Contact: Tricia Bridges, Ph.D., 601.408.0449 or tbridges@jbhm.com

Biology I

JBHM has developed a Biology I curriculum that balances learning the facts of biology as they are presently understood with performing biological science.  The JBHM curriculum covers the Mississippi Science Framework for Biology I in such a way that participating students should succeed with more than rote knowledge.  They will learn to investigate scientific questions that arise by testing their hypotheses—integrating both the facts of biology and the performance of biology into their inner knowledge.

Components of the Biology I Curriculum

• 100% aligned with the Mississippi Science Framework
• Experiments and investigations using easily acquired and inexpensive materials
• Activities that encourage cooperative group work and higher-level thinking
• Discussing and writing for understanding
• Job-embedded professional development
• Year-long support from a subject area trained teacher coach
  • Assistance in meeting the needs of ALL students
• Assistance in analyzing test results and closing vertical gaps in the curriculum
• Remediation assistance

• Lesson Planning Guide that includes:
  • Connections to Mississippi Science Framework
  • Realistic time frame to complete the required Competencies
  • Daily lesson plans including Objective, Steps of Instruction (Bell Ringer Focus/Introduction, Mini-lecture, Activity, and Assessment), and teacher preparation and supplies needed for the lesson
  • For each Objective
  • Bell Ringer Questions, Activities, and Problems
  • Focus/Introduction “hooks”
  • Lecture Notes for the teacher
  • Assessments
  • Unit assessment questions in SATP format
  • Activity notebook to encourage scientific journaling
  • Total review of Objectives with concise student handouts and practice test items in SATP format

Process Strands from the National Science Education Standards are intertwined in the JBHM Curriculum with multiple assessment strands following those of the National Science Education Standards. Students must use knowledge to respond to items ranging in difficulty from a basic understanding to items that require high levels of complex thinking and reasoning.

Students are required to:
discuss verbally and in written words, investigate, and draw conclusions from scientific problems; examine, compare, and analyze structure and functions of  living systems;
investigate, predict, and analyze reproduction and heredity of organisms;
explore the interrelationship between environment and organisms;
examine and classify characteristics of living organisms;
examine and analyze energy transfers related to living organisms and their environment; and investigate and analyze the chemical makeup of living organisms.

Sample Lesson from Biology
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