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!
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)