Welcome to Pardue's World
Period 7
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)
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
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 & Cancer Video - Amoeba sisters
Parts involved in cell division
Onion Root Tip - Online Lab Activity
Thursday 1/25/18: Collect homework
Mitosis Station Warm-up
Notes on Meiosis
HMWK: Comparing Mitosis & Meiosis - due next class
Monday 1/29/18: Late Start
Collect homework
Mitosis Lab
HMWK: Study for test - review sheet (remember the test is application of information learned)
Finish lab
Wednesday 1/31/18: Grade other class' mitosis poster
Study
Cell Division Test
HMWK: Ratio homework
Friday 2/2/18: Go over Ratio Wkst.
Ratio Quiz
Probability Notes
Probability Lab
HMWK: Finish lab
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
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 & Dihybrid crosses
Packet of Punnett Squares w/ incomplete dominance & dihybrid crosses
HMWK: Finish packet
Monday 2/12/18: Late Start
Collect homework
Warm-up - Powerpoint Incomplete & Dihybrid Crosses
Punnett Square Group Problems (design 2 crosses as table group)
Pass back homework & check answers (posted)
Punnett Square Test Review Packet
HMWK: Finish packet
Wednesday 2/14/18: Collect homework
Time to study & ask questions
Punnett Square Test
HMWK: None --- Enjoy 4-day weekend
Tuesday 2/20/18: Discuss tests & hand back
Human Genetics scavenger hunt
Intro 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
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
Sex-linked punnett squares
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)
Karyotype Lab
HMWK: Finish lab & study for test with review sheet
Friday 3/2/18: Human Genetics Test
HMWK: Finish lab if you didn't do it for homework last class
Tuesday 3/6/18: Discuss test
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
Thursday 3/8/18: Quiz over timeline
Notes on structure of DNA and replication
Warm-up - Replication Review Wkst.
Make DNA
HMWK: Finish DNA if you didn't in class
Monday 3/12/18: Late Start
Look at picture of DNA warm-up & review
Fix/Check DNA & turn in
Amoeba Sisters DNA
DNA Structure Review Animation
DNA Replication Review Animation
DNA Structure & Replication Review (quiz) - use notes & book
Wednesday 3/14/18: Modified Schedule
Warm-up - Utah Genetics
Introduce Protein Synthesis concept
"Intro to Protein Synthesis" Wkst. - using blue whale book
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
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)
Transcribe & Translate own 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
Thursday 3/22/18: Finish DNA protein synthesis
Study/ask questions for test
DNA Test
SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday 4/9/18: Late Start
Watch GATTACA
Wednesday 4/10/18:(Ab) Finish GATTACA
Work on Reflection Questions - due Friday
Friday 4/12/18:(Ab) Discuss movie
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://connectusfund.org/27-big-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-genetically-modified-foods
How are GM organisms (plants) made: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/image_maps/62-making-a-transgenic-plant
Pesticide-Resistant Crops: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/gmos-and-pesticides/
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/
Tuesday 4/17/18: Collect webquest
Real or Fake Warm-up
Biotechnology Intro. Powerpoint & Learn Genetics - GMO's
Fill in chart with Applied Genetics packet & discuss in groups
Go over chart with class as beginning of notes w/ super cow clip
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:(Ab) GMO - Genetics Symposium (design a new organism)
Monday 4/23/18: Minimum Day
Time to work on new organisms
Wednesday 4/25/18: Collect Genetics Symposium Organism Proposal
Biotechnology Quest - use book & notes
Friday 4/27/18:(Ab) Abiogenesis vs. Biogenesis Chart with Redi, Needham, Spallanzani & Pasteur -- fill in using chart
Video: "Nova: Origins of Life" with video questions
HMWK: Finish video questions for extra credit
Tuesday 5/1/18: Turn in video questions
Evolution Warm-up
Hand back & discuss chart
Notes: Macro vs. Microevolution powerpoint
Geological Time Scale Lab - make posters
HMWK: 5 major extinction events - print out assignment & bring in completed next class
Thursday 5/3/18: Turn in extinction events for extra credit
Show completed timeline & give Warm-up - using timeline created by class & complete with timeline warm-up on back
(order events)
Evolution Station Lab - visit 4 stations & answer questions about evidences of evolution
HMWK: Study for quiz on evidences of evolution lab (if you did the lab you will be fine)
Monday 5/7/18: Late Start
Evidence of Evolution Quiz
Nova: Evolution & Lice
Warm-up: What did lice tell us about our evolution & how?
Go over quiz & lab (using nova videos: biogeography, guess the embryo, DNA - facts of evolution the molecules of life)
Wednesday 5/9/18: Warm-up: Evidences of Evolution
Nova Fossil Video
Who's On First Relative dating activity (30 minutes) - turn in
Explain how to do math to figure out half-lives
Twizzlers Half-Life Activity
HMWK: Finish lab questions
Study for quiz
Friday 5/11/18:(Ab) Turn in Twizzlers Activity
Macroevolution Quiz
Watch Evolution of Size Video
HMWK: None
Tuesday 5/15/18: Lamarck & Darwin Notes (powerpoint)
Darwin videos
Battle at Kruger Video
Darwin Awards
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
HMWK: Finish lab if you didn't in class
Monday 5/21/18: Late Start
Warm-up: Adaptations
Notes: Mechanisms of Evolution
Microevolution Video w/ questions
HMWK: Speciation through isolation wkst.
Practice 1/2 life problems
Wednesday 5/23/18: Warm-up Skittles
Skittles Genetic Drift Lab
Finish notes - types of natural selection, convergent vs. divergent evolution
Friday 5/25/18: Evolution Cartoon
Review for test next class
Wednesday 5/30/18: Time to study
Check warm-up books
Turn in cartoon
Evolution Test
Friday 6/1/18: Rally Schedule
Go over evolution test & hand back
Watch "The Lorax" (original 25 min.) & answer questions
Read "The Truax" & answer questions
Compare & contrast paragraph about both
Tuesday 6/5/18: Pick topics & go over final project: Human Impact on the Environment
Computer lab to work on project
Thursday 6/7/18: Computer lab to work on project
Monday 6/11/18: Late Start
Final Project due end of period
Wednesday 6/13/18: 9:45-11:45 Final (poster gallery walk & discussion questions)