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Energetics Curriculum Specifics
Unit Cell Energetics (7 Days)
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Enduring Understanding: The processes that occur at the cellular level provide the energy and basic structure organisms need to survive.
SC.912.L.18.7
Identify the reactants, products, and basic functions of photosynthesis.
Essential Question
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How do plants use sunlight to make
food? (1.5 days)
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Note: A mini- assessment (quiz) on 18.7 is
suggested before going to the next section.
(.5 days)
Students will identify the function of photosynthesis.
Students will recognize the reactants and the products of photosynthesis.
Students will recognize that photosynthesis is an anabolic process. (Honors Extension)
Students will describe chloroplasts as cell organelles responsible for capturing and converting light
energy to chemical energy.
Key terms include:
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) Chlorophyll
Anabolic reaction
Electron transport
ATP Synthase
Glucose
Autotroph
Heterotroph
Carbon dioxide
Light Dependent
Calvin cycle
Light Independent
NOTE: Additional terms for Biology Honors highlighted in RED.
Oxygen
Pigment
Stroma
Thylakoid
NADP+
NADPH
NOTE: Assessment items will not require the memorization of the stages, specific events, or intermediate
molecules produced during these processes.
Enduring Understanding: The processes that occur at the cellular level provide the energy and basic structure organisms need to survive.
Essential Question
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How do living things release the energy
from food to grow and reproduce?
(1.5 days)
SC.912.L.18.8
Identify the reactants, products, and basic functions of aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration.
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Students will identify the function of respiration.
Students will recognize the reactants and products of respiration.
Students will recognize that respiration is a catabolic process. (Honors Extension)
Students will identify mitochondria as cell organelles involved in cell respiration.
Students will identify the basic functions of aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
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Key terms include:
Aerobic respiration
Anaerobic respiration
Calorie
Carbon dioxide
Note: A mini- assessment (quiz) on 18.8 is
suggested before going to the next section.
(.5 days)
Cellular respiration
Fermentation
Glucose
Glycolysis
Krebs Cycle
Matrix
NAD+
Oxygen
NOTE: Assessment items will not require the memorization of the stages, specific events, or intermediate
molecules produced during these processes.
Enduring Understanding: The processes that occur at the cellular level provide the energy and basic structure organisms need to survive.
SC.912.L.18.9
Explain the interrelated nature of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Essential Question
 How does respiration differ from
photosynthesis?
(1 day for Bio R)
(.5 days for Bio H)
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Students will understand that the products of one reaction are the reactants of the other.
Students will compare the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration (energy transformed
and stored; energy transformed and released).
Note: A demo or lab activity on Photosynthesis
or Respiration is suggested (Pacing: 1 day)
Enduring Understanding: The processes that occur at the cellular level provide the energy and basic structure organisms need to survive.
SC.912.L.18.10
Connect the role of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to energy transfers within a cell.
Essential Question
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What is the role of ATP in cellular
activities? (.5 days)
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Students will recognize the role of ATP in cellular activities, such as photosynthesis and respiration.
Students will understand that ATP stores and releases energy in cells.
Students will understand the energy that ATP provides is stored in its chemical bonds.
SC.912.P.10.1 (Honors Extension)
Honors Extension
Differentiate among the various forms of energy and recognize that they can be transformed from one form
 How do cells obtain and transform the to others.
energy required for biological
 Students will understand that energy is the ability to do work.
processes? (.5 days)
 Students will recognize the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.
 Students will be able to relate energy transformations to chemical processes occurring in cells.
 Students will identify photosynthesis as an anabolic process, where light energy from the sun
Note: Mini-assessment (quiz) on 18.9 and 18.10
is transformed into chemical energy stored in the products of photosynthesis.
is suggested before proceeding to next section.
 Students will identify respiration as a catabolic process, where chemical energy is released from
(.5 days)
food to be used by cells.
Last Modified: Oct 05, 2010