American School Foundation of Monterrey
High School Model
Grade 9 Science
Inheritance of Traits
HS-LS1-1: Genes, Proteins, and Tissues
HS-LS1-2: Interacting Body Systems
HS-LS1-4: Cellular Division and Differentiation
HS-LS3-1: Chromosomal Inheritance
HS-LS3-2: Inheritable Genetic Variation
Ecosystems
HS-LS2-1: Carrying Capacity of Ecosystems
HS-LS2-4: Biomass and Trophic Levels
HS-LS2-5: Cycling of Carbon in Ecosystems
HS-LS2-6: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
HS-ESS3-5: Climate Change and Future Impacts
Grade 10 Science
Forces at a Distance
HS-PS2-4: Gravitational and Electrostatic Forces Between Objects
HS-PS2-5: Electric Current and Magnetic Fields
HS-ESS1-4: Orbital Motions
Energy Conversion and Renewable Energy
HS-PS3-1: Energy Change in Components of a System
HS-PS3-2: Macroscopic Energy Due to Particle Position and Motion
HS-PS3-3: Energy Conversion Device Design
HS-PS3-4: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
HS-PS3-5: Energy Change Due to Interacting Fields
Origins of the Universe and Earth History
HS-ESS1-2: The Big Bang Theory
HS-ESS1-6: Evidence of the Earth's History
Heat and Energy in the Earth
HS-ESS2-2: Feedback in Earth's Systems
HS-ESS2-3: Cycling of Matter in the Earth's Interior
HS-ESS2-4: Energy Variation and Climate Change
HS-ESS2-5: Interactions of the Hydrologic and Rock Cycles
Waves and Electromagnetism Radiation
HS-PS4-1: Wave Properties in Various Media
HS-PS4-2: Digital Transmission and Storage of Information
HS-PS4-3: Wave-Particle Duality of Electromagnetic Radiation
HS-PS4-4: Absorption of Electromagnetic Radiation
HS-PS4-5: Waves and Information Technology
Grade 11 Chemistry
Unit 1 - Periodic Table
HS-PS1-1: Valence Electrons and Properties of Elements
HS-ESS2-6: Carbon Cycling in Earth's Systems
Unit 2 - Bonding
HS-PS1-2: Simple Chemical Reactions
HS-PS1-3: Electrical Forces and Bulk Scale Structure
HS-PS2-6: Molecular-Level Structure of Designed Materials
Unit 3 - Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry
HS-PS1-2: Simple Chemical Reactions
HS-PS1-7: Conservation of Atoms in Chemical Reactions
Unit 4 - Energy in Chemical Reactions
HS-PS1-4: Total Bond Energy Change in Chemical Reactions
HS-LS1-5: Photosynthesis and Energy Transformation
HS-LS1-7: Cellular Respiration and Energy Transfer
Unit 5 - Equilibrium
HS-PS1-5: Collision Theory and Rates of Reaction
HS-PS1-6: Increased Products Design Solution
Unit 6 - Nuclear Chemistry
HS-ESS1-1: Nuclear Fusion and the Sun's Energy
HS-ESS1-3: Stellar Nucleosynthesis
HS-PS1-8: Fission, Fusion, and Radioactive Decay
Grade 12
Unit 4 - Human Activity and Biodiversity
HS-LS2-2: Biodiversity and Populations in Ecosystems
HS-LS2-7: Human Impact Reduction Solution
HS-LS4-6: Human Impact on Biodiversity Solution
Unit 5 - Human Activity and Resource Management
HS-ESS3-1: Global Impacts on Human Activity
HS-ESS3-2: Cost-Benefit Ratio Design Solutions
HS-ESS3-3: Biodiversity, Natural Resources, and Human Sustainability
Unit 6 - Human Impacts on the Environment
HS-LS2-7: Human Impact Reduction Solution
HS-ESS3-1: Global Impacts on Human Activity
HS-ESS3-4: Reducing Human Impact Design Solutions
Unit 1 - Intro to a Living Earth
Review of NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
Unit 2 - An Early and Changing Earth
HS-LS2-3: Aerobic and Anaerobic Cycling of Matter
HS-ESS1-5: Evidence of Plate Tectonics
HS-ESS2-1: The Creation of Landforms
HS-ESS2-7: Coevolution of Life and Earth’s Systems
HS-ESS3-6: Human Impacts on Earth Systems
Unit 3 - Evolution and Adaptions
HS-LS2-8: Social Interactions and Group Behavior
HS-LS3-3: Variation and Distribution of Traits
HS-LS4-1: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
HS-LS4-2: Four Factors of Natural Selection
HS-LS4-3: Adaptation of Populations
HS-LS4-4: Natural Selection Leads to Adaptation
HS-LS4-5: Environmental Change - Speciation and Extinction