Biology

Biology

Biology Curriculum Map

1st Nine Weeks

Week

Concept

Benchmarks

Activities

Assessments

1

Chapter 1:  The Study of Life

 

Section 1:  Introduction to Biology

Standard/s:  NOS 10

Describe the characteristics used to identify whether something is alive

Explain why cells are considered the basic units of living things

Define biology and state the benefits of studying it

Differentiate between response and adaptation

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Lab - Living vs. non-living

Activity - VersaTiles (The Language of Biology) 

 

Pretest

Homework/Study guide

2

Chapter 1:  The Study of Life

Section 2:  The Nature of Science

Standard/s:  NOS 1, NOS 4, NOS 8

Section 3:  Methods of Science

Standard/s:  NOS 5

Describe the characteristics of scientific inquiry

Define scientific theory

Compare and contrast science with pseudoscience

Defend the importance of scientific literacy

Describe how a biologist's research can proceed from an idea to a published article

State why an observation cannot be an inference

Explain why the metric system and SI are important

Differentiate between controls, independent variables, and dependent variables

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Scientific method terms (flashcards)
 
 
 

Group activity - Identify the controls and variables

Video - The Nature of Science (Glencoe)

 
 Video - Scientific Method (Glencoe)
 
VersaTiles - Investigations 
 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

3

UNIT ONE:  ECOLOGY

Chapter 2:  Principles of Ecology

Section 1:  Organisms and Their Relationships

Standard/s:  B.4.1

Section 2:  Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem

Standard/s:  B.3.1, B.3.2, B.3.3, B.3.4, B.3.5

Section 3:  Cycling of Matter

Standard/s:  NOS 3, B.3.4, B.4.1, B.4.2

Compare and contrast biotic and abiotic factors

Describe the levels of organization

Describe the interactions between the levels of biological communities

Differentiate between the habitat and niche

Compare and contrast autotrophs and heterotrophs

Illustrate the flow of energy through a food chain, food web, or ecological pyramid

Classify organisms as producers or consumers, and herbivores, omnivores, or detritivores

Describe how nutrients move through biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem

Name and explain the four nutrient cycles

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Video - Trophic Cascades 

Group activity - Which symbiosis is it?

Game - Food Chain 

Interactive - Build a Food Chain 

Interactive - Build a Food Web 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
VersaTiles - Food Chains 
 
VersaTiles - Water Cycle
 
 
Review

Homework/Study guide

Project - Food web poster

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

4

Chapter 3:  Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems

Section 1:  Community Ecology

Standard/s:  B.4.4

Explain how unfavorable abiotic and biotic factors affect species

Describe the relationship between a limiting factor and a range of tolerance

Summarize the stages of primary and secondary succession

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Game - Succession 

 
Activity - VersaTiles (Ecosystems) 

Homework/Study guide

5

Chapter 3:  Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems

Section 2:  Terrestrial Biomes

Standard/s:  B.4.4

Section 3:  Aquatic Ecosystems

Standard/s:  NOS 5

Describe the nine major terrestrial biomes

Summarize variations in climate among the three major zones as you travel south from the equator toward the South Pole

List and explain the major abiotic factors that determine the location of a terrestrial biome

 List the major abiotic factors that determine the aquatic ecosystems

Define a transitional aquatic ecosystem and explain their importance
 
List the zones of marine ecosystems 

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Activity - VersaTiles (Biomes) 

Interactive - Biomes 

Activity - Biome Viewe 

 
 
 
Review 

Homework/Study Guide

Project/Rubric - Biome presentation
 
Standard-based/Teacher-made test
 

6

Chapter 4:  Population Ecology

Section 1:  Population Dynamics

Standard/s:  B.4.1

Section 2:  Human Population

Standard/s:  NOS 2, NOS 3, B.4.1, B.4.4

List the characteristics of populations and explain how they are distributed

Distinguish the differences between density-independent and density-dependent limiting factors

Describe the similarities between the different models used to quantify the growth of a population

State how carrying capacity affects reproductive rates

State what aspects affect population growth

List the trends in human population growth

Identify the age structures of representative nongrowing, slowly growing, and rapidly growing countries

Explain the consequences of continued population growth

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Lab - Population growth 1

 
 
 
Video - West Nile Virus (Glencoe)
 
 
Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

7

Chapter 5:  Biodiversity and Conservation

Section 1:  Biodiversity

Section 2:  Threats to Biodiversity

Standard/s:  B.4.2, B.4.3

Section 3:  Conserving Biodiversity

Standard/s:  NOS 11, B.4.2

Name three types of biodiversity

Explain the importance of biodiversity

List the direct and indirect values of biodiversity

State the threats to biodiversity

Differentiate between the current extinction rate and the background extinction rate

Describe how the decline of a single species can affect an entire ecosystem

List the two classes of natural resources

State the methods used to conserve biodiversity

Name the two techniques used to restore biodiversity

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Video - Biodiversity 

Simulation - Biodiversity 

Game - Biodiversity 

Group activity - How do we measure biodiversity?

Video - Habitat Fragmentation 

Group activity - Sustainability 
 
 
 

Guest Speaker

Activity - Global Change 

Video - Corn (Glencoe)

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

8

UNIT TWO:  THE CELL

Chapter 6:  Chemistry in Biology

 

Section 1:  Atoms, Elements, and Compounds

Standard/s:  B.1.1

Section 2:  Chemical Reactions

Standard/s:  B.1.2

Describe atoms

Explain how the particles that make up atoms are diagrammed

List the similarities between covalent and ionic bonds

Describe van der Waals forces

Label the parts of a chemical reaction

Explain how energy changes can be related to chemical reactions

Express the importance of enzymes in living organisms

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Demo

Interactive - Intermolecular attractions 

Simulation - Nuclear decay 

Interactive - Periodic table 

Game - Periodic table 

Interactive - Ionic bonds

Game - Ionic bonds 

Interactive - Covalent bonds 

Interactive - Covalent bonds 

Interactive - Chemical reactions 

Chemical reaction sim 

Lab Rules 

Lab - Chemical reactions

Interactive - Catalyst 

Virtual Lab - Enzyme Controlled Reactions 

Polarity sim 

Homework/Study guide

9

Chapter 6:  Chemistry in Biology

Section 3:  Water and Solutions

Standard/s:  B.1.2

Section 4:  The Building Blocks of Life

Standard/s:  B.1.1, B.1.2, B.5.5

Explain how the structure of water makes is a good solvent

Compare and contrast solutions and suspensions

Differentiate between acids and bases

Discuss the role of carbon in living organisms

List the four major families of biological macromolecules

Describe the functions of each group of biological macromolecules

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Video - In Living Color

Interactive - Water 

Interactive - Water

Interactive - Concentration 

Solutions sim 

Virtual lab - pH 

pH sim 

Lab - pH

VersaTiles - pH

Activity - Molecular Structure of Fat 

Interactive - Macromolecules 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

2nd Nine Weeks 

Week

Concept

Benchmarks

Activities

Assessments

1

Chapter 7:  Cellular Structure and Function

7.1:  Cell Discovery and Theory

Standard/s:  NOS 8, B1.2.1, B.2.6

7.2:  The Plasma Membrane

Standard/s:  B.2.2, B.5.5

Discuss how the advances in microscope technology related to discoveries about cells

Compare and contrast compound light microscopes and electron microscopes

Explain the principles of the cell theory

State the function of a cell's plasma membrane

Describe the roles of proteins, carbohydrates, and cholesterol in the plasma membrane

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Video - Plasma membrane 

Video - Visualizing cells 

Video - Cell structures 

Cell diagrams

Organelle chart

Interactive table - Cell structures

Interactive table - Cell structures (part 2) 

Interactive table - Cell structures (part 3) 

tVirtual Lab - Cellular Pursui

Membrane sim

Homework/Study guide

2

Chapter 7:  Cellular Structure and Function

7.3:  Structures and Organelles

Standard/s: B.2.1, B.2.3, B.2.4, B.2.5, B.2.6, B.5.5

 

7.4:  Cellular Transport

Standard/s:  NOS 10, B.2.2, B.2.5, B.5.5

Label the structures of a typical eukaryotic cell, and discuss their functions

Compare and contrast plant and animal cells

Explain the processes of diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and active transport

Describe the effect of hypotonic, hypertonic, or isotonic solution on a cell

State how large particles enter and exit cells

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Group activity - Playdoh cells

Lab - Cheek cells

 
Activity - VersaTiles (Cells) 
 
 
Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

3

Chapter 8:  Cellular Energy

8.1:  How Organisms Obtain Energy

Standard/s:  B.3.1, B.3.2, B.3.3, B.3.4, B.3.5

8.2:  Photosynthesis

Standard/s:  B.3.1

State the two laws of thermodynamics

Differentiate between an anabolic pathway and a catabolic pathway

Explain how ATP works in a cell

List the two phases of photosynthesis

Describe the function of a chloroplast during the light reactions

Describe electron transport, and illustrate it using a diagram

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

3D model - ATP 

Video - ATP 

Group activity - Photosynthesis (Tactile)

 
Electron transport song
 
Activity - VersaTiles (The Leaf) 

Homework/Study guide

4

Chapter 8:  Cellular Energy

8.3:  Cellular Respiration

Standard/s:  NOS 1, NOS 2, NOS 4, B.3.1, B.3.2, B.8.3

List the stages of cellular respiration

Explain the role of electron carriers in each stage of cellular respiration

State the similarities between alcoholic fermentation and lactic acid fermentation

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

 
 

Concept map - Photosynthesis vs. cellular respiration

Venn diagram - Photosynthesis vs. cellular respiration

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

5

Chapter 9:  Cellular Reproduction

9.1:  Cellular Growth

Standard/s:  B.5.1, B.6.1

9.2:  Mitosis and Cytokinesis

Standard/s:  B.6.1

State why cells are relatively small

List the primary states of the cell cycle

List the stages of interphase

Describe the events of each stage of mitosis

Explain the process of cytokinesis

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Lab - Mitosis (Onion root tip cells)

Virtual Lab - Cellular Reproduction 

Homework/Study guide

Mitosis flip books

6

Chapter 9:  Cellular Reproduction

9.3:  Cell Cycle Regulation

Standard/s:  B.5.1, B.6.1

Explain the role of cyclin proteins in controlling the cell cycle

Describe how cancer relates to the cell cycle

State the role of apoptosis

List the two types of stem cells and their potential uses

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Concept map - Cell cycle

Video - Cancer drugs
 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

Lab practical - Identifying phases of mitosis 

7

UNIT THREE: GENETICS

Chapter 10:  Sexual Reproduction and Genetics

10.1:  Meiosis

Standard/s:  B.5.1, B.5.2, B.5.5, B.6.1, B.6.4, B.6.5

10.2:  Mendelian Genetics

Standard/s:  B.5.2, B.5.6, B.6.5, B.7.1, B.7.2, B.7.3, B.8.6

 

Explain how the reduction in chromosome number occurs during meiosis

List the stages of meiosis

Explain the importance of meiosis in providing genetic variation

Describe the significance of Mendel's experiments to the study of genetics

Define the law of segregation and law of independent assortment

Create Punnett Squares, depicting the possible offspring

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

 
 
 
 
Concept map - Meiosis
 

Group activity - Mitosis vs. meiosis

Virtual Lab - Punnett Squares 

Menti

Flash cards

Index card activity 

Activity - VersaTiles (Mitosis and Meiosis) 

Homework/Study guide

8

Chapter 10:  Sexual Reproduction and Genetics

10.3:  Gene Linkage and Polyploidy

Standard/s:  B.5.6, B.6.5

Explain how the process of meiosis produces genetic recombination

Describe how gene linkage can be used to create chromosome maps

State why polyploidy is important to the field of agriculture

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Genetics problems 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

9

Semester 1 Finals

All previous standards

 

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Review

Final exam

3rd Nine Weeks

Week

Concept

Benchmarks

Activities

Assessments

1

Chapter 11:  Complex Inheritance and Heredity

 

Section 1:  Basic Patterns of Human Inheritance

Standard/s:  B.5.6, B.7.2

Explain how genetic patterns can be analyzed to determine dominant or recessive inheritance patterns

List examples of dominant and recessive disorders

Describe how a human pedigree can be constructed from genetic information

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Genetic scavenger hunt

 
 
Video: Ghost In Your Genes
 
 

Pretest

Homework/Study guide

2

Chapter 11:  Complex Inheritance and Heredity

Section 2:  Complex Patterns of Inheritance

Standard/s:  B.5.6, B.7.2

Section 3:  Chromosomes and Human Heredity

Standard/s:  B.5.6, B.6.5

List the differences between various complex inheritance patterns

Describe how sex-linked inheritance patterns can be analyzed

Explain how the environment can influence the phenotype of an organism

Explain how karyotypes are used to study genetic disorders

Describe the role of telomeres

Express how nondisjunction is related to Down syndrome and other abnormal chromosome numbers

List the benefits and risks of diagnostic fetal testing

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Genetics problems (see Downloads)
 
Activity - VersaTiles (Heredity)
 

Video - Blood supply

Virtual Lab - Sex linked Trait 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Project/Rubric - Genetic disorder presentation

Standard-based/Teacher-made test 

3

Chapter 12:  Molecular Genetics

Section 1:  DNA-The Genetic Material

Standard/s:  NOS 9, B.5.1

Section 2:  Replication of DNA

Standard/s:  B.5.1, B.7.4

Identify which experiments led to the discovery of DNA as the genetic material

Explain the basic structure of DNA

Describe the role of enzymes in the replication of DNA

Differentiate between the synthesis of leading and lagging strands

Compare and contrast DNA replication in eukaryotes and prokaryotes

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Book drawings

 
Activity - VersaTiles (DNA) 
 

DNA model activity

DNA simulation

Virtual Lab - DNA and Genes 

Homework/Study guide

4

Chapter 12:  Molecular Genetics

Section 3:  DNA, RNA, and Protein

Standard/s:  B.2.4, B.5.3, B.5.5

Describe the role of messenger RNA, ribosomal RNA, and transfer RNA in the transcription and translation of genes

Explain the role of RNA polymerase in the synthesis of messenger RNA

State how the code of DNA is translated into messenger RNA and utilized to synthesize a protein

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Concept map - Central dogma
 
 

Homework/Study guide

5

Chapter 12:  Molecular Genetics

Section 4:  Gene Regulation and Mutation

Standard/s:  B.1.2

Describe how bacteria are able to regulate their genes by two types of operons

Explain how eukaryotes regulate the transcription of genes

List the various types of mutations

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Video - Khan academy
 
  • coding
  • mutation
  • structure
  • Chargoff
  • packaging
  • replication
  • triplet (codon) 

LAC operon sim 

Virtual Lab - Tracking Grizzlie 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

6

Chapter 13: Genetics and Biotechnology

Section 1:  Applied Genetics

Standard/s:  B.5.6, B.7.1

Section 2:  DNA Technology

Standard/s:  NOS 10, B.5.6

Section 3:  The Human Genome

Standard/s:  NOS 9, NOS 10

Describe how selective breeding is used to produce organisms with desired traits

Compare and contrast inbreeding and hybridization

Explain how a Punnett square test cross helps assess the genotypes of organisms

List the different tools and processes used in genetic engineering

Describe how genetic engineering manipulates recombinant DNA

Describe the similarities between selective breeding and genetic engineering

Explain how genetic engineering and biotechnology can be used to improve human life

List the components of the human genome

Explain how forensic scientists use DNA fingerprinting

Describe how information from the human genome can be used to treat human disease

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Group activity - Who did it?

 
Video - Forensic Files
 
Videos - HHMI
  • genetic engineering (plasmid)
  • mRNA splicing (exons/introns)
  • PCR
  • sequencing 

Virtual Lab - Gene Splicing 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

7

UNIT FOUR:  HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Chapter 14:The History of Life

Section 1:  Fossil Evidence of Change

Standard/s:  B.8.1, B.8.7

 

Compare and contrast Earth's early environment and Earth's current environment

List the typical sequence of events in fossilization

Describe how the different techniques for dating fossils are used

List the major events on the geologic time scale

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Activity - EarthViewe 

Radioactive dating sim 

Video - Origins of Life

 

Homework/Study guide

8

Chapter 14:  The History of Life

Section 2:  The Origin of Life

Standard/s:  B.2.6, B.5.5, B.8.1

Differentiate between spontaneous generation and biogenesis

Describe the sequence of events that led to cellular life

Explain the endosymbiont theory

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Video - Mass Extinction 

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

9

Chapter 15: Evolution

Section 1:  Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

Standard/s:  B.8.4, B.8.7

Section 2:  Evidence of Evolution

Standard/s:  B.8.1, B.8.3, B.8.7

Section 3:  NOS 6, NOS 7, B.8.4, B.8.7

State the evidence that convinced Darwin that species could change over time

List the four principles of natural selection

Explain how natural selection can change a population

Explain how fossils can provide evidence of evolution

Describe how morphology provides evidence of evolution

Describe how biochemistry provides evidence of evolution

List the conditions of the Hardy-Weinberg principle

Describe the patterns observed in evolution

List the factors that influence speciation

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Lab - Natural selection

Activity - VersaTiles (Darwin) 

Activity - Discovering the Wallace Line 

Natural selection sim 

 
 

Video - Dover vs. School Board

Video - The Origin of Species

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

4th Nine Weeks 

Week

Concept

Benchmarks

Activities

Assessments

1

Chapter 16:  Primate Evolution

Section 1:  Primates

 
Standard/s: B.8.2, B.8.3
 
Section 2:  Hominoids to Hominins
 
Standard/s: B.8.2, B.8.3
 
Section 3:  Human Ancestry
 
Standard/s: B.8.2, B.8.3

Identify the characteristics of primates

Compare and contrast the major primate groups
 
Explain how the evolution of primates can be traced
 
List the features of hominoids and hominins
 
Establish how hominin evolution can be traced from Proconsul to Homo
 
Explain the similarities between the various australopithecine species
 
Describe the species in the genus Homo
 
Explain the Out-Of-Africa hypothesis
 
Compare and contrast Neanderthals and modern humans 

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test 

2

Chapter 17: History of Life's Diversity

Section 1:  The History of Classification

Standard/s: B.8.2

Section 2: Modern Classification

Standard/s: B.8.2, B.8.3

Compare and contrast Aristotle's and Linnaeus's methods of classification

Express scientific names using binomial nomenclature

List the categories used in biological classification

Compare and contrast the different species concepts

List the methods used to reveal phylogeny

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Group activity - Dichotomous key

Homework/Study guide

3

Chapter 17:  History of Life's Diversity

Section 3:  Domains and Kingdoms

Standard/s: B.8.2, B.8.3

Explain how a cladogram is constructed 

List the major characteristics of the three domains

Differentiate between the six kingdoms

Describe how organisms are classified at the kingdom level

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Virtual Lab - Classifying Using Biotechnology 

Review

Homework/Study Guide

Project - Taxonomy poster

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

4

UNIT SEVEN:  INVERTEBRATES

Chapter 24: Introduction to Animals

Section 1: Animal Characteristics

Standard/s: B.2.6, B.6.3

Section 2: Animal Body Plans

Standard/s: B.8.2

Explain how adaptations enable animals to live in different habitats

Compare and contrast structure and function in animals

List the stages of embryonic development in animals

Describe how animal body plans are related to phylogeny

Describe how body cavities are related to animal phylogeny

List the two types of coelomate development

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

5

Chapter 25:  Worms and Mollusks

Section 1:  Flatworms

Standard/s: B.8.2, B.8.3

Section 2: Roundworms and Rotifers

Standard/s: B.8.2, B.8.3

Section 3:  Mollusks

Standard/s:  B.8.2, B.8.3

Section 4:  Segmented Worms

Standard/s:  B.8.2, B.8.3

List the adaptations of free-living flatworms and parasitic flatworms

Describe how flatworms maintain homeostasis

List the three classes of flatworms and the characteristics of each

List the similarities between features of roundworms and flatworms

Explain how roundworms can be identified based on movement

List the ways humans risk contracting roundworm parasites 

Explain the importance of the coelum to mollusks

Describe the function of the mantle and what its adaptive advantages are over mollusks

Explain the importance of mucus and the muscular foot to mollusks

List the similarities among segmented worms, flatworms, and roundworms

Explain the importance of segmentation as an adaptation for survival in segmented worms

List the features of the three main classes of annelids that make them well-suited for their habitats

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Lab - Planarians

Lab - Earthworm dissection

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

6

UNIT EIGHT:  VERTEBRATES

Chapter 28:  Fishes and Amphibians

Section 1:  Fishes

Standard/s:  B.8.2, B.8.3

Section 2:  Diversity of Today's Fishes

Standard/s:  B.8.2, B.8.3

Section 3:  Amphibians

Standard/s:  B.8.2, B.8.3

List the features of vertebrates that make them different from invertebrates

List the characteristics that most fishes have in common

Explain how the characteristics of fishes are adapted to aquatic life

List the characteristics of different groups of fishes

Compare and contrast the key features of various types of fishes

Explain the evolution of fishes

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Lab - Frog dissection

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

7

Chapter 30:  Mammals

Section 1:  Mammalian Characteristics

Standard/s:  B.8.2, B.8.3

Section 2:  Diversity of Mammals

Standard/s:  NOS 2, B.8.2, B.8.3

List the characteristics of mammals

Describe how mammals maintain a constant temperature

Differentiate between respiration in mammals and other vertebrates

List the characteristics of mammals in each of the three subgroups of living mammals

List the adaptations that contribute to the diversity of mammals and enable them to live in a variety of habitats

Explain how mammals might have evolved

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Pig dissection

Review

Homework/Study guide

Standard-based/Teacher-made test

8

Finals

All previous standards

All previous benchmarks

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Review

Homework/Study guide

Semester final exam

9

Chapter 18:  Bacteria and Viruses

Section 1:  Bacteria

Standard/s:  B.2.5, B.2.6, B.6.1

Section 2:  Viruses and Prions

Differentiate between archaea and bacteria and their subcategories

List the survival methods of bacteria at both the individual and population levels

Explain how bacteria are beneficial to humans

Describe the general structure of a virus

Compare and contrast the lytic cycle, the lysogenic cycle, and retroviral replication

Describe the relationship between a prion's structure, replication, and action and its ability to cause disease

Lecture/Notes/Guided practice

Questions/Discussion

Seatwork/Individual help

Movie

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