Standards-based curriculum for secondary students (Grades 6-12) covering the basics of biology.
Features
- Adaptable for various learning and communication preferences.
- Follows consistent format across 11 chapters and four themes: ecology, evolution, cell biology, and human body systems.
- Provides extensive illustrations, simplified text, and outlined labs for hands-on learning.
- Includes downloadable digital files, four laminated reference guides to extend lessons, vocabulary and Big Idea study cards, lab materials, and an animation for each chapter.
What's included
Curriculum:
- Student Book
- Instructor's Guide
- Consumable Student Workbook
- 1 set of Reference Guides
- 1 set of Study Cards
- 1 set of Lab Materials
Curriculum Plus includes everything in the Curriculum and:
- 10 consumable Student Workbooks
- 2 sets of References Guides
- the entire page set of workbook pages as accessible GoWorksheets (iPad only)
- samples of communication overlays
The GoWorksheets can be used with the free GoWorksheet app or the full GoWorksheet Plus app available on the App Store.
Components
Student book
- Includes 11 chapters covering 4 themes: ecology, evolution, cell biology and human body systems
Exploring Life Science | Looking at Cells | Circulatory System |
Living Things | Inside a Cell | Digestive System |
Environments | Musculoskeletal System | Nervous System |
Evolution | Respiratory System | |
- Each chapter follows a consistent format:
- Chapter Title Page
- Big Ideas
- A Major Illustration
- Vocabulary Words
- an Overview
- Important Topics
- In Focus
- A hands-on Lab lesson
- Quiz/Review
- Topics presented with simplified text and extensive illustrations
- Vocabulary and Big Ideas are emphasized throughout the chapters to help students learn concepts
- Each chapter comes with a 15-20 sec. video and hands-on lab
Instructor's Guide
- Presents a sequence of 79 lessons, each 45-minutes long, integrating all curriculum materials available
- Suggestions for emphasizing the concepts provided for each lesson
- The Appendix features two versions of three Term Tests, each assessing a certain group of chapters. Plus:
- Downloadable student materials
- Assessments
- Image Library
- and more.
Reference Guides and Study Cards provide additional information to function as a lesson extension for students to learn concepts.
Lab materials provide hands-on learning for students to better understand given concepts. These include card games, microscope slides, animal cell model, and more.
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