SS1 BIOLOGY FIRST TERM SCHEME OF WORK

    EDULIGHT ACADEMY

LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT SS1 FIRST TERM BIOLOGY

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WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY

ü Biology as an enquiry in science

ü Branches of Biology

ü Characteristics of living organism

ü Difference between plants and animals

ü Levels of organization of life

WEEK 2: CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING THINGS

ü Definition of classification

ü Binomial system of nomenclature

ü Kingdom (five major)

ü Monera

ü Protista

ü Fungi

WEEK 4: THE CELL

ü Definition of cell

ü The form in which cells exist

ü Structure of plant and animal cells

ü Function of cell component

ü Similarities between plant and animal cells

 

WEEK 5: CELL AND ITS ENVIRONMENT

1.    Definition, process and significant

ü Diffusion

ü Osmosis

ü Haemolysis

ü Turgidity

ü Flaccidity

ü Crenation

II   Active Transport

 

WEEK 6: PROPERTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF CELL

a.     Macro and Micro nutrients

b.    Modes of nutrition  

c.     Autotrophic nutrition (Photosynthesis: definition, process, condition and significance)

1.    Chemosynthesis

2.    Heterotrophic (Nutrition: Holozoic, Parasitic, synthesis etc)

WEEK 7: MID-TERM BREAK & TEST & OPEN DAY

WEEK 8: NUTRITION IN ANIMALS

a.     Food substance

1.    Classes of food with local examples

2.    Balance in diet and its implications

3.    Digestive enzymes (characteristics, classes and functions

b.    Cellular Respiration

1.    Aerobic and Anearobic respiration

       WEEK 9: GROWTH

ü Definition

ü Basis of growth

ü Aspect of growth (Apical, auxiliary)

ü Regulation of growth by homes

ü Irritability/cell, reaction to its environment

ü Definition, types of response to stimulus

ü Movement: Definition, reasons for movement

       WEEK 10: EXCRETION

1.    Excretion: Definition, organism and excretory organs, products

2.    Reproduction: Definition, types of respiration, difference between sexual and asexual reproduction

       WEEK 11: NUTRIENT CYCLING

ü A nutrient cycling: carbon and oxygen cycle: Definition, process of cycling, importance,

Carbon and oxygen balance

         

WEEK 12: REVISION

          WEEK 13: EXAMINATION

 

         

 

 

Sunday, December 15, 2024