Objectives to Study:

• Human Body:  Regulations and Behavior Problems
• Model of Human Interaction with the Environment
• Designing and Conducting Research (investigations) and Data Collecting (field studies)
• Heredity and Reproduction

Recommended Lessons

Students shall demonstrate knowledge of interactions and interdependence of living systems by understanding the human body including heredity, reproduction and regulation and behavior of plants, animals and microorganisms including diversity and adaptation of organisms and populations and ecosystems; and the dynamic effect of humans interacting with the environment by:  formulating questions to be answered based on systematic observation designing and conducting investigations and field studies, analyzing data to support or refute hypotheses by denitrifying patterns with data and comparing results to known scientific theories current models or personal experience and considering multiple interpretations of data, desiring how a premise is supported by with scientific concepts principles theories and law and creating a model to illustrate a contemporary or historical principle, theory or law.

Tasks

• Human Body Regulations and Behavior Premise - The human body has many regulation systems that assist it in maintaining stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment, Students will select one of the regulating systems in the human body and compare and contrast it between human babies and adults and identify behaviors that alter the effects.
   
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• Description
• Decimation Product
   
• Model of Human Interaction with the Environment – There are numerous opportunities to observe the dynamic effect of humans interacting with the environment. The t asks students to focus on the effect of human activity of the diversity and adaptation of organisms, plants animals or microorganisms, found in any area of the world. After researching appropriate resources, students then model the resulting effects.
   
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• Model
• Explanation
   
• Designing and conducting research investigations and data collecting field studies – In order to survive your body uses oxygen from the air you breathe to get energy from the food you eat. Processes that occur within your cells make these activities possible. In this investigation you will discover what these cell processes are and how they occur. The first experiment students will complete is: a Moving in and Moving out of Cells activity after learning, what are cells, what are some of the life processes of cells, and how do cells make more cells?
   
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• Record of each investigation and field study including: Information Collecting Plan, Hypothesis, Data, and Analysis of Results
   
• Heredity and Reproduction – Students will learn that all living things can reproduce and grow. Organisms inherit traits from their parents, yet each is unique.
   
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• Drawings of microscopic observations
• Drawings of immature sex cells
• Dominant gene chart
• Bar graph of inherited traits
• Scrambled Genes data chart
• Hypothesis regarding earlobe structure based on pedigree chart
• Punnett square