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Basic Biology, Part One with Inshal Chenet
Recorded course taught by Inshal Chenet for High School Biology
Category
Science ➤ Biology
Grade
High School
Semester
Recorded
Summary

Instructor Access (optional grading support) for Unlimited Access families is available for this course for $65.00!

Students will learn to see the wondrous beauty in creation through learning about the divine order of biology and the incredible complexity of the cell. If you would like your eighth-grade student to have an introduction to biology before high school, or your high school non-STEM-centered student to take a course that satisfies the high school biology requirement, then this is the course for you.

Instructor: Inshal Chenet

Technical Help: If you have any technical trouble or questions about course content, please email us at homeschoolconnections@gmail.com.

©2022 Homeschool Connections and Inshal Chenet.  All rights reserved. This course is designed by Inshal Chenet.

  • This material is only to be used for its intended purpose by active subscribers of Homeschool Connections. Any other use without explicit permission is in violation of the seventh commandment (yes, the 7th commandment) and in violation of US and International copyright laws.

  • You may print or download to local hard disk extracts for your personal homeschool and non-commercial use only. This is not to be used for homeschool co-ops without express written permission from Homeschool Connections.

Special notes

This is Part One of a 2-Part course. Students are expected to also sign up for Part Two.

Total classes

12

Duration

55 Minutes

Prerequisites

None

Suggested grade level

8th to 10th grade

Suggested credit

One full semester Biology

Outline

Course description: The start of understanding the sciences is Wonder. To be able to look at the natural world and notice with new eyes what is around you. This deepens into a desire to continue on with the sciences. In this course, we will be learning about the beauty of creation through the divine order of biology and the incredible complexity of the cell. There will be some optional labs, which will require only simple tools found at most convenience stores.

Course outline:

Class 1: Classification and Order

Class 2: Plant Anatomy

Class 3: Plant Physiology

Class 4: Single Celled Organisms

Class 5: Fungi

Class 6: Review for Midterm

Class 7: Invertebrates

Class 8: Invertebrates (continued)

Class 9: Chemistry of Life

Class 10: The Cell

Class 11: Human Cellular Development

Class 12: Review for Final

Materials

Biology for Life (Seton Press) by Seton Staff, ISBN: 9781607041689 (https://setonbooks.com/science/775-biology-for-life.html)

Homework

Each class, students will be required to read a selection from the textbook, then take a short question quiz. If students are having difficulties, there are supplemental questions in the book that they can use to shore up their knowledge.

Quiz Rules:  Quizzes are no notes / closed book unless the individual quiz says otherwise! You can try the quiz multiple times, but your first try must be before watching the next recording. There is an Answer Key for Parents to grade the Quizzes.

Course name
Basic Biology, Part One with Inshal Chenet
Instructor
Inshal Chenet
Semester
Recorded
Category
Science ➤ Biology
Grade levels
High School
Start time
January 7th, 2023 at 12:00 AM ET
Course type
Recorded, free with subscription
Relative due dates
Relative due dates are disabled for this course.
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Inshal Chenet
inshalj@gmail.com

About Inshal Chenet

Inshal Chenet and his wife are both proud homeschool graduates. Mr. Chenet has lived in 18 different places around the globe since he was born in Bedford, Texas. He comes from a family of seven and his father served in the United States Air Force.

After serving a year in NET ministries, Mr. Chenet went on to attend Wyoming Catholic College and received his BA in Liberal Arts, and then received his MA in Theology from Christendom College.

He teaches Science, Theology, History, and a variety of other subjects for Homeschool Connections and other local groups, and is currently starting a boy's high school, St. Joseph the Worker Academy.

On the side, Mr. Chenet runs Cottonwood farms, a small farm community with several catholic families and many animals such as: a milk cow, pigs, maple-tapping, bees, sheep, goats, and chickens.

He is a certified COR backpacking instructor and enjoys canyoneering, caving, and camping when he can find the time for it. But most of all, Mr. Chenet loves spending time with his wife and four children and the vibrant community that they live in.

Click here for more info about Inshal Chenet!

Inshal Chenet teaches the following courses:

  • Basic Chemistry (Apologia)

  • Drawing with Art Theory

  • Introduction to Chess

  • The Way Things Work Now

  • History of Medieval Science