Life Science Progression Map

NGSSGrades K to 1264 standards · 67 connections

Organisms, ecosystems, heredity, and evolution as they articulate across grade bands.

Hover a standard to trace what it builds on and what it leads to. Click for details. Solid lines are essential prerequisites, dashed lines are supporting connections. A dashed outline marks a connected standard from a neighboring topic.

How to read this map

Each chip is one standard, placed in its grade. A line between two standards means the earlier one was verified as a prerequisite for the later one, against the official framework documents and published curriculum progressions. If a student is stuck on a standard, look one column left. If they have mastered it, the lines to the right show where that skill goes next. Every chip links to a full breakdown of the standard with teaching ideas. How these connections are verified.

All standards on this map, as a list

Structures and processes

1-LS1-11-LS1-23-LS1-14-LS1-14-LS1-25-LS1-1HS-LS1-1HS-LS1-2HS-LS1-3HS-LS1-4HS-LS1-5HS-LS1-6HS-LS1-7K-LS1-1MS-LS1-1MS-LS1-2MS-LS1-3MS-LS1-4MS-LS1-5MS-LS1-6MS-LS1-7MS-LS1-8

Ecosystems

2-LS2-12-LS2-23-LS2-15-LS2-1HS-LS2-1HS-LS2-2HS-LS2-3HS-LS2-4HS-LS2-5HS-LS2-6HS-LS2-7HS-LS2-8MS-LS2-1MS-LS2-2MS-LS2-3MS-LS2-4MS-LS2-5

Heredity

1-LS3-13-LS3-13-LS3-2HS-LS3-1HS-LS3-2HS-LS3-3MS-LS3-1MS-LS3-2

Biological evolution

2-LS4-13-LS4-13-LS4-23-LS4-33-LS4-4HS-LS4-1HS-LS4-2HS-LS4-3HS-LS4-4HS-LS4-5HS-LS4-6MS-LS4-1MS-LS4-2MS-LS4-3MS-LS4-4MS-LS4-5MS-LS4-6

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