DIVERSITY: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (ANIMALIA)
(Massachusetts curriculum frameworks:
Standards 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8)
- Animal Kingdom (overview)
(CWH chapter 23)
- Cladistics
- Animal cells
- Hierarchical levels of organization
- Phylum Porifera (tissue level)
- Phylum Cnidaria, etc.
- Germ layers (ectoderm & endoderm)
- Phylum Platyhelminthes: bilateral organization and mesenchyme
- Other wormlike phyla
- "Assembly line" digestion
- Lab 8A. Lower animals
- Body cavities and their evolution
- Lophophorate phyla
- Phylum Mollusca
- Phylum Annelida and segmentation
- Lab 8B. Mollusks and annelids
- Phylum Arthropoda
(CWH chapter 24)
- Lab 8C. Arthropods
- Phylum Echinodermata and other Deuterostomia
- Phylum Hemichordata
- Lab 8D. Deuterostomes
- Phylum Chordata: chordate characteristics
- Invertebrate chordates (protochordates)
- Fishes
(CWH chapter 25)
- Amphibians
- Lab 8E. Fishes and Amphibia
- Reptiles and birds
(CWH chapter 26)
- Lab 8F. Amniotes
- Mammals
- Mammalian organ systems: nervous
(CWH chapter 27)
- Mammalian organ systems: musculoskeletal
(CWH chapter 28)
- Mammalian organ systems: digestive
(CWH chapter 29)
- Lab 8G. Animal tissues and organs (I).
(More detail in grade 10.)
- Mammalian organ systems: circulatory
(CWH chapter 30)
- Mammalian organ systems: respiratory
- Mammalian organ systems: immune system
(CWH chapter 31)
- Mammalian organ systems: systems that maintain homeostasis
(CWH chapter 32)
- Mammalian organ systems: reproductive
(CWH chapter 33)
- Lab 8H. Animal tissues and organs (II).
(More detail in grade 10.)
- Animal behavior
- Lab 8I. Animal behavior (experiments
and/or field studies)
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ECOLOGY
(Massachusetts curriculum frameworks:
Standards 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4)
- The Biosphere
(CWH chapter 34)
- Biomes and biogeography
- Populations
(CWH chapter 35)
- Species interactions (competition, parasitism, etc.)
- Niches and niche specialization
- Biodiversity
- Communities
- Producers, consumers, decomposers
(CWH chapter 36)
- Food chains and webs; trophic levels
- Community change and succession
- Nutrient cycles
- Lab 8J. First ecology field trip
- Ecosystems
- Lab 8K. Second ecology field trip
- Ecological disruption (both natural and anthropogenic)
- Extinction of species that fail to adapt
- Conservation
- Global environmental problems
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