" The Big Picture!" by Mr C

Please see separate Review Page

Prior to reading chapter one

View the following Youtube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXyDGMwnDvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtVDLFXKLA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juxLuo-sH6M

Can you..

Identify six activities that all living things do?

A simple activity to do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VelZLTsHGTA

What is the difference between inductive and deductive?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXW5mLE5Y2g

How does biology do both types of reasoning?

Please know the strategies are pretty much the same.

Please take and peak and give me some feedback

·      https://www.butte.edu/cas/tipsheets/studystrategies/studybio.html

·      http://www.howtostudy.org/resources_subject.php?id=4

·      http://www.wikihow.com/Study-for-Biology

·      http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/lrc/lr/PDF/studying%20bio%20(W).pdf

So where do we begin the journey of learning about life?

If we looked at all living things we could organize our observations

The size of the living thing or how that living thing relates to non living things.

1.1 Starts with the frontier of living and non living things.

Please note the levels of organization below.

Please put each on a cue card and give your own definition and an example.

Where do we start to consider the interactions between living and non living things?

Levels of organization

When we look at small things we go from:

·      Energy

·      Atoms and molecules

·      Biomolecules

·      Cells

·      Tissues

·      Organs

·      Systems

When we look at larger mixed living and non living we go from

·      Species

·      Population

·      Community

·      Ecosystem

·      Biomes

And now an youtube from team batman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFoOW-7FPc8

The question is..”How can we take observations and convert them into ideas and or theories?”.

Hear are some some suggestions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibhnP5suqK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10079d8K4mE

― David Rains Wallace, The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays