Children S Book: Biology

Children’s book: Biology

You will be picking one topic and writing a children’s book following the guiding questions I have listed below. I use the term “children” lightly, since no child is really going to be reading a book about this stuff…but I digress. Pick a topic, and write and illustrate a story, be it fictional or non-fictional narrative, or what have you.

Topics:

1. Animal cells
2. What is a cell? Include tissues, organs and organ systems here also. (1-2 pages)
3. What are the two main types of cells? (1-2 pages)
4. What is an animal cell? How is it different from plant cells? (1-2 pages)
5. What is an organelle? (1-2 pages)
6. Pick 5 organelles and describe each. (1-2 pages = 5-10 pages)
7. Discuss cell specialization. (1-2 pages)
8. Why are animal cells important? (1-2 pages)
9. Why should we care? (1-2 pages)
10. Enzymes
11. What is a macromolecule? (1-2 pages)
12. What are the 4 types of biological macromolecules? (2-4 pages)
13. What is a chemical reaction? (1-2 pages)
14. What is a catalyst? (1-2 pages)
15. What is an enzyme? (1-2 pages)
16. How do enzymes work? (1-2 pages)
17. Enzyme-substrate complex (1-2 pages)
18. Lock and Key (1-2 pages)
19. Enzymes and temperature (1-2 pages)
20. Enzymes and pH (1-2 pages)
21. Why are enzymes important? (1-2 pages)
22. Why should we care? (1-2 pages)
23. Mitosis/cell cycle
24. Why can’t a cell grow forever? (1-2 pages)
25. What limits how big the cell can grow? (1-2 pages)
26. What is the cell cycle? (2-4 pages)
27. What happens at each phase in the cell cycle? (1-2 pages each phase = 4-8 pages)
28. What is mitosis? (1-2 pages)
29. What happens at each phase of mitosis? (1-2 pages each phase = 5-10 pages)
30. What is the end result of mitosis? (1-2 pages)
31. Why is mitosis important? (1-2 pages)
32. Why should we care? (1-2 pages)
33. Evolution/survival of the fittest
34. Who was Charles Darwin, and why is he important? (2-4 pages)
35. What was Darwin’s book called? (1-2 pages)
36. What was Darwin’s theory? (1-2 pages)
37. How was his theory accepted? (1-2 pages)
38. What is the struggle for existence? (1-2 pages)
39. What did he mean “survival of the fittest”? Provide an example. (2-4 pages)
40. What is some evidence Darwin used to support his theory? (3-6 pages)
41. Summarize Darwin’s theory (2-4 pages)
42. Why should we care? (1-2 pages)
43. Human population growth
44. What is a population? Include the levels of organization from organism to biome. (1-2 pages)
45. What are the 2 types of population growth? Which is more realistic? (1-2 pages)
46. What is carrying capacity? What happens to a population when it reaches carrying capacity? (1-2 pages)
47. What are the 2 types of limiting factors to population growth? Explain and provide an example of at least 2 of each type. (1-2 pages per factor = 2-4 pages)
48. How has the human population changed over the last 10,000+ years? (1-2 pages)
49. What is the estimated population of the world now? I know it changes every second, but that’s why we’re doing an estimate!  (1-2 pages)
50. What is an age structure diagram? (1-2 pages)
51. What can an age structure diagram show us? (1-2 pages)
52. What does the age structure diagram of a developed country look like? (1-2 pages)
53. What does the age structure diagram of an underdeveloped country look like? (1-2 pages)
54. What can be changed in an underdeveloped country to make it a developed country? (1-2 pages)
55. Why should we care? (1-2 pages)