Monday: SWBAT: describe the nitrogen cycle and relate it to hemoglobin.
1.) Nitrogen Cycle Role Play in Class.
2.) Nitrogen Cycle Animation
3.) Article Reading, Answering Questions.
4.) Go over Water Collection Techniques.
Tuesday
SWBAT: test their water for nitrates and pH.
Review Nitrogen Cycle
1.) Demonstrate how to strip test and Labquest test the well water.
2.) Students collect data on their well water, and place it on the data table.
Wednesday
SWBAT: Map their data on a regional map.
1.) Review Nitrogen Cycle
2.) Show how to insert data on the wellwater map.
Thursday: Snow Make-Up
Friday: iTunes U Immune System.
Monday: Presentations of Hormones, Cycle Discussion
Tuesday: Finish Presentations.
Wednesday: Go over what is on next Monday's Test, The answers to the questions from chapters 20-30 (emphasis on homeostasis and regulation, xylem, phloem, vascular cambium, grafting process, . Homeostasis Experiment? Dissect and whiteboard what the parts of a blossom do.
Thursday and Friday: What Darwin Didn't Know Video
Monday: Finish what darwin didn't know. Other questions from Chapters 20-30
Tuesday: Test.
Wednesday:
1.) Show Chlorophyll absorption wavelength graph and ask questions.
2.) Re-whiteboard blossoms, using textbook to show what each part actually does.
Thursday:
1.) Draw from a hat for each of the plant phyum/divisions.
2.) Make radio ads for the different plant phylum
3.) Questions over 31-33.
Friday:
1.) Transpitation Lab?
Monday:
Friday, March 16, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Digestion, Circulation, Nitrogen Cycle, Hormones
Monday:
Grafting Diversion
Tuesday:
Whiteboarding what happens to molecules in digestion.
Wednesday:
Lytic Cycle Engage with Explorelearning
Whiteboarding kidney analogy
Thursday:
Daphnia Experiment
Friday:
Hormone Talking about pictures, AP Free Response Go Over, Nitrogen Cycle Reading About.
Nitrogen Cycle Animation
Monday:
Hormone Discussion
Well Water Practice Testing
Tuesday:
Well Water Testing
Wednesday:
Mapping Well Water.
Thursday-Inside Natures Giants
Friday-Inside Natures Giants
Grafting Diversion
Tuesday:
Whiteboarding what happens to molecules in digestion.
Wednesday:
Lytic Cycle Engage with Explorelearning
Whiteboarding kidney analogy
Thursday:
Daphnia Experiment
Friday:
Hormone Talking about pictures, AP Free Response Go Over, Nitrogen Cycle Reading About.
Nitrogen Cycle Animation
Monday:
Hormone Discussion
Well Water Practice Testing
Tuesday:
Well Water Testing
Wednesday:
Mapping Well Water.
Thursday-Inside Natures Giants
Friday-Inside Natures Giants
Friday, March 9, 2012
Grafting
Monday: SWBAT: Identify cross section of a tree and complete practice grafting.
1.) Quick Kidney Going over. (Images from ppt.)
2.) Brainstorm Functions of Tree Branch, and connecting the functions to the branch and parts they are given.
3.) Grafting video.
4.) Each student completes a practice graft.
Bonus Day:
Review Meiosis (role play)
Crossing Over,
Nondisjunction,
Down's Syndrome Lawsuit.
Tuesday: SWBAT: Identify cross section of a tree and complete saddle graft.
1.) Review grafting procedure/cross section imagge.
2.) Complete grafts.
Wednesday: SWBAT: Determine the impact of temperature and caffeine
1.) Graph the heart rate of a Daphnia in different temperatures of water.
Thursday: SWBAT: Determine the level of detail and accuracy of homeostasis descriptions.
Going over comics and writing comments on post-its that go on the back of the comics. one positive and one negative for each.
Friday:
Digestion Whiteboarding.
Cycles?
Questions?
Comments?
Flower Anatomy?
Monday:
SWBAT: Map out the location of their tree.
1.) Quick Kidney Going over. (Images from ppt.)
2.) Brainstorm Functions of Tree Branch, and connecting the functions to the branch and parts they are given.
3.) Grafting video.
4.) Each student completes a practice graft.
Bonus Day:
Review Meiosis (role play)
Crossing Over,
Nondisjunction,
Down's Syndrome Lawsuit.
Tuesday: SWBAT: Identify cross section of a tree and complete saddle graft.
1.) Review grafting procedure/cross section imagge.
2.) Complete grafts.
Wednesday: SWBAT: Determine the impact of temperature and caffeine
1.) Graph the heart rate of a Daphnia in different temperatures of water.
Thursday: SWBAT: Determine the level of detail and accuracy of homeostasis descriptions.
Going over comics and writing comments on post-its that go on the back of the comics. one positive and one negative for each.
Friday:
Digestion Whiteboarding.
Cycles?
Questions?
Comments?
Flower Anatomy?
Monday:
SWBAT: Map out the location of their tree.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Circulation, Hemoglobin, Nitrogen Cycle Well Water Tests, and Animal Behavior
Monday: Finish Presentations, Call in final ads, Check chapter 20 answers.
Tuesday: SWBAT: Construct Experiment to determine animal movement patterns.
Call in Final Ads: Negative Feedback Bodily Examples Whiteboarding (Looking up online
Materials: Petri Dish, Sugar, Salt, Paper towel, water, meat tenderizer.
Set-up Animal Behavior experiment, whiteboard your hypothesis and data table.
Poking Students with toothpick when they can't see it.
Wednesday: Goal: execute an experiment of animal behavior.
Animal Behavior Lab.
Thursday: Goal: SWBAT model molecular digestion.
Review: Given a picture of a macromolecule, go through the enzymes and steps it takes to break it down in humans.
1.) Start Homeostasis and food breakdown conversations.
Friday:
1.) Dependent and independent variable from yesterday?
2.) Ways to improve yesterday's animal experiment?
3.) Digestive Modeling: Given a Macromolecule Picture: Whiteboard what happens to that molecule and where by what enzymes.
Whiteboard to help others remember the steps to digestion in the small intestine. (Homeostasis, hormones, molecules, enzymes)
4.) Lecture Food Breakdown ppt. Start.
Pictures of different digestive systems and what do you think they eat.
Monday: Goal relate protein structure and function to homeostasis need.
1.) Proteins structure and function review (with cards: Hydrophobic interactions, Hydrophilic Interactions, Charge Interactions, Hydrogen Bonding)-Hammer home weakness of proteins as important reason for homeostasis. Tell story of two football players collapsing.
2.) Glucose to insulin steps review-Hammer Home Homeostasis (with cards)
3.) Act out conversations.
Homeostasis Parting thoughts...
http://babyinthebend.blogspot.com/2009/03/before-my-first-birthday.html
Carbon Dioxide in the Blood
Carbon Dioxide in the Blood and vent adjustments, Hernia
Going over Chapter 20-23 Main Pictures
Tuesday: Homeostasis Quiz: Explaining how body regulates amount of fat and blood sugar.
Give Same Cards as Yesterday and have students go over main points.
START WITH CELLULAR RESPIRATION AND GAS EXCHANGE role play.
1.) Proteins structure and function review (with cards: Hydrophobic interactions, Hydrophilic Interactions, Charge Interactions, Hydrogen Bonding)-Hammer home weakness of proteins as important reason for homeostasis. Tell story of two football players collapsing.
2.) Given molecules ingested. White board how they are broken down (where, what does it, how is it done?)
3.) Going over 20-24 Main Pictures
4.) Homeostasis Conversations Round Two (high and low pH, blood solute concentration)
Wednesday:
Khan Academy-Hemoglobin and Punnett Square Fun, Followed by Sex-Linked Traits Video.
Reading in the book the sections and chapter in book over circulation.
Thursday:
Same Cards as Tuesday and have students go over main points.
1.) Nitrogen Cycle Image and reading, Lagrange County Story.
2.) Hemoglobin Connection Reading-Blue Fugates of Kentucky
3.) Reading AP Practice Exam, writing 3 good features and 3 missing features from each others free response test.
4.) Homeostasis Comics: Conversation #2 (high and low pH, high blood solute concentration, low blood solute concentration)
Friday:
1.) AP Free Response Practice Going Over
2.) Homeostasis Comics #2.
Well Water Testing for nitrates, pH, and Chlorides: Introduction.
Monday:
1.) Take water home to have it tested.
Tuesday: Nitrate testing
Wednesday: Daphnia Experiment on circulation, use caffeine pills to test stimulant impact. Who gets back to homeostasis most quickly.
Thursday: Daphnia Graphing
Experiment: Two experiments, heart rate and person but they do the same activity.
Experiment: Blood Pressure and Images (Neurological and Circulatory Connection.
Tuesday: SWBAT: Construct Experiment to determine animal movement patterns.
Call in Final Ads: Negative Feedback Bodily Examples Whiteboarding (Looking up online
Materials: Petri Dish, Sugar, Salt, Paper towel, water, meat tenderizer.
Set-up Animal Behavior experiment, whiteboard your hypothesis and data table.
Poking Students with toothpick when they can't see it.
Wednesday: Goal: execute an experiment of animal behavior.
Animal Behavior Lab.
Thursday: Goal: SWBAT model molecular digestion.
Review: Given a picture of a macromolecule, go through the enzymes and steps it takes to break it down in humans.
1.) Start Homeostasis and food breakdown conversations.
Friday:
1.) Dependent and independent variable from yesterday?
2.) Ways to improve yesterday's animal experiment?
3.) Digestive Modeling: Given a Macromolecule Picture: Whiteboard what happens to that molecule and where by what enzymes.
Whiteboard to help others remember the steps to digestion in the small intestine. (Homeostasis, hormones, molecules, enzymes)
4.) Lecture Food Breakdown ppt. Start.
Pictures of different digestive systems and what do you think they eat.
Monday: Goal relate protein structure and function to homeostasis need.
1.) Proteins structure and function review (with cards: Hydrophobic interactions, Hydrophilic Interactions, Charge Interactions, Hydrogen Bonding)-Hammer home weakness of proteins as important reason for homeostasis. Tell story of two football players collapsing.
2.) Glucose to insulin steps review-Hammer Home Homeostasis (with cards)
3.) Act out conversations.
Homeostasis Parting thoughts...
http://babyinthebend.blogspot.com/2009/03/before-my-first-birthday.html
Carbon Dioxide in the Blood
Carbon Dioxide in the Blood and vent adjustments, Hernia
Going over Chapter 20-23 Main Pictures
Tuesday: Homeostasis Quiz: Explaining how body regulates amount of fat and blood sugar.
Give Same Cards as Yesterday and have students go over main points.
START WITH CELLULAR RESPIRATION AND GAS EXCHANGE role play.
1.) Proteins structure and function review (with cards: Hydrophobic interactions, Hydrophilic Interactions, Charge Interactions, Hydrogen Bonding)-Hammer home weakness of proteins as important reason for homeostasis. Tell story of two football players collapsing.
2.) Given molecules ingested. White board how they are broken down (where, what does it, how is it done?)
3.) Going over 20-24 Main Pictures
4.) Homeostasis Conversations Round Two (high and low pH, blood solute concentration)
Wednesday:
Khan Academy-Hemoglobin and Punnett Square Fun, Followed by Sex-Linked Traits Video.
Reading in the book the sections and chapter in book over circulation.
Thursday:
Same Cards as Tuesday and have students go over main points.
1.) Nitrogen Cycle Image and reading, Lagrange County Story.
2.) Hemoglobin Connection Reading-Blue Fugates of Kentucky
3.) Reading AP Practice Exam, writing 3 good features and 3 missing features from each others free response test.
4.) Homeostasis Comics: Conversation #2 (high and low pH, high blood solute concentration, low blood solute concentration)
Friday:
1.) AP Free Response Practice Going Over
2.) Homeostasis Comics #2.
Well Water Testing for nitrates, pH, and Chlorides: Introduction.
Monday:
1.) Take water home to have it tested.
Tuesday: Nitrate testing
Wednesday: Daphnia Experiment on circulation, use caffeine pills to test stimulant impact. Who gets back to homeostasis most quickly.
Thursday: Daphnia Graphing
Experiment: Two experiments, heart rate and person but they do the same activity.
Experiment: Blood Pressure and Images (Neurological and Circulatory Connection.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Dissection Cumination Project and Mid-Feb to spring break.
Monday: Echinoderm Dissection
Tuesday: Perch Dissection
Wednesday: Whiteboarding Heart Rate Experiment
Thursday: Project Start
Ultimate Goal: Students present the various features of the organisms we dissected in terms of the similar requirements of life but the different ways they go about meeting those requirements.
Requirements:
Reproduction
Obtaining Nutrients
Homeostasis
Digestion
Exchanging Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide
Moving
Cephalization-Coordinating Systems
Groups of two will be describing the same system as it is in the different organisms. -First they will write an essay that traces the similarities and differences, including a description of the human system that completes this life requirement.
-They will make a video that shows images of the differing systems in the organisms.
-They will make a handout that the other groups can use as a study guide for knowing about the systems in each of the animals we dissected.
-The video should progress from the organism with the least evolved system to that with the most evolved system.
-In the video Be sure to include which phylum each organism is a part of.
Friday: Continue working on project. (Call in final ad)
Monday:
Continue working on project. (See Final Results.)
Tuesday: Snow Make-Up Day
Wednesday: Finish Projects
Thursday: Watch Projects, go into circulation and digestion chapters. 20.2, 20.12 through chapter 23. Go through notes on the chapters pretty quickly. Flip through the slides for the pages pretty quickly. Quiz over 20-23. in week and a half.
Handout Instructor's Guide Questions over the sections we are covering.
Friday: Notes over important sections from Chapters 21-23
Monday: Continued Notes over Chapters 21-23
Tuesday: Determine Controlled Experimental Design for Animal Behavior Lab. Do pillbugs prefer wet or dry conditions. Whiteboarding experimental design and data table creation. (Given 10 pillbugs, petri dishes, etc.)
Wednesday: Finish Notes from Chapters 21-23
Thursday: Blood Pressure Lab
Friday: Heart Rate Lab
Monday: Review Chapters 21-23
Wednesday: Chapters 21-23
Next Test
Tuesday: Perch Dissection
Wednesday: Whiteboarding Heart Rate Experiment
Thursday: Project Start
Ultimate Goal: Students present the various features of the organisms we dissected in terms of the similar requirements of life but the different ways they go about meeting those requirements.
Requirements:
Reproduction
Obtaining Nutrients
Homeostasis
Digestion
Exchanging Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide
Moving
Cephalization-Coordinating Systems
Groups of two will be describing the same system as it is in the different organisms. -First they will write an essay that traces the similarities and differences, including a description of the human system that completes this life requirement.
-They will make a video that shows images of the differing systems in the organisms.
-They will make a handout that the other groups can use as a study guide for knowing about the systems in each of the animals we dissected.
-The video should progress from the organism with the least evolved system to that with the most evolved system.
-In the video Be sure to include which phylum each organism is a part of.
Friday: Continue working on project. (Call in final ad)
Monday:
Continue working on project. (See Final Results.)
Tuesday: Snow Make-Up Day
Wednesday: Finish Projects
Thursday: Watch Projects, go into circulation and digestion chapters. 20.2, 20.12 through chapter 23. Go through notes on the chapters pretty quickly. Flip through the slides for the pages pretty quickly. Quiz over 20-23. in week and a half.
Handout Instructor's Guide Questions over the sections we are covering.
Friday: Notes over important sections from Chapters 21-23
Monday: Continued Notes over Chapters 21-23
Tuesday: Determine Controlled Experimental Design for Animal Behavior Lab. Do pillbugs prefer wet or dry conditions. Whiteboarding experimental design and data table creation. (Given 10 pillbugs, petri dishes, etc.)
Wednesday: Finish Notes from Chapters 21-23
Thursday: Blood Pressure Lab
Friday: Heart Rate Lab
Monday: Review Chapters 21-23
Wednesday: Chapters 21-23
Next Test
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Finishing Animal Phylum
Friday: Animal Phylum early test.
Monday:
SWBAT: Distinguish between body plans of different phylum.
Debates and Watching calm dissection video playlist.
Animal Phylum Debate:
(10 minutes to prepare opening statements)
1.) Opening Statements (Three positives about your phylum)
2.) Responding to questions. If you are attacked by another phylum while they are responding to their question, you will get 20 secs.
3.) Closing Statements.
Tuesday: SWBAT: Describe the main features of plant phylum.
Introducing Plant Phylum and Animal Phylum with cards that need to be organized.
Clam videos
Cell Parts review
SWBAT: Describe the major body systems of a mollusc.
Mollusc Dissection.
SWBAT: Describe how the life requirements are met by molluscs and annelids.
Complete columns one and two of the life requirements chart.
SWBAT: Read describe how an article about plants causing global cooling relates to the themes of AP Biology.
http://www.thestatecolumn.com/science/land-plants-set-off-a-series-of-ice-ages-on-earth/
SWBAT: Complete the dissection of an arthropod.
Grasshopper Dissection.
SWBAT: Describe the major body systems of an echinoderm.
Starfish Dissection.
SWBAT: Describe the major body systems of a chordate.
Perch Dissection
SWBAT: Describe how the different organisms within each phylum fulfill the requirements of life (Essay with a paragraph on each life requirement).
Going into plant phylum/Structure and function.
Monday:
SWBAT: Distinguish between body plans of different phylum.
Debates and Watching calm dissection video playlist.
Animal Phylum Debate:
(10 minutes to prepare opening statements)
1.) Opening Statements (Three positives about your phylum)
2.) Responding to questions. If you are attacked by another phylum while they are responding to their question, you will get 20 secs.
3.) Closing Statements.
Tuesday: SWBAT: Describe the main features of plant phylum.
Introducing Plant Phylum and Animal Phylum with cards that need to be organized.
Clam videos
Cell Parts review
SWBAT: Describe the major body systems of a mollusc.
Mollusc Dissection.
SWBAT: Describe how the life requirements are met by molluscs and annelids.
Complete columns one and two of the life requirements chart.
SWBAT: Read describe how an article about plants causing global cooling relates to the themes of AP Biology.
http://www.thestatecolumn.com/science/land-plants-set-off-a-series-of-ice-ages-on-earth/
SWBAT: Complete the dissection of an arthropod.
Grasshopper Dissection.
SWBAT: Describe the major body systems of an echinoderm.
Starfish Dissection.
SWBAT: Describe the major body systems of a chordate.
Perch Dissection
SWBAT: Describe how the different organisms within each phylum fulfill the requirements of life (Essay with a paragraph on each life requirement).
Going into plant phylum/Structure and function.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Tree of Life-Chapters 16-19
Monday and Tuesday:
SWBAT: Model the Hardy Weinberg conditions and non-examples.
-Finish Speciation Notes.
-Hardy Weinberg Simulation and Questions.
-Give Sections that will be on next quiz/test.
Wednesday:
SWBAT: Describe how the Miller-Urey Experiment explores possible origins of life.
SWBAT: Describe the features of life (What we know/think we know)
-Start with initial tree of life.
Starting Tree of Life
1.) Miller and Urey Experiment Experiment Role Play
2.) Review Nucleotides First NOVA Clip on Molecules evolve into life. NOVA Chemical Recipe of Life.
Overall Tree of Life from Freshman Year (autotrophic, heterotrophic, unicellular, multicellular, etc)
Monday:
SWBAT: Relate evolution and structure and function to prokaryotic organisms.
Chapter 16: Prokaryotes
Notes Important Sections: 16.1-16.5, 16.9, 16.10, 16.21
Chapter 18, then 19, then 17: All very important
Know all vocabulary, Key Diagrams on pg. Plant Phylogeny 344, Animal Body Plan Phylogeny 369 and 384, Vertebrate Phylogeny 390,
Tuesday: (use the word "clades")
Part A.
1.) Go through the "needs of living organisms slide with brainstorming"
2.) Fill in gaps students leave behind and name the different systems that these are in organisms.
Part B.
Phylogenetic Tree Exploration Start
SWBAT: Create a phylogenetic tree of the major phylum of life.
1.) Given Cards and Dictionaries, students work in groups to create a tree of life.
2.) Use looseleaf paper and work in pairs to create phylogenetic tree
Tuesday:
Go over main details of animals, coeloms, embryology, gastrulas, blastulas, protostomes, deutrosomes.
Wednesday:
Student working in groups to start going over nine animal phylum.
Thursday:
Finishing going over different animal phylum. Students quiz each other over each of the phylum. Test next Wednesday focusing on Chap.18 Animal phylum, Chap 16 important sections.
Working on advertisements: One For your phylum, Two against other phylums. 30 seconds each, rough draft of each advertisement, read into google voice tomorrow.
Friday: Polishing your advertisements, read them into google voice by the end of the period.
-Creating 3 Radio Ads-One Positive, Two Negative Where you are a SuperPac supporting one of the Animal Phylums running against the Plant Kingdom's Candidate.
-Each ad must be at least thirty seconds long and have 5 details.
-Include a paid for by "Come up with clever organization here"
-Then call it in to Google Voice.
-I'll have my freshman listen to all of the ads and vote on a Phylum that they think is the most adapted. If your phylum wins, you get 5 bonus points.
Weekend: Study chapter 18, sections in Chap. 16 in the handout, and hardy-weinberg, speciation, allopatric, sympatric,
Monday:
1.) Cut statements out and placing them into the categories of the nine different phylum.
-Create 5 statements that can be used as a review of your phylum (that make your phylum unique)
2.) Debate prep: Listen to the advertisements, Create your opening statements and closing remarks for a debate. My questions will be based on what your plans are for the future of life on earth, other people's ads, and why your phylum is best adapted to lead life on earth.
3.) What do we want to know about worms.
4.) Homework: AP Practice Questions.
Tuesday:
What do we want to know about worms?
Dissection of a Worm.
Wednesday: Around the room classification, Whiteboard all we know about the animal phylum from memory.
Thursday: Snow make-up day.
Friday: Test
Monday: First Debate (Video taped to show freshmen)
Tuesday: Dissection of a Mollusk
Monday: Comparison of Mollusk to worm (Start Chart completion)
Tuesday: Echinodermata Dissection.
Wednesday: Grasshopper Dissection.
Thursday: Perch Dissection.
Friday: Comparison of Dissected Specimens
Tuesday
Survival of the Fittest: Chapter 18 Test Coming next week.
In groups of up to 3-5, Number off
You need to know the important details of Chapter 18 each phylum, what sets it apart, its characteristics, its adaptations, how the organisms fulfill the needs of life, its important groups, important questions about the phylum. You also need to know how the phylums relate to each other. 9 Phylums (1 main group-Insects).
3 days in class (W, R, F)
Test Next Tuesday Over Chapter 18
Wednesday: Belly-button story and Homologous vs. Analogous Structures.
Dissections of five different animal kingdoms.
Starfish (Echinoderm)
Mussels (Mollusca)
Worms (Annelida)
Grasshopper (Arthropoda)
Perch (Fish-Chordata)
Creating Plant Kingdom Tree Based on Data from various divisions.
Use http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/minnis_ashl/classification.htm as a model to create cards based on ingroups and out groups.
SWBAT: Major phylums and examples notes?
Looking at Algae, Moss, Pine, and Flowers
1.) Pictures of each with descriptions of each:
a.) Visible characteristics
b.) looking up distinguishing characteristics
Thursday
SWBAT:Describe the major phyla of life.
SWBAT: Model the Hardy Weinberg conditions and non-examples.
-Finish Speciation Notes.
-Hardy Weinberg Simulation and Questions.
-Give Sections that will be on next quiz/test.
Wednesday:
SWBAT: Describe how the Miller-Urey Experiment explores possible origins of life.
SWBAT: Describe the features of life (What we know/think we know)
-Start with initial tree of life.
Starting Tree of Life
1.) Miller and Urey Experiment Experiment Role Play
2.) Review Nucleotides First NOVA Clip on Molecules evolve into life. NOVA Chemical Recipe of Life.
Overall Tree of Life from Freshman Year (autotrophic, heterotrophic, unicellular, multicellular, etc)
Monday:
SWBAT: Relate evolution and structure and function to prokaryotic organisms.
Chapter 16: Prokaryotes
Notes Important Sections: 16.1-16.5, 16.9, 16.10, 16.21
Chapter 18, then 19, then 17: All very important
Know all vocabulary, Key Diagrams on pg. Plant Phylogeny 344, Animal Body Plan Phylogeny 369 and 384, Vertebrate Phylogeny 390,
Tuesday: (use the word "clades")
Part A.
1.) Go through the "needs of living organisms slide with brainstorming"
2.) Fill in gaps students leave behind and name the different systems that these are in organisms.
Part B.
Phylogenetic Tree Exploration Start
SWBAT: Create a phylogenetic tree of the major phylum of life.
1.) Given Cards and Dictionaries, students work in groups to create a tree of life.
2.) Use looseleaf paper and work in pairs to create phylogenetic tree
Tuesday:
Go over main details of animals, coeloms, embryology, gastrulas, blastulas, protostomes, deutrosomes.
Wednesday:
Student working in groups to start going over nine animal phylum.
Thursday:
Finishing going over different animal phylum. Students quiz each other over each of the phylum. Test next Wednesday focusing on Chap.18 Animal phylum, Chap 16 important sections.
Working on advertisements: One For your phylum, Two against other phylums. 30 seconds each, rough draft of each advertisement, read into google voice tomorrow.
Friday: Polishing your advertisements, read them into google voice by the end of the period.
-Creating 3 Radio Ads-One Positive, Two Negative Where you are a SuperPac supporting one of the Animal Phylums running against the Plant Kingdom's Candidate.
-Each ad must be at least thirty seconds long and have 5 details.
-Include a paid for by "Come up with clever organization here"
-Then call it in to Google Voice.
-I'll have my freshman listen to all of the ads and vote on a Phylum that they think is the most adapted. If your phylum wins, you get 5 bonus points.
Weekend: Study chapter 18, sections in Chap. 16 in the handout, and hardy-weinberg, speciation, allopatric, sympatric,
Monday:
1.) Cut statements out and placing them into the categories of the nine different phylum.
-Create 5 statements that can be used as a review of your phylum (that make your phylum unique)
2.) Debate prep: Listen to the advertisements, Create your opening statements and closing remarks for a debate. My questions will be based on what your plans are for the future of life on earth, other people's ads, and why your phylum is best adapted to lead life on earth.
3.) What do we want to know about worms.
4.) Homework: AP Practice Questions.
Tuesday:
What do we want to know about worms?
Dissection of a Worm.
Wednesday: Around the room classification, Whiteboard all we know about the animal phylum from memory.
Thursday: Snow make-up day.
Friday: Test
Monday: First Debate (Video taped to show freshmen)
Tuesday: Dissection of a Mollusk
Monday: Comparison of Mollusk to worm (Start Chart completion)
Tuesday: Echinodermata Dissection.
Wednesday: Grasshopper Dissection.
Thursday: Perch Dissection.
Friday: Comparison of Dissected Specimens
Tuesday
Survival of the Fittest: Chapter 18 Test Coming next week.
In groups of up to 3-5, Number off
You need to know the important details of Chapter 18 each phylum, what sets it apart, its characteristics, its adaptations, how the organisms fulfill the needs of life, its important groups, important questions about the phylum. You also need to know how the phylums relate to each other. 9 Phylums (1 main group-Insects).
3 days in class (W, R, F)
Test Next Tuesday Over Chapter 18
Wednesday: Belly-button story and Homologous vs. Analogous Structures.
Dissections of five different animal kingdoms.
Starfish (Echinoderm)
Mussels (Mollusca)
Worms (Annelida)
Grasshopper (Arthropoda)
Perch (Fish-Chordata)
Creating Plant Kingdom Tree Based on Data from various divisions.
Use http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/minnis_ashl/classification.htm as a model to create cards based on ingroups and out groups.
SWBAT: Major phylums and examples notes?
Looking at Algae, Moss, Pine, and Flowers
1.) Pictures of each with descriptions of each:
a.) Visible characteristics
b.) looking up distinguishing characteristics
Thursday
SWBAT:Describe the major phyla of life.
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