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| Semester |
Subject Area |
Unit
Explorations |
Course Themes |
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Science
as a Process
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 |
Observation |
| Design Lab: Heart Rate |
|
pH lab |
|
Enzyme Kinetics Lab |
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Energy in Food Digestion |
|
Enzyme Kinetics |
|
Plant vs Animal Cell, Unknown Cells |
|
Dialysis Tubing Diffusion/Osmosis |
|
Photosynthesis--Plant Pigments |
|
Cell Respiration |
Units
Got Nerve?
Health is Wealth
Connections & Conversions
Includes: Web of Life
Cells:
Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz
Cells:
Rush Hour on
Cell Block
Cells:
The Energizer
I-SEARCHES
First Quarter I-search
Molecules &
Cells
Second Quarter I-Search
Heredity & Evolution
Themes
Structure &
Function
Energy Transfer
Continuity & Change
Regulation
Interdependence Nature
Science, Technology, & Society
Thinking Emphasis
Accurately clarifying justifying classifying
describing comparing-contrasting questioning problem-solving.
speculating, analogizing, analyzing, synthesizing, role- playing—multiple
views, researching, generalizing, applying a principle, predicting
First
Semester Benchmarks
Explain
how organic and inorganic molecules play a role in living organisms.
Describe
how the information of DNA is expressed as a protein.
Explain
the process of food storage and food use in organisms.
Explain
how living things maintain a stable internal environment.
Compare and contrast
ways in which cells are specialized, including how their internal structure
is related to their function.
Explain
how cells of multi-cellular organisms develop, grow and reproduce.
Explain
how living things maintain a stable internal environment.
Describe
the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem and their relationship to
each other.
Explain how energy flows through ecosystems. (respiration and
photosynthesis)
Describe
how nutrients cycle through ecosystems.
Describe
the life cycle of an organism associated with human disease.
Describe
technology used in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, when
faced with human body system failures.
|
Meiosis/Mitosis |
|
DNA Gel Electrophoresis |
|
DNA
Spooling Lab |
| Co-evolution
Mimicry |
| Predator-Prey |
| Unknown Ecosystems |
| Biomonitoring |
| Population
Ecology--Bubble Life Tables |
| Fetal Pig
Dissection |
| Plant Dissection |
| Physiology of the
Circulatory System |
| Immune Response |
Units
Cells:
Risky Business
The River of DNA
The Genetic Revolution
Changes by Chance
Includes:
Web of Life
911
Fetal Pig Dig
I-SEARCHES
3rd Quarter I-search
Organisms & Populations
4th Quarter I-search
Blended
Second
Semester Benchmarks
Explain
how genetic material is passed from parent to offspring during sexual and
asexual reproduction.
Explain
the patterns that allow for variability among offspring.
Explain
how new traits can be established by changing or manipulating genes.
Describe
what biologists consider to be evidence for human evolutionary relationships
to selected plant and animal groups.
Explain
how the process of natural selection affects population changes and
speciation.
Describe
responses of an ecosystem to events that cause it to change and explain the
effects of agriculture and urban development on selected ecosystems.
Describe
general factors regulating population size in ecosystems.
Classify
major groups of organisms to the kingdom level and animals and plants to the
phylum.
Explain
the structure and function of animal organ systems and internal/external
environment.
Describe
technology used in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, when
faced with human body system failures.
Classify
major groups of organisms to the kingdom level and animals and plants to the
phylum.