Central Dauphin School District Curriculum Unit Map Unit 5 – Fungi

Central Dauphin School District

Curriculum Unit Map

Unit 5 – Fungi

Subject:	Grade Level:	Topic:
Priority PA Core Standards: CC.3.6.9-10.H: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. CC.3.5.9-10.B Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text’s explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text. CC.3.5.9-10.C Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text. CC.3.5.9-10.D Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 9–12 texts and topics. CC.3.5.9-10.E Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key terms (e.g., force, friction, reaction force, energy). PA Academic Standards (if applicable): 3.1.10.A1: Compare and contrast the cellular structures and degrees of complexity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. 3.1.10.B2: Compare and contrast the function of mitosis and meiosis. 3.1.10.A6: Identify the advantages of multicellularity in organisms. 3.1.10.A3: Compare and contrast life cycles of different organisms. 3.1.10.A8: Investigate the spatial relationships of organisms’ anatomical features using specimens, models, or computer programs. 3.1.10.C2: Analyze how increasingly complex, multicellular organisms evolved once cells with nuclei developed.
KEY LEARNING: Kingdom Fungi includes eukaryotic organisms with unique structures, reproduction, methods of obtaining nutrients.	UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What are the distinguishing characteristics of fungi that separate them from the other eukaryotic kingdoms?	Texts/Resources/Materials: CK12 Flexbook/Biology Textbook Microscope Work: prepared slides Grow a fungi lab Fungi survey lab Lab exam

CONCEPT: Overview of Fungi	CONCEPT: Classification of Fungi	CONCEPT: Fungi and the Environment
Lesson Essential Questions: What are the distinguishing characteristics of kingdom fungi?	Lesson Essential Questions: How do the life cycles of phyla Ascomycota, Zygomycota, and Basidiomycota differ?	Lesson Essential Questions: What role do fungi play in the environment and how do fungi impact human health and nutrition?
Vocabulary
Academic Specific: (examples: analyze, trace, identify) Trace, explain, identify, organize, ask, communicate, analyze, interpret, evaluate, construct, design, draw		Domain (Content) Specific: (examples: drama, characterization, theme) Concept 1: hypha myecelium septa spores Concept 2: ascospore ascus basidium basidiospore dikaryotic fungi imperfecti monokaryotic rhizoid stolon Concept 3: lichen mycorrhiza

KUD’s (know—understand—do)
Concepts—nouns: (What do students need to know/understand?)	RR Framework Skills—verbs: (What do students need to be able to do? In which quadrant do the skills belong?) *see page 19 of SAP Learning Environment guide*
Fungi Ascomycota Basidiomycota Zygomycota Fungi’s environmental and health impacts	Analyze Examine Categorize Explain Classify Express Compare Infer Contrast Justify Conclude Summarize Differentiate C	Create Develop Discover Formulate Plan Predict D Propose
	Describe A Define Identify List Recall Record Locate Select	B Interpret Measure Produce Solve

Unit Assessment Plan

Common Summative Activities/Performance Tasks/Assessments (from assessment bank): Lab Exam Common Assessment Exam