Life Science

2.2 The human body is composed of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems that have specific functions and
interactions.
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a. Evaluate and design a a. Develop and design a
scientific investigation
about human body
systems.
b. Evaluate,
communicate, justify
an evidence-based
b. Develop,
scientific explanation
regarding the functions
and interactions of the
human body.
c. Gather, analyze and
compare data and
models on the
functions and
c. Gather, analyze, and
interactions of the
human body.
a. Interpret and illustrate
scientific investigation
about human body
systems.
b. Interpret,
communicate, and
justify an evidence-
based scientific
explanation regarding
the functions and
interactions of the
human body.
c. Identify, interpret, and
interpret data and
models on the
functions and
interactions of the
human body.
a. Discuss and a. Additional work must
a scientific summarize a scientific be completed and
investigation about investigation about turned in before
human body systems. human body systems. student’s progress can
be determined
b. Discuss, communicate, b. Additional work must
be completed and
communicate, and and examine an
turned in before
construct an evidence- evidence-based
student’s progress can
based scientific scientific explanation
be determined
explanation regarding regarding the functions
the functions and and interactions of the c. Additional work must
interactions of the human body. be completed and
human body. turned in before
student’s progress can
c. Use, explain, and be determined
examine data and
explain data and
models on the
models on the
functions and
functions and
interactions of the
interactions of the
human body.
human body.
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Verbs:
Use: make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural
purpose
Explain: make plain and comprehensible
Examine: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover
essential features or meaning
Discuss: to determine the essential qualities or meaning of
Communicate: convey transfer to another
Define: to determine the essential qualities or meaning of
View: the act of looking or seeing or observing
Identify: give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or
some other identifying characteristic property
Interpret: make sense of; assign a meaning to
Construct: make with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
Gather: assemble or get together
State: express in words
Analyze: to examine critically, carefully and in detail so as to identify causes,
key factors and possible results
Justify: show to be right by providing justification or proof; show reasoning for a
certain argument or statement
Compare: to consider or describe as similar
Contrast: to compare in order to show unlikeliness or differences
Employ: use; make work or employ for a particular purpose
Report: to relate, as what has been learned by observation or investigation or
investigation; an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or
the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry
Organize: cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some
principle or idea
Critique: criticism: a serious examination and judgment of something
Relate: associate: make a logical or causal connection