Appendix
Common Core Literacy Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.7
Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.8
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Delaware State Science Standards:
DE.1. Nature and Application of Science and Technology
1.1. Enduring Understandings: Scientific inquiry involves asking scientifically-oriented questions, collecting evidence, forming explanations, connecting explanations to scientific knowledge and theory, and communicating and justifying the explanation.
1.2. Enduring Understandings: The development of technology and advancement in science influence each other and drive each other forward.
DE.6. Life Processes
6.1. Enduring Understandings: Living systems demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
DE.7. Diversity and Continuity of Living Things
7.1. Enduring Understandings: Organisms reproduce, develop, have predictable life cycles, and pass on heritable traits to their offspring.
Next Generation Science Standards:
Growth, Development, and Reproduction
MS.LS3.1 Develop 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.
Structure, Function, and Information Processing
MS.LS1.3 Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.
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