Honors Biology

HONORS BIOLOGY

Course Description

This two-semester class is a challenging course designed for the student who anticipates a science based career, desires an accelerated, comprehensive program and intends to take advanced courses in science. Instruction will emphasize laboratory investigations, independent research and analysis. The level of difficulty is hard. The amount of homework will be approximately five hours per week.

Rationale

Research demonstrates a connection between challenging, advanced level courses and the ability of a student to achieve high levels on achievement and aptitude tests. This course will expand the study of biology for students having attained a 3.2 grade point average and/or recieving a teacher recommendation in the 8th grade. The intent is to encourage students to reach their greatest potential in science and prepare them for continued high school advanced level work in science.

Course Goals

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COMPETENCIES AND STATE ALIGNMENT

Competency	Assessment	Mastery
1. (7) Classify organisms into a hierachy of groups and subgroups based on structural similaries and reflect as much as possible their evolutionary relationships. (8) Argue for the importance of cells to animals, plants and microorganisms based n fundemental structures.	Letter Arguing the Most Important Kingdom	80%
2. (12) Evaluate how long term planning and global cooperation are necessary to ensure the resource needs of successive generations will be met. (15) Evaluate how ecosystems are interconnected by biological, chemical and physical processes and how overpopulation of an ecosystem can lead to depletion of resources and elimination of a species.	Ecology Project	90%
3. (16) Predict the pattern of inheritance for many traits using the principles of Mendelian genetics.	Genetic Power Point Presentation	85%
4. (18) Explain how a parent cell replicates to form offspring cells in both asexual and sexual reproduction.	Meibop Construction	85%
5. (22) Make an analogy that represents how cells are the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms and have distinct and separate structures essential for survival by performing chemical synthesis, energy conversion, material transportation and reproduction.	Cell City Project	85%
6. (24) Explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration are complementary processes.	Plant Story	80%

Honors Biology

FIRST SEMESTER	SECOND SEMESTER
Evolution Evolution is a fact and a theory Development of Evolutionary Thought Through Cooperative Learning, What The Theory of Evolution Doesn’t Try To Tell Us, More than an Eyewitness PowerPoint	Genetics/DNA Meiosis Review Meiosis Powerpoint
Classification/Taxonomy	Cells Mitosis and Meiosis Cells are Not Created Equal
Ecology Invasive Species PowerPoint	Cellular Processes
SEMESTER PROJECT

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