Ecology Unit Learning Objectives:
LO 2.1 The student is able to explain how biological systems use free energy based on empirical data that all organisms require constant energy input to maintain organization, to grow, and to reproduce. [SP 6.2]
LO 2.2 The student is able to justify a scientific claim that free energy is required for living systems to maintain organization, to grow, or to reproduce, but that multiple strategies exist in different living systems. [SP 6.1]
LO 2.3 The student is able to predict how changes in free energy availability affect organisms, populations, and ecosystems. [SP 6.4]
LO 2.22 The student is able to refine scientific models and questions about the effect of complex biotic and abiotic interactions on all biological systems, from cells and organisms to populations, communities, and ecosystems. [SP 1.3, SP 3.2]
LO 2.39 The student is able to justify scientific claims, using evidence, to describe how timing and coordination of behavioral events in organisms are regulated by several mechanisms. [SP 6.1]
LO 2.38 The student is able to analyze data to support the claim that responses to information and communication of information affect natural selection. [SP 5.1]
LO 2.40 The student is able to connect concepts in and across domain(s) to predict how environmental factors affect responses to information and change behavior. [SP 7.2]
LO 2.23 The students is able to design a plan for collecting data to show that all biological systems (cells, organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems) are affected by complex biotic and abiotic interactions. [SP 4.2, SP 7.2]
LO 2.24 The student is able to analyze data to identify possible patterns and relationships between a biotic or abiotic factor and a biological system (cells, organisms, populations, communities, or ecosystems). [SP 5.1]
LO 2.28 The student is able to use representations or models to analyze quantitatively and qualitatively the effects of disruptions to dynamic homeostasis in biological systems. [SP 1.4]
LO 4.11 The student is able to justify the selection of the kind of data needed to answer scientific questions about the interaction of populations within communities. [See SP 1.4, 4.1]
LO 4.12 The student is able to apply mathematical routines to quantities that describe communities composed of populations of organisms that interact in complex ways. [See SP 2.2]
LO 4.13 The student is able to predict the effects of a change in the community’s populations on the community. [See SP 6.4]
LO 4.14 The student is able to apply mathematical routines to quantities that describe interactions among living systems and their environment, which result in the movement of matter and energy. [SP 2.2]
LO 4.15 The student is able to use visual representations to analyze situations or solve problems qualitatively to illustrate how interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy. [SP 1.4]
LO 4.16 The student is able to predict the effects of a change of matter or energy availability on communities. [SP 6.4]
LO 2.3 The student is able to predict how changes in free energy availability affect organisms, populations, and ecosystems. [SP 6.4]
LO 4.20 The student is able to explain how the distribution of ecosystems changes over time by identifying large-scale events that have resulted in these changes in the past. [SP 6.3]
LO 4.21 The student is able to predict consequences of human actions on both local and global ecosystems. [SP 6.4]
LO 4.27 The student is able to make scientific claims and predictions about how species diversity within an ecosystem influences ecosystem stability. [SP 6.4]
LO 2.1 The student is able to explain how biological systems use free energy based on empirical data that all organisms require constant energy input to maintain organization, to grow, and to reproduce. [SP 6.2]
LO 2.2 The student is able to justify a scientific claim that free energy is required for living systems to maintain organization, to grow, or to reproduce, but that multiple strategies exist in different living systems. [SP 6.1]
LO 2.3 The student is able to predict how changes in free energy availability affect organisms, populations, and ecosystems. [SP 6.4]
LO 2.22 The student is able to refine scientific models and questions about the effect of complex biotic and abiotic interactions on all biological systems, from cells and organisms to populations, communities, and ecosystems. [SP 1.3, SP 3.2]
LO 2.39 The student is able to justify scientific claims, using evidence, to describe how timing and coordination of behavioral events in organisms are regulated by several mechanisms. [SP 6.1]
LO 2.38 The student is able to analyze data to support the claim that responses to information and communication of information affect natural selection. [SP 5.1]
LO 2.40 The student is able to connect concepts in and across domain(s) to predict how environmental factors affect responses to information and change behavior. [SP 7.2]
LO 2.23 The students is able to design a plan for collecting data to show that all biological systems (cells, organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems) are affected by complex biotic and abiotic interactions. [SP 4.2, SP 7.2]
LO 2.24 The student is able to analyze data to identify possible patterns and relationships between a biotic or abiotic factor and a biological system (cells, organisms, populations, communities, or ecosystems). [SP 5.1]
LO 2.28 The student is able to use representations or models to analyze quantitatively and qualitatively the effects of disruptions to dynamic homeostasis in biological systems. [SP 1.4]
LO 4.11 The student is able to justify the selection of the kind of data needed to answer scientific questions about the interaction of populations within communities. [See SP 1.4, 4.1]
LO 4.12 The student is able to apply mathematical routines to quantities that describe communities composed of populations of organisms that interact in complex ways. [See SP 2.2]
LO 4.13 The student is able to predict the effects of a change in the community’s populations on the community. [See SP 6.4]
LO 4.14 The student is able to apply mathematical routines to quantities that describe interactions among living systems and their environment, which result in the movement of matter and energy. [SP 2.2]
LO 4.15 The student is able to use visual representations to analyze situations or solve problems qualitatively to illustrate how interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy. [SP 1.4]
LO 4.16 The student is able to predict the effects of a change of matter or energy availability on communities. [SP 6.4]
LO 2.3 The student is able to predict how changes in free energy availability affect organisms, populations, and ecosystems. [SP 6.4]
LO 4.20 The student is able to explain how the distribution of ecosystems changes over time by identifying large-scale events that have resulted in these changes in the past. [SP 6.3]
LO 4.21 The student is able to predict consequences of human actions on both local and global ecosystems. [SP 6.4]
LO 4.27 The student is able to make scientific claims and predictions about how species diversity within an ecosystem influences ecosystem stability. [SP 6.4]