We will slowly and compassionately review the year and the topics that will be covered in the End of course examCongratulations on making it to this point of the year, our EOC will cover some of the major parts of biology, the things that one really really needs to know. We have covered examples of these major parts several times during class. Now we will review those major parts, where we covered them, and add new examples. major parts of BiologyMolecules to Organisms Matter and Energy Interdependence of Organisms Inheritance/genetics Earth's Systems Earth and Human Activity what each of them mean in shortMolecules to Organisms
Atoms make cells, make tissues, make organs, make systems of organs, make organisms, make ecosystems, make environments, make biomes, make planets Matter and Energy
Interdependence of Organisms Symbiosis
Inheritance/genetics
Earth's Systems
Earth and Human Activity
Biology is chemistry doing physics EOC BlueprintsNext Generation Science Standards (NGSS)Engineering Design
Where we covered it in class: From Molecule to Organism Structures and Processes
Where we covered it in class:
Physics Types of organisms Anatomy
Patterns Patterns exist everywhere—in regularly occurring shapes or structures and in repeating events and relationships. For example, patterns are discernible in the symmetry of flowers and snowflakes, the cycling of the seasons, and the repeated base pairs of DNA. Noticing patterns is often a first step to organizing and asking scientific questions about why and how the patterns occur. Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
Consider the food chain, animal societies, how ants and bees work together, symbiosis
Interdependence in Ecosystems
Where we covered it in class: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
Where we covered it in class:
Earth's Systems
Where we covered it in class:
Earth and Human Activity
Where we learned it seven crosscutting concepts to consider in everything1. Patterns. Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification, and they prompt questions about relationships and the factors that influence them. 2. Cause and effect: Mechanism and explanation. Events have causes, sometimes simple, sometimes multifaceted. A major activity of science is investigating and explaining causal relationships and the mechanisms by which they are mediated. Such mechanisms can then be tested across given contexts and used to predict and explain events in new contexts. 3. Scale, proportion, and quantity. In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance. 4. Systems and system models. Defining the system under study—specifying its boundaries and making explicit a model of that system—provides tools for understanding and testing ideas that are applicable throughout science and engineering. 5. Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation. Tracking fluxes of energy and matter into, out of, and within systems helps one understand the systems’ possibilities and limitations. 6. Structure and function. The way in which an object or living thing is shaped and its substructure determine many of its properties and functions. 7. Stability and change. For natural and built systems alike, conditions of stability and determinants of rates of change or evolution of a system are critical elements of study.
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