Learning Targets:
Classroom Resources:
Online Resources:
Lab Safety
Basic and Applied Science
Hierarchy of Life
Crash Course Video: Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth
Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been interacting with each other all the time, every day, since life on this planet began, and these interactions depend mostly on just two things... Learn what they are as Crash Course Biology takes its final voyage outside the body and into the entire world.
Table of Contents
1) Ecological Hierarchy 02:01:2
a) Population 02:12
b) Community 02:26:1
c) Ecosystem 02:50
d) Biome 03:22:1
e) Biosphere 03:51
2) Key Ecological Factors 04:07
a) Temperature 05:06:1
b) Water 05:37
3) Biome Type 06:03:1
Taxonomy and Systematics
Bacteria
- Demonstrate organizational skills such as keeping a daily calendar of assignments and activities and maintaining a notebook of class work.
- Keep your binder organized and updated.
- Apply strategies before, during, and after reading to increase fluency and comprehension (e.g., adjusting purpose, previewing, scanning, making predictions, comparing, inferring, summarizing, using graphic organizers) with increasingly challenging texts.
- Use graphic organizers to better understand the Eight Characteristics of Life, Hierarchy of Life and Taxonomy
- Improve understanding of material by outlining material presented in class.
- Apply active reading, listening, and viewing techniques by taking notes on classroom discussions, lectures, oral and/or video presentations, or assigned at-home reading, and by underlining key passages and writing comments in journals or in margins of texts, where permitted.
- Stay on task during class, annotate provided PowerPoint notes and take additional notes during board discussions.
- Outline provided materials and assimilate this information into material presented in class.
- Apply knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon affixes, inflections, and roots to understand unfamiliar words and new subject area vocabulary in increasingly challenging texts.
- Be able to define and correctly spell all vocabulary words.
- Actively participate in small-group and large-group discussions, assuming various roles.
- Participate in class discussions and ask questions when needed on a daily basis.
- Describe the fundamental assumptions of science
- Different areas of study in the natural sciences
- Various branches in the field of biology
- Principle of Complementarity of Structure and Function
- Role of ethics in relation to issues of science.
- Revise, refine, and proofread own and others writing, using appropriate tools to find strengths and weaknesses and to seek strategies for improvement (using good writing methods).
- State, elaborate, use and example and draw a connection or make an illustration when answering open - ended questions.
- Compare the goals and procedures followed in basic science with the goals and procedures of applied science and technology; discuss the important contributions of each and how citizens need to understand the ramifications of funding both endeavors.
- Provide definitions, examples and discussions of both basic (pure) science and applied science (technology)
- Explain how the contributions of basic science drive the potential of applied science (e.g. advantages found in nature can be emulated for our won benefit/product development, such as understanding of basic cell biology leading to cancer treatments.)
- Explain and provided examples of the cyclic relationship between basic and applied science.
- Understand and explain how funding of basic science benefits development of applied science and created new technology used by society.
- Assess how scientific and technological progress has affected other fields of study, careers, and aspects of everyday life.
- Explain how science, and biology specifically, affects your everyday life.
- Understand and explain how funding of basic science benefits development of applied science and created new technology used by society.
- Describe the biological criteria that need to be met in order for an organism to be considered alive.
- Identify, list and explain the eight Characteristics of Life.
- Define and provide examples of each level of organization in biology.
- Identify, list and explain each level in the Hierarchy of Life.
- Explain how organisms are classified into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups based on similarities that reflect their evolutionary relationships.
- List each of the major levels in the hierarchy of taxa.
- Explain and correctly use the binomial nomenclature system.
- Distinguish between and among prokaryotes and protists, and give examples of each.
- Explain classification criteria for fungi, plants and animals.
- Construct and use a dichotomous taxonomic key.
- Write and speak effectively to present and explain scientific results, using appropriate terminology and graphics.
- Use appropriate essay-test taking and timed-writing strategies that address and analyze the questions.
- Demonstrate familiarity with test formats and test administration procedures to increase speed and accuracy.
- Complete tests within permitted time limits.
- Science
- Biology
- Technology
- Biotechnology
- Basic science
- Applied science
- Ethics
- Cell
- Unicellular
- Multicellular
- Prokaryotic
- Eukaryotic
- Reproduction
- Sexual reproduction
- Asexual reproduction
- Deoxyribonucleic acid
- Heredity
- Gene
- Growth
- Development
- ATP (Adenosine triphosphate)
- Producers
- Autotrophs
- Consumers
- Heterotrophs
- Metabolism
- Synthesis
- Photosynthesis
- Chemosynthesis
- Cellular respiration
- Stimuli
- Homeostasis
- Evolution
- Adaptation
- Subatomic particle
- Atom
- Molecule
- Organelle
- Tissue
- Organ
- Organ system
- Organism
- Population
- Community
- Ecosystem
- Biome
- Biosphere
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- Environment
- Biotic
- Abiotic
- Biodiversity
- Species
- Taxonomy
- Phylogeny
- Systematics
- Taxon
- Species
- Binomial nomenclature
- Genus
- Specific epithet
- Cladistics
- Cladogram
- Clade
- Primitive (Shared) characteristic
- Derived characteristic
- Homology (homologous structures)
- Analogy (analogous structures)
- Convergent evolution
- Dichotomous keys
- Diagnostic characteristics
Classroom Resources:
- Textbook readings - you can access the online version of our book by following these directions.
- Biology and Your Future Study Guide
- The Science of Biology Notes
- Homework: Branches of Biology
- Vocabulary Focus: Flashcards
- Vocabulary Focus: Developing Definitions
- Extra Assignment: Branches of Biology
- Characteristics of Life Notes
- Characteristic of Life Frayer Model Study Guides
- Characteristics of Life Study Guide/Organizer
- Characteristics of Life Homework Concept Web
- Science World: Super Sniffers packet
- Hierarchy of Life Notes
- Hierarchy of Life Study Guide
- Outlining Packet
- Linnaean System of Classification Power Notes
- Phylogeny and the Tree of Life notes
- Basic Exercises in Logic homework
- Cladistics Handout
- Quick Lab: Classification: Construct a Cladogram
- Lab: Building a Cladogram
- Appendix A: Classification
- Domain and Kingdom Handout
- Classification worksheet
- POGIL: Biological Classification
- Classification homework
- Understanding and Using Dichotomous Keys handout
- Hippo Handout
- Taxonomic Keys Kit Homework - see Mrs. Averett for additional copies.
- Unit One Reflection worksheet
Online Resources:
Lab Safety
Basic and Applied Science
- An explanation of Basic and Applied Science with examples. Follow all of the links through this site for the most comprehensive understanding.
- A great authentic reading debating the need for both basic and applied science funding.
- The false distinction between basic and applied science.
- Classzone Use this site to review the basics of this unit. Choose high school science, Kentucky and the green biology book for Kentucky. Although this site does not review all of the required information it does have much of the basics covered.
- A video to get you thinking about the Eight Characteristics of Life
- Another video to help your review
- Websites to help with understanding feedback mechanisms in organisms
Hierarchy of Life
- Classzone Use this site to review the basics of this unit. Choose high school science, Kentucky and the green biology book for Kentucky. Although this site does not review all of the required information it does have much of the basics covered.
- Hierarchy of Life examples
Crash Course Video: Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth
Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been interacting with each other all the time, every day, since life on this planet began, and these interactions depend mostly on just two things... Learn what they are as Crash Course Biology takes its final voyage outside the body and into the entire world.
Table of Contents
1) Ecological Hierarchy 02:01:2
a) Population 02:12
b) Community 02:26:1
c) Ecosystem 02:50
d) Biome 03:22:1
e) Biosphere 03:51
2) Key Ecological Factors 04:07
a) Temperature 05:06:1
b) Water 05:37
3) Biome Type 06:03:1
Taxonomy and Systematics
- Classzone Use this site to review the basics of this unit. Choose high school science, Kentucky and the green biology book for Kentucky. Although this site does not review all of the required information it does have much of the basics covered.
- Binomial Nomenclature explanation
- Explanation and examples of Convergent Evolution.
- Article explaining taxonomy
- Good pictures and more detail on different levels of taxa
- A research article about the taxa of life in the Smokey Mountains
- Excellent source explaining Kingdom Protista
- What is the Key to Classification? Interactive website.
- The Tree of Life - a web project
- Another phylogeny project page.
- Classifying Critters - a Howqrd Hughes Medical Institute service
- Natural Perspective - a site dedicated to the beauty and science of nature
- NOVA Classifying Life website
- The Evolution of the Three Domains animation
- Khan Academy - Taxonomy and the Tree of Life video
Bacteria