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Target Level: Use a model to illustrate the organization and interaction of major organs into systems (e.g., circulatory, respiratory, digestive, sensory) in the body to provide specific functions.EE.HS-LS1-2

Precursor Level: Identify which organs work for a specific function.EE.HS-LS1-2

Initial Level: Recognize that different organs have different functions.EE.HS-LS1-2

Target Level: Use a model to illustrate how growth occurs when cells multiply. EE.HS-LS1-4

Precursor Level: Use a model to relate the number of cells to the size of a body.  EE.HS-LS1-4

Initial Level: Recognize that organisms are composed of cells. EE.HS-LS1-4

Target Level: Use a graphical representation to explain the dependence of an animal population on other organisms for food and their environment for shelter. EE.HS-LS2-2

Precursor Level: Recognize the relationship between population size and available resources for food and shelter from a graphical representation. EE.HS-LS2-2

Initial Level: Identify food and shelter needs for familiar wildlife.  EE.HS-LS2-2

Target Level: Defend why reproduction may or may not result in offspring with different traits. EE.HS-LS3-2

Precursor Level: Make a claim supported by evidence that parents and offspring may have different traits.EE.HS-LS3-2

Initial Level: Compare traits of parents and offspring. EE.HS-LS3-2

Target Level: Explain how the traits of particular species allow them to survive in their specific environments. EE.HS-LS4-2

Precursor Level: Identify factors in an environment that require special traits to survive. EE.HS-LS4-2

Initial Level: Match particular species to their various environments. EE.HS-LS4-2

Target Level: Use a model of Earth and the Sun to show how Earth's tilt and orbit around the Sun cause changes in seasons.EE.HS-ESS1-4

Precursor Level: Use a model of Earth and sun to show how Earth’s positions in its orbit around the Sun correspond with the four seasons.  EE.HS-ESS1-4

Initial Level: Identify characteristics of the seasons. EE.HS-ESS1-4

Target Level: Use a model to show how constructive forces (e.g., volcanoes) and destructive mechanisms (e.g., weathering, coastal erosions) change Earth's surface.EE.HS-ESS2-1

Precursor Level: Recognize if processes that change Earth's surface are constructive or destructive. EE.HS-ESS2-1

Initial Level: Recognize changes (e.g., mountain formation, erosion, and glacial changes) that occurred on Earth's surface.EE.HS-ESS2-1

Target Level: Using a model, recognize how the effects of changes in climate can impact human lives. EE.HS-ESS2-4

Precursor Level: Recognize climate changes have occurred (e.g., a change in average temperature, precipitation patterns, glacial ice volumes, sea levels).EE.HS-ESS2-4

Initial Level: Recognize the differences between geographical climates (e.g., Minnesota versus Florida, desert versus rainforest). EE.HS-ESS2-4

Target Level: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural hazards have influenced human activity.EE.HS-ESS3-1

Precursor Level: Recognize how natural hazards (e.g., floods, earthquakes, tornadoes) influence human activity.  EE.HS-ESS3-1

Initial Level: Recognize characteristics of natural hazards (e.g., floods, earthquakes, tornadoes). EE.HS-ESS3-1

Target Level: Construct an argument for a strategy to conserve, recycle, or reuse resources.EE.HS-ESS3-2

Precursor Level: Describe the factors that would favor one strategy to conserve, recycle, or reuse resources over another. EE.HS-ESS3-2

Initial Level: Recognize strategies to manage objects (e.g., dispose, repurpose, or recycle). EE.HS-ESS3-2

Target Level: Analyze data to determine the effects of a conservation strategy on the level of a natural resource.EE.HS-ESS3-3

Precursor Level: Organize data on the effects of conservation strategies (e.g., using less energy, using rechargeable batteries, recycling or repurposing materials).  EE.HS-ESS3-3

Initial Level: Gather data on the effects of a local (e.g., class or school-wide) conservation strategy.  EE.HS-ESS3-3