Integrated Life Science

Integrated Life Science explores laboratory skills/scientific method, relationships in ecosystems, human impact and sustainability, the connection between biological and earth systems, the structure and function of living systems, inheritance of traits, and natural selection and adaptations.

School Competencies
  • Collaboration (Communication - Foundational)
  • Critical Thinking (Problem Solving & Analysis - Foundational)
  • Interpretation (Problem Solving & Analysis - Foundational)
  • Logical Processing (Problem Solving & Analysis - Foundational)
  • Environmental Awareness/Activism (Awareness - Advanced)
  • Synthesis (Problem Solving & Analysis - Advanced)
Course Competencies
  • Laboratory Skills/Scientific Method (throughout the school year)
  • Given a practical scientific inquiry or phenomenon, students will be able to design and/or properly and safely conduct an experiment.
  • Students will construct and interpret visual and mathematical representations that accurately reflect given and/or collected data.
  • Students will be able to explain how living organisms interact with earth’s systems, by identifying and analyzing relationships between abiotic and biotic factors, transfers of energy within a food web, cycles of matter and distinguish trophic levels from producer to tertiary consumers (including decomposers).
  • Students will be able to explain how changes in the climate have occurred, have influenced human activity and how humans have influenced changes in the climate as well as provide solutions to these problems.
  • Students will be able to identify pathogens, compare the life cycles of  pathogens and the human body response to pathogens in order to maintain homeostasis. 
  • Students will apply an understanding of cell structures and functions to a living system to maintain homeostasis.
  • Students will make predictions and create models that demonstrate an understanding of cellular processes including cell division, inheritance and the expression of genes.
  • Students will analyze and construct an explanation for the mechanisms responsible for change including random mutation, environmental influences and other natural selective processes.
Credits

1

Grades

10