Sunday, April 29, 2012

Bioeyes, Plant Hormones, and AP Review

April 30th to May 4th (Plant Chemicals Week). Also Bioeyes Week.
M: Quiz is going to be over All 33 is important, Studying Chapter 32 for quiz tomorrow.

T: 33.2, 33.3, 33.4,
Plant Quiz.
Hormone Star Sheet is homework.
Tropisms video.
Bioeyes day 2.

W: 33.5, 33.6, 33.7
Bioeyes Day 3
Going over hormones in matching.
AP Biology Review Sheet for Friday

R: 33.8, 33.9, 33.10
Analogous Structures between fish and maple seeds.
Enzyme Reaction Graph
Transcription Translation Video.
Bioeyes Cleaning and Oberving
Plant Tropism Videos

F: 33.11, 33.12, 33.14, 33.15.
DNA Gel Electrophoresis Review.
Signal Transduction Pathways.
Endo, Meso, Ecto, Review
Dihybrid Cross Question.
Finishing Bioeyes.
Post Test

May 7th to May 11th
M: Describe productivity.
Cell Membrane Structure and Function Review Picture
Tree of Life Review (See Freshman Image-Compare to 3 domains)
Photosynthesis and Respiration Vocab Review (classic internet images)
Primary Productivity Analogy Section/Notes/Video
Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity LabBench Activity-as a whole class
Plants and snails (making predictions in groups of 4-on the whiteboard: Guess the O2 and CO2 after 24 hours
If time: Review Plant Structure and Function
Transpiration Graph interpretation
Primary Productivity Graph Interpretation

Tuesday
-Going over Osmosis Questions.
-Going over Cell Membrane and Phylum Pictures and Questions.
-One FRQ as a group. Productivity and Plants.
-Pollination Gizmo Going through
DNA Gel-Partner Activity
-Reading two perfect FRQ's.

W:
-FRQ whiteboard. Structure and Function. While I check HW.
-Review Plant Chemicals, Classification, and Structure and Function, Other AP Stuff Review, AP Test Next Monday/Plant Acid River?, All the different classification cards as a whiteboarding map.

Plant and animal cards with each person receiving a card. Go through questioning
Find people to lock arms with if you have a ribosome.
Lock arms if you and another person have DNA as your genetic material.
Touch pinkies if you and another person have chloroplasts.
Touch fists if you and another person have mitochondria.
Touch fist if you and another person release CO2 at night.

Hemoglobin Review Questions and Images
Acid River with words from before/focusing on plants/AP missed words/ Review
Going over acid river with AP Review Sheets
Primary Productivity Lab?

R:
Signal Transduction Pathways-Circadian Rythm Application

and asking questions about mitosis and meiosis. 
2.) We will be doing a review activity with the different animal phyla and plant divisions.
All the phylum cards:
Connections Between Phylum:
Plant and animal cards with each person receiving a card. Go through questioning
Find people to lock arms with if you have a ribosome.
Lock arms if you and another person have DNA as your genetic material.
Touch pinkies if you and another person have chloroplasts.
Touch fists if you and another person have mitochondria.
Touch fist if you and another person release CO2 at night.
3.) We will be reviewing DNA structure, restriction enzymes, and Gel-Electrophoresis with a quick paper and pencil lab.
4.) I also hope to review plant hormones while looking at seedling maple trees to see what hormones are produced where and what there target cells are.

Transduction, Transformation, Conjugation Images Overview

F: AP Final Review-Hardy Weinberg FRQ,
Going over Images on AP Biology review slides.
Photosynthesis and Respiration
Dihybrid Cross Practice Question and Hardy Weinberg Practice Question in groups.
Phylum.
AP Questions around the world.

Monday: AP Test, Internet research looking at companies who make money off of biology.

Tuesday: Orchard? Picking off fruit.

Wednesday: Looking up jobs.

Thursday: Data analysis and Lab reports.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Spring Break to End of Year, Taxis Kinesis, R vs. K, Plant Structure and Function

April 9th-13th
M:
Start with pixton comic.
1.) The Developing Child Video Clip about adrenal glands.
2.) Taxis vs. Kinesis Inductive Reasoning ppt. Yes and No. Whiteboard the differences.
Kinesis:
Yes's
Walking around in circles
Walking up and down the rows.
Flipping through the television channels aimlessly.
Flipping through the newspaper aimlessly, looking for something interesting.

Taxis:
Yes's
Moving toward the light.
Moving toward the screen.
Moving toward a noise: play music
Moving away from noise.
Moving away from light.
Moving toward a smell.
Moving away from a snail.
Searching for ESPN at a hotel room.
Search for the sports section of the newspaper.

2.) Show essay questions from Friday's test.

3.) Pass out animal and plant card
Whiteboarding classification of plants with plant division cards, should be phylogenetic tree.
Angiosperms,
Dicots
Monocots
Mosses
Pterophytes
Gymnosperms
Algae

Making chart out of all of the animal and plant cards as a review of plant and animal groups.

T: Merck Shingles commericial
R vs. K Selection.
R-Selection Yes's
Small Rodents
Frogs
Fish
Insects
Weeds
Bacteria
Most Male Mammals

K-Selection Yes's
Elephants
Trees
Most Female Mammals
Whales


Goal: Describe structure and function of flower parts.
Flower Structures Observation and whiteboarding what you think the different functions are.
Complete T-chart of picture, made-up name, actual name, actual function.

W: Quick Animal Chapter Review (Get lots of flowers)
Animal Review Acid River

R: Quick Animal Review
Transpiration Lab trial one.

Plant and animal cards with each person receiving a card. Go through questioning
Find people to lock arms with if you have a ribosome.
Lock arms if you and another person have DNA as your genetic material.
Touch pinkies if you and another person have chloroplasts.
Touch fists if you and another person have mitochondria.
Touch fist if you and another person release CO2 at night.
Plant Division Notes. From early chapter.

Making Poster's Based on Pro's and Con's (Pro for your's cons on the others). Propaganda.

F: Chapter 20-30 Test Because of sub.

April 16th-20th
M: Describe plant structure and function.
1.) Photosynthesis animation Review (of light and dark reactions, What each makes, where each occurs)
2.) Collect Sample of monocots and dicots (maple trees, grasses, dandelions)
3.) Going over images from sections 31.1 and 31.3
4.) Quiz over 31.1-31.3, 31.4-31.6 Tomorrow.

T: Describe plant structure and function.
1.) Photosynthesis Image Review
2.) Quiz 31.1-31.6
3.) Primary vs. Secondary Growth Cards of situations:
Billy gets taller
Billy gets fatter
Billy gets hairer
Sally gets taller
Sally goes through puberty, but does not get any taller
A tree gets taller
A branch gets thicker
A branch gets longer
A branch gets thicker
4.) Talk about the sections of chapter 31.7-31.9
5.) Students are given samples of flowers and cross sections with the task of finding the parts that match with figures 31.7,A, 31.8A, and 31.9A.
6.) Other half: Whiteboard Plant cross section observations and whiteboarding what you think the different functions are.
Plant division audio commercials.
Peach orchard cuttings.

W: Sunny?
1.) Photosynthesis Light and Dark Reaction Image.
2.) Half sheet of paper draw the parts and functions of flowers
3.) Get flower and determine structure and function of the flower.
4.) Finish going over 31.7-31.9, 31.10-31.12.
5.) Hand out beans while talking about 31.11
6.) 31.10-31.12, Go over images.

R: Describe Plant Life Cycles
Photosynthesis Image Go Over
Mitosis vs. Meiosis Teacher's Domain
Sporophyte vs. Gametophyte Slide-In Plant AP Flipchart
Peach Branch observations
Bean Seed Examination
Large Bean and Corn Kernel dissection for parts and Figures 31.11A and 31.11B,
Quiz over 31.7-31.12
Orchard Bug Video
Monoculture and Asexual Reproduction Video Start

F: SWBAT: Describe Plant hormonal regulation
Photosynthesis and Respiration Images
1.) AP Trophic Level Review, Children's Story
2.) Going over experiment from 33.1, 33.1-33.3, Hormone Chart-Something to know very well.
3.) Whiteboarding Transpiration and Pollination.

Photosynthesis and Respiration Gizmo
Weekend: get to know plant hormone chart pg. 664.
4.) Double line graphing pressure and creating another graph of surface area and rates of transpiration
5.) Whiteboarding rates of transpiration and surface area (Combining Data into a large data table). Surface Area and Rate of Transpiration. All groups make a scatterplot of this information.

April 23rd-27th
Photosynthesis and Respiration Images, Going over AP Questions.
Quiz Over Chart on 33.2
M: Start AP Practice Test in pairs

T: Finish AP Practice Test in pairs
Finish AP Biology Practice Test
1.) Following the Tips for the Test from the Kaplan Book.
2.) Take the entire test. Underline any words that you still need to review. (Answer questions in pairs each person has their own sheet, writing down words you need to make notecards.)
3.) Make cards out of the words that you do not know, study those cards as needed.

W: SWBAT: Act out the unity of life.
-Notes on 32.2-32.5
Plant and animal cards with each person receiving a card. Go through questioning
Find people to lock arms with if you have a ribosome.
Lock arms if you and another person have DNA as your genetic material.
Touch pinkies if you and another person have chloroplasts.
Touch fists if you and another person have mitochondria.
Touch fist if you and another person release CO2 at night.

Transduction, Transformation, Conjugation Images Overview Quiz over 31.14-31.15
Give students yarn to demonstrate plasmids and their DNA to act out different scenarios.
Photosynthesis Experiment on a sunny day of this week.
Testing Transpiration rate of different tree.

R:
Mitosis vs. Meiosis Images
Finish Going over Chapter 32 Sections of importances.
Chlorophyll Absorbance, Food Dye Absorbance.
Quiz over 32.2-32.5

F: Quiz over 32.
Photosynthesis Rate of reaction with different colored/shade/inside light/outside
Photosynthesis rate of reaction, experiment.
Quiz over 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 32.11, 32.12, 32.13

April 30th to May 4th (Plant Chemicals Week). Also Bioeyes Week.
M: Quiz is going to be over All 33 is important, Making star chart of plant hormones as homework.

T: 33.2, 33.3, 33.4,
Tropisms video.
Plant Quiz.
Hormone Sheet Collect.
Hormone Star for homework.

W: 33.5, 33.6, 33.7
AP Biology Review Sheet for Friday

R: 33.8, 33.9, 33.10
Connections Between Phylum:
Plant and animal cards with each person receiving a card. Go through questioning
Find people to lock arms with if you have a ribosome.
Lock arms if you and another person have DNA as your genetic material.
Touch pinkies if you and another person have chloroplasts.
Touch fists if you and another person have mitochondria.
Touch fist if you and another person release CO2 at night.

Transduction, Transformation, Conjugation Images Overview

F: 33.11, 33.12, 33.14, 33.15.

May 7th to May 11th
M: Plant Test.

T: Review Plant Chemicals, Classification, and Structure and Function, Other AP Stuff Review, AP Test Next Monday.

W: Calculus AP Test: Acid River with words from before/focusing on plants

R: Plant Test

F: AP Final Review