Through the Jefferson City High School Biology curriculum, students will become scientifically literate citizens while investigating the organization and interactions of living things and their environment. Students will develop the ability to evaluate real-world problems and apply scientific reasoning skills to design evidence-based solutions. We will use storylines and science phenomena to guide our course. A storyline is a coherent sequence of lessons, in which each step is driven by students' questions that arise from their interactions with phenomena. A student's goal should always be to explain a phenomenon or solve a problem. At each step, students make progress on the classroom's questions through science and engineering practices, to figure out a piece of a science idea. Each piece they figure out adds to the developing explanation, model, or designed solution. Each step may also generate questions that lead to the next step in the storyline. Together, what students figure out helps explain the unit's phenomena or solve the problems they have identified. A storyline provides a coherent path toward building disciplinary core idea and crosscutting concepts, piece by piece, anchored in students' own questions.

STORYLINE UNIT SEQUENCE in 2024-2025
Ecosystem Interactions & Dynamics (Serengeti)

Ecosystems: Matter & Energy (Arctic Fires)

Inheritance & Variation of Traits (Cancer) 

Natural Selection & Evolution of Populations (Urbanization)

Common Ancestry & Speciation (Arctic Bears)