Course Title: Biology Honors
Glenbard District 87 Unit: Cellular Respiration/Photosynthesis
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Established Goal(s): What relevant goals (e.g. Content standards, course or program objectives, learning outcomes, etc.) will this address?
Illinois State Learning Standard 12: Understand the fundamental concepts, principles and interconnections of the life, physical and
earth/space sciences.
12.11.07 Understand that chloroplasts in plant cells capture useable energy from sunlight and store it for future use by synthesizing sugar out of
carbon dioxide and water.
12.11.08 Understand the role of mitochondria in making stored chemical-bond energy available to cells by completing the breakdown of
glucose to carbon dioxide and water.
12.11.09 Understand that the chief energy-storing compound used by organisms is ATP (adenosine triphosphate).
NGSS HS.LS-MEOE: Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
a. Construct a model to support explanations of the process of photosynthesis by which light energy is converted to stored chemical energy.
b. Construct an explanation of how sugar molecules that contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen are combined with other elements to form
amino acids and other large carbon--based molecules.
c. Use a model to explain cellular respiration as a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are
broken and bonds in new compounds are formed that result in a net transfer of energy.
d. Evaluate data to compare the energy efficiency of aerobic and anaerobic respiration within organisms.
Understanding(s): Students will understand that…
Essential Question(s): What provocative questions will foster inquiry,
• Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are interconnected understanding, and transfer of learning?
• The mitochondria and chloroplasts play a role in energy
How do plants and other organisms capture energy from the sun?
production and can relate this to the formation of ATP
Why do most organisms undergo the process of cellular respiration?
• There are two types of fermentation
How do cells release energy from food in the presence and absence of
• Different factors affect photosynthetic rates
• The structure of a plant relates to its function with respect oxygen?
How do plants gain mass?
to photosynthesis
Knowledge: Students will know…
1. how photosynthesis and respiration are interconnected
2. which organelles are responsible for photosynthesis, cell
respiration
3. the reactants and products for photosynthesis
4. the reactants and products for cellular respiration
5. the stages of cellular respiration
6. the process of anaerobic respiration
Skills: Students will be able to …
1. Look at different diagrams depicting the process of
photosynthesis or cellular respiration and draw logical
conclusions or make interpretations about the diagrams.
2. Look at a diagram of a plant and draw conclusions about
how the form of the plant relates to its role in
photosynthesis.