Cells and Heredity Cells are the basic unit of life and all living organisms are made of cells. Heredity explains why offspring resemble, but are not identical to, their parents and is a unifying biological principal. Content Goals: Essential Questions: Students examine cells microscopically and analyze What are the differences in the structure and function of plant and similarities and differences. animal cells? Students can describe relationships between structure and How do we use models to study living systems? function within different types of cells. What is heredity? Students distinguish between plant cells and animal cells. What kinds of traits are heritable? Students explore hereditability by analyzing traits passed from one generation to another. This understanding is applied to the use of Punnett Squares to predict heredity. Summative Assessment Academic Vocabulary Key Investigations 7th Grade Life Science #2 Cell: Membrane, Nucleus, Organelle, Cytoplasm 7A Examining Onion Tissue – Systems: input, output, boundary 7B Plant and Animal Cells – Cells and Heredity* Heredity 11A Observing Human Traits – (Assessment window Dec 8 -19, 2014) Genetics 11B Crazy Traits – Gene, Allele, Dominant, Recessive Genotype, Phenotype 7th Grade Life Science #3 Punnett Square Heredity Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction (assessment window Jan 20 30, 2015) – Time Line: , Approximately 30 instructional days, Nov. 17, 2014 (2009) and to Jan 23, 2015.
Cells and Heredity Cells are the basic unit of life and all living organisms are made of cells. Heredity explains why offspring resemble, but are not identical to, their parents and is a unifying biological principal. Content Goals: Students examine cells microscopically and analyze similarities and differences. Students can describe relationships between structure and function within different types of cells. Students distinguish between plant cells and animal cells. Students explore hereditability by analyzing traits passed from one generation to another. This understanding is applied to the use of Punnett Squares to predict heredity. Essential Questions: What are the differences in the structure and function of plant and animal cells? How do we use models to study living systems? What is heredity? What kinds of traits are heritable? Summative Assessment 7th Grade Life Science #2 Cells and Heredity* (Assessment window Dec 8 -19, 2014) 7th Grade Life Science #3 Heredity (assessment window Jan 20 – 30, 2015) Academic Vocabulary Cell: Membrane, Nucleus, Organelle, Cytoplasm Systems: input, output, boundary Heredity Genetics Gene, Allele, Dominant, Recessive Genotype, Phenotype Punnett Square Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction Key Investigations 7A – Examining Onion Tissue 7B – Plant and Animal Cells 11A – Observing Human Traits 11B – Crazy Traits Time Line: Approximately 30 instructional days, Nov. 17, 2014 to Jan 23, 2015. , (2009) and