Biology
Syllabus
Course Description
Teacher Assignment
Credit Value: 1.00
The course will align with Pennsylvania Keystone Biology Exam Anchors in the area of Ecology and Environmental Science. Students will study topics including but not limited to the complex ecological interactions between biotic and abiotic factors within the biosphere of Earth: characteristics of organisms, adaptations to environmental selection, the hydrosphere and its importance to all life on Earth, ecological levels of organization, food webs, energy pyramids, symbiosis and competition, limiting factors and population dynamics, pollution and changes to our biosphere, cycles of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon within the biosphere.
Units
- Taxonomy
- Cells
- Organism Interactions
- Energy in Organisms
- Genetics & Evolution
- Organic Molecules
- Energy in Ecosystems
- Human Impact on Environment
Assessments
- Weekly Pop Quizzes
- Projects
- Digital Assignments
- Labs/Virtual Labs
- Collins Writings Type I, II, and III
- Oral Assessments
- Online Exams
- Study Island Modules
Resources
- Prentic Hall Textbook: Life Science
- Google Classroom
- Crash Course videos
- Amoeba Sisters videos
- Study Island
- Web Quests
- Glencoe Virtual Labs
- Nature
- Planet Earth series DVD set