Prerequisites: None
Credits: 2
Contains an Honors component
Course Description:
The Biology course is designed as a Travel Agency experience. Students experience biology concepts and ideas through their travels and adventures.
There are two purposes for this course:
- to provide exploratory and laboratory experiences with real-life applications in the biological sciences
- to enable students to marvel in God’s creation and defend the doctrine of creation through the Bible and scientific evidence.
Course Objectives:
- Give greater praise to God for the marvelous intricacies of His creation.
- Defend his or her belief in biblical creation, supporting the idea of intelligent design by identifying biological structures with irreducible complexity.
- Refute the idea of macro-evolution by citing scientific and biblical evidence.
- Use the scientific method to solve problems, employ metric measurements, and demonstrate safe and effective use of laboratory instruments.
- Identify cell organelles and relate their function to structure.
- Describe the phases of mitosis and meiosis.
- Describe genetics concepts, including the use of Punnett square crosses.
- Discuss biological change through time (within the biblical “kind”).
- Demonstrate knowledge of the classification system and use of the taxonomic key.
- Differentiate among structures and functions of viruses, monerans, and protists.
- Compare nonvascular and vascular plants.
- Compare invertebrate and vertebrate animals.
- Describe the relationships among individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems.
- Describe how biology interacts with technology and society.
- Identify and describe the major human systems.
- Discuss the differences between humans and animals.
- Describe the image of God in man.
- Identify the three great philosophical questions of human life, and explain the biblical answers to those questions.