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Overview
Students investigate cell structures, genetic
material and the basics of heredity.
Learning Expectations:
Understand the molecular basis of
heredity. Understand that diversity of life is a result of evolution.
Understand that every organism has a set of instructions that
determine its inherited traits.
- Design and conduct scientific investigations.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather,
analyze, and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions,
and models using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make connections
between evidence and explanations.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
- Describe the similarities and differences that
characterize diverse living things.
- Understand that every organism has a set of
genetic instructions that determines its inherited traits.
- Explain basic concepts of natural selection.
- Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
- Understand that different kinds of questions
suggest different kinds of scientific investigations; current
knowledge guides scientific investigations; and mathematics
and technology are important scientific tools.
- Understand that scientific explanations emphasize
evidence.
- Record and graph data concretely, pictorially,
and symbolically to discover relationships.
- Acquire the vocabulary associated with cells
and heredity.
- Use scientific thinking processes to conduct
investigations and build explanations: observing,
communicating, organizing, relating and inferring.
- Work collaboratively and relate knowledge to
new experiences.
- Understand science safety and follow safe practices.
Assessments:
- Lab experiments
- Performance assessments
- Reflective journals
- Teacher created assessments
- End of unit projects
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Homework/Class work
- Teacher observations
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