Biology (H)
Course #319
Credit 1.0
This course is designed to meet the requirements of the Next Generation Science Standards. The disciplinary core ideas of structure and function, inheritance and variation of traits, matter and energy in organisms and ecosystems, interdependent relationships in ecosystems, natural selection and evolution are integrated with concepts of human impacts on Earth systems and engineering design. The science practices of asking questions, developing and using models, planning and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, using mathematical and computational thinking, constructing explanations, argument from evidence, and obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information are utilized throughout the year.
Unit 1: The Threat from Our Own Mistakes
The health risk posed to humans through our genetic mistakes whether self-induced through exposur...
Unit 2: Why is Change Our Friend or Foe?
The lives of humans were forever changed when in the 1920s Sir Alexander Fleming observed the abi...
Unit 3: What A Waste
When we flush, where does it go? What about what we pour down the sink? Maybe you know that the w...
Unit 4: Success Determined by Reaction to Change
Coyotes are recent addition to the New England states over the last fifty years, which were not c...
Unit 5: Scientific Inquiry
Students will apply the principles of scientific method and the background obtained over the cour...
Unit 6: Science Our Savior or Our Demise
For hundreds of years, humans have selectively bred species. Farmers selected crops with the best...
Unit 7: Life is a Balancing Act
Organisms operate through a hierarchy of organization essential to maintaining fitness and effici...
Unit 8: Human Impacts On Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life. Environments around the planet have a variety of...
Unit 9: Global Climate Change
The unit is focused on the impacts of Climate Change on the maple syrup industry in CT / New Engl...