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BIOLOGY 1 CURRICULUM GUIDE
UNIT
1. BIOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
CONCEPTS/QUESTIONS
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS*
DELIVERY
What is the goal of science?
How do scientists test hypotheses?
How does a scientific theory
develop?
What are some characteristics of
living things?
11.A.4a, 4b, 4c, 4d
13.A.4b, 4c, 4d
13.B.4a, 4b, 4e
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: text ch. 1
Lab activities: Mass & Length Lab
(text for this class refers to: Biology
Kenneth R. Miller Joseph Levine,
What are some tools a biologist
uses?
*Illinois state learning standards
Pearson Prentice Hall Upper
Saddle River, NJ (2006))
for science referred to are found in
appendix 1.
2. CHEMICAL BASIS OF LIFE
What are the particles that make
up an atom?
What are the two main types of
chemical bonds?
What are acidic/basic solutions?
What are the functions of each
group of organic compound?
What happens to chemical bonds
during chemical reactions?
12.C.4b
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: text ch. 2
Activities: Models of atoms
Balancing equations
3. CELL STRUCTURE
What is cell theory?
What are the characteristics of
prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
What are the functions of the
major cell structures?
What is cell specialization?
What are the different levels of
organization in organisms?
12.A.4b
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: text ch. 7
Videos
Activities: Organelle comparisons
Lab activities: Cells
UNIT
CONCEPTS/QUESTIONS
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS
12.A.4b
DELIVERY
4. BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANE
FUNCTION
What are the main functions of the
cell membrane and the cell wall?
What happens during diffusion?
What is osmosis?
What is active transport?
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 7
Lab activities: Investigating cell
structures
5. PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND
CELLULAR RESPIRATION
Where do plants get the energy they 12.A.4b
need to produce food?
What is the role of ATP?
How did the experiments of Helmont
and Priestley help to reveal details
about plant growth?
What is a light dependent reaction?
What is the Calvin Cycle?
What is cellular respiration?
List two types of fermentation.
How are high energy electrons used
by the electron transport chain?
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 8 & 9
Videos
Lab activities: Investigating
photosynthesis
6. NUCLEIC ACIDS AND
PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
What is the relationship between
12.A.4a, 4b
genes and DNA?
Describe the overall structure of DNA
What happens to DNA during
replication?
List the three main types of RNA?
What is transcription? Translation?
What are mutations?
How are most eukaryotic genes
controlled?
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 12
Activities: DNA
UNIT
CONCEPTS/QUESTIONS
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS
DELIVERY
7. CELL GROWTH AND DIVISION
What problems does growth cause
for cells?
List the phases of mitosis.
Describe the main events in the
phases of mitosis.
How is the cell cycle regulated?
12.A.4a, 4b
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 10
Videos
Activities: Mitosis skit
Lab Activities: Mitosis
8. GENETICS AND INHERITANCE
What is the principle of dominance?
What happens during segregation?
How do geneticists use the
principles of probability?
Explain the principle of independent
assortment.
How is meiosis different from
mitosis?
What structures actually assort
independently?
12.A.4a, 4b
12.A.5b
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 11 & 13
Videos
Activities: Genetics
UNIT
CONCEPTS/QUESTIONS
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS
DELIVERY
9. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
AND TAXONOMY
What pattern did Darwin observe
among organisms of the
Galapagos Islands?
According to Lamarck, how did
species evolve?
How is natural variation used in
How is natural selection related to a
species' fitness?
What evidence did Darwin cite for
the existence of evolution?
How is evolution defined in genetic
terms?
What are the main sources of
heritable variation in a population?
What is genetic drift?
What factors are involved in the
formation of new species?
12.A.4c
12.E.4b
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 15 & 16
Videos
Activities: Fossils
Classification poster project
10. VIRUSES, MONERANS, AND
HUMAN DISEASE
How do the two groups of
prokaryotes differ?
What is the importance of bacteria?
How do viruses cause infection?
How do bacteria cause disease?
How are infectious diseases
transmitted?
What is the function of the human
body's immune system?
What is autoimmune disease?
12.A.4b
12.A.5b
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 19 & 40
Videos
UNIT
11. SURVEY OF THE PROTISTS
AND FUNGI
CONCEPTS/QUESTIONS
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS
What are protists?
12.A.4b
What are the distinguishing features
or the major phyla of animal like
protists?
What is the function of chlorophyll
accessory pigments in algae?
What are the defining characteristics
of fungi?
What is the main role of fungi in
natural ecosystems?
12. SURVEY OF PLANT KINGDOM What is a plant?
12.A.4b
What do plants need to survive?
12.B.4a
How is vascular tissue important to
ferns and their relatives?
How are gymnosperms different
from angiosperms?
What are three categories of plant
life spans?
What are three main tissue systems
of plants?
What specialized cells make up
vascular tissue?
What are the different functions of
roots?
How do monocot and dicot stems
differ?
How does a leaf's structure enable
it to carry out photosynthesis?
How is water transported throughout
a plant?
In what different ways do plants
reproduce?
DELIVERY
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 20 & 21
Videos
Activities: Looking for protozoans
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 22 - 25
Activities: Comparing adaptations
of mosses and ferns
Flower dissection
UNIT
13. SURVEY OF ANIMAL
KINGDOM
CONCEPTS/QUESTIONS
What characteristics do all animals
share?
What essential functions do animals
carry out?
What are the important trends in
animal evolution?
What are the defining features of
sponges, flatworms, roundworms
and annelids?
What are the characteristics of the
three main classes of mollusks?
What are the main features of
arthropods and echinoderms?
What are the important trends in
invertebrate evolution?
What characteristics do all
chordates share?
How are amphibians and reptiles
adapted for life on land?
How are birds adapted for flight?
What are the characteristics of
mammals?
When did mammals evolve?
How do mammals maintain
homeostasis?
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS
12.A.4b, 4c
12.B.4b
12.B.5a
12.B.5b
DELIVERY
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 26 - 32
Videos
Activities: Investigating responses
of hydras
Investigating land snails
Amphibian population
trends
UNIT
14. HUMAN ANATOMY AND
PHYSIOLOGY
CONCEPTS/QUESTIONS
How is the human body organized?
What is homeostasis?
What are the functions of the:
nervous system?
skeletal system?
circulatory system?
respiratory system?
integumentary system?
digestive system?
reproductive system?
What are the structures of the:
nervous system?
skeletal system?
circulatory system?
respiratory system?
integumentary system?
digestive system?
reproductive system?
ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS
12.A.5a
12.A.4b
15. ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS What different levels of organization 12.B.4a, 4b
do ecologists study?
12.B.5a, 5b
How does energy flow through living
systems?
How does matter move among the
living and nonliving parts of an
ecosystem?
What interactions occur within
communities?
What is ecological succession?
What factors affect population size?
What factors limit population growth?
DELIVERY
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 35 - 40
Videos
Activities: How do reflexes occur?
Blood alcohol concentration
Modeling corrective lenses
Lecture
Classroom discussions
Student readings: ch. 3 - 5
Videos
Activities: How is a food chain
organized?
Lab activities: Identifying a limiting
nutrient
Observing succession