Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all students to be successful when they advance to Bowling Green High School. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

• Models and predicts how disruptions or abundance/scarcity of resources will affect populations within ecosystems.

• Explains the relationship between resources availability and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

• Explains how resource changes in an ecosystem impact local populations of organisms.

• Models how parental genes are used to predict the results of asexual and sexual reproduction.

• Identifies genetic and environmental influences and determines their respective magnitude of influence on traits.

• Analyzes genetic inheritance patterns and predicts future results of genetic crosses for animals and plants.

• Constructs a scientific explanation describing how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.

• Explains how the fossil record can be used to show how organisms have developed and changed throughout Earth's history.

• Models how some traits support successful survival while others do not and utilizes this data to show how specific traits in populations can change over time.

• Explains factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

• Explains how the increase in human populations are impacting the abundance of Earth's natural resources.

• Analyzes data and predicts areas more at risk of natural hazards events.

• Analyzes the pros and cons of different design solutions that prevent negative outcomes of natural hazards that consider the impacts on people and the natural environment.