Chapter 1: Exploring & Classifying Life
Section 1: What is Science?
Learner Objectives:
1.) Apply scientific methods to problem solving. 2.) Demonstrate how to measure using scientific units. |
Main Idea:
Science is and organized way of studying things and finding answers to questions. |
Section 2: Living Things
Learner Objectives:
1.) Distinguish between living and non-living things. 2.) Identify what living things need to survive. |
Main Idea:
Living things have certain characteristics in common. |
Section 3: Where Does Life Come From?
Learner Objectives:
1.) Describe experiments about spontaneous generation. 2.) Explain how scientific methods led to the idea of biogenesis. |
Main Idea:
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Section 4: How Are Living Things Classified?
Learner Objectives:
1.) Describe how early scientists classified living things. 2.) Explain how similarities are used to classify organisms. 3.) Explain the system of binomial nomenclature. 4.) Demonstrate how to use a dichotomous key. |
Main Idea:
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