Animal and Plant Structures Unit Outline *This is a Living Document; subject to

change*
Text Chapters: Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Plants Chapter

Unit Learning Goals and Success Criteria:

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Date Topic Resources/Notes

Thurs May 11 How Your Digestive System Works - video Readings: Sections 10.1 and 10.2

Joe’s Stomach and Joe’s Liver

Quick Lab - You Are What you Eat
“I’m Hungry” - Powerpoint

Fri May 12 “Human: The World Within - Fuel” Readings: Sections 10.1 and 10.2

Joe’s Stomach and Joe’s Liver

Mon May 15 Discuss/Take up: Quick Lab - You Are What you Eat Crash Course Biology - Circulatory and
Respiratory Systems
Digestive System
Reading: Section 12.1
“I’m Hungry” - Powerpoint
Other Transport Systems
Blood Doping Case Study

Joe’s Heart

Tues May 16 Take up: Blood Doping Case Study Crash Course Biology - Circulatory and
Respiratory Systems
The Circulatory System
Reading: Section 12.1
The Heart
Other Transport Systems
Kahoot?

Joe’s Heart

Wed May 17 Respiration Respiration:

Plant Kingdom Reading: Section 11.1 & 11.2

- Plant Kingdom Chart The Mechanics of Breathing
Joe’s Lung

Plants:
Plants Chapter

Thurs May 18 Flower Pollination Gizmo Plants Chapter

(Gizmo Enrollment Instructions)

Fri May 19 Dissection Tools and Techniques

Flower Dissection

Seed Dissection
Tues May 23 Work Period: Plant Quiz (Tuesday)
- Complete previously assigned work. - Evolution of Plants + Key
- Read and make notes from the chapters below. Answer Characteristics
questions therein - Flower parts + Pollination
- Seed parts + Germination
Plants Chapter - Monocots vs Dicots
- Plant classification (mosses, ferns,
Plant Tissue Systems - Text conifers, angiosperms)
- Plant tissues

Wed May 24 Crash Course Biology: Vascular Plants

Venn Diagram: Monocot vs. Dicot

- Consider: stem, roots, leaves, flowers, and seeds.

Practice: Monocot or Dicot?

Plant Tissues and Organs Handout

Thurs May 25 Microscope work: Monocot and Dicot Slides Plants Chapter
- Seesaw Post: 4 photos - monocot and dicot root and stem
under low magnification. Brief note on how you Plant Tissue Systems - Text
identified each.
*Plant Quiz on Tuesday
Evolution of Land Plants
- Read and annotate.
- What are advantages and disadvantages to living on land?
- How did plants minimize the disadvantages and
maximize the advantages?

Fri May 26 Evolution of Land Plants

- Read and annotate.
- What are advantages and disadvantages to living on land?
- How did plants minimize the disadvantages and
maximize the advantages?

Special Video Presentation: “The Fortress, River, and Gardens”

Video Watching Placemat

Mon May 29 Prepare for tomorrow’s quiz… Plants Chapter

Evolution of Land Plants Plant Tissue Systems - Text

- Read and annotate.
- What are advantages and disadvantages to living on land?
- How did plants minimize the disadvantages and
maximize the advantages?

Tues May 30 Plants Quiz

Wed May 31 Asian Heritage Month Assembly

Thurs June 1 Practicing Dissection Techniques

Ethical Issues in Dissections

Fri June 2 Ethical Issues in Dissections

Crash Course Biology: The Development of Animals

Mon June 5 Introduce Course Summative (see Google Classroom)

Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom Text

- Read text and attempt questions at the end. This is good
prep for designing your own organism for the summative

Tues June 6 Invertebrates How the Squid lost its shell - video

2 Meter Long Humboldt Squid Hunts in Packs -

video

How Squids Outsmart their Predators - video

Wed June 7 Squid Dissection - Slides Squid Dissection Vir..qatual Field Trip

Squid Dissection Handout Squid Anatomy

Thurs June 8 “Human: The World Within” (choose an episode)

Fri June 9 Disorders of the Organ Systems Organ Systems Crossword

Medical Screening Activity

Mon June 12 Summative Work Period

Tues June 13 Pig Dissection Prep: On the Whitman site --> make sure you click Pig Dissection Webinar
through all the different sections on the right:
https://www.whitman.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/biology/v Mr. Bradshaw’s Pig Dissection
irtual-pig/anatomical-references?authuser=2

Wed June 14 Pig Dissection Day 1

Thurs June 15 Pig Dissection Continued

Fri June 16 Summative Work Period (Due at the end of class!)