Standards for the lesson plan
Life Science: Heavy Weight

• Evidence, models, and explanation
  • Evidence consists of observations and data on which to base scientific explanations.
  • Models are tentative schemes or structures that correspond to real objects, events, or classes of events, and that have explanatory power.
  • Scientific explanations incorporate existing scientific knowledge and new evidence from observations, experiments, or models into internally consistent, logical statements.
• Change, constancy, and measurement
  • Interaction within and among systems result in change.
  • Changes vary in rate, scale, and pattern, including trends and cycles.
  • Different systems of measurement are used for different purposes.

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
  • Ask a question about objects, organisms, and events in the environment.
  • Use data to construct a reasonable explanation.
  • Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.
  • Communicate investigations and explanations.
  • Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
• Understandings about scientific inquiry
  • Asking and answering a question and comparing the answer to what scientists already know about the world.
  • Developing explanations using observations.

• Understanding of personal and community health.
  • Internal and external processes of the earth system cause natural hazards, events that change or destroy human and wildlife habitats, damage property, and harm or kill humans.
  • Natural hazards can present personal and societal challenges
• Science and technology in society
  • Abilities of technological design.
  • Understandings about science and technology.