Antibiotic Resistance - Task C
Lesson
Alignment and Connections of Task to the Standards Bundle Task Component C asks students to consider plots of population data of frequencies of people with bacterial populations dominated by specific unknown traits and to make conclusions and statements of probability about which unknown trait corresponds with known characteristics of bacteria given the environmental conditions (with and without antibiotics), following the data from Task Component A. This partially addresses the NGSS performance expectation of MS-LS4-4 and parts of the associated practice of Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions, core idea of LS4B: Natural Selection, and crosscutting concept of Cause and Effect. This also partially addresses parts of the NGSS core idea of LS4.C: Adaptation as it relates to MS-LS4-6, parts of the NGSS practices of Analyzing and Interpreting Data and Engaging in Argument from Evidence, parts of the NGSS crosscutting concepts of Patterns, the CCSS-M content standard of 7.SP.2, and the CCSS-M practices of MP.2 and MP.3. The data present a situation from which students can make inferences about a population to demonstrate their understanding of the math standards, whereas using frequencies and probabilistic reasoning allows a student to understand and describe cause and effect relationships associated with natural selection assessing the crosscutting concept dimension of the science standards. When students make and use scientific reasoning to support claims, they can address W.7.1, W.7.1.a, W.7.1.b, W.7.1.c, WHST.6-8.1, WHST.6-8.1.a, WHST.6-8.1.b, and WHST.6-8.1.c.