UNIT
    SKILLS
    TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED
    Unit I  
     
    Unity and Diversity Among Living Things  
    ·   Identify life functions
    ·   Place living things in an organized manner
    ·   Explain the specific functions of cell organelles
    ·   Analyze organic compounds
    ·   Structural formula of organic compounds
    ·   Hydrolysis/synthesis
    ·   Written lab reports
    ·   Tests:
    - multiple choice
    - short answers
    Unit II  
     
    Maintenance in Living
    Things  
    ·   Process of photosynthesis
    ·   Process of heterotrophic nutrition
    ·   Adaptations for nutrition in organisms
    ·   Explain the flow of nutrients through organisms
    ·   Process of respiration
    ·   Flow of gases
    ·   Removal of metabolic waste
    ·   Regulation - nerve control/endocrine system
    ·   Locomotion - advantages/adaptations
    ·   Written lab reports
    ·   Tests:
    - multiple choice
    - short answers
    Unit III  
     
    Human Physiology  
    ·   Trace food through the gastrointestinal tract
    ·   Explain what happens at each organ of the GI series

       to the food

    ·   Circulatory system - maintains homeostasis,

       disorders

    ·   The process of gas exchange
    ·   Excretory organs and their function, disorders
    ·   Nervous system - parts of, function disorders
    ·   Role of hormones
    ·   Written lab reports
    ·   Tests:
    - multiple choice
    - short answers
    ·   Computer programs

    UNIT
    SKILLS
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    Unit IV  
     
    Reproduction and Development
    ·   Comparison of mitotic division in plants and animals
    ·   Explain asexual reproduction
    ·   Stages of meiosis
    ·   Compare and contrast meiosis and mitosis
    ·   Interpret the germ layers
    ·   Compare and contrast external and internal

    development

    ·   Male and female reproductive system
    ·   Menstrual cycle
    ·   Reproduction in flowing plants
    ·   Production of a seed
    ·   Written lab reports
    ·   Tests:
    - multiple choice
    ·   Computer programs
     
     
     
    Unit V  
     
    Transmission of Traits
    From Generation to
    Generation
    ·   Major concepts - dominance/recessive,

       segregation/recombination

    ·   Genetic diagrams - cross between traits
    ·   Principles of heredity
    ·   Gene linkage and crossing-over
    ·   Sex determination
    ·   Mutations
    ·   Structure of DNA - Double Helix  
    ·   Written lab reports
    ·   Tests:
    - multiple choice
    - short answers
     
    Unit VI  
     
    Evolution
    ·   Evidence for evolution
    - theory - Lamark/Darwin
    - comparative studies
    ·   Natural selection
    ·   Geographic isolation
    ·   Heterotrophic hypothesis  
    ·   Written lab reports
    ·   Tests:
    - multiple choice
    - short answers


     
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    Unit VII  
     
    Ecology
    ·   Ecosystems - factors (biotic, abiotic)
    ·   Nutritional relationships
    ·   Energy flow
    ·   Material cycles
    ·   Pyramid of biomass
    ·   Ecological succession of organisms
    ·   Biomes of the earth
    ·   Humans and the biosphere  
    ·   Written lab reports
    ·   Tests:
    - multiple choice
     
     

     

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