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CLASS EVENTS:
Week of 5/22: Endgame
Tues-Wed: FINAL EXAM (60Q; Comprehensive). Have a WONDERFUL Summer!!
Week of 5/21: Last Week of Quarter 4!
Mon:Optional HW Due (DNA extraction Questions); Quarter 4 Journals DUE; LAST QUIZ (DNA and Genetics)
Tues: Revisit cells by playing Cell Craft
Cell Craft game
Crash Course Photosynthesis
Crash Course Cellular Respiration
Crash Course Membranes and Transport
Wed: Optional HW Due (Bioluminescence); Practice for the Science Reasoning Section of the ACT
More ACT Prep
Kaplan ACT test prep
Thurs-Fri: Mods 7a/B: Final Exam
Everyone else: 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.
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 5/14: Genetics and Cells Review
Mon: Explore the evolution of dogs
Crash Course Speciation
Myths and Misconceptions about evolution (TED-Ed)
Tues: Project DUE (Mandatory); Revisit heredity with Dragon Genetics
Dragon Genetics - we will complete this tomorrow in class.
Wed: Dragon Genetics (Finish the worksheet in class!)
Dragon Genetics worksheet DUE by the end of class
Thurs: After-school Frog Dissection is today! Review DNA and prepare for tomorrow's lab.
Frog Dissection video
Frog Dissection still
Frog Dissection image
Virtual frog dissection steps
Virtual frog dissection video with info about organs
Stated Clearly: What is a Chromosome
Crash Course DNA Structure and Replication
DNA extraction technique video
Fri: DNA extraction lab
DNA extraction directions (you can do this at home!)
Week of 5/7: Ecology Review (Ch. 2-5)
Mon: Explore adaptations for plant survival
Private Life of Plants (v.6)
Tues: Optional HW Due (3 Articles questions); Introduce Invasive Species Project (Today's Goal: Decide which species you are going to research and begin to work!) Project is Due BY Tuesday 5/15!
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
Wed: Work on Invasive Species Project
Thurs: Optional HW Due (Zebra Mussel Article Questions); Work on Invasive Species Project
Fri: Mandatory HW Due (Invasive Species Questions); QUIZ 5 (Ecology; Ch. 2-5); Discuss frog anatomy and invasive species
TED-Ed Invasive Species
Sci Show: Invasive Species
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. (Climate Justice) TED Talk Series
Petermann Ice Island 2012: On the Move
Human Footprint maps
Week of 4/30: AIR test week!
Mon: Review concepts
Kahoot.it
Crash Course Photosynthesis
Crash Course Cellular Respiration
A tour of the cell (Bozeman Science)
Crash Course Membranes and Transport
Bozeman Science: transport across membranes
Tues: Review concepts
Ameoba Sisters Sex-linkage
Khan Academy: Sex-linkage
Bozeman Science Sex-linkage
Wed- Thurs: 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?
Fri: Some Ecology review (Ch. 2-5)
Week of 4/23: Wrap up Ch.5; do course review to prepare for AIR test
Mon: Wrap up Ch.5; Discuss conserving biodiverstiy
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. TED Talk Series
Tues:Optional HW Due (Articles); Review "Ecology" to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Crash Course Biology playlist (YouTube; watch 1-20,40)
Wed: Review "Evolution" to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Myths and Misconceptions about evolution (TED-Ed)
Thurs: Review "Heredity" and "Cells" to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Punnett Squares and Dihybrid Crosses (Amoeba Sisters)
Punnett Squares and Sex-linked Traits (Amoeba Sisters)
Meiosis and Linkage
Fri: TAKE HOME QUIZ DUE; Review photosynthesis, cellular respiration and transport
Ted Talk - What happens when DNA is damaged?
Mitosis and Meiosis Simulation (Bozeman Science)
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
Week of 4/16: Ecology- Ch.4-5
Mon: Optional HW DUE (Ch. 3 Study Guide); Discuss Population Ecology (Ch. 4)
4.1 Podcast: Population Dynamics
4.1.2 Podcast: Pop Dynamics pt. 2
Tues: Review ch.3-4 Community and Population Ecology; look at predation and inter/intraspecific interactions
Crash Course Population Ecology
Wed:Discuss (4.1) Population Dynamics and human populations (4.2)
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
Thurs: Optional HW due (Ch. 4 Population Growth Review); Discuss Biodiversity (Ch.5)
5.1 Podcast: Biodiversity
5.2 Podcast: Extinctions
5.2.2 Podcast: Threats to Biodiversity
TED-Ed Why is Biodiversity so important?
Bozeman Science Biodiversity
Fri: Quiz 3 (chapters 2-4); Discuss Biodiversity (Ch. 5)
5.3 Podcast: Conservation and Restoration
Wildlife Corridors
SciShow: Climate Change
QUIZLET Ecology review term pack
Week of 4/9: Welcome Back!
Mon: ALL SB WORK DUE (TH Quiz and EXTRA CREDIT); 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)
Tues: Read/Watch 2.1-2.3; Wrap up chapter 2 notes; Revisit the flow of energy and the cycling of matter
2.2 Podcast Energy of Ecology
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycles
Symbiosis Review
Interspecific relationships: predation and symbiosis
Wed: Use class time to work on the HW due Thursday
Thurs: Chapter 2.1-2.2 Study Guide Due (Mandatory), Read Chapter 3; Wrap up chapter 2 and Discuss Community Ecology (Ch. 3): Limiting factors and range of tolerance, Ecological Succession, Biomes.
3.1 Podcast: Community Ecology
3.2 Podcast: Terrestrial Biomes
Crash Course Community Ecology
Crash Course Community Ecology - pt. II (predators)
Bozeman Science Ecological Succession
Fri: Quiz 2 (Ch. 17, 2-3); Practice with Climatograms
Climatograms
Crash Course: Rules for Living on Earth
Week of 3/26: Classification (Ch. 17)
Mon: Optional HW due (17.1 Study Guide); Taxonomy and phylogenetic trees
Crash Course: Speciation (of Ligers and Men)
17.1 Podcast: Classification
17.2 Podcast: Cladistics and Cladograms
Crash Course: Taxonomy - The science of classifying
Amoeba sisters: Classification
Tues: Optional HW due (17.2 Study Guide); Discuss the 6 kingdoms; Practice with cladograms
17.3 Podcast: Domains and 6 Kingdoms
Bozeman Science: Three Domains of life
Bozeman Science: Phylogenetics
Bozeman Science: Cladograms
Khan Academy: Phylogenetic Trees
Using Evolutionary Trees site
Wed: If we meet becuase you are not testing for English - you will have class time to work on HW.
Article: Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber
Article: Did velociraptors have feathers?
Thurs:MANDATORY HW due (17.2 Study Guide); Wrap up chapter 17; Practice using and making a dichotomous key
Bozeman science: 3 domains of life
Ricochet Science: Domains and Kingdoms
Amoeba Sisters: dichotomous keying video
Fri: SPRING BREAK!!
Week of 3/19: 15.3 Evolution LAST WEEK OF QUARTER 3!
This week into next, 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); Qtr 3 Journals DUE (Optional; 24 minimum for credit); EXTRA CREDIT HW due (CDC Antibiotic Resistance Review); Discuss other mechanisms of evolution.
15.3.2 Podcast - Microevolution; the other mechanisms
TED-Ed Five Fingers of Evolution - good for chapter 15.3
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Why Sex? part 2 clip
CNN Article about the low variation of the Icelandic population (not much gene flow!) and some research about a genetic defense against Alzheimer's.
Tues: Discuss allele frequencies and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Be sure to practice and review this concept!
15.3 Podcast - The Hardy-Weinberg Principle
Crash Course - Population Genetics (Hardy Weinberg)
Penguin Prof - watch your p's and q's
Bozeman Science: Hardy Weinberg equation
Wed: Optional HW Due (15.3 Study Guide); Lab practice using H-W calculations
LabBench H-W Lab (pig calculations)
Khan Academy H-W Practice questions and video review
Khan Academy Hardy-Weinberg review guide
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (More 15.3 Practice); Wrap up H-W equilibrium
Dragon back page key
Amoeba Sisters Genetic Drift (good review over this mechanism of evolution!)
Gradualism v. Punctuated Equilibrium
National Geographic: White Rhino
Fri: Optional HW DUE (H-W Equilibrium Lab); Quiz (ch. 15.3); Discuss patterns of evolution and rates of speciation
Convergent v. Divergent Evolution
Bozeman Science: Coevolution
Amoeba Sisters: Speciation
ASAP Science - chicken or egg?
SciShow: What makes a species a species
Ant Virtual Lab - How Natural Selection affects allele frequencies
15.3.3 Podcast - Macroevolution; speciation
Crash Course: Speciation (of Ligers and Men)
Week of 3/12: 15.2 Evolution
Mon: Preview the concept of speciation/macroevolution. (Turn in Classwork)
Tues: (Have read/watched 15.2) We will continue our discussion on Evidences for Evolution.
Khan Academy: Evidence for Evolution
Crash Course -Evidence for Evolution
15.2 Podcast - Fossil and Anatomical Evidence for Evolution
15.2.2 More Evidences for Evolution
Wed: Optional HW DUE (15.2 Study Guide); We will discuss the principles of natural selection and antibiotic resistance, homologous and analogous features, evolutionary adaptations
CDC Antibiotic resistance (link for EXTRA CREDIT HW due Monday!)
Antibiotic resistance
Thurs: We will review the effect of Natural Selection and Evolutionary Adaptations wrapping up 15.2; We will discuss 15.3 content with respect to types of selctions/graphical representations of selective advantages.
Peppered moth simulation
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Evolution Practice Questions); QUIZ (Chapters 14-15.2); Discuss Sexual selection as a mechanism of evolution.
Stated Clearly: What is Natural Selection?
15.2.3 Podcast - Adaptations and Sexual Selection
Genetics and Evolution Note Supplement
Week of 3/5: Evolution basics (15.1)
Mon: (HW: Have read/watched 15.1); Discuss Darwin and the principles of 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
Tues: (HW: Have read Cane Toad/Snake Article); Discuss Natural Selection, Fitness and Adaptations (Ch.15.1); Finish discussing HHMI The Origin of Species and scientists' contributions to the theories of evolution.
HHMI The Origin of Species
Planet Earth 2: Iguanas v. snake; Struggle for survival
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Peppered moth simulation
Wed: Natural Selection lab (Lab analysis due by Friday. If absent, be sure to get the lab packet and data from a classmate on Thursday!!)
Amoeba Sisters: Natural Selection
Thurs: Delve into the evolution and applications of venom
The Venom Cure excerpt: Copperhead Venom and Cancer Research
The Venom Cure excerpt: Clotting agent in venom
Fri:Optional HWs Due (15.1 Study Guide and Nat.Sel. Lab Analysis); QUIZ 6 (Ch. 14-15.1); We will continue our discussion on Evidences for Evolution that we began last week with fossils.
Crash Course -Evidence for Evolution
15.2 Podcast - Fossil and Anatomical Evidence for Evolution
15.2.2 More Evidences for Evolution
Khan Academy: Evidence for Evolution
Bozeman Science: Evidence for evolution
Week of 2/26: Discuss Evidence for Early Earth and History of Life (Ch. 14.2)
Mon: Have Read 14.2; Discuss the scientific evidences for the origin of life (14.2)
Stated Clearly: What was the Miller-Urey experiment
SciShow: 3 world-changing experiments
14.2 Podcast: Spontaneous Generation
14.2.2 Podcast: Endosymbiosis
Amoeba Sisters: Endosymbiosis
Tues:Time in class to work on HW
Wed: HW Due (Chapter 14 packet); 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!)
Thurs:Discuss evolution basics (15.1)
15.1 Podcast Darwin and the Evolution Idea
15.1.2 Podcast Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Stated Clearly: What is Evolution?
Stated Clearly: What is Natural Selection?
Fri: HW Due (Origin of Life Active Reading Guide); QUIZ 5 (Ch. 14); Discuss evolution basics (15.1)
HHMI The Origin of Species
TedEd Myths and Misconceptions about Evolution
Week of 2/19: Discuss Evidence for Early Earth and History of Life (Ch. 14)
Mon: No school!
Tues: (Have Read/Watched 14.1); Optional HW Due (14.1 Study Guide); Discuss History of life on Earth and Fossil evidence
14.1.1 Podcast: Fossils
14.1.2 Podcast: History of Earth
How to date a dead thing
Wed: Review evidence for the history of Earth
Thurs: Review radiometric dating (14.1)
Crash Course: The History of Life on Earth
Scientific American: How does radiometric dating work
Fri: QUIZ 4 (Ch. 13-14) Discuss the evolution of life (14.2).
Stated Clearly: What was the Miller-Urey experiment
SciShow: 3 world-changing experiments
14.2 Podcast: Spontaneous Generation
14.2.2 Podcast: Endosymbiosis
Amoeba Sisters: Endosymbiosis
Week of 2/12: Wrap up DNA technology (Ch. 13) and the evolutionary results of mutations (Ch.12):
Mon: Read/Watch 13.1; Optional HW Due (12.3/12.4 Study Guide); Discuss selective breeding and hybridization (13.1)
Sci Show: The terrifying Truth about Bananas (watched in class mods 3/4, 11/12)
Milk and the mutants who love it (watched in class)
13.1 Podcast Selective breeding and hybridization
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)
Scientific American Instant Egghead #45 - What is a Genetically Modified Food? (watched in class)
Genetic engineering basics animation
13.2 Podcast: Genetic Engineering and DNA Technologies
NY Times 1986 Tobacco Plant with Firefly Gene Implant Grows
Wed: MANDATORY HW (if score 17 or less on Quiz 2) DUE (DNA Mutations Practice); More discussion of 13.2 DNA technologies Discuss GMOs and genetic engineering with restriction enzymes and bacterial plasmids
MITK12: Genetic engineering (Excellent Review over GM via plasmid)
How are Gmo's Created (starring the Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya) (watched in class)
Bozeman Science: Molecular Genetics (Great review for 13.2-13.3!)
SciShow - Why are GMOs bad?
Thurs: Turn in yesterday's classwork if you haven't; Wrap up 13.2 with a discussion of other types of cloning technologies (Therapeutic, Reproductive)
Learn.Genetics Cloning Resources
What is Cloning?
Answers to some questions about cloning
13.3 Podcast: Transgenic organisms and Cloning
Ted Talk: Gene Editing can now change an entire species forever
TedTalk: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA (as presented by one of the inventors)
TedTalk Rethinking Genetic Engineering
TedTalk: What you need to know about CRISPR
Fri: OPTIONAL HW (Ch. 13 Terms) DUE; QUIZ 3 (Ch. 13) Discuss the human genome project and CRISPR-Cas9
Ted-Ed: The race to sequence the human genome (watched in class mods 1-2 only)
SciShow: CRISPR A Gene Editing superpower (watched in class)
NOVA Next: genetically engineering almost anything (CRISPR gene drive)
SciShow- The Truth about Gingers
BBC: Who's afraid of Designer Babies?
Week of 2/5: 12.3-12.4
Mon: READ 12.3 before class; Discuss Transcription, Central Dogma: DNA to RNA to Protein
12.3 Podcast - Central Dogma of Transcription
DNA Game (NobelPrize.org)
Tues: Discuss and practice transcription and translation
Amoeba Sisters - Protein Synthesis (watched in class)
Crash Course - Transcription and Translation
More Practice of Transcription and Translation
12.3.2 Podcast - Translation/Protein Synthesis
Wed: SNOW DAY!!
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (DNA to Protein Review); More practice of transcription and translation; Discuss types of and the effects of mutation (12.4)
Khan Academy - Replication, Transcription and Translation - Great for review of 12.2-12.3!!
Bozeman Science - Transcription/Translation - Also Great Review!
Practice Transcription and Translation
12.4 Podcast Gene Expression and Mutation
Fri:Quiz 2 (Ch.12)
Introns v. Exons: From pre-mRNA to mRNA
Week of 1/29: DNA Structure and Function (12.1-12.2)
Mon: READ 12.1 before class; Review the lab from last week; Review the structure of DNA (Ch. 12.1-12.2).
TedEd: How does DNA fingerprinting work?
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
Tues: Optional HW DUE (12.1 Quick Check); Review the Structure of DNA and the events of DNA Replication as we complete the packet (using models) from yesterday
The DNA Double Helix Discovery (HHMI)
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Wed: READ 12.2; Classwork DUE (DNA Structure and Replication Packet that we worked on Mon and Tues); More discussion and practice on the events of DNA replication
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication (for the HW assignment!)
Bozeman Science - DNA Replication (watched in class)
Amoeba Sisters - DNA Replication
MIT Lecture - DNA Replication (some details are beyond our level, but interesting if you want to see what a college lecture looks like!)
Thurs: DNA replication review; Discuss 12.3 the role of RNA in protein synthesis (central dogma)
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
Fri: Optional HW Due (Crash Course video Worksheet); Quiz 1 (12.1-12.2)
TedEd: How I discovered DNA - James Watson
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
A Mutation Story: Sickle Cell Anemia
Harvard U: An Introduction to the human genome
Week of 1/22: DNA and DNA analysis (No quiz this week!)
Mon: MANDATORY HW DUE (DNA Review); Discuss structure of DNA (Ch. 12.1-12.2)
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Tues: Discuss machinery of DNA replication and use of DNA Fingerprinting Analysis (Ch. 13)
MITK12 video- PCR
MITK12 video - Gel Electrophoresis
Bozeman Science - DNA Fingerprinting
TedEd: How does DNA fingerprinting work?
Wed: NO SCHOOL! Watch videos linked for this week!!!
Thurs and Fri: Meet in CAHS Library for DNA Analysis lab!
Virtual Gel Electrophoresis lab - try this if you are absent!
Another DNA fingerprinting "how to" video
Week of 1/8: Wrap up patterns of heredity
Mon:SNOW DAY!!
Tues: TAKE HOME Quiz 10 DUE; Extra Credit Article questions Due; Discuss epistasis(11.2), gene linkage and chromosomal genetics
Bozeman Science: Chromosomal Genetics
11.2.2 Podcast: Multiple alleles and Epistasis
10.3 Podcast: Linkage and Polyploidy
11.3 Podcast: Sex determination and sex linkage
Wed: READ/WATCH Chapter 11.3; Discuss sex-linkage
11.3 Podcast: Sex determination and sex linkage
Amoeba Sisters: Punnett Squares and Sex-linkage
Khan Academy: Sex-linked Traits
Thurs: Discuss sex-linkage and epistasis, do practice problems.
Fri: Optional HW Due (Sex-linked Practice); Discuss and practice Chi-squared analysis.
Bozeman Science Chi-squared
Khan Academy Chi-square review
Corn genetics Chi-squared practice
Week of 12/18: Heredity (Ch.11)
Mon:READ/WATCH Chapter 11.2; Optional Hw Due (Pedigree Practice); Review pedigree analysis; Discuss multiple alleles and complex patterns of human inheritance (incomplete and codominance)
11.1.2 Podcast: Pedigrees
Pedigree MIT
11.2 Podcast: Incomplete Dominance and Codominance
Amoeba Sisters Complex Patterns of Inheritance
Tues: Discuss complex patterns of human inheritance (incomplete and codominance)
Wed:Optional Hw Due (11.1-11.2 Study Guide); Practice with complex patterns of inheritance; go over pedigree assignment
Thurs:NO QUIZ TODAY!! Practice Codominance and Incomplete Dominance problems
Fri: Optional Hw Due (Genetics Review); Work on Break Work
Week of 12/11: Heredity (Chapters 10.2-11.1)
Mon:READ/WATCH Chapter 10.2; Discuss the advantages and disadvantages to sexual reproduction (10.1)
10.1.3: Sexual v. asexual reproduction
Why Sex?
Tues:Optional HW Due (10.2 Study Guide); Review/Preview Mendelian genetics (10.2)
TEDed How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics
Bozeman Science: Mendelian genetics
10 Podcast: Punnett Squares
10.2 Podcast: Mendel and Heredity
Wed: Discuss Mendelian genetics
Crash Course Heredity
10.2.2 Podcast: Laws of inheritance
Thurs:READ/WATCH Chapter 11.1; Practice monohybrid/dihybrid crosses and probability ratios; Practice using pedigrees to solve genetics problems
11.1.2 Podcast: Pedigrees
Pedigree MIT
Fri: Quiz 9 (Chapters 10.1-11.1)
Week of 12/4: Cell Division - Meiosis (Ch. 10)
Mon: Discuss chromosome numbers and the events of meiosis
10.1 Podcast: Chromosome info
10.1.2 Podcast: Meiosis
Bozeman Science Phases of Meiosis
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 10.1; Optional HW DUE (Mitosis v. Meiosis "half sheet"); Discuss how the events of meiosis ensure genetic variation in offspring (Ch. 10.1)
Crash Course Meiosis
Bozeman Science: Mitosis and Meiosis simulation
Wed: Review events of mitosis and meiosis; practice with chromosome numbers; practice crossing over problem
Crossing over
Thurs: Discuss stem cells, differentiation and review phases of cell cycle
Answers to in-class Cell Cycle Review worksheet
Fri: Mandatory/Optional HW DUE (9.1,9.2,10.1 Chapter Assessment questions); Quiz 8 (Chapters 9-10.1)
Week of 11/24: Cell Division (ch. 9)
Mon: Take Home Quiz (Quiz 6) and Extra Credit assignment are DUE; 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 and 9.2 (especially if you do not remember mitosis details learned in middle school!); Discuss the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle and Mitosis vs. meiosis versions of cell division
9.2 Podcast: Mitosis and Cytokinesis
Wed: Discuss the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, purposes of Mitosis and Meiosis, a look at chromosome structure and numbers.
Khan Academy: Interphase
Khan Academy: Mitosis
Thurs: Optional HW Due (9.1 Review); Discuss events of mitosis (9.2)
Actual Mitosis video
Amoeba sisters Mitosis
Twilight Mitosis - a look at mitosis phases under a microscope
PenguinProf: Cell cycle and mitosis review video
Crash Course Mitosis
Bozeman Science Mitosis v. Meiosis
(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
SciShow Stem Cells
Friday: Optional HW Due (Mitosis Review); QUIZ 7 (chapter 9.1-9.2); ; Discuss cancer (9.3); 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?
Khan Academy Apoptosis
Crash Course Animal Development - We're Just Tubes
MIT OpenCourseWare lecture on Stem Cells (well above what you need for this class, but a good look into college lecture!)
CNN Surgeons grow a nose on a man's forehead for transplant
MITK12 Why we can re-grow a liver
Week of 11/20: Intro to Cell Division (ch 9.1)
Mon:Optional HW Due (Cellular Respiration Practice); Discuss the physics of cell/organelle size (9.1) and the need for division
9.1 Podcast: Cell Size
Bozeman Science video - Why cells are small
Another cell size YouTube video!
Agar demo to investigate cell size
Tues: Turn in Take Home Quiz by today for extra credit! Wrap up cellular respiration with a look at how the mitochondria respond to increasing energy demands;
Crash Course ATP and Respiration video
Amoeba Sisters: Cellular Respiration
Article about mitochondrial diseases (Cleveland Clinic)
Week of 11/13: Chapter 8 (Photosynthesis and 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/WATCH 8.1; Review the carbon cycle relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration; Discuss the details of photosynthesis (8.1; chapter packet); Discover the role of the pigments involved with photosynthesis
8.1 Podcast: Matter and Energy
Tues: READ Chapter 8 packet (photosynthesis); 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.
Crash Course Photosynthesis video
Bozeman Science: Photosynthesis
Wed: ONLY mods 3 and 11 will meet today due to modified schedule
8.2.1 Podcast: Photosynthesis; Photolysis reaction (again, a little too detailed)
8.2.2 Podcast: Photosynthesis: Calvin Cycle (again, a little too detailed)
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (Photosynthesis review); READ Chapter 8 packet (cellular respiration); Discuss the details of Cellular Respiration
8.3 Podcast: Cellular Respiration
Crash Course ATP and Respiration video
Amoeba Sisters: Cellular Respiration
Fri: QUIZ 5 (2.2/2.3, 8: Flow of energy and cycling of matter, Photosynthesis and cellular respiration reactions)
Week of 11/6: Chapters 7.4, 2.2, 2.3
Mon: Investigate membrane transport
TEDTalk: How we can make crops survive without water
Tues: NO SCHOOL!!
2.2 Podcast: The Energy of Ecology (this should be mostly review from middle school)
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycling (focus on Cabon Cycle!)
Wed: READ/WATCH 2.2 and 2.3; Discussion on the flow of energy and cycling of matter.
Energy Flow in Ecosystems - a review video by Bozeman Science
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (2.2 and 2.3 Concept Review); More discussion on the flow of energy and cycling of matter, focus on carbon cycling
The Carbon Cycle - video by TED-Ed
Cycles of Matter and Transfer of Energy review video by Bozeman Science
Crash Course: Hydrologic and Carbon cycles
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Energy Flow in an Ecosystem Practice); QUIZ 4 (7.4, 2.2, 2.3)
8.1 Podcast: Matter and Energy
Week of 10/30: 7.4 Transport
Mon: READ/WATCH 7.4; Discuss 7.4 Cellular Transport and the "vehicles" by which it occurs. Discuss Passive v. Active modes of transport
7.4 Podcast Passive Transport
7.4.3 Podcast: Active Transport
Amoeba Sisters: Membranes and Transport
Crash Course: In Da Club (membrane transport)
Tues: Optional HW Due (7.4 Transport); Continue discussion about transport by re-capping the basics, focusing on details/terminology of osmosis
Amoeba Sisters: Osmosis
7.4.2 Podcast : Osmosis
Membrane transport simulator
Kahn Academy: Endocytosis
Khan Academy: Exocytosis
Wed: More osmosis discussion by focusing on mechanisms to combat osmosis transport (how do living things fight physics?) including "contractile vacuoles"
Paramecium Exploding! What happens if a paramecium's contractile vacuole stops working?
Thurs: Optional HW Due; Osmosis discussion (Fish urine discussion and egg demonstration!)
Osmoregulation mechanisms of fish (article)
SciShow: Do fish drink?
Egg Osmosis demonstration
Kahn Academy: Osmosis
Amoeba Sisters: Osmosis
7.4.2 Podcast : Osmosis
Fri: Optional HW Due; QUIZ 3 (7.4)
Labbench Practice
Week of 10/23: First WEEK OF Quarter 2!
Mon: MANDATORY HW DUE (Take Home Quiz); Discuss the structures of the cell membrane and their functions (Ch. 7.2)
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
7.2 Podcast The Plasma Membrane
Bozeman Science: Cell membranes
Copy of Take Home Quiz!
Tues: MEET IN ROOM 209; Discuss the structure of the cell membrane (Ch. 7.2)
PenguinProf: Meet the Cell Membrane
Wed: NO SCHOOL!
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (7.2 Study Guide); Wrap up membrane structure and function; Introduce Passive v. Active modes of transport (7.4) with the "3 questions"
TEDTalk: The Cell membrane
Fri: Bring answered "3 questions" that we worked on at the end of class yesterday; QUIZ 2 (Chapter 7.3-7.2, some 7.4)
TED Talk: Cell Membranes are way more complicated than you think
7.4 Podcast: Passive Transport
7.4.3 Podcast Active Transport
Week of 10/16: Cells (Ch.7.1, 7.3) LAST WEEK OF QTR. 1!!
Mon: Microscope Lab (using the compound light microscope to view a fixed specimen)
TedEd How to Use a microscope and parts of a microscope
How to use a microscope
Virtual Microscope (does not work well with Chrome)
Tues: Optional HW Due (Intro to the Microscope Practice); BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.3; Discuss Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells (Ch. 7.1, 7.3)
7.3 Podcast: Cell Structures and Organelles
Crash Course: Eukaryopolis (Animal cells)
Crash Course: Plant Cells
Wed: Optional HW Due (7.3 SG); Microscope Lab (make a wet mount; view living organisms in pond water)
How to make a wet mount
Bozeman Science A Tour of the Cell
Thurs: Optional HW Due (Microscope lab questions); QUIZ 7 (chapter 7.1, 7.3, microscopes)
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
TedEd How we Think Complex Cells Evolved
Bozeman Science: Endosymbiosis
Copy of Take Home Quiz!
Fri: NO SCHOOL!
Week of 10/9: Cells (Ch.7.1)
Mon:BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.1; Discuss Cell Discovery and Theory
7.1 Podcast: Cell Theory and Types
TedEd How to Use a microscope and parts of a microscope (use this with the labeling part of your HW!)
TedEd The Wacky History of the Cell Theory
SciShow - Microscope: The tube that changed the world
SciShow - Inside the world's powerful new microscopes
Tues: (Mandatory Classwork) Review Enzymes by completing the "Enzymatic Reactions" worksheet - use the information provided to answer the questions
Wed: (MEET IN 209) Mandatory HW Due (Enzyme Lab Questions); Optional HW Due (Intro to Microscopes); Analyze Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells
Prokaryotes v. Eukaryotes
Thurs: Optional Hw Due (7.1 Study Guide); Wrap up Chapter 7.1 notes - discuss prokaryotes v. eukaryotes
Fri: QUIZ 7 (enzymes, chapter 7.1, microscope)
TedTalk: 50 cent Origami microscope
Week of 10/2: Chapter 6; focus on 6.2 and 6.4
Mon: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch 6.2 (if you haven't already!); Discuss energy in a reaction and enzymes
6.2 Chemical Reactions Podcast
6.2.2 Enzymes Podcast
Tues: Practice with enzymes (simulation below!)
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Wed: Continue with enzyme practice
Amoeba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Thurs: Enzyme lab!
Enzyme reaction rate video
Fri: QUIZ 6 (6.2, 6.4 organics and reaction energy/enzymes)
Week of 9/25: Discuss chapter 6.4 Organic molecules
Mon: Discuss Organic Chemistry (Ch. 6.4). If our class meets, we will look at chapter 6.4 in the book and watch podcasts and videos linked below. If I do not see you due to the early release, please read/watch on your own.
Chemistry Intro link (MIT OpenCourseWare) - These lectures from MIT can help with the HW!
6.4 Podcast: Carbon and Macromolecules Podcast (watched in class)
6.4.2 Podcast: Carbs and Lipids (watched in class)
6.4.3 Podcast: Nucleic Acids and Protein (watched in class)
Crash Course: Biological Molecules (partially watched in class)
Bozeman Science: The Molecules of Life
Tues: Students who had Biology today (due to the early release) took the class time to review the recent quiz and study for the next.
Wed: Discuss Organic Chemistry (Ch. 6.4).
Crash Course: Biological Molecules
Thurs: Meet in room 209! Discuss organic chemistry and enzymes in particular(Ch. 6.4 and 6.2)
Amoeba Sisters: Biomolecules
Fri: Optional HW DUE (6.4 Study Guide); QUIZ 5 (6.3, 6.4 water and organics - remember your index card!!)
6.2 Chemical Reactions Podcast
6.2.2 Enzymes Podcast
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Amoeba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Week of 9/18: Discuss Chapter 6.3 Properties of Water
Mon: Wrap up basics of atoms, balanced reactions and bonding (6.1, some 6.2); Begin to discuss (6.3) the properties of water and how the structure of the molecule relates to function
TedTalk: How atoms bond(watched in class)
Bozeman Science - Chemical Bonds
6.3 Podcast: Water
Tues: Have read/watched 6.3; Continue with water discussion
TedTalk: Polarity - A Unique property of Water (watched in class)
6.3 Podcast: Water
Wed: HW DUE 6.3 Water Practice (Optional); Wrap up water discussion and revisit the parts of a chemical reaction
Bozeman Science - Water: A Polar Molecule (watched in class)
Crash Course: Water - Liquid Awesome
Ameoba sisters: Properties of Water
Chemistry Intro link (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Thurs: HW DUE Bozeman Science: Water- The Polar Molecule notes (Optional); QUIZ 4 (6.1, 6.3)
Crash Course: That's Why Carbon is a Tramp - not very PC, but very informative! (watched in class)
The dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide
Fri: NO SCHOOL!!
Week of 9/11: Wrap up Chapter 1.3 and begin to discuss the Chemistry of life (ch. 6)
Mon: Discuss data collection and analysis by looking at/constructing data tables and graphs.
Tues: HW DUE Graph Practice (Optional); Review scientific methodology and display of data in graph.
Wed: HW DUE Ch. 1.1 Assessment (Optional); Wrap up chapter 1 discussion of scientific methodology/process; Begin to discuss chemistry basics with atomic structure
6.1 Podcast: Basic Chemistry Review
Thurs: Review chemistry basics with atomic structure, basic reaction terminology and a preview of bonding
6.2 Podcast: Chemical Reactions
Fri: QUIZ 3 (1.3-intro ch.6)
TedTalk: How atoms bond
Bozeman Science - Chemical Bonds
Week of 9/5: Ch.1.2-1.3
Mon: No School!
Tues: HW DUE: Have read Ch.1.2; Discuss the Nature of Science
1.2 Podcast: What is Science?
Wed: HW DUE: Have read Ch. 1.3, Turn in Mussel Beard Article Answers (Optional); Wrap up Nature of Science (1.2), Discuss Experimental Design (1.3)
1.3.1 Podcast : Experimental Design
1.3.2 Experimental Data
Thurs: HW Due: 1.2/1.3 Study Guide (Optional); Discuss 1.3 Experimental Design
Fri: HW Due: Scientific Method in Action (Optional if Quiz 1 score was 75% or higher); QUIZ 2 (1.2-1.3); Practice 1.3 Experimental Design
Week of 8/28: Ch.1.1 What is Life? and Ch 1.2 The Nature of Science
Questions to think about:
Tues: Optional HW DUE (1.1 SG); Go over 1.1 HW; Discuss Ch.1.1 Characteristics of life
Wed: Go over 1.1 HW; Wrap up Ch.1.1 Characteristics of life
Thurs: HW DUE (Have read/watched ch.1.2); Discuss Ch.1.2 The Nature of Science
Ch.1.2 Podcast: What is Science?
Basics of Science study guide
Friday: First QUIZ (Ch 1.1-intro1.2); Discuss Ch.1.2 The Nature of Science
Serendipity and Blood thinner
Ch. 1.3.1 Podcast: Experimental Design Podcast
Ch. 1.3.2 Podcast:Experimental Data Podcast
Week of 8/23: Welcome!
In these first weeks we will look at an overview the course and discuss how learning occurs, the nature of science as knowledge and the dynamic definition of life.
Wed: Pass out Syllabus; Explore the Characteristics of Life
uestions to think about:
TEDEd: At what moment are you dead?
Friday: BRING YOUR BOOK TO Class! Turn in 1.1 HW (questions 1-10) before you leave. Work on Chapter 1-1 Study Guide (which will be given during class) as it is an optional HW due by Tuesday 8/29.
* First QUIZ will be next FRIDAY (9/1)!!!
Ch. 1.1 Podcast: What is Biology?
Chapter 1-1 ppt notes
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Tues-Wed: FINAL EXAM (60Q; Comprehensive). Have a WONDERFUL Summer!!
Week of 5/21: Last Week of Quarter 4!
Mon:Optional HW Due (DNA extraction Questions); Quarter 4 Journals DUE; LAST QUIZ (DNA and Genetics)
Tues: Revisit cells by playing Cell Craft
Cell Craft game
Crash Course Photosynthesis
Crash Course Cellular Respiration
Crash Course Membranes and Transport
Wed: Optional HW Due (Bioluminescence); Practice for the Science Reasoning Section of the ACT
More ACT Prep
Kaplan ACT test prep
Thurs-Fri: Mods 7a/B: Final Exam
Everyone else: 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.
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 5/14: Genetics and Cells Review
Mon: Explore the evolution of dogs
Crash Course Speciation
Myths and Misconceptions about evolution (TED-Ed)
Tues: Project DUE (Mandatory); Revisit heredity with Dragon Genetics
Dragon Genetics - we will complete this tomorrow in class.
Wed: Dragon Genetics (Finish the worksheet in class!)
Dragon Genetics worksheet DUE by the end of class
Thurs: After-school Frog Dissection is today! Review DNA and prepare for tomorrow's lab.
Frog Dissection video
Frog Dissection still
Frog Dissection image
Virtual frog dissection steps
Virtual frog dissection video with info about organs
Stated Clearly: What is a Chromosome
Crash Course DNA Structure and Replication
DNA extraction technique video
Fri: DNA extraction lab
DNA extraction directions (you can do this at home!)
Week of 5/7: Ecology Review (Ch. 2-5)
Mon: Explore adaptations for plant survival
Private Life of Plants (v.6)
Tues: Optional HW Due (3 Articles questions); Introduce Invasive Species Project (Today's Goal: Decide which species you are going to research and begin to work!) Project is Due BY Tuesday 5/15!
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
Wed: Work on Invasive Species Project
Thurs: Optional HW Due (Zebra Mussel Article Questions); Work on Invasive Species Project
Fri: Mandatory HW Due (Invasive Species Questions); QUIZ 5 (Ecology; Ch. 2-5); Discuss frog anatomy and invasive species
TED-Ed Invasive Species
Sci Show: Invasive Species
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. (Climate Justice) TED Talk Series
Petermann Ice Island 2012: On the Move
Human Footprint maps
Week of 4/30: AIR test week!
Mon: Review concepts
Kahoot.it
Crash Course Photosynthesis
Crash Course Cellular Respiration
A tour of the cell (Bozeman Science)
Crash Course Membranes and Transport
Bozeman Science: transport across membranes
Tues: Review concepts
Ameoba Sisters Sex-linkage
Khan Academy: Sex-linkage
Bozeman Science Sex-linkage
Wed- Thurs: 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?
Fri: Some Ecology review (Ch. 2-5)
Week of 4/23: Wrap up Ch.5; do course review to prepare for AIR test
Mon: Wrap up Ch.5; Discuss conserving biodiverstiy
Climate Change: Oh, it's Real. TED Talk Series
Tues:Optional HW Due (Articles); Review "Ecology" to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Crash Course Biology playlist (YouTube; watch 1-20,40)
Wed: Review "Evolution" to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Myths and Misconceptions about evolution (TED-Ed)
Thurs: Review "Heredity" and "Cells" to prepare for the OST/AIR Biology Test
Punnett Squares and Dihybrid Crosses (Amoeba Sisters)
Punnett Squares and Sex-linked Traits (Amoeba Sisters)
Meiosis and Linkage
Fri: TAKE HOME QUIZ DUE; Review photosynthesis, cellular respiration and transport
Ted Talk - What happens when DNA is damaged?
Mitosis and Meiosis Simulation (Bozeman Science)
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
Week of 4/16: Ecology- Ch.4-5
Mon: Optional HW DUE (Ch. 3 Study Guide); Discuss Population Ecology (Ch. 4)
4.1 Podcast: Population Dynamics
4.1.2 Podcast: Pop Dynamics pt. 2
Tues: Review ch.3-4 Community and Population Ecology; look at predation and inter/intraspecific interactions
Crash Course Population Ecology
Wed:Discuss (4.1) Population Dynamics and human populations (4.2)
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
Thurs: Optional HW due (Ch. 4 Population Growth Review); Discuss Biodiversity (Ch.5)
5.1 Podcast: Biodiversity
5.2 Podcast: Extinctions
5.2.2 Podcast: Threats to Biodiversity
TED-Ed Why is Biodiversity so important?
Bozeman Science Biodiversity
Fri: Quiz 3 (chapters 2-4); Discuss Biodiversity (Ch. 5)
5.3 Podcast: Conservation and Restoration
Wildlife Corridors
SciShow: Climate Change
QUIZLET Ecology review term pack
Week of 4/9: Welcome Back!
Mon: ALL SB WORK DUE (TH Quiz and EXTRA CREDIT); 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)
Tues: Read/Watch 2.1-2.3; Wrap up chapter 2 notes; Revisit the flow of energy and the cycling of matter
2.2 Podcast Energy of Ecology
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycles
Symbiosis Review
Interspecific relationships: predation and symbiosis
Wed: Use class time to work on the HW due Thursday
Thurs: Chapter 2.1-2.2 Study Guide Due (Mandatory), Read Chapter 3; Wrap up chapter 2 and Discuss Community Ecology (Ch. 3): Limiting factors and range of tolerance, Ecological Succession, Biomes.
3.1 Podcast: Community Ecology
3.2 Podcast: Terrestrial Biomes
Crash Course Community Ecology
Crash Course Community Ecology - pt. II (predators)
Bozeman Science Ecological Succession
Fri: Quiz 2 (Ch. 17, 2-3); Practice with Climatograms
Climatograms
Crash Course: Rules for Living on Earth
Week of 3/26: Classification (Ch. 17)
Mon: Optional HW due (17.1 Study Guide); Taxonomy and phylogenetic trees
Crash Course: Speciation (of Ligers and Men)
17.1 Podcast: Classification
17.2 Podcast: Cladistics and Cladograms
Crash Course: Taxonomy - The science of classifying
Amoeba sisters: Classification
Tues: Optional HW due (17.2 Study Guide); Discuss the 6 kingdoms; Practice with cladograms
17.3 Podcast: Domains and 6 Kingdoms
Bozeman Science: Three Domains of life
Bozeman Science: Phylogenetics
Bozeman Science: Cladograms
Khan Academy: Phylogenetic Trees
Using Evolutionary Trees site
Wed: If we meet becuase you are not testing for English - you will have class time to work on HW.
Article: Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber
Article: Did velociraptors have feathers?
Thurs:MANDATORY HW due (17.2 Study Guide); Wrap up chapter 17; Practice using and making a dichotomous key
Bozeman science: 3 domains of life
Ricochet Science: Domains and Kingdoms
Amoeba Sisters: dichotomous keying video
Fri: SPRING BREAK!!
Week of 3/19: 15.3 Evolution LAST WEEK OF QUARTER 3!
This week into next, 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); Qtr 3 Journals DUE (Optional; 24 minimum for credit); EXTRA CREDIT HW due (CDC Antibiotic Resistance Review); Discuss other mechanisms of evolution.
15.3.2 Podcast - Microevolution; the other mechanisms
TED-Ed Five Fingers of Evolution - good for chapter 15.3
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Why Sex? part 2 clip
CNN Article about the low variation of the Icelandic population (not much gene flow!) and some research about a genetic defense against Alzheimer's.
Tues: Discuss allele frequencies and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Be sure to practice and review this concept!
15.3 Podcast - The Hardy-Weinberg Principle
Crash Course - Population Genetics (Hardy Weinberg)
Penguin Prof - watch your p's and q's
Bozeman Science: Hardy Weinberg equation
Wed: Optional HW Due (15.3 Study Guide); Lab practice using H-W calculations
LabBench H-W Lab (pig calculations)
Khan Academy H-W Practice questions and video review
Khan Academy Hardy-Weinberg review guide
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (More 15.3 Practice); Wrap up H-W equilibrium
Dragon back page key
Amoeba Sisters Genetic Drift (good review over this mechanism of evolution!)
Gradualism v. Punctuated Equilibrium
National Geographic: White Rhino
Fri: Optional HW DUE (H-W Equilibrium Lab); Quiz (ch. 15.3); Discuss patterns of evolution and rates of speciation
Convergent v. Divergent Evolution
Bozeman Science: Coevolution
Amoeba Sisters: Speciation
ASAP Science - chicken or egg?
SciShow: What makes a species a species
Ant Virtual Lab - How Natural Selection affects allele frequencies
15.3.3 Podcast - Macroevolution; speciation
Crash Course: Speciation (of Ligers and Men)
Week of 3/12: 15.2 Evolution
Mon: Preview the concept of speciation/macroevolution. (Turn in Classwork)
Tues: (Have read/watched 15.2) We will continue our discussion on Evidences for Evolution.
Khan Academy: Evidence for Evolution
Crash Course -Evidence for Evolution
15.2 Podcast - Fossil and Anatomical Evidence for Evolution
15.2.2 More Evidences for Evolution
Wed: Optional HW DUE (15.2 Study Guide); We will discuss the principles of natural selection and antibiotic resistance, homologous and analogous features, evolutionary adaptations
CDC Antibiotic resistance (link for EXTRA CREDIT HW due Monday!)
Antibiotic resistance
Thurs: We will review the effect of Natural Selection and Evolutionary Adaptations wrapping up 15.2; We will discuss 15.3 content with respect to types of selctions/graphical representations of selective advantages.
Peppered moth simulation
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Evolution Practice Questions); QUIZ (Chapters 14-15.2); Discuss Sexual selection as a mechanism of evolution.
Stated Clearly: What is Natural Selection?
15.2.3 Podcast - Adaptations and Sexual Selection
Genetics and Evolution Note Supplement
Week of 3/5: Evolution basics (15.1)
Mon: (HW: Have read/watched 15.1); Discuss Darwin and the principles of 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
Tues: (HW: Have read Cane Toad/Snake Article); Discuss Natural Selection, Fitness and Adaptations (Ch.15.1); Finish discussing HHMI The Origin of Species and scientists' contributions to the theories of evolution.
HHMI The Origin of Species
Planet Earth 2: Iguanas v. snake; Struggle for survival
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Peppered moth simulation
Wed: Natural Selection lab (Lab analysis due by Friday. If absent, be sure to get the lab packet and data from a classmate on Thursday!!)
Amoeba Sisters: Natural Selection
Thurs: Delve into the evolution and applications of venom
The Venom Cure excerpt: Copperhead Venom and Cancer Research
The Venom Cure excerpt: Clotting agent in venom
Fri:Optional HWs Due (15.1 Study Guide and Nat.Sel. Lab Analysis); QUIZ 6 (Ch. 14-15.1); We will continue our discussion on Evidences for Evolution that we began last week with fossils.
Crash Course -Evidence for Evolution
15.2 Podcast - Fossil and Anatomical Evidence for Evolution
15.2.2 More Evidences for Evolution
Khan Academy: Evidence for Evolution
Bozeman Science: Evidence for evolution
Week of 2/26: Discuss Evidence for Early Earth and History of Life (Ch. 14.2)
Mon: Have Read 14.2; Discuss the scientific evidences for the origin of life (14.2)
Stated Clearly: What was the Miller-Urey experiment
SciShow: 3 world-changing experiments
14.2 Podcast: Spontaneous Generation
14.2.2 Podcast: Endosymbiosis
Amoeba Sisters: Endosymbiosis
Tues:Time in class to work on HW
Wed: HW Due (Chapter 14 packet); 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!)
Thurs:Discuss evolution basics (15.1)
15.1 Podcast Darwin and the Evolution Idea
15.1.2 Podcast Darwin and Evolution by Natural Selection
Crash Course - Natural Selection
Stated Clearly: What is Evolution?
Stated Clearly: What is Natural Selection?
Fri: HW Due (Origin of Life Active Reading Guide); QUIZ 5 (Ch. 14); Discuss evolution basics (15.1)
HHMI The Origin of Species
TedEd Myths and Misconceptions about Evolution
Week of 2/19: Discuss Evidence for Early Earth and History of Life (Ch. 14)
Mon: No school!
Tues: (Have Read/Watched 14.1); Optional HW Due (14.1 Study Guide); Discuss History of life on Earth and Fossil evidence
14.1.1 Podcast: Fossils
14.1.2 Podcast: History of Earth
How to date a dead thing
Wed: Review evidence for the history of Earth
Thurs: Review radiometric dating (14.1)
Crash Course: The History of Life on Earth
Scientific American: How does radiometric dating work
Fri: QUIZ 4 (Ch. 13-14) Discuss the evolution of life (14.2).
Stated Clearly: What was the Miller-Urey experiment
SciShow: 3 world-changing experiments
14.2 Podcast: Spontaneous Generation
14.2.2 Podcast: Endosymbiosis
Amoeba Sisters: Endosymbiosis
Week of 2/12: Wrap up DNA technology (Ch. 13) and the evolutionary results of mutations (Ch.12):
Mon: Read/Watch 13.1; Optional HW Due (12.3/12.4 Study Guide); Discuss selective breeding and hybridization (13.1)
Sci Show: The terrifying Truth about Bananas (watched in class mods 3/4, 11/12)
Milk and the mutants who love it (watched in class)
13.1 Podcast Selective breeding and hybridization
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)
Scientific American Instant Egghead #45 - What is a Genetically Modified Food? (watched in class)
Genetic engineering basics animation
13.2 Podcast: Genetic Engineering and DNA Technologies
NY Times 1986 Tobacco Plant with Firefly Gene Implant Grows
Wed: MANDATORY HW (if score 17 or less on Quiz 2) DUE (DNA Mutations Practice); More discussion of 13.2 DNA technologies Discuss GMOs and genetic engineering with restriction enzymes and bacterial plasmids
MITK12: Genetic engineering (Excellent Review over GM via plasmid)
How are Gmo's Created (starring the Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya) (watched in class)
Bozeman Science: Molecular Genetics (Great review for 13.2-13.3!)
SciShow - Why are GMOs bad?
Thurs: Turn in yesterday's classwork if you haven't; Wrap up 13.2 with a discussion of other types of cloning technologies (Therapeutic, Reproductive)
Learn.Genetics Cloning Resources
What is Cloning?
Answers to some questions about cloning
13.3 Podcast: Transgenic organisms and Cloning
Ted Talk: Gene Editing can now change an entire species forever
TedTalk: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA (as presented by one of the inventors)
TedTalk Rethinking Genetic Engineering
TedTalk: What you need to know about CRISPR
Fri: OPTIONAL HW (Ch. 13 Terms) DUE; QUIZ 3 (Ch. 13) Discuss the human genome project and CRISPR-Cas9
Ted-Ed: The race to sequence the human genome (watched in class mods 1-2 only)
SciShow: CRISPR A Gene Editing superpower (watched in class)
NOVA Next: genetically engineering almost anything (CRISPR gene drive)
SciShow- The Truth about Gingers
BBC: Who's afraid of Designer Babies?
Week of 2/5: 12.3-12.4
Mon: READ 12.3 before class; Discuss Transcription, Central Dogma: DNA to RNA to Protein
12.3 Podcast - Central Dogma of Transcription
DNA Game (NobelPrize.org)
Tues: Discuss and practice transcription and translation
Amoeba Sisters - Protein Synthesis (watched in class)
Crash Course - Transcription and Translation
More Practice of Transcription and Translation
12.3.2 Podcast - Translation/Protein Synthesis
Wed: SNOW DAY!!
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (DNA to Protein Review); More practice of transcription and translation; Discuss types of and the effects of mutation (12.4)
Khan Academy - Replication, Transcription and Translation - Great for review of 12.2-12.3!!
Bozeman Science - Transcription/Translation - Also Great Review!
Practice Transcription and Translation
12.4 Podcast Gene Expression and Mutation
Fri:Quiz 2 (Ch.12)
Introns v. Exons: From pre-mRNA to mRNA
Week of 1/29: DNA Structure and Function (12.1-12.2)
Mon: READ 12.1 before class; Review the lab from last week; Review the structure of DNA (Ch. 12.1-12.2).
TedEd: How does DNA fingerprinting work?
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
Tues: Optional HW DUE (12.1 Quick Check); Review the Structure of DNA and the events of DNA Replication as we complete the packet (using models) from yesterday
The DNA Double Helix Discovery (HHMI)
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Wed: READ 12.2; Classwork DUE (DNA Structure and Replication Packet that we worked on Mon and Tues); More discussion and practice on the events of DNA replication
Crash Course - DNA Structure and Replication (for the HW assignment!)
Bozeman Science - DNA Replication (watched in class)
Amoeba Sisters - DNA Replication
MIT Lecture - DNA Replication (some details are beyond our level, but interesting if you want to see what a college lecture looks like!)
Thurs: DNA replication review; Discuss 12.3 the role of RNA in protein synthesis (central dogma)
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
Fri: Optional HW Due (Crash Course video Worksheet); Quiz 1 (12.1-12.2)
TedEd: How I discovered DNA - James Watson
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
A Mutation Story: Sickle Cell Anemia
Harvard U: An Introduction to the human genome
Week of 1/22: DNA and DNA analysis (No quiz this week!)
Mon: MANDATORY HW DUE (DNA Review); Discuss structure of DNA (Ch. 12.1-12.2)
12.1 Podcast - DNA is Genetic Material
12.1.2 Podcast - History and Structure of DNA
12.2 Podcast - The Structure of DNA
Tues: Discuss machinery of DNA replication and use of DNA Fingerprinting Analysis (Ch. 13)
MITK12 video- PCR
MITK12 video - Gel Electrophoresis
Bozeman Science - DNA Fingerprinting
TedEd: How does DNA fingerprinting work?
Wed: NO SCHOOL! Watch videos linked for this week!!!
Thurs and Fri: Meet in CAHS Library for DNA Analysis lab!
Virtual Gel Electrophoresis lab - try this if you are absent!
Another DNA fingerprinting "how to" video
Week of 1/8: Wrap up patterns of heredity
Mon:SNOW DAY!!
Tues: TAKE HOME Quiz 10 DUE; Extra Credit Article questions Due; Discuss epistasis(11.2), gene linkage and chromosomal genetics
Bozeman Science: Chromosomal Genetics
11.2.2 Podcast: Multiple alleles and Epistasis
10.3 Podcast: Linkage and Polyploidy
11.3 Podcast: Sex determination and sex linkage
Wed: READ/WATCH Chapter 11.3; Discuss sex-linkage
11.3 Podcast: Sex determination and sex linkage
Amoeba Sisters: Punnett Squares and Sex-linkage
Khan Academy: Sex-linked Traits
Thurs: Discuss sex-linkage and epistasis, do practice problems.
Fri: Optional HW Due (Sex-linked Practice); Discuss and practice Chi-squared analysis.
Bozeman Science Chi-squared
Khan Academy Chi-square review
Corn genetics Chi-squared practice
Week of 12/18: Heredity (Ch.11)
Mon:READ/WATCH Chapter 11.2; Optional Hw Due (Pedigree Practice); Review pedigree analysis; Discuss multiple alleles and complex patterns of human inheritance (incomplete and codominance)
11.1.2 Podcast: Pedigrees
Pedigree MIT
11.2 Podcast: Incomplete Dominance and Codominance
Amoeba Sisters Complex Patterns of Inheritance
Tues: Discuss complex patterns of human inheritance (incomplete and codominance)
Wed:Optional Hw Due (11.1-11.2 Study Guide); Practice with complex patterns of inheritance; go over pedigree assignment
Thurs:NO QUIZ TODAY!! Practice Codominance and Incomplete Dominance problems
Fri: Optional Hw Due (Genetics Review); Work on Break Work
Week of 12/11: Heredity (Chapters 10.2-11.1)
Mon:READ/WATCH Chapter 10.2; Discuss the advantages and disadvantages to sexual reproduction (10.1)
10.1.3: Sexual v. asexual reproduction
Why Sex?
Tues:Optional HW Due (10.2 Study Guide); Review/Preview Mendelian genetics (10.2)
TEDed How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics
Bozeman Science: Mendelian genetics
10 Podcast: Punnett Squares
10.2 Podcast: Mendel and Heredity
Wed: Discuss Mendelian genetics
Crash Course Heredity
10.2.2 Podcast: Laws of inheritance
Thurs:READ/WATCH Chapter 11.1; Practice monohybrid/dihybrid crosses and probability ratios; Practice using pedigrees to solve genetics problems
11.1.2 Podcast: Pedigrees
Pedigree MIT
Fri: Quiz 9 (Chapters 10.1-11.1)
Week of 12/4: Cell Division - Meiosis (Ch. 10)
Mon: Discuss chromosome numbers and the events of meiosis
10.1 Podcast: Chromosome info
10.1.2 Podcast: Meiosis
Bozeman Science Phases of Meiosis
Tues: READ/WATCH Chapter 10.1; Optional HW DUE (Mitosis v. Meiosis "half sheet"); Discuss how the events of meiosis ensure genetic variation in offspring (Ch. 10.1)
Crash Course Meiosis
Bozeman Science: Mitosis and Meiosis simulation
Wed: Review events of mitosis and meiosis; practice with chromosome numbers; practice crossing over problem
Crossing over
Thurs: Discuss stem cells, differentiation and review phases of cell cycle
Answers to in-class Cell Cycle Review worksheet
Fri: Mandatory/Optional HW DUE (9.1,9.2,10.1 Chapter Assessment questions); Quiz 8 (Chapters 9-10.1)
Week of 11/24: Cell Division (ch. 9)
Mon: Take Home Quiz (Quiz 6) and Extra Credit assignment are DUE; 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 and 9.2 (especially if you do not remember mitosis details learned in middle school!); Discuss the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle and Mitosis vs. meiosis versions of cell division
9.2 Podcast: Mitosis and Cytokinesis
Wed: Discuss the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, purposes of Mitosis and Meiosis, a look at chromosome structure and numbers.
Khan Academy: Interphase
Khan Academy: Mitosis
Thurs: Optional HW Due (9.1 Review); Discuss events of mitosis (9.2)
Actual Mitosis video
Amoeba sisters Mitosis
Twilight Mitosis - a look at mitosis phases under a microscope
PenguinProf: Cell cycle and mitosis review video
Crash Course Mitosis
Bozeman Science Mitosis v. Meiosis
(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
SciShow Stem Cells
Friday: Optional HW Due (Mitosis Review); QUIZ 7 (chapter 9.1-9.2); ; Discuss cancer (9.3); 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?
Khan Academy Apoptosis
Crash Course Animal Development - We're Just Tubes
MIT OpenCourseWare lecture on Stem Cells (well above what you need for this class, but a good look into college lecture!)
CNN Surgeons grow a nose on a man's forehead for transplant
MITK12 Why we can re-grow a liver
Week of 11/20: Intro to Cell Division (ch 9.1)
Mon:Optional HW Due (Cellular Respiration Practice); Discuss the physics of cell/organelle size (9.1) and the need for division
9.1 Podcast: Cell Size
Bozeman Science video - Why cells are small
Another cell size YouTube video!
Agar demo to investigate cell size
Tues: Turn in Take Home Quiz by today for extra credit! Wrap up cellular respiration with a look at how the mitochondria respond to increasing energy demands;
Crash Course ATP and Respiration video
Amoeba Sisters: Cellular Respiration
Article about mitochondrial diseases (Cleveland Clinic)
Week of 11/13: Chapter 8 (Photosynthesis and 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/WATCH 8.1; Review the carbon cycle relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration; Discuss the details of photosynthesis (8.1; chapter packet); Discover the role of the pigments involved with photosynthesis
8.1 Podcast: Matter and Energy
Tues: READ Chapter 8 packet (photosynthesis); 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.
Crash Course Photosynthesis video
Bozeman Science: Photosynthesis
Wed: ONLY mods 3 and 11 will meet today due to modified schedule
8.2.1 Podcast: Photosynthesis; Photolysis reaction (again, a little too detailed)
8.2.2 Podcast: Photosynthesis: Calvin Cycle (again, a little too detailed)
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (Photosynthesis review); READ Chapter 8 packet (cellular respiration); Discuss the details of Cellular Respiration
8.3 Podcast: Cellular Respiration
Crash Course ATP and Respiration video
Amoeba Sisters: Cellular Respiration
Fri: QUIZ 5 (2.2/2.3, 8: Flow of energy and cycling of matter, Photosynthesis and cellular respiration reactions)
Week of 11/6: Chapters 7.4, 2.2, 2.3
Mon: Investigate membrane transport
TEDTalk: How we can make crops survive without water
Tues: NO SCHOOL!!
2.2 Podcast: The Energy of Ecology (this should be mostly review from middle school)
2.3 Podcast: Nutrient Cycling (focus on Cabon Cycle!)
Wed: READ/WATCH 2.2 and 2.3; Discussion on the flow of energy and cycling of matter.
Energy Flow in Ecosystems - a review video by Bozeman Science
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (2.2 and 2.3 Concept Review); More discussion on the flow of energy and cycling of matter, focus on carbon cycling
The Carbon Cycle - video by TED-Ed
Cycles of Matter and Transfer of Energy review video by Bozeman Science
Crash Course: Hydrologic and Carbon cycles
Fri: Optional HW DUE (Energy Flow in an Ecosystem Practice); QUIZ 4 (7.4, 2.2, 2.3)
8.1 Podcast: Matter and Energy
Week of 10/30: 7.4 Transport
Mon: READ/WATCH 7.4; Discuss 7.4 Cellular Transport and the "vehicles" by which it occurs. Discuss Passive v. Active modes of transport
7.4 Podcast Passive Transport
7.4.3 Podcast: Active Transport
Amoeba Sisters: Membranes and Transport
Crash Course: In Da Club (membrane transport)
Tues: Optional HW Due (7.4 Transport); Continue discussion about transport by re-capping the basics, focusing on details/terminology of osmosis
Amoeba Sisters: Osmosis
7.4.2 Podcast : Osmosis
Membrane transport simulator
Kahn Academy: Endocytosis
Khan Academy: Exocytosis
Wed: More osmosis discussion by focusing on mechanisms to combat osmosis transport (how do living things fight physics?) including "contractile vacuoles"
Paramecium Exploding! What happens if a paramecium's contractile vacuole stops working?
Thurs: Optional HW Due; Osmosis discussion (Fish urine discussion and egg demonstration!)
Osmoregulation mechanisms of fish (article)
SciShow: Do fish drink?
Egg Osmosis demonstration
Kahn Academy: Osmosis
Amoeba Sisters: Osmosis
7.4.2 Podcast : Osmosis
Fri: Optional HW Due; QUIZ 3 (7.4)
Labbench Practice
Week of 10/23: First WEEK OF Quarter 2!
Mon: MANDATORY HW DUE (Take Home Quiz); Discuss the structures of the cell membrane and their functions (Ch. 7.2)
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
7.2 Podcast The Plasma Membrane
Bozeman Science: Cell membranes
Copy of Take Home Quiz!
Tues: MEET IN ROOM 209; Discuss the structure of the cell membrane (Ch. 7.2)
PenguinProf: Meet the Cell Membrane
Wed: NO SCHOOL!
Thurs: Optional HW DUE (7.2 Study Guide); Wrap up membrane structure and function; Introduce Passive v. Active modes of transport (7.4) with the "3 questions"
TEDTalk: The Cell membrane
Fri: Bring answered "3 questions" that we worked on at the end of class yesterday; QUIZ 2 (Chapter 7.3-7.2, some 7.4)
TED Talk: Cell Membranes are way more complicated than you think
7.4 Podcast: Passive Transport
7.4.3 Podcast Active Transport
Week of 10/16: Cells (Ch.7.1, 7.3) LAST WEEK OF QTR. 1!!
Mon: Microscope Lab (using the compound light microscope to view a fixed specimen)
TedEd How to Use a microscope and parts of a microscope
How to use a microscope
Virtual Microscope (does not work well with Chrome)
Tues: Optional HW Due (Intro to the Microscope Practice); BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.3; Discuss Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells (Ch. 7.1, 7.3)
7.3 Podcast: Cell Structures and Organelles
Crash Course: Eukaryopolis (Animal cells)
Crash Course: Plant Cells
Wed: Optional HW Due (7.3 SG); Microscope Lab (make a wet mount; view living organisms in pond water)
How to make a wet mount
Bozeman Science A Tour of the Cell
Thurs: Optional HW Due (Microscope lab questions); QUIZ 7 (chapter 7.1, 7.3, microscopes)
7.3.2 PODCAST The Endomembrane System and Organelle review
TedEd How we Think Complex Cells Evolved
Bozeman Science: Endosymbiosis
Copy of Take Home Quiz!
Fri: NO SCHOOL!
Week of 10/9: Cells (Ch.7.1)
Mon:BEFORE CLASS: Read/Watch 7.1; Discuss Cell Discovery and Theory
7.1 Podcast: Cell Theory and Types
TedEd How to Use a microscope and parts of a microscope (use this with the labeling part of your HW!)
TedEd The Wacky History of the Cell Theory
SciShow - Microscope: The tube that changed the world
SciShow - Inside the world's powerful new microscopes
Tues: (Mandatory Classwork) Review Enzymes by completing the "Enzymatic Reactions" worksheet - use the information provided to answer the questions
Wed: (MEET IN 209) Mandatory HW Due (Enzyme Lab Questions); Optional HW Due (Intro to Microscopes); Analyze Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells
Prokaryotes v. Eukaryotes
Thurs: Optional Hw Due (7.1 Study Guide); Wrap up Chapter 7.1 notes - discuss prokaryotes v. eukaryotes
Fri: QUIZ 7 (enzymes, chapter 7.1, microscope)
TedTalk: 50 cent Origami microscope
Week of 10/2: Chapter 6; focus on 6.2 and 6.4
Mon: BEFORE CLASS Read/Watch 6.2 (if you haven't already!); Discuss energy in a reaction and enzymes
6.2 Chemical Reactions Podcast
6.2.2 Enzymes Podcast
Tues: Practice with enzymes (simulation below!)
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Wed: Continue with enzyme practice
Amoeba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Thurs: Enzyme lab!
Enzyme reaction rate video
Fri: QUIZ 6 (6.2, 6.4 organics and reaction energy/enzymes)
Week of 9/25: Discuss chapter 6.4 Organic molecules
Mon: Discuss Organic Chemistry (Ch. 6.4). If our class meets, we will look at chapter 6.4 in the book and watch podcasts and videos linked below. If I do not see you due to the early release, please read/watch on your own.
Chemistry Intro link (MIT OpenCourseWare) - These lectures from MIT can help with the HW!
6.4 Podcast: Carbon and Macromolecules Podcast (watched in class)
6.4.2 Podcast: Carbs and Lipids (watched in class)
6.4.3 Podcast: Nucleic Acids and Protein (watched in class)
Crash Course: Biological Molecules (partially watched in class)
Bozeman Science: The Molecules of Life
Tues: Students who had Biology today (due to the early release) took the class time to review the recent quiz and study for the next.
Wed: Discuss Organic Chemistry (Ch. 6.4).
Crash Course: Biological Molecules
Thurs: Meet in room 209! Discuss organic chemistry and enzymes in particular(Ch. 6.4 and 6.2)
Amoeba Sisters: Biomolecules
Fri: Optional HW DUE (6.4 Study Guide); QUIZ 5 (6.3, 6.4 water and organics - remember your index card!!)
6.2 Chemical Reactions Podcast
6.2.2 Enzymes Podcast
Factors that affect an enzymatic reaction simulation
Amoeba Sisters: Enzymes (Pac-Man)
Week of 9/18: Discuss Chapter 6.3 Properties of Water
Mon: Wrap up basics of atoms, balanced reactions and bonding (6.1, some 6.2); Begin to discuss (6.3) the properties of water and how the structure of the molecule relates to function
TedTalk: How atoms bond(watched in class)
Bozeman Science - Chemical Bonds
6.3 Podcast: Water
Tues: Have read/watched 6.3; Continue with water discussion
TedTalk: Polarity - A Unique property of Water (watched in class)
6.3 Podcast: Water
Wed: HW DUE 6.3 Water Practice (Optional); Wrap up water discussion and revisit the parts of a chemical reaction
Bozeman Science - Water: A Polar Molecule (watched in class)
Crash Course: Water - Liquid Awesome
Ameoba sisters: Properties of Water
Chemistry Intro link (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Thurs: HW DUE Bozeman Science: Water- The Polar Molecule notes (Optional); QUIZ 4 (6.1, 6.3)
Crash Course: That's Why Carbon is a Tramp - not very PC, but very informative! (watched in class)
The dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide
Fri: NO SCHOOL!!
Week of 9/11: Wrap up Chapter 1.3 and begin to discuss the Chemistry of life (ch. 6)
Mon: Discuss data collection and analysis by looking at/constructing data tables and graphs.
Tues: HW DUE Graph Practice (Optional); Review scientific methodology and display of data in graph.
Wed: HW DUE Ch. 1.1 Assessment (Optional); Wrap up chapter 1 discussion of scientific methodology/process; Begin to discuss chemistry basics with atomic structure
6.1 Podcast: Basic Chemistry Review
Thurs: Review chemistry basics with atomic structure, basic reaction terminology and a preview of bonding
6.2 Podcast: Chemical Reactions
Fri: QUIZ 3 (1.3-intro ch.6)
TedTalk: How atoms bond
Bozeman Science - Chemical Bonds
Week of 9/5: Ch.1.2-1.3
Mon: No School!
Tues: HW DUE: Have read Ch.1.2; Discuss the Nature of Science
1.2 Podcast: What is Science?
Wed: HW DUE: Have read Ch. 1.3, Turn in Mussel Beard Article Answers (Optional); Wrap up Nature of Science (1.2), Discuss Experimental Design (1.3)
1.3.1 Podcast : Experimental Design
1.3.2 Experimental Data
Thurs: HW Due: 1.2/1.3 Study Guide (Optional); Discuss 1.3 Experimental Design
Fri: HW Due: Scientific Method in Action (Optional if Quiz 1 score was 75% or higher); QUIZ 2 (1.2-1.3); Practice 1.3 Experimental Design
Week of 8/28: Ch.1.1 What is Life? and Ch 1.2 The Nature of Science
Questions to think about:
- What does it mean to be alive? How do we know life when we see it?
- How is life defined; is the definition subject to change?
- How would you describe a scientific way of knowing? What make a question capable of being answered scientifically?
- What are the general steps in a scientific study?
Tues: Optional HW DUE (1.1 SG); Go over 1.1 HW; Discuss Ch.1.1 Characteristics of life
Wed: Go over 1.1 HW; Wrap up Ch.1.1 Characteristics of life
Thurs: HW DUE (Have read/watched ch.1.2); Discuss Ch.1.2 The Nature of Science
Ch.1.2 Podcast: What is Science?
Basics of Science study guide
Friday: First QUIZ (Ch 1.1-intro1.2); Discuss Ch.1.2 The Nature of Science
Serendipity and Blood thinner
Ch. 1.3.1 Podcast: Experimental Design Podcast
Ch. 1.3.2 Podcast:Experimental Data Podcast
Week of 8/23: Welcome!
In these first weeks we will look at an overview the course and discuss how learning occurs, the nature of science as knowledge and the dynamic definition of life.
Wed: Pass out Syllabus; Explore the Characteristics of Life
uestions to think about:
- What does it mean to be alive?
- How do we know life when we see it?
- What do we look for when we search for life on other planets?
- How is life defined; is the definition subject to change?
TEDEd: At what moment are you dead?
Friday: BRING YOUR BOOK TO Class! Turn in 1.1 HW (questions 1-10) before you leave. Work on Chapter 1-1 Study Guide (which will be given during class) as it is an optional HW due by Tuesday 8/29.
* First QUIZ will be next FRIDAY (9/1)!!!
Ch. 1.1 Podcast: What is Biology?
Chapter 1-1 ppt notes
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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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