daily calendar
This page will help you keep track of what was covered in class each day....... use this page especially when you are absent to catch up!
Post ap exam - debates! field trip and Stanford visit
May 11 - exam!
Apr 30 - May 5
Chp 35 - 39 - Plant Unit
Apr 22 - 26 - review session this Saturday
Chps 47,48,49 - quizzes, national geographic reading and lecture notes
Apr 9 - Happy Spring Break!
Chp 46 - reproduction and quiz on chp 44 and 45
Apr 7 -
Chp 44 - regulation of nephron function, chp 45, and chp 46
Apr 3
Blood pressure lab
Apr 1
Duck dissection and the day when your teacher could NOT teach excretory system regulation:)
Mar 30 - Monday
1) Chp 44 - Osmoregulation
Mar 26 - Thursday
1) Quiz on chp 43 - Immune system; 2) Chp 44 - Regulation of temperature
Mar 24 - tuesday
1) Quiz on Chp 42; Immune system - chp 43
Mar 20 - Friday
1) Chp 42 - completed - gene/muscle doping article submission 2) Chp 43 - immune system introduction
Mar 18 - Wednesday
Chp 41 - quiz and Chp 42 - Circulation; video of heart structure, heart sounds
Mar 16 - Monday (minimum day)
1) Chp 41 - notes 2) Diversity project submissions and interviews
Mar 12 - Thursday
1) M and M chi square lab simulation and radioactive dating 2) Chp 41 - Animal nutrition
Mar 10 - Tuesday
1) Unit test on Diversity 2) Activity - planaria regeneration, hydra observation
Mar 5 - Friday
1) Chp 33, 34
Mar 4 - Wednesday
Chp 31,32, 33
Mar 2 - Monday
1) Chp 29, 30, 31
Feb 26 - Thursday
1) Chp 28, 29
Feb 24 - Tuesday
1) Daily quizzes on diversity begins; 2) Chp 27, 28 - diversity treasure hunt begins...
Feb 15 - Feb 22 - President's week
Feb 12 - Friday
1) Review of lab 2) Chp 26, 27
Feb 10 - Wedensday
1) Bacterial transformation lab
Feb 8 - Monday
1) Courtship behavior and determining genetics of Nasonia - lab 2) chp 25, 26 - started in class
Feb 4 - Thursday
1) Lab review 2) Chp 24, 25 - Cichlids of Maiwa video
Feb 2 - Tuesday
1) Hardy Weinberg lab - microevolution in action
Jan 30 - Friday - Blood drive - lab postponed
1) Complete Chp 23; Intro Chp 24 - Macroevolution
Jan 28 - Wednesday
1) Complete Chp 22; Chp 23 - Microevolution intro
Jan 26 - Monday
1) Chp 22 - reading from Newsweek - Is Lamarck back?
Jan 12 - 14 - Unit 3 completed and review for final
Jan 6 and 8 - Tues and Thu
Unit test review and test with sub
Dec 20 - Friday
1) Quiz - chp 16, 17, 18; chp 19 - completed
Dec 18 - Wednesday
1) Scientific American Article - "Junk DNA" and eukayotic gene regulation
Dec 16- Monday
1) Chp 18 - Discussion of Sci Am article - Are viruses alive?
Dec 13 - Special after school class - Chp 17
Dec 11 - Thursday
1) Chp 16 continued - make up session for assembly students
Dec 9 - Tuesday
1) Chapter 16 - leading lagging strand synthesis modelling
Dec 5 - Friday
1) Chp 15 notes continued 2) Genetics disease brochure display
Dec 3 - Wednesday
1) Quiz on Chp 14; graded in class 2) Chp 15 notes
Dec 1 - Monday
1) Review of quiz 2) Chp 14 - complete notes
Nov 23 - Monday
1) Mitosis and Meiosis quiz; Chp 14 - Mendelian genetics and problem solving
Nov 20 - Thurssday
1) Chp 13 completed - drawing of all stages and organizer for difference between mitosis and meiosis
Nov 18 - Tuesday
1) Chp 12 completed 2) Chp 13 - Meiosis - sex and its cost vs benefits discussion
Nov 14 - Friday
1) Unit 2 exam (minimum day)
Nov 12 - Wednesday
1) Chp 12 - Mitosis - article reading, one stray Kagan activity; bead simulation; powerpoint notes
Nov 6- Thursday (long weekend)
1) Photosynthesis lab - parts 1 and 3
Nov 4 - Tuesday - Election day!
1) Review of cell resp lab analysis and class data 2) Notes - photosynthesis completed 3) Quiz - chp 9 and 10
Oct 31 - Friday - Halloween party!
1) Cell respiration lab using peas - crickets will be done later
Oct 29 - Wednesday
1) Chp 10 - photosynthesis notes 2) Introduction and discussion cell respiration prelab and analysis of veggie core results
Oct 27 - Monday
1) Chp 9 notes - completed upto fermentation
Oct 24 - Thursday
1) Dialysis part 2 prelab review, setting up experiment 2) Veggie core hypothesis and lab setup 3) Chp 9 - cell respiration notes
Oct 21 - Tuesday
1) Chapter 11 - cell communication and article review discussion 2) Dialysis demo and prelab review
Oct 17, Friday (you have a sub!)
1) Superquiz on chp 7 and 8 2) Work on making notes for chp 9
Oct 15, Wednesday
1) Chp 8 - water potential problems 2) Chp 8 and 11 powerpoints - epinephrine as a Case study
Oct 13, Monday
1) Chp 8 powerpoint 2) Water potential - the concept and problems
Oct 9, Thursday
1) Chp 7 and 8 powerpoint Oct 7, Tuesday
1) Unit 1 test, free response 2) Cell powerpoint 3) Instructions for enzyme lab
Oct 3, Friday
1) Discussion of toothpickase lab, prelab for lactase - demo lactase action 2) Chp 7 - Cell - Minimum day!
Oct 1, Wednesday
1) Macromolecule quiz 2) Chp 6 powerpoint- factors2) Toothpickase lab
Sep 29, Monday
1) Chp 6 powerpoint 2) Mcromolecule review
Sept 25, Thursday
1) DNA spooling 2) Chp 5 powerpoint completed - nucleotides
Sept 23, Tuesday
1) Macromolecule lab
Sept 19, Friday
1) Macromolecule lab intro - deciding the controls to bring 2) Chp 5 notes
Sept 17, Wednesday
1) Functional groups quiz 2) Lab report peer review 3) Chp 2 notes
Sept 15, Monday
1) Test - Unit 8 2) Chp 4 and 1 - functional groups INDEX CARD!
Sept 11, Thurssday
1) Chp 53/54 notes 2) Peer review - results and discussion sections of lab report
Sept 9, Tuesday
1) Review - how rubrics are used to evaluate AP Bio free response essays - HW analysis 2) How to use Excel for data tables, t tests, standard error bars, graphing 3) Chp 52/53 notes
Sept 5, Friday
1) Lab report guidelines for title, abstract, introduction, design, m and m 2) Chp 50, 52 - powerpoint
Sept 3, Wednesday
1) Introduced species HW and reading evaluation
2) AP Lab 11 - test runs and protocol finalization.
Aug 29, Friday
1) Article - tweaking genetics of Behavior - discussion/evaluation of review
2) Unit 8 - Chp 51, Chp 50 powerpoint
Aug 27, Wednesday
1) Prelab review and oral presentations
2) Quiz - Sci. Method vocabulary
3) Unit 8 - Chp 51 powerpoint
Aug 25, Monday
1) Summer reading recap and pre-assessment of designing a lab using an example from the reading
2) Scientific Method powerpoint - (labs page)
3) Writing if-then-when hypothesis statements and a prelab for AP Bio (labs page)