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• Explain how light-dependent reactions convert photon energy into ATP and NADPH
• Describe the role of electron transport and proton pumping in building an electrochemical gradient
• Model how water splitting contributes electrons and produces oxygen

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• Understand how organisms function as systems with internal structures supporting specific roles.
• Identify different body parts involved in processing inputs like food, oxygen, and water.
• Explain how component structures and their functions align to support life processes.

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• Understand different options for freshwater management and their tradeoffs.
• Evaluate constraints and environmental impacts of water system designs.
• Identify solutions like surface water storage, groundwater recharge, water recycling, and desalination.+ Show more

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• Explain how chemical energy changes are represented by bond formation and breaking.
• Describe how enthalpy change is determined by bond energies and the use of calorimetry data.
• Apply Hess's law to relate reaction enthalpies to molecular structures.+ Show more

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• Explain how reflective thinking and planning can help students succeed during the school year.
• Use goal-setting and progress tracking to respond to challenges with perseverance.
• Describe how community support helps students maintain hope and a growth mindset.

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• Understand the importance of balancing chemical equations to reflect atomic conservation.
• Learn how to identify and apply coefficients to balance chemical equations correctly.
• Recognize the role of state indicators and stoichiometric coefficients in symbolic chemical equations.+ Show more

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• Explain how voter registration rules and election districting shape voter participation.
• Analyze how voting regulations can affect political representation in diverse populations.
• Evaluate how election legitimacy can be supported through transparent and fair voting systems.

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• Explain reaction rate in terms of collision frequency and the fraction of effective collisions
• Analyze how concentration, temperature, and physical state/surface area affect reaction rates
• Use the activation energy concept to predict whether a collision can lead to product formation+ Show more

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• Identify the central idea of an informational text by focusing on the author’s main message.
• Distinguish key supporting details from unrelated or less important information.
• Use central idea and supporting details to write a clear summary.

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• Analyze different types of interspecific interactions such as competition, predation, mutualism, and facilitation.
• Interpret food web diagrams and interaction matrices to understand energy flow and interaction strength.
• Evaluate the roles of keystone species, trophic cascades, and niche partitioning in community assembly and resilience.+ Show more

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• Explain atomic packing, unit cell geometries, and bonding types in solids.
• Describe how structural features influence material properties like strength and conductivity.
• Understand band theory concepts and their relation to electronic properties of materials.+ Show more

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• Understand the pathways and reservoirs involved in the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles.
• Analyze the fluxes and residence times of nutrients within different reservoirs.
• Evaluate the impact of human activities on biogeochemical cycles and atmospheric composition.+ Show more

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• Explain how energy flows through ecosystems from producers to consumers
• Describe how food chains and food webs show feeding relationships
• Identify why energy decreases at higher trophic levels

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• Explain how permitting, land-use planning, and environmental assessments work together to regulate natural resource use.
• Describe how regulatory standards and economic valuation influence decisions about conservation and development.
• Analyze how monitoring, compliance, and adaptive management reduce environmental damage over time.+ Show more

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• Understand the purpose and importance of data tables in recording observations.
• Identify proper column headings, units, and metadata fields in data tables.
• Learn to maintain consistency in timestamps and recording conventions for clarity.+ Show more

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• Understand the difference between electrolytes and nonelectrolytes and their ability to conduct electricity.
• Distinguish between strong and weak electrolytes based on ion dissociation and conductance.
• Link ion concentration to electrical conductance and understand its effect on colligative properties like freezing point depression.+ Show more

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• Understand the greenhouse effect and the role of greenhouse gases in climate regulation.
• Identify natural and human sources of greenhouse gases.
• Explain how changes in atmospheric composition influence global temperatures.+ Show more

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• Understand how groundwater is stored and moves beneath Earth's surface.
• Identify factors affecting groundwater recharge and discharge.
• Explain the impacts of groundwater decline on surface water systems and water quality.+ Show more

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• Compare physical, cellular, and biochemical immune barriers with adaptive immune responses.
• Explain how antigen recognition leads to inflammation, antibody production, and immune memory.
• Describe how stress, nutrition, and environmental exposures can alter immune competence and increase disease risk.

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• Explain how fossil extinctions and current species-loss rates can show changes in biodiversity over time
• Evaluate human-caused drivers of biodiversity change, including invasive species, habitat fragmentation, and climate shifts
• Use simple evidence from monitoring and phylogenetic data to describe taxonomic declines and recovery potential

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• Compare key structural features of prokaryotic (bacteria and archaea) cells with eukaryotic cells.
• Identify how DNA arrangement differs between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
• Explain why compartmentalization and organelles matter for cell function.

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• Use holiday experiences to write a short, organized reflection
• Identify feelings, challenges, and lessons learned from a holiday
• Practice summary skills by choosing the best moment and explaining why it mattered

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• Explain that friction is a resistive force between surfaces that slows or stops moving objects.
• Describe how surface texture and materials can change how easily something slides or rolls.
• Compare sliding and rolling as ways motion can be opposed by friction.+ Show more

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• Understand the principle of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.
• Identify real-world applications of mass conservation in environmental and industrial contexts.
• Explain how mass remains constant in closed systems during chemical processes.+ Show more

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• Use electric and magnetic field concepts to predict the direction of forces on moving charges
• Apply the Lorentz force law qualitatively to simple uniform-field situations
• Interpret how superposition of electric and magnetic effects changes motion

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• Explain how land-cover change from human activities can affect ecosystem function, hydrologic cycles, and biodiversity
• Use data-informed indicators (such as nutrient loading, soil erosion, and habitat fragmentation) to connect land use to environmental outcomes
• Interpret evidence from maps, remote sensing, and field surveys to describe ecological and biogeochemical consequences

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• Understand the key processes involved in the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles.
• Identify reservoirs and fluxes of matter within biogeochemical cycles.
• Analyze the impact of human activities on nutrient fluxes and reservoir balances.+ Show more

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• Explain the main stages of drinking-water and wastewater treatment and what each stage removes
• Describe how disinfection and nutrient-removal processes protect humans and ecosystems
• Evaluate how treatment capacity and energy use affect discharge quality and downstream water health

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• Explain how friction and pressure differences contribute to drag.
• Differentiate parasitic drag from induced drag using examples.
• Describe how drag affects thrust needed for flight and overall energy demand.

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• Explain how optical, radio, and spectrometers help scientists observe the solar system
• Describe how different wavelengths provide information about composition, motion, and temperature
• Compare ground-based and space-based observing and explain why Earth’s atmosphere can distort observations+ Show more

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• Understand how environmental constraints can affect design choices.
• Identify potential social and environmental impacts of engineering solutions.
• Analyze the balance between technical feasibility and responsible decision-making.+ Show more

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• Explain how collision theory and rate laws describe factors affecting reaction speed.
• Identify the influence of temperature, concentration, surface area, and catalysts on reaction rates.
• Interpret empirical rate data using concepts of molecular collision frequency, activation energy, and rate constants.+ Show more

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• Explain how the rock cycle and Earth processes (lithification, metamorphism, and magmatism) contribute to the rock record
• Use sedimentary stratigraphy and fossils (especially index fossils) to interpret relative time and correlate layers
• Describe relative and absolute dating methods, including radiometric decay, and explain how dated evidence anchors Earth’s history+ Show more

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• Explain how effective nuclear charge, shielding, and electron configuration account for periodic trends across periods and down groups.
• Interpret how atomic radius, ionization energy, electron affinity, electronegativity, and metallic character change across the periodic table.
• Correlate periodic trends with typical chemical reactivity and ionic/covalent tendencies for representative elements.

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• Explain how genetic differences and environmental influences can produce phenotypic variation within a species.
• Describe how temperature and nutrition can change gene expression or growth during development.
• Connect DNA sequence variation and epigenetic/environmental modifiers to observed differences in structure and function.

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• Explain the three main principles of cell theory and why they matter for understanding life.
• Summarize key historical evidence and the role of microscopy in discovering microscopic life.
• Compare unicellular and multicellular organization at a conceptual level.+ Show more

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• Explain how hypotheses are temporary claims that lead to testable predictions.
• Identify the relationship between evidence, uncertainty, and refining assumptions in scientific reasoning.
• Evaluate whether a proposed explanation can be supported or challenged by observations and data.

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• Identify how productive academic routines support learning and wellbeing
• Use time-management strategies (planning, reviewing, and prioritizing) to improve study habits
• Reflect on personal routines and make a realistic plan for the first month of school

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• Differentiate catabolic and anabolic pathways based on how they use energy and reducing power
• Explain how enzymes, feedback regulation, substrate availability, and compartmentalization affect metabolic flux
• Describe how integrated pathways balance biosynthesis and degradation to meet cellular energy demands

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• Identify ways people from Hispanic backgrounds contribute to their communities
• Explain how working together and giving back can improve society
• Use reading details to answer questions about community helpers and values

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• Explain how fixed, movable, and compound (block-and-tackle) pulley systems change force and motion
• Calculate ideal mechanical advantage using the number of supporting rope segments
• Describe how friction and rope stretch reduce real-world performance compared to ideal predictions+ Show more

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• Understand how geologic and atmospheric indicators are used to assess natural hazards.
• Identify different types of natural hazards and their triggering mechanisms.
• Analyze spatial patterns and feedbacks involved in hazard events.+ Show more

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• Compare prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells based on structure and organelles.
• Describe how key organelles carry out major cell functions (energy transformation, genetic information storage, transport).
• Use microscopy and cell structure vocabulary to interpret observable features of cells.

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• Identify major components of the solar system and describe how they are classified (planets, dwarf planets, belts).
• Compare terrestrial (rocky) and gas giant planets using basic composition, atmosphere, and temperature ideas.
• Explain how orbital zones relate to typical planet temperatures and surface conditions.+ Show more

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• Explain how systems thinking focuses on components, interactions, and boundaries.
• Use diagrams (like box-and-arrow models) to represent energy and matter flows.
• Interpret conservation ideas (such as conservation of mass) within physical and chemical systems.+ Show more

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• Understand how Indigenous and settler communities historically interpreted sky patterns for practical and cultural purposes.
• Identify different observational strategies used to track celestial motion and seasons.
• Describe how oral knowledge and early astronomical records reflect diverse cultural perspectives on the sky.+ Show more

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• Describe the major atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns such as Hadley, Ferrel, and polar cells.
• Explain the influence of planetary rotation and the Coriolis effect on wind deflection.
• Identify how circulation patterns impact regional climates and weather phenomena like trade winds, monsoons, and ocean currents.+ Show more

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• Understand the concepts of displacement, velocity, and acceleration as vector quantities.
• Interpret position–time and velocity–time graphs in the context of motion.
• Apply symbolic kinematic equations for constant acceleration to solve problems.+ Show more