Human Biology 801A
Prince Edward Island · Grade 12 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Homeostasis
The characteristics of living things, the levels of biological organization from cells to organism, and the interdependence of body systems that together maintain a stable internal environment.
- The characteristics of living things
- Cells, tissues, organs, and systems
- Interdependence of body systems
Unit 2: Nutrition
Essential nutrients and the diseases caused by their lack, the role of nutrition in maintaining homeostasis, and the safe, organized laboratory investigation of nutrients.
- Diseases from insufficient nutrients
- Nutrition and the maintenance of homeostasis
- Using apparatus and materials safely
- Compiling and organizing nutrition data
Unit 3: Digestive System
How the digestive system maintains homeostasis, the impact of disease on homeostasis, and careers related to nutrition and digestion.
- How digestion maintains homeostasis
- Impact of disease on homeostasis
- Careers in nutrition and digestion
Unit 4: Circulatory System
How the circulatory system maintains homeostasis, how drugs and environmental factors affect it, the design of experiments with variables, and the development of technologies to treat circulatory disorders.
- How circulation maintains homeostasis
- Drugs and environmental factors on homeostasis
- Designing an experiment with variables
- Communicating with multiple representations
- Development of circulatory treatment technology
- Alternative solutions to lifestyle disorders
Unit 5: Blood and Immunity
The risks and benefits of blood technologies, how blood and the immune system maintain homeostasis, the impact of allergens, careers in blood and circulation, and analysing benefits of applying scientific knowledge.
- Risks and benefits of blood technologies
- How blood maintains homeostasis
- Careers in blood and circulation
- Allergens and homeostasis
- How the immune system maintains homeostasis
- Benefits of applying scientific knowledge
Unit 6: Respiratory System
How the respiratory system maintains homeostasis, careers in respiration, the impact of allergens, and the reasoning skills of constructing arguments and distinguishing scientific from non-scientific questions.
- How respiration maintains homeostasis
- Careers related to respiration
- Allergens and respiratory homeostasis
- Constructing evidence-based arguments
- Scientific versus non-scientific questions
Unit 7: Excretory System
How the excretory and skeletal systems maintain homeostasis, the development of technologies to treat excretory and skeletal disorders, the effect of drugs on homeostasis, and identifying perspectives in science-related issues.
- How excretion maintains homeostasis
- Development of excretory treatment technology
- Drugs and excretory homeostasis
- Perspectives in a science-related issue
- How the skeletal system maintains homeostasis
- Development of skeletal treatment technology
Unit 8: Muscular and Nervous Systems
How the muscular and nervous systems maintain homeostasis, the effects of drugs on muscular performance and on homeostasis, the development of nervous-system treatment technologies, careers in movement, and defending a position from findings.
- How the muscular system maintains homeostasis
- Impact of disease on muscular homeostasis
- Drug technology and muscular performance
- Defending a position from findings
- Careers related to movement
- How the nervous system maintains homeostasis
- Drugs and nervous-system homeostasis
- Development of nervous-system treatment technology
Unit 9: Endocrine System
How the endocrine system maintains homeostasis through hormones, and Canadian contributions to science and technology.
- How the endocrine system maintains homeostasis
- Canadian contributions to science and technology
Unit 10: Reproductive Systems and Embryonic Development
The structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems, the reproductive cycle, reproductive technologies, sexually transmitted infections, careers in reproduction, and conditions during pregnancy and delivery.
- Structure and function of the reproductive systems
- Careers related to reproduction
- The human reproductive cycle
- Evaluating reproductive technologies
- Health risks of sexually transmitted infections
- Conditions during pregnancy and delivery
Unit 11: Genetics
The role of chromosomes in inheritance and the circumstances that lead to genetic disease.
- Chromosomes and the transmission of heredity
- Circumstances that lead to genetic disease
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