Interpret patterns observed from the data to provide causal accounts for events and make predictions for events by constructing explanations.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Genetic factors as well as local conditions affect the growth of organisms.
- Because both environmental and genetic factors can influence organisms simultaneously, organism growth is the result of environmental and genetic factors working together.
- Because organism growth can have several genetic and environmental causes, the contributions of specific causes or factors to organism growth can be described only using probability.
Vocabulary
- Analyze
- Interpret
- Data
- Predict
- Environmental
- Conditions (e.g., weather, resource availability, etc.)
- Genetics
- Genetic Factors (e.g., selective breeding, etc.)
- Organisms
