Year 10 Assessment Booklet 2020

IB MYP YEAR 10 – SCIENCES: BIOLOGY

SEMESTER

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY 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.

CONCEPTS

GLOBAL CONTEXT Globalisation and Sustainability

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

Unit 1: Environmental Science • Organisms and their environment • Nutrient cycles • Human influence on ecosystems

Global Interactions Interaction Environment

Student Experiment 1 Criteria B, C 10.02.20 – 03.03.20

Research Assignment 1 Criterion D 12.03.20 – 05.05.20

Identity Function Interaction

Unit 2: Neurobiology and Behaviour • Nervous and Hormonal Control in Humans • Homeostasis • Drugs • Behaviour

Scientific and Technical Innovation

ONE

Semester 1 Exams Criterion A 15 – 27.05.20

Relationships Consequences Evidence

Unit 3: Natural Selection and Evolution • Variation and mutation • Adaptive features • Selection and evolution

Student Experiment 2 Criteria B, C 16.07.20 – 10.08.20 Research Assignment 2 Criterion D 12.08.20 – 17.09.20 Semester 2 Exams Criterion A 02 – 11.11.20

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

Orientation in Space and Time

TWO

Relationships Models Functions

Unit 4: DNA, Biotechnology and Genetics • Chromosomes, genes and proteins • Mitosis and Meiosis • Inheritance • Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

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

57