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| Standard & Performance Indicator |
Activity | Assessment |
| A3: Analyze the basic characteristics of living things, including their need for food, water, and gases and the ability to reproduce. |
Extreme Life Trading Card Game Exploration of a New Planetary System |
WebQuest: X-Treme Files
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| D6: Analyze a theory scientists use to explain the origin of life. |
The Ecospheres of Stars Exploration of a New Planetary System |
WebQuest: X-Treme Files
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| E1: Trace the development of models of the atom to the present and describe how each model reflects the scientific understanding of their time. |
Spectral Lines and the Bohr Atom The Standard Model Psyching Out the System The Rules of the Game |
Cosmology Test |
| E2: Analyze how matter is affected by changes in temperature, pressure, and volume. |
The Flow Chart of Stellar Evolution Heating Up Spectra Spectral Sequence and the HR Diagram The HR Diagram |
TBA |
| E7: Describe nuclear reactions, including fusion, fission, and decay, their occurrences in nature, and how they can be used by humans. |
Particle Soup: Nucleosynthesis The Flow Chart of Stellar Evolution |
Cosmology Test |
| G1: Describe how scientists gather data about the universe. |
Measuring Angles in the Sky
Pinhole Protractor Cross Staff Projects Quadrant Projects Finding Your Latitude Galilean & Keplerian Telescopes Inv. 6: A Simple Refracting Telescope Telescopes Tutorial Spectroscopy and Types of Spectra Identifying Lines in the Solar Spectrum Supernova Chemistry The Flame Test Hubble Law Lab, the Short Version |
Astronomical Tools Practicum Investigation 5: The Astrolabe The Milky Way: Past and Present |
| G2: Research current explanations for phenomena such as black holes and quasars. |
Life Cycle of Stars The Flow Chart of Stellar Evolution Quasars Black Holes: The Ultimate Abyss No Escape The Light Cone |
The Life of a Star Cosmology Test Black Holes |
| G3: Explain how astronomers measure interstellar distances. |
The Inverse Square Law More Inverse Square Law Alien Eyes Determing Distances: Parallax Parallax Java Applet Magnitudes and Parallax Review The Cepheid Yardstick |
TBA |
| H1: Analyze the evidence that leads scientists to conclude that light behaves somewhat like a wave and somewhat like a particle. |
Wave Theory of Light
The Photoelectric Effect |
TBA |
| H2: Examine and describe how light is reflected and refracted (deflected) by mirrors and lenses. | Optics (All activities listed on this page) |
Hall of Light and Mirrors |
| H3: Explain or demonstrate how sound waves travel. |
The Doppler Effect |
Cosmology Test |
| H4: Analyze the relationship between the kinetic and potential energy of a falling object. | Impact Craters | TBA |
| H6: Describe the relationship between matter and energy and how matter releases energy through the processes of nuclear fission and fusion. |
Life Cycle of Stars The Flow Chart of Stellar Evolution |
TBA |
| I2: Explain some current theories of gravitational force. |
Detect the Jupiter-like Planet Around These Stars Surface Gravity and Weight Newton's Law's of Gravity From Apples to Orbits The Light Cone |
TBA |
| I3: Use Newton's Laws to qualitatively and quantitatively describe the motion of objects. | Alka Rockets Newton's 2nd Law Virtual Lab | TBA |
| I6: Describe how forces within and between atoms affect their behavior and the properties of matter. | The Standard Model |
Cosmology Test |