Lauren's Curriculum+Map

=Essential Questions = What are the essential questions for your content areas? If you are really creating Essential Questions, you will have between 3 and 5 questions.

1) What is the difference between living and non-living things? 2) How do living things interact with each other and the non-living environment? 3) How don't living things interact with each other and the non-living environment? 4) How do living things adapt to their environment? 5) What does it mean to be living? 6) What is energy, where do we find it, how does it change forms, and how does it effect our lives?

=Big Ideas = What are the Big Ideas for your content area? What are the things that anyone who takes your course should walk away knowing and being able to do.

1) Living things are both similar to and different from each other and from non-living things. 2) Plants and animals depend on each other and their environment. 3) The cell is the unit of structure and function of all living things 4) Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred. 5) All living things have a way to regulate their internal environment and respond to the external environment. 6) All living things have a means of creating offspring. 7) Humans have a profound impact on the living environment.

=Units/Chunks= What are the chunks/units of meaning for your content area? This is the place to see how your content area makes sense to you.

1) Intro to Biology: Life Processes and Characteristics of life a) Scientific Method 2) Cells a) Respiration/ Photosynthesis b) Chemistry/ Biochemistry 3) Human Body Systems: Circulatory, Endocrine, Nervous, Respiratory, Digestive, Skeletal, Muscular, and Excretory 4) Reproduction a) Meiosis b) Mitosis 5) Genetics a) DNA 6) Ecology =Topical Questions = What are the important questions for each unit or chunk?

1) How do life processes depend on each other? 1) How are scientific questions generated and answered? 2) How does structure affect function? 2) How does function affect structure? 3) How is energy important to life? 3) What roles do systems play in maintaining homeostasis? 4) How do organisms reproduce? 4) What/how are gametes produced? 4) Why is mitosis necessary for the survival of an organism? 5) What is inheritance? 5) What is DNA made of? 6) What are the functions of ecosystems?

=Topical Big Ideas = What are the Big Ideas for each chunk/unit? What are the things that anyone who completes this chunk/unit should walk away knowing and being able to do.

1) The definition of biology 1) Steps in the scientific method 2) Every living and non-living thing is made of atoms 2) Prokaryotics vs Eukaryotic 3) ATP, anaerobic vs aerobic 3) Parts of each system and how they interact to maintain homeostasis 4) Asexual and sexual reproduction 4) Meiosis is the formation of gametes 4) Why cells divide 5) Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to the next 5) Characteristics of the organism are carried in DNA 6) Parts of an ecosystem: biotic, abiotic, population, community, etc.