This document outlines the annual planning for a 2nd year Biology class taught by Lic. Cintia Furmento in 2014. It includes expectations for student achievement in acquiring vocabulary, understanding texts, producing oral and written work, and relating course contents. The conceptual contents will focus on evolution, the origin of life, the cell, and reproduction. Procedural contents involve researching information, reading comprehension, and oral and written expression. Examinations will assess relating topics, vocabulary, applying theories, expression abilities, and reading comprehension.

1. Annual Planning
Biology, 2nd
Lic. Cintia Furmento
2014
Achievement expectations
 Acquire specific vocabulary.
 Understand oral and written texts.
 Produce oral and written texts.
 Obtain and procces different types of information.
 Relate and integrate contents studied during class.
 Comprehend life endurance however variable climate may be.
 Analyze the ideas and theories which come up throghout history in an attempt to explain observed
phenomena.
 Investigate the path leading to the construction of theories.
 Interpret each theory keeping in mind the historic context in whinch they were coincibed.
Conceptual contents
UNIT 1: Time changes everything
Evolution: Origin and diversity of biological structures
Evidence: fossils, homologíes, embryological similarity. Phylogenetic trees.
Natural Selection Theory. Biologic concept of adaptation. Allopatric and simpatric speciation.
UNIT 2: The origin
The cell: Origin, structure and function
The origin of life: experiments and derived theories. Basic structure of the cell. Cell´s types: prokaryotic,
eukaryotic, vegetal and animal. Endosimbiotic Theory. Multicellularity: advantages and disadvantages.
Mitosis.
UNIT 3: ¿1 + 1 = 2 ó 1 = 2?
Reproduction
Asexual and sexual reproduction: characteristics, adventages and disadventages. Reproductive strategies,
structures, fertilization, protection and nutrition of the embryo, Parental care and breed dispersion.
Procedural contents:
 Searching and analyzing different types and formats of information.
 Read and comprehend.
 Oral and writing expression.
Examination:
 Ability to relate topics.
 Use of specific vocabulary.
 Make use of theories exposed in class to explain naturally occuring events.
 Consistency in their oral and written expression.
 Reading comprehension.