Unit 16: Nervous Systems
Essential Question 1: What is the structure and function of a neuron?
Essential Question 2: What is the role of the nervous system in maintaining homeostasis?
Essential Question 3: What is the significance of the steps in a reflex arc?
Homework
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
Richard Feynman( 1918 – 1988) an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics and particle theory.
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Questions of the week: Extra Work
CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES
Initial Understanding:
- Describe the structure of a neuron and demonstrate its relationship to its function.
- Demonstrate the pathway of an impulse through the nervous system and describe the types of neurons that transport these impulses.
Developing an Interpretation:
- Diagram the transmission of an impulse and explain how this transmission produces an all-or-none response.
Making Connections:
- Explain the complex workings of the human nervous system and its interaction with the other systems.
- Explain the interaction that drugs have with the nervous system.
Taking a Critical Stance:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the reflex arc and describe its evolutionary rationale.
- Compare and contrast the nervous systems of animals with an appreciation of the increased complexity derived through evolution.