Pacing Guide Overview
Week
1st QUARTER
Essential Outcome / Concept / General Overview
Content Area: Biology I
Bundle(s)
INDIANA
STANDARDS
Grade 9-10
Resources/Activities used (textbook pages, charts,
assessments, etc.)
1
Introduction to Biology
2
Ecology – Essential Outcome 1 (Intro. To Ecology)
3.5
Ecology – Essential Outcome 1
3.5, 3.4
Formative – Food Webs
4.1
Summative – Introduction to Ecology
4
Ecology – Assess on Essential Outcome 1 – Essential
Outcome 2
5
Ecology – Essential Outcome 2
4.2, 4.3
Ecology – Essential Outcome 2 / Assess
4.3
Macromolecules – Essential Outcome 3
1.1, 2.5
Macromolecules – Essential Outcome 3 and Assess
1.2, 1.3
Formative – Carrying Capacity
Ecology Final Project – See Ecology
Assessment Folder
Great Lakes Invaders WebQuest – See
Ecology Assessment Folder
Summative – Population and Conservation
Ecology
The Journey of a Biomolecule WebQuest http://library.thinkquest.org/12090/
Formative - Macromolecules
Summative - Macromolecules
3
6
7
8
9
Introduction to Cells (Cell Theory and
prokaryotes/eukaryotes)
Formative – Prokaryotes/Eukaryotes and
Cell Theory
2nd Quarter
Week
Essential Outcome / Concept / General Overview
Bundle(s)
INDIANA
STANDARDS
Resources used (textbook pages, charts,
assessments, etc.)
Cell Membrane – Essential Outcome 4
2.2, 1.3
Formative - Cell Membrane
Cell Transport – Essential Outcome 4
2.2, 1.3
Cell Transport Lab
Formative - Cell Transport
Assess and Cell Part Identification – Essential
Outcome 4
2.1, 2.6
Summative – Cell Membrane and Transport
12
13
Cell Part Identification and Function – Essential
Outcome 4
2.6, 2.3, 2.4,
2.5
Cell City Analogy Project – See Cell and
Cell Parts Assessment Folder
Formative – Cell Parts and Functions
Summative – Cell Parts and Functions
3.1,2.3
Formative: ATP
15
Introduction to Cellular Energy and Photosynthesis –
Essential Outcome 5
Cellular Respiration/Metabolism and Assess –
Essential Outcome 5
3.2, 3.3
16
Photosynthesis vs Cellular Respiration
Activity – See Cell Energy and Photo, Cell.
Resp. Assessment Folder
Summative – Cellular Energy
10
11
Review and Assess – Essential Outcome 4
14
Review
17
Semester 1 Exam
18
3rd Quarter
Week
Essential Outcome / Concept / General Overview
Bundle(s)
INDIANA
STANDARDS
Mitosis – Essential Outcome 6
6.1, 6.2 6.3
Meiosis – Essential Outcome 6
6.4, 6.5
19
Resources used (textbook pages, charts,
assessments, etc.)
Mitosis Plate Activity
Mitosis Book Project
Formative – Mitosis – See Cell
Cycle/Mitosis Review in the Genetics
Assessment Folder
20
Summative – Cellular Reproduction
Review/Assess
21
DNA – Essential Outcome 7
5.1, 7.4
Transcription – Essential Outcome 8
5.3
Translation – Essential Outcome 8
5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Protein Synthesis Project
Formative – Transcription/Translation
DNA WebQuest – See DNA Assessment
Folder
Mutations and Assess– Essential Outcome 7 and 8
7.4, 7.5
Summative – DNA as a Blueprint for
Protein
2.5, 5.6, 6.5,
7.1
Formative – Punnett Squares
26
Introduction to Genetics and Mendel – Essential
Outcome 9
Modes of Inheritance and Probability – Essential
Outcome 9
7.2, 7.3
27
Probability Activity
Dragon Genetics Activity – See Genetics
Assessment Folder
Karyotype Paper Activity – See Genetics
Assessment Folder
22
Lego DNA Activity
Formative - DNA
23
24
25
4th Quarter
Week
Essential Outcome / Concept / General Overview
Bundle(s)
INDIANA
STANDARDS
Resources used (textbook pages, charts,
assessments, etc.)
8.1, 8.7
Summative - Genetics
28
Assess and Origins of Life/Endosymbiont Theory –
Essential Outcome 11
Darwin and Natural Selection – Essential Outcome
11
8.5, 8.6
29
8.2, 8.3, 8.4
30
Evolutionary Relationships and Taxonomy –
Essential Outcome 10
Formative – Darwin
Build a Beast Activity – See Evolution
Assessment Folder
Summative – Evolution
ECA Review
31
ECA
32
33
34
35
36
Revised 1/23/13