2. When do we say it is a living being?
What does this question What do you know about
suggest? the topic?
What do you think we are Can you relate this
going to study? question with other
topics?
3. What important concepts are we
going to study in this unit?
Vital functions
Nutrition: autotrophic
and heterotrophic Reproduction: sexual
Nutrition: in animals and asexual
and plants Reproduction: in
animals and plants
Interaction
3
4. What Areas of Interaction could we
use in this unit?
Approaches to Learning
Community and Service
Health and Social
Education
Environments
Human ingenuity
5. The Area of Interaction we are going
to use is:
Health and social education
How do living beings obtain
the nutrients they need?
How can we be healthier?
How do living beings
reproduce?
How do living beings relate to
others?
6. The tasks we are going to do in this
unit are:
CRITERION
OBJETIVES TASK
A B C D E F
Research about healthy nutrition Webquest: Nutrition x x x
Learn the basic concepts about Exam Unit 1 Vital Functions x x
nutrition, interaction and
reproduction
Introduce yourself in the scientific Laboratory Assignment: x x x
method and revise graph plotting
Scientific Method and
graph revision
Extract the chlorophyll in plants Laboratory Assignment: x x x
Leaf Chromatography
Research and apply your Activities The Vital x x x
knowledge about the three vital
functions
Functions
7. What Approaches to Learning skills
are we going to work?
organizational skills
collaborative skills, KAGAN
communication
information literacy
reflection
problem-solving and thinking skills
subject-specific and interdisciplinary conceptual
understanding.
8. What characteristics of the IB learner
profile could we develop in this unit?
Inquirers Open-minded
Knowledgeable Caring
Thinkers Risk-takers
Communicators Balanced
Principled Reflective
9. What characteristics of the IB learner
profile are we going to develop in
this unit?
Inquirers Open-minded
Knowledgeable Caring
Thinkers Risk-takers
Communicators Balanced
Principled Reflective
