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New Mexico Science Content Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Standards Publisher Alignment Analyses for Primary Tool of Instruction

This correlation table/matrix is a tool to show alignment with New Mexico’s Content Standards, Benchmarks and Performance Standards and the proposed instructional material considered for adoption. The purpose is to demonstrate how your material can contribute to student achievement as measured against these Content Standards. Please submit this alignment analyses for each title you are submitting to the Instructional Material Bureau via e-mail to Marjorie Gillespie at [email protected] . Please do NOT send paper copies of this document. Title: Prentice Hall Biology © 2006, (Miller/Levine) ISBN: 0-13-166255-4 (Student Edition); 0-13-166288-0 (Teacher Edition)

Biology I

Strand I: Scientific Thinking and Practice

Standard I: Understand the processes of scientific investigations and use inquiry and scientific ways of observing, experimenting, predicting, and validating to think critically.

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Performance Standards

Introduced Practiced Yes No Use accepted scientific methods to collect, analyze, and interpret data and observations and to design and conduct scientific investigations and communicate results.

1. Describe the essential components of an investigation, including appropriate methodologies, proper equipment, and safety precautions.

SE/TE: 54, 161, 215, 334, 521, 627, 759, , 883, 964

Inquiring Activities, Appendix B


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 2. Design and conduct scientific investigations that

include:

• testable hypotheses

SE/TE: 54, 161

SE/TE: 215, 335, 521, 627

• controls and variables

SE/TE: 161, 334

SE/TE: 215, 335, 521, 627, 508, 543, 601, 627

• methods to collect, analyze, and interpret data

SE/TE: 54, 161

SE/TE: 215, 335, 521, 627, 759, 991

• results that address hypotheses being investigated

SE/TE: 161, 215

SE/TE: 335, 521, 627, 759, 991

• predictions based on results

SE/TE: 54, 627

SE/TE: 759, 883, 964, 161, 215, 334, 521

• re-evaluation of hypotheses and additional experimentation as necessary

SE/TE: 54

SE/TE: 521, 627, 990


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Introduced Practiced Yes No • error analysis.

3. Use appropriate technologies to collect, analyze, and communicate scientific data (e.g., computers, calculators, balances, microscopes).

SE/TE: 29, 54

Appendix D

4. Convey results of investigations using scientific concepts, methodologies, and expressions, including:

• scientific language and symbols

SE/TE: 361, 648

• diagrams, charts, and other data displays

SE/TE: 27, 51, 123, 296, 913, 935

SE/TE: 32 , 84, 131, 455, 494, 742

• mathematical expressions and processes (e.g., mean, median, slope, proportionality)

SE/TE: 27, 51,

• clear, logical, and concise communication

SE/TE: 54,

SE/TE: 161, 215, 335, 521, 627, 759 991

• reasoned arguments.

SE/TE: 233, 330, 403

SE/TE: 330, 403


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 5. Understand how scientific theories are used to

explain and predict natural phenomena (e.g., plate tectonics, ocean currents, structure of atom).

SE/TE: 15

SE/TE: 89, 35-36

Understand that scientific processes produce scientific knowledge that is continually evaluated, validated, revised, or rejected.

1. Understand how scientific processes produce valid, reliable results, including:

• consistency of explanations with data and observations

SE/TE: 12

SE/TE: 150, 204, 287

• openness to peer review

SE/TE: 23

• full disclosure and examination of assumptions

• testability of hypotheses

SE/TE: All Design an Experiment Labs

• repeatability of experiments and reproducibility of results.

SE/TE: All Design an Experiment Labs


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 2. Use scientific reasoning and valid logic to

recognize:

• faulty logic

SE/TE: 374, 376

• cause and effect

• the difference between observation and unsubstantiated inferences and conclusions

SE/TE: 8-1 2,

• potential bias.

SE/TE: 11

3. Understand how new data and observations can result in new scientific knowledge.

SE/TE: 12, 170, 292, 374

4. Critically analyze an accepted explanation by reviewing current scientific knowledge.

5. Examine investigations of current interest in science (e.g., superconductivity, molecular machines, age of the universe).

SE/TE: 330, 354


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 6. Examine the scientific processes and logic used in

investigations of past events (e.g., using data from crime scenes, fossils), investigations that can be planned in advance but are only done once (e.g., expensive or time-consuming experiments such as medical clinical trials), and investigations of phenomena that can be repeated easily and frequently.

SE/TE: 417-423

TR: Section Review 17-1, Transparencies Plus, Section 17-1

Use mathematical concepts, principles, and expressions to analyze data, develop models, understand patterns and relationships, evaluate findings, and draw conclusions.

1. Create multiple displays of data to analyze and explain the relationships in scientific investigations

SE/TE: 51, 123, 213, 620, 1053

2. Use mathematical models to describe, explain, and predict natural phenomena.

SE/TE: 120-121, 122

3. Use technologies to quantify relationships in scientific hypotheses (e.g., calculators, computer spreadsheets and databases, graphing software, simulations, modeling).

4. Identify and apply measurement techniques and consider possible effects of measurement errors.


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 5. Use mathematics to express and establish scientific

relationships (e.g., scientific notation, vectors, dimensional analysis).

Strand II: Content of Science

Standard I (Physical Science): Understand the structure and properties of matter, the characteristics of energy, and the interactions between matter and energy.

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Introduced Practiced Yes No Understand the properties, underlying structure, and reactions of matter.

Properties of Matter 1. Classify matter in a variety of ways (e.g., element,

compound, mixture; solid, liquid, gas; acidic, basic, neutral).

SE/TE: 36-39

2. Identify, measure, and use a variety of physical and chemical properties (e.g., electrical conductivity, density, viscosity, chemical reactivity, pH, melting point).

Structure of Matter 3. Understand that matter is made of atoms and that

atoms are made of subatomic particles.

SE/TE: 35-39



4. Know that states of matter (i.e., solid, liquid, gas) depend on the arrangement of atoms and molecules and on their freedom of motion.


Standard II (Life Science): Understand the properties, structures, and processes of living things and the interdependence of living things and their environments.

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Introduced Practiced Yes No Understand how the survival of species depends on biodiversity and on complex interactions, including the cycling of matter and the flow of energy.

Ecosystems 1. Know that an ecosystem is complex and

may exhibit fluctuations around a steady state or may evolve over time.

SE/TE: 63-65

SE/TE: 65 TR: Section Review 3-1, Transparencies Plus, Section 3-1

2. Describe how organisms cooperate and compete in ecosystems (e.g., producers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, predator-prey, symbiosis, mutualism).

SE/TE: 67-71,

SE/TE: 73 TR: Section Review 3-2; Transparencies Plus, Section 3-2,


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 3. Understand and describe how available

resources limit the amount of life an ecosystem can support (e.g., energy, water, oxygen, nutrients).

SE/TE: 67-71, 75-79

SE/TE: 73 TR: Section Review 3-2.3-3; Transparencies Plus, Section 3-2, 3-3

4. Critically analyze how humans modify and change ecosystems (e.g., harvesting, pollution, population growth, technology).

SE/TE: 119-122, 139-144, 157-160

TR: Section Review 5-1, 6-1, 6-4; Transparencies Plus, Section 5-1, 6-1, 6-4 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-2061

Energy Flow in the Environment 5. Explain how matter and energy flow

through biological systems (e.g., organisms, communities, ecosystems), and how the total amount of matter and energy is conserved but some energy is always released as heat to the environment.

SE/TE: 67-73, 75-78

SE/TE: 73, 80, 82-84 TR: Section Review 3-2,


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 6. Describe how energy flows from the sun

through plants to herbivores to carnivores and decomposers.

TE/TE: 67-73

SE/TE: 73

7. Understand and explain the principles of photosynthesis (i.e., chloroplasts in plants convert light energy, carbon dioxide, and water into chemical energy).

SE/TE: 200-207, 208-213

SE/TE: 207, 214, 216-218 TECH: GoOnline PHSchool.com cbd-3081

Biodiversity 8. Understand and explain the hierarchical

classification scheme (i.e., domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species), including:

SE/TE: 446-467

SE/TE: 1072-1077 TR: Section Review 18-1; Transparencies Plus, Section 18-1 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-5183

• classification of an organism into a category

SE/TE: 446-447

TR: Section Review 18-1 TECH: www.SciLinks.com SciLinks cbn-5181


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Introduced Practiced Yes No • similarity inferred from molecular

structure (DNA)

SE/TE: 454

TR: Section Review 18-2

• closely matching classification based on anatomical similarities

SE/TE: 457-461

TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-5183

• similarities of organisms reflecting evolutionary relationships.

SE/TE: 452-455, 457-459, 849

TR: Section Review 18-2, 18-3 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-5183

9. Understand variation within and among species, including:

• mutations and genetic drift

SE/TE: 306-308, 320-321, 400

• factors affecting the survival of an organism

SE/TE: 380-381



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Introduced Practiced Yes No • natural selection.

SE/TE: 380-382, 383, 389, 397-399, 406-407

TR: Section Review 15-3 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-5153, cbn-5154

Understand the genetic basis for inheritance and the basic concepts of biological evolution.

Genetics 1. Know how DNA carries all genetic

information in the units of heredity called genes, including:

• the structure of DNA (e.g., subunits A, G, C, T)

SE/TE: 291-306

TR: Section Review 12-1 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-4121, 4122

• information-preserving replication of DNA

SE/TE: 302-305

TR: Section Review 12-3 Transparencies Plus, Section 12-3


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Introduced Practiced Yes No • alteration of genes by inserting, deleting,

or substituting parts of DNA.

SE/TE: 307-312, 322-326

TR: Section Review 12-4, 12-5 Transparencies Plus, Section 12-4, 12-5

2. Use appropriate vocabulary to describe inheritable traits (i.e., genotype, phenotype).

SE/TE: 263-266, 268-269

TR: Section Review 11-1 TECH: GoOnline PHSchool.com cbe-4111

3. Explain the concepts of segregation, independent assortment, and dominant/recessive alleles.

SE/TE: 270-274

TR: Section Review 11-3, Transparencies Plus, Section 11-3 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-4112

4. Identify traits that can and cannot be inherited.

SE/TE: 264, 376

5. Know how genetic variability results from the recombination and mutation of genes, including

SE/TE: 300-308


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Introduced Practiced Yes No • sorting and recombination of genes in

sexual reproduction result in a change in DNA that is passed on to offspring

SE/TE: 275-278, 17, 659, 666

TR: Section Review 11-4, Transparencies Plus, Section 11-4 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-4114, PHSchool.com cbp-4114

• radiation or chemical substances can cause mutations in cells, resulting in a permanent change in DNA.

SE/TE: 307, 334-336, 320-321


6. Understand the principles of sexual and asexual reproduction, including meiosis and mitosis.

SE/TE: 17, 659, 666, 686, 826-827, 275-278, 246-249, 497-498

TR: Section Review 11-4, 10-2 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-3103, cbn-3102, cbp-3102


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 7. Know that most cells in the human body

contain 23 pairs of chromosomes including one pair that determines sex, and that human females have two X chromosomes and human males have an X and a Y chromosome.

SE/TE: 341-354

TR: Section Review 14-1, 14-2 Transparencies Plus, Section 14-1, 14-2 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-4141

Biological Evolution 8. Describe the evidence for the first

appearance of life on Earth as one-celled organisms, over 3.5 billion years ago, and for the later appearance of a diversity of multi-cellular organisms over millions of years.

SE/TE: 417-422, 382-383


9. Critically analyze the data and observations supporting the conclusion that the species living on Earth today are related by descent from the ancestral one-celled organisms.

SE/TE: 427-440



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Introduced Practiced Yes No 10. Understand the data, observations, and logic

supporting the conclusion that species today evolved from earlier, distinctly different species, originating from the ancestral one-celled organisms.

SE/TE: 392-408

TR: Section Review 16-1 16-2, 15-3 Transparencies Plus, Section 16-1, 16-2, 16-3 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-5161

11. Understand that evolution is a consequence of many factors, including the ability of organisms to reproduce, genetic variability, the effect of limited resources, and natural selection.

SE/TE: 429-444


12. Explain how natural selection favors individuals who are better able to survive, reproduce, and leave offspring.

SE/TE: 380-382 397-399, 383

TR: Section Review 16-2 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-5153, PHSchool.com cbe-5154


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 13. Analyze how evolution by natural selection

and other mechanisms explains many phenomena including the fossil record of ancient life forms and similarities (both physical and molecular) among different species.

SE/TE: 417-422, 382-383


Understand the characteristics, structures, and functions of cells.

Structure and Function 1. Know that cells are made of proteins

composed of combinations of amino acids.

SE/TE: 168-178

TR: Section Review 7-1, 7-2 Transparencies Plus, Section 7-1, 7-2 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-3071

2. Know that specialized structures inside cells in most organisms carry out different functions, including:

• parts of a cell and their functions (e.g., nucleus, chromosomes, plasma, and mitochondria)

SE/TE: 174-179

TR: Section Review 7-2, Transparencies Plus, Section 7-2 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbd-3072


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Introduced Practiced Yes No • storage of genetic material in DNA

SE/TE: 176

• similarities & differences of plant & animal cells

SE/TE: 175-176

TR: Section Review 7-2, Transparencies Plus, Section 7-2 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbd-3072

• prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

SE/TE: 169-173, 174-181


3. Describe the mechanisms for cellular processes

SE/TE: 174-180



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Introduced Practiced Yes No 4. Know how the cell membrane controls

which ions and molecules enter and leave the cell based on membrane permeability and transport (i.e., osmosis, diffusion, active transport, passive transport).

SE/TE: 182-189

TR: Section Review 7-3, Transparencies Plus, Section 7-3 TECH: PHSchool.com cbp-3073, -3075, -3076

5. Explain how cells differentiate and specialize during the growth of an organism, including:

SE/TE: 18, 583, , 661, 693

• differentiation, regulated through the selected expression of different genes

SE/TE: 693, 393-395

TR: Section Review 16-1 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-5161


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Introduced Practiced Yes No • specialized cells, response to stimuli

(e.g., nerve cells, sense organs).

SE/TE: 897-919

TR: Section Review 35-1, 35-2, 35-3, 35-4 Transparencies Plus, Section 35-1, 35-3, 35-4 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-0352, -0353, -0354

6. Know that DNA directs protein building (role of RNA).

SE/TE: 289, 301, 291-294, 324, 300-306


Biochemical Mechanisms 7. Describe how most cell functions involve

chemical reactions, including:

• promotion or inhibition of biochemical reactions by enzymes

SE/TE: 49-55, 979-982

TR: Section Review 2-4 Transparencies Plus, Section 2-4, TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-1024


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Introduced Practiced Yes No • processes of respiration (energy

production, ATP)

SE/TE: 202, 203, 212-213, 224-226

• communication from cell to cell by secretion of a variety of chemicals (e.g., hormones).

SE/TE: 997, 998, 1003-1008

TR: Section Review 39-2 TECH: www.SciLinks.com cbn-0392


Standard III (Earth and Space Science): Understand the structure of Earth, the solar system, and the universe, the interconnections among them, and the processes and interactions of Earth’s systems.

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Introduced Practiced Yes No Examine the scientific theories of the origin, structure, energy, and evolution of Earth and its atmosphere, and their interconnections.

Characteristics and Evolution of Earth 1. Recognize that radiometric data indicate that Earth

is at least 4 billion years old and that Earth has changed during that period.


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 2. Understand the changes in Earth’s past and the

investigative methods used to determine geologic time, including:

• rock sequences, relative dating, fossil correlation, and radiometric dating

SE/TE: 429-432

• geologic time scales, historic changes in life forms, and the evidence for absolute ages (e.g., radiometric methods, tree rings, paleomagnetism).

SE/TE: 421-422

Energy in Earth’s System 3. Know that Earth’s systems are driven by internal

(i.e., radioactive decay and gravitational energy) and external (i.e., the sun) sources of energy.

Geochemical Cycles 4. Know that Earth’s system contains a fixed amount

of natural resources that cycle among land, water, the atmosphere, and living things (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles, rock cycle, water cycle, ground water, aquifers).

SE/TE: 74-80


Strand III: Science and Society

Standard I: Understand how scientific discoveries, inventions, practices, and knowledge influence, and are influenced by, individuals and societies.

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Introduced Practiced Yes No Examine and analyze how scientific discoveries and their applications affect the world, and explain how societies influence scientific investigations and applications.

Science and Technology 1. Know how science enables technology but also

constrains it, and recognize the difference between real technology and science fiction (e.g., rockets vs. antigravity machines; nuclear reactors vs. perpetual-motion machines; medical X-rays vs. Star-Trek tricorders).

2. Understand how advances in technology enable further advances in science (e.g., microscopes and cellular structure; telescopes and understanding of the universe).

SE/TE: 3-6, 66, 877

3. Evaluate the influences of technology on society (e.g., communications, petroleum, transportation, nuclear energy, computers, medicine, genetic engineering) including both desired and undesired effects, and including some historical examples (e.g., the wheel, the plow, the printing press, the lightning rod).

SE/TE: 253, 617, 932


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Introduced Practiced Yes No 4. Understand the scientific foundations of common

technologies (e.g., kitchen appliances, radio, television, aircraft, rockets, computers, medical X-rays, selective breeding, fertilizers and pesticides, agricultural equipment).

SE/TE: 319-320

5. Understand that applications of genetics can meet human needs and can create new problems (e.g., agriculture, medicine, cloning).

SE/TE: 330-333

Science and Society 6. Describe major historical changes in scientific

perspectives (e.g., atomic theory, germs, cosmology, relativity, plate tectonics, evolution) and the experimental observations that triggered them.

SE/TE:

7. Explain how societies can change ecosystems and how these changes can be reversible or irreversible.

TE/TE: 157-160

TR: Section Review 6-4, Chapter 6 Exploration

8. Describe how environmental, economic, and political interests impact resource management and use in New Mexico.

SE/TE: 139-143, 148-149

TR: Enrichment 6-2


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Introduced Practiced Yes No Science and Individuals

9. Identify how science has produced knowledge that is relevant to individual health and material prosperity.

SE/TE: 316-326

TE/TE: 344-345 TR: Section Review 13-1, 13-2

10. Understand that reasonable people may disagree about some issues that are of interest to both science and religion (e.g., the origin of life on Earth, the cause of the Big Bang, the future of Earth).

SE/TE: 373, 374-375

SE/TE: 354 TR: Section Review 15-2, Transparencies Plus, Section 15-2

11. Understand that scientists have characteristics in common with other individuals (e.g., employment and career needs, curiosity, desire to perform public service, greed, preconceptions and biases, temptation to be unethical, core values including honesty and openness).

SE/TE: xviii

12. Know that science plays a role in many different kinds of careers and activities (e.g., public service, volunteers, public office holders, researchers, teachers, doctors, nurses, technicians, farmers, ranchers).

SE/TE: 37, 95, 359, 487, 571,

Reference: http://sde.state.nm.us/div/learn.serv/im/index.html STANDARDS: 109

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