Main Project Objectives:
I can understand the composition of various substances as it relates to their ability to serve as a source of energy and building materials for growth and repair of organisms.
I can summarize how food provides the energy and the molecules required for building materials, growth and survival of all organisms (to include plants)
I can explain the relationship among a healthy diet, exercise, and the general health of the body (emphasis on the relationship between respiration and digestion).
Connected Topic Objectives:
I can understand how organisms interact with and respond to the biotic and abiotic components of their environment.
I can explain how factors such as food, water, shelter, and space affect populations in an ecosystem.
I can summarize the relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers including the positive and negative consequences of such interactions including: coexistence and cooperation competition (predator/prey) parasitism mutualism
I can explain how the flow of energy within food webs is interconnected with the cycling of matter (including water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen).
I can understand how biotechnology is used to affect living organisms and its implication for agriculture.
I can summarize the general functions of the major systems of the human body (digestion, respiration, reproduction, circulation, and excretion) and ways that these systems interact with each other to sustain life.
I can explain the significance of the processes of photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration to the survival of green plants and other organisms.
I can summarize how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photosynthesis) and is transferred within a food chain or food web (terrestrial and aquatic) from producers to consumers to decomposers.
I can summarize how the abiotic factors (such as temperature, water, sunlight, and soil quality) of biomes (freshwater, marine, forest, grasslands, desert, Tundra) affect the ability of organisms to grow, survive and/or create their own food through photosynthesis.