Illinois Learning Standards Curriculum Map
http://www.isbe.net/ils/science/capd.htm
Topic: Biomes
7th Grade (Stages F, G, & H)
9th Grade (Stages H & I)
Stage G
Stage H
12B —
12B —
Students who meet the standard know and apply
concepts that describe how living things interact
with each other and with their environment.
Students who meet the standard know and apply
concepts that describe how living things interact
with each other and with their environment.
Apply scientific inquiries or technological
designs to model global biomes,
identifying the general climate, soil, and
inhabitant of the six major land-based
biomes, mapping the global biomes, or
comparing the graphical meteorological
data (temperature, precipitation) of
biomes/ecosystems.
1. Apply scientific inquiries or
technological design to study
biogeography, researching global
biomes, locating hemispheric,
continental, and regional examples
of each biome, or graphing
associated mathematical
comparison factors.
2. Apply scientific inquiries or
technological design to analyze
Illinois-specific ecosystems and
biomes, modeling topographic
features, population data, plant
diversity and distribution from
historic records, collecting
scientific seasonal/annual local
ecosystem data for direct
11th Grade (Stage J)
Stage J
connection to change and stability
factors, or projecting scenarios of
changes to local ecosystem for
near- and long-term future
contingencies.
Stage H
Stage I
12B —
12B —
Students who meet the standard know and apply
concepts that describe how living things interact
with each other and with their environment.
Students who meet the standard know and apply
concepts that describe how living things interact
with each other and with their environment.
3. Apply scientific inquiries or
technological design to study
biogeography, researching global
biomes, locating hemispheric,
continental, and regional examples
of each biome, or graphing
associated mathematical
comparison factors.
4. Apply scientific inquiries or
technological design to analyze
Illinois-specific ecosystems and
biomes, modeling topographic
features, population data, plant
diversity and distribution from
historic records, collecting
scientific seasonal/annual local
1. Apply scientific inquiries or
technological designs to explain the
environment- energy interactions
comparing the biomass involved in
energy transfer by organisms at
different tropic levels, relating
biome productivity to carbon-fixing
and energy storage by producers,
correlating major chemical cycles
(nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water) to
other chemical cycles in nature
(e.g., phosphorus, sulfur,
strontium), or relating the laws of
thermodynamics to environmentalenergy transfer efficiency.
2. Apply scientific inquiries or
ecosystem data for direct
connection to change and stability
factors, or projecting scenarios of
changes to local ecosystem for
near- and long-term future
contingencies.
technological designs to research
global biomes, identifying the
latitude, altitude, soil, temperature
and precipitation ranges, and
inhabitants of the six major landbased biomes, comparing the
salinity, light penetration, nutrients,
and inhabitants of aquatic biomes,
identifying feeding relationships
within biomes, or comparing
climatographs of biomes or carbonfixing/storage productivity
estimations.