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First Semester Units
First Semester Units
Unit 1: Stress
How do our body systems work together to create & recover from our stress response?
Unit 2: Cancer
How are Henrietta Lacks’ cells still alive when she died in 1951?
Unit 3: Bacteria
Is it possible for The Black Death to happen again?
Unit 4: Melanin
How does albinism occur in organisms? How did natural selection lead to the evolution of varying human skin color traits?
Second Semester Units
Second Semester Units
Unit 5: Penguins
How did we get different species of penguins? How can we reduce the impacts of human activities on the environment?
Unit 6: Dogs
Can natural selection be forced?
Unit 7: Otters
How can sea otters help save the planet?
Unit 8: Extinction
Is the food we eat contributing to another mass extinction event?
Unit 9: Creek
How healthy is Farm Creek?
Grading
Grading
Homework, classwork, labs, etc. (Formative Assessments) - 40% weighted
Final Models, Quizzes, Tests (Summative Assessments) - 60% weighted
Cumulative final exam - 10% of overall grade
For more information on school grading policies, please refer to the WCHS Student Handbook.
What to expect:
What to expect:
You will have work to do every day in my class whether it is a lab, classwork or a homework assignment.
I will not grade every assignment that I give you. All assignments are intended to give you an opportunity to practice the concepts & skills we are learning, as well as prepare you for the unit test & final exam. I will choose key assignments as we work through the units to add to the gradebook in Skyward as a measure of your progress that will contribute to your final grade in the class.
In order to be considered "passing" and receive credits towards graduation, students must earn at least a 60% (D-) for their overall grade at the end of the semester.
2 years of science is required to graduate from WCHS. Biology is essentially 1 of those 2 years required.
Tips for Success:
Tips for Success:
The key to doing well is to take good notes and do the homework. My tests are very reflective of the notes & homework assignments.
Fill out the study guides I give you for the test. They are essentially the test questions. Participate in the reviews we do in class.
If you started but didn't finish an assignment, I still encourage you to turn in what you did do. Unless the assignment was specifically for completion points, I will still provide points for the work that was completed even if it wasn't finished.
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