1 | Conceptual Academy Biology (Texas Edition) Lesson and Activity Pacing Guide | ||||||||||||
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2 | Lesson Time | TEKS Req'd | TEKS Alignment | Core Concepts | Suggested Activity Sequence | Phenomena (Inquiry) | PocketLab Activity | Hands-On (Guided) | Next-Time Question | PhET Simulation | Practice Page | Writing or Presentation | |
3 | 5E: Engage | 5E: Explore | 5E: Explore | 5E: Explore | 5E: Explain | 5E: Elaborate | 5E: Evaluate | ||||||
4 | 30 min | 50 min | 50 min | 5 min | 20 min | 30 min | 50 min | ||||||
5 | 17 total activities | 14 total activities | 25 total activities | 14 total activities | 8 total activities | 47 total activities | 28 total activities | ||||||
6 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 1 Science and Biology | |||||||||||
7 | 25 | • | 1A | 1.1 What Is Life? | PocketLab: Are Beans Alive? | Are Beans Alive? | STEM Careers | Making Hypotheses | Whacky WWW | ||||
8 | 50 | • | 1H | 1.2 The Scientific Method | Study Habits | Bacterial Growth | Scientific Inquiry | ||||||
9 | 40 | • | 1G, 4B | 1.3 Science and Technology | Lunar Landing | STEM Stereotypes | Historical Figures | ||||||
10 | 35 | • | 1H | 1.4 Facts, Laws, and Theories | PocketLab: Salt-to-Ice Experiment | Finding Food | Salt-to-Ice Experiment | Scientific Claim | Scientific Hypothesis | ||||
11 | 50 | • | 1E, 1D, 2B, 2C | 1.5 Working with Numbers | But Is It Gold? | Scientific Notation | |||||||
12 | The Metric System | Significant Figures | |||||||||||
13 | 50 | • | 1C, 1F, 4C | 1.6 Quantitative and Qualitative Data | |||||||||
14 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Biogeology—An Introduction | |||||||||||
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16 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 2 The Chemistry of Life | |||||||||||
17 | 50 | 5A | 2.1 Atoms and Molecules | Zoom into Water | The Fragrant Balloon | Build an Atom | Subatomic Particles | ||||||
18 | The Submicroscopic | ||||||||||||
19 | 50 | 5A | 2.2 Chemical Compounds | Blue-Green Penny | Rust | Types of Chemical Bonds | |||||||
20 | Solutions | ||||||||||||
21 | 50 | 5A | 2.3 Mixtures | Mixtures | Atoms to Molecules | Mixture Terms | |||||||
22 | 50 | 5A | 2.4 Chemical Reactions | Humid Flames | Warming Cooling Mixtures | The pH Scale Model | |||||||
23 | 50 | 5A | 2.5 Types of Reactions | Acid Breath | Investigating a Chemical Reaction | ||||||||
24 | 100 | • | 5A, 1B | 2.6 Organic Molecules | Phenomena: Rubbing the Wrong Way | Rubbing the Wrong Way | Hands-On Steam Distillation | Ethnobotony | |||||
25 | 100 | • | 5A | 2.7 Macromolecules Needed for Life | Phenomena: A Good Hair Day | A Good Hair Day | Macromolecules | ||||||
26 | 50 | • | 2A | 2.8 Physical and Conceptual Models | |||||||||
27 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Isotopic Dating | |||||||||||
28 | |||||||||||||
29 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 3 The Cell | |||||||||||
30 | 100 | • | 5B | 3.1 What is a Cell? | Hands-on: Why are cells small? | Why are cells small? | |||||||
31 | The Two Types of Cells | Practice: Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells | Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells | ||||||||||
32 | 75 | • | 5A | 3.2 Cell Theory | All About Cells | ||||||||
33 | 75 | • | 1D, 5A | 3.3 Looking at Cells | Hands-on: Microscope Lab | Microscope Lab | |||||||
34 | 100 | • | 5B | 3.4 Eukaryotic Cell | Practice: Eukaryotic Organelles | Eukaryotic Organelles | |||||||
35 | 75 | • | 5B | 3.5 The Cell Membrane | Practice: The Cell Membrane | The Cell Membrane | |||||||
36 | 75 | • | 5B | 3.6 Cell Organelles | PocketLab: Cells and Organelles | Cells and Organelles | |||||||
37 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Geologic Time | |||||||||||
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39 | 3 Weeks | Chapter 4 How Cells Work | |||||||||||
40 | 150 | • | 12B | 4.1 Cellular Transport | Question: Crossing Cell Wall | Crossing Cell Wall | Diffusion and Osmosis | ||||||
41 | Diffusion, Endocytosis, and Exocytosis | Active Transport | |||||||||||
42 | 110 | • | 12A | 4.2 Cell Communication | |||||||||
43 | 115 | • | 11A, 11B | 4.3 ATP and Chemical Reactions | ATP Chemical Reactions | ||||||||
44 | 75 | • | 11B | 4.4 Enzymes | Hands-on: Enzyme Activity | Sweet Enzyme | Enzyme Activity | ||||||
45 | 150 | • | 11A | 4.5 Photosynthesis | PocketLab: Spinach Experiment | Spinach Experiment | Photosynthesis | ||||||
46 | 150 | • | 11A, 11B | 4.6 Cellular Respiration | Floating Leaf | Cellular Respiration | |||||||
47 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Plate Tectonics | |||||||||||
48 | |||||||||||||
49 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 5 DNA and Genes | |||||||||||
50 | 50 | • | 7A | 5.1 What is a Gene? | Writing: What is a Gene? | What is a Gene? | |||||||
51 | 75 | • | 7A | 5.2 Chromosomes | Chromosomes | ||||||||
52 | 100 | • | 7A | 5.3 The Structure of DNA | Hands-on: Seeing your DNA | Seeing your DNA | |||||||
53 | 100 | • | 7B | 5.4 How DNA Is Copied | Practice: DNA Replication | DNA Replication | |||||||
54 | 100 | • | 6A | 5.5 How Proteins Are Built | Practice: Transcription and Translation | Transcription/Translation | Gene Expression | Transcription and Translation | |||||
55 | RNA Transcription Translation | PhET: Gene Expression | |||||||||||
56 | 75 | • | 10D | 5.6 Genetic Mutations | Genetic Mutations | ||||||||
57 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: The Great Oxygenation | |||||||||||
58 | |||||||||||||
59 | 3 Weeks | Chapter 6 Inheritance | |||||||||||
60 | 110 | • | 6A | 6.1 How Cells Reproduce | Hands-on: Cell Cycle Mitosis (Part 1) | Cell Cycle Mitosis (Part 1) | |||||||
61 | 150 | • | 6A, 6B, 8A | 6.2 Cell Division and Genetic Diversity | Comparing Mitosis & Meiosis | ||||||||
62 | 115 | • | 8A | 6.3 Traits and Inheritance | Practice: Dominant & Recessive Traits | Dominant & Recessive Traits | |||||||
63 | 115 | • | 8A | 6.4 First Law of Inheritance | Practice: Inheritance Patterns | Inheritance Patterns | |||||||
64 | 110 | • | 8A, 8B | 6.5 Second Law of Inheritance | Writing: Inheritance | Inheritance | |||||||
65 | 150 | • | 7C, 8B | 6.6 Beyond Mendel | Question: Blood Type | Blood Type | Variable Traits, Heritable Traits | ||||||
66 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Life in the Trenches | |||||||||||
67 | |||||||||||||
68 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 7 Genetic Technologies | |||||||||||
69 | 75 | • | 6A | 7.1 The Human Genome | |||||||||
70 | 75 | • | 7D | 7.2 Genetic Testing | |||||||||
71 | 50 | • | 6C | 7.3 Cancer | Hands-on: Cell Cycle Mitosis (Part 2) | Cell Cycle Mitosis (Part 2) | |||||||
72 | 100 | • | 7D | 7.4 DNA Technology | Recombinant DNA | ||||||||
73 | 75 | • | 4A | 7.5 Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes | |||||||||
74 | 75 | • | 7D | 7.6 Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9 | |||||||||
75 | 50 | • | 3C | 7.7 Concerns about DNA Technology | Writing: Genetic Technology | Genetic Technology | |||||||
76 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Supervolcanoes | |||||||||||
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78 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 8 Natural Selection | |||||||||||
79 | 50 | • | 7A | 8.1 The Origin of Life | |||||||||
80 | 25 | 7A | 8.2 Is there life on Mars or Venus? | ||||||||||
81 | 50 | 3A, 4B | 8.3 Charles Darwin | Writing: Advantageous Traits | Advantageous Traits | ||||||||
82 | 125 | • | 10A | 8.4 Natural Selection | PhET: Natural Selection | Natural Selection | Natural Selection | ||||||
83 | Practice: Natural Selection | ||||||||||||
84 | 125 | • | 10B | 8.5 Examples of Natural Selection | Question: Heritable Variable Traits | Heritable Variable Traits | |||||||
85 | 75 | • | 10A | 8.6 Adaptation | Practice: Size and Shape | Size and Shape | |||||||
86 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Magnetoreception | |||||||||||
87 | |||||||||||||
88 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 9 Evidence of Evolution | |||||||||||
89 | 100 | • | 7C, 10D | 9.1 Mechanisms of Evolution | Practice: Mechanisms of Evolution | Mechanisms of Evolution | Evolution Map (Before) | ||||||
90 | Evolution and Genetics | Writing: Evolution Map (Before) | |||||||||||
91 | 50 | • | 10C | 9.2 How New Species Form | |||||||||
92 | 75 | • | 10A | 9.3 Natural Selection in Action | PhET: Too Many Rabbits | Selection | Too Many Rabbits | ||||||
93 | Observations of Natural Selection | Natural Selection | |||||||||||
94 | 50 | • | 9A | 9.4 Fossils | |||||||||
95 | 100 | • | 9A | 9.5 Body Structures and Genetics | |||||||||
96 | 50 | • | 9A, 9B | 9.6 Biogeography and Punctuated Equilibrium | |||||||||
97 | 75 | • | 3B | 9.7 The Evolution of Humans | Writing: Evolution Map (After) | Evolution Map (After) | |||||||
98 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Living Under the Ice | |||||||||||
99 | |||||||||||||
100 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 10 Diversity of Life 1 | |||||||||||
101 | 100 | 1G | 10.1 Classifying Life | Hands-on: Diving with Sharks | Diving with Sharks | Classification | |||||||
102 | 75 | 4A | 10.2 Evolutionary Trees | Practice: Evolutionary Trees | Evolutionary Trees | ||||||||
103 | 75 | 3B | 10.3 Three Domains of Life | Writing: Domains of Life | Domains of Life | ||||||||
104 | 50 | 5A, 5B | 10.4 Bacteria | Bacteria | |||||||||
105 | 50 | 4A | 10.5 Archaea | Practice: Bacteria and Archaea | Bacteria and Archaea | ||||||||
106 | 50 | 4A | 10.6 Protists | Practice: Domain Eukarya and Protists | Domain Eukarya and Protists | ||||||||
107 | 100 | • | 2D, 12B | 10.7 Plants | Practice: Plants | Plants | |||||||
108 | Seed Plants | PocketLab: Seed Germination | Seed Germination | ||||||||||
109 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: The Wonder of Wind | |||||||||||
110 | |||||||||||||
111 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 11 Diversity of Life 2 | |||||||||||
112 | 75 | 4A | 11.1 Fungi | Fungi | |||||||||
113 | 100 | 4A | 11.2 Animals Part 1 | Hands-on: Wild About Animals (Part 1) | Wild About Animals (Part 1) | ||||||||
114 | 100 | 4A | 11.3 Animals Part 2 | Hands-on: Wild About Animals (Part 2) | Wild About Animals (Part 2) | ||||||||
115 | Annelids | Question: Worms | Worms | ||||||||||
116 | 100 | 4A | 11.4 Animals Part 3 | Practice: Animals | Animals | ||||||||
117 | 75 | • | 5D | 11.5 Viruses and Prions | Writing: Viruses and Prions | Viruses and Prions | |||||||
118 | 50 | 3C | 11.6 Life is Interconnected | ||||||||||
119 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Interconnectedness | |||||||||||
120 | |||||||||||||
121 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 12 The Nervous System | |||||||||||
122 | 50 | • | 12A, 12B | 12.1 Organization of the Human Body | |||||||||
123 | 75 | • | 5C | 12.2 Homeostasis | |||||||||
124 | 50 | • | 12A | 12.3 The Brain | Hands-on: Exploring Our Minds (Part 1) | Exploring Our Minds (Part 1) | Brain | Parts of the Brain | |||||
125 | Question: Brain | ||||||||||||
126 | 75 | • | 12A | 12.4 The Nervous System | Exploring Our Minds (Part 2) | The Nervous System | |||||||
127 | 100 | • | 12A | 12.5 How Neurons Fire | Stimulating Neurons | Parts of a Neuron | |||||||
128 | The Action Potential | Practice: Action Potentials | Action Potentials | ||||||||||
129 | 50 | • | 12A | 12.6 How Neurons Communicate | Hands-on: Paper Wad Receptor | Diffusion | Paper Wad Receptor | ||||||
130 | 100 | • | 12A | 12.7 The Senses | PhET: Color Vision | Color Vision | Senses | ||||||
131 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Plant Nutrients | |||||||||||
132 | |||||||||||||
133 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 13 Control and Development | |||||||||||
134 | 100 | • | 12A | 13.1 Hormones | Writing: Hormones | Hormones | |||||||
135 | 100 | • | 12B | 13.2 Reproduction | |||||||||
136 | 100 | • | 12A, 12B | 13.3 Development | Writing: Chapter Map | Chapter Map | |||||||
137 | 100 | • | 12A, 12B | 13.4 The Skeleton | Practice: Skeleton | Skeleton | |||||||
138 | 100 | • | 12A, 12B | 13.5 Muscles | Practice: Muscle Contraction | Muscle Contraction | |||||||
139 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Soil Fertility | |||||||||||
140 | |||||||||||||
141 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 14 Maintaining the Body | |||||||||||
142 | 110 | • | 12B | 14.1 The Circulatory System | PocketLab: Body Systems | Body Systems | Circulatory System | ||||||
143 | 100 | • | 12B | 14.2 The Path of Blood Flow | Question: Blood Flow | Blood Flow | |||||||
144 | 80 | • | 12B | 14.3 Blood | Writing: Blood | Blood | |||||||
145 | 110 | • | 12B | 14.4 Respiration | Practice: Respiratory System | Measuring Humidity in Breath | Respiratory System | ||||||
146 | The Path of Air | PocketLab: Measuring Humidity in Breath | |||||||||||
147 | 100 | • | 12A | 14.5 Digestion | Hands-on: Spit in Blue | A Healthy Diet | Spit in Blue | Digestion | |||||
148 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Pesticide Bioaccumulation | |||||||||||
149 | |||||||||||||
150 | 2 Weeks | Chapter 15 Protecting Health | |||||||||||
151 | 75 | • | 12A | 15.1 Nutrition, Exercise, and Health | Hands-on: 1918 Influenza Pandemic | Fitness | 1918 Influenza Pandemic | ||||||
152 | 125 | • | 12A | 15.2 The Excretory System | Writing: Excretory System | Excretory System | The Excretory System | ||||||
153 | 150 | • | 12A | 15.3 The Innate Immune System | PocketLab: Efficacy of Face Masks | Efficacy of Face Masks | Immune System | ||||||
154 | 150 | • | 12A | 15.4 The Acquired Immune System | Question: Antibodies | Antibodies | |||||||
155 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Topsoil in Trouble | |||||||||||
156 | |||||||||||||
157 | 1.5 Weeks | Chapter 16 Populations | |||||||||||
158 | 75 | • | 13A | 16.1 Organisms and Their Environments | Writing: Their Environments | Their Environments | |||||||
159 | 110 | • | 13A | 16.2 Population Growth | PocketLab: Resource Availability on Plants | Resource Avail on Plants | Species Studies | ||||||
160 | Exponential Growth | PocketLab: Resource Availability on Yeast | Resource Availability on Yeast | Exponential & Logistic Growth | |||||||||
161 | Logistic Growth | Practice: Exponential & Logistic Growth | |||||||||||
162 | 95 | • | 13A | 16.3 Life History | Hands-on: Survivorship Curves | Survivorship Curves | |||||||
163 | 95 | • | 13D | 16.4 Human Population Growth | Phenomena: The Wonder of Water | The Wonder of Water | |||||||
164 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Topsoil Regenerated | |||||||||||
165 | |||||||||||||
166 | 1 Week | Chapter 17 Communities | |||||||||||
167 | 75 | • | 13B | 17.1 Food Webs | Phenomena: Meat Choices | Meat Choices | Energy Flow—Popcorn Lab | ||||||
168 | 50 | • | 13A | 17.2 Competition | Writing: Trophic Structures | Trophic Structures | |||||||
169 | 65 | • | 13A | 17.3 Symbiosis | |||||||||
170 | 60 | • | 13A | 17.4 Invasive Species | Question: Species Relationships | Species Relationships | Species Interactions | ||||||
171 | Practice: Species Interactions | ||||||||||||
172 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Ocean Acidification | |||||||||||
173 | |||||||||||||
174 | 1 .5 Weeks | Chapter 18 Ecosystems | |||||||||||
175 | 90 | • | 13D | 18.1 Terrestrial Biomes | Writing: Chapter Map | A Texas Wildlife Story, Expl 1 | Chapter Map | ||||||
176 | Hands-on: A Texas Wildlife Story, Expl 1 | ||||||||||||
177 | 75 | • | 13D | 18.2 Aquatic Biomes | Practice: Biomes and Aquatic Habitats | A Texas Wildlife Story, Expl 2 | Biomes and Aquatic Habitats | ||||||
178 | Freshwater Habitats | Hands-on: A Texas Wildlife Story, Expl 2 | |||||||||||
179 | 75 | • | 13C | 18.3 Biogeochemical Cycles | Hands-on: A Texas Wildlife Story, Engage | A Texas Wildlife Story, Engage | |||||||
180 | 75 | • | 13D | 18.4 Energy Flow in Ecosystems | Hands-on: A Texas Wildlife Story, Elab | A Texas Wildlife Story, Elab | Energy Flow | ||||||
181 | 60 | • | 13D | 18.5 Ecological Succession | Hands-on: A Texas Wildlife Story, Eval | A Texas Wildlife Story, Eval | Next Year's Student | ||||||
182 | student-project | Living Earth Essay: Global Climate Change | |||||||||||
