Big Ideas: Photorespiration / APA

Essential Questions: How is energy in the form of glucose created with light, water, carbon dioxide, and pigments? What is APA and why is it used as a style of writing in science?

Vocabulary:  photophosphorylation, Calvin cycle, glucose; APA, concept maps, headers

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

December

Photosynthesis:

Formative:

Formal Indiana State Core Standards Are Not Available

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

Calvin Cycle (Fixation, Reduction, Regeneration); Calvin-Benson Cycle (C3) Pending Discussion

Extract and indicate starch from sugar producing leaves

Student Partipiation and Dialog

However, Some Related State Standards Associated with General Biology Could Apply

Use Technology (ie Simulations/Illustrations/Videos), Various Manipulatives and Word Play

Study Guide Assignments

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

APA (American Psychological Association) Research Paper:

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Visit:https://www.in.gov/doe/students/indiana-academic-standards/science-and-computer-science/

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

Chapter Quizzes

Guidelines and Instructions on Developing a Paper on a Biological Topic (Due by Year’s End)

Able to create a concept map in order to help narrow and focus a topic

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

Understand the mechanism and style of APA

Write an APA on the topic of evolution based on research conducted

Summative:

Chapter Exam

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