How HBS Units 1 to 3 fit together
Keep useful work. Reuse it in the next lesson.
I am emphasizing Units 1 to 3. This guide helps you find lessons and keep your work connected. Today's Schoology assignment sets the task and due date.
The same route each day
- Open today's Schoology assignment. Read what to turn in.
- Open the matching portal lesson. Use its named materials and numbered steps.
- Keep the work in your unit document. Add the date, activity title and evidence source.
- Check your work against today's directions or rubric. Submit the requested work to your own Schoology section.
Use Need help? when you want a smaller step. You do not need to read the entire PLTW activity unless I assign it.
Unit 1: Road to Rehabilitation
How does a body structure help a person move?
Keep one unit document for anatomy diagrams, movement evidence and the assigned fictional patient chart. Keep original practice in a separate, labeled section.
Use the same body structures in your diagrams, movement explanations and final classroom proposal. Add only supplied official case evidence to the patient chart.
Locate and describe
Use shared anatomy terms to label body regions, tissues and bones. Keep the diagrams for later explanations.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
- Thu, Jan 28, 2027: Bioethics: who owns a body?
- Fri, Jan 29, 2027: Anatomy vs physiology, homeostasis
- Mon, Feb 1, 2027: Lab notebook and safety practical
- Wed, Feb 3, 2027: Anatomical directional terms
- Thu, Feb 4, 2027: Bioethics: imaging and privacy
- Fri, Feb 5, 2027: Body planes and cavities
- Tue, Feb 9, 2027: Five tissue slides: record and sort each one
- Wed, Feb 10, 2027: Describe a location. Keep the claim within the evidence.
- Thu, Feb 11, 2027: Bioethics: bone donation and 3D parts
- Wed, Feb 17, 2027: Fracture analysis lab
- Thu, Feb 18, 2027: Bone repair and repair tech
Explain movement
Connect the muscle model to joint movement. Keep each observation beside its source, units and limits.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
Use the evidence
Reuse the assigned case record to support the classroom rehabilitation proposal. Follow the assigned checklist and teacher review before a demonstration.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
How this connects to the full PLTW project
PLTW 1.3.1, Personalized Plans, includes the completed cohort chart and a patient-friendly video. A short plan card alone does not complete that activity.
This overview adds no homework. A practice task supports the official activity but does not mark that activity complete.
Unit 2: Research Ready
How can we use evidence to explain communication in the body?
Keep one unit document with sections for nervous signaling, hormone feedback and research. Reuse your labeled models when you explain a new result.
First explain the signal. Then compare observations. Use that practice to plan a fair investigation and explain what its results can support.
Trace nervous signals
Keep the brain and neuron diagrams. Record reaction-task observations separately from evidence about a drug. Distraction data cannot establish a drug's effect.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
- Mon, Mar 8, 2027: Neuron parts and the synapse
- Tue, Mar 9, 2027: Bioethics: brain data and consent
- Thu, Mar 11, 2027: Brain dissection or virtual
- Fri, Mar 12, 2027: CNS, PNS, and brain regions
- Tue, Mar 16, 2027: Bioethics: drugs and driving
- Wed, Mar 17, 2027: Reaction-time lab
- Thu, Mar 18, 2027: Drug effects on signaling
Follow hormone feedback
Add to the same endocrine organizer. Keep model predictions separate from measured data. Use the stated units for each graph.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
Plan, compare and revise
Carry your question and variables into the plan, evidence table and final explanation. Keep unexpected observations and explain any revision.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
- Tue, Apr 6, 2027: Animal research ethics debate
- Wed, Apr 7, 2027: Variables and controls
- Fri, Apr 9, 2027: Research design and poster plan
- Mon, Apr 12, 2027: Literature and design analysis
- Tue, Apr 13, 2027: Heavy-metal exposure debate
- Thu, Apr 15, 2027: Run the investigation
- Fri, Apr 16, 2027: Data analysis and limitations
How this connects to the full PLTW project
PLTW 2.3.1, Toxic Relationships, includes an investigation and scientific report or approved poster. A plan alone does not show that an investigation took place.
This overview adds no homework. A practice task supports the official activity but does not mark that activity complete.
Unit 3: Adventure Awaits
How do body systems work together during an expedition?
Keep one expedition notebook. Save circulation and breathing diagrams, calculations and protection models with their evidence sources.
Use the circulation and breathing work to explain system interaction. Add protection evidence before you make a supported classroom expedition decision.
Connect the heart and lungs
Trace blood and air along their own routes. Show units and assumptions in calculations. Classroom readings alone do not diagnose a condition.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
- Mon, Apr 19, 2027: Heart transplant allocation debate
- Wed, Apr 21, 2027: Heart model and EKG
- Thu, Apr 22, 2027: Cardiac data CER analysis
- Fri, Apr 23, 2027: Ventilator allocation ethics debate
- Tue, Apr 27, 2027: Lung volumes: calculate the model totals
- Wed, Apr 28, 2027: Lung volumes: explain the model comparison
Explain protection
Keep the immune-cell roles and response diagrams. A paper model explains relationships; it does not supply measured antibody levels or response times.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
Apply and explain
Use only the evidence named in today's assignment. Keep the eye presentation separate from the antiviral-data explanation unless today's directions explicitly combine them.
Open daily lessons and Schoology turn-in links
Use the section number shown after the course name in Schoology. If you are unsure, ask me before submitting.
How this connects to the full PLTW project
PLTW 3.3.1, The Expedition, includes a guide, a peer challenge, feedback and revision. Follow the posted checkpoints when this project is assigned.
This overview adds no homework. A practice task supports the official activity but does not mark that activity complete.
Official handouts and missing materials
Choose your section for the PLTW handouts. Keep these official materials inside Schoology.
A PDF may leave out an interactive task, video or case record. Ask me in class, or send me a Schoology message with the missing item's name and activity number. Continue a step that has all its materials. If no step is ready, save your work and ask me what to do next. Do not invent results.
For now, Unit 4 is an introductory survey. Complete only the parts named in its dated assignments. The survey does not represent completion of every Unit 4 activity.