APRIL

Chapter 1

Nutrition-food supplying system

Week-1

• Autotrophic nutrition

• Photosynthesis

• Presence of starch

• Materials essential for photosynthesis

• Water and photosynthesis

• Air and photosynthesis

• Carbon dioxide is necessary for photosynthesis

• Light and photosynthesis

• Oxygen is produced during photosynthesis in the presence of light buy hydrilla experiment

Week-2

• Chlorophyll and photosynthesis

• Where does photosynthesis takes place

• Mechanism of photosynthesis

• Light dependent reaction

• Light independent reactions

• Heterotrophic nutrition

• How do organisms obtain their nutrition

• Parasitic nutrition in cuscuta

• Nutrition in human beings

• Passage of food through alimentary canal or gut

• Studying the enzyme chart

• Flowchart of human digestive system

• Health aspects of alimentary canal

• Diseases due to malnutrition

• Vitamin deficiency diseases

MARCH

Chapter 2

Respiration the energy releasing system

Week-3

• Discovery of dances on respiration

• Events are steps in respiration

• Breathing

• Pathway of air

• Epiglottis and passage of air

• Mechanism of respiration in human beings

• Gaseous exchange

• Transportation of gases

• Gaseous exchange from capillaries two cells and back

• Cellular respiration

• Can energy be released without oxygen

Week-4

• Anaerobic respiration

• Fermentation

• Respiration versus combustion

• Heat production by living organisms

• Evolution in gases exchanging system

• Respiration in plants

• Conduction within the plants

• Aeration of roots

• Photosynthesis versus respiration

JUNE

Chapter 3

Transportation the circulatory system

Week-1

• Internal structure of heart

• The blood vessels and circulation

• Arteries and veins

• Blood capillaries

Week-2

• Arteries and veins

• Blood capillaries

• Lymphatic system

• Evolution of transport circulatory system

Week-3

• Blood pressure

• Coagulation of blood

• How is water absorbed

Week-4

• The mechanism by which the water travels through the plants

• Transport of mineral salts

• Transport of manufactured food

JULY

Chapter 4

Excretion the wastage disposing system

Week-1

• Excretion in human beings

• Excretory system in human beings

• Kidneys

• Internal structure of kidney

• Structure of nephron

Week-2

• Mechanism of urine formation

• Ureters

• Urinary bladder

• Urethra

• Michurition

Week-3

• Composition of urine

• Dialysis

• Kidney transplantation

• Other pathways of excretion

Week-4

• Excretion in other organisms

• Excretion and release of substances in plants

• Alkaloids

• Excretion versus Secretion

AUGUST

Chapter-5

Coordination the linking system

Week-1

• Responding to stimuli

• Holding the flask

• Integrating pathways nervous coordination

• Structure of nerve cell

Week-2

• Pathways from stimulus to response

• Afferent neurons

• Efferent neurons

• Association nerves

• Knee jerk reflex

• The reflex arc

Week-3

• Central nervous system

• Peripheral nervous system

• Coordination with nerves

• Other chemical coordinators

Week-4

• Feedback mechanism

• Endocrine glands

• Autonomous nervous system

• Control mechanism in plants

• Tropic and nastic movements in plants

SEPTEMBER

Chapter 6

Reproduction the generating system

Week-1

• Formation of bacterial colony in milk

• A sexual mode of reproduction

• Fission

• Budding

• Fragmentation

• Parthenogenesis

• Regeneration

Week-2

• Vegetative propagation

• Natural propagation

• Artificial propagation

• Cutting

• Layering

• Drafting

• Spore formation

Week-3

• Sporophyll

• Sexual reproduction

• Reproduction in a placental mammal man

• Male reproductive system

• Female reproductive system

• Childbirth

• Sexual reproduction in plants

• Flower the reproductive part

• Observation of pollen grains

• Structure of ovule

• Seed germination

Week-4

• Cell division and continuation of life

• Cell division in human beings

• Cell cycle

• Observe different stages of mitotic division

• Process of meiosis

• Reproductive health

• Birth control methods

• Fighting against social ills

SEPTEMBER

Chapter 7

Coordination in life processes

Week-1

• Feeling hungry

• Taste is something connected to tongue and the palate

• Mouth the munching machine

Week-2

• Action of saliva on flour

• Testing pH of mouth at intervals of one hour

• Travel of food through oesophagus

Week-3

• making a model of oesophagus to observe how bolus move forward

• Peristaltic movement in oesophagus

Week-4

• Stomach the mixer and grinder

• Travel of food from the stomach to intestine

OCTOBER

Chapter 8

Hereditary from parents to progeny

Week-1

• New characteristics and variations

• The results of mendel's F1 crosses for seven generations in pea plants

• Examples of experiments performed by Mendel

• Self pollination in F1 generation

• Phenotype

• Genotype

Week-2

• Parents to progeny

• How do traits get exposed?

• Sex determination in human being

• Evaluation

• Acquired and inherited characteristics and evolution

• Lamarckism

Week-3

• Darwinism

• Darwin's theory of evolution in a nutshell

• Speciation

• Evidence of evolution

• Evidence of embryology

Week-4

• Evidence of fossil

• What are fossils?

• Human evolution

• Human being a moving museum

NOVEMBER

Chapter 9

Our environment our concern

Week-1

• Logical pyramid

• Pyramid of number

• Pyramid of biomass

Week-2

• Pyramid of energy

• The effects of human activities on ecosystems

Week-3

• Story of kolluru lake

• Seasonal bioaccumulation of heavy metals in fish of edulabad water reservoir Andhra Pradesh India

Week-4

• Sparrow campaign

• Steps towards prevention

DECEMBER

Chapter-10

Natural resources

Week-1

• Case study 1-situation into villages vanaparthy and vaddicherla of warangal district

• Water for all

• Case study 2-study of kothapally village and example of water management effort

Week-2

• Community based interventions

• Farmer based interventions

• Wasteland development and tree plantation

Week-3

• Sources of irrigation water in Andhra Pradesh

• Natural resources around us

• Forest and important renewable resource

Week-4

• Soil

• Biodiversity

• Fossil fuels

• Minerals

• Conservation a vital concern

• Conservation groups