May 2015
What topics will students address during the beginning of the school year in Buffalo?
During the beginning of the school year in Buffalo, students will study two parts of Living Environment in 7 weeks. The main topic is about the introduction to the course includes the cell which is the foundation of the study of all living things. The key idea 1 in curriculum, living things are both similar and different from each other from nonliving things. The enduring understanding is that Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science as it pertains to biology. The 7 weeks’ courses included …show more content…
The start of a course always been basic and crucial. It may lead students has interesting or loss their interesting during the start of study one new course. That will lead that teacher should get very well prepared about the first part of living environment courses. So that students will has a good start in study biology and engage in the class very soon. Especially, the first part is an introduction to biology, all the things students will learn is that they will use during the whole process of study biology. For example, they will study about the lab safety and experiment. Biology is a course that students cannot study without experiment, hands on working. Almost for each chapter has an activity or a lab work. So students must lay a solid foundation about how to do the experiment, notice the lab safety, how to write a lab report, what scientific method they can use, etc. It is a chapter for introduce biology to student, in the mean time it is a part that students will practice and do it again and again during the whole process of study biology. So for teachers, we must get well prepared about this part and help students get a smoothly