COURSE TITLE HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

COMPUTER TITLE HU ANAT PHYS

COMPUTER CODE ]SCX401

GRADE LEVEL 10-12

PREREQUISITE RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED BIOLOGY/CHEMISTRY

LENGTH OF COURSE 36 weeks

Laboratory Requirement: Students who take this course spend a minimum of 30% of their time engaged in laboratory exercises.

Major Concepts/Content: Human Anatomy & Physiology is an elective course for students with a special interest and high motivation for an in-depth study of normal human structures and functions. Information is presented in an integrated approach with science as inquiry, science & technology, science & social perspectives, and the history & nature of science. The course integrates biology and chemistry using unifying concepts and processes of systems, order & organization, evidence, models & explanation, change, consistency & equilibrium, and form & function.

Scientific inquiry and understanding about inquiry are emphasized through practical and meaningful applications. Topics students study include the muscular, nervous, digestive, respiratory, circulatory, excretory, endocrine, and reproductive systems, and genetics.

Major Instructional Activities: Based on the philosophy that scientific knowledge is best acquired through inquiry, the course uses a variety of inquiry techniques to introduce, explore, and reinforce major anatomy and physiology concepts, theories, principles, and skills.

Instructional activities are staged in appropriate settings. They include laboratories, classrooms, and forms of technology. Teaching strategies include investigations, demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on/minds-on experiences.

Major Evaluation Techniques: All aspects (e.g., ability to inquire, scientific understanding of the natural world, and understanding of the nature and utility of science) of progress in science are measured using multiple methods such as individual and group performances, projects, interviews, reports, student-generated works, and/or conventional testing.

Essential Objectives: Upon completion of Human Anatomy & Physiology, students should be able to:

• Engage in full and partial scientific inquiries to design, conduct, and communicate scientific investigations to explore ideas about the natural world.
• Use scientific inquiry to design and conduct scientific investigations to meet a human need, make a decision, solve a human problem, or develop a product.
• Recognize and describe the interrelationship between science and technology.
• Apply the tools of technology (e.g., computers) in scientific endeavors.
• Identify qualities inherent in scientific behavior (e.g., reasoning, insight, energy, skill, and creativity)
• Discuss contributions of men and women of various social and ethnic backgrounds to science and technology.
• Apply science concepts to make decisions (weighing risks and benefits) about students' personal health and well-being.
• Apply different problem-solving strategies in the physiological sciences.
• Employ proper procedures for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and communicating raw data.
• Use special techniques in the laboratory.
• Use special equipment and instruments unique to physiology studies.
• Identify legal, humanistic, and social issues.
• Prepare and present results of an experimental activity, using one or more media, oral communication, and techniques of acceptable scientific writing.