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ESSENTIAL QUESTION (optional)
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CONTENT
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SKILLS and ABILITIES
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ASSESSMENT
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RESOURCE
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August
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September
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Science as a way of knowing
(what makes science unique and different from other ways, criteria of
science and their importance, why we conduct science and Q's it can answer)
end about 9/11, Ecology
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list ways science
differs identify what makes science trace energy
flow through food web/chain
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Science Knowledge
Survey- pre and post test Evaluating
articles, etc Biome
project
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Photosynth. Lab
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October
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Ecology (including
energy flow/cycling picture photosynthesis including big picture of
cellular respiration, and within living systems, competition and
cooperation in ecosystems)
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trace energy flow
through food web/chain describe
how humans impact ecology
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Human impact
present Ecology test/quizzes
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November
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How do organisms
change over time? How do organisms illustrate divers?
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Ecology ends (also
human impact) 11/9, Evolution
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ho humans impact
ecology explain natural
selection give ways that
organisms are related, genetically, anantomically,
fossil records
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Describe how an
organism has characteristics Evolution Test
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Check act. Dot/Cloth
Activity DNA
Paperclip Act. 4 billion year war Arms race
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December
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Evolution
(populations evolve over long periods of time dure
to natural selection, evidence for evolution, genetics/molecular evidence aere a focus), ends 12/22
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January
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Systems/matter and
energy flow (compare to city)-look at cells in the context of a system,
energy inputs outputs transfers and transformations
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Cells (diffusion,
osmosis, organelles, cell function)
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February
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How do organisms
grow? How are traits passed?
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DNA/Genetics
(chromosomes, mitosis/meiosis, heredity, mendelain,
population maybe)
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March
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How are traits
passed and expressed?
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DNA/Genetics
(structure of DNA underlies heredity explains replication and protein synthesis;
mutations sickle cell, cancer)
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April
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How do we apply
scientific technology to present problems?
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Finish DNA genetics,
then Biothics (evaluating methods of
investigation, evolution of science, ideas, risks in trials of living things,
tech and ethics, propreity and genes)
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Jen's Biethics Unit
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May
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How do animals'
bodies function and work together to maintain homeost?
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Body systems (how
human organ systems regulate growth, development and life functions,
include pig), and plants/birds if time
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June
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Body systems
(homeostasis, health, maintenance, endcocrine
immune, nervous, reproductive, and skin, include pig), and plants/birds if
time
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