Milestone 1

What is Biology? 


Basics of Biology   (These notes are for your use)

Stepping Stone#1:  Living Organisms

 Question:  How do you know what is alive and what is not? 

 Is a virus alive?

What about fire and bacteria?  


 Stepping Stone #2: Characteristics of Life

1. Read the following section to learn the characteristics that all living things have in common.  

2. Complete the review questions that have been linked.            Submit on Slate. Questions

3.  Complete the following lab:  Characteristics of Living Things.  Submit on slate


levels of organization.pptx

Stepping Stone # 3: Lab

1. Review the slide show above and take notes on the Levels of Organization of living things.  Cornell notes sheet. 

2. Activity: Use both the reading from Stepping Stone #1 and the slide show above to help you complete the following lab:   

Stepping Stone #4: Self check  

Characteristics/Organization of Living Things - Quiz

Stepping Stone #5: 

Stepping Stone #6:  Viruses

Use the resources from the readings above to help complete facts on Living/non-living things. 

Stepping Stone #7:  Interdependence of Organisms - 

Stepping Stone #8: Organization of Living Organisms


Stepping Stone #9: 

Stepping Stone #10:  Types of Cells - Eukaryotic vs. Prokaryotic

1.Read about Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells.  You will then complete the review questions. 

2. Activity - Microscope Investigation:  Complete the microscope lab.  You may work with a partner. 

Interactive Lab sheet - you will complete the lab assignment using the interactive.  Use the link on the student sheet to access the virtual microscope.

Investigating Cells

Performance Task Guiding questions:  Think about these questions as you complete your PT. 

What is the purpose of your project? What do you want others to learn from your project or presentation?

How can you apply/use the information or skills you learned  in your life?

Bank of Experiment Examples (or you may choose one of your own). 

Caffeine and Heart Rate: (Can be modified) The goal of this project is to test whether caffeine has an effect on heart rate, using the freshwater crustacean, Daphnia magna, as an experimental model system.

Memory Mnemonics:  To determine if using mnemonics can improve peoples' ability to remember a list of words. 

Spending Habits: Tightwads vs. Spendthrift - The goal of this project is to determine how people manage their money using analysis of survey data that you collect. 

**Biome Project: (With permission only) Research the different biomes and the organisms that live within that area.  Attached is a template - this is a basic level template.  You may add additional slides per biome to increase your scores.  A works cited page is required.