From Molecules to Organisms

What's Going On Inside Me?

Unit Overview

This unit focuses on what happens to food and oxygen to enable the body to meet our energy needs. Students track what happens to food as it goes through the digestive system to the circulatory system and is delivered to the cells all over the body.

Intro to Biology

Microscopes
What Is in My Yogurt?
Am I a System?
Yeast Lab
cells

Digestion

What Is Breaking Food Down Inside Me?
How Does Food Move in My Body?

Respiration and Circulation

The Case of the Missing Oxygen
Circulation

Growth and Repair

What is Inside a Bone?
Reading One: What is My Skeleton Made Of?
How Do Cells Make More Cells?
The Muscular System
Muscular System Reading
The Nervous System

Frog Dissection

Why Dissect Frogs?
Frog Dissection Resources
Dissection Preparation
Dissection Procedures
Wash Your Hands!

A New Body: Body Systems Final Project

  • Take everything you have learned about the Body Systems and use it in the creation of a new animal.

Plants

What is a Plant?
Plant Cells Review
Plant Growth Observation
Flower Anatomy
Flower Dissection
Photosynthesis
Plant and Flower Quiz
Stomata Lab