Standards to be unpacked:

Identify the important nouns and adjectives: Identify the important verbs:

PO 1 organism, behavior, environment Explain

describe
determine
PO 2 organism, stability, change, external compare
environment analyze
describe
PO 3 generations of organisms, timeline

PO 4

symbiotic relationships, competitive

relationships, ecosystem, lichen, mistletoe/tree,
clownfish, sea anemone, native species, and
non-native species

PO 5 behavioral cycles, hiberation, migration,

dormancy, plants, animals

PO 6 survival of the fittest, protective

coloration, chorophyll, photosynthesis, beak
design, seed dispersal, pollination

Enduring Understandings and Essential Performance tasks and products implied by the
Questions implied by the important nouns and important verbs in the standard:
adjectives in the standard:

EUs: Most questions will be in multiple choice form

- there are patterns in ecosystems that develop types of cells

over many years based on the environment
analyze the success/failure of species in
- although organisms do not appear similar, ecosystems in Arizona
looking at their internal structures shows that
organisms are more alike than they are different

-organisms die out because their needs are not

meet in the environment and they could not
adapt quick enough

over thousands of years the species of

organisms has changed based on their adaptive
characteristics

Essential Questions

1. How are different species the same? How are

they different?

2. What type of environment is good for species

to survive in? Why do species die out?

3. What are the major factors in determining the

survival of organisms in their ecosystem?

Skills: (Consider basic and building skills.)

Students must know… Students must be able to…

Definitions: -explain the role of the parts of a cell in the life

of organisms
animal cell
-describe the development of microscopes in the
plant cell -development of cell theories

microscope -describe a journey through a cell and explain the

development of a cell
compound microscope
- describe how cell's produce and use energy
cell theory
-explain how plant cells use the sun to survive
magnification
- describe the process of photosynthesis
convex lens/concave lens
- analyze respiration in plant cells and animal
resolution cells

organelle

cell wall

membrane

nucleus

cytoplasm
mitochondrion

endoplasmic reticulum

ribosome

Gogli body

chloroplast

vauole

lysosome

element, compound, atom, molecule, organic

compound, carbohydrate, protein, amino acid,
enzyme, lipid, nucleic acid, DNA, RNA

diffusion

osmosis

passive transport

active transport

photosynthesis

respiration

cell division

Mendel's work - genetics

Punnett squares

cell inheritance

genetic code

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