Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Energy in Biology ~ NGSS Link LS1.C-M.1

Plants, algae (including phytoplankton), and many microorganisms use the energy from light to make sugars (food) from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and water through the process of photosynthesis, which also releases oxygen. These sugars can be used immediately or stored for growth or later use.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (THSB) and key idea (Plants use sugar molecules to make …)
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ME022001	Matter is not created when living organisms grow. The matter added to their bodies comes from atoms that were outside the organism.
ME064001	Both plant growth and animal growth involve chemical reactions because both use chemical reactions to build larger molecules that become part of their bodies.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (THSB) and other key ideas
ME041001	The solid wood of a tree comes mostly from carbon dioxide gas molecules from the air.
ME032002	The minerals plants take in from the soil make up a very small amount of the new mass of the growing plant.
ME059001	Aside from water, plant body structures are made up mostly of carbohydrate molecules.
ME031003	A growing broccoli head gets bigger by taking in molecules, using them to make glucose, and using the glucose to make larger molecules that become part of the plant’s body.
ME039002	Most of the mass of wood comes from carbon dioxide the tree took in from the air.
ME060001	When plants make glucose, carbon dioxide and water are the starting substances and glucose and oxygen are the ending substances.
ME061001	Plants use glucose to build larger molecules (polymers) that make body structures (and water molecules)
ME062001	When kelp grows, it takes in atoms from the environment that become part of the kelp.
ME036003	To make its trunk, branches, and leaves, a tree makes glucose from carbon dioxide and water and then uses the glucose molecules to make carbohydrate polymers.