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Periods 3 & 5

Wednesday 8/16/17:  C Day

                                   Intro to MV & Assembly

Thursday 8/17/17:  C Day

                               Intro 2-5 & 8 Test

Friday 8/18/17:    Lab Safety

                            Discuss website

                            Remind invite

                            Questionnaire

                            Handbook & AP Biology Redesign

                            HMWK:  Get handbook and lab safety signed

                                           Need Ch. 5 note outline for Tuesday

                                           Do you know the functional groups?  Functional Groups

                                           Watch the following video on water:  Water in Space

                                           Supplies needed:  binder, pack of lined paper, 5 dividers & composition notebook with graph paper only

Tuesday 8/21/18:  Collect any signed forms

                              Seating Chart

                              Warm-up #1 (Scientific Method) & #2 (Functional Groups)

                              Chapter 5 Notes (animations of carbs, lipids & protein)

                              Hand out Packet O Fun

                              HMWK:  Read this article:  The Rise and Fall of Crisco

                                            Macromolecule Quiz next class (know the monomer, bond, an example and function for each)

                                            Need Ch. 8 note outline for next class

                                            NEED LAB NOTEBOOK

Thursday 8/23/18:  Office Hour Schedule

                               Warm-up #3

                               Hippocampus of Macromolecules

                               Notes on primary, secondary, tertiary & quaternary structure of proteins w/ paper model

                               Notes - Ch.8 w/ hippocampus to introduce enzymes

                               Work on Packet O Fun

                               HMWK:  Need help with macromolecules?  Biomolecules

                                              Work on Packet O Fun (due on test day - next Friday)

                                              NEED LAB NOTEBOOK 

Monday 8/27/18:  Late Start  

                             Warm-up #4 on enzymes (graph & explanation turn in)

                             Ch. 8 Notes to finish enzymes (pH, temp, inhibitors, etc.) w/ visuals (hippocampus)

                             HMWK:  Intro Pre-lab for Lab 2 Enzymes (print out lab & do the pre-lab in your lab notebook - due tomorrow)

                                           Use these helpful pre-lab instructions  (you may also refer to your handbook for assistance)

Wednesday 8/29/18:  Recess Wednesday Schedule

                                   Pre-lab Quiz (Warm-up #5)

                                   Lab 2 - Enzyme Catalysis

                                   HMWK:  DO NOT FINISH WRITING UP LAB YET

                                                 Study for test:  Multiple Choice practice

                                                                   Multiple Choice answers

                                                                   Essays - use this website to look for essays on macromolecules, metabolism, enzymes, properties of water,

                                                                                  functional groups & basic chemistry (I will use a past essay question)

Friday 8/31/18:(Ab)  Office Hours Schedule

                                 Collect Packet O Fun 

                                 Chapter 2-5 & 8 Test

                                 HMWK:   Start reading Ch. 6

                                                Need Ch. 6 Note Outline for next class

                                                Check out Endomembrane System Explanation

Wednesday 9/5/18:(Ab)  Warm-up #6

                                        Work on lab - get instructions to complete lab including sample data

                                        Get Chapter 6 & 7 Packet O Fun - can work on it

                                        HMWK:  Finish lab write-up - due next class

Friday 9/7/18:  Rally Schedule

                        Collect labs

                        Warm-up #7

                        Hippocampus animation:  prokaryote vs. eukaryote, surface area to volume ratio, cell theory

                        Notes - Ch. 6

                        Cell Animation - plant and animal

                        Study for cell quiz  (Bozeman on cells)

                        HMWK:  Watch Mitochondrial Disorders

                                       Read 7.1, 7.2 & 7.3 

                                       Need Ch. 7 Note Outline for next class

Tuesday 9/11/18:  Cell Animation - plant and animal

                              Cell Quiz

                              Warm-up #8

                              Ch. 7 Notes w/ visuals (passive transport & cell membrane only)

                              Video:  Understanding the Cell Membrane Part 1

                              Hand back & go over tests

                              HMWK:  Check out review of cell membrane

                                            Go to this website & review concepts of diffusion & osmosis (water potential, etc.)  Diffusion & Osmosis

                                             Read active transport (rest of Ch. 7)  

Thursday 9/13/18:  Office Hours

                               Warm-up #9 (pics of transport in groups with add-on about osmotic potential & enzymes --- present)

                               Ch. 7 Notes on active transport with animations

                               Hippocampus: Review of transports

                               Hand back & go over cell quizzes

                               HMWK:  Work on Packet O Fun (due next class)

                                              Check out this site to get a visual of the types of transport:  Animations of transport

                                              Do you understand water potential?  Water Potential Powerpoint

                                                                                                         Water Potential Questions & Answers

                                              Study for test  Chapter 6 & 7 Practice Multiple Choice

                                                                      Answers

                                              Come to office hours tomorrow for help with water potential

Monday 9/17/18:  Late Start

                             Collect Ch. 6 & 7 Packet O' Fun                 

                             Chapter 6 & 7 Test

                             HMWK:  Start reading Ch. 9 (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) - VERY IMPORTANT

                                            Print out the Ch. 9 note outline for class on Wednesday - VERY IMPORTANT     

Wednesday 9/19/18:  Recess Wednesday

                                   Discuss & introduce baby project (get partner) Month 1

                                                                                                             Month 2

                                               (Helpful baby project link)

                                   Watch Cellular Respiration Video

                                   Chapter 9 Cellular Respiration Notes

                                   HMWK:  Have you read the sections suggested above?

                                                 Cell Respiration Virtual Lab

                                                

Friday 9/21/18:(Ab)  Office Hours

                                 Collect homework

                                 Warm-up #10 - Chapter 9 Quiz #1

                                 Hand out Chapter 9 Vocabulary & Questions (due next class) - ONLY WRITTEN - NOT TYPED

                                 Time to work on questions or baby project

                                 HMWK:  Finish Chapter 9 Vocab & Questions

Tuesday 9/25/18:  Collect homework

                              Warm-up #11

                              Cell Respiration Animation

                              Cell Respiration Video

                              Fermentation Notes

                              Fermentation Video

                              Tests back & discuss test corrections

                              HMWK:  Can you write an essay using these words?  

                                             Go to link:  Cyanide Case Study and complete questions

Thursday 9/27/18:  Office Hours

                               Collect homework

                               Warm-up #12

                               Picture of Cellular Respiration to label

                                More Ch. 9 Questions - due next class

                                HMWK:  Finish questions

                                               Start reading Ch. 10 (10.1, 10.2, 10.3 & 10.4)

                                               Print out Ch. 10 note outline  & FILL IN PAGE 1 USING BOOK

Monday 10/1/18:  Late Start & Rally

                             Collect homework

                             Warm-up #13 - Thinking Critically (write silently for 15 minutes)

                             Collect & discuss

                             Notes on light & dark reactions w/ animation

                             HMWK:  Have you read Ch. 10?  Read what you have not read up to 10.4

                                            Watch light reaction animation

Wednesday 10/3/18:  Discuss test corrections

                                   Show my drawing of light reaction

                                   Animation - hippocampus

                                   Notes - Calvin Cycle

                                     (my drawing of calvin cycle)

                                   Animation - hippocampus

                                   Warm-up #14 - 30 minutes

                                   Photosynthesis Bioflix

                                   Notes - C3, C4 & CAM

                                   HMWK:   Watch Calvin cycle animation

                                                  Print out Lab 4 - Photosynthesis  - found in lab section of this website

                                                                                      (explain the 5 objectives on a separate piece of lined paper as you would for a lab write-up

                                                                                       & staple to the printed out lab) - IF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS - YOU WILL HAVE TO COME IN ON

                                                                                       YOUR OWN TIME TO COMPLETE THE LAB

 

    

Friday 10/5/18:  Turn in lab objectives

                          C4 vs. C3 vs. CAM photosynthesis free response (22 min)

                          Laboratory 4 - computer simulation

                          Posters to study - Practice tests with answers to study - write practice essays - hand out work

                          HMWK:  Study for test - Ch. 9 & 10 practice test

                                                                 Ch. 9 & 10 practice test answers

                                                                 Look at practice essays and write some

Tuesday 10/9/18:  Time to study for test

                              Chapter 9 & 10 Test

Wednesday 10/10/18:  College & Career Kickoff

Friday 10/12/18: Continue to collect data on Lab 4

                            Work on Cellular Communications (Chapter 11 info) 

                            HMWK:  Lab 4 due next class - finish analysis questions on same paper w/ objectives

                                                                              graph results from 4B (one graph w/ 5 lines on separate graph paper)

                                          Staple the following together:  printed out lab w/ data

                                                                                          lined paper w/ objectives & analysis questions

                                                                                          graph of 4B results

                                          Quiz next class on lab & cellular communication (if you are having trouble understanding the lab - Photosynthesis Lab)

                                          Print out Ch. 12 note outline for next class & READ Ch. 12

                                          Notebook check w/ completed baby project (month 1 & month 2) due next week

Tuesday 10/16/18:  Collect lab & questions

                                Photosynthesis Lab Quiz w/ cellular communications questions

                                Discuss test essay question

                                Mitosis Notes w/ pics on board

                                Mitosis animation & cytokinesis (hippocampus)

                                Mitosis Video

                                Add to pic on board

                                Discussion of regulation of G0 phase

                                Hippocampus animation of G0

                                HMWK:  Read Cancer & Cell Division

                                               Print out Ch. 13 note outline for next class

                                               Need help:  Mitosis Tutorial

                                               Baby Project Month 1 & 2 due next class (notebook check)

 

Thursday 10/18/18:  Office Hours

                                 Mitosis Video

                                 Add kinetechore & nonkinetechore fibers to pics on board

                                 Mitosis Free-Response - figure out scores

                                 Mitosis Bioflix

                                 Meiosis Notes w/ hippocampus

                                 Meiosis Video

                                 Mitosis vs. Meiosis drawings - due next class

                                 HMWK:  Finish drawings

                                               Print out Ch. 14 note outline

Monday 10/22/18:  Late Start

                               Collect drawings

                               Meiosis Bioflix

                               Chapter 14 Notes

                               Ch. 14 Genetics Problems

                               HMWK:  Finish Genetics Problems (due next class) - show work on separate paper

Wednesday 10/24/18:  Collect Problems

                                     Warm-up #15

                                     Baby Project - go over (Month 3 due 11/15)

                                     Hand back & go over Ch. 14 Genetics Problems

                                     HMWK:  Try the More Ch. 14 Problems

                                                              the answers

                                                    Print out the Ch. 15 note outline

Friday 10/26/18:  Office Hours

                            Finish going over Ch. 14 problems

                            Warm-up #16 - work on quietly & go over (30 min)

                            Finish Ch. 14 Notes

                            HMWK:  Start outlining Ch. 15 notes (can print out above) through nondisjunction (pg. 307) for quiz next class  

Tuesday 10/30/18:  Warm-up #17 - quiz using Ch. 15 notes

                                Notes - Ch. 15

                                Ch. 15 genetics problems - due Thursday 11/1

                                Hand out Packet O' Fun

                                HMWK:  Finish Ch. 15 problems

Thursday 11/1/18:  Collect Ch. 15 problems

                               Warm-up #18 (including problem from Ch. 14)

                               Hand back & go over problems (let students work on 11-12)

                               HMWK:  Quiz next class

                                              Print out the Chapter 16 Note outline for next class

Friday 11/2/18:  Senior Culminating Projects

Tuesday 11/6/18:(Ab)  Time to ask questions

                                     Ch. 14 & 15 Genetics Problems Quiz

            

 

Thursday 11/8/18:(Ab)    Notes - Ch. 15

                                     HMWK:  Genetics Timeline - fill in timeline with scientists, their experiment & conclusions

Monday 11/12/18:  NO SCHOOL - VETERANS DAY 

Tuesday 11/13/18:(Ab)  Turn in Genetics Timeline

                                       Read Chapter 16 - be familiar with structure of DNA and replication

                                       Check out these animations:  DNA Structure

                                                                                      DNA Bozeman - best one

                                                                                      DNA

                                       HMWK:  Print out the Chapter 16 Note outline for next class

                                                    Do you know the function of the enzymes involved in replication:  helicase, primase, topoisomerase, single-strand binding

                                                          proteins, DNA ligase, DNA polymerase

Thursday 11/15/18:  Discuss Genetics Timeline - powerpoint (W.U #19)

                                 Notes on DNA Structure & basics of replication

                                 Notes on replication - with animations (& hippocampus)

                                      If you are struggling:  Read Section 16.3 & watch this animation:  Replication

                                 DISCUSS THANKSGIVING BREAK ASSIGNMENT

                                                          CP Biology Review of Protein Synthesis

                                                          Lab Bench - Lab 7 Link

                                                          Statistical Analysis Section

                                                          Baby Project - Month 4

                                       Also:  Print out the Chapter 17 note outline & bring to class after break

THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!!!

Monday 11/26/18:   Late Start

                               Turn in Lab 7 w/ statistical analysis & CP Biology Protein Synthesis

                               Replication Warm-up (#20)

                               Construction Paper Puppet Show for protein synthesis

                               Chapter 17 notes w/ animation & hippocampus

                               Watch this animation multiple times to review the process & enzymes involved:  Protein Synthesis

                               HMWK:  Study animations

                                              Finish Packet O Fun

Wednesday 11/27/18:   Recess Wednesday

                                    Warm-up #21 - Review of Replication & Protein Synthesis

                                           attach picture of protein synthesis to label

                                     Go over warm-up with Words to Know - Replication & Protein Synthesis

                                     Protein Synthesis Puzzle (answers)

                                     Time to work on Packet O Fun

                                     HMWK:  Test next class - watch those animations

                                                    Packet O Fun due next class     

                                                    Practice test

                                                    Answers to practice test

 

Friday 11/29/18:   Office Hours

                             Collect Packet O Fun

                             Test

Tuesday 12/4/18:  Discuss your multiple choice vs. AP test and timing

                              Go over Chi square test & work on problems as class

                              "Life Story" movie

                              HMWK:  Practice Chi Square with these problems

 

Thursday 12/6/18:  Office Hours

                               Finish movie

                               Questions about "Life Story - Race for the Double Helix"

                                         (If you were absent for part of the movie:  Watch the Ted Talk with Watson, print out these questions and answer them)

                               Chi Square grid in example 

                               HMWK:  Practice Chi Square problems from Tuesday's homework

                                              Quiz Wednesday on Fruit Fly Lab & Mitosis/Meiosis Lab       

Monday 12/10/18:  Late Start

                               Mitosis/Meiosis Lab

                                      Lab Instructions

                                      Do you need assistance/explanation?  Lab Bench 

                               HMWK:  Virus & Bacteria Questions - due Friday

                                             Quiz next class

Wednesday 12/12/18:  Collect Lab

                                     Lab Quiz

                                     HMWK:  Virus & Bacteria Questions - due next class

                                                   Final Review Sheet

Friday 12/14/18:  Collect Questions

                            Warm-up #23 - Viruses vs. Bacteria

                            Virus Notes

                            Discuss test & quiz

                            Discuss baby project - month 3

                            HMWK:  Study for final - Final Review Sheet

                                           Baby Project Month 4 - due day of finals

 

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