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Biology
B
Instructional Objectives
Students
will be able to do the following upon the completion
of each of the units.
Unit 6
How energy comes from the sun and is converted to food
by green plants.
The relationship of plants and animals in food chains
and food webs.
The problems related to upsetting part of the food chain.
How ancient people developed specific foods.
The effects of pollution.
The problem of providing nutritious foods
How some of the senses transmit information to us.
Unit 7
Understand how populations of plants and animals live
together in communities.
Know how living organisms are affected by their surroundings.
Know the functions of predator and prey and how changing
the population of one species affects others.
Learn about some of the techniques and instruments that
scientists use to study nature.
Learn about man's role in producing and preventing pollution.
Understand the causes of overpopulation and be able
to write a clear essay explaining the problems of population
control.
Learn about the Endangered Species Act and the problems
of providing space for man, plants, and animals to love.
Learn how some ancient people prevented erosion centuries
ago, and the implications for erosion control today.
Understand how organisms function as either producers,
consumers, or decomposers to maintain the cycle of life
on the planet earth.
Unit 8
Describe how the skeleton is designed to support the
body, provide for motion, produce red blood cells, accommodate
childbirth in females, and repair itself.
Write a philosophic essay, specifically comparing nature's
design for survival of the species and man's design
for artistic expression in addition to survival.
Understand the different shapes of leaves; use a key
to identify the needles of the conifers, know the effects
of water and sunlight on leaves, understand that plants
are the source for many medicines.
Analyze how an artist designs a piece of art..
Understand how bees work together; learn some of their
body parts and characteristics; study how mutations
effect the interaction of bees with flowers.
Be able to write persuasive essays, specifically in
support or opposition to genetic engineering in humans.
Unit 9
Understand how nature reuses materials in the water
cycle, the carbon-oxygen cycle, and the nitrogen cycle.
Know the important roll that photosynthesis plays in
the cycles of living organisms.
Explain how bacteria play an important role in recycling
materials.
Know how communities and ecosystems change as they go
through cycles.
Understand that trees grow and adapt to the annual weather
cycles and surroundings in their habitat.
Demonstrate your ability to describe in writing a natural
object in descriptive terms and artistic terms.
Use mathematics to analyze characteristics of natural
phenomena.
Understand how traits are transferred to offspring through
genetics.
Write a persuasive essay supporting a position, specifically
the effect of modern medicine
prolonging life.
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