Course Overview

The study of:  living things; physical and chemical basis for life; basic activities of living things; how plants and animals maintain themselves by solving basic life requirements, with an overriding theme of strategies of living things; reproduction and development of single cells to multicellular organisms; heredity, the ways that organisms transmit traits from generation to generation; evolution and diversity of living forms of plants and animals in their environment; ecological relationships with plants, animals and their environment, with emphasis on man.

Units of Study

• Scientific Method and Inquiry
• Ecology
• Human Environmental Impact
• Cell Structure and Function
• Cellular Division
• Reproduction (Asexual and Sexual)
• Heredity and Genetics
• Evolution
• Classification
• Human Body Systems

Curriculum Map (PDF)

Unit Calendar (PDF)

NYS Core Curriculum (PDF)

see p.8 for laboratory requirement