Disciplinary Core Ideas
Life Science
- From molecules to organisms: Structures and processes
- Ecosystems: Interactions, energy, and dynamics
- Heredity: Inheritance and variation of traits
- Biological Evolution: Unity and diversity
- Earth’s place in the universe
- Earth’s systems
- Earth and human activity
- Matter and its interactions
- Motion and stability: Forces and interactions
- Energy
- Waves and their applications in technologies for information transfer
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Scale, proportion, and quantity
- Systems and system models
- Energy and matter
- Structure and function
- Stability and change