| Unit I: Production and growth |
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Specific Objectives
Students should be able to: |
Explanatory notes
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Suggested Practical Activities
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1. Describe various methods of asexual reproduction in plants and animals
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Flowers: naming and functions of parts; pollination: types, advantages of cross pollination.
Agents of fertilization and development of seeds/fruits (outline); Entamoeba Plasmodium to be considered.
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Examine and draw storage organism; examine corms, bulbs, rhizomes, runners, and cuttings. |
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2. Describe the process of sexual reproduction in plants and in humans
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Comparison with asexual, Advantages and disadvantages (variety, evolution, livestock and crops).
Human reproduction; naming and function of parts; menstrual cycle and role in contraception, pregnancy; fertilization, development of fetus (outline); birth; contraception.
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Drawing of half-flower, fruits and seeds;
Use models of human reproductive system
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3. Discuss the importance of pre-and post natal care of mothers and babies
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The effects of nutrition, drugs, X-rays and diseases, emphasis on advantages of breast feeding, immunization. |
Collect data from health center or other health facilities. |
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4. Describe the role of chromosomes in the transfer of genetic information
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Genetic transfer: (outline), cell division, chromosome transfer
The implications of the Rh factor, precautions that the mother may take to ensure birth of a normal child.
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5. Compare growth patterns in selected organisms
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Seeds of annual plants to be planted may be balsam, bean and maize. |
Plot graph of plant growth at regular intervals of one week and extrapolate to predict height at future time;
Construct and analyze graphs of height and weight with increasing age of boys and girls; attempt to verify prediction for plants and students.
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6. Discuss the need for human population control
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Effects of population pressures on quality of life, world food production and limited material resources.
Consideration of the effects of teenage pregnancy; birth control methods.
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Collect population statistics from agencies, such as, WHO and UNESCO |
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| Go to Section A, unit II: Food and Nutrition |
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