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BSCS Biology: Understanding For Life Teacher Edition + 6 Year License
Author(s): Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies-10785
Edition: 6
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BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life is based on real-world phenomena to promote high school students’ problem-solving, critical-thinking and inquiry skills. This high school curriculum is specifically designed to achieve all expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
This unique student experience allows for opportunities in collaboration and cooperative learning through various assessment methods. The curriculum is structured for students to tap into their own personal understanding of science addressing related challenges throughout their lives. Each unit focuses on key concepts ranging from body systems to biodiversity, enabling students to build a lifelong understanding of science and the world around them.
The challenges explored in the program’s four units are:
- Infectious diseases
- Heredity and complex diseases
- Sustainable food systems
- Protection of biodiversity
Included is a printed Teacher Edition and a 6-Year License to access the Teacher Edition eBook and digital materials through our online platform, Flourish.
UNIT 1 HOW CAN BACTERIAL INFECTIONS MAKE US SO SICK?
Chapter 1: How can bacteria cause infections?
Chapter 2: How does the body respond to infections?
Chapter 3: What explains the increasing incidence of antibiotic-resistant infections?
UNIT 2: WHY DO SOME PEOPLE GET HEART DISEASE AND NOT OTHERS, AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO PREVENT IT?
Chapter 4: What is cholesterol and what can cause it to be high?
Chapter 5: What other genetic factors could contribute to our risk of heart disease and what determines which ones we get?
Chapter 6: What contributes to heart disease and other complex diseases and how much influence do we have over outcomes?
UNIT 3: HOW CAN WE USE SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF NUTRITION AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO IMPROVE A FOOD SYSTEM?
Chapter 7: What do we need from food?
Chapter 8: Why do some eating patterns require more land than others?
Chapter 9: How can we design effective solutions that improve food systems?
UNIT 4: WHY ARE SO MANY SPECIES DECLINING NOW WHILE A FEW SEEM TO BE EXPANDING, AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Chapter 10: Why are some species, like coyotes, expanding while most others are contracting?
Chapter 11: What explains why scientists are concerned we are experiencing a 6th mass extinction?
Chapter 12: How are changes to biodiversity affecting ecosystems (and us as part of ecosystems) and why does it matter?
Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies-10785
BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies) Science Learning is a nonprofit organization committed to transforming science education so that all students have an opportunity to learn science in their daily lives and careers. For over 60 years, BSCS Science Learning has filled classrooms around the country with research-driven textbooks, pioneered effective teaching approaches, developed new education leaders, and conducted studies that will continue to alter the course of our science education system. Most importantly, they have championed the cause for meaningful, inquiry-based science learning.