The Living Earth
Introduction
This section is meant to be a guide for how to approach the teaching a course that integrates high school biology with a subset of relevant topics from Earth and space science. This section presents an example storyline that emphasizes and further clarifies the disciplinary core ideas (DCI)’s contained in the performance expectations (PEs), but it should be noted that the PEs and the example instructional segments described below could be organized in other ways. For example, the course could be restructured around contemporary issues of health or ecosystem change faced by a local community that capture students’ attention and link the content of the lesson to real-life experiences. Teachers are free to address the PEs with applications and phenomena from ESS and LS that interest them most, and can present these lessons in the order that makes the most logical and logistical sense to them.
This section is meant to be a guide for how to approach the teaching a course that integrates high school biology with a subset of relevant topics from Earth and space science. This section presents an example storyline that emphasizes and further clarifies the disciplinary core ideas (DCI)’s contained in the performance expectations (PEs), but it should be noted that the PEs and the example instructional segments described below could be organized in other ways. For example, the course could be restructured around contemporary issues of health or ecosystem change faced by a local community that capture students’ attention and link the content of the lesson to real-life experiences. Teachers are free to address the PEs with applications and phenomena from ESS and LS that interest them most, and can present these lessons in the order that makes the most logical and logistical sense to them.
Unit 1: Structure, Function and Growth: From Cells to Organisms
hs_the_living_earth_unit_5.pdf |
Unit 2: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
hs_the_living_earth_unit4.pdf |
Unit 3: Evidence of Evolution
hs_the_living_earth_unit_3.pdf |
Unit 4: History of Earth's Atmosphere: Photosynthesis and Respirations
hs_the_living_earth_unit_2.pdf |
Unit 5: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics
hs_the_living_earth_unit_1.pdf |
Unit 6: Ecosystem Stability & the Response to Climate Change
hs_the_living_earth_unit_6.pdf |