Biology Scheme of Work Lagos NAPPS (SS1 – SS3)
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BIOLOGY NAPPS SCHEME OF WORK
First Term SS1 Biology Scheme of Work NAPPS
Week 1 – Recognizing Living things
Week 2 – Living things and non-living things
Week 3 – Classification of Living things
Week 4 – Organization of life
Week 5 – Plant Nutrition
Week 6 – Nutrient cycling in Nature
Week 7 – Nutrition in Animals
Week 8 – Mode of Nutrition
Week 9 – Basic ecological concept
Week 10 – Growth, Irritability and Movement
First Term SS2 Biology Scheme of Work NAPPS
WEEK 1 The Cells
WEEK 2 The Cell Structure And Functions Of Cell Component
WEEK 3 The Cell And Its Environment, Diffusion, Osmosis
WEEK 4 Properties and Function of the Cells
WEEK 5 Cellular Respiration
WEEK 6 Growth (Mitosis)
WEEK 7 Irritability/ Cell Reaction to Its Environment
WEEK 8 Reproductions (Asexual)
WEEK 9 Sexual Reproductions
WEEK 10 Reproductive Health
First Term SS3 Biology Scheme of Work NAPPS
Week 1-Regulation of Internal Environment
Week 2 -Endocrine Gland
Week 3 – Skin
Week 4 -The Spinal Cord
Week 5 -Reflex and Voluntary Action
Week 6 -Ecolgy of Population
Week 7 – Territorial Behaviour in Organisms
Week 8 – Family Planning
Week 9 – Development of New Seed
Week 10 -Reproductive Behaviour in Animals
Second Term SS1 Biology Scheme of Work NAPPS
| SSS 1 |
| BASIC ECOLOGICAL CONCEPT (a) Definition and types of ecology (Autecology and synecology) (b) Ecological concepts: environment, biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, habitats, niche, population, biome, ecosystem (c) component of an ecosystem (i) Abiotic components (ii) Biotic components (d) BIOMES (i) Local biotic communities (Tropical Rain Forest, Southern guinea, Northern Guinea Savanna, Sahel Savanna, Desert, Shrub, Afro-Alpine, Swamp, Tundra) 2. ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT (i) Types of Association (symbiosis, parasitism, predation, commensalism, mutualism) (ii) Features shown by organism of an association 3. TOLERANCE (i) Definition of the term tolerance (ii) Concepts of minimum and maximum range of tolerance (iii) Geographic range 4&5ADAPTATION (i) Definition of adaptation (ii) Adaptation in form and function of living organism due to environmental condition (iii) Effects of availability of water on adaptive modification (iv) Structural adaption (fish, tadpole, toad, lizard, snail. Crab, prawn, birds) 6&7POLLUTION (a) Definition of terms: (i) Pollution (ii) Pollutants (b) Types of pollution (Air, Water, Soil/Land etc) (c) Sources, Causes and effects of different types of pollution (d) Control of different types f pollution (Air, Water, Soil/land etc.) 8. CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES (a) Definition of conservation of natural resources (b) Natural resources that needs to be conserved renewable and non-renewable (c) Reasons for conservation (d) Ways of ensuring conservation of natural resources (e) benefits of conservation of natural resources (f) Problems associated with conservation of natural resources 9&10REPRODUCTION (i) Meaning of reproduction (ii) Types of reproduction (iii) Forms of asexual reproduction (fission, budding, spore formation, vegetative propagation, natural and artificial (iv) Sexual reproduction (conjugation; fusion of male and female gametes, meiosis). (v) Excretion (definition, excretory organelle in living cell) (vi) Reproduction in unicellular organism and invertebrates (vii) Reproduction in amoeba (Binary and multiple fission) (viii) Reproduction in paramecium (sexual and asexual) (ix) Reproduction in spirogyra (asexual and sexual) (x) Reproduction in earthy (sexual) (xi) Reproduction in cockroach (internal fertilization) (xii) Reproduction in housefly (internal fertilization) (xiii) Reproduction in snail (internal fertilization- lay eggs) 11.Revision 12&13Examination |
Second Term SS2 Biology NAPPS Scheme of Work
| SSS 2 |
| WEEK 1; EXCRETION: – Definition of excretion – Structures of excretion in living organism – Waste products of metabolism – Forms in which waste products are excreted. Week 2; tissues and supporting systems skeleton and supporting systems: Definition of skeleton Biology significance of skeleton Formsof skeleton (clutin, cartilage, bones, hydrostatic etc.)Types of skeleton – exo-skeleton and endo-skeleton. Week 3; components of the mammalian skeleton – Axial skeleton – The skull – Vertebral column – Ribs – Appendicular skeleton – Pectoral girdle – Pelvic girdle – Pentadactyl limbs WEEK 4; Joints: – Types of joint – Structuresof joints – Functions of joint – Mechanism of joint movement – Functions of skeleton Supporting tissues in plants (a) Types plant supporting tissues (b) Structure/features of plant supporting tissues. (c) Functions of plant supporting tissues Week 5; alimentary canal/ digestive system alimentary tract of animals – INVERTEBRATE – Planeria – Earthworm – Grasshopper VERTEBRATE Birds Rabbits Similarities and differences in the alimentary canals of different animals Digestive system and digestion in man. Week 6; practicals on digestive and skeletal system. – dissection of Rabbits/Rat/Fowl. Week 7; feeding habits: – Categories and mechanism (filter and fluid feeding piercing, sucking etc.) – Modification in organisms to reflect feeding habitats. Week 8; – Feeding in amoeba, hydra and man – Teeth – types, structure and functions – Dentition in herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, man. Week 9; Transport system: – Need for transportation – Materials for transportation e. g. food, oxygen wastes. – Media of transportation (cytoplasm, lumph, blood etc.) – Composition and functions of blood and lymph. Week 10; circulatory system in mammals – Structure of the mammalian heart, arteries, veins and capillaries. – Types and mechanism of circulation – Open and close circulation – Single and double circulation Week 11; mechanism of transport in higher plants: – Absorption and transport of water and mineral salts. – Transportation – Translocation Week 12; Revision and examination Week 13; revision and examination |
Second Term SS3 Biology NAPPS Scheme of Work
| SSS 3 |
| Week 1; heredity (genetics) – Transmission and expression of characteristics in organisms. – Heredity variations, characters that be transmitted and how they can be transmitted. – How characters are manifest from generation to generation. Week 2; chromosomes – Basic of heredity – location, structure, roles, in the process of transmission of heredity characters from parents to offspring progeny. – Probability in genetic – application of the principle of heredity in – Agriculture improved varieties. – Diseases resistance in medicine advice for purpose in relation to sickle cell gene, cross facilitation; self-fertilization, out and inbreeding using modalism crosses. Week 3; VARIATION AND EVOLUTION: – Morphological variation (physical appearance which can be continuous size, weight, height, discontinuous variation – colour, slain, eye, hair, coat of animals, finger prints). – Physiological variations – Behavour – Ability to roll the tongue – Ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) – Differences in blood groups CA, B, AB, and O. – Application of variation in – Crime detector (finger prints of dangerous weapons). – Blood transfusion – Determination of paternity Week 4; evolution: – Progressive changes in structure, and the anatomy of organism using examples of features of organism from water to land. – Structural adaptation – adaptive clourations and their functions e. g. camouflage in chameleon, green snakes in green grasses, bright colours of flowers to attract pollinations etc. – Structural adaptation – For obtaining food e. g. proboscis for sucking sap in insects. – Protection and defense e. g. tortoise in shell – Mimicry colours for seuring mates for regulating body temperature etc. Week 5; difference castes of terminate and their roles: – Different castes of bus and the roles they play in their social life. WEEK 6; THEORY OF EVOLUTION – The theory of evolutions according to Charles Drwin, Jean Baptist de Lamark – Law of use and disuse – law of inheritance or acquired characteristics (related to work of August Weisman using his experience of mating of mice). – Evidence of evolution – Fossil records – Embryology – Forces responsible for evolution: Mutation, gene flow, genetic drift. |
Third Term SS1 Biology NAPPS Scheme of Work
| 006 | BIOLOGY |
| 1. | MICRO ORGANISM AROUND US -Definition of micro-organisms -Micro-organisms in air and water -Groups of micro-organisms |
| 2. | CONCEPTS OF CULTURING: -Identification of micro-organism in air, pond water, river stream etc -Micro-organism in our bodies and food -Carriers of micro-organism |
| 3. | MICRO-ORGANISM IN ACTION (a) Growth of micro-organism (b) Economics importance(harmful and beneficial effects (c) Disease caused by micro-organisms. (symptoms, mode of transmission and control of diseases |
| 4. | SEXUAL TRANSMITTED INFECTION(STIS) Definition, mode of transmission, signs and symptoms, prevention and control -HIV and AIDS ( definition, mode of transmission, signs symptoms and prevention |
| 5. | TOWARD BETTER HEALTH (a) Control of harmful micro-organisms. (b) Vectors (definitions and ways of controlling vectors). (c) Maintenance of good health (d) Roles of health organization ( WHO, NMA, UNICEF, RED CROSS) etc |
| 6. | POPULATION (a) Population size, dominance, density (b) Population studies methods (use of quadrant, Transet, capture re-capture (c) Factors that affect population ( food supply, mortality, natality migration etc) (d) Simple measurement of ecological factors |
| 7 | FUNCTIONING ECOSYSTEM (a) Role of autotrophs, heterotrophs and decomposer (b) Trophic level (c) Food chain and food web (d) Energy flow along tropic level ( pyramid of number, energy, biomoiss |
| 8. | ENERGY TRANSFORMATION IN NATURE (a) Energy loss in the ecosystem ( solar radiation, energy loss in the biosphere) measures of primary production (b) Laws of thermodynamics (first and second laws) (c) Application of the laws to ecological phenomena |
| 9. | ALL PRACTICALS (i) Experiment on photosynthesis (ii) culturing micro organisms |
| 10. | ALL PRACTICALS (i) Experiment on photosynthesis (ii) culturing micro organisms |
| 11. | Revision |
| 12. | EXAMINATION |
Third Term SS2 Biology NAPPS Scheme of Work
| 006 | BIOLOGY |
| 1. | RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS -Types and structures of respiratory systems -Characteristic of respiratory surface |
| 2. | MECHANISM OF RESPIRATORY -Lower animals (Amoeba, paramecium etc) -Higher animals ( Toad, fish, man) – Plants |
| 3. | AQUATIC HABITAT MARINE HABITAT: (i) Characteristics of a marine habitat (ii) The major zones of the marine habitat )intertidal, Lotoral, Oceanic (iii) Distribution of organisms in the marine habitat (iv) Adaptation of organisms in the marine habitat |
| 4. | ESTUARINE HABITAT (i) Characteristics of the Estuarine Habitat (ii) Types of estuary (iii) Distribution of plants and animals in estuarine habitat (iv) Adaptive features of plants and animals in estuarine habitat v). Adaptive features of organisms in the freshwater habitat |
| 5. | FRESHWATER HABITAT (i) Charactertics of freshwater habitat (ii) Types of freshwater habitat (iii) Zones of fresh habitat (iv) Distribution of organisms in fresh water habitat (v) Adaptive features of organisms in the freshwater habitat |
| 6. | TERRESTRIAL HABITAT MARSHES/MARCH (i) Characteristics of a marsh (ii) Formation of a marsh (iii) Types of marshes (iv) Plants and animals that lives in marshes (v) Adaptive features of plants and animals in the marsh |
| 7 | FOREST (i) Characteristics’ of a forest (ii) Starta in the forest (iii) Distribution of plants and animals that inhabit a forest (iv)Adaprive features of plants and animals in a forest |
| 8. | (a) GRASS LAND (i) Characteristics of grassland (ii) Types of grassland (iii) Distribution of plants and animals in grassland (iv) Some adaption of grassland communities (b) ARID LAND (i) Characteristics’ of Arid land (ii) Types of Arid lann (iii) Distribution of organisms in the habitat (Aridland) |
| 9. | ECOLOGY OF POPULATIONS (a) Ecology of Succession (i) Definition (ii) Structural changes in species composition, variety, diversity and increase in numbers (iii) General characteristics and outcome of succession. b. OVERCROWDING (i) Definition (ii) Factors that may cause over-crowding (iii)Effects of overcrowding (iv) Adaption to avoid overcrowding (v) Territorial behaviours, dispersal of fruits emigration, Immigrations etc |
| 10. | (a) FOOD SHORTAGE (i) Definition, causes, effects of food shortage on the size of the population. (b) BALANCE IN NATURE (i) Factors affecting a population (Biotic, Abotic, Edaphic) etc (ii) Responses for population to the effect of factors affecting population (iii) Dynamic equilibrium (iv) Family planning/contraception |
| 11. | Revision |
| 12. | EXAMINATION |
