Course Description:
Science 9, provides a deeper understanding of the respiratory, and circulatory systems to promote overall health, technologies that introduce desired traits in economically important plants and animals, new materials formed when atoms are rearranged and recognizes a wide variety of useful compounds. It gives information about volcanoes, explain how energy from volcanoes may be tapped for human use, and climatic phenomena that occur on a global scale. It also explains why certain constellations can be seen only at certain times of the year and discusses the outcomes of interactions among objects in real life applying the laws of conservation of energy and momentum.
FIRST QUARTER
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the first quarter, the students are expected to:
- Identify the different parts of the respiratory and the cardiovascular system.
- Discuss the function of each part of the respiratory and the circulatory system.
- Explain how the respiratory and the circulatory systems work together to transport nutrients, gases, and the other molecules to and from the different parts of the body.
- Infer how one’s lifestyle can affect the functioning of the respiratory and the circulatory systems.
- Explain the different patterns of non-Mendelian inheritance.
- Relate species extinction to the failure of populations or organisms to adapt to abrupt changes in the environment.
- Differentiate basic features and importance of photosynthesis and respiration.
I. CONTENT:
LIVING THINGS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT
Unit I: The Cardiovascular System and Respiratory System Working with Other Organ Systems
I. The Cardiovascular System
- Parts and Functions
- Processes Involved
- Diseases
- Caring for the Cardiovascular System
2. The Respiratory System
- Parts and Functions
- Processes Involved
- Diseases
- Caring for the Respiratory System
Unit II: Heredity, Inheritance and Variation of Traits
1. The Gene
2. The Different Patterns of Non-Mendelian Inheritance
- Principle of Incomplete Dominance
- Principle of Co-dominance
- Principle of Multiple Alleles
- Sex-Linked Traits
- Sex-influenced Trait
- Sex-limited Trait
Unit III: Biodiversity and Evolution
A. Importance of Biodiversity
B. Adaptation as key Factors for Survival
C. Extinction and Adaptation
Unit IV: Ecosystems: Flow of Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
1. Photosynthesis
- Plant Structures and Functions
- Organelles involved in Photosynthesis
2. Respiration in Plants
- Structure and Function of Mitochondrion
- Process of Respiration in Plants
- CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION:
II. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION
Written works————- 40%
Performance task——- 40%
Quarterly Assessment –20%
Total ———————–100%
