Students must be reminded to never taste any materials that are being used in the lab oratory. If tasting is required as a part of an activity, there should be clear guidelines established about how the tasting is done, and under what conditions it takes place. To develop an understanding of how knowledge is created, evaluated, refined, and changed within biology. To enable students to understand and use the vocabulary, structures and forms of expression which characterize the study of science. IL To develop students' abilities to access knowledge.
Objectives Appreciate the basic principles of chemistry which are involved in life processes.
1.1 Recognize that organisms are made of atoms. 1.2 Realize the relationship between the electron structure of atoms and the type of bond which forms. Understand the relationship between chemical bonds and stored energy. 1.4 Recognize the importance and ongoing nature of various chemical reactions in the body. 1.6 Illustrate with examples the similarities and differences between synthesis and decomposition reactions.