Invertebrate Zoology Standards and Benchmarks
Standard 1: Understands and applies principles of scientific inquiry
A.
B.
C.
D.
Power Benchmarks: Identifies questions and concepts that guide science investigations
Uses technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications
Formulates and revises scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence
Recognizes and analyzes alternative explanations and models
Course Level
Knowledge
Skills
Vocabulary
Benchmarks
Formulates and
• Knows scientific explanations and • Analyzes data with respect to
• scientific explanation
revises scientific • scientific model
scientific explanations and models
models are based on data
explanations and • data
(ACT, SAT, ITED, AP BIO)
• Know new data may lead to the
models
• Adjusts scientific explanations and
modification of scientific
• within tolerance
models based on data (ACT, SAT,
explanations and models
• scientific method
ITED, AP BIO)
Understands
• Describes how science concepts
• scientific knowledge
• Knows examples of scientific
how scientific
have evolved with the discovery of
knowledge that changed when new
• evidence
knowledge
new evidence
evidence was presented
• influence
changes with
•
Hypothesizes
how current science
•
Knows
that
science
is
an
ongoing
• ethics
new evidence
concepts and practices will
process and is always open to new
influence future societies
ideas
Uses technology • technology
• Determines tools most appropriate
• Knows how technology can help
and mathematics • mathematics
to use given a particular situation
scientific investigations and
to perform
communications
• Uses the necessary mathematics
• probability
accurate
for a particular situation (ACT,
• Knows mathematical computations
• ratio
scientific
SAT,
ITED, AP BIO)
and
formulas
are
essential
to
• accuracy
investigations
scientific
investigations
•
Calculates
results with a given
• scientific
and
degree of accuracy
investigations
communications • scientific
• Formulates graphic representation
of data (ACT, SAT, ITED, AP
communication
BIO)
• spreadsheet and
graphs
Demonstrates
• Follows required safety procedures
• OSHA
• Knows appropriate safety
safe handling
procedures for a given situation
• Recognizes, reports, and corrects
• EPA
procedures
• Knows where safety devices are
safety problems
• MSDS
located
in
the
classroom
• Follows waste disposal procedures
• Right to Know
• Understands the process of waste
• hazardous
disposal
• safety procedures
Invertebrate Zoology/Spring 06
Classroom
Resources
Invertebrate Zoology
Curriculum Guide
Emphasized
throughout the
entire curriculum
Technology: use of
science to solve
everyday
problems
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Invertebrate Zoology Standards and Benchmarks
Standard 2: Understands and applies principles of life science
Power Benchmarks: Understands and applies knowledge of the molecular basis of heredity
Understands and applies knowledge of the behavior of organisms
Course Level
Knowledge
Skills
Vocabulary
Benchmarks
A. Analyzes the
continuity and
diversity of life in
terms of structure and
function of the major
phyla
• Continuity of
Continuity of Life
Continuity of Life
Continuity of Life
Life
• Knows animals with homologous • Explains how comparisons of
• natural selection
- History of Life
animals can reveal evidence of
structures share common ancestry
on Earth
• change over time
evolution
- Natural Selection • evolve
• Knows adaptation is the process
- Interrelationships • homologous
• Describes how natural selection
which animals become better
can lead to the formation of new
suited to their environments
structures
species
•
Knows
species
evolve
in
response
• adaptation
• Recognizes the global diversity
to other living members of their
and interrelationship between
ecosystems
animals
•
-
Diversity of Life
Classification
Animal Body
Life Activities
Water
Land
- Invertebrates
- Adaptation to
Land
- Vertebrates
Diversity of Life
• classification
system
• reproduction
• respiration
• assimilation
• locomotion
• ingestion
• digestion
• elimination
• excretion
• secretion
• nervous
Invertebrate Zoology/Spring 06
Diversity of Life
• Knows scientists classify
organisms into a hierarchical
system of groups within groups
• Knows how various animal
groups carry on life activities
Classroom
Resources
Invertebrate Zoology
Curriculum Guide
Diversity of Life
• Describes how the classification of
animals reflect their evolutionary
history
• Recognizes the progression of life
activities from simple to complex
animals
• Describes how life activities are
accomplished by each animal
group
• Applies learned life activities
information to other animals
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