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Biology Syllabus
1First QuarterA Biology: The study of life (1 week)
1. What is biology?
2. The methods of biology
3. The nature of Biology
4. Careers related to biological sciences including health professions and biotechnology.
B. Principles of Ecology (3 weeks)
1. Organisms and their Environment
2. Nutrition and energy flow
3. Biogeochemical cycles and Life cycles
4. Communities and Biomes
5. Population Dynamics and Growth
6. Biological Diversity and Conservation
7. Recycling and Pollution control
C. The Chemistry of Life (1 week)
1. Atoms and their interactions
2. Water and Diffusion
3. Life substances
D. A View of The Cell (1 week)
1. The Discovery of the cell
2. The plasma membrane
3. Eukaryotic cell structure
E. Cellular transport and the cell cycle (1.5 week)
1. Cellular transport
2. Cell growth and reproduction
3. Control of cell cycle
4. Cancer -A loss control of cell cycle
F. Energy in a cell 1 week
1. ATP in a molecule
2. Photosynthesis: Trapping solar energy
3. Getting energy to make ATP
4. The Life of a cell
G. Review work done in the first Quarter
Test on First QTP Topic
Second Quarter
H. Genetics
1. Mendelian laws and Meiosis 1 week
2. DNA: the molecule of heredity
3. From DNA to protein
4. Genetic Changes
5. Patterns of heredity and human Genetics 1 week
6. Mendelian Inheritance of human traits.
7. When heredity follows different rules
8 Complex inheritance of human traits
9. An understanding of the inheritance of genes and their influence by the external environment.
I. Genetic Technology 0.5 week
1. Applied Genetics
2. Recombinant DNA Technology
3. The Human Genome Project
Review of work done in the second Quarter
Test on 2nd QTP Topic
Mid term Examination on 1st and 2nd QTP
Third Quarter
J. Origin of Life and Evolution (2.5 weeks)
1. The Record of Life
2. The Origin of Life
3. Natural Selection and the evidence for evolution
4. Mechanisms for evolution¿
5. Primate Adaptation and Evolution
6. Human Ancestry
K. Classification (1 week)
1. The six kingdoms
2. Change through time
L. Viruses, Monera, Fungi, Protista (1.5 week)
1. Archaebacteria and bacteria
2. World of Protists
3. Algae
4. Diversity of Fungi
M. Adaptation to Life on Land (2 weeks)
1. Survey of the Plant Kingdom
2. Nonvascular plants
3. Non seed vascular plants
4. Seed plants
5. Plant cells and tissue
6. Root, stems and leaves
7. Plant responses
8. Life cycle of mosses, ferns and conifers 2 weeks
9. Flowers and flowering
10. Life cycle of a flowering plant
11. Plants
Review of 3rd Quarter Topic
Test on 3rd QTP topic
Fourth Quarter
N. Typical Animal characteristics (4.5 weeks)
1. Body plan and adaptations
2. Sponges
3. Cnidarians
4. Flatworms
5. Roundworms,
6. Mollusks
7. Segmented worms
8. Echinoderms
9. Invertebrate chordates
a. Fish
b. Amphibians
c. Reptiles
d. Birds
e. Mammalian characteristics
O. Diversity of mammals (1 week)
1. Innate behavior
2. Learned behavior
P. The Human Body (3 weeks)
1. Skin
2. The Body¿s protection
3. Bones The Body¿s Support
4. Muscles for locomotion
5. Nutrition and Digestion
6. The endocrine system
7. The nervous system
8. The senses and the brain
9. The effect of drugs
10. Respiratory System
11. Circulatory system
12. The urinary system
13. Reproductive system
Q. Life Cycle
1. Birth, growth aging 1.5 weeks
2. The nature of disease
3. Defense against disease
4. The human body
VI INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL
A. Text Book
B. Laboratory Experiments
C. Overhead Transparencies
D. Video tapes
E. Computer Programs
D. Virtual Laboratory On Line
VII STUDENT EVALUATION
A. Tests
B. Quizzes
C. Laboratory Reports
D. Midterm Examination
E. Final Examination
VIII COURSE EVALUATION
A. The course will be evaluated by the following methods
1. Analysis of quiz and test grades
2. Analysis of Midterm and Final examination grades
3. Analysis of class work including participatory grade
IX PROGRAM EVALUATION
A. Get feed back from students regarding the course at the end of the school year by filling out a questionnaire
B. Assess the level of motivation to pursue medical careers at the beginning and the end of the year
C. Monitor in future years
1. Motivation to participate in the Science Fair
2. Success in other course pertaining to the Biological Sciences.
Bibliography
1. Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards (2000) A guide for teaching and learning http/books.nap.edu/html/inquiry_addendum/ch1.html
2. Multiple-method Learning
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/common/capa.html
3. Course Outline for Advanced placement Chemistry Written By P. Silver, M. Fineman
4, New Jersey core curriculum standards (State of New Jersey, 1996)
5 Internet Streamlinks-9th grade Biology
http://www.uen.org/stream/html/9th bio.html
6. 2001 High School Careers Program-Research U Mass Medical School
http://www.umassmed.edu/summer/hshcp.cfm
7. 2001 NIH Research Fellowship Program for Minority Undergraduate College students
http://www.umassmed.edu/summer/nihpage.cfm
8. Washusett Regional School District Science Curriculum Grade 9-12 Biology
http://www.wrsd/net/scienceguidegrade9biology.htm
9. STem Biology Program
http://www.hhmi.princeton.edu/grp2/stem-biology.htm
10. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for health Science Technology Education
http://www.tenet.edeu/teks/web/science/bio.html#112.43
11. SPARC 2001:Reinvigorating Science Education with Brain based inquiry Learning
Dr. B. Whitlow1
12. The Ecological Literacy School- based project
Steve Curwood and Cindy Thomashow
13. Camden City Schools Curriculum Management System Biology 1998
14, Biology: The Dynamics of Life
A Glencoe Program 2000 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Chemistry Syllabus
1.Chemistry an overview2.Matter and its properties
3.Atomic structure
4.Periodic Table and periodicity
5.Mole concept and conversions
6.Ionic and covalent bonding
7.Gas laws
8.Organic chemistry
9.Application of chemistry
10.Chemistry in the community
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