Living Environment (Year Long: Grades 8-12)

Grade Level: 8-12

Length: One Full Year (2 Semesters) Course

Introduction:

Regents Biology is a core-based course which ends in a NYS Regents Living Environment Examination. The curriculum requires a minimum of 1200 minutes of hands-on laboratory experiences with satisfactory lab reports are required above and beyond the class curriculum. 

The Living Environment Core Curriculum is expected to prepare students to understand and apply scientific concept principles and theories pertaining to the living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science. To attain this, the core addresses seven key ideas: similarity and differences among living and non-living things; inheritance of genetic information; changes of species and organisms over time; the continuity of life; dynamic equilibrium that sustains life; interdependence of plants and animals and their environment.

Textbook : Life Science/Glencoe Science © 2008 McGraw-Hill Education, CK-12 Flexbooks. All curriculum will be provided to the student via pdf format. 

Course Outline:

2 Semesters

Unit 1 Science & Living Environment

Unit 2 Characteristics Of Living Things

Unit 3 Homeostasis

Unit 4 Reproduction

Unit 5 Genetics

Unit 6 Changes

Unit 7 Ecology

Unit 8 Labs

Please check out the following Living Environment outline HERE.

This course is offered in two formats: self paced or 1:1 live Zooms with Mrs. Collins.

Self paced includes two semesters of curriculum in Google Classroom for a total of 185 assignments tasks each semesters. Assignments range from reading assignments, video lessons to watch, notecards to create, questions, online practice tests, assessments, and labs to complete at home. Each week students will be provided 5 assignments to work on. Curriculum is $10/week. Semester 1 cost $180, with semester 2 tuition $180 for a total of $360 for a full year self paced course. 

Live 1:1 includes the curriculum above, and 36 Zooms with Mrs. Collins. During the Zooms Mrs. Collins will cover a weekly lesson and help with labs. The rate is $25/Zoom for a total of $900 for a full year Zoom course. 

Payment plans are available, by request.