Category: My Classroom Material

Semester I Calendar 2001

AP Calendar 2006

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
see you in late August!!

 

week 1

Aug 24-26

  • intro to AP Bio
  • summer assignments   
  • bonding
  • buffers, acids and bases
  • element cycles
  • homeostasis
  • chemical basis of life: carbon, water and life
  • elements for life

 

 ch 1, 50-55-due Aug. 24-your first day back!!**check study guide (SG) and question set (QS)

powers of ten see the size of everything!

ch 2

 

 

handouts/AP website

  

scientific method -The Biology Project

size and biology -The Biology Project

 

 

 

dissociation of water

acid-base explained

water movement click on animations

water movement ions, simulations of pH solutions

 

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 2

Aug 29-Sept 2
  • biomolecules
    • organic compounds
    • carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids
 ch 3

 

BBC guru condensation and structure of molecules

 

 central dogma animation

molecules -animated (rotate)

dehydration synthesis -animation

the biological basis of life for condensation
week 3

Sept 6-9

Sept 5 off-Labor Day

  

  • metabolism
  •  enzyme kinetics t
  • test over ch 2, 3, and 6 on Friday…be ready!!

 

 

 ch 6 interactives catalysis, enzyme inhibition

BBC guru this is the enzyme site we used in class

 
week 4

CAMP KERN (but you are responsible for everything!!)

Sept 12-16
  • ecology and geography
  • human ecology
  • population ecology 

 

 population clock population estimation

climate graphs/biomes

dissolved O2 lab 

 

 

 Nova-The World in Balance  Human Numbers/Time               The Earth in  Peril      Be a Demographer         Population Trend quiz

nitrogen cycle -animation

 
week 5

Sept 19-23

 
  • community ecology
  • ecosystems and the biosphere

 

 

  

 

 

 interesting ecology simulations, including:     biomass succession

biomass succession 2

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 6

Sept 26- 30

 

 

 
  • early evolution of life
  

 

ch 20

 burgess shale -resources

early life  -Burgess Shale

geologic time scale

the Origins Game

Aliens in the Milky Way?
week 7

Oct 3-7
  • prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
  • viruses and bacteria

 

 

 

 

 

 ch 4 

 

ch 7 

 

 

Military Medicine through Time
evolution

microbe clock

 microscopy  -CellsAlive

eukaryotic vs pro, quizzes on plant and animal cell

show big is? (cell biology) -CellsAlive

microbe world

microbiology

binary fission movie

lysogenic cycle -animation

micro sites
week 8

Oct 10-14

Oct 11 off

-teacher inservice
  • plant vs animal cells
  • subcellular organization
 ch 4

these are the links that we used in class-

virtual cell -virtual cell textbook

cell comparison -check yourself

flagella and cilia movement

the cell -ThinkQuest

 

 

 

 

 inside the cell -NIH/NIGMS

cell parts -cells.de link of the month

drop/drag organelles

plant and animal cells -structure and function

endoplasmic reticulum

problem sets and tutuorials -The Biology Project, includes: studying cells tutorial  and cytoskeleton  among others-best site

cell similarity -GeoCities-fun stuff

click on animations -HHMI
week 9

Oct 17-21

Oct 22-end of Q1

 

  • biological membranes

 

  • transport across membranes

 

 

 ch 5

membrane structure  -simple

pathways in and out of the cell 

antibiotic resistance

BBC guru

 drop/drag membrane ZeroBio

membrane structure power point tutorial-advanced

cell signaling Access Excellence

osmosis tutorial Cornell BioG101-104

osmosis simulation Colorado

osmosis simulation2  UMV

osmosis animation Oklahoma State

osmotic pressure sanger

reverse osmosis gearfiltration

ion channels (cell biology, myocyte) CellsAlive

membrane animation HHMI

cell transport animation

Na/K pump Brookscole

membrane tutorial The Biology Project
week 10

Oct 24-28

 

 
  • test over eukaryotic cells and transport
    • aerobic respiration
  

ch 7

 

 

not active….

cell respiration -tutorial

overview  -respiration

electron transport chain and ATP synthesis -movies

glycolysis and fermentation -excellent molecular animations

 glucose catabolism U. Alberta-overview

intro to metabolism animation

metabolic process location animation

citric acid cycle animation

oxydative phosphorylation electron transport chain animation

cellular respiration -Kimball’s pages

cellular respiration -showing molecular models

glycolysis explained in animations

oxydative phosphorylation explained inanimations

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 11

Oct 31-Nov 4

 

 

 
  • photosynthesis
  • test over respiration and photosynthesis

 

  

 

ch 8

 

 

 

 photosynthesis light rxn -The Biology Project

photosynthesis carbo formation -The Biology Project

photosynthesis sites -Arizona State University

interactives

photosynthesis animation

oxygenic photosynthesis animation U. Alberta

photosynthesis -Maricopa bio181

 
week 12

Nov 7-11
  • The cell cycle

 

  • chromosomes

 

  • mitosis, meiosis/ gametogenesis, cell cycle

 

  

ch 9

Online Onion Tips  -The biology Project

more animations -BSC Courseware

BBC guru

 cell cycle  -The Biology Project

cell cycle animation, myocyctes, cytoskeleton, apoptosis (cell biology, cell models, cell gallery)  -CellsAlive

human genome size

mitosis review -Nebraska Wesleyan

interactive mitosis (cell biology)-CellsAlive

mitosis -The Biology Project

modeling mitosis -Cornell BioG101-104  click either random or assignment……

mitosis/meiosis animations -About: homework help

mitosis and meiosis tutorial -Cornell BioG101-104

meiosis vs mitosis -WGBH (PBS)

cancer growth -WGBH (PBS)

metastasis -animation
week 13

Nov 14-18

 
  • principles of heredity
  • inheritance patterns

 

  

ch 10, 15

Dogs Around the World

 mendelian genetics  -The Biology Project

human karyotyping  -The Biology Project

genetics -University of Utah

harlequin chromosomes -J. Kimball

drop/drag genetic cross ZeroBio
week 14

Nov 21-22

 

  • RNA and DNA structure and function

 

  

 

Nov 23-25 off Thanksgiving!

 

 ch 11

http://ull.chemistry.uakron.

edu/genobc/animations/

 

BBC guru

  

Central Dogma animation

Anatomy of photo 51

DNA movies*

nucleic acids  -The Biology Project

Hershey/Chase -AccessExcellence

DNA basics -The Biology Project

DNA animations*

DNA replication animation

Cracking the code   (PBS)

DNA structure -subunit animation

 

 

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 15

 

 Nov 28-Dec 2

 

 

 

  

  • RNA and DNA structure  and function
  • mutations
ch  12
DNA structure/function

 		 transformation movie

translation animation ZeroBio

protein synthesis animation

Beginner’s Guide to Molecular Biology -Molecular Biology Notebook

DNA from the Beginning -DNA from the Beginning
 

week 16

Dec 5-9

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

ch 13, 16

 

 gene regulation -Indiana State University

RNA splicing -movie

cloning animation

developement  -The Biology Project

gene expression  -The Biology Project

gene expression in prokaryotes  -The Biology Project

signal transduction animation
week 17

Dec 12-16

 
  • DNA technology
 ch 14

build a family tree

 

Sequence for Yourself      Create a DNA fingerprint

 Blackett family  -The Biology Project

DNA profiling  -The Biology Project

Western Blot  -The Biology Project

recombinant DNA  -The Biology Project

PCR animation

human genome project -National Human Genome Research Institute

bacterial genetics/recombinant DNA tutorial -Cornell BioG101-104

forensics  -The Biology Project

genetic engineering

 
 

Dec 21

Winter Vacation starts at end of day

 

 ch 17 are yours for the break–Happy Holidays!! (you would be bored without this work….

End of First semester

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 18

Jan 3-7

 

 
  • Darwinian evolution
  • evolutionary changes in populations

 

 ch 17–18

Evolution

 

The Shape of Life

 dating techniques -Geology Labs on-line

Darwin’s life and works -Cal. State University, Dr. C. Urbanowicz

population drift -simulation

genetic drift -simulation
week 19

Jan 10-14

Jan 14-end of Sem I

  

semester I final exam week

 

 

  

AP sample exam

 

 

 

Semester II calendar 2005

home | AP Bio | Honors Bio | CP Bio | calendars | Visit the Lab

 

week topics text chapters/ activities              supplemental readings/URLs
week 20

Jan 18-21

Jan 17 off-MLK Day
  • speciation and macroevolution
  • evolution of primates

 

 

  

ch 19, 21

 museum of palenentology -University of California, Berkeley

tree of life -Arizona State University

the talk -human origins

human evolution demo -WGBH (PBS)

human evolution -Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District

The Shape of Life -KCET (PBS)

Classifying life 

 

 
week 21

Jan 24-28

 
  • test on evolution
  • classification schemes
  • phylogeny

  • protista
  

ch 22

 

ch 24

 protist video clips

protist tutorial

slime molds

more slime mold -reproduction

 

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 22

Jan 31-Feb 4
  • fungi
  

ch 25

 all about fungi

characteristics -fungi

fungus powerpoint

fungal diseases -pictures

types of fungi

 
week 23

Feb 7-11
  • non-vascular plants
  • vascular plants
  • monocots vs dicots
  • plant tissues
 ch 26, 27, 31 plant life cycle animation

pest plants invasives

unusual plants from Wayne’s World

 

 
week 24

Feb 14-18
  • roots, stems and leaves

Secret to Living Long

  

ch 32, 33, 34

 

 leaf section

guard cell regulation -animation

sugar transport -animation
week 25

Feb 22-25

 

Feb 21 off-President’s Day 
  • plant reproduction

 

  ch 35  

 

 

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 26

Feb 28-Mar 4
  • chemical regulation 
  • tropisms
 ch 36 plants in motion -films
week 27

Mar 7-11
  • animal diversity
  • invertebrate animals
  • sponges and cnidaria
  • triploblastic animals
  • flat worms and round worms

 

 ch 28 obelia life cycle also sponge water flow -animation

feeding in eulamellabranch (clam)

 
week 28

Mar 14-19
  • coelomates
  • worms, mollusks, arthropods and echinoderms

 

 ch 30

 

Inside a tubeworn

 urchin feeding -also sea squirt feeding -animation
week 29

Mar 21-24

end of Q3
  • animal tissues
  • protection, support and movement: skin skeleton and muscle

 

 ch 37, 38

 

  

http://collab.nlm.nih.gov/webcastsandvideos/ visiblehumanvideos/visiblehumanvideos.htmlvisible man, various options

Adam animations

interactives -muscle, skeleton, organ

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 30

Apr 4-8

 

 
  • internal transport: circulation and lymphatics

 

  • internal defense

 

 ch 43, 43 understand the immune system

“The Last Days of the Wonder Drugs” -Discover

Discover articles 

phagocytosis animation

fighting back -Nova Hot Science

TB infection animation

epidemic simulation -HHMI

click on animations -HHMI

immunology -Freeman co.

vaccines
week 31

Apr 11-15

 
  • gas exchange

 

  • food processing and nutrition

 

 ch 44, 45 comparative digestive systems -animation
week 32

Apr 18-22

 
  • excretory system

 

  • endocrine system
 ch 46, 47

morphing embryo

 kidney function -movie
week 33

Apr 25-29

 neural signaling and regulation, sensory reception ch 39, 40, 41

Probe the Brain

 sense challenge also physcological tests

brain map

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 34

May 2-6

 review week all/sample tests and free response questions get some rest!!!
week 35

May 8-12

 AP Biology exam Monday May 8/AM

  • start exit project
week 36

May 15-19

  

  • work on exit project
week 37

May 22-26

  

 

  • present exit project
  

 

  

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 38

MONDAY, MAY 29 MEMORIAL DAY

May 30-June 2

 final exams  

 
graduation June 4

CONGRATULATIONS,

SENIORS!!!

  

 

semester 1

© Mariemont City Schools 2002, Halsall (05/23/06 )

 

 

 

 

Virus Worksheet

 

  Viruses Worksheet   

Structure of Viruses

1. Are viruses living or nonliving?

2. How can viruses be useful?

 

3. What odes a virologist do for a living?

 

4. Construct a Venn diagram comparing viruses and cells.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Explain how viruses were discovered and by whom.

 

 

6. Compare the size of viruses, bacteria, and eukaryotic cells.

 

 

7. What must be true for viruses to be able to replicate?

 

8. Name the two main parts of all viruses.

 

9. Discuss the hereditary material of viruses.

 

 

10. Compare & contrast capsids and envelopes of viruses.

 

 

11. Name 2 enveloped viruses that cause sexually transmitted disease.

12. What type of virus causes flu?

13. Where are glycoproteins found & what is there purpose?

 

14. What characteristics are used to group viruses?

 

15. How are these viruses grouped — retrovirus, adenovirus, and herpes virus?

 

 

16. Compare & contrast helical & icosahedral viral shapes & diseases.

 

 

17. Explain how RNA viruses replicate.

 

 

18. Do viruses contain enzymes? Explain.

 

19. Compare 7 contrast viroids & prions by constructing a Venn diagram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viral Replication

20. Why are viruses considered to be obligate intracellular parasites?

 

21. What is the best known bacteriophage, and what virus does it attack?

 

22. Sketch & label a bacteriophage and tell the function of each labeled part.

 

 

 

 

 

23. Name the steps of the lytic cycle & tell what happens to the host cell & virus at each stage.

 

 

 

 

 

24. What are temperate phages and how do they affect a cell?

 

 

25. Name the steps of the lysogenic cycle & tell what happens to the host cell & virus at each stage.

 

 

 

 

26. How does a prophage form?

 

27.Name a sexually transmitted virus that uses the lysogenic cycle to attack host cells.

28. Why is the influenza virus so hard to combat?

 

Viruses & Human Disease

29. Name some of the most common viral disease that attack humans.

 

30. How are shingles & chickenpox alike? How are they different?

 

31.What two methods are used to control viral diseases?

 

32. What is the CDC and what is its job?

 

33.What eradication program did the World Health Organization undertake in 1967, and what were the results?

 

34. What virus do we vaccinate our pets against each year?

35. How does AZT work?

 

36. What drugs prevent viruses from making capsids?

37. Why is rain forest clearing dangerous to humans?

 

38. Some lysogenic viruses can trigger certain types of _________________.

 


BACK

Semester I Calendar 2001

AP Calendar 2006

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
see you in late August!!

 

week 1

Aug 24-26

  • intro to AP Bio
  • summer assignments   
  • bonding
  • buffers, acids and bases
  • element cycles
  • homeostasis
  • chemical basis of life: carbon, water and life
  • elements for life

 

 ch 1, 50-55-due Aug. 24-your first day back!!**check study guide (SG) and question set (QS)

powers of ten see the size of everything!

ch 2

 

 

handouts/AP website

  

scientific method -The Biology Project

size and biology -The Biology Project

 

 

 

dissociation of water

acid-base explained

water movement click on animations

water movement ions, simulations of pH solutions

 

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 2

Aug 29-Sept 2
  • biomolecules
    • organic compounds
    • carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids
 ch 3

 

BBC guru condensation and structure of molecules

 

 central dogma animation

molecules -animated (rotate)

dehydration synthesis -animation

the biological basis of life for condensation
week 3

Sept 6-9

Sept 5 off-Labor Day

  

  • metabolism
  •  enzyme kinetics t
  • test over ch 2, 3, and 6 on Friday…be ready!!

 

 

 ch 6 interactives catalysis, enzyme inhibition

BBC guru this is the enzyme site we used in class

 
week 4

CAMP KERN (but you are responsible for everything!!)

Sept 12-16
  • ecology and geography
  • human ecology
  • population ecology 

 

 population clock population estimation

climate graphs/biomes

dissolved O2 lab 

 

 

 Nova-The World in Balance  Human Numbers/Time               The Earth in  Peril      Be a Demographer         Population Trend quiz

nitrogen cycle -animation

 
week 5

Sept 19-23

 
  • community ecology
  • ecosystems and the biosphere

 

 

  

 

 

 interesting ecology simulations, including:     biomass succession

biomass succession 2

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 6

Sept 26- 30

 

 

 
  • early evolution of life
  

 

ch 20

 burgess shale -resources

early life  -Burgess Shale

geologic time scale

the Origins Game

Aliens in the Milky Way?
week 7

Oct 3-7
  • prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
  • viruses and bacteria

 

 

 

 

 

 ch 4 

 

ch 7 

 

 

Military Medicine through Time
evolution

microbe clock

 microscopy  -CellsAlive

eukaryotic vs pro, quizzes on plant and animal cell

show big is? (cell biology) -CellsAlive

microbe world

microbiology

binary fission movie

lysogenic cycle -animation

micro sites
week 8

Oct 10-14

Oct 11 off

-teacher inservice
  • plant vs animal cells
  • subcellular organization
 ch 4

these are the links that we used in class-

virtual cell -virtual cell textbook

cell comparison -check yourself

flagella and cilia movement

the cell -ThinkQuest

 

 

 

 

 inside the cell -NIH/NIGMS

cell parts -cells.de link of the month

drop/drag organelles

plant and animal cells -structure and function

endoplasmic reticulum

problem sets and tutuorials -The Biology Project, includes: studying cells tutorial  and cytoskeleton  among others-best site

cell similarity -GeoCities-fun stuff

click on animations -HHMI
week 9

Oct 17-21

Oct 22-end of Q1

 

  • biological membranes

 

  • transport across membranes

 

 

 ch 5

membrane structure  -simple

pathways in and out of the cell 

antibiotic resistance

BBC guru

 drop/drag membrane ZeroBio

membrane structure power point tutorial-advanced

cell signaling Access Excellence

osmosis tutorial Cornell BioG101-104

osmosis simulation Colorado

osmosis simulation2  UMV

osmosis animation Oklahoma State

osmotic pressure sanger

reverse osmosis gearfiltration

ion channels (cell biology, myocyte) CellsAlive

membrane animation HHMI

cell transport animation

Na/K pump Brookscole

membrane tutorial The Biology Project
week 10

Oct 24-28

 

 
  • test over eukaryotic cells and transport
    • aerobic respiration
  

ch 7

 

 

not active….

cell respiration -tutorial

overview  -respiration

electron transport chain and ATP synthesis -movies

glycolysis and fermentation -excellent molecular animations

 glucose catabolism U. Alberta-overview

intro to metabolism animation

metabolic process location animation

citric acid cycle animation

oxydative phosphorylation electron transport chain animation

cellular respiration -Kimball’s pages

cellular respiration -showing molecular models

glycolysis explained in animations

oxydative phosphorylation explained inanimations

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 11

Oct 31-Nov 4

 

 

 
  • photosynthesis
  • test over respiration and photosynthesis

 

  

 

ch 8

 

 

 

 photosynthesis light rxn -The Biology Project

photosynthesis carbo formation -The Biology Project

photosynthesis sites -Arizona State University

interactives

photosynthesis animation

oxygenic photosynthesis animation U. Alberta

photosynthesis -Maricopa bio181

 
week 12

Nov 7-11
  • The cell cycle

 

  • chromosomes

 

  • mitosis, meiosis/ gametogenesis, cell cycle

 

  

ch 9

Online Onion Tips  -The biology Project

more animations -BSC Courseware

BBC guru

 cell cycle  -The Biology Project

cell cycle animation, myocyctes, cytoskeleton, apoptosis (cell biology, cell models, cell gallery)  -CellsAlive

human genome size

mitosis review -Nebraska Wesleyan

interactive mitosis (cell biology)-CellsAlive

mitosis -The Biology Project

modeling mitosis -Cornell BioG101-104  click either random or assignment……

mitosis/meiosis animations -About: homework help

mitosis and meiosis tutorial -Cornell BioG101-104

meiosis vs mitosis -WGBH (PBS)

cancer growth -WGBH (PBS)

metastasis -animation
week 13

Nov 14-18

 
  • principles of heredity
  • inheritance patterns

 

  

ch 10, 15

Dogs Around the World

 mendelian genetics  -The Biology Project

human karyotyping  -The Biology Project

genetics -University of Utah

harlequin chromosomes -J. Kimball

drop/drag genetic cross ZeroBio
week 14

Nov 21-22

 

  • RNA and DNA structure and function

 

  

 

Nov 23-25 off Thanksgiving!

 

 ch 11

http://ull.chemistry.uakron.

edu/genobc/animations/

 

BBC guru

  

Central Dogma animation

Anatomy of photo 51

DNA movies*

nucleic acids  -The Biology Project

Hershey/Chase -AccessExcellence

DNA basics -The Biology Project

DNA animations*

DNA replication animation

Cracking the code   (PBS)

DNA structure -subunit animation

 

 

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 15

 

 Nov 28-Dec 2

 

 

 

  

  • RNA and DNA structure  and function
  • mutations
ch  12
DNA structure/function

 		 transformation movie

translation animation ZeroBio

protein synthesis animation

Beginner’s Guide to Molecular Biology -Molecular Biology Notebook

DNA from the Beginning -DNA from the Beginning
 

week 16

Dec 5-9

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

ch 13, 16

 

 gene regulation -Indiana State University

RNA splicing -movie

cloning animation

developement  -The Biology Project

gene expression  -The Biology Project

gene expression in prokaryotes  -The Biology Project

signal transduction animation
week 17

Dec 12-16

 
  • DNA technology
 ch 14

build a family tree

 

Sequence for Yourself      Create a DNA fingerprint

 Blackett family  -The Biology Project

DNA profiling  -The Biology Project

Western Blot  -The Biology Project

recombinant DNA  -The Biology Project

PCR animation

human genome project -National Human Genome Research Institute

bacterial genetics/recombinant DNA tutorial -Cornell BioG101-104

forensics  -The Biology Project

genetic engineering

 
 

Dec 21

Winter Vacation starts at end of day

 

 ch 17 are yours for the break–Happy Holidays!! (you would be bored without this work….

End of First semester

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 18

Jan 3-7

 

 
  • Darwinian evolution
  • evolutionary changes in populations

 

 ch 17–18

Evolution

 

The Shape of Life

 dating techniques -Geology Labs on-line

Darwin’s life and works -Cal. State University, Dr. C. Urbanowicz

population drift -simulation

genetic drift -simulation
week 19

Jan 10-14

Jan 14-end of Sem I

  

semester I final exam week

 

 

  

AP sample exam

 

 

 

Semester II calendar 2005

home | AP Bio | Honors Bio | CP Bio | calendars | Visit the Lab

 

week topics text chapters/ activities              supplemental readings/URLs
week 20

Jan 18-21

Jan 17 off-MLK Day
  • speciation and macroevolution
  • evolution of primates

 

 

  

ch 19, 21

 museum of palenentology -University of California, Berkeley

tree of life -Arizona State University

the talk -human origins

human evolution demo -WGBH (PBS)

human evolution -Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District

The Shape of Life -KCET (PBS)

Classifying life 

 

 
week 21

Jan 24-28

 
  • test on evolution
  • classification schemes
  • phylogeny

  • protista
  

ch 22

 

ch 24

 protist video clips

protist tutorial

slime molds

more slime mold -reproduction

 

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 22

Jan 31-Feb 4
  • fungi
  

ch 25

 all about fungi

characteristics -fungi

fungus powerpoint

fungal diseases -pictures

types of fungi

 
week 23

Feb 7-11
  • non-vascular plants
  • vascular plants
  • monocots vs dicots
  • plant tissues
 ch 26, 27, 31 plant life cycle animation

pest plants invasives

unusual plants from Wayne’s World

 

 
week 24

Feb 14-18
  • roots, stems and leaves

Secret to Living Long

  

ch 32, 33, 34

 

 leaf section

guard cell regulation -animation

sugar transport -animation
week 25

Feb 22-25

 

Feb 21 off-President’s Day 
  • plant reproduction

 

  ch 35  

 

 

 

week topics text chapters/ activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 26

Feb 28-Mar 4
  • chemical regulation 
  • tropisms
 ch 36 plants in motion -films
week 27

Mar 7-11
  • animal diversity
  • invertebrate animals
  • sponges and cnidaria
  • triploblastic animals
  • flat worms and round worms

 

 ch 28 obelia life cycle also sponge water flow -animation

feeding in eulamellabranch (clam)

 
week 28

Mar 14-19
  • coelomates
  • worms, mollusks, arthropods and echinoderms

 

 ch 30

 

Inside a tubeworn

 urchin feeding -also sea squirt feeding -animation
week 29

Mar 21-24

end of Q3
  • animal tissues
  • protection, support and movement: skin skeleton and muscle

 

 ch 37, 38

 

  

http://collab.nlm.nih.gov/webcastsandvideos/ visiblehumanvideos/visiblehumanvideos.htmlvisible man, various options

Adam animations

interactives -muscle, skeleton, organ

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 30

Apr 4-8

 

 
  • internal transport: circulation and lymphatics

 

  • internal defense

 

 ch 43, 43 understand the immune system

“The Last Days of the Wonder Drugs” -Discover

Discover articles 

phagocytosis animation

fighting back -Nova Hot Science

TB infection animation

epidemic simulation -HHMI

click on animations -HHMI

immunology -Freeman co.

vaccines
week 31

Apr 11-15

 
  • gas exchange

 

  • food processing and nutrition

 

 ch 44, 45 comparative digestive systems -animation
week 32

Apr 18-22

 
  • excretory system

 

  • endocrine system
 ch 46, 47

morphing embryo

 kidney function -movie
week 33

Apr 25-29

 neural signaling and regulation, sensory reception ch 39, 40, 41

Probe the Brain

 sense challenge also physcological tests

brain map

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 34

May 2-6

 review week all/sample tests and free response questions get some rest!!!
week 35

May 8-12

 AP Biology exam Monday May 8/AM

  • start exit project
week 36

May 15-19

  

  • work on exit project
week 37

May 22-26

  

 

  • present exit project
  

 

  

 

 

week topics text chapters/activities supplemental readings/URLs
week 38

MONDAY, MAY 29 MEMORIAL DAY

May 30-June 2

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Worksheet Specialist Characteristics

SPECIALIST’S DATA SHEET

Using the table below list the characteristics that are used to help describe and classify each of your specialization areas. Be sure to explain in as much detail as possible what traits and characteristics are used to identify and classify the specific organism or kingdom that you have become a specialist.

 

 

  #1:  (Example – Monera Characteristics)
 #2: ( Example – Protista Characteristics)
 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 

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AP Calendar 2010-11

 

 

1st Semester AP Biology

 

 

AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY

 

 

2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
16 17 18 19 20
23 24 25 26 27
30 31

 

 

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2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 3

 
6 7 8 9 10
UNIT 1A BIOCHEMISTRY TEST
(Chapters 1-3)
13 14 15 16 17
UNIT 1B BIOCHEMISTRY TEST
(Chapters 4 & 5)

 

 EARLY LEAF COLLECTION DUE (20)
20 21 22 23 24
EARLY LEAF COLLECTION DUE (10)

 LEAF COLLECTION DUE

INTERIMS

P-T Conference SHS

P-T Conference SJHS
27 28 29 30  

 

 

 

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2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1
4 5 6 7 8
UNIT 2 CELL TEST
11 12 13 14 15

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
18 19 20 21 22
25 26 27 28 29

 

 UNIT 3 CELLULAR ENERGETICS TEST

 

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2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 3 4 5
  • Start Mendelian Genetics ppt
  • Handout: Mendelian Genetics Notes
  • Finish Mendelian Genetics ppt
  • Start Chromosomes ppt
8 9 10 11 12
  • Genetic Problem Worksheet DUE
  • Continue Chromosomes ppt
  • Finish Chromosomes ppt
  • Finish going over Genetics Problems
 UNIT 4 GENETICS TEST
  • Cry Quiz #2
  • Continue Corn Genetics Lab
15 16 17 18 19
  • Chapter 16 Reading Guide DUE
  • Start Nucleic acids ppt
  • Corn Genetics Lab DUE
  • Continue Nucleic acids ppt
  • Read Chapter 17 Gene to Protein
  • Answer Chapter 17 Reading Guide
  • Handout: Nucleic acids
  • Start Gene to Protein ppt
  • Continue Gene to Protein ppt
  • Chapter 17 Reading Guide DUE
  • Finish Gene to Protein ppt
  • Spool DNA
  • Read Chapter 20 Biotechnology
  • Answer Chapter 20 Reading Guide
22 23 24 25 26
 
29 30
  • Start Biotechnology ppt
  • Continue Biotechnology ppt
  • Answer Chapter 20 Reading Guide DUE

 

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2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 3
  • Start Lab 3 Sordaria Lab
  • Finish Sordaria Lab
  • Cry Quiz #3
6 7 8 9 10
UNIT 5 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TEST
  • Sordaria Lab DUE
  • Start Population Ecology Lab
  • Complete Population Ecology Lab
  • Cry of the Kalahari paper DUE!
  • Assign Ecology Unit
  • Population Ecology Lab DUE
  • Work on Ecology Unit
13 14 15 16 17
Proficient-Advanced Students Exempt

ECOLOGY UNIT

 Proficient-Advanced Students Exempt

ECOLOGY UNIT

 Proficient-Advanced Students Exempt

ECOLOGY UNIT

 Proficient-Advanced Students Exempt

ECOLOGY UNIT

 END OF 2ND 9 WEEKS

ECOLOGY UNIT DUE JANUARY 5

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2nd Semester Biology

 

 

2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 3 4 5 6 7
 ECOLOGY UNIT DUE
10 11 12 13 14
UNIT 11 ECOLOGY TEST
17 18 19 20 21

MLK DAY!
24 25 26 27 28
UNIT 6 EVOLUTION TEST
31
  • Assign Darwin Day Project

 

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2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 3 4
7 8 9 10 11
P-T Conference SJHS
 P-T Conference SHS
  • Darwin Day Celebration; Project DUE
14 15 16 17 18
UNIT 7 VIRUSES & SIMPLE ORGANISMS TEST
21 22 23 24 25
President’s Day
28

 

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2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 3 4
UNIT 8A PLANTS TEST
7 8 9 10 11
Literacy Test Literacy Test END OF 3rd 9 WEEKS
14 15 16 17 18
UNIT 8B PLANTS TEST
21 22 23 24 25
BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK
28 29 30 31

 

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2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1
4 5 6 7 8
UNIT 9A INVERTEBRATES
11 12 13 14 15
UNIT 9B VERTEBRATES
18 19 20 21 22
  • Assign Wildflower Collection
 EOC GEOMETRY EOC GEOMETRY
25 26 27 28 29
UNIT 10A BODY SYSTEMS TEST

 

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2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 2 3 4 5 6
 AP CALCULUS EXAM AP ENGLISH LIT EXAM UNIT 10B BODY SYSTEMS TEST
9 10 11 12 13
AP BIOLOGY EXAM
  • Start Fetal Pig Dissection
 AP ENGLISH COMP EXAM AP HISTORY EXAM
  • Wildflower Collection DUE
16 17 18 19 20
  • TEST over FETAL PIGS
23 24 25 26 27
SEMESTER TEST SEMESTER TEST SEMESTER TEST
30 31
MEMORIAL DAY SEMESTER TEST

 

 

 

  2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 2 3 4
 STUDENT’S LAST DAY  TEACHER’S WORK DAY

 

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