Big Ideas:

Structure and Function

Essential Questions:

What does the nervous sytem do? How do humans sense changes in their environment? How does the body send and receive chemical sgnals?

Vocabulary:

brain, spinal cord, cerebrum, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, brain stem, taste bud, cochlea, cornea, iris, pupil, lens, retina, rods, cones; hormone, target cell, exocrine gland, endocrine gland, pituitary gland

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

April

Nervous and Sensory Systems:

Formative:

AP1; AP5,6,7

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

Brain, Spinal Cord, Nerves (Electrical Signaling, Action Potential, Synapse, Peripheral System, CNS)

Explanation of the five senses and how they interact with the nervous system (spine and brain).

Student Partipiation and Dialog

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

Transduction of Sensory Organs (Hearing, Vision, Taste, Smell, and Touch)

Illustrate the different parts of the brain and what those parts do.

Study Guide Assignments

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

Dissect a brain for study.

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

Immune and/or Endocrine Systems:

Chapter Quizzes

AP1; AP7

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

Hormones Action and Glands

Human Endocrine Glands

Summative:

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Chapter Exam

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