Gizmos for Saskatchewan - Science: Biology 20 (Saskatchewan Foundational and Learning Objective adopted 1992)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this province's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

1: : Introduction to Biology

1.1: : Understand the nature of the study of biology.

1.1.3: : Appreciate the nature of scientific investigations and the findings of science.

1.3: : Explain the importance of theory in biology.

1.3.5: : Examine the principles of natural selection as identified by Darwin and Wallace.

2: : Ecological Organization

2.1: : Explain how the interactions among the soil, climate, and living organisms produce the ecosystems which can be observed.

2.1.10: : Discuss the following cycles and attempt to illustrate their interrelationship: water, carbon dioxide-oxygen, nitrogen.

2.2: : Analyze a variety of ecosystems.

2.2.1: : Understand the concept of niche and habitat.

2.2.2: : Identify the biotic and abiotic components and interactions in the ecosystems observed.

2.3: : Describe life in past ecosystems.

2.3.3: : Investigate the role of humans in creating and sustaining conditions which alter the rate of ecological change.

2.4: : Explain how populations are counted.

2.4.1: : Recall the criteria which define a population.

2.5: : Analyze population changes.

2.5.3: : Compare cyclic populations and stable populations.

2.6: : Recognize ecological sequencing.

2.6.3: : Draw a climatogram and discuss temperature and moisture as major determiners of a specific ecological area.

3: : The Diversity of Life

3.1: : Describe the principles of classification.

3.1.3: : Understand the system of binomial nomenclature. (Discuss the 7 major classification units which include Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species and their associated relationships.)

3.1.4: : Use dichotomous keys to help identify organisms. (One could demonstrate that a key locates actual organisms just as binomial nomenclature and the species level identifies actual organisms.)