Welcome to Pardue's World
Period 1
Wednesday 1/17/18: Warm-up
Welcome Back - discuss material covered in second semester & keys to success
Notes: Why cells divide?/asexual vs. sexual reproduction (benefits, negatives & examples)
Thursday 1/18/18: Mitosis Poster - finish in class
Friday 1/19/18: Mitosis Review - Warm-up
Video Clip: Aphid cloning & ability to switch to sexual reproduction
Mitosis Notes
Monday 1/22/18: Late Start
Mitosis Video
Fix posters if necessary (make needed corrections based on notes)
HMWK: Cell Division & Mitosis Wkst.
back is homework to be completed with website Virtual Lab: Cell Cycle & Cancer
Tuesday 1/23/18: Cell Cycle & Mitosis Webquest
Parts involved in cell division
Onion Root Tip - Online Lab Activity
Wednesday 1/24/18: Finish webquest
Thursday 1/25/18: Collect homework
Mitosis Station Warm-up
Friday 1/26/18: Rally Schedule
Notes on Meiosis
HMWK: Comparing Mitosis & Meiosis - due next class
Monday 1/29/18: Late Start
Collect homework
Mitosis Lab
Tuesday 1/30/18: Finish Lab
Grade other poster
HMWK: Study for test - review sheet (remember the test is application of information learned)
Wednesday 1/31/18: Cell Division Test
Thursday 2/1/18:(Ab) Ratio Wkst. - read & work on
Friday 2/2/18: Go over Ratio Wkst.
Probability Notes
Probability Lab
HMWK: Finish lab questions
Monday 2/5/18: Late Start
Go over class data
Collect labs
Ratio Quiz
Tuesday 2/6/18: Probability Warm-up
Discuss quiz
Notes on Mendel & Punnett Squares
Do I Understand the Notes? Wkst. - work on and go over
Wednesday 2/8/18: Go over "Do I Understand the Notes" Wkst.
3 sample punnett squares
HMWK: 1 Trait Punnett Squares
Thursday 2/8/18: Warm-up - Mendel Intro.
Discuss test questions & hand back tests
Notes: Incomplete dominance
Incomplete dominance Wkst.
HMWK: Finish wkst.
Friday 2/9/18: Hand in homework
Notes: Dihybrid crosses
Dihybrid cross Wkst.
HMWK: Finish wkst.
Monday 2/12/18: Late Start
Collect homework
Warm-up - Powerpoint Incomplete & Dihybrid Crosses
Punnett Square Test Review Packet
HMWK: Finish packet for Wednesday
Tuesday 2/13/18: Punnett Square Group Problems (design 2 crosses as table group)
Pass back homework & check answers (posted)
Work on Punnett Square Packet due tomorrow
Wednesday 2/14/18: Collect homework
Sample problem
Go over homework
Thursday 2/15/18: Punnett Square Test
HMWK: None --- Enjoy 4-day weekend
Tuesday 2/20/18: Discuss tests & hand back
Human Genetics scavenger hunt
Intro human genetics
Wednesday 2/21/18: Finish notes on human genetics
Notes on pedigrees, population sampling & twin studies
Article & video on twins & parasitic twins
HMWK: Pedigree Wkst.
Thursday 2/22/18: Collect homework
Pedigree Warm-up (quiz)
Extra credit pedigree - I'm My Own Grandpa
Notes on dom/rec traits
Discuss human traits lab
HMWK: Finish questions on back of human traits lab
Friday 2/23/18: Turn in homework
Go over human traits lab (powerpoint)
Notes on multiple alleles
HMWK: Blood Typing Punnett Square Wkst.
Monday 2/26/18: Late Start
Overhead Review - paternity
Notes on polygenic, sex-linked & sex-influenced traits
HMWK: Sex-linked punnett squares
Tuesday 2/27/18: Collect homework
Discuss genetics extra credit assignment
Genetic disorders (mutations - spider sis, parasitic twins, hypertrichosis, xeroderma pigmentosa, Max's story, no sweat
glands, progeria, congenital insensitivity to pain)
HMWK: Pedigree Lab
Wednesday 2/28/18: Collect homework
Warm-up - Sex-llinked pedigree & blood typing
Hand back homework & go over
Notes on nondisjunction & detecting disorders (ultrasound)
Thursday 3/1/18 Karyotype Lab
HMWK: Finish lab & study for test with review sheet
Friday 3/2/18: Collect Lab
Human Genetics Test
Monday 3/5/18: Late Start
Collect Lab again
DNA Warm-up Intro (True/False)
Discovery of DNA History Webquest
Oswald Avery, McCarty and McLeod
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase - another one
James Watson and Francis Crick
Tuesday 3/6/18: 20 min. to work on poster of scientist to put on on timeline
Presentations on timeline
Wednesday 3/7/18: Notes on structure of DNA and replication
Warm-up - Replication Review Wkst.
Thursday 3/8/18: Make DNA
Friday 3/9/18: Finish DNA & turn in
Monday 3/12/18: Late Start
Amoeba Sisters DNA
DNA Structure Review Animation
DNA Replication Review Animation
DNA Structure & Replication Review (quiz) - use notes & book
Tuesday 3/13/18: Finish quiz & turn in
Wednesday 3/14/18: Modified Schedule
Warm-up - Utah Genetics
Introduce Protein Synthesis concept
"Intro to Protein Synthesis" Wkst. - using blue whale book
Thursday 3/15/18: Modified Schedule
Finish "Intro to Protein Synthesis"
HMWK: Try the Replication Game
Friday 3/16/18: Replication Game
"What makes a firefly glow" Utah Genetics
Notes on Transcription (Transcription game)
Notes on Translation (Translation game)
Video: Understanding DNA on protein synthesis
DNA Rap
Monday 3/19/18: Minimum Day Schedule
Chapter 8 Quiz
HMWK: Practice with games Protein Synthesis game
Study for test - DNA review sheet
Tuesday 3/20/18: Warm-up - Label picture of protein synthesis & work backwards from protein to DNA
Notes - Mutation (mutagens, examples, germ cell vs. somatic cell)
Wednesday 3/21/18: Transcribe & Translate own DNA
Thursday 3/22/18: Finish protein synthesis on DNA
Another picture of protein synthesis to label: Process # 1 Transcription
Process #2 Translation
M = DNA
N = mRNA
Z = codon
P = amino acid
Q = tRNA or anticodon
R = ribosome
X = codon
HMWK: Study for test next class (review sheet)
Finish DNA protein synthesis
Friday 3/23/18: DNA Test
SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday 4/9/18: Late Start
Watch GATTACA
Tuesday 4/10/18:(Ab) Finish GATTACA
Wednesday 4/10/18:(Ab) Work on Reflection Questions - due tomorrow
Thursday 4/11/18: Genetic Engineering Webquest
Article on GMO’s: http://web.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/hgn/v12n1/07gmorgs.shtml
Countries with Biotech Crops: http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/44/executivesummary/
Questions 5, 6 & 7: https://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmpe080e/Spring05/projects/gmo/index.htm
How are GM organisms (plants) made: http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/hhmi/hhmi-ft_learning_modules/plantmodule/transgenicplants.html
Medicine: http://genetics.thetech.org/about-genetics/making-medicines
Organisms currently being researched: https://www.seeker.com/top-10-genetically-engineered-crops-1766270750.html
Cloning: www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/animals/areas-research/animal-cloning/
Friday 4/12/18:(Ab) Finish Webquest
Monday 4/16/18: Late Start
Real or Fake Warm-up
Biotechnology Intro. Powerpoint & Learn Genetics - GMO's
Fill in chart with Applied Genetics packet & discuss in groups
Tuesday 4/17/18: Hand back charts
Go over chart with class as beginning of note w/ super cow clip
Wednesday 4/18/18: Notes to finish on PCR, Cloning & Recombinant DNA (powerpoint)
Closure - check for understanding (excited about, questioning & want to know more about)
Thursday 4/19/18: Introduce GMO - Genetics Symposium (brainstorm ideas)
Friday 4/20/18: Work on procedure, ad, etc. for proposal due Wednesday
Monday 4/23/18: Minimum Day
Time to work on projects
Tuesday 4/24/18: Biotechnology Quest - use book & notes
Wednesday 4/25/18: Time to look at other projects & collect Genetics Symposium Organism Proposal
Evolution Warm-up
Get charts & fill in on abiogenesis vs. biogenesis (Redi, Needham, Spallanzani & Pasteur)
Thursday 4/26/18: Go over charts together - explain experiments
Fill in back side of notes with Oparin/Haldane and Miller/Urey hypotheses and experiment
Hand out video questions for Nova: Origins of Life
HMWK: Finish watching video & answer rest of questions for extra credit - DUE TOMORROW
Friday 4/27/18: Intro. Geological Time Scale Lab - work on getting information to create posters on Monday
Monday 4/30/18: Late Start
Make posters of time period
Tuesday 5/1/18: Warm-up - using timeline created by class & complete with timeline warm-up on back (order events)
Notes - macro vs. microevolution powerpoint
HMWK: 5 major extinction events
Wednesday 5/2/18: Turn in extinction events
Evolution Station Lab - visit 4 stations & answer questions about evidences of evolution
Thursday 5/3/18: Evolution Station Lab - finish last 2 of 4 stations
Friday 5/4/18: Evidence of Evolution Quiz
Monday 5/7/18: Late Start
Nova: Evolution & Lice
Warm-up: What did lice tell us about our evolution & how?
Go over quiz & lab
Tuesday 5/8/18: Evidences of Evolution Warm-up
Notes: powerpoint of "Evidences of Evolution" using nova videos: biogeography, guess the embryo, DNA - facts of
evolution the molecules of life)
Wednesday 5/9/18: Who's On First Relative dating activity (30 minutes) - turn in
Start Twizzlers Half-Life Activity (do measurements)
Thursday 5/10/18: Explain how to do math to figure out half-lives
Finish Twizzlers Half-Life Activity
Practice half-life worksheet (1/2 sheet)
HMWK: Study for quiz
Friday 5/11/18: Turn in Twizzlers Activity
Macroevolution Quiz
HMWK: None
Monday 5/14/18: Late Start
Go over Macroevolution Quiz
Lamarck Notes & intro. Darwin w/ Darwin video (powerpoint)
Tuesday 5/15/18: Finish Darwin notes (natural selection & 4 parts to theory)
Battle at Kruger Video
Darwin Awards
Wednesday 5/16/18: Darwin and Natural selection Wkst.
HMWK: Finish wkst. - due next period
Discuss Evolution Test - 5/30/18
Thursday 5/17/18: Warm-up: Natural Selection Cartoon Powerpoint & Amoeba Sisters Natural Selection 1/2 sheet
Intro. Lab - Bird Beak Natural Selection - answer hypothesis & make table
Friday 5/18/18: Bird Beak Natural Selection Lab - collect data
HMWK: Finish lab if you didn't in class
Monday 5/21/18: Late Start
Warm-up: Adaptations
Notes: Mechanisms of Evolution
Practice 1/2 life problems
Tuesday 5/22/18: Warm-up Skittles
Notes - types of natural selection, convergent vs. divergent evolution
Wednesday 5/23/18: Skittles Genetic Drift Lab
Thursday 5/24/18: Evolution Cartoon
Friday 5/25/18: Evolution Cartoon
Review for test next class
Tuesday 5/29/18: Finish cartoon & turn in
Time to study
Wednesday 5/30/18: Check warm-up books
Evolution Test
Thursday 5/31/18: Go over evolution test & hand back
Watch "The Lorax" (original 25 min.) & answer questions
Friday 6/1/18: Rally Schedule
Read "The Truax" & answer questions
Compare & contrast paragraph about both
Monday 6/4/18: Late Start
Pick topics
Computer lab to research
Tuesday 6/5/18: Discuss final project: Human Impact on the Environment
Computer lab to work on project
Wednesday 6/6/18: Computer lab to work on project
Thursday 6/7/18: Computer lab to work on project
Friday 6/8/18: Work on project
Monday 6/11/18: Late Start
Final Project due end of period
Tuesday 6/12/18: 7:30- 9:18 Final (poster gallery walk & discussion questions)