Miami Dade County Public Schools: Division of Math, Science, and Advanced Academics
June 2012
South Miami Senior High
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Introduction
 Norms
 Biology News/ Data
 Year at a glance
 Rationale
 Research
Introduction
 Norms
 Year at Glance
Ecology (What is around us?)
 Engage Activity: Assessment
Probe- The Giant Sequoia Tree
 Essential Questions
 Populations: Oh Deer!
 Limiting Factors
 Energy Flow: Designing Food
Chains
Lunch 11:30-12:30
Evolution (How did it get there?)
 Evidence for evidence: Examining
the Fossil Record (HSL)
 Natural Selection: Birds on an
Island
Follow Up Assignment
 Choose a Benchmark and modify
an existing lab to better fit it
according to item specs.
 Bring on Day 4 a complete
reflection
Resources
 Item Specs
(www.floridastandards.org)
 Pacing guides (Learning Village)
 Khan Academy
(www.khanacademy.org)
Classification (Why do we organize
living things the way we do?)
 Taxonomy-Engage Activity:
Classification of Fruits
 Cladistics Lab: Baggie Cladistics
 NSTA Probe: Is it a plant?
 Lab: Plant Structures and Function
 Photosynthesis and Cell
Respiration: Investigating Light
Intensity on Photosynthesis (HSL)
 Extension: Photosynthesis and
Cell Respiration Shuffle (Carbon
Cycle and Food Web Connection)
 Review of Animals & Classification
Lunch 11:30-12:30
Human Body (How is our body
composed?)
 Review of Human Body Systems:
Paper Bodies
 Circulatory System: What factors
affect blood flow?
 Immune System: First Shot
(Vaccinations)
 Lab Epidemic- The Deadly
Fuschia Disease
 Project: Immune Reponse
 Extension: Disease Spread
Miami Dade County Public Schools - Science: http://science.dadeschools.net/highSchool/default.html
Miami Dade County Public Schools: Division of Math, Science, and Advanced Academics
June 2012
South Miami Senior High
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Introduction
 Norms
 Year at Glance
Introduction
 Norms
 Year at Glance
Human Reproduction (How do we
grow?)
 Cells: Engage Activity
 Lesson: The Salty Sailor
 Cell Membranes and Cell Walls:
Diffusion and Osmosis (Scientific
Method)
 Make your own lab: Potato
Osmosis
Molecular Genetics
 DNA Structure: Extracting DNA
 Khan Academy: Introduction to
DNA
 DNA Replication: Develop an
Essential Question from item
specs
 Candy DNA Replication Lab
 Protein Synthesis: Protein Makes
Sense
Lunch 11:30-12:30
 Finish results of Potato Osmosis
Lab
 Reviewing the HOT lab: Diffusion
and Osmosis
Genetics (How do we become
different?)
 Determine the Identity of the
Mystery Donor
 Heredity: Differences in Similar
Phenotypes (HSL)
 The Genetics of Eye Color
(Article)
 Making Karyotypes (HSL)
 Gizmo: Karyotypes (If time)
 Karyotype Lab
Lunch 11:30-12:30
Biochemistry
 Macromolecules: Building
Monomers of Macromolecules
 Evaluation: Identification of
Macromolecule
 Factors affecting Enzymes Lab
 Properties of Water: Inquiry
Process
 Review Connections to previous
units
 Discussion of EOC Review
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