Journal Entry: What do you remember from our first unit?

 

Learning Intentions

• We will learn the elements most commonly found in the body

• We will learn what gives rise to the special properties of water.

• We will learn how elements come together to make the biological molecules in the body.

Closing Task:

You can understand how elements in our body are put together to make monomers, how the monomers come together to make polymers and what are properties of the biological molecules made from the polymers.

Content Standards being covered:

ENE-1.A: Describe the composition of macromolecules required by living organisms.

SYI-1: Living systems are organized in a hierarchy of structural levels that interact.