Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Interdependence of Life/Organisms
  • Subject(s):Science
  • Days:50
  • Grade(s):10
Key Learning: Living organisms depend on other living organisms. Understand the relationships among organisms,populations,communities,ecosystems,and biomes.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
Compare the simplest organism to the most complex.
   
Concept: Viruses/Bacteria
Concept: Protists
Concept: Fungi
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How are viruses and bacteria different? Are all viruses/bacteria bad? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What important role do protists play when dealing with the atmosphere?auatic environments? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do fungi impact the environment? (A)

Concept: Plants
Concept: Animals
Concept: Ecology and Conservation
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is a plant? how are the plants of today different from those of 500 million years ago? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

How are jellyfish,earthworms,sea-stars, and butterflies alike? (A)

What makes an animal a vertebrate? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

In your lifetime, what changes have you noticed in the environment? (A)

How are food and energy transferred in a food chain/web? (A)

How are the organisms of an ecosystem dependent on one another? (A)

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Vocabulary Report

  • virus -
  • hypha -
  • protozoan -
  • cuticle -
  • populations -
  • vertebrate -
  • comminity -
  • algae -
  • leaf -
  • invertebrate -
  • host cell -
  • mycelium -
  • pseudopod -
  • ecosystem -
  • chitin -
  • root -
  • sessile -
  • bacteria -
  • stem -
  • blastula -
  • biome -
  • budding -
  • bacteriaphage -
  • asexual reproduction -
  • flagellate -
  • biosphere -
  • vascular tissue -
  • gastrula -
  • capsid -
  • sporangium -
  • vascular plant -
  • ectoderm -
  • stolon rhizoid -
  • biodiversity -
  • lytic cycle -
  • cilliate -
  • ascus -
  • nonvascular plant -
  • lysogenic cycle -
  • sporozoan -
  • endoderm mesoderm -
  • homeostasis -
  • aceolate -
  • seed -
  • chemosynthesis -
  • ascopore -
  • spore -
  • energy chains -
  • anterior -
  • frond -
  • energy pyramid -
  • thallus -
  • binary fission -
  • conidiophore -
  • conidium -
  • bilateral symmetry -
  • colony -
  • conjugation -
  • cone -
  • dorsal -
  • basidium -
  • antheridium -
  • obligate aerobe -
  • fragmentation -
  • archegonia -
  • basidiospore -
  • endoskeleton -
  • alternation of generations -
  • obligate anaerobe -
  • endospore -
  • gametophyte -
  • mycorrhiza -
  • exoskeleton -
  • prothallus -
  • toxin -
  • lichen -
  • rhizome -
  • posterior -
  • sporophyte -
  • plasmodium -
  • nitrogen fixation -
  • sorus -
  • symmetry -
  • radial -
  • pollen -
  • ventral -
  • ovule -
  • embryo -
  • fertilization -
  • filter feeder -
  • cotyledin -
  • hermaphrodite -
  • fruit -
  • decidous -
  • polyp -
  • pharynx -
  • monocot -
  • dicot -
  • closed circulatory -
  • annual -
  • open circulatory -
  • mantle -
  • biennial -
  • perennialxylem -
  • nephridia -
  • gizzard -
  • phloem -
  • epidermis -
  • setae -
  • stomata -
  • pedipalp -
  • guard -
  • larva -
  • pupa -
  • cells -
  • tropism -
  • nymph -
  • ray -
  • angiosperm -
  • gymnosperm -
  • anther -
  • ovary -
  • stigma -
  • style -
  • pollen tube -
  • peta -