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Franklin County Community School Corporation - Brookville, Indiana
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Biology Honors
Quarter: 1
Academic Year: 2011-2012
Essential Questions for this Quarter:
1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population?
Unit/Time Frame
Chapter I
1.1 The Study of life
1.2 Methods of Biology
1.3 Nature of Biology
Standards
Cont. Stand.
B.1.1
Reading stand.
9-10.RS.1
9-10.RS.3
9-10.RS.4
9-10.RS.7
9-10.RS.9
Content
Content Stand.
B.3.1
B.3.4
B.3.5
B.4.1
Reading Stand.
9-10.RS.2
9-10.RS.3
9-10.RS.4
9-10.RS.6
Assessment
Resources
Characteristics of life
Interactions of environment
Scientific method
Types of Data
Theories and Laws
Science and ethics
List the major life functions
of living things & describe
how each contributes to
homeostasis.
Describe the scientific
process
Plot and read data tables
Describe how scientific
discoveries lead to new
technologies
Explain the importance of
the relationships of living
things with each other and
their environments
Select suitable lab materials
and safety equipment
Use appropriate technology
for data collection
Measurement
Control vs. Variable
Experiment
Vocabulary
Laboratory Analysis
Questions
Worksheets
Quizzes
Tests
Oral responses
Density –measurement
lab
Weekly etymology quiz
Color Lab
Gummy Saver lab:
Applying Scientific Method
Vocab Foldable
Bingo card
Biology textbook
Internet sites
Eyewitness
video— Life
What is ecology
Biosphere
Abiotic and Biotic Factors
Levels of Organization
Habitat vs niche
Symbiotic relationships
Trophic levels
Food chain vs Food web
Cycles of Nature
Distinguish between biotic
and abiotic factors in an
ecosystem
Describe how nutrients
cycle through an ecosystem
Use food chains, food webs,
pyramids of energy,
biomass, and numbers to
demonstrate the flow of
energy between trophic
levels in an ecosystem
Vocabulary
Activity Analysis
Questions
Worksheets
Discussion
Quizzes
Tests
Poster
Survival activity
Design a food web
Trophic activity
Book text
On-line lab activity
DVD-Friends and Rivals
Internet Sites
Virtual Labs
IPAD-Geo Walk
IPAD-Clip: Energy Levels
Youtube-Nature Cycles
Writing Stand.
9-10.WS.1b,c,e
9-10.WS.2a,d,e
9-10.WS.3
9-10.WS.4
Chapter 2 Ecology
2.1 Organisms and Their
Environment
2.2 Nutrition and Energy
Flow
Skills
Franklin County Community School Corporation - Brookville, Indiana
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Biology Honors
Quarter: 1
Academic Year: 2011-2012
Essential Questions for this Quarter:
1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population?
Unit/Time Frame
Standards
Content
9-10.RS.7
Content Stand.
B.3.5
B.4.1,3
Reading Stand.
9-10.RS.1,2,3,5,6,7
Directed Reading
Niche Posters
Vocab Foldable
Bingo card
Formation of biomes
Biomes -limiting factors
Tolerance and change
Succession
Aquatic & Terrestrial
Describe the order of
ecological succession
Describe the abiotic and
biotic factors found in each
biome.
Explain how the sun and the
water cycle create the
different biomes.
Compare and Contrast the
different biomes.
Describe specific food
chains and food webs in a
particular biome.
Vocabulary
Activity Analysis
Questions
Worksheets
Discussion
Quizzes
Tests
Poster
Directed readings
Vocab Foldable
Bingo car
Population Growth
J shaped vs S shaped curve
Carrying capacity
Life History Patterns
Population dispersal
Density dependent vs
Density independent factors
Predation vs competition
Describe the similarities
Vocabulary
between human beings and
Activity Analysis
other animal groups in terms Questions
of their structure and
Worksheets
function
Discussion
concerning the survival of
Quizzes
all life on Earth
Tests
Investigate how traits, reproductive
Poster
Writing Stand.
9-10.WS.1a,b,c
9-10.WS.2a,b,d,f
9-10.WS.4, 5,6,8,9,
10
Chapter 4 Population
Biology
4.1 Population Dynamics
4.2 Human Population
Content Stand.
B.4.1
B.4.2
B.4.3
B.4.4
Reading Stand.
9-10.RS.2,3,4,5,6,7
Assessment
Classify symbiotic
relationships
Explain the importance of
the relationships of living
things with each other and
their environments
Distinguish among
individuals, populations,
and communities
Recycling of materials
Writing Stand.
9-10.WS.1a,c
9-10.WS.2a,d
9-10.WS.3
9-10.WS.6
9-10.WS.8
9-10.WS.9
Chapter 3 Communities
And Biomes
3.1 Communities
3.2 Biomes
Skills
Resources
Book text
IPAD-Video Clips on
Biomes
IPAD-Animals 100
IPAD-African Odyssey
Computer lab
Text Book
DVD: The Plague
IPAD-World population
Prospects
Franklin County Community School Corporation - Brookville, Indiana
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Biology Honors
Quarter: 1
Academic Year: 2011-2012
Essential Questions for this Quarter:
1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population?
Unit/Time Frame
Standards
Content
Crowding & Stress
Human Demography
Writing Stand.
9-10.WS.1a,b,c,e
9-10.WS.2a,b,d
Skills
Assessment
strategies, and environmental pressures
Directed readings
impact the survival of populations
Vocab Foldable
Graph and interpret a populationBingo card
growth
curve
List the factors that cause
increase in population
growth.
Graph population growth in
a J-Shaped curve.
Describe exponential
growth using a J-Shaped
curve.
Explain what is happening
at each point of a J-Shaped
curve.
List the limiting factors that
cause populations to
decrease.
Apply limiting factors to a
J-shaped curve to change it
to an S-Shaped curve.
Compare and contrast
populations under and
above carrying capacity.
Describe Density Dependent
factors effect on populations
Describe Density
Independent factors effect
on populations.
Distinguish between
interspecific and
intraspecific competition.
Explain the effects of
Resources
Franklin County Community School Corporation - Brookville, Indiana
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Biology Honors
Quarter: 1
Academic Year: 2011-2012
Essential Questions for this Quarter:
1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population?
Unit/Time Frame
Standards
Content
Skills
Assessment
Resources
native and non-native
predators on prey
populations.
Calculate Growth Rate of a
population
Identify characteristics of a
crowded population.
Chapter 5 Biological
Diversity
5.1 Vanishing Species
5.2 Conservation of Biodiversity
Content Stand.
B.4.4
B.4.2
B.4.3
Reading Stand.
9-10.RS.2,3,4,5,8
Writing Stand.
9-10.WS.1a,b,c
9-10.WS.2a,d
9-10.WS.3,4
Importance of diversity
Loss of biodiversity
Threats of biodiversity
Conservation of nature
Define Biodiversity
Explain how biodiversity
maintains food chains and
food webs.
Explain how biodiversity
helps humans.
Describe the impact of
decreased biodiversity on
nature and humans.
Describe how the following
has negative effects on
Biodiversity..
-Habitat Loss
-Habitat Fragmentation
-Edge Effect
-Acid Precipitation
-Water Pollution
-Land pollution
- Exotic Species
Define Conservation
Biology
Describe how the following
conserves nature…
-U.S. Endangered Species
Act
-National Parks
Vocabulary
Activity Analysis
Questions
Worksheets
Discussion
Quizzes
Tests
Environmental Awareness
Project
Endangered Species
Activity
Directed readings
Vocab Foldable
Bingo card
Text book
Endangered Species Act
DVD: State of Planet
DVD: Lorax
DVD: Human Foot Print
Conservation Articles
Franklin County Community School Corporation - Brookville, Indiana
Curriculum Map
Course Title: Biology Honors
Quarter: 1
Academic Year: 2011-2012
Essential Questions for this Quarter:
1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population?
Unit/Time Frame
Standards
Content
Skills
-Habitat Corridors
-Reduce, Reuse, and
Recycle
-Reintroduction Programs
Captivity
Assessment
Resources
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