Appendix on Implementing District Standards
NGSS Standards
*HS-ESS1-1: Earth’s Place in the Universe – (PS3.D: Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life) Nuclear fusion processes in the center of the sun release the energy that ultimately reaches Earth as radiation.
*HS-LS1-5: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes – (LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms) The process of photosynthesis converts light energy by converting carbon dioxide plus water into sugars plus released oxygen.
Common Core Standards
*CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science texts. Students will be doing research on topics in this unit that require textual evidence.
*CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.3: Follow precisely a complex multi-step procedure when carrying out experiments. Students will be doing a lab in the first part of this unit on photons and photosynthesis and will have to follow scientific experimentation procedures that they identify for the experiment.
*CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.7: Assess extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text supports the author’s claim. Students will be doing a Claim Evidence Reasoning paper and will be required to determine what the evidence and reasoning is to back up their own claims.
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