Big Ideas:

Structure and Function / Homeostasis

Essential Questions:

How are oxgen and carbon dioxide exchage? How does the body get ride of waste?

Vocabulary:

pharynx, trachea, larynx, brochus, alveolus, diaphragm; excretion, ureter, bladder, urethra, nephron, glomerulus, loop of Henle, kidney, liver

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

January

Respiratory System:

Formative:

AP1; AP11

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

Pathway (Nostrils, Nasopharynx, Larynx, Glottis, Trachea, Bronchi, Lungs, Bronchiole, Alveoli)

Understand how breathing works by constructing a working lung model.

Student Partipiation and Dialog

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

Gas Exchange (O2/CO2, Hemoglobin, Oxyhemoglobin, HCO3)

Test changes in the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood.

Study Guide Assignments

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

Breathing (Diaphragm, Intercostal Muscles, “Inspiration” / “Expiration”)

Calculate the amount of air volume in a room and the rate in which those students in the room breath.

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

Conditions, Biological Issues, and Implications (i.e. Asthma, Pneumonia, Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, and Tuberculosis)

Chapter Quizzes

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

Excretory System:

AP1; AP12

Summative:

Excretion (Homeostasis)

Dissect a kidney for study.

Organs (Liver, Kidney, Ureters, Urinary Bladder, and Urethra)

Research and construct a 3-D model of a human nephron.

Chapter Exam

Kidney Structures/Function (Renal Artery/Vein, Cortex, Medulla, Renal Pelvis, Nephron(s))

Nephron (Glomerulus, Bowman’s capsule, Proximal Tubule, Loop of Henle, Distal Tubule, Collection Duct, etc…)

Conditions, Biological Issues, and Implications (i.e. Kidney Stones and UTI)

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