A3.1: Diversity of Organisms
Guiding Questions:
Guiding questions help students view the content of the syllabus through the conceptual lenses of both the themes and the levels of biological organization.
Linking Questions:
Linking questions strengthen students’ understanding by making connections between topics. The ideal outcome of the linking questions is networked knowledge.
Resources:
Guiding questions help students view the content of the syllabus through the conceptual lenses of both the themes and the levels of biological organization.
- What is a species?
- What patterns are seen in the diversity of genomes within and between species?
Linking Questions:
Linking questions strengthen students’ understanding by making connections between topics. The ideal outcome of the linking questions is networked knowledge.
- What might causes a species to persist or go extinct?
- How do species exemplify both continuous and discontinuous patterns of variation?
Resources:
- At SHS, Topic A3.1 is taught in the Nature of Biology, Organization of Genomes and speciation units.
- Quizlet study set for this topic. Coming soon!
- View the general sequence of the SHS course
- View the SHS units mapped to the IB Biology curriculum roadmap