Building Science Skills

Rationale

The Building Science Skills program was established primarily to assist under-prepared students to successfully meet high academic standards in their preparation for non-traditional, high tech, high performance careers. These careers include those in Computer, Information, and Chemical Technology, Allied Health, Biochemistry, and Electronics.

Course Description

Building Science Skills is a one-semester course that meets for 3 hours per week – 1.5 lecture and 1.5 lab. The course material is delivered in three modules. These lecture/laboratory modules are designed to build student skills in reading, writing, terminology and experimentation. The modules include: Matter and Energy for Life, Inheritance, and Homeostasis. The course also is designed to let students develop the math skills necessary to achieve success in subsequent courses.

Curriculum Outline

Module 1 – Matter and Energy for Life

  1. Trash – an environmental study
  2. Why study garbage in biology?
  3. Too much garbage/solving the problem
  4. Landfills in danger

Module 2 – Inheritance

  1. Genetic Counseling
  2. Chromosomes
  3. Human reproduction and development
  4. Gene studies
  5. DNA

Module 3 – The Human Body in Balance

  1. I. Homeostasis
  2. The Cell
  3. The kidney and homeostasis
  4. Ingestion and digestion of food
  5. Internal transport mechanisms
  6. Respiratory system
  7. Endocrine system
  8. Transmission of contagious diseases

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