MODEL FOR TEKS/TAKS SCIENCE ALIGNMENT

GRADES 10 AND 11

Objective 1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of science
Field and laboratory investigations: How?
  • Having 40% of lab time
  • Using safe practices
  • Using environmentally ethical practices
  • Using tools and equipment to make precise measurements
Use Scientific Method: How?
  • Asking defined questions
  • Formulating testable hypothesis
  • Selecting equipment of technology
  • Collecting data
  • Making measurements with accuracy and precision
  • Organizing, analyzing, evaluating or predicting data
  • Communicating valid conclusions
  • Constructing graphs, labels, maps, charts, etc.
  • Interpreting and evaluating
Use critical thinking or Scientific problem solving: How?
  • Drawing references
  • Using Models
  • Producing labels, advertisements, flyers
  • Being able to evaluate
  • Percentages, determine probability and make predictions about the slope of a curve
  • Analyzing, reviewing or critiquing scientific evaluations, hypotheses or theories
/ Objective 2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the organization of living systems
Cellular Processes
  • Cells are the basic structure to have specialized pairs
  • Hierarchy of structure
  • Viruses are different from cells
  • Investigate homeostasis energy, production, permeability, transportation of molecules, disposal of wastes, function of organelles and creation of molecules
Nucleic Acids/Genetics
  • Describe components of DNA and RNA
  • Explain replication, transcription and translation
  • Genetics applied to ecology and evolution
11th GRADE ONLY-Apply knowledge of genetics, Genetic Engineering, Human Genome Project and Biotechnology issues
11th GRADE ONLY-Compare genetic variations in plants and animals
  • Punnet Square and Probability (phenotype, genotype)
Applications of Taxonomy
  • Identify characteristics of kingdoms
Know living systems
  • Boundaries and limits of living system in organism
11th GRADE ONLY-
Interrelationship of organ systems to each other and whole body
Respiratory Skeletal Excretory
Digestive Nervous
Endocrine Circulatory
Reproductive Integumentary
Systems require integration of all sciences / Objective 3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of interdependence of organisms and the environment
Know structure and functions of cells and viruses
  • Compare structure and functions
  • Describe role of viruses in causing diseases and conditions
  • Identify of describe role of bacteria:
-Beneficial
-Harmful
Theory of biological evolution
Identify evidence of change in species
11th GRADE ONLY- Fossils
DNA sequences speciation
Diversity Behavior
Embryology Extinction
Adaptation
Anatomical and Physiological similarities
Illustrate the results of natural selection
Know metabolic processes and energy transfers that occur in living organisms
Analyze the flow of matter and energy
  • Solar energy
  • Trophic level
  • Biomass
  • Between organisms and physical environment
  • Interdependence and interactions within an ecosystem
  • Interpret relationships in ecosystems (mutualism, parasitism)
Investigate and explain the interactions in an ecosystem
Food web, Food chains, Food pyramids
Significance of plants in the environment
-Evaluate their structural and physiological adaptations
Water, carbon and nitrogen cycles / Objective 4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of interdependence or organisms and the environment
Know the relationship between properties of matter and its components: How?
Density Viscosity Buoyancy
Classify samples of matter, elements, compounds and mixtures
  • Balance simple chemical equations
  • Select correct set of coefficients
  • Relate chemical behavior to bonding and its placement on the periodic table (11th GRADE ONLY)
Changes in matter: How?
  • Distinguish between physical and chemical changes
  • Investigate the Law of Conservation of Mass<
Oxidation, digestion, changes in states, and stages in the rock cycle (weathering process and production of soil)
Solution Chemistry
  • Relate the structure of water to its function
  • Identify low concentration in a solution
  • Understand physical and chemical properties of a solution
  • Identify factors that influence solubility curves and solubility rates
11th GRADE ONLY-
Concentration of ions: PH, Bioelectronic Behavior, Reactivity
Effects of ions o physical phenomena as well as physiological processes
11th GRADE ONLY-Weathering of limestone by rain [CO2 + H2O..H2CO3] (Acid Rain)
Use and apply periodic table Atomic Structure, Ionic and covalent bonding
Formulas and naming compounds / Objective 5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of motion, force and energy
Calculate speed, acceleration, movement, work and power in human body, moving toys and machines
-Investigate Newton’s Law of Motion in vehicles, sports, geological and satellite processes (including forces) 11th GRADE ONLY- demonstrate efficiency of levers, motors, wheels, axles, pulleys and ramps
Effects of waves applied to: Transverse compression and electromagnetic waves, wave type and characteristics
Wave length, Frequency, Amplitude
Effects of temperature and density to wave behavior
  • Technological application of different types of waves
11th GRADE ONLY-demonstrate interference, polarization, reflection and resonance
Impact of energy trans-formation in everyday life
  • Law of conservation of energy
  • Movement of heat by connection
Conduction and radiation through the different states of matter (specific heat, heat transfer and phase charges)
11th GRADE ONLY-Economic and environmental impacts in energy resources
-compare series and parallel circuits including diagrams
Integration of biological and Earth processes
Osmosis Blood Pressure
Muscle Activity Weather
Plate tectonics

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