KnudsonBiology(Master)Marshall High School
Biology(Master)
Teacher: Holly Knudson
Month / Content / Skills / Assessment / ResourcesSeptember 2007 / Foundations of Biology
•Characteristics of Life
Themes in Biology
•Diversity & Unity of Life
•Evoution of Life
Studying Biology
•Scientific Processes & Method
Biological Tools/Techniques
•Safety Protocol
•Microscope
Biochemistry
•Energy
•Carbon Compounds
•Molecules of Life
Ecology
•Basics of Ecology
•Ecology of Organisms
•Energy Transfers
•Ecosystem Recycling
•Population Dynamics
/ Foundations of Biology
•List the characteristics of living things
•Distinguish between homeostasis and metabolism and between growth, development, and reproduction
Themes in Biology
•Identify the three themes which help explain the living world
•Explain why evolution is an important theme in biology
Studying Biology
•Outline the main steps of the scientific method
•Summarize how observations can lead to hypotheses
•List the elements of a controlled experiment
•Compare hypothesis to theory
•Identify the value of scientific communication
Biological Tools/Techniques
•Recognize, state and demonstrate several examples of good AND bad laboratory practice
•Identify and list the function of each of the major parts of a compound light microscope
•Demonstrate proper microscopy techinque
Biochemistry
•Distinguish between reactant and product
•Explain relationship between enzymes and activation energy
•Explain the importance of carbon bonding
•Identify functional groups
•Distinguish between hydrolysis and condensation reactions.
•Recognize and distinguish between the various types of carbohydrates
•Explain the relationships between amino acids and proteins
•Compare the structure and function of fats (lipids)
•Interrelate the two types of nucleic acids
Ecology
•Describe an example showing the effects of interdependence upon organisms in their environment
•State the five different levels of organization at which ecology can be studied
•Compare abiotic with biotic factors
•Explain the concept of the niche
•Summarize the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem
•List the four major biogeochemical cycles and outline the major steps in each cycle
•Describe the main properties that scientists measure when they study populations
•Compare the three general patterns of population dispersion
•Compare the exponential model and the logistic model of population growth
October 2007 / •Community Ecology
•Biomes
•Human Impact
CELL PROCESSES
/ •Identify two types of predator adaptations and two types of prey adaptations
•Compare parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism, and give one example of each
•Identify the major features of the nine terrestrial and two aquatic biomes
•Identify between phytoplankton and zooplankton.
•Discuss the value of biodiversity
•Explain the natural functions of the ozone layer and greenhouse effect
•Describe the major consequences of air pollution
•Relate human resource use to its impacts on ecosystems
•State the goals of conservation and restoration biology
•Summarize international strategies for protecting ecosystems
•Discuss the roles of govenments and laws in addressing environmental issues
•List several things you can do to help solve environmental problems
CELL PROCESSES
• Compare prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
• Identify principals of the cell theory
• Describe the role of the major organelles found in cells along with their anatomy
• Identify the structure of the cell membrane
• Distinguish between passive and active transports.
•Explain how diffusion, osmosis and facilitated osmosis compare and contrast to each other.
•Label a transport process
• Distinguish the solution tonicities
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CELL PROCESSES
• Observing Osmosis Lab
•Egg Demo Lab
•Passive transport quiz
•Venn diagram
•Chapter test /
CELL PROCESSES
• Textbook
•Active Reading
•Microscopes
•Textbook CD for transport videos
November 2007 / Mitosis and Meiosis
GENETICS / Mitosis and Meiosis
• Explains the reasons why mitosis and meiosis are done in the cell.
•Distinguish between chromatin, chromatids, chromosomes.
•Explain the 5 main stages of mitosis and the 10 main stages of meiosis.
•Contrasts diploid and haploid number.
•Labels mitotic and meiotic cellular structures and stages.
•Creates mitosis and meiosis visuals.
GENETICS
• Discuss Gregor Mendel and Mendelian genetics.
•Define probability.
•Distinguish between genotype and phenotype.
•Distinguish between homozygous and heterozygous genotypes.
•Describe what an allele is.
•Distinguish between dominant and recessive alleles.
•Solve simple monohybrid and dihybrid crosses using Punnett squares.
•Compare and contrast sex-linked, autosomal linked, multiple allele, polygenic and incomplete dominance traits in humans and dragons.
•Solve genetic problems relating to any of the above patterns of inheritance.
/ Mitosis and Meiosis
• Observing Mitosis in Onion root tips lab
•Mitosis and meiosis art
•Vocabulary
•Quest on mitosis and meiosis
GENETICS
• GenScope packet.
•Genetics quiz
•Genetic problems homework
•Observation assessment when working on all the activites and problems.
•Vocabulary
•Genetics test / Mitosis and Meiosis
• Root tip lab
•Microscope
•Root tip slides
•Mitosis and meiosis video
•Textbook
GENETICS
• GenScope software program
•Cutest Little Baby Face activity
•Human Traits activity
•Genetic problems homework packets
•Textbook
December 2007 / DNA, RNA, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
EVOLUTION / DNA, RNA, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
•Name James Watson and Francis Crick and describe their contribution to the molecular structure of DNA and when it was determined.
•Define DNA and RNA.
•Prepare a molecular model of DNA.
•Explain the differences between DNA and RNA.
•Describe the processes of transcription and translation.
•Construct a polypeptide chain from a given DNA base sequence.
•Explain the differences between mRNA, tRNA and rRNA.
•Describe the different types of proteins in the body and what their function is.
•Research, develop and present a choosen DNA technology topic to the class.
EVOLUTION
• Name Charles Darwin and his development of the theory of evolution.
•Distinguish between variation, adaptation and natural selection.
•Distinguish between divergent evolution and coevolution.
•Define adaptive radiation and artificial selection.
•Describe 2 theories as to the origin of life on planet earth.
•Describe radiometric dating and list 3 differerent isotopes that are used.
•Give examples of microevolution using organisms that live on the Galapagos Islands.
•Describe what fossils are and how they are used to build a phylogenic tree.
/ DNA, RNA, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
• DNA model
•Vocabulary
•DNA, RNA and protein synthesis worksheet.
•Simulating Protein Synthesis acitivy
•DNA structure and function quiz.
•Chapter test
•DNA topic presentation
•Venn diagram
EVOLUTION
• Goony BIrd activity
•Variation through time activity.
•Tortoise activity.
•Peanut activity
•Vocabulary
•Chapter 14 and 15 section review homework
•Evolution test / DNA, RNA, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
• Protein synthesis video
•Simulating activity
•DNA model materials
•Textbook
•Computer lab and Media Center
EVOLUTION
• Evolution activities
•Jeff Corwin video
•Building a Presence video on evolution
•Textbook
January 2008 / KINGDOM ANIMALIA
HUMAN BODY / KINGDOM ANIMALIA
• Describe the differences between invertebrates and vertebrates.
•Identify characteristics that put animals into their phylums.
•Give examples of the animals found in each of their phylums.
•Explain the stages of embryonic development of all vertebrates.
HUMAN BODY
•Label the anatomy of a human neuron, spinal cord and brain.
•Label the anatomy of the organs found in the thoracic cavity.
•Label the anatomy of the organs found in the abdominal cavity.
•Label the names of most of the human skeleton.
•Label the names of the most superficial muscles found in humans.
•Describe the general functions of most of the body systems in the human and how they work together to maintain homeostasis.
•Describe in general how a neuron transmits a nervous impulse.
•Compare and contrast the organs found in a frog or a fetal pig. Describe how they are similar to those found in humans.
/ KINGDOM ANIMALIA
• Vocabulary
•Ascaris and Earthworm Dissection Lab
•Quest
HUMAN BODY
• Vocabulary
•Leapord Frog Dissection Lab
•Fetal Pig Dissection Lab
•Anatomy quizzes
•Unit Test / KINGDOM ANIMALIA
• Modern Biology Textbook
•Preserved ascaris and aommon earthworms
•Dissection tools
•"Under the Emerald Sea" video
HUMAN BODY
• Modern Biology Textbook
•Preserved leapord frogs
•Preserved fetal pigs
•Dissection tools
•Brain models
•SKeleton model
•Human body model
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