Curriculum Mapping, Alignment, and Analysis Glen Lake Community Schools

Curriculum Mapping, Alignment, and Analysis Glen Lake Community Schools Grade:9 Content Area: Science Course: Biology Revised 8/27/03 Month Essential Questions What are the fundamental, enduring questions that will guide study and instruction? Content What topic(s) is being covered and what is the important vocabulary? What do students need to know? (Topics, Issues, works, problems, themes) Skills Use verbs to tell: What do students have to be able to do connected to the content? Assessment Use nouns to describe: What evidence (products and/or performances) is collected to establish that the Content and Skills have been learned about the Essential Questions? Standard What benchma through this to (Use the code/ the state standa

Month September Essential Questions What are the fundamental, enduring questions that will guide study and instruction? Content What topic(s) is being covered and what is the important vocabulary? What do students need to know? (Topics, Issues, works, problems, themes) Scientific method Limitations of science Characteristics of life Ecologyrelationships, energy flow, Hypothesis, Independent variable, Dependent variable, theory, hypothesis, experimental group, control group, Uncertainty, error, range, accuracy Homeostasis, Adaptations Biotic and abiotic factors, food chains, food webs, energy pyramids, energy flow, producers, consumers, decomposers, symbiotic relationships, predation, Skills Use verbs to tell: What do students have to be able to do connected to the content? Use the scientific method to set up experiments. Analyze data from experiments Use various tools to measure materials in the metric system Determine some limitations of science Explain the characteristics of life and give examples that show each characteristic Make a food web and trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem Describe and give examples of different types of symbiotic relationships Assessment Use nouns to describe: What evidence (products and/or performances) is collected to establish that the Content and Skills have been learned about the Essential Questions? Conduct various experiments using the scientific method, design, set up and conduct, and analyze plant experiment Measuring activity Worksheets Outside ecology project Food web activity Standard What benchma through this to (Use the code/ the state standa 1.1.h.1 1.1.h.2 1.1.1.3 11.1.h.2 11.1.h.3 11.1.h.6 111.5.h.1 111.5.h.2

Month Essential Questions What are the fundamental, enduring questions that will guide study and instruction? Content What topic(s) is being covered and what is the important vocabulary? What do students need to know? (Topics, Issues, works, problems, themes) Ecology continuedcycling of materials, changes in ecosystems over time, Vocabulary: Carbon cycle, water cycle, phosphorous cycle, nitrogen cycle, photosynthesis, respiration decomposition, succession, pioneer communities, populations, carrying capacity, Skills Use verbs to tell: What do students have to be able to do connected to the content? Draw and explain various cycles of materials through the environment Describe typical population growth curves and explain factors that affect populations. Assessment Use nouns to describe: What evidence (products and/or performances) is collected to establish that the Content and Skills have been learned about the Essential Questions? Drawings of various cycles Various worksheets and questions from book Standard What benchma through this to (Use the code/ the state standa 111.5.h.5 111.5.h.3 111.5.h.4 111.5.h.6 V.2.m.2 11.1.h.6 October water quality testing, pollution other environmental concerns watershed, Q- value, dissolved oxygen, phosphates, nitrates, benthics, fecal coliform, turbidity, acid rain, greenhouse effect, invader species, photochemical smog, ozone depletion, biodiversity, loss of habitate, run-off Describe how an ecosystem will naturally change over time Research various water quality parameters, determine their causes and effects on aquatic ecosystems Conduct various water quality tests and analyze their results Describe various environmental problemstheir causes, effects, and possible solutions Describe how surface water in michiagn reaches the ocean and returns Poster projects showing various water quality tests Field trip- properly conduct various water quality tests and share with the class your analysis of the results Research an environmental issue (cause, effect, and possible solution), make a poster, pamphlet, or power

Month Essential Questions What are the fundamental, enduring questions that will guide study and instruction? Content What topic(s) is being covered and what is the important vocabulary? What do students need to know? (Topics, Issues, works, problems, themes) Compounds that make up living organisms Skills Use verbs to tell: What do students have to be able to do connected to the content? Vocabulary: Monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, DNA, RNA, enzymes, Assessment Use nouns to describe: What evidence (products and/or performances) is collected to establish that the Content and Skills have been learned about the Essential Questions? Standard What benchma through this to (Use the code/ the state standa Project on compounds that make up Use of the microscope Lab on microscope use Cell parts- structure and functions Specialized cells and their parts objectives, eyepiece, adjustments knobs Cell stories Various cell observation labs nucleus, cytoplasm, vacuoles, ER, lysosomes, mitochondria, cell membrane, cell wall, golgi bodies, chloroplasts, ribosomes, red blood cells, white blood cells, nerve cells, leaf cells,

December Cell parts- structure and function (continued) Movement of materials in and out of cells- how the cell keeps homeostasis Vocabulary: Diffusion, passive transport, active transport, carrier proteins, phospholipids, osmosis, dynamic equalibrium, isotonic solution Compare and contrast plant and animal cells Describe the cell membrane Explain how materials can move in and out of a cell by diffusion, osmosis, and active transport Describe what will happen to cells put in various water solutions Various lab activities on diffusion and osmosis Worksheets and questons 111.2.h.4 January Energy in cells- respiration and photosynthesis (food storage and use) Review for exams Vocabulary: aerobic, anaerobic, respiration, fermentation, photosynthesis, light reaction, calvin cycle, ATP, ADP, mitochondria Diagram how ATP is made, broken down and remade in cells Explain how plants use the sun s energy to make glucose (photosynthesis)

List factors that affect photosynthesis Explain how fermentation and respiration occur. Lab activities on respiration, fermentation, and photosynthesis Worksheets and questions 111.2.3 February Cell division (mitosis) Cancer Cell division of reproductive cells (meiosis) DNA and how it codes for our traits Vocabulary: mitosis, chromosomes, centromere, centriole, cell plate, spindle fibers, daughter cells, interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cancer, meiosis, DNA, DNA replication, phosphates, nitrogen bases, RNA, mrna, trna, rrna Meiosis Using lab materials, show the process of mitosis in a cell. List and describe what occurs in the stages of mitosis

Observe and identify cells in various stages of mitosis Explain what cancer is, causes, preventions, and treatments Describe how reproductive cells are formed by meiosis Compare and contrast DNA and RNA Explain how DNA and RNA make proteins in the cells Extract DNA from wheat germ cells Lab simulation on steps in mitosis Activity- making a model of DNA and RNA Handouts and questions lab simulation on steps in meiosis 111.1.h.1 111.2.h.5 111.3.h.2 March

M m Genetics- how traits are passed to offspring Fossils and natural selection Vocabulary: gene, dominant, recessive, punnett square, mutations, sex-linked traits, pedigree, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, inheritance of blood types,

natural selection, adaptation, variations Explain how traits are passed to offspring Using a punnett square, determine what hypothetical offspring will be like Explain how sex linked traits are passed on to offspring Using a pedigree, explain how a trait is passed through a family Explain what a gene mutation is and some causes Explain the pros and cons of various genetic issues(genetic engineering, cloning, medicines) Using bacteria and an antibiotic, explain how a new variety of bacteria could arise Punnet square activities Pedigree activities

Research paper on a genetic issue Drawing of original animal with adaptations showing how the adaptations could have arisen 111.3.h.1 111.3.h.2 111.3.h.3 111.4.h.2 April Continuation of evolution Classifying living organisms Vocabulary: Evidence of evolution, vestigial structures, DNA, fossils, Kingdom, phylum, genus, species, scientific name, protist, fungi, moneran, archeobacteria, eubacteria Describe what biologists consider to be evidence for human evolutionary relationships.

Classify major groups of organisms to the kingdom level Describe the 6 kingdoms Diagram of kingdoms, characteristics and examples Handouts and questions 111.4.1 111.2.h.1 May Life cycles of organisms associated with human diseases Treatment of diseases How the body fights off infection Technology used in treatment and prevention of diseases Vocabulary: infection process, disease, parasite, carrier, host infection, lyme disease, tick, malaria, white blood cells, homeostasis, bacteria, virus, vaccination, antibodies. Research an infectious disease, find out causes, effects, prevention, treatments. Describe the life cycle of selected human parasites, their effects, prevention, and treatment. Explain how a vaccine works

Describe how the body fights off diseases Research pamphlet Activity on spreading of diseases Handouts and questions 111.2.h.2 111.2.h.4 111.2.h.5 June Review for exams Vocabulary: