This document outlines the annual plan for a 3rd year Biology class taught by Lic. Cintia Furmento in 2014. The plan includes expectations for student achievement, conceptual contents that will be covered in 3 units, procedural contents that involve researching, analyzing, comprehending, and expressing information in various formats. Assessment of students will examine their ability to relate topics, use specific vocabulary, apply theories to explain natural events, and demonstrate comprehension and consistency in oral and written work.

1. Annual Planning
Biology, 3rd
Lic. Cintia Furmento
2014
Achievement expectations
 Acquire specific vocabulary.
 Understand oral and written texts.
 Produce oral and written texts.
 Obtain and procces different kinds of information.
 Relate and integrate contents studied during class.
 Explain and describe phenomena using concepts and models.
 Comprehend the rol of proteins in our body.
Conceptual contents
UNIT 1: To respond or not to respond?..that is the question.
Response to the enviroment.
Response mechanisms at the organism level: Stimulus (light, sound, chemical, tactil). Receptors.
Relationship between the kind of stimuli and the receptor.
Complex behaviour: Instinct versus learned behaviour.
Signal-Receptor specificity, key-lock model.
UNIT 2: Integrate to work
Functions´s regulation and integration
Nervous System: Neurons. Sinapsis. Neurotransmisors. Nerve impulse transmission. Central and
peripheral nervous system. Autonomic and somatic nervous system. Muscle and gland responses.
Drugs´s effects.
Endocrine system: glands and hormones. Relationship between the nervous and endocrine systems.
UNIT 3: A new “language”
From DNA to the organism
Protein synthesis: transcription and translation. Proteins structures and functions.
DNA structure and replication.Genes. Changes in the genome. Biotechnology and genetic engeneering.
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 explain naturally occuring events.
 Consistency in their oral and written expression.
 Reading comprehension.