Year 10 Assessment Booklet 2019

IB MYP YEAR 10 – SCIENCES: BIOLOGY

SEMESTER STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

CONCEPTS

GLOBAL CONTEXT

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

Global Interactions Interaction Environment

Unit 1: Environmental Science

The natural environment is based on the interaction between the biotic and abiotic factors. The effect of human impact on the environment is debatable; sustainability is our responsibility. Scientific and technological advances enable societies to use, control and transform the function and identity of an organism.

Globalisation and Sustainability

Student Experiment 1 Criteria B, C 05.02.19 – 05.03.19

• Organisms and their environment • Nutrient cycles • Human influence on ecosystems

Research Assignment 1 Criterion D 14.03.19 – 30.04.19

Identity Function Interaction

Unit 2: Neurobiology and Behaviour

Scientific and Technical Innovation

ONE

• Nervous and Hormonal Control in Humans • Homeostasis • Drugs • Behaviour Unit 3: Natural Selection and Evolution • Variation and mutation • Adaptive features • Selection and evolution

Semester 1 Exams Criterion A 17 – 29.05.19

Relationships Consequences Evidence

Student Experiment 2 Criteria B, C 18.07.19 – 12.08.19 Research Assignment 2 Criterion D 14.08.19 – 12.09.19

Populations change as a consequence of adapting to their interactions with environment and other organisms.

Orientation in Space and Time

Relationships Models Functions

Unit 4: DNA, Biotechnology and Genetics

The study of how organisms inherit characteristics from their parents and how this can change both naturally and artificially over time with advances in technology.

Scientific and Technical Innovation

TWO

Semester 2 Exams Criterion A 04 – 13.11.19

Chromosomes, genes and proteins

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Mitosis and Meiosis

Inheritance

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

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