Integrated Biology-Grade 11
Duration
10 Months
Prerequisites
Student Must Have Completed Grade 10
Requirements
None
Course Summary
The Integrated Biology course focuses on conceptual understanding of foundational life and Earth science core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. It is an integration of life science, Earth and space science, and engineering design standards. Students in Integrated Biology develop understanding of key concepts that help them make sense of the interactions between life science and Earth and space science.
MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS
Semester 1:
- Foundations of Biology
- Life’s Origins
- Cell Reproduction
- Earth’s Diversity
Honors:
- Anaerobic respiration
- Organic compounds
- Glycolysis
- Theory of Endosymbiosis
- Cell cycle signaling
- Binary Fission
- DNA replication
- Protein synthesis
- Flow of matter and energy
- Earth’s hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles
Semester 2:
- Scientific connections
- Classification and Diversity
- Human Systems
- Life and Earth Systems
Honors:
- Molecular evolution
- Classification systems of nonliving things
- Cell signaling
- Feedback mechanisms
English 
