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CLASS EVENTS:
Week of 5/22: Endgame
Mon: Review for Final Exam (finish the review packet by Thursday!)
Crash Course Biological Molecules
Tues: Optional HW Due (Parasite...Berries)
Tues-Thurs: Re-visit differentiation of cells and how the various cells function together to make a functioning multicellular organism; a look at human physiology through analogy.
Thurs: Last Q before Final Exam!
Fri: FINAL EXAM (60Q in 80min; Comprehensive). Have a WONDERFUL Summer!!
Week of 5/15: Revisit Genetics and Cells
Mon: Revisit heredity with Dragon Genetics (You should answer Q.1-7 during class, Q.8-13 as HW)
"Dragon Genetics" - we will complete this tomorrow in class.
Tues: Dragon Genetics (Finish the worksheet in class!)
Dragon Genetics worksheet DUE by the end of class
Wed: Revisit cells by playing Cell Craft
Cell Craft game
Crash Course Photosynthesis
Crash Course Cellular Respiration
Crash Course Membranes and Transport
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (Tiny Tubers Article Questions); QUIZ 6 (Evolution, Genetics and Cells)
Frog Dissection
Frog Dissection image
Fri: Quarter 4 Journals DUE; Practice for the Science Reasoning Section of the ACT
More ACT Prep
Kaplan ACT test prep
Week of 5/8: revisit Evolution
Mon: Project and Project Questions DUE (Mandatory); Revisit evolution with a look at the evolution of dogs
Crash Course Speciation
Tues: Continue with evolution review; Discuss DNA structure and the extraction lab
Myths and Misconceptions about evolution (TED-Ed)
Crash Course DNA Structure and Replication
DNA extraction technique video
Wed: DNA extraction lab
DNA extraction directions (you can do this at home:)
Thurs: Revisit plant reproduction and sexual reproduction (remember Gregor Mendel?)
Private Life of Plants - Birds and Bees
Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?
TEDEd The First Line of Immortal Cells
Fri: Flower dissection lab
How to cross-pollinate flowering plants...remember how Gregor Mendel bred pea plants?
Flower Dissection Tutorial
Plant adaptations
Plant reproduction in angiosperms
Flower Structure and Function
Crash Course Plant Cells
Week of 5/1:Ecology Review (Ch. 2-5)
Mon: Introduce Invasive Species Project (Today's Goal: Decide which species you are going to research and begin to work!) Project is Due BY Monday 5/8!
ODNR Invasive Species in Ohio
USDA Invasive Species info
Another site with Ohio Invasive info
Introduced Species: The Threat to Biodiversity & What Can Be Done (PROJECT QUESTIONS!)
Ohio Dept. of Agriculture EAB website (PROJECT QUESTIONS!)
www.easybib.com
Tues: Work on Invasive Species Project
Wed: Discuss adaptations for plant survival
Private Life of Plants (v.6)
Thurs: Work on Invasive Species Project
Fri: Optional HW Due (3 Articles questions); QUIZ 5 (Ecology; Ch. 2-5); Discuss loss of species diversity, climate change
TED-Ed Invasive Species
Sci Show: Invasive Species
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. TED Talk Series
Petermann Ice Island 2012: On the Move
Human Footprint maps
Week of 4/24: Welcome back from Break!
Mon: ALL SPRING BREAK WORK DUE BY TODAY (Take home Quiz, Optional HW and extra credit); (NOTE: There are some corrections for the Ecological Relationships HW: The dotted line on Model 1 represents the number of lynx AND for Model 3, Graph C the "dotted line" is 40, the "dashed line" is 60 and the alternating "dash-dot line" is 160 individuals)
Review Cell Processes and Genetics
A tour of the cell (Bozeman Science)
Crash Course DNA Structure and Replication
Crash Course DNA and Protein Synthesis
Ted Talk - What happens when DNA is damaged?
Mitosis and Meiosis Simulation (Bozeman Science)
Punnett Squares and Dihybrid Crosses (Amoeba Sisters)
Punnett Squares and Sex-linked Traits (Amoeba Sisters)
Meiosis and Linkage
Tues: Review Cell Processes and Genetics
Kahoot.it
Wed: OST BIOLOGY TEST (7:30-11am); Watch and discuss Human Body Pushing the Limits: Brain Power (Mods 11/12 only)
Thurs-Fri: Mandatroy Frog CW/HW due on Friday; Watch and discuss The Thin Green Line (Nature); Discuss loss of species diversity, climate change
The thin green line infographic
The Thin Green Line
Chytrid Fungus info (ODNR)
Frog Killing Chytrid Fungus has reached Madagascar Article
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. TED Talk Series
TED Talk Why is Biodiversity so Important?
Week of 4/10: Course Review
We will be reviewing the course to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test you will take the Wed after Spring Break.
Mon: Optional HW Due (Ch. 5 Study Guide)
Mon-Thurs: Review the course to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Fri: SPRING BREAK!! (NOTE: There are some corrections for the Ecological Relationships HW: The dotted line on Model 1 represents the number of lynx and for Model 3, Graph C the dotted line is 40, the dashed line is 60 and the alternating dash-dot line is 160 individuals)
Crash Course Biology playlist (YouTube; watch 1-20,40)
Week of 4/3: Ecology - chapters 2-5
Mon: MANDATORY HW DUE (Ch. 2 Study Guide); (Mods 3/4:BRING YOUR BOOK!); Discuss Community Ecology (Ch. 3): Limiting factors and range of tolerance, Ecological Succession, Biomes. Spend class time working on HW!
3.1 Podcast: Community Ecology
Crash Course Community Ecology
Crash course Community Ecology - pt. II (predators)
Symbiosis Review
Tues: Wrap up ch.3 Community Ecology; look at predation and inter/intraspecific interactions (mods 3/4 - you should really watch the videos posted below!)
Bozeman Science Ecological Succession
Interspecific relationships: predation and symbiosis
Wed: Optional HW DUE (Ch. 3 Study Guide); Discuss (4.1) Population Dynamics
4.1 Podcast: Population Dynamics
4.1.2 Podcast: Pop Dynamics pt. 2
Crash Course Population Ecology
Thurs: You should have read chapters 2-4 by today! Discuss human populations (4.2) and Biodiversity (Ch.5)
4.2 Podcast: Human Populations/Demography
4.2.2 Podcast: Human population growth trends
Crash Course Human Population Growth
SciShow The Science of Overpopulation
(NPR) 7 billion: How did we get so big so fast?
TED-Ed Population pyramids
Crash Course Human Population Growth
QUIZLET Ecology review term pack
Fri: Optional HW due (Ch. 4 Population Growth Review); Quiz 3 (chapters 2-4); Discuss Biodiversity (Ch. 5.1-5.2)
5.1 Podcast: Biodiversity
5.2 Podcast: Extinctions
5.2.2 Podcast: Threats to Biodiversity
5.3 Podcast: Conservation and Restoration
TED-Ed Why is Biodiversity so important?
Bozeman Science Biodiversity
Wildlife Corridors
SciShow: Climate Change
Week of 3/27: Classification (Ch. 17) and Ecology (Ch. 2)
This week we will focus on chapter 17: Classification.
Mon: Optional HW due MONDAY (17.1-17.2 Study Guide); Taxonomy and a deeper look at phylogenetic trees
17.1 Podcast: Classification
17.3 Podcast: Domains and 6 Kingdoms
Crash Course: Taxonomy - The science of classifying
Bozeman Science: Three Domains of life
Ameboa sistes: Classification
Tues: (Read Chapter 17 by today); Practice with cladograms
17.2 Podcast: Cladistics and Cladograms
Bozeman Science: Phylogenetics
Bozeman Science: Cladograms
Khan Academy: Phylogenetic Trees
Using Evolutionary Trees site
Article: Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber
Article: Did velociraptors have feathers?
Wed: Optional HW due (Classification worksheet); Wrap up chpter 17: Discuss the 6 kingdoms; Practice using and making a dichotomous key
Bozeman science: 3 domains of life
Ricochet Science: Domains and Kingdoms
Amoeba Sisters: dichotomous keying video
Thurs: Optional HW due (17.3 Study Guide); Discuss (Ch.2.1) Ecology and levels of organization within the Biosphere, abiotic and biotic factors
2.1 Podcast: Intro to Ecology
2.1.2 Podcast: Intro to Eco Interactions (Community and population interactions)
Crash Course Community Ecology
Fri: Optional HW due (Dichotomous Key/Shark packet); Quiz 2 (Ch. 17); Review flow of energy and cycling of matter (2.2-2.3)
2.2 Podcast Energy of Ecology
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycles
17.1 Podcast: Classification
17.2 Podcast: Cladistics and Cladograms
17.3 Podcast: Domains and 6 Kingdoms
Week of 3/20: Evolution: Ch. 15.3
This week we will wrap up Chapter 15.3 content: speciation and the effects of reproductive isolation and evidence of speciation in patterns of evolution. We will also begin to discuss Chapter 17: Classification.
Mon: Discuss speciation and evolution patterns
15.3.3 Podcast - Macroevolution; speciation
Tues: {ALT Schedule today!} More about speciation and a look at phylogenetic trees.
Crash Course: Speciation
Wed: Optional HW Due (Evolution Re-cap); Wrap up speciation and evolution patterns
SparkNotes help with Selection
Thurs: (Read/Watch 17.1); HW DUE for mod 3/4(Selection and Speciation); Review speciation and patterns
Fri: Optional HW due (Evidence of Selection and Patterns of Evolution); Quiz (ch. 15); Intro Ch.17: Discuss Phylogeny and Classification
Clutch Prep Selection patterns review
Boundless review of stabilizing, directional and disruptive (AKA diversifying) selection patterns
Week of 3/13: Evolution: Ch. 15.3. LAST WEEK OF QUARTER 3!
This week we will focus on chapter 15.3 content. We will discuss other mechanisms for evolution (beyond mutation and natural selection), conditions where evolution does not occur, speciation and the effects of reproductive isolation and evidence of speciation in patterns of evolution.
Mon: (Have read/watched Ch. 15.3); Optional HWs due (CDC Antibiotic Resistance Review and Evolution Review Questions); Discuss allele frequencies and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
15.3 Podcast - The Hardy-Weinberg Principle
15.3.2 Podcast - Microevolution; the other mechanisms
15.3.3 Podcast - Macroevolution; speciation
Tues: Optional HW due (Cheating Cheetahs article Q); Discuss the H-W principle by looking at the equation
Crash Course - Population Genetics (Hardy Weinberg)
LabBench practice (pig calculations)
Penguin Prof - watch your p's and q's
Wed: Optional CW/HW Due (More 15.3 Practice); More H-W principle discussion and discussion of the other mechanisms (other than the main ones of mutation and natural selection!) of evolution
Ant Virtual Lab - How Natural Selection affects allele frequencies
Bozeman Science: Selection
Thurs: Qtr 3 Journals DUE (Optional; 30 minimum for credit); Wrap up H-W equilibrium; Discuss patterns of evolution and rates of speciation
Fri: Optional HW DUE (15.3 SG); Quiz (ch. 15.3); Wrap up Ch.15 Evolution
ASAP Science - chicken or egg?
CNN Article about the low variation of the Icelandic population (not much gene flow!) and some research about a genetic defense against Alzheimer's.
Week of 3/6: Evolution
Mon: (HW: Have read Cane Toad Article); Discuss Natural Selection, Fitness and Adaptations (Ch.15.1) - we focused on the example of the cane toads in Australia but also discussed other examples; Finish watching and discuss HHMI The Origin of Species (linked below)
HHMI The Origin of Species
15.1 Podcast - Darwin and the Evolution Idea
15.1.2 Podcast - Darwin and Natural Selection
Tues: (Have read/watched 15.2) We will continue our discussion on Evidences for Evolution that we began last week with fossils. We have previously discussed sexual selection (in the genetics unit!), but please review it by reading/watching that section of 15.2.
Crash Course -Evidence for Evolution
15.2 Podcast - Fossil and Anatomical Evidence for Evolution
15.2.2 More Evidences for Evolution
15.2.3 Podcast - Adaptations and Sexual Selection
Wed: We will discuss the principles of natural selection and antibiotic resistance
Planet Earth 2: Iguanas v. snake; Struggle for survival
CDC Antibiotic resistance (link for optional HW due Monday)
Antibiotic resistance
Thurs: We will review the effect of Natural Selection and Evolutionary Adaptations
Peppered moth simulation
Fri: Optional HW DUE (15.2 Study Guide); QUIZ (Chapters 14-15.2); begin to discuss 15.3: Mechanisms and Patterns of Evolution
Genetics and Evolution Note Supplement
TED-Ed Five Fingers of Evolution - good for chapter 15.3
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Week of 2/27: History of Life on Earth
Mon: (HW: Have read/watched 14.2); Optional HW Due (Origin of Life active reading guide); Discuss the scientific evidences for the origin of life (14.2)
SciShow- How to date a dead thing
14.2 Podcast: Spontaneous Generation
14.2.2 Abiogenesis and Endosymbiosis
Amoeba Sisters: Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
Tues: Wrap up the origin of life with a review of endosymbiosis (we discussed this some way back in the "cells" unit!)
Endosymbiotic Theory
Bozeman Science: Endosymbiosis
Endosymbiotic Theory in Plain English (lack of science terminology but a good overview!)
Wed:MANDATORY HW Due (Chapter 14 packet); Discuss evolution basics (15.1)
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Stated Clearly: What is Evolution?
Stated Clearly: What is Natural Selection?
Thurs: (HW: Have read/watched 15.1); Discuss Darwin and Natural Selection (Ch.15.1); Watch HHMI The Origin of Species (linked below)
HHMI The Origin of Species
15.1 Podcast Darwin and the Evolution Idea
15.1.2 Podcast Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection
Fri:Optional HW Due (15.1 Study Guide); QUIZ 5 (Ch. 14-15.1)
SciShow- How to date a dead thing
Week of 2/20:
Mon: No School!!
Tues: Wrap up DNA technologies with a final look at cloning and GMOs
Ted Talk: Gene Editing can now change an entire species forever
SciShow - Why are GMOs bad?
Learn.Genetics Cloning Resources
Wed: Explore Epigenetics (work on the Epigenetics and Tale of Two Mice questions)
SciShow - How a Bee Becomes a Queen (Epigenetics!)
NOVA: Epigenetics
NOVA: A Tale of Two Mice
Thurs:QUIZ 4 (13.1-13.3); Discuss the evidence for the history of Life on Earth
Stated Clearly: What is DNA?
Fri:(HW: Have read/watched 14.1); MANDATORY HW Due (Epigenetics and a Tale of Two Mice); Discuss the evidences for the history of Life on Earth
Crash Course - History of Life
14.1 Podcast: Earth, Fossils and Dating
14.1.2 Podcast - History of Earth
14.1.3 Podcast: Spontaneous generation v. biogenesis
Week of 2/13: Applied genetics and Biotechnology (Ch.13)
Mon: (Read/Watch 13.3) OPTIONAL HW (Ch. 13 Terms) DUE; Discuss genetic engineering with restriction enzymes and bacterial plasmids
13.3 Podcast: Transgenic organisms and Cloning
MITK12: Genetic engineering
What makes a firefly glow
NY Times 1986 Tobacco Plant with Firefly Gene Implant Grows
Tues: Discuss the processes of PCR and DNA fingerprinting
MITK12 video- PCR
MITK12 video - Gel Electrophoresis
Bozeman Science - DNA Fingerprinting
Wed:Optional HW DUE (Gel Electrophoresis Practice); QUIZ 3 (13.1-13.3); Practice with DNA fingerprinting
TedEd: How does DNA fingerprinting work?
TedTalk: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA
Ted Talk: Gene Editing can now change an entire species forever
Thurs and Fri: OSU Gel Electrophoresis Lab (meet in the library!) Consider: How can we use DNA to identify an individual?
Virtual Gel Electrophoresis lab - try this if you are absent!
Another DNA fingerprinting "how to" video
BBC: Who's afraid of Designer Babies?
Week of 2/6:Applied genetics and Biotechnology (Ch.13)
Mon: (Read/Watch 13.1); Discuss selective breeding and hybridization (13.1)
13.1 Podcast Selective breeding and hybridization
Sci Show: The terrifying Truth about Bananas (watched in class)
NOVA: Dogs and More Dogs
Tues: (Read/Watch 13.2); Wrap up selective breeding (13.1); Discuss 13.2 DNA technologies and cloning (Gene/DNA, Therapeutic, Reproductive)
13.2 Podcast: Genetic Engineering and DNA Technologies
What is Cloning?
Scientific American Instant Egghead #45 - What is a Genetically Modified Food?
Answers to some questions about cloning
Wed: More discussion of 13.2 DNA technologies and cloning (Gene/DNA, Therapeutic, Reproductive)
How are Gmo's Created (starring the Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya)
Genetic engineering basics animation
Bozeman Science: Molecular Genetics
Thurs: Review of genetic engineering/gene cloning via plasmid
Fri: OPTIONAL HW (Ch. 13 Terms) DUE Monday; NO QUIZ THIS WEEK; Watch National Geographic "Clone"
TedTalk Rethinking Genetic Engineering
NOVA Next: genetically engineering almost anything (CRISPR gene drive)
Milk and the mutants who love it
SciShow- The Truth about Gingers
Wrap up cloning with a look at current research and the potential applications by using this link - - Answer questions on this worksheet.
Week of 1/30: Wrap up chapter 12
Mon: (Read/Watch 12.2); Continued discussion and practice of the steps and machinery of DNA replication (12.2)
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication (watched in class!)
Bozeman Science - DNA Replication
Amoeba Sisters - DNA Replication
Tues: (Read/ Watch 12.3 and 12.3.2); HW DUE(12.1 Quick Check; Mandatory if Quiz1 score is 16 or less); Wrap up DNA Replication and discuss the basics of protein synthesis and the role of RNA (12.3);
DNA Game (NobelPrize.org)
Crash Course - Transcription and Translation
More Practice of Transcription and Translation
12.3 Podcast - Central Dogma of Transcription
12.3.2 Podcast - Translation/Protein Synthesis
Wed: (Read/ Watch 12.4); Discuss Transcription and Translation, practice
What make a firefly glow
Khan Academy - Replication, Transcription and Translation - Great for review of 12.2-12.3!!
Bozeman Science - Transcription/Translation - Also Great Review!
Transcription and Translation Interactive
Practice Transcription and Translation
Thurs:(Read/ Watch 12.4); HW DUE(DNA and RNA review (ch. 12.2-12.3); Mandatory); Discuss types of and the effects of mutation (12.4)
12.4 Podcast Gene Expression and Mutation
Fri: QUIZ 2 (Chapter 12.1-12.4); Wrap up mutations (for now, we will come back to them in the Evolution Unit!!)
Milk and the mutants who love it
Week of 1/23: Chapter 12
Mon:More discussion of the history of DNA with a look at the experiments of Griffith (1928) and Hershey & Chase (1952)
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Tues: Research the history of DNA by working in class on the DNA Timeline Assignment (BRING YOUR EARBUDS so you can watch Podcasts if you finish the timeline)
DNA Timeline Assignment link
Wed: Wrap up history of DNA with a look at the contributions of Franklin, Watson & Crick (12.1); More on Structure of DNA and DNA replication process (12.2).
The DNA Double Helix Discovery (HHMI)
Thurs: QUIZ 1 (Chapter 12.1-12.2); DNA Timeline Assignment DUE (MANDATORY);
TedEd: How I discovered DNA - James Watson
Fri: (Read/Watch 12.2) Discuss the steps and machinery of DNA replication (12.2)
Bozeman Science - DNA Replication
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication
MIT Lecture - DNA Replication (some details are beyond our level, but interesting if you want to see what a college lecture looks like!
Week of 1/16: Quarter 3, No school on Mon or Tues!
Wed: (Read/Watch 12.1 and 12.1.2); Optional HW DUE (DNA Review); Discuss the structure of DNA
Bozeman Science - What is DNA?
Animation of double-stranded DNA
Animation of Chargaff's ratios of nucleotides
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Thurs: Assigned the DNA Timeline Project (DUE TUES 1/24) ; Discuss the structure of DNA
Bozeman Science - What is DNA?
Fri: NO QUIZ!!; Research the history of DNA by working in class on the DNA Timeline Assignment
DNA Timeline Assignment link
Week of 1/9: Last Week of Quarter 2!
Mon:Wrap up sex-linkage/pedigrees
Tues: Discuss and practice Chi-squared analysis.
Bozeman Science Chi-squared
Khan Academy Chi-square review
Wed: HW DUE (Questions 2+3 on Sex-linked Trait worksheet); Wrap up Chi-squared
Corn genetics Chi-squared practice
Thurs: Quiz 11 (Genetics); Review organic molecules (chapter 6)
Bozeman Science: Molecules of Life
Fri:Wrap up review of organic molecules (chapter 6); Discuss the basics of nucleic acid structure and function - What is genetic material? Spent time in class working on the optional HW due on Wed 1/18.
Week of 1/4: Happy New Year!
Wed: TAKE HOME Quiz 10 (Chapters 10.2-11.3) DUE; Crossing Over Extra Credit Due; READ/WATCH Chapter 11.3; Discuss sex-linkage
11.3 Podcast: Sex determination and sex linkage
Thurs: READ/WATCH Chapter 11.3; Discuss sex-linkage and review pedigrees, do practice problems.
Fri: Discuss polygenic ingeritance and review sex-linkage; discuss non-sex gene linkage/crossing over in general and look at autosomes and sex chromosomes with a karyotype
10.3 Podcast: Linkage and Polyploidy
11.3 Podcast: Nondisjunction and Karyotypes
Week of 12/19: Wrap up chapter 11
Mon:Optional Hw Due (11.1-11.2 Study Guide); Quiz 9 (Chapters 10.2-11.3)
Tues: Wrap up codominance and incomplete dominance patterns of inheritance
Pedigree MIT
Week of 12/12: Genetics (Ch. 10-11)
Mon:READ/WATCH Chapter 11.1; Discuss patterns of human inheritance (11.1) and pedigrees
Crash Course Heredity
11.1.2 Podcast: Pedigrees
Tues: Optional HW Due (Pedigree Practice); Practice with pedigrees; Discuss complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance
11.2 Podcast: Incomplete Dominance and Codominance
Amoeba Sisters Complex Patterns of Inheritance
Wed: READ/WATCH Chapter 11.2; Classwork due (mandatory); Practice solving problems with pedigrees and work on complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance HW due Thursday
Thurs: Review complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance. Discuss multiple alleles(11.2)
11.2.2 Podcast: Multiple alleles and Epistasis
Fri: Quiz postponned until Monday! Optional Hw Due (Genetics Review); Practice complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance.
Week of 12/5:Genetics (Ch. 10)
Mon:Discuss the advantages and disadvantages to sexual reproduction (10.1)
10.1.3: Sexual v. asexual reproduction
Why Sex?
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 10.2; Wrap up sexual v. asexual reproduction;
Wed: Optional HW Due (Asexual v. Sexual); Discuss Mendelian Genetics (10.2)
Bozeman Science: Mendelian genetics
10 Podcast: Punnett Squares
10.2 Podcast: Mendel and Heredity
10.2.2 Podcast: Laws of inheritance
Crash Course Heredity
Thurs:Practice monohybrid/dihybrid crosses and probability ratios (10.2)
TEDed How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics
Fri:Optional HW Due (10.2 Study Guide); Quiz 8 (Chapters 10.1-10.2, asexual v. sexual reproduction)
Week of 11/28: Genetics (Ch. 10)
Mon: All "break work" DUE BY today (Take home Quiz 6 and Extra credit assignment); Wrap up mitosis
9.2 Podcast: Mitosis and Cytokinesis
Crash Course Mitosis
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 9.3; Discuss the regulation of the cell cycle and cancer (9.3) with a continuing look at stem cells and the differentiation process
(9.3.1 Podcast Cell cycle regulation - we will not get into as much detail as the book about this)
9.3.2 Podcast: Cancer, apoptosis and stem cells
MIT OpenCourseWare lecture on Stem Cells (well above what you need for this class, but a good look into college lecture!)
Wed:READ/WATCH Chapter 10.1; Optional HW DUE (Differentiation worksheet); Discuss how the events of meiosis ensure genetic variation in offspring (Ch. 10.1)
10.1 Podcast: Chromosome info
10.1.2 Podcast: Meiosis
Crash Course Meiosis
Bozeman Science Phases of Meiosis
Bozeman Science Mitosis v. Meiosis
Thurs: Discuss how the events of meiosis ensure genetic variation in offspring (Ch. 10.1). A look at karyotypes (11.3) to determine gender and chromosomal abnormalities
Crossing over
Bozeman Science: Mitosis and Meiosis simulation
11.3 Podcast: Nondisjunction and Karyotypes
Fri: Quiz 7 (Chapters 9-10.1)
Week of 11/21:Cell Division (ch. 9,10.1) Happy Thanksgiving!
Mon: READ/WATCH Chapter 10.1; Discuss major phases of mitosis v. meiosis (9.2,10.1); What happens to the number of chromosomes in a cell after each version of Mphase? How does division happen in Meiosis to make "half cells" that are all different from one another?
Twilight Mitosis - a look at mitosis phases under a microscope
Tues: Optional HW Due (Mitosis Review); Wrap up the purpose for and events of Mitosis.
Crash Course Mitosis
Bozeman Science Mitosis v. Meiosis
Week of 11/14: Cell Division (ch. 9,10.1)
Mon: Optional HW Due (When cells stop working); READ/WATCH Chapter 9.1; Wrap up cellular respiration with a look at how the mitochondria respond to increasing energy demands; Discuss the physics of cell/organelle size (9.1) and the need for division
9.1 Podcast: Cell Size
9.1.2 Podcast: The Cell Cycle
Bozeman Science video - Why cells are small
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 9.1; Begin discussion of the role of cell size on the rate of metabolism and the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle (Chapter 9 - we are back to using the book!)
Wed: READ/WATCH Chapter 9.1.2; Discuss the cell cycle and chromosome numbers
9.1.2 Podcast: The Cell Cycle
9.2: Mitosis and Cytokinesis
Thurs: Optional HW Due (9.1 Review); READ/WATCH Chapter 9.2; We will review the reasons for a cell to undergo Mitosis, meiosis or Binary Fission and some practice looking at chromosome numbers.
PenguinProf: Cell cycle and mitosis review video
Friday: QUIZ 5 (chapter 9.1-9.2); Discuss major phases of mitosis v. meiosis: How do the events of meiosis ensure variation in resulting cells?
Week of 11/7: Cellular Respiration
**NOTE:TEXTBOOK NOTE FOR CHAPTER 8: Mr. J, and the text, goes into greater detail about the steps in the processes than I am going to require of you...use your “Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration packet"!
Mon: READ Chapter 8 packet; Wrap up photosynthesis reactions with review of the two steps of this biochemical pathway and the factors that affect the rate of the overall reaction. Review the carbon cycle relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Tues: NO SCHOOL! Read Chapter 8 packet about Cellular Respiration
8.3 Podcast: Cellular Respiration
Crash Course ATP and Respiration video
Wed: Optional HW DUE (Photosynthesis Review); Discuss Cellular Respiration
Ameoba Sisters: Cellular Respiration
Thurs: READ Chapter 8 packet. Work on answering the questions in the packet for practice; Wrap up Cellular Respiration and prepare for the quiz tomorrow
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Cellular Respiration Practice); QUIZ 4 (Ch. 8: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration)
Week of 10/31: Chapter 8
**NOTE:TEXTBOOK NOTE FOR CHAPTER 8: Mr. J, and the text, goes into greater detail about the steps in the processes than I am going to require of you...use your “Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration packet"!
Mon: Review Osmosis with "Transport in Cells".
Key page 1
Key page 2
Key page 3
Key page 4
Tues:Optional HW DUE (2.2 and 2.3 Concept Review); READ/WATCH 8.1; Overview the flow of energy and cycling of matter in biosphere (Ch. 2.2/2.3); Discuss the details of photosynthesis (8.1; chapter packet). Given Chapter 8 text packet and Optional HW due Friday.
8.1 Podcast: Matter and Energy
Energy Flow in Ecosystems - a review video by Bozeman Science
Crash Course Photosynthesis video
Bozeman Science: Photosynthesis
Wed:READ Chapter 8 packet; Discover the role of the pigments involved with photosynthesis; time in class to work on optional HW due on Friday.
8.2.1 Podcast: Photosynthesis; Photolysis reaction
8.2.2 Podcast: Photosynthesis: Calvin Cycle
Thurs:READ Chapter 8 packet; Overview of the role of the sun as the source of energy for most food chains on Earth.
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Photosynthesis Overview); QUIZ 3 (2.2/2.3, 8.1: Flow of energy and cycling of matter, Photosynthesis reactions)
Week of 10/24: 1st week of Quarter 2! Chapters 7.4, 2.2, 2.3
Mon: More osmosis discussion by focusing on mechanisms to combat osmosis transport (how do living things fight physics?) including "contractile vacuoles"
What happens if a paramecium's contractile vacuole stops working?
Osmoregulation mechanisms of fish
Do fish drink?
The SciGuys: Egg Osmosis
Tues: The TAKE HOME QUIZ is DUE BY today! Wrap up transport/osmosis.
Membrane transport simulator
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
Wed: NO SCHOOL!!
Thurs: READ/WATCH 2.2 and 2.3; Discussion on the flow of energy and cycling of matter, focus on carbon and water cycling
Energy Flow in Ecosystems - a review video by Bozeman Science
Cycles of Matter and Transfer of Energy review video by Bozeman Science
The Carbon Cycle - video by TED-Ed
2.2 Podcast: The Energy of Ecology (this should be mostly review from middle school)
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycling (focus on Cabon Cycle!)
Fri: Optional HW Due (7.4 Transport); QUIZ 2 (7.4, 2.2, 2.3)
Bozeman Science: Endosymbiosis
Week of 10/17: LAST WEEK OF Quarter 1
Mon: READ/WATCH 7.2; Discuss 7.2 cell membrane structure and function
7.2 Podcast The Plasma Membrane
Bozeman Science: Cell membranes
Tues: READ/WATCH 7.4; Discuss 7.4 Cellular Transport and the "vehicles" by which it occurs
7.4 Podcast Passive Transport
Wed: MEET IN ROOM 209; MANDATORY HW DUE (7.2 Study Guide); Discuss Passive v. Active modes of transport
Amoeba Sisters: Membranes and Transport
Crash Course: In Da Club (membrane transport)
Thurs: Continue discussion about transport by re-capping the basics, focusing on details of osmosis
Amoeba Sisters: Osmosis
7.4.2 Podcast : Osmosis
7.4.3 Podcast: Active Transport
Fri: QUIZ 9 (LAST QUIZ OF THE QUARTER! Chapter 7.2-7.4); given "Take Home Quiz" due by Tuesday
Copy of Take Home Quiz!
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
Labbench Practice
Week of 10/10: (Ch.7)
Mon: BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.3; Practice analyzing prok v. euk and plant v. animal cells (CLASSWORK DUE!)
7.3 PODCAST Cell Structures and Functions
Bozeman Science - A Tour of the Cell (overview of eukaryotic structures)
Tues: Discuss 7.3 cell structures and functions
Wed: BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.2; Wrap up discussion of cellular parts and functions with a discussion about plants cells v. animal cells (7.3). Begin discussion about the structure and function of the plasma membrane (7.2)
Sub work pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Thurs: QUIZ 8 (chapter 7.1, 7.3)
Fri: NO SCHOOL!
7.2 Podcast The Plasma Membrane
7.4 Podcast Passive Transport
Week of 10/3: Cells (Ch.7)
Mon:BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.1; Discuss Cell Discovery and Theory
SciShow - Microscope: The tube that changed the world
SciShow - Inside the world's powerful new microscopes
Tues: Microscope Lab - pt. 1 (using the compound light microscope to view a fixed specimen)
How to use a microscope
Virtual Microscope
Wed: Microscope Lab - pt. 2 (make a wet mount; view living organisms in pond water);
How to make a wet mount
Thurs: (MEET IN 209) Discuss Prok v. Euk cells and Discuss 7.3 Structures and Organelles
Prokaryotes v. Eukaryotes
Fri:(MEET IN 209) QUIZ 7 (chapter 7.1, microscopes); Discuss 7.3 (Cell structures)
Microscope lab Analysis pt.1
Microscope lab Analysis pt.2
Ch. 7.1 SG pt.1
Ch. 7.1 SG pt.2
Crash Course: Eukaryopolis (Animal cells)
Crash Course: Plant Cells
* Next Week: More with Chapter 7
Week of 9/26: Chemistry of Life (Ch.6)
Mon: Enzyme lab (6.2)
Tues: BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 6.4; Discuss Enzyme Lab and work on data analysis; Discuss organic macromolecules (6.4)
Ameoba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Wed: MEET IN ROOM 209; Enzyme Lab packet DUE; Discuss organic macromolecules
Crash Course: That's Why Carbon is a Tramp - not very PC, but very informative!
Crash Course: Biological Molecules
Bozeman Science: The Molecules of Life
Thurs: More discussion on organic macromolecules
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Organic Study Guide); QUIZ 6 (chapter 6 - focus on enzymes and macromolecules); wrap up organic macromolecules
6.4 Carbon and Macromolecules Podcast
Week of 9/19: Chapter 6; focus on 6.2 and 6.4
Mon: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch 6.3 (if you haven't already!); Wrap up water and chemical reactions, begin to discuss enzymes
Crash Course: Water - Liquid Awesome
Tues: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch 6.2.2, OPTIONAL HW due (6.3 Water Practice); Discussion of Enzymes and Reaction Energy(6.2)
Ameoba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Wed: HW DUE (Mandatory if 75% or less on Quiz 4. Chemistry Intro worksheet); Continue with Enzyme discussion
Chemistry Intro link (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Thurs: QUIZ 5 (Chapter 6.1-6.3); Prep for Lab on Monday
Fri: NO SCHOOL!
6.2 Chemical Reactions Podcast
6.2.2 Enzymes Podcast
Week of 9/12: Wrap up Chapter 1; Start Chapter 6
Mon: Discuss organization and display of data; graphing
1.3 Experimental Design Podcast
1.3.2 Experimental Data
Tues: HW DUE (mandatory if 70% or less on quiz 3. Science in Action: Practice); Wrap-up graphing and experimental design with some in-class practice
Bozeman Science - Analyzing and Inerpreting data (gets mathy towards the end!)
Wed: BEFORE CLASS Read/watch chapter 6.1; Intro Chapter 6 - Discuss basic chemistry (atoms, bonds) and the properties of water
TedTalk: How atoms bond
Bozemen Science: Chemical bonds ionic v. covalent
Thurs: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch Ch. 6.3; Wrap up the properties of water
Ameoba sisters: Properties of Water
TedTalk: Polarity - A Unique property of Water (shown in class)
Fri
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Mon: Review for Final Exam (finish the review packet by Thursday!)
Crash Course Biological Molecules
Tues: Optional HW Due (Parasite...Berries)
Tues-Thurs: Re-visit differentiation of cells and how the various cells function together to make a functioning multicellular organism; a look at human physiology through analogy.
Thurs: Last Q before Final Exam!
Fri: FINAL EXAM (60Q in 80min; Comprehensive). Have a WONDERFUL Summer!!
Week of 5/15: Revisit Genetics and Cells
Mon: Revisit heredity with Dragon Genetics (You should answer Q.1-7 during class, Q.8-13 as HW)
"Dragon Genetics" - we will complete this tomorrow in class.
Tues: Dragon Genetics (Finish the worksheet in class!)
Dragon Genetics worksheet DUE by the end of class
Wed: Revisit cells by playing Cell Craft
Cell Craft game
Crash Course Photosynthesis
Crash Course Cellular Respiration
Crash Course Membranes and Transport
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (Tiny Tubers Article Questions); QUIZ 6 (Evolution, Genetics and Cells)
Frog Dissection
Frog Dissection image
Fri: Quarter 4 Journals DUE; Practice for the Science Reasoning Section of the ACT
More ACT Prep
Kaplan ACT test prep
Week of 5/8: revisit Evolution
Mon: Project and Project Questions DUE (Mandatory); Revisit evolution with a look at the evolution of dogs
Crash Course Speciation
Tues: Continue with evolution review; Discuss DNA structure and the extraction lab
Myths and Misconceptions about evolution (TED-Ed)
Crash Course DNA Structure and Replication
DNA extraction technique video
Wed: DNA extraction lab
DNA extraction directions (you can do this at home:)
Thurs: Revisit plant reproduction and sexual reproduction (remember Gregor Mendel?)
Private Life of Plants - Birds and Bees
Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?
TEDEd The First Line of Immortal Cells
Fri: Flower dissection lab
How to cross-pollinate flowering plants...remember how Gregor Mendel bred pea plants?
Flower Dissection Tutorial
Plant adaptations
Plant reproduction in angiosperms
Flower Structure and Function
Crash Course Plant Cells
Week of 5/1:Ecology Review (Ch. 2-5)
Mon: Introduce Invasive Species Project (Today's Goal: Decide which species you are going to research and begin to work!) Project is Due BY Monday 5/8!
ODNR Invasive Species in Ohio
USDA Invasive Species info
Another site with Ohio Invasive info
Introduced Species: The Threat to Biodiversity & What Can Be Done (PROJECT QUESTIONS!)
Ohio Dept. of Agriculture EAB website (PROJECT QUESTIONS!)
www.easybib.com
Tues: Work on Invasive Species Project
Wed: Discuss adaptations for plant survival
Private Life of Plants (v.6)
Thurs: Work on Invasive Species Project
Fri: Optional HW Due (3 Articles questions); QUIZ 5 (Ecology; Ch. 2-5); Discuss loss of species diversity, climate change
TED-Ed Invasive Species
Sci Show: Invasive Species
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. TED Talk Series
Petermann Ice Island 2012: On the Move
Human Footprint maps
Week of 4/24: Welcome back from Break!
Mon: ALL SPRING BREAK WORK DUE BY TODAY (Take home Quiz, Optional HW and extra credit); (NOTE: There are some corrections for the Ecological Relationships HW: The dotted line on Model 1 represents the number of lynx AND for Model 3, Graph C the "dotted line" is 40, the "dashed line" is 60 and the alternating "dash-dot line" is 160 individuals)
Review Cell Processes and Genetics
A tour of the cell (Bozeman Science)
Crash Course DNA Structure and Replication
Crash Course DNA and Protein Synthesis
Ted Talk - What happens when DNA is damaged?
Mitosis and Meiosis Simulation (Bozeman Science)
Punnett Squares and Dihybrid Crosses (Amoeba Sisters)
Punnett Squares and Sex-linked Traits (Amoeba Sisters)
Meiosis and Linkage
Tues: Review Cell Processes and Genetics
Kahoot.it
Wed: OST BIOLOGY TEST (7:30-11am); Watch and discuss Human Body Pushing the Limits: Brain Power (Mods 11/12 only)
Thurs-Fri: Mandatroy Frog CW/HW due on Friday; Watch and discuss The Thin Green Line (Nature); Discuss loss of species diversity, climate change
The thin green line infographic
The Thin Green Line
Chytrid Fungus info (ODNR)
Frog Killing Chytrid Fungus has reached Madagascar Article
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. TED Talk Series
TED Talk Why is Biodiversity so Important?
Week of 4/10: Course Review
We will be reviewing the course to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test you will take the Wed after Spring Break.
Mon: Optional HW Due (Ch. 5 Study Guide)
Mon-Thurs: Review the course to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Fri: SPRING BREAK!! (NOTE: There are some corrections for the Ecological Relationships HW: The dotted line on Model 1 represents the number of lynx and for Model 3, Graph C the dotted line is 40, the dashed line is 60 and the alternating dash-dot line is 160 individuals)
Crash Course Biology playlist (YouTube; watch 1-20,40)
Week of 4/3: Ecology - chapters 2-5
Mon: MANDATORY HW DUE (Ch. 2 Study Guide); (Mods 3/4:BRING YOUR BOOK!); Discuss Community Ecology (Ch. 3): Limiting factors and range of tolerance, Ecological Succession, Biomes. Spend class time working on HW!
3.1 Podcast: Community Ecology
Crash Course Community Ecology
Crash course Community Ecology - pt. II (predators)
Symbiosis Review
Tues: Wrap up ch.3 Community Ecology; look at predation and inter/intraspecific interactions (mods 3/4 - you should really watch the videos posted below!)
Bozeman Science Ecological Succession
Interspecific relationships: predation and symbiosis
Wed: Optional HW DUE (Ch. 3 Study Guide); Discuss (4.1) Population Dynamics
4.1 Podcast: Population Dynamics
4.1.2 Podcast: Pop Dynamics pt. 2
Crash Course Population Ecology
Thurs: You should have read chapters 2-4 by today! Discuss human populations (4.2) and Biodiversity (Ch.5)
4.2 Podcast: Human Populations/Demography
4.2.2 Podcast: Human population growth trends
Crash Course Human Population Growth
SciShow The Science of Overpopulation
(NPR) 7 billion: How did we get so big so fast?
TED-Ed Population pyramids
Crash Course Human Population Growth
QUIZLET Ecology review term pack
Fri: Optional HW due (Ch. 4 Population Growth Review); Quiz 3 (chapters 2-4); Discuss Biodiversity (Ch. 5.1-5.2)
5.1 Podcast: Biodiversity
5.2 Podcast: Extinctions
5.2.2 Podcast: Threats to Biodiversity
5.3 Podcast: Conservation and Restoration
TED-Ed Why is Biodiversity so important?
Bozeman Science Biodiversity
Wildlife Corridors
SciShow: Climate Change
Week of 3/27: Classification (Ch. 17) and Ecology (Ch. 2)
This week we will focus on chapter 17: Classification.
Mon: Optional HW due MONDAY (17.1-17.2 Study Guide); Taxonomy and a deeper look at phylogenetic trees
17.1 Podcast: Classification
17.3 Podcast: Domains and 6 Kingdoms
Crash Course: Taxonomy - The science of classifying
Bozeman Science: Three Domains of life
Ameboa sistes: Classification
Tues: (Read Chapter 17 by today); Practice with cladograms
17.2 Podcast: Cladistics and Cladograms
Bozeman Science: Phylogenetics
Bozeman Science: Cladograms
Khan Academy: Phylogenetic Trees
Using Evolutionary Trees site
Article: Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber
Article: Did velociraptors have feathers?
Wed: Optional HW due (Classification worksheet); Wrap up chpter 17: Discuss the 6 kingdoms; Practice using and making a dichotomous key
Bozeman science: 3 domains of life
Ricochet Science: Domains and Kingdoms
Amoeba Sisters: dichotomous keying video
Thurs: Optional HW due (17.3 Study Guide); Discuss (Ch.2.1) Ecology and levels of organization within the Biosphere, abiotic and biotic factors
2.1 Podcast: Intro to Ecology
2.1.2 Podcast: Intro to Eco Interactions (Community and population interactions)
Crash Course Community Ecology
Fri: Optional HW due (Dichotomous Key/Shark packet); Quiz 2 (Ch. 17); Review flow of energy and cycling of matter (2.2-2.3)
2.2 Podcast Energy of Ecology
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycles
17.1 Podcast: Classification
17.2 Podcast: Cladistics and Cladograms
17.3 Podcast: Domains and 6 Kingdoms
Week of 3/20: Evolution: Ch. 15.3
This week we will wrap up Chapter 15.3 content: speciation and the effects of reproductive isolation and evidence of speciation in patterns of evolution. We will also begin to discuss Chapter 17: Classification.
Mon: Discuss speciation and evolution patterns
15.3.3 Podcast - Macroevolution; speciation
Tues: {ALT Schedule today!} More about speciation and a look at phylogenetic trees.
Crash Course: Speciation
Wed: Optional HW Due (Evolution Re-cap); Wrap up speciation and evolution patterns
SparkNotes help with Selection
Thurs: (Read/Watch 17.1); HW DUE for mod 3/4(Selection and Speciation); Review speciation and patterns
Fri: Optional HW due (Evidence of Selection and Patterns of Evolution); Quiz (ch. 15); Intro Ch.17: Discuss Phylogeny and Classification
Clutch Prep Selection patterns review
Boundless review of stabilizing, directional and disruptive (AKA diversifying) selection patterns
Week of 3/13: Evolution: Ch. 15.3. LAST WEEK OF QUARTER 3!
This week we will focus on chapter 15.3 content. We will discuss other mechanisms for evolution (beyond mutation and natural selection), conditions where evolution does not occur, speciation and the effects of reproductive isolation and evidence of speciation in patterns of evolution.
Mon: (Have read/watched Ch. 15.3); Optional HWs due (CDC Antibiotic Resistance Review and Evolution Review Questions); Discuss allele frequencies and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
15.3 Podcast - The Hardy-Weinberg Principle
15.3.2 Podcast - Microevolution; the other mechanisms
15.3.3 Podcast - Macroevolution; speciation
Tues: Optional HW due (Cheating Cheetahs article Q); Discuss the H-W principle by looking at the equation
Crash Course - Population Genetics (Hardy Weinberg)
LabBench practice (pig calculations)
Penguin Prof - watch your p's and q's
Wed: Optional CW/HW Due (More 15.3 Practice); More H-W principle discussion and discussion of the other mechanisms (other than the main ones of mutation and natural selection!) of evolution
Ant Virtual Lab - How Natural Selection affects allele frequencies
Bozeman Science: Selection
Thurs: Qtr 3 Journals DUE (Optional; 30 minimum for credit); Wrap up H-W equilibrium; Discuss patterns of evolution and rates of speciation
Fri: Optional HW DUE (15.3 SG); Quiz (ch. 15.3); Wrap up Ch.15 Evolution
ASAP Science - chicken or egg?
CNN Article about the low variation of the Icelandic population (not much gene flow!) and some research about a genetic defense against Alzheimer's.
Week of 3/6: Evolution
Mon: (HW: Have read Cane Toad Article); Discuss Natural Selection, Fitness and Adaptations (Ch.15.1) - we focused on the example of the cane toads in Australia but also discussed other examples; Finish watching and discuss HHMI The Origin of Species (linked below)
HHMI The Origin of Species
15.1 Podcast - Darwin and the Evolution Idea
15.1.2 Podcast - Darwin and Natural Selection
Tues: (Have read/watched 15.2) We will continue our discussion on Evidences for Evolution that we began last week with fossils. We have previously discussed sexual selection (in the genetics unit!), but please review it by reading/watching that section of 15.2.
Crash Course -Evidence for Evolution
15.2 Podcast - Fossil and Anatomical Evidence for Evolution
15.2.2 More Evidences for Evolution
15.2.3 Podcast - Adaptations and Sexual Selection
Wed: We will discuss the principles of natural selection and antibiotic resistance
Planet Earth 2: Iguanas v. snake; Struggle for survival
CDC Antibiotic resistance (link for optional HW due Monday)
Antibiotic resistance
Thurs: We will review the effect of Natural Selection and Evolutionary Adaptations
Peppered moth simulation
Fri: Optional HW DUE (15.2 Study Guide); QUIZ (Chapters 14-15.2); begin to discuss 15.3: Mechanisms and Patterns of Evolution
Genetics and Evolution Note Supplement
TED-Ed Five Fingers of Evolution - good for chapter 15.3
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Week of 2/27: History of Life on Earth
Mon: (HW: Have read/watched 14.2); Optional HW Due (Origin of Life active reading guide); Discuss the scientific evidences for the origin of life (14.2)
SciShow- How to date a dead thing
14.2 Podcast: Spontaneous Generation
14.2.2 Abiogenesis and Endosymbiosis
Amoeba Sisters: Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
Tues: Wrap up the origin of life with a review of endosymbiosis (we discussed this some way back in the "cells" unit!)
Endosymbiotic Theory
Bozeman Science: Endosymbiosis
Endosymbiotic Theory in Plain English (lack of science terminology but a good overview!)
Wed:MANDATORY HW Due (Chapter 14 packet); Discuss evolution basics (15.1)
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Stated Clearly: What is Evolution?
Stated Clearly: What is Natural Selection?
Thurs: (HW: Have read/watched 15.1); Discuss Darwin and Natural Selection (Ch.15.1); Watch HHMI The Origin of Species (linked below)
HHMI The Origin of Species
15.1 Podcast Darwin and the Evolution Idea
15.1.2 Podcast Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection
Fri:Optional HW Due (15.1 Study Guide); QUIZ 5 (Ch. 14-15.1)
SciShow- How to date a dead thing
Week of 2/20:
Mon: No School!!
Tues: Wrap up DNA technologies with a final look at cloning and GMOs
Ted Talk: Gene Editing can now change an entire species forever
SciShow - Why are GMOs bad?
Learn.Genetics Cloning Resources
Wed: Explore Epigenetics (work on the Epigenetics and Tale of Two Mice questions)
SciShow - How a Bee Becomes a Queen (Epigenetics!)
NOVA: Epigenetics
NOVA: A Tale of Two Mice
Thurs:QUIZ 4 (13.1-13.3); Discuss the evidence for the history of Life on Earth
Stated Clearly: What is DNA?
Fri:(HW: Have read/watched 14.1); MANDATORY HW Due (Epigenetics and a Tale of Two Mice); Discuss the evidences for the history of Life on Earth
Crash Course - History of Life
14.1 Podcast: Earth, Fossils and Dating
14.1.2 Podcast - History of Earth
14.1.3 Podcast: Spontaneous generation v. biogenesis
Week of 2/13: Applied genetics and Biotechnology (Ch.13)
Mon: (Read/Watch 13.3) OPTIONAL HW (Ch. 13 Terms) DUE; Discuss genetic engineering with restriction enzymes and bacterial plasmids
13.3 Podcast: Transgenic organisms and Cloning
MITK12: Genetic engineering
What makes a firefly glow
NY Times 1986 Tobacco Plant with Firefly Gene Implant Grows
Tues: Discuss the processes of PCR and DNA fingerprinting
MITK12 video- PCR
MITK12 video - Gel Electrophoresis
Bozeman Science - DNA Fingerprinting
Wed:Optional HW DUE (Gel Electrophoresis Practice); QUIZ 3 (13.1-13.3); Practice with DNA fingerprinting
TedEd: How does DNA fingerprinting work?
TedTalk: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA
Ted Talk: Gene Editing can now change an entire species forever
Thurs and Fri: OSU Gel Electrophoresis Lab (meet in the library!) Consider: How can we use DNA to identify an individual?
Virtual Gel Electrophoresis lab - try this if you are absent!
Another DNA fingerprinting "how to" video
BBC: Who's afraid of Designer Babies?
Week of 2/6:Applied genetics and Biotechnology (Ch.13)
Mon: (Read/Watch 13.1); Discuss selective breeding and hybridization (13.1)
13.1 Podcast Selective breeding and hybridization
Sci Show: The terrifying Truth about Bananas (watched in class)
NOVA: Dogs and More Dogs
Tues: (Read/Watch 13.2); Wrap up selective breeding (13.1); Discuss 13.2 DNA technologies and cloning (Gene/DNA, Therapeutic, Reproductive)
13.2 Podcast: Genetic Engineering and DNA Technologies
What is Cloning?
Scientific American Instant Egghead #45 - What is a Genetically Modified Food?
Answers to some questions about cloning
Wed: More discussion of 13.2 DNA technologies and cloning (Gene/DNA, Therapeutic, Reproductive)
How are Gmo's Created (starring the Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya)
Genetic engineering basics animation
Bozeman Science: Molecular Genetics
Thurs: Review of genetic engineering/gene cloning via plasmid
Fri: OPTIONAL HW (Ch. 13 Terms) DUE Monday; NO QUIZ THIS WEEK; Watch National Geographic "Clone"
TedTalk Rethinking Genetic Engineering
NOVA Next: genetically engineering almost anything (CRISPR gene drive)
Milk and the mutants who love it
SciShow- The Truth about Gingers
Wrap up cloning with a look at current research and the potential applications by using this link - - Answer questions on this worksheet.
Week of 1/30: Wrap up chapter 12
Mon: (Read/Watch 12.2); Continued discussion and practice of the steps and machinery of DNA replication (12.2)
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication (watched in class!)
Bozeman Science - DNA Replication
Amoeba Sisters - DNA Replication
Tues: (Read/ Watch 12.3 and 12.3.2); HW DUE(12.1 Quick Check; Mandatory if Quiz1 score is 16 or less); Wrap up DNA Replication and discuss the basics of protein synthesis and the role of RNA (12.3);
DNA Game (NobelPrize.org)
Crash Course - Transcription and Translation
More Practice of Transcription and Translation
12.3 Podcast - Central Dogma of Transcription
12.3.2 Podcast - Translation/Protein Synthesis
Wed: (Read/ Watch 12.4); Discuss Transcription and Translation, practice
What make a firefly glow
Khan Academy - Replication, Transcription and Translation - Great for review of 12.2-12.3!!
Bozeman Science - Transcription/Translation - Also Great Review!
Transcription and Translation Interactive
Practice Transcription and Translation
Thurs:(Read/ Watch 12.4); HW DUE(DNA and RNA review (ch. 12.2-12.3); Mandatory); Discuss types of and the effects of mutation (12.4)
12.4 Podcast Gene Expression and Mutation
Fri: QUIZ 2 (Chapter 12.1-12.4); Wrap up mutations (for now, we will come back to them in the Evolution Unit!!)
Milk and the mutants who love it
Week of 1/23: Chapter 12
Mon:More discussion of the history of DNA with a look at the experiments of Griffith (1928) and Hershey & Chase (1952)
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Tues: Research the history of DNA by working in class on the DNA Timeline Assignment (BRING YOUR EARBUDS so you can watch Podcasts if you finish the timeline)
DNA Timeline Assignment link
Wed: Wrap up history of DNA with a look at the contributions of Franklin, Watson & Crick (12.1); More on Structure of DNA and DNA replication process (12.2).
The DNA Double Helix Discovery (HHMI)
Thurs: QUIZ 1 (Chapter 12.1-12.2); DNA Timeline Assignment DUE (MANDATORY);
TedEd: How I discovered DNA - James Watson
Fri: (Read/Watch 12.2) Discuss the steps and machinery of DNA replication (12.2)
Bozeman Science - DNA Replication
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication
MIT Lecture - DNA Replication (some details are beyond our level, but interesting if you want to see what a college lecture looks like!
Week of 1/16: Quarter 3, No school on Mon or Tues!
Wed: (Read/Watch 12.1 and 12.1.2); Optional HW DUE (DNA Review); Discuss the structure of DNA
Bozeman Science - What is DNA?
Animation of double-stranded DNA
Animation of Chargaff's ratios of nucleotides
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Thurs: Assigned the DNA Timeline Project (DUE TUES 1/24) ; Discuss the structure of DNA
Bozeman Science - What is DNA?
Fri: NO QUIZ!!; Research the history of DNA by working in class on the DNA Timeline Assignment
DNA Timeline Assignment link
Week of 1/9: Last Week of Quarter 2!
Mon:Wrap up sex-linkage/pedigrees
Tues: Discuss and practice Chi-squared analysis.
Bozeman Science Chi-squared
Khan Academy Chi-square review
Wed: HW DUE (Questions 2+3 on Sex-linked Trait worksheet); Wrap up Chi-squared
Corn genetics Chi-squared practice
Thurs: Quiz 11 (Genetics); Review organic molecules (chapter 6)
Bozeman Science: Molecules of Life
Fri:Wrap up review of organic molecules (chapter 6); Discuss the basics of nucleic acid structure and function - What is genetic material? Spent time in class working on the optional HW due on Wed 1/18.
Week of 1/4: Happy New Year!
Wed: TAKE HOME Quiz 10 (Chapters 10.2-11.3) DUE; Crossing Over Extra Credit Due; READ/WATCH Chapter 11.3; Discuss sex-linkage
11.3 Podcast: Sex determination and sex linkage
Thurs: READ/WATCH Chapter 11.3; Discuss sex-linkage and review pedigrees, do practice problems.
Fri: Discuss polygenic ingeritance and review sex-linkage; discuss non-sex gene linkage/crossing over in general and look at autosomes and sex chromosomes with a karyotype
10.3 Podcast: Linkage and Polyploidy
11.3 Podcast: Nondisjunction and Karyotypes
Week of 12/19: Wrap up chapter 11
Mon:Optional Hw Due (11.1-11.2 Study Guide); Quiz 9 (Chapters 10.2-11.3)
Tues: Wrap up codominance and incomplete dominance patterns of inheritance
Pedigree MIT
Week of 12/12: Genetics (Ch. 10-11)
Mon:READ/WATCH Chapter 11.1; Discuss patterns of human inheritance (11.1) and pedigrees
Crash Course Heredity
11.1.2 Podcast: Pedigrees
Tues: Optional HW Due (Pedigree Practice); Practice with pedigrees; Discuss complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance
11.2 Podcast: Incomplete Dominance and Codominance
Amoeba Sisters Complex Patterns of Inheritance
Wed: READ/WATCH Chapter 11.2; Classwork due (mandatory); Practice solving problems with pedigrees and work on complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance HW due Thursday
Thurs: Review complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance. Discuss multiple alleles(11.2)
11.2.2 Podcast: Multiple alleles and Epistasis
Fri: Quiz postponned until Monday! Optional Hw Due (Genetics Review); Practice complex patterns of inheritance/incomplete dominance, codominance.
Week of 12/5:Genetics (Ch. 10)
Mon:Discuss the advantages and disadvantages to sexual reproduction (10.1)
10.1.3: Sexual v. asexual reproduction
Why Sex?
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 10.2; Wrap up sexual v. asexual reproduction;
Wed: Optional HW Due (Asexual v. Sexual); Discuss Mendelian Genetics (10.2)
Bozeman Science: Mendelian genetics
10 Podcast: Punnett Squares
10.2 Podcast: Mendel and Heredity
10.2.2 Podcast: Laws of inheritance
Crash Course Heredity
Thurs:Practice monohybrid/dihybrid crosses and probability ratios (10.2)
TEDed How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics
Fri:Optional HW Due (10.2 Study Guide); Quiz 8 (Chapters 10.1-10.2, asexual v. sexual reproduction)
Week of 11/28: Genetics (Ch. 10)
Mon: All "break work" DUE BY today (Take home Quiz 6 and Extra credit assignment); Wrap up mitosis
9.2 Podcast: Mitosis and Cytokinesis
Crash Course Mitosis
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 9.3; Discuss the regulation of the cell cycle and cancer (9.3) with a continuing look at stem cells and the differentiation process
(9.3.1 Podcast Cell cycle regulation - we will not get into as much detail as the book about this)
9.3.2 Podcast: Cancer, apoptosis and stem cells
MIT OpenCourseWare lecture on Stem Cells (well above what you need for this class, but a good look into college lecture!)
Wed:READ/WATCH Chapter 10.1; Optional HW DUE (Differentiation worksheet); Discuss how the events of meiosis ensure genetic variation in offspring (Ch. 10.1)
10.1 Podcast: Chromosome info
10.1.2 Podcast: Meiosis
Crash Course Meiosis
Bozeman Science Phases of Meiosis
Bozeman Science Mitosis v. Meiosis
Thurs: Discuss how the events of meiosis ensure genetic variation in offspring (Ch. 10.1). A look at karyotypes (11.3) to determine gender and chromosomal abnormalities
Crossing over
Bozeman Science: Mitosis and Meiosis simulation
11.3 Podcast: Nondisjunction and Karyotypes
Fri: Quiz 7 (Chapters 9-10.1)
Week of 11/21:Cell Division (ch. 9,10.1) Happy Thanksgiving!
Mon: READ/WATCH Chapter 10.1; Discuss major phases of mitosis v. meiosis (9.2,10.1); What happens to the number of chromosomes in a cell after each version of Mphase? How does division happen in Meiosis to make "half cells" that are all different from one another?
Twilight Mitosis - a look at mitosis phases under a microscope
Tues: Optional HW Due (Mitosis Review); Wrap up the purpose for and events of Mitosis.
Crash Course Mitosis
Bozeman Science Mitosis v. Meiosis
Week of 11/14: Cell Division (ch. 9,10.1)
Mon: Optional HW Due (When cells stop working); READ/WATCH Chapter 9.1; Wrap up cellular respiration with a look at how the mitochondria respond to increasing energy demands; Discuss the physics of cell/organelle size (9.1) and the need for division
9.1 Podcast: Cell Size
9.1.2 Podcast: The Cell Cycle
Bozeman Science video - Why cells are small
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 9.1; Begin discussion of the role of cell size on the rate of metabolism and the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle (Chapter 9 - we are back to using the book!)
Wed: READ/WATCH Chapter 9.1.2; Discuss the cell cycle and chromosome numbers
9.1.2 Podcast: The Cell Cycle
9.2: Mitosis and Cytokinesis
Thurs: Optional HW Due (9.1 Review); READ/WATCH Chapter 9.2; We will review the reasons for a cell to undergo Mitosis, meiosis or Binary Fission and some practice looking at chromosome numbers.
PenguinProf: Cell cycle and mitosis review video
Friday: QUIZ 5 (chapter 9.1-9.2); Discuss major phases of mitosis v. meiosis: How do the events of meiosis ensure variation in resulting cells?
Week of 11/7: Cellular Respiration
**NOTE:TEXTBOOK NOTE FOR CHAPTER 8: Mr. J, and the text, goes into greater detail about the steps in the processes than I am going to require of you...use your “Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration packet"!
Mon: READ Chapter 8 packet; Wrap up photosynthesis reactions with review of the two steps of this biochemical pathway and the factors that affect the rate of the overall reaction. Review the carbon cycle relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Tues: NO SCHOOL! Read Chapter 8 packet about Cellular Respiration
8.3 Podcast: Cellular Respiration
Crash Course ATP and Respiration video
Wed: Optional HW DUE (Photosynthesis Review); Discuss Cellular Respiration
Ameoba Sisters: Cellular Respiration
Thurs: READ Chapter 8 packet. Work on answering the questions in the packet for practice; Wrap up Cellular Respiration and prepare for the quiz tomorrow
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Cellular Respiration Practice); QUIZ 4 (Ch. 8: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration)
Week of 10/31: Chapter 8
**NOTE:TEXTBOOK NOTE FOR CHAPTER 8: Mr. J, and the text, goes into greater detail about the steps in the processes than I am going to require of you...use your “Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration packet"!
Mon: Review Osmosis with "Transport in Cells".
Key page 1
Key page 2
Key page 3
Key page 4
Tues:Optional HW DUE (2.2 and 2.3 Concept Review); READ/WATCH 8.1; Overview the flow of energy and cycling of matter in biosphere (Ch. 2.2/2.3); Discuss the details of photosynthesis (8.1; chapter packet). Given Chapter 8 text packet and Optional HW due Friday.
8.1 Podcast: Matter and Energy
Energy Flow in Ecosystems - a review video by Bozeman Science
Crash Course Photosynthesis video
Bozeman Science: Photosynthesis
Wed:READ Chapter 8 packet; Discover the role of the pigments involved with photosynthesis; time in class to work on optional HW due on Friday.
8.2.1 Podcast: Photosynthesis; Photolysis reaction
8.2.2 Podcast: Photosynthesis: Calvin Cycle
Thurs:READ Chapter 8 packet; Overview of the role of the sun as the source of energy for most food chains on Earth.
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Photosynthesis Overview); QUIZ 3 (2.2/2.3, 8.1: Flow of energy and cycling of matter, Photosynthesis reactions)
Week of 10/24: 1st week of Quarter 2! Chapters 7.4, 2.2, 2.3
Mon: More osmosis discussion by focusing on mechanisms to combat osmosis transport (how do living things fight physics?) including "contractile vacuoles"
What happens if a paramecium's contractile vacuole stops working?
Osmoregulation mechanisms of fish
Do fish drink?
The SciGuys: Egg Osmosis
Tues: The TAKE HOME QUIZ is DUE BY today! Wrap up transport/osmosis.
Membrane transport simulator
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
Wed: NO SCHOOL!!
Thurs: READ/WATCH 2.2 and 2.3; Discussion on the flow of energy and cycling of matter, focus on carbon and water cycling
Energy Flow in Ecosystems - a review video by Bozeman Science
Cycles of Matter and Transfer of Energy review video by Bozeman Science
The Carbon Cycle - video by TED-Ed
2.2 Podcast: The Energy of Ecology (this should be mostly review from middle school)
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycling (focus on Cabon Cycle!)
Fri: Optional HW Due (7.4 Transport); QUIZ 2 (7.4, 2.2, 2.3)
Bozeman Science: Endosymbiosis
Week of 10/17: LAST WEEK OF Quarter 1
Mon: READ/WATCH 7.2; Discuss 7.2 cell membrane structure and function
7.2 Podcast The Plasma Membrane
Bozeman Science: Cell membranes
Tues: READ/WATCH 7.4; Discuss 7.4 Cellular Transport and the "vehicles" by which it occurs
7.4 Podcast Passive Transport
Wed: MEET IN ROOM 209; MANDATORY HW DUE (7.2 Study Guide); Discuss Passive v. Active modes of transport
Amoeba Sisters: Membranes and Transport
Crash Course: In Da Club (membrane transport)
Thurs: Continue discussion about transport by re-capping the basics, focusing on details of osmosis
Amoeba Sisters: Osmosis
7.4.2 Podcast : Osmosis
7.4.3 Podcast: Active Transport
Fri: QUIZ 9 (LAST QUIZ OF THE QUARTER! Chapter 7.2-7.4); given "Take Home Quiz" due by Tuesday
Copy of Take Home Quiz!
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
Labbench Practice
Week of 10/10: (Ch.7)
Mon: BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.3; Practice analyzing prok v. euk and plant v. animal cells (CLASSWORK DUE!)
7.3 PODCAST Cell Structures and Functions
Bozeman Science - A Tour of the Cell (overview of eukaryotic structures)
Tues: Discuss 7.3 cell structures and functions
Wed: BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.2; Wrap up discussion of cellular parts and functions with a discussion about plants cells v. animal cells (7.3). Begin discussion about the structure and function of the plasma membrane (7.2)
Sub work pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Thurs: QUIZ 8 (chapter 7.1, 7.3)
Fri: NO SCHOOL!
7.2 Podcast The Plasma Membrane
7.4 Podcast Passive Transport
Week of 10/3: Cells (Ch.7)
Mon:BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.1; Discuss Cell Discovery and Theory
SciShow - Microscope: The tube that changed the world
SciShow - Inside the world's powerful new microscopes
Tues: Microscope Lab - pt. 1 (using the compound light microscope to view a fixed specimen)
How to use a microscope
Virtual Microscope
Wed: Microscope Lab - pt. 2 (make a wet mount; view living organisms in pond water);
How to make a wet mount
Thurs: (MEET IN 209) Discuss Prok v. Euk cells and Discuss 7.3 Structures and Organelles
Prokaryotes v. Eukaryotes
Fri:(MEET IN 209) QUIZ 7 (chapter 7.1, microscopes); Discuss 7.3 (Cell structures)
Microscope lab Analysis pt.1
Microscope lab Analysis pt.2
Ch. 7.1 SG pt.1
Ch. 7.1 SG pt.2
Crash Course: Eukaryopolis (Animal cells)
Crash Course: Plant Cells
* Next Week: More with Chapter 7
Week of 9/26: Chemistry of Life (Ch.6)
Mon: Enzyme lab (6.2)
Tues: BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 6.4; Discuss Enzyme Lab and work on data analysis; Discuss organic macromolecules (6.4)
Ameoba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Wed: MEET IN ROOM 209; Enzyme Lab packet DUE; Discuss organic macromolecules
Crash Course: That's Why Carbon is a Tramp - not very PC, but very informative!
Crash Course: Biological Molecules
Bozeman Science: The Molecules of Life
Thurs: More discussion on organic macromolecules
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Organic Study Guide); QUIZ 6 (chapter 6 - focus on enzymes and macromolecules); wrap up organic macromolecules
6.4 Carbon and Macromolecules Podcast
Week of 9/19: Chapter 6; focus on 6.2 and 6.4
Mon: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch 6.3 (if you haven't already!); Wrap up water and chemical reactions, begin to discuss enzymes
Crash Course: Water - Liquid Awesome
Tues: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch 6.2.2, OPTIONAL HW due (6.3 Water Practice); Discussion of Enzymes and Reaction Energy(6.2)
Ameoba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Wed: HW DUE (Mandatory if 75% or less on Quiz 4. Chemistry Intro worksheet); Continue with Enzyme discussion
Chemistry Intro link (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Thurs: QUIZ 5 (Chapter 6.1-6.3); Prep for Lab on Monday
Fri: NO SCHOOL!
6.2 Chemical Reactions Podcast
6.2.2 Enzymes Podcast
Week of 9/12: Wrap up Chapter 1; Start Chapter 6
Mon: Discuss organization and display of data; graphing
1.3 Experimental Design Podcast
1.3.2 Experimental Data
Tues: HW DUE (mandatory if 70% or less on quiz 3. Science in Action: Practice); Wrap-up graphing and experimental design with some in-class practice
Bozeman Science - Analyzing and Inerpreting data (gets mathy towards the end!)
Wed: BEFORE CLASS Read/watch chapter 6.1; Intro Chapter 6 - Discuss basic chemistry (atoms, bonds) and the properties of water
TedTalk: How atoms bond
Bozemen Science: Chemical bonds ionic v. covalent
Thurs: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch Ch. 6.3; Wrap up the properties of water
Ameoba sisters: Properties of Water
TedTalk: Polarity - A Unique property of Water (shown in class)
Fri
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Biology Themes :
These course themes are incorporated into every unit and are modeled after IB and AP course objectives to ease the transition into your college-level Biology courses at CAHS.
- Evolution and Interdependence
- Unity and Diversity
- Structure and Function
- Energy Flows and Matter Cycles
- Homeostasis
- Emergent Properties
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