Performance expectationDevelop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
Emphasis is on modeling biogeochemical cycles that include the cycling of carbon through the ocean, atmosphere, soil, and biosphere (including humans), providing the foundation for living organisms.
For Life Science: Biology only the biochemistry aspects of carbon cycling are eligible for testing on the Life Science: Biology exam. The remainder of HS-ESS2-6 concepts are within the Earth and Space Sciences course.
This performance expectation appears in more than one course map. The note above is the scope NYSED specifies for Life Science: Biology.
Every item written to HS-ESS2-6 has to assess all three dimensions together, not the content alone. This is the structural change that made older practice material stop matching the exam.
Developing and Using Models
Phenomenon stimulus, connected items across the required types, answer key, rubric and figures drawn deterministically from a structured spec — in the format your students will sit.