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Concepts/Enduring
Understandings/Themes
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Topics/Units
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Content/Skills
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Essential
Activities/Agreements
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Classification is a tool that
humans use to give sense and order to the world.
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Classification
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Classify
organisms into kingdoms based on their macroscopic and cell structure and be
familiar with organisms from each kingdom.
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Apply
classification skills to build a dichotomous key.
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Living things are made up
of cells and share common characteristics and requirements.
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Cells
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Identify the
functions of life carried out by cells and compare and contrast plant and animal cells, including major
structure and function of organelles (cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus,
cytoplasm, chloroplasts, mitochondria, vacuoles.) Explain how cells transfer
energy through respiration and photosynthesis.
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Demonstrate proper care and
use of microscopes: cheek cell, elodea, onion skin.
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The human body is organized
into systems which interact to sustain life.
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Energy in the Human body
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Describe the
hierarchical organization of the body: cells to tissues to organs to systems
to organisms
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Identify the specific
structures and functions of human digestive, circulatory, and respiratory
systems and model/describe how these systems interact. Identify the general structures and
functions of the other systems.
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Muscle and skin tissue microscope slides.
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Genetic information is
passed from one generation to the next and can create variation and
similarity in offspring.
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Reproduction and Heredity
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Compare sexual
and asexual reproduction.
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Recognize that every
organism needs a set of instructions (genes on chromosomes) to determine its
traits and model how this information is passed from parent to offspring.
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Give examples
of adaptations and describe how these traits help an organism to survive and
understand that adaptations arise from genetic mutations.
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NYS Stacops: genetically
determined marshmallow creatures
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Over time, populations of
organisms can adapt to their changing environment through natural selection.
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Evolution
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Give examples of
how genetic variations and environmental factors are causes of natural
selection.
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Understand that evolution
accounts for the diversity of species developed through a gradual process
over many generations. Relate
the extinction of species to a mismatch of adaptation and the environment.
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Recognize that
evidence drawn from geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy provides the
basis of the theory of evolution.
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Organisms are
interdependent and changes in ecosystems impact which organisms survive.
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Ecology
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Describe how abiotic factors and the carbon and water cycles are
important to a functioning ecosystem.
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Explain the
roles and relationships among producers, consumers and decomposers in the
process of energy transfer in an ecosystem.
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Identify ways in which
ecosystems have changed throughout geologic time in response to physical
conditions, interactions among organisms, and the actions of humans.
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Island project
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