Florida Biology 1 End-of-Course Assessment Book + Online

John Allen

• Publisher: Research & Education Association
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780738611112
• eBook ISBN: 9780738684468
• Topic: Study Aids
• Subtopic: Study Guides

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The Florida Biology I End-of-Course exam measures middle and high school student achievement of the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards. All public school students are required to pass the exam in order to receive a high school diploma.

Chapter 1

The Practice of Science

Your Goals for Chapter 1

1. You should be able to design and/or evaluate a scientific investigation using evidence of scientific thinking and/or problem solving.

2. You should be able to interpret and analyze data to make predictions and/or defend conclusions.

3. You should be able to compare and/or contrast the structure and function of the compound microscope, dissecting microscope, scanning electron microscope, and/or the transmission electron microscope.

4. You should be able to evaluate the merits of scientific explanations produced by others.

5. You should be able to assess the reliability of sources of information according to scientific standards.

6. You should be able to describe how scientific inferences are made from observations and identify examples from biology.

Standards

The following standards are assessed on the Florida Biology 1 End-of-Course Assessment either directly or indirectly:

SC.912.N.1.1 Define a problem based on a specific body of knowledge, for example: biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science, and do the following:

1. pose questions about the natural world;

2. conduct systematic observations;

3. examine books and other sources of information to see what is already known;

4. review what is known in light of empirical evidence;

5. plan investigations;

6. use tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data (this includes the use of measurement in metric and other systems, and also the generation and interpretation of graphical representations of data, including data tables and graphs);

7. pose answers, explanations, or descriptions of events;

8. generate explanations that explicate or describe natural phenomena (inferences);

9. use appropriate evidence and reasoning to justify these explanations to others;

10. communicate results of scientific investigations; and

11. evaluate the merits of the explanations produced by others.

SC.912.N.1.4 Identify sources of information and assess their reliability according to the strict standards of scientific investigation.

SC.912.N.1.6 Describe how scientific inferences are drawn from scientific observations and provide examples from the content being studied.

SC.912.L.14.4 Compare and contrast structure and function of various types of microscopes.

LA.910.2.2.3 The student will organize information to show understanding or relationships among facts, ideas, and events (e.g., representing key points within text through charting, mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing, contrasting, or outlining).

LA.910.4.2.2 The student will record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information.

MA.912.S.1.2 Determine appropriate and consistent standards of measurement for the data to be collected in a survey or experiment.

MA.912.S.3.2 Collect, organize, and analyze data sets, determine the best format for the data, and present visual summaries from the following:

bar graphs;

line graphs;

stem and leaf plots;

circle graphs;

histograms;

box and whisker plots;

scatter plots; and

cumulative frequency (ogive) graphs.

Note to Students

The Nature of Science is a key foundational principle on the Florida Biology 1 EOC assessment. The benchmarks in this chapter are assessed as embedded within other benchmarks throughout the book. They serve as important information to be held in mind, and will be tested with other content. For example, Benchmark SC.912.L.15.6, “Discuss distinguishing characteristics of the domains and kingdoms of living organisms,” also assesses SC.912.N.1.3, “Recognize that the strength or usefulness of a scientific claim is evaluated through scientific argumentation, which depends on critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain the data presented” (from Chapter 2), and SC.912.N.1.6 “Describe how scientific inferences are drawn from scientific observations and provide examples from the content being studied” (from this chapter). So those last two benchmarks will actually be assessed in Chapter 5’s section on classification. Think of the Nature of Science benchmarks as tools that are needed for...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About Our Author
• About Our Technical Editor
• About Research & Education Association
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Practice of Science
• Chapter 2: Cellular Biology
• Chapter 3: Plants
• Chapter 4: The Human Organism
• Chapter 5: Evolution
• Chapter 6: Heredity and Reproduction
• Chapter 7: Ecology
• Chapter 8: Matter and Energy Transformations
• Practice Test A
• Practice Test B
• Practice Test Benchmark Assessment
• Back Cover