4/8
SWBAT: Calculate and Determine importance of surface area to volume ratios.
4/9
SWBAT: Describe how nitrogen flows through an ecosystem and interactions between nitrogen and hemoglobin proteins.
4/10:
SWBAT: Measure Nitrates in well water and whiteboard the connection to the rest of biology
4/11
SWBAT: Describe the use of spectrophotometry by experimenting with different food dyes and chlorophyll. Isolating Chlorophyll and analyzing spectrophotometry.
4/12
SWBAT: Describe spectrometry, and make connections between proteins and environment.
4/15
SWBAT: Complete Enzyme Experiment using glucose test strips
4/16
SWBAT: Analogize Primary Productivity and make predictions about which ecosystems have the highest productivity.
SWBAT: Describe water potential calculations and how water will move in different situations.
4/17
SWBAT: Describe water potential calculations and how water will move in different situations.
4/18
SWBAT: complete transpiration lab determining the rate of transpiration.
4/19
SWBAT: Quiz over primary production, nitrates in well water, biotechnology, bacterial transformation, gel electrophoresis
SWBAT: make connections between water potential, transpiration, and nitrates in well water.
4/22-4/23 6 questions in folder activity
4/24 Evaluating other people's answers and points and argue about them.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
End of Feb. to March
End of Feb to mid March:
AP Practice,
Fish Experimentation
Making wikipages for AP Ideas
5 Dissections and Comparisons of Organisms Structure and Function
Bacterial Transformation
March 18-22
Bacterial Transformation
Fish Experimentation
AP Practice
Agar Diffusion Lab
Photosynthesis Respiration Review
March 25-29
Animal Behavior Lab
AP Practice
Experimental Design.
Spring Break: AP Review Questions.
AP Practice,
Fish Experimentation
Making wikipages for AP Ideas
5 Dissections and Comparisons of Organisms Structure and Function
Bacterial Transformation
March 18-22
Bacterial Transformation
Fish Experimentation
AP Practice
Agar Diffusion Lab
Photosynthesis Respiration Review
March 25-29
Animal Behavior Lab
AP Practice
Experimental Design.
Spring Break: AP Review Questions.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Finish Nervous System, Dissections, Sub Week
M-W: Develop and Refine the Model of Neuron
Thursday: Mussel Dissection
Friday: Presentation of Nervous System Data-Model Revision, Research the next dissection
Monday: Next Dissection
Tuesday: Turn in nervous system lab report. Research next dissection
Wednesday: Next Dissection
Thursday: Going over sub assignment, getting started on it and dealing with questions.
Friday Next Dissection
Monday and Tuesday: Working on Wikispace.
Wednesday: Sit and practice a free response test.
Thursday and Friday: Finish working on wikispace.
Monday back: Going over each other's wikispaces and taking their quizzes. Research Next dissection.
Tuesday: Final Dissection
Thursday: Mussel Dissection
Friday: Presentation of Nervous System Data-Model Revision, Research the next dissection
Monday: Next Dissection
Tuesday: Turn in nervous system lab report. Research next dissection
Wednesday: Next Dissection
Thursday: Going over sub assignment, getting started on it and dealing with questions.
Friday Next Dissection
Monday and Tuesday: Working on Wikispace.
Wednesday: Sit and practice a free response test.
Thursday and Friday: Finish working on wikispace.
Monday back: Going over each other's wikispaces and taking their quizzes. Research Next dissection.
Tuesday: Final Dissection
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Back from Break, Immune System
Monday: Start Each Day with Practice Question...
Negative Feedback Graphs and Story Telling
Tuesday
Going over Final Exam
Wednesday
Combining Gametes to look at next generation
Thursday
Immune System Start
Friday
Immune System Continue, Reading, Notes
Nobel Prize Game Play
Monday
Immune System Continue, Paragraph, Devise Experiment
Tuesday
Immune System Experimentation
Negative Feedback Graphs and Story Telling
Tuesday
Going over Final Exam
Wednesday
Combining Gametes to look at next generation
Thursday
Immune System Start
Friday
Immune System Continue, Reading, Notes
Nobel Prize Game Play
Monday
Immune System Continue, Paragraph, Devise Experiment
Tuesday
Immune System Experimentation
Friday, November 16, 2012
Continuing AP Evolution-Hardy Weinberg
Monday: Nov 19th
1.) Showing punnett square math calculations for p and q if the situations are both equally likely.
2.) Phylogenetic Tree Generate a Tree based on the data, show an example.
3.) Researching Heterozygote Advanatge situations.
Tuesday: Nov 20th
1.) Another Hardy Weinberg if A frequency is .6 and a is .4 show the square calculations, Hardy Weinberg with Punnett Square situations.
2.) Present Trees
3.) Write and Revise Stories
Wednesday: Nov 21th
1.) Hardy Weinberg Warm-Up Problem.
2.) Story reading for revisions and understanding.
Monday: Nov 26th
1.) Hardy Weinberg Worksheet
2.) Adaptive Radiation Whiteboarding, Evolution Lab Rules of Thumb.
3.) Hardy Weinberg Simulation Start from Carolina?
Tuesday 11/27: Video, What are animals thinking?
Evolutionary advantage of those situations for the organims.
Wednesday 11/28: Adaptive Radiation with Finches Whiteboarding.
Thursday 11/29: Hardy Weinberg Computer Simulations.
Friday 11/30: Finish Hardy Weinberg Simulations and start to answer the questions.
Evolution Standards Homeostasis Cladogram?
12/3: Allopatric vs. Sympatric Categorizing at the start. Speciation Events Whiteboarding.
12/4: Categorizing Evolution Vocabulary AP Style
12/5: Notecard Augmentation with partners, going over details I saw missing.
Speciation Types Jigsawing (Specific Vocabulary)
12/6: Insulin Water Soluble Hormone Negative Feedback situation (Insulin vs. Cortisol)
12/7:
12/10: Finish categorizing Statements, Repressor vs. Inductor Activity and Poster Creation
12/11:Notes on DNA regulation and mRNA processing
12/12Fat Soluble Hormone Negative Feedback Signaling Activity.
12/13:Change in mass of potato shapes
DNA to Protein Details, using cell signaling storyline using Textbook and AP Notes, Cell signaling/Transcription Factors, hydrophobic vs. hydrophilic signals, interpreting cell signaling images.
1.) Showing punnett square math calculations for p and q if the situations are both equally likely.
2.) Phylogenetic Tree Generate a Tree based on the data, show an example.
3.) Researching Heterozygote Advanatge situations.
Tuesday: Nov 20th
1.) Another Hardy Weinberg if A frequency is .6 and a is .4 show the square calculations, Hardy Weinberg with Punnett Square situations.
2.) Present Trees
3.) Write and Revise Stories
Wednesday: Nov 21th
1.) Hardy Weinberg Warm-Up Problem.
2.) Story reading for revisions and understanding.
Monday: Nov 26th
1.) Hardy Weinberg Worksheet
2.) Adaptive Radiation Whiteboarding, Evolution Lab Rules of Thumb.
3.) Hardy Weinberg Simulation Start from Carolina?
Tuesday 11/27: Video, What are animals thinking?
Evolutionary advantage of those situations for the organims.
Wednesday 11/28: Adaptive Radiation with Finches Whiteboarding.
Thursday 11/29: Hardy Weinberg Computer Simulations.
Friday 11/30: Finish Hardy Weinberg Simulations and start to answer the questions.
Evolution Standards Homeostasis Cladogram?
12/3: Allopatric vs. Sympatric Categorizing at the start. Speciation Events Whiteboarding.
12/4: Categorizing Evolution Vocabulary AP Style
12/5: Notecard Augmentation with partners, going over details I saw missing.
Speciation Types Jigsawing (Specific Vocabulary)
12/6: Insulin Water Soluble Hormone Negative Feedback situation (Insulin vs. Cortisol)
12/7:
12/10: Finish categorizing Statements, Repressor vs. Inductor Activity and Poster Creation
12/11:Notes on DNA regulation and mRNA processing
12/12Fat Soluble Hormone Negative Feedback Signaling Activity.
12/13:Change in mass of potato shapes
DNA to Protein Details, using cell signaling storyline using Textbook and AP Notes, Cell signaling/Transcription Factors, hydrophobic vs. hydrophilic signals, interpreting cell signaling images.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
AP Evolution Style
F: Test.
M: SWBAT: Describe patterns in fossil record, explain origins theories, Miller Urey Experiment.
T: SWBAT: Describe evidence for theories of origins of life on earth.
W: SWBAT: Describe evidence for theories of origins of life on earth.
R: SWBAT: Evaluate evidence for theories of life on earth. Warm-up, build your own microbes online activity, presentations and voting.
F: SWBAT: Introduce Heterozygote Advantage Story Project-Due next Wednesday and my example. Phylogenetic Tree Simulation.
M: SWBAT: Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium description, introduction. Analyze Data from Phylogenetic tree simulation in parsimonous tree, Tuesday after Thanksgiving is biology pairs project.
T: SWBAT: Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium description, introduction. Miller Urey Simulation. (Following the chalkboard). Review each other's heterozygote advantage story.
W: SWBAT: Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium description, Turn in heterozygote advantage story.
M: SWBAT: Use Darwin's observations to explain the process natural selection and evolution with finches and Monkey chimp data.
T: SWBAT: Vocabulary Pairs Due.
Evolution Lab Play around.
Describe how we know evolution is occuring.
Brainstorm ways to measure evolution. Introduction Hardy-Weinberg
W: SWBAT Complete Hardy Weinberg Simulation
-PTC Taste Testing.
-Hardy Weinberg Simulation with cards.
R: Computer Simulation with Hardy Weinberg on Excel.
F: Hardy Weinberg Problems
F: SWBAT:
Explain the formation of vertebrate phylogeny.
Determine the evolutionary importance of plants containing different chlorophyll molecules.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Evolution AP Style, Photosynthesis and Respiration
Generate Domains of Life Cladogram from Textbook.
*Sunny Day Photosynthesis Spinach Experiment.
Whiteboard: How do plants make make oxygen and glucose?
HW: Complete powerpoint with images from field trip.
T: SWBAT: describe the photosynthesis light and dark reaction animation, essential knowledges, notes.
M: SWBAT: Use Darwin's observations to explain the process natural selection and evolution with finches and Monkey chimp data.
T: SWBAT: Introduce Heterozygote Advantage Story Project-Due on Friday and my example. Phylogenetic Tree Simulation.
W: SWBAT: Analyze Data from Phylogenetic tree simulation in parsimonous tree.
R: SWBAT: Evolution Lab Play around.
Describe how we know evolution is occuring.
Brainstorm ways to measure evolution. Introduction Hardy-Weinberg
F: SWBAT Complete Hardy Weinberg Simulation
-PTC Taste Testing.
-Hardy Weinberg Simulation with cards.
M: Computer Simluation with Hardy Weinberg on Excel.
T: Hardy Weinberg Problems
W: Origin of Life Hypothesis Jigsaw Positives and Negatives.
F: SWBAT:
Explain the formation of vertebrate phylogeny.
Dot Experiments
W: SWBAT: describe the process of glucose breakdown from glycolysis to Krebs Cycle.
Carbon dioxide probe work and experimental rates.
R: SWBAT: describe the process of glucose breakdown from glycolysis to Krebs Cycle.
Rate worksheet determining oxygen production rate, carbon dioxide production rate.
M: SWBAT: Describe the steps to photosynthesis and respiration.
-Whiteboard how glucose is broken down. (multiple steps)
-Whiteboard respiration experiments for tomorrow.
-Whiteboard respiration experiments for tomorrow.
T: SWBAT: complete experiment to test variable related to cellular respiration.
Complete experiment gather data?
VENN Diagram Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis.
Complete experiment gather data?
VENN Diagram Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis.
W: SWBAT: analyze data related to cellular respiration experiments.
Warm-up-relationship glucose generation and glucose breakdown (Whitb
Compare data from yesterday's experiment.
R: SWBAT: diagram the function of cell membrane based on data.
Study Guide for next Test (Essential Knowledges:
Essential knowledge 2.A.1: All living systems require constant input of free energy.
Essential knowledge 2.A.2: Organisms capture and store free energy for use in biological processes.
All the details of cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
Essential knowledge 2.A.3: Organisms must exchange matter with the environment to grow, reproduce and maintain organization.
Essential knowledge 2.B.1: Cell membranes are selectively permeable due to their structure.
Diagrams and details.
Essential knowledge 2.B.2: Growth and dynamic homeostasis are maintained by the constant movement of molecules across membranes.
Essential knowledge 2.B.3: Eukaryotic cells maintain internal membranes that partition the cell into specialized regions.
Essential knowledge 4.A.1: The subcomponents of biological molecules and their sequence determine the properties of that molecule.
Essential knowledge 4.A.2: The structure and function of subcellular components, and their interactions, provide essential cellular processes.
Essential knowledge 1.B.1: Organisms share many conserved core processes and features that evolved and are widely distributed among organisms today.
F: SWBAT: conduct a poster session of their results in cellular respiration Experiments.
M: SWBAT: work in groups to complete review of cellular respiration and photosynthesis
M and T: SWBAT: diagram the function and homeostatic function of the cell membrane.
W: SWBAT: describe and connect the compartmentalization of the eukaryotic cell with efficient offices.
R: Pyramid warm-up. Evolution Start. Fossil Record Data and Whiteboard a Step in between each. Show the data and students make a description of what happened. Generate a timeline of animal evolution and environmental changes that occurred.
F: Test. Evolution start, Speciation, Fossil Record.
R: SWBAT: diagram the function of cell membrane based on data.
Study Guide for next Test (Essential Knowledges:
Essential knowledge 2.A.1: All living systems require constant input of free energy.
Essential knowledge 2.A.2: Organisms capture and store free energy for use in biological processes.
All the details of cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
Essential knowledge 2.A.3: Organisms must exchange matter with the environment to grow, reproduce and maintain organization.
Essential knowledge 2.B.1: Cell membranes are selectively permeable due to their structure.
Diagrams and details.
Essential knowledge 2.B.2: Growth and dynamic homeostasis are maintained by the constant movement of molecules across membranes.
Essential knowledge 2.B.3: Eukaryotic cells maintain internal membranes that partition the cell into specialized regions.
Essential knowledge 4.A.1: The subcomponents of biological molecules and their sequence determine the properties of that molecule.
Essential knowledge 4.A.2: The structure and function of subcellular components, and their interactions, provide essential cellular processes.
Essential knowledge 1.B.1: Organisms share many conserved core processes and features that evolved and are widely distributed among organisms today.
F: SWBAT: conduct a poster session of their results in cellular respiration Experiments.
M: SWBAT: work in groups to complete review of cellular respiration and photosynthesis
M and T: SWBAT: diagram the function and homeostatic function of the cell membrane.
W: SWBAT: describe and connect the compartmentalization of the eukaryotic cell with efficient offices.
R: Pyramid warm-up. Evolution Start. Fossil Record Data and Whiteboard a Step in between each. Show the data and students make a description of what happened. Generate a timeline of animal evolution and environmental changes that occurred.
F: Test. Evolution start, Speciation, Fossil Record.
M: SWBAT: Use Darwin's observations to explain the process natural selection and evolution with finches and Monkey chimp data.
T: SWBAT: Introduce Heterozygote Advantage Story Project-Due on Friday and my example. Phylogenetic Tree Simulation.
W: SWBAT: Analyze Data from Phylogenetic tree simulation in parsimonous tree.
R: SWBAT: Evolution Lab Play around.
Describe how we know evolution is occuring.
Brainstorm ways to measure evolution. Introduction Hardy-Weinberg
F: SWBAT Complete Hardy Weinberg Simulation
-PTC Taste Testing.
-Hardy Weinberg Simulation with cards.
M: Computer Simluation with Hardy Weinberg on Excel.
T: Hardy Weinberg Problems
W: Origin of Life Hypothesis Jigsaw Positives and Negatives.
F: SWBAT:
Explain the formation of vertebrate phylogeny.
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