Course Description: Life Science is a one semester basic life science course focusing on genetics and ecology. It provides students with a basic understanding of living things. Topics covered may include ecology and environmental problems such as overpopulation and pollution as well as cells, types of organisms, evolutionary behavior, and inheritance. The genetics sections core ideas will be centered around chromosomes, cell replication, and heredity. The ecology section will primarily study energy flow, community interactions and population dynamics. Students will experience hands-on practice, lectures, online simulations, and formal and informal assessments.

Life Science is a semester course (0.5 credit) that is for incoming freshmen. 

ISHA Code: 03158A000

Course Materials: Inspire Biology (McGraw Hill) 

Concept 1 - Principles of Ecology

Module 1 - Lesson 1 - The Science of Life 

Lesson 2 - The Nature of Science

Module 2 - Lesson 1 - Organisms and Their Relationships

Lesson 2 - Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem 

Lesson 3 - Cycling of Matter

Concept 2 - Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems 

Module 3 - Lesson 1 - Community Ecology 

Lesson 2 - Terrestrial Biomes

Lesson 3 - Aquatic Ecosystems

Concept 3 - Population Ecology 

Module 4 - Lesson 1 - Population Dynamics 

Lesson 2 - Human Population 

Concept 4 - Cell Structure and Function 

Module 7 - Lesson 1 - Cell Discovery and Theory 

Lesson 2 - The Plasma Membrane 

Lesson 3 - Cellular Transport 

Lesson 4 - Structures and Organelles 

Concept 5 - Cellular Reproduction & Sexual Reproduction 

Module 9 - Lesson 1 - Cellular Reproduction 

Lesson 2 - Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction 

Concept 6 - Introduction to Genetics and Patterns of Inheritance 

Module 10 - Lesson 1 - Mendelian Genetics 

Lesson 2 - Genetic Recombination and Gene Linkage

Lesson 3 - Applied Genetics 

Lesson 4 - Basic Patterns of Human Inheritance 

Lesson 5 - Complex Patterns of Inheritance 

Concept 7 - Molecular Genetics 

Module 11 - Lesson 1 - DNA: The Genetic Material 

Lesson 2 - Replication of DNA 

Lesson 3 - DNA, RNA, & Protein 

Lesson 4 - Gene Regulation and Mutation