Academic Language of Science

ESOLALSC: Academic Language of Science

ESOLALSC.A: Cells

ESOLALSC.B: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

ESOLALSC.C: Biology

ESOLALSC.D: Central Dogma of Biology

ESOLALSC.E: Inheritance

ESOLALSC.A.1: use the academic language of science to recognize, identify, understand, and communicate information about the structure and function of cells needed to support living organisms orally and in writing with visual support, modeling, and scaffolding appropriate to the proficiency level

ESOLALSC.B.2: use the academic language of science to recognize, identify, understand, and ask questions to investigate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the energy exchange of organisms with visual support, modeling, and scaffolding appropriate to the proficiency level

ESOLALSC.C.3: use the academic language of science to recognize, identify, understand, and compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis (number of divisions, number of daughter cells produced, genetically different or identical, sexual or asexual, etc.) orally and in writing with visual support, modeling, and scaffolding appropriate to the proficiency level

ESOLALSC.D.4: use the academic language of science to recognize, identify, understand, and communicate information about the Central Dogma of Biology orally and in writing with visual support, modeling, and scaffolding appropriate to the proficiency level

ESOLALSC.E.5: use the academic language of science to recognize, identify, understand, and communicate information orally and in writing to explain the probabilities of inheritance with visual support, modeling, and scaffolding appropriate to the proficiency level

ESOLALSC.A.1.a: recognize, identify, understand, and describe function of the organelles found within the cell (nucleus, chloroplast, mitochondria, cell wall, cell membrane, ribosome, vacuole, cytoplasm, lysosome, etc.), focusing on organelles that produce/use a specific macromolecule

ESOLALSC.A.1.b: recognize, identify, understand, and explain how organelles contribute in obtaining nutrients in order to grow, reproduce, make needed materials, and process waste at a conceptual level

ESOLALSC.A.1.c: recognize, identify, understand, and compare and contrast plant, animal, eukaryotic, and prokaryotic cells

ESOLALSC.A.1.d: recognize, identify, understand, and explain the importance of homeostasis in a living organism

ESOLALSC.A.1.e: recognize, identify, understand, and explain the role of cellular transport (examples of active and passive transport) in maintaining homeostasis

ESOLALSC.A.1.f: plan and carry out investigations that demonstrate the movement of water into and out of a cell depending upon the tonicity of its environment, with emphasis on use of key vocabulary (e.g., hypo-, hyper-, iso-)

ESOLALSC.A.1.g: use the academic language of science to recognize, identify, understand, and communicate information about how cells construct and use chemical energy to carry out cellular processes with visual support, modeling, and scaffolding appropriate to the proficiency level

ESOLALSC.B.2.a: recognize, identify, understand, and explain the molecular construction and deconstruction of glucose during photosynthesis and cellular respiration (products and reactants of each process work together in a cycle)

ESOLALSC.B.2.b: recognize, identify, understand, and develop a model to demonstrate understanding on the renewable nature of ATP and the importance of this molecule on cellular processes

ESOLALSC.B.2.c: use the academic language of science to recognize, identify, understand, communicate information to explain how organisms reproduce either sexually or asexually and transfer genetic information to determine the traits of their offspring with visual support, modeling, and scaffolding appropriate to the proficiency level

ESOLALSC.C.3.a: recognize, identify, understand, and select evidence to support the claim that heritable information is passed from one generation to another through meiosis followed by fertilization

ESOLALSC.C.3.b: recognize, identify, and understand the relative advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction; select and organize evidence to support a claim about the relative advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction

ESOLALSC.D.4.a: recognize, identify, understand, and develop a model to explain the structure of a molecule of DNA

ESOLALSC.D.4.b: recognize, identify, understand, and compare and contrast DNA and RNA on a structural and functional basis

ESOLALSC.D.4.c: recognize, identify, understand, and explain the assembly of proteins from a strand of RNA that is based on an initial DNA code

ESOLALSC.E.5.a: recognize, identify, understand, and explain the differences between dominant and recessive traits

ESOLALSC.E.5.b: recognize, identify, understand, develop, and use mathematical models to investigate probabilities of inheritance (monohybrid Punnett squares)

ESOLALSC.E.5.c: recognize, identify, understand, and analyze how phenotypes are expressed from different genotypic combinations