Appendix
Implementing District Standards
This unit addresses the following North Carolina goals and objectives for Biology I:
Objective 3.03 Interpret and predict patterns of inheritance. Students will identify the patterns of inheritance for recessive traits and for sickle cell anemia.
Objective 3.05 Examine the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Students will learn about Darwin's theory of natural selection and apply that theory to the results seen in the Teddy Graham and sickle cell activities. They will discuss and observe the selection for resistance to antimicrobial products by designing an experiment to test those products.
Objective 4.02 Analyze the processes by which organisms accomplish essential life functions. Objective 4.03 Assess, describe and explain adaptations affecting survival and reproductive success. Objective 4.04 Analyze and explain the interactive role of internal and external factors in health and disease. Students will be comparing normally functioning systems to systems that are affected by disease, for example, in the Day 2 lab rotation on the circulatory system and how sickle cell anemia affects that system. They will learn how our bodies respond to these challenges using our immune system. They will learn about the various types of bacteria and viruses and how microbes have responded to that attack as they complete the culminating Outbreak activity. They will learn about the changes in human diets over time and how those changes affect the body which has adaptations for a very different kind of diet. Students will develop skits to interpret how the immune system responds to infectious disease.
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