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.