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Students will design and conduct scientific investigations
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific
investigations
- Use appropriate tools, technology, and techniques to gather,
analyze, and interpret data
- Organize and maintain a journal showing all phases of investigations
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models
using evidence and logic
- Use mathematics to explain, interpret, and improve investigations
and communications
- Construct logical relationships between evidence and explanations
- Identify and analyze alternative explanations, models, and
predictions
- Demonstrate understanding about scientific inquiry
- Use fair test procedures
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Students will communicate scientific procedures and
explanations
- Demonstrate effective methods to organize and display scientific
concepts
- Present investigative procedures and results to others verbally,
graphically, and in writing
- Communicate science concepts accurately and clearly, using
scientific vocabulary
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Students will recognize cells as the basic organizational
units of the body
- Describe the general characteristics of a cell
- List methods by which substances enter and leave a cell
- Describe cellular metabolism in terms of energy changes
- Distinguish between solutions that are hypertonic, hypotonic,
and isotonic in a laboratory setting
- Describe the life cycle of a cell and explain how cells reproduce
- Compare characteristics and functions of different tissue
types
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Students will describe homeostasis
- Determine how humans maintain an intricate balance of life
processes when faced with constant changes
- Analyze the importance of homeostasis for living things
- Explain the feedback mechanism controlling homeostasis
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Students will explain the human as a vertebrate animal
- Define vertebrate as a bony, jointed endoskeleton that grows
and supports the body
- Evaluate the five essential body functions performed by the
skeleton system
- Illustrate how bones support and protect the body organs
- Describe the histology and development of bone in terms of
intramembranous ossification and intracartilaginous ossification
- Classify anatomical joints according to lever actions and
types of movements
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Students will explain the role of muscles in the human
body
- Compare the three types of muscles and describe their role
in movement, heat production, and temperature regulation
- Analyze the impact of medical technology on muscle physiology
and disease
- Analyze the synergistic actions of muscles to produce movement
- Differentiate between isotonic and isometric muscle contraction
- Describe the process of converting chemical energy from nutrients
into movement
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Students will understand the role of the nervous system
in coordinating body activities
- Identify neurons as structural and functional units specialized
to react to changes in their surroundings
- Analyze the chemical nature of impulse transmission at a
synapse
- Describe the two major divisions of the nervous system
- Evaluate effects of injury to different areas of the nervous
system
- Trace the pathway of a nerve impulse in a reflex action
- Distinguish the chemical, electrical, and mechanical nature
of sense receptors for touch, smell, taste, vision, and hearing
- Investigate the wave principles associated with optics and
sound to demonstrate the operations of the optic and auditory
sense organs
- Determine the role of the nervous system in conditioned responses
(examples: learning, speech, posture, movement)
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Students will determine the relationship between the
nervous and endocrine systems
- Describe the location and function of selected endocrine
glands
- Analyze the role of hormones as regulators
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Students will understand the role of the circulatory
system in providing nutrients and oxygen to the body
- Analyze the composition and functions of blood
- Describe the means by which the heart provides blood for
the metabolic requirements of all body cells
- Compare and contrast the morphology and physiology of the
vascular system
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Students will explain the role of the respiratory system
in obtaining oxygen and removing carbon dioxide
- Explain the structures and functions of the respiratory organs
- Describe the mechanics of breathing, including application
of gas laws, and neural and chemical regulators
- Analyze principles affecting oxygen and carbon dioxide transport
and exchange within the body
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Students will understand how the digestive system receives,
modifies, and absorbs food, and eliminates solid wastes
- Explain how the digestion and absorption of food is accomplished
by each organ/gland of the alimentary system
- Analyze factors that may lead to malnutrition
- Define metabolism as the total of all chemical processes
from the time nutrients are absorbed from the small intestine
until it is excreted from the body as waste products
- Analyze the anabolic and catabolic activities of carbohydrates,
proteins, and lipids
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Students will describe how the urinary system eliminates
nitrogenous wastes and maintains fluid balance
- Determine the structures and functions of the urinary system
- Analyze the homeostatic nature of the urinary system
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Students will understand vital functions of the integumentary
system
- Explain how the skin enables individuals to respond to changes
in the environment
- Describe how different structures of the skin protect the
body
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Students will know the role of the reproductive system
in the continuation of the species
- Identify the structures associated with the reproductive
system and how they function
- Analyze the reproductive process from formation of the gametes,
through conception, birth, and nourishment of the offspring
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Students will practice safety
- Demonstrate personal and group safety when engaged in science
activities
- Describe health problems related to light and sound (examples:
electromagnetic fields, noise pollution)
- Analyze the use of personal safety devices (examples: hearing
protectors, sun glasses, UV filters)
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Students will evaluate factors that affect environmental
quality
- Establish criteria for environmental quality
- Analyze factors that impact on the quality of the environment
(examples: air quality, water quality)
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Students will understand the availability and consumption
of natural resources
- Distinguish between nonrenewable and renewable natural resources
- Analyze how human consumption depletes nonrenewable resources
and places stress on renewable resources
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Students will evaluate risks and benefits of natural
and other hazards
- Describe the risks associated with chemicals
- Discuss the benefits and risks associated with social decisions
related to chemical and social hazards
- Evaluate human actions that have created hazards and environmental
degradation
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