Key Concept
Relationship
Related Concept
Patterns and function
Global Context
Identities and relationship
Statement of Inquiry
Your identity is determined by the relationship between different levels of organization in your body which,although differing in complexity, share patterns and functions with all life on earth.
Key Words
embryonic
hierarchy
multicellular
organization
physical
unicellular
Questions
Factual Question:
Factual: What are the characteristics of living things?
What are cells and how are they structured?
What roles do cells carry out?
What are the characteristics and functions of different cells, tissues and organs?
How are organisms grouped and classified?
What are the characteristics of living things?
What are cells and how are they structured?
What roles do cells carry out?
What are the characteristics and functions of different cells, tissues and organs?
How are organisms grouped and classified?
Conceptual Question:
What determines whether something is alive or not?
Are viruses alive?
How does cell structure relate to function?
What does it mean for organisms to be 'related’?
What characteristics make some organisms more closely related than others?
Debatable Question:
Should scientists use new research to reclassify organisms?
Are humans a special form of life?
Will it be possible to create artificial life?
Now share and compare your thoughts and ideas with your partner, or with the whole class.
A Journey Through Science
Assessment
Assignment 1: Critical reading response.
Extention
Key to Approaches to Learning
What are ATL Skills?
I Communication
II Collaboration
III Organization
IV Affective
V Reflection
VI Information Literacy
VII Media Literacy
VIII Critical Thinking
IX Creativity and Innovation
X Transfer
Command Words
They indicate what approach should be applied to the information found.
Glossary
Learner Profile
Thinkers - using critical - and critical thinking skills to analyse problems.
Objectives
Find out how to identify of an organism is determmined by the parts it is made up form;
what determines something is alive or not.
Explore how living things are classified into groups with similar identities.
Take action by finding out whether something is alive or not.
Take action by finding out whether it is possible to create attificial life
Reflection
in this Unit we have seen how life exists at a range of scales and discovered how the identity of an organism is determined by the parts it is made up from and the relationship between them. We have found out about how organisms differ in form and complexity, and explained ways in which they are grouped and classified. We have explored the patterns in structures, functions and biological processes that are necessary to sustain life, and discussed whether it is possible to create artificial life. We have learnt about our role as a thinker, and how we can use critical and creative-thinking skills to analyse complex problems.
ATL Skills
Collaboration skills
Information literacy skills
Media literacy skills
Critical thinking skills
Creative thinking skills
Assessment
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