COURSE ID: SC558V

Biology

Current 2024-25
Start Date: August 14, 2024
End Date: May 31, 2025
District: Sweetwater County School District #1
Grade Levels: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Course Type: Credit Recovery, Hathaway Scholarship Eligible
Provider: 7-12 Sweetwater County School District Virtual #1

Students will explain the characteristics of life, identify and summarize hierarchical relationships and construct an explanation for how cellular organelles support life giving processes. Students will explain and summarize the ecological processes present in a balanced ecosystem, including modeling how energy flows and nutrients cycle. Students will identify the role of DNA in passing on heritable characteristics and analyze evidence in earth’s historical record to explain evolution and speciation. Lastly, students will evaluate human impact on these biological processes.