Biology B

Credit recovery courses include a daily attendance requirement in addition to asynchronous instruction to provide students with a high level of learning. IDLA will provide the course content, Learning Management System, teachers, and internal support staff.  Districts will provide local personnel to support the students with intervention support, social-emotional support, physical and/or virtual technical access to courses, and transcription of credits.

 

Lessons include graded learning activities integrated within the content and are worth 60% of the overall grade.  Certified teachers check in on students frequently and attendance is recorded when a student logs in and completes some work each day.  There is no high-stakes final exam; just shorter incremental exams in each unit that are worth 40% of the overall grade.  Students must complete all exams to pass the course.

 

Course Description: Biology B will build on the concepts you learned in Biology A. You will investigate the theories of Natural Selection and Adaptation, and see how the activities of humans can impact the amazing biodiversity of the Earth. You will go step by step through Geologic Time, and the Kingdoms of living organisms as they are classified in Taxonomy. Finally, you will investigate the human body, perhaps the most complex of all living things on the Earth. What organs and organ systems make up the body; how do they function? This course will help you discover the answers.

Idaho Lab Science Requirement: This course fulfills the lab science requirement by the State of Idaho in that there are weekly opportunities to manipulate equipment, materials, specimens or develop skills in observation and analysis and discover, demonstrate, illustrate or test scientific principles or concepts. This course is a Quality Matters certified online course.

 

Required Prerequisites: Biology A  

 

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