DNA Standards
SCIENCE CONTENT STANDARDS (Grades 5-8)
Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessay to do Scientific Inquiry
- Identify questions that can be answered by Scientific Inquiry
- Recognize and analyze alternate explanations and predictions
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations
Life Science
- Structure and function in living systems
- Reproduction and heredity
COMMON CORE LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS (Grades 6-8)
Key Ideas and Details
- Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
- Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.