Year 10 Science (Training Pathway)

Unit: Human Biology

Scientific knowledge to learn and apply:

Cells structure and function of different cell types

Cell organelles structure and function
Communication in the human body
o Nervous
o Endocrine (puberty)
Reproduction asexual and sexual
Pregnancy and development
Muscular/ skeletal systems - movement
Investigation skills

Assessment Outline:

Assessment
type

Assessment

Weighti
ng

Investigatio
n

Sexual/Asexual
reproduction
Reflexes

Project

Foetal
development

30%

Test

Topic test

20%

25%
25%

Science
Inquiry
Skills

Strands
Science
Understan
ding
(Biology)

Science
as a
Human
Endeav
our

Content

Week

Cells
structure
and function
of different
cell types

Activity
1.

Introduction to Cells

Teacher Resource: Display table on the board

Student Resource
Lesson 1
Student Worksheet

a. Partner share / Class Discussion and Brainstorm (5 + 5 mins)

i. What do you know about cells, structure, their purpose
b. Show video (5 mins)
i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKEaTt9heNM
c. Go through data table as a class students to copy into their books (10 mins)
i. Show data table on the board student's to take notes.
d. Student Worksheet (25 mins)
e. Class Mark (5 mins)
2. Cells and their Function
a. Recap: Class discussion go over table from previous day (5 mins)
i. Continue worksheets (15 mins)
b. Making connections Activity (30 mins)
i. Cells and the Home
ii. Cells and a Factory

Lesson 2
Cells and the Home
Cells and a Factory

3. Build on Cell function knowledge Consolidate

Teacher Resource: Activity with answers
a. Recap and Quiz (5 mins)
i. Ask student's what organelle represents the different factory parts
b. Student Activity (45 mins)
c. Class Mark (5 mins)
Extra:
Interactive Resource and Worksheets
o Resource http://www.cellsalive.com/howbig_js.htm
Lecture http://www.sc.chula.ac.th/courseware/2303101j/VIII-Cell.pdf

Lesson 3
Student Activity

Extra
Student Activity

Cell
organelles
structure
and function

1. Cell Structure Quiz

Lesson 1
N/A

Teacher Resource: Quiz

a. Recap of previous week (5 mins)
b. Copy Table and Review (on board) (15 mins)
Year 10_Human
Biology_Factsheet_Cell Organelle Chart Key.doc

c.
2.

i.
Quiz and Mark /Record (15 + 5 + 5 mins)
i. Teacher to read out

Mitosis Meiosis Cell Division Notes

Year 10_Human
Biology_Student Activity and Answers_Understanding Mitosis and Meiosis.docx

Lesson 2
Per pair
notes/questions

Teacher Resource Answers

a. Take notes and Answer Questions (per pair) (50 mins)
Year 10_Human
Biology_Factsheet_Understanding Mitosis and Meiosis.doc

Year 10_Human
Biology_Factsheet_Understand

Student Activity

i. Notes (partner work)

Year 10_Human
Biology_Student Activity and Answers_Understanding Mitosis and Meiosis.docx

Year 10_Human
Biology_Student Activity and A

ii. Student Activity

b. Class Mark (5 mins)
3. Mitosis Meiosis Cell Division Notes Continued
a. Take notes and Answer Question (50 mins)

Lesson 3

i. Continue from previous lesson

b. Class Mark (5 mins)
Communicat
ion in the
human body

1. Nervous System - Introduction

Teacher Resource: Overview, Review and Summary

As above

Lesson 1
N/A

a. Write everything you know / Class Discussion (5 + 5 mins)

i. What do you know about the nervous system?
ii. What is its role?
iii. What are the key parts?
b. Draw table on board student's to copy (5 mins)
c. Show video / take notes (15 mins)
i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7rXw_3gVY
d. Read through sheet and have student's copy the diagrams (draw on board) (10 mins)
e. Ask Review Questions (5 mins)
f. Write Summary (5 mins)
g. Additional Video (5 mins)
i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7rXw_3gVY

Nervo
us

2. Nervous System
a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Student activity and Note taking (50 mins)
i. Activity Sheet
ii. Reading / supporting material (print per pair)

Lesson 2

3.

Reading / supporting
material (per pair)

Nervous System and Activity

a. Recap (5 mins)
b. The Nerve Impulse video / Quiz / Record (5 + 5 mins)
i. http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter14/an
imation__the_nerve_impulse.html
ii. Answers: C, B, C,A,A
c. Continue previous activity (55 mins)

Activity Sheet

Lesson 3
As above

Extra

Body Systems Diagram Student Fact Sheet / Overview of systems

o http://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/8472/Body
%20Systems%20Interactions%20chart.pdf

Extra

1. Nervous System and Activity

a. Continue previous activity (55 mins)
b. Class mark

Communicat
ion in the
human body
4
Nervous /
Endocrine

Communicat
ion in the
human body

Endocrine
(puberty)

http://www.openschool.bc.ca/k12/pdfs/bi12/Your%20Body's%20Systems.pdf

2. Nervous System and Activity

a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Student Activity (page 409-412) (50 mins)
3. Nervous System and Activity
a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Student Activity (page 413-416) (50 mins)

1. Endocrine System Introduction

a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Class discussion (5 mins)
i. What is the endocrine system?
ii. What is this system responsible for?
c. Endocrine introduction video (10 mins)
i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWHH9je2zG4
ii. Hypothalamus
iii. Thyroid
iv. Pituitary gland
v. Hormones
d. Student Activity (page 459-463) (35 mins)
2. Endocrine System Continued
a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Endocrine System continued (10 mins)
i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCV_m91mN-Q
ii. Hormone cascades
iii. HPA axis (hypothalamic pituitary adrenal)
iv. HPT axis (hypothalamic pituitary thyroid)
c. Student Activity (page 443-466) (45 mins)

Body system chart

Nervous System Notes
Lesson 1
N/A
Lesson 2
Student Activity (409-412)
Lesson 3
Student Activity (413-416)
Lesson 1
Student Activity (459-463)

Lesson 2
Student Activity (443-466)

Reproductio
n asexual

3. Endocrine System Continued

a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Student Reading and Activity (page 1-4) (45 mins)
c. Class Mark (5 mins)

Lesson 3

1. Asexual Reproduction Introduction

Lesson 1

Teacher Resource: Overview

a. Diagnostic: Inquiry Class Discussion (5 + 5mins)
i. What would be different about our world if there were only asexual
reproduction?
ii. Organisms that are asexual can generally reproduce faster than those that
reproduce sexually. Since evolutionary fitness and success are measured in
terms of the number of offspring an organism produces, what evolutionary
pressures might have caused the evolution of sexual reproduction?
b. Write Key terms on board (10 mins)
Asexual Reproduction: Reproduction involving a single parent.
Sexual Reproduction: Reproduction involving two parents.
Gamete: Reproductive cells.
Haploid: Cell having only one chromosome of each type.
Diploid: Cell having two of each type of chromosome (twice the amount of
chromosomes in haploids).
Fertilization: Process in which two gamete cells unite.
Zygote: A fertilized cell (the result of fertilization).
Meiosis: Cell division where the number of chromosomes is cut in half (results
in haploids).
Gametogenesis: Process where haploid cells become gametes.
Crossing-Over: When genetic information is exchanged between homologous
chromosomes.
Independent Assortment: When cells divide in meiosis, each individual
chromosome is separated randomly and independently

Student Reading and

Activity (1-4)

Student Activity


c. Show Asexual Reproduction Video (3 mins)
i. http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.repro.asexual/asexualreproducers/
d. Student Activity (25 mins)
e. Review students to answer in their notebooks (5 mins)
i. What are three types of asexual reproduction?
ii. Define gamete and zygote. What number of chromosomes does each have (in
humans)?
a. What happens during fertilization?
b. Summary (students to write in notebooks) (5 mins)
i.
Asexual reproduction involves one parent and produces offspring that are
genetically identical to each other and to the parent.
ii.
Sexual reproduction involves two parents and produces offspring that are
genetically unique.
iii.
During sexual reproduction, two haploid gametes join in the process of
fertilization to produce a diploid zygote.
iv.
Meiosis is the type of cell division that produces gametes.

1.
2.

.
Asexual Reproduction Activity and Reading
a. Recap: Revise new terms and 3 reproduction types (5 mins)
b. Student Activity/ Class Mark (40 + 5 mins)
Year 10_Human
Biology_Student Activity_Sexual and asexual handout.docx

c. Student Reading and Notes (10 mins)

3. Asexual Reproduction activity
a. Recap Similarities and differences (Venn diagram) (5 mins)
b. Student Activity (50 mins)

Lesson 2

Year 10_Human
Biology_Student Activity_Sexual and asexu

Student Reading and

Notes
Lesson 3
Student Activity

Lesson 1
1. Sexual reproduction Introduction
a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Note and Student Activity (40 mins)
c. Class discussion (10 mins)
2.

Reproductio
n sexual

Sexual Reproduction Label

Teacher Resource: Reproduction and Meiosis Study Guide,

http://rwd1.needham.k12.ma.us/wellness/documents/curriculum/grade9/2%20Anatomy.pdf
7

a. Recap: Similarities / differences sexual / asexual reproduction (5 mins)

i. Reproduction and Meiosis Study Guide
b. Student Activity copy terms and label diagrams (page 5,7,8,9,11) (40 + 5 + 5mins)
i. Answers: page 6,10,12
3.

Topic Test Review

Teacher Resource: Test Answers

Student Activity

Lesson 2
Reproduction and
Meiosis Study Guide
Student Activity

Lesson 3
Student Test Review

a. Recap: Topic Review and Prelim Test (55 mins)

i. Student Test Review

Pregnancy
and
developmen
t

1. Topic Test
Teacher Resource: Test Answers

Lesson 1
Student Test Review

a. End of Topic Test (55 mins)

i. Student Test Review
2. Foetal Development Introduction
Teacher resource: Overview and slides
a. Introduction to Reproduction and Foetal development (10 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZeZ62UXyzM&app=desktop
b. Explain slides on board (page 6-1) (25 mins)
c. Student activity (page 12-14) (15 mins)

Lesson 2
Student activity (12-14)

3. Foetal Development Activity / Research Planning

Teacher resource: Overview and slides
a.
b.
c.
d.

Muscular/
skeletal
systems movement

Lesson 3
Student activity (15-19)

Recap (5 mins)
Class mark previous lesson / record (10 mins)
Student activity and take notes 15-19 (per pair) (30 mins)
Student's to create reproduction / foetal development life cycle / factsheet
i. Planning for upcoming group assignment

1. Foetal Development Research Assignment (iPads)

a. Students to use notebooks / iPads to research (55 mins) (35 marks)
b. Hand-out student Assessment Rubric
i. Definition of embryo and foetus, (page 234) 2 marks
1. Embryo, blastocyst
ii. Key elements in each trimester (page 235 / jpg) 12 (4 per) marks
1. First (1-13 weeks)
2. Second (14-26 weeks)
3. Third (26-40 weeks)
iii. Foetal developmental stages (weeks) (page 235 / jpg) 5 marks
1. Periods of time when major /minor defects may occur(page 235 / jpg)
iv. Definition of embryo and foetus (page 234) 2 marks
v. Define placenta (page 237) 2 marks
vi. Explain the role of the placenta and umbilical cord during
foetal development (page 238) 2 marks
vii. Folic acid deficiency: 4 marks
1. What is it?
2. What effect does it have on the foetus?
3. How is it treated?
4. How big a problem is it?
viii. Drug or alcohol use during pregnancy: Chose either drug or alcohol. 4 marks
1. What effect does it have on the foetus?
2. How is it treated?
3. How big a problem is it?
ix. Low birth weight babies: 4 marks
1. What causes low birthweight?
2. What effect does it have on the baby?
3. How can it be prevented?

Lesson 1
Assessment Rubric

4. How big a problem is it?

https://textbookequity.org/Textbooks/HumanBiologyCK12.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/dotw/fasd/images/chart_928px.jpg
2. Foetal Development Research Assignment continued (iPads)
a. Students to use notebooks / iPads to research (55 mins)
3. Foetal Development Research Assignment continued (iPads)
a. Students to use notebooks / iPads to research (55 mins) (due week 10)

Lesson 2
N/A
Lesson 3
N/A

1. Introduction to Muscular skeletal systems

a. Intro to Muscular system (5 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMcg9YzNSEs
b. Student Activity (page 394-398)(per pair) (50 mins)
i. Design muscular activities for following lesson

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2. Skeletal System
a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Student Activity (page 386-389) (50 mins)
c. Extra: Page 399-405
3. Muscular Systems at Work in action
a. Recap (5 mins)
b. Set up data table (10 mins)
i. Use students activities from beginning of the week (40 mins)
1. What was the activity?
2. Where was the weight?
3. What muscle was moving?
4. Where was muscle load?
ii. Set up activities outside
iii. Bring water bottle/books for weight

Lesson 1
Student Activity (394-398)

Lesson 2
Student Activity (386-389)

Lesson 3
Use student work from
lesson activities