Welcome to Our Red Wagon Biology for High School Course

Course Sample for Red Wagon Biology for High School

Welcome to Red Wagon Biology for High School! These lessons are designed for use with the 2nd edition course texts, but those course texts are not required. These lessons can be used as a stand-alone course. However, if the student has access to the 2nd edition course texts, it will enhance the course.

Module 02

Lesson 03:

Lesson 03 Assignments: (One lesson is done per week. If you are not using Exploring Creation with Biology, 2nd Edition, complete Items 3, 4, and 5 only.)

1. Reading Assignment: ECB2, pp. 37 – 50.
2. Answer the On Your Own questions when you come to them.
3. Please watch this video before class starts or the session video is viewed:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcXdfofLoj0

4. Watch Video Lesson 03 linked below:
   Lesson Video: Play Lesson 03 from the Video File. (Print off notes below before playing.)
   Lesson Starts: 1:30 (Fast forward to this point for lecture.)

5. Fill in the blank notes should be filled in by end of video: you may want to work any mathproblems ahead of time and come with answers prepared.

6. Perform the labs included in this week’s reading. Write the required informal/formal labreport for each lab completed.

Kingdom Monera, Part 1

1. Who crafted a crude magnifying lens which opened the world of microorganisms to science?

_______________ _______ _______________

2. Are there more cells in your body or bacteria in and on your body?

The number of organisms in kingdom _______________ that live in your gut and on your skin is larger than the number of cells in your body! Thus, even though microorganisms are small, they are an important part of life on earth.

3. All members of Kingdom Monera have a _______________ cell type.

A _______________ cell is a cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles. Many biologists now used the name Kingdom Prokaryota instead of Monera for these organisms.

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