Science Classroom Connection

Students will make a graphic organizer as an outline on their notebooks that is based upon several human body systems that includes the skeletal system (composition, divisions, functions, and joints), muscular system (functions, muscle types and their functions, and the two connective tissues: Tendons & ligaments), digestive system (structures and functions, and food pathway), circulatory system ( major components, blood components, and blood pathway throughout the heart), excretory system (functions and pathway of urine only), respiratory system (structures and functions, and the pathway of gaseous exchange), nervous system ( the two major systems and their divisions as well as their functions).

As students continue on with their journey through the human body systems, they will focus on the respiratory and excretory systems based upon their structures and functions throughout our class discussion.

Students will work on the the circulatory system as they will focus upon the major heart chambers, the key blood vessels, and blood cell types. In addition to knowing the major functions of the circulatory system, students will be expected to trace a drop of blood throughout the body such as from the right atrium to get back to the left atrium. The key components involved will be the pump itself, the heart chambers; the transport mechanism, the major blood vessels; the gaseous exhange center, the lungs; and the filtering center, the kidneys!

Students are to complete their work on the skeletomuscular system and make a T-Chart to identify the structures and functions of the digestive system.

Students are to complete their project on the stages of mitosis by drawing, labeling, and explaining the cellular activities of each stage. We will also review our study guide on the cell cycle that includes the interphase stage (G1, S phase, G2), and cell division (mitosis and cytokinesis).

Students will observe, draw, and explain each of the four stages of mitosis, namely, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Furthermore, students will use the stage of the interphase as their starting point to understand the process of cell division known as mitosis, which is actually nuclear division, followed by cytokinesis or cytoplasmic division.