La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CV-709
SI-H-A1 | Identifying questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations. |
SI-H-A2 | Designing and conducting scientific investigations. |
SI-H-A3 | Using technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications. |
SI-H-A4 | Formulating and revising scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence. |
SI-H-A5 | Recognizing and analyzing alternative explanations and models. |
SI-H-A6 | Communicating and defending a scientific argument. |
SI-H-A7 | Utilizing science safety procedures during scientific investigations. |
SI-H-B2 | Communicating that scientists conduct investigations for a variety of reasons, such as: exploration of new areas; discovery of new aspects of the natural world; confirmation of prior investigations; evaluation of current theories; and comparison of models and theories. |
SI-H-B3 | Communicating that scientists rely on technology to enhance the gathering and manipulation of data. |
SI-H-B4 | Analyzing a proposed explanation of scientific evidence according to the following criteria: follow a logical structure; follow rules of evidence; allow for questions and modifications based on historical and current scientific knowledge. |
SI-H-B5 | Communicating that the results of scientific inquiry, new knowledge, and methods emerge from different types of investigations and public communication among scientists. |
PS-H-B1 | Describing the structure of the atom and identifying and characterizing the particles that compose it (including the structure and properties of isotopes). |
PS-H-B2 | Describing the nature and importance of radioactive isotopes and nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, radioactive decay). |
PS-H-B3 | Understanding that an atom's electron configuration, particularly that of the outer-most electrons, determines the chemical properties of that atom. |
PS-H-C1 | Distinguishing among elements, compounds, and/or mixtures. |
PS-H-C2 | Discovering the patterns of physical and chemical properties found on the periodic table of the elements. |
PS-H-C6 | Recognizing that carbon atoms can bond to one another in chains, rings, and branching networks to form a variety of structures. |
PS-H-C7 | Using the kinetic theory to describe the behavior of atoms and molecules during the phase changes and to describe the behavior of matter in its different phases. |
PS-H-D1 | Observing and describing changes in matter and citing evidence of chemical change. |
PS-H-D6 | Comparing and contrasting the energy changes that accompany changes in matter. |
PS-H-D7 | Identifying important chemical reactions that occur in living systems, the home, industry and the environment. |
PS-H-E1 | Recognizing the characteristics and relative strengths of the forces of nature (gravitational, electrical, magnetic, nuclear). |
PS-H-E2 | Understanding the relationship of displacement, time, rate of motion, and rate of change of motion; representing rate and changes of motion mathematically and graphically. |
PS-H-E3 | Understanding effects of forces on changes in motion as explained by Newtonian mechanics. |
PS-H-E4 | Illustrating how frame of reference affects our ability to judge motion. |
PS-H-F1 | Describing and representing relationships among energy, work, power, and efficiency. |
PS-H-F2 | Applying the universal law of conservation of matter, energy, and momentum, and recognizing their implications. |
PS-H-G1 | Giving examples of the transport of energy through wave action. |
PS-H-G2 | Analyzing the relationship and interaction of magnetic and electrical fields and the forces they produce. |
PS-H-G3 | Characterizing and differentiating electromagnetic and mechanical waves and their effects on objects as well as humans. |
PS-H-G4 | Explaining the possible hazards of exposure to various forms and amounts of energy. |
[WARNING: Benchmarks for grades 9-12 need to be addressed if Earth Science is not offered at the high school level.]
ESS-H-A1 | Investigating the methods of energy transfer and identifying the sun as the major source of energy for most of the Earth's systems. |
ESS-H-A2 | Modeling the seasonal changes in the relative position and appearance of the sun and inferring the consequences with respect to the Earth's temperature. |
ESS-H-A3 | Explaining fission and fusion in relation to the Earth 's internal and external heat sources. |
ESS-H-A5 | Demonstrating how the sun's radiant energy causes convection currents within the atmosphere and the oceans. |
ESS-H-B1 | Illustrating how stable chemical atoms or elements are recycled through the solid earth, oceans, atmosphere, and organisms. |
ESS-H-B2 | Demonstrating Earth's internal and external energy sources as forces in moving chemical atoms or elements. |
SE-H-A1 | Demonstrating an understanding of the functions of Earth's major ecological systems. |
SE-H-A2 | Investigating the flow of energy in ecological systems. |
SE-H-A9 | Demonstrating an understanding of influencing factors of biodiversity. |
SE-H-A10 | Explaining that all species represent a vital link in a complex web of interaction. |
SE-H-A11 | Understanding how pollutants can affect living systems. |
SE-H-B1 | Explaining the relationship between renewable and nonrenewable resources. |
SE-H-B2 | Comparing and contrasting conserving and preserving resources. |
SE-H-B3 | Recognizing that population size and geographic and economic factors result in the inequitable distribution of the Earth's resources. |
SE-H-B4 | Comparing and contrasting long and short-term consequences of resource management. |
SE-H-B5 | Analyzing resource management. |
SE-H-B6 | Recognizing that sustainable development is a process of change in which resource use, investment direction, technological development, and institutional change meet society's present as well as future needs. |
SE-H-C1 | Evaluating the dynamic interaction of land, water, and air and its relationship to living things in maintaining a healthy environment. |
SE-H-C2 | Evaluating the relationships between quality of life and environmental quality. |
SE-H-C3 | Investigating and communicating how environmental policy is formed by the interaction of social, economic, technological, and political considerations. |
SE-H-C4 | Demonstrating that environmental decisions include analyses that incorporate ecological, health, social, and economic factors. |
SE-H-C5 | Analyzing how public support affects the creation and enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. |
SE-H-D1 | Demonstrating the effects of personal choices and actions on the natural environment. |
SE-H-D2 | Analyzing how individuals are capable of reducing and reversing their impact on the environment through thinking, planning, education, collaboration, and action. |
SE-H-D3 | Demonstrating that the most important factor in prevention and control of pollution is education. |
SE-H-D4 | Demonstrating a knowledge that environmental issues should be a local and global concern. |
SE-H-D5 | Recognizing that the development of accountability toward the environment is essential for sustainability. |
SE-H-D6 | Developing an awareness of personal responsibility as stewards of the local and global environment. |
La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CV-709