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Science - Life Science

Earth and Space Science
Water: Cycle/Examine
The learner will be able to examine the water cycle.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 3.3 Home
  
Water: Cycle/Interpret/Illustrations
The learner will be able to interpret the water cycle, when provided with illustrations.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 3.0 Home
  
Earth: History/Utilize/Species/Relate
The learner will be able to utilize a geologic time scale to relate the impact of global environmental alterations to the species that is dominant in each period.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 6.0 Home
  
Earth: History/Differentiate/Dating
The learner will be able to differentiate between absolute and relative dating.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 6.3 Home
  
Earth: History/Find/Similarities/Dating
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the techniques of relative and absolute dating.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 6.0 Home
  
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Living Things: Diversity/Explore
The learner will be able to explore the diversity of living things by interpreting classification systems, investigating different environments, and comparing life cycles.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 5.0 Home
  
Cells: Organelle/Investigate
The learner will be able to investigate the structure and function of organelles in the cell.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Plant and Animal/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate plant and animal cells.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Processes/Interpret
The learner will be able to interpret a variety of cell processes.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 1.4 Home
  
Cells: Cycle/Find/Plant/Animal
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the cell cycle of plant and animal cells.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Investigate/Organelles/Kinds
The learner will be able to investigate the organelles of various kinds of cells.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 1.2 Home
  
Respiration & Photosynthesis: Recogn
The learner will be able to recognize the products and reactants of photosynthesis and respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 3.1 Home
  
Respiration & Photosynthesis: Recogn
The learner will be able to recognize the organelles in which photosynthesis and respiration occur, when provided with illustrations or descriptions.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Cell Respiration and Photosynthesis
The learner will be able to compare and contrast the processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 3.0, 3.2 Home
  
Respiration: Differentiate/Anaerobic
The learner will be able to differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 3.4 Home
  
Respiration: Differentiate/Descriptions
The learner will be able to differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic respiration when provided with descriptions.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 3.0 Home
  
Respiration & Photosynthesis: Analyz
The learner will be able to analyze the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration when provided with illustrations and descriptions.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 3.0 Home
  
Reproduction: Find Differences
The learner will be able to find differences between asexual and sexual reproduction.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 4.1 Home
  
Reproduction: Examples/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate between sexual and asexual reproduction when provided with examples.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 4.0 Home
  
Kingdoms: Properties/Recognize/Six
The learner will be able to recognize the properties of each kingdom in the six kingdom system of classification.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 5.0 Home
  
Producers/Consumers/Decomposers: Group
The learner will be able to group living things as producers, consumers, or decomposers when provided with their behaviors and environments.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 2.0 Home
  
Producers/Consumers/Decomposers:
The learner will be able to differentiate among producers, consumers, and decomposers in food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 2.4 Home
  
Ecosystems: Communities/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate among populations, communities, and ecosystems, when provided with examples.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 2.0 Home
  
Environment: Differentiate/Components
The learner will be able to differentiate between abiotic and biotic components of the environment.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 2.1, Indicators, Level 1, Std 2.0 Home
  
Fossils: Formation/Discover/Samples
The learner will be able to discover the fossil formation process when provided with samples of fossils or pictures.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 6.0 Home
  
Fossils: Strata/Arrange/Pictures
The learner will be able to arrange different fossils on an illustration of sedimentary rock strata, utilizing a group of fossil pictures.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 6.0 Home
  
Fossils: Formation/Explore/Process
The learner will be able to explore the fossil formation process.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 6.1 Home
  
Animals: Life Cycle/Find/Various
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the life cycles of various animals.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 5.4 Home
  
Animals & Plants: Deduce/Native
The learner will be able to deduce which animals or plants are native to an environment when provided with illustrations of various organisms and descriptions of the environment.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 5.0 Home
  
Heredity: Reproduction/Explore/Connected
The learner will be able to explore how patterns of inheritance are connected to reproduction.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: DNA/Deduce/Parent/Offspring
The learner will be able to deduce that hereditary information in DNA is transferred from parent to offspring.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 4.0 Home
  
Cells: Energy/Metabolism/Explore
The learner will be able to explore the role of biomolecules in cell metabolism.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 1.1 Home
  
Biomes: Terrestrial/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate among the six major terrestrial biomes and the two major aquatic biomes when provided with descriptions.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 5.0 Home
  
Biomes: Living/Deduce/Indigenous
The learner will be able to deduce the types of living things indigenous to certain major biomes.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 5.3 Home
  
Species: DNA/Describe/Relatedness
The learner will be able to describe the relatedness of species utilizing DNA strands.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 6.0 Home
  
Species: Predict/Formation/Extinction
The learner will be able to predict how environmental alterations can contribute to the formation of a new species or extinction of a current species.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 6.0 Home
  
Species: Structures/Compare/Related
The learner will be able to compare homologous and analogous structures to discover how species are related, when provided with pictures.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 6.0 Home
  
Evolution: Evidence/DNA/Anatomy
The learner will be able to provide evidence for evolution utilizing current knowledge of DNA and comparative anatomy.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 6.5 Home
  
Evolution: Natural Selection/Infer
The learner will be able to infer how natural selection describes why species with a common ancestor have adapted in different ways.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 6.0 Home
  
Evolution: Evidence/Explore/Life/Changed
The learner will be able to explore the physical, chemical, and environmental evidence that shows that over time, life has changed.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 6.0 Home
  
Evolution: Evidence/Interpret/Biological
The learner will be able to interpret different forms of evidence for biological evolution.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 6.2 Home
  
Evolution: Alterations/Associate
The learner will be able to associate alterations in the environment to natural selection, mutation, and adaptation, which may lead to the formation of a new species or the extinction of a current species.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 6.4 Home
  
Ecosystems: Human/Investigate/Change
The learner will be able to investigate how the activities of people change ecosystems.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 2.7 Home
  
Ecosystems: Human/Deduce/Affect/Balance
The learner will be able to deduce how the activities of people affect the balance of ecosystems.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 2.0 Home
  
Cells: Parts/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize basic cell parts.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Function/Structure/Biomolecules
The learner will be able to explore the structure and function of the biomolecules in cells with respect to cellular processes.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Structure/Explore/Biomolecules
The learner will be able to explore the role of biomolecules in cell structure.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 1.1 Home
  
Ecosystems: Energy/Matter/Analyze/Flow
The learner will be able to analyze the flow of energy and nutrients in an ecosystem.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 2.3 Home
  
Ecosystems: Energy/Matter/Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze the nutrient and energy relationships in an energy pyramid.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 2.0 Home
  
Living Things: Characteristics/Symmetry
The learner will be able to deduce the body symmetry of a living thing when provided with an illustration of the living thing.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 5.0 Home
  
Living Things: Energy/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate between autotrophs and heterotrophs by finding similarities and differences in plant and animal structures.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 2.5 Home
  
Biochemistry: Differentiate/Proteins
The learner will be able to differentiate among proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 1.0 Home
  
Biochemistry: Differentiate/Nucleic
The learner will be able to differentiate among the types of nucleic acids.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 1.0 Home
  
Biochemistry: Find/Chemistry/Biomolecule
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the chemistry of biomolecules.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 1.1 Home
  
Plants: Photosynthesis/Recognize/Cell
The learner will be able to recognize the cell part in which photosynthesis happens when provided with an illustration of a plant.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Plants: Photosynthesis/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize the reactants and products of photosynthesis when provided with the equations.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Cells: Mitosis/Meiosis/Sequence/Stages
The learner will be able to sequence the stages of cell division for mitosis and meiosis.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 4.2 Home
  
Cells: Mitosis/Meiosis/Chromosomes
The learner will be able to determine how many chromosomes there are after mitosis or meiosis when provided with the number of chromosomes in the original cell.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 4.0 Home
  
Cells: Mitosis/Meiosis/Distinguish
The learner will be able to distinguish between mitosis and meiosis.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 4.7, Indicators, Level 1, Std 4.0 Home
  
Ecosystems: Population/Find/Similarities
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences among populations, communities, and ecosystems.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 2.2 Home
  
Ecosystems: Population/Interpret/Curves
The learner will be able to interpret population growth curves.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 2.0 Home
  
Heredity: Genetics/Establish/Phenotype
The learner will be able to establish the phenotype when provided with a specific combination of genes.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Genetics/Determine/Ratio
The learner will be able to determine the ratio of genotypes and phenotypes from a monohybrid cross.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Genetics/Determine/Monohybrid
The learner will be able to determine the dominant and recessive trait when provided with the ratios of phenotypes from a monohybrid cross.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Genetics/Investigate/Modes
The learner will be able to investigate different modes of inheritance using the principles of Mendelian inheritance.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 4.5 Home
  
Cells: Transport/Water/Estimate
The learner will be able to estimate the movement of water molecules across the membrane of the cell when provided with various concentrations.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Transport/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate between active and passive transport when provided with examples of various concentrations.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Transport/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate between active and passive transport when provided with examples of various molecules.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 1.0 Home
  
Taxonomy: Order/Recognize/Groups/Seven
The learner will be able to recognize, in order, the seven groups of classification.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 5.0 Home
  
Taxonomy: Nomenclature/Describe/Binomial
The learner will be able to describe how binomial nomenclature is used to name organisms.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 5.0 Home
  
Taxonomy: Classify/Dichotomous Key
The learner will be able to classify various organisms by utilizing a dichotomous key and properties of the organisms.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 5.0 Home
  
Taxonomy: Need/Deduce/Biological
The learner will be able to deduce the need for a system of biological classification.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 5.0 Home
  
Taxonomy: Systems/Compare/Different
The learner will be able to compare different classification systems.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 5.2 Home
  
Taxonomy: Aristotle/Compare/Linnaeus
The learner will be able to compare the classification systems of Aristotle and Linnaeus.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 5.0 Home
  
Heredity: Mutation/Establish/DNA
The learner will be able to establish the type of mutation that may have occurred when comparing complementary DNA strands.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Mutation/Connect/DNA
The learner will be able to connect genetic mutations with alterations in DNA.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 4.6 Home
  
Heredity: Traits/Recognize/Monohybrid
The learner will be able to recognize the dominant trait resulting in a monohybrid cross using the parents' genotype.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Traits/Identify/Punnet
The learner will be able to identify the inheritance of traits using a Punnet Square.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Traits/Identify
The learner will be able to identify sex-linked, co-dominant, incomplete dominant, polygenic and multiple allele traits.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Traits/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate among sex-linked, co-dominant, incomplete dominant, polygenic and multiple allele traits.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 4.0 Home
  
Heredity: Traits/Differentiate/Purebred
The learner will be able to differentiate between purebred and hybrid traits.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 4.4 Home
  
Heredity: Traits/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate between dominant and recessive traits.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 4.3 Home
  
Growth & Development: Establish/Stag
The learner will be able to establish if an organism undergoes complete or incomplete metamorphosis when provided with illustrations of the organism in its stages of development.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 5.0 Home
  
Symbiosis: Find/Differences/Types
The learner will be able to find differences among the types of symbiotic relationships.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 2.6 Home
  
Symbiosis: Distinguish/Relationships
The learner will be able to distinguish among the various symbiotic relationships, when provided with descriptions of commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 2.0 Home
  
Cells: Membrane/Define/Homeostasis
The learner will be able to define homeostasis.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Membrane/Define/Plasmolysis
The learner will be able to define plasmolysis.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Membrane/Define/Permeability
The learner will be able to define selective permeability.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Membrane/Explore
The learner will be able to explore the structure and function of cell membranes.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Membrane/Explore/Makeup
The learner will be able to explore the makeup of the cell membrane.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 1.3 Home
  
Cells: Membrane/Associate/Homeostasis
The learner will be able to associate cell membrane structure to its role in maintaining homeostasis.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 1.0 Home
  
Cells: Membrane/Explore/Homeostasis
The learner will be able to explore the importance of the cell membrane to homeostasis.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 1.3 Home
  
Plants: Life Cycle/Find/Various
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the life cycles of various plants.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Life Science, 5.4 Home
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