Mon., Aug. 28:
intro
/ welcome sheet *****************************
go
over lab safety *****************************
biology
in the news this summer
distribute
books , log numbers and birthdays into computer
Tues., Aug. 29:
collect lab safety sheets
finish computer entries
mention
monarch project and extra credit
Metric Lab *****************************
Wed., Aug. 30:
Monarchs, computer entries,
Safety
Biology
in the news
Thurs., Aug. 31:
Monarchs, computer entries *****************************
Biology in the news
Fri., Sept. 1:
Prefix/suffix sheets for HW
*****************************
Mon.,
Sept. 4:
Labor Day....no school
Tues., Sept. 5:
Collect HW
Return Labs, go over
Textbook
Analysis WS in class
assign Chapter 1 and Ch 1 WS for HW
Wed. Sept. 6:
begin chapter 1 WS & discussion
Thurs., Sept. 7:
Grade HW
Go over Ch 1 WS: goals of science, definitions, scientific method, spontaneous generation
Fri., Sept. 8:
Experiments of Redi, Spallanzani and Pasteur to disprove Sp. Gen.
Monarch release?
Field studies, characteristics of living things, branches of biology *****************************
HW: finish WS for Mon.
Mon., Sept. 11:
Grade HW
Go over SI, light and electron microscopes (SEM vs. TEM), compare/contrast the 3*****************************
Go over p. 27 prob. And graph
Tues., Sept. 12:
(early release day……50 min. class)
Review for fist big TEST: Welcome sheet, Safety sheet, Metric, M&M and Peanut Labs, Graph. Act. Packet, Ch 1 WS
Distribute and label microscope diagram *****************************
Wed., Sept. 13:
Microscope Quiz
Microscope Lab
Thurs., Sept. 14:
Test on all Labs and Ch 1
HW: read and fill in Ch 2 WS, section 2-1
Do I feel a song coming on ….?
Fri., Sept 15:
discuss structure of atom, isotopes, uses, bonds *****************************
Use
AP CD for animations
try “atomic worksheet” for HW
Mon., Sept., 18:
go over atomic structure WS
2-2 for HW
OPEN
HOUSE TONIGHT
Tues., Sept. 19:
properties of water with Lab/demos
WS,
2-2, #1 -8 discuss
WS, 2-2, #9-21 for HW
Wed., Sept. 20:
Release Monarchs
Capillary action demos
discuss
# 9 - 21
Thurs. Sept. 22:
solutions, suspensions,
mixtures, acids, bases, pH scale *****************************
pH Lab (test 18 substances, record, produce scale with
labels)
finish 2-3 for HW
Fri., Sept. 23:
discuss carbohydrates
Cutouts
for disaccharides and poly saccharides (deh. Syn. And hydrol.)
Egg Balancing (Autumnal Equinox!)
Mon., Sept. 25:
finish carbo’s, begin lipids
Hand
out Lab to read tonight
Tues., Sept. 26:
Identifying Organic Compounds Lab *****************************
Wed., Sept. 27:
Identifying Organic Compounds Lab (or EVACUATION DRILL)
Thurs., Sept. 28:
Collect Labs
move
to nucleic acids and proteins on WS
2-4
for HW
Fri., Sept. 29:
hand
out enzyme labelling WS
Enzymes
with WS and filmstrip (FS) (parts one and
two)
Mon., Oct 2:
review
ch 2: carbon, carbo’s, lipids, proteins, enzymes
(cover
enzymes thoroughly) for test on Tues. with Emeril
Lagasse!
Tues., Oct 3:
Test on Ch 2
WS
7-1 for HW
Wed., Oct. 4:
check
HW
WS
7-1 discussion (cell theory, basic structures,
prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes)
7-2
for HW
Thurs., Oct. 5:
Check
HW
Begin
cell structures w. packet, plant/animal diagrams, vocab sheet, colored pencils
Fri., Oct 6:
Continue
cell structures discussion *****************************
Mon., Oct 9:
Cell Variations Lab (Potato, Elodea, Onion, Cheek,
Cork)
Tues., Oct. 10:
Cell Variations Lab, continued (early release day;
short classes)
Wed., Oct 11:
Cell Variations Lab, continued
7-3 for HW
Thurs., Oct. 12:
Grade
HW
Announce
Cell Diagram Quiz for Fri.
Review
Cell Structures
Room-sized
Cell Lab
Fri., Oct. 13:
Cell
Quiz
Begin
osmosis and diffusion with demos [Brownian motion (carmine powder), diffusion
(food
coloring,
coffee, ammonia)].
Mon., Oct. 16:
Osmosis
and Diffusion Worksheet *****************************
Tues., Oct. 17:
6
Ways things enter/leave cells WS
ATP-ADP
cycle
Wed., Oct. 18:
Parent
Conferences
Thurs., Oct. 19:
Teacher Convention
Break.......................................................................
Fri., Oct. 20:
Teacher Convention
Break.......................................................................
Mon., Oct. 23:
Distribute
Table of Contents page for Notebooks
Finish
7-4 for HW
Name
That Element Contest
Tues., Oct. 24:
Name
That Element Contest
Collect
Notebooks
Review
Osmosis and Diffusion
Take
Osm./Diff. Quiz
Go
over 7-4
Wed., Oct. 25:
Name
That Element Contest
Return
Notebooks
Return
Quizzes
Review
Ch 7 for Test (review cell parts and their functions with SWAT game?)
Extra
Credit!!!:
Sometimes cells are supposed to die after they have outlived their usefullness.
Programmed cell death is called “apoptosis” (a-pop-toe-sis) and the cell is
destroyed by all their lysosomes rupturing. The products are then shared with
nearby cells so nothing is wasted. This happens as tadpoles lose their tails
and grow legs, as caterpillars change inside their cocoon to buterflies, and as
you lose the webbing between your fingers and toes as an embryo before you are
born!
Thurs., Oct. 26:
Name
That Element Contest
……SUB………
Chapter
7 Test
Begin
Video
Fri., Oct 27:
Name
That Element Contest
……SUB………
Finish
Video
Mon., Oct. 30:
Finish
Video, if necessary
Set
up “Class of 1976”
Assign
8-1 and 8-2 for HW
Tues., Oct. 31:
Show
1st quarter grades
Autotrophs,
heterotrophs, food chains, food webs
ATP/ADP
cycle
Halloween food energy Lab
Wed., Nov. 1:
8-2:
Overview of Photosynthesis *****************************
Science
of color (ROYGBIV)
Once
through the Photosynthesis flowchart: discuss chloroplast anatomy, Photosystems
I and II, Calvin cycle, role of PGAL
Thurs., Nov. 2:
Pass
out/ fill in flowchart
Announce
Quiz on flowchart for Fri.
Fri., Nov. 3:
Flowchart
Quiz
Stomata Lab
Prep
for ROYGBIV Lab
Mon., Nov. 6:
ROYGBIV Lab
Tues., Nov. 7:
Finish
and hand in Lab
Announce
test for Thurs.
Wed., Nov. 8:
8-3
briefly, emphasizing GRAPHS!
Return
Lab
Review
for Test
Thurs., Nov. 9:
Chapter
8 Test
Ch.
9 WS packet. 9-1 due Mon.
Fri., Nov. 10:
Veterans Day…no school
Mon., Nov. 13:
Ch.
8 Test make-ups
“gross
respiration” *****************************
9-1
WS discussion
fill
in flow chart
Tues., Nov. 14:
Return
Tests, go over
Announce
Quiz on chart for Wed.
Wed., Nov. 15:
Flow
Chart Quiz
Finish
9-2 together in class
Finish
back of chart (Human Resp. System)
Review
Thurs., Nov. 16:
CO2
Lab
Fri., Nov. 17:
Collect
Labs
Test Tip: Cellular
respiration is able to extract about 38% of the potential energy from glucose.
What happens to the rest of the energy? The rest is released as heat!
You notice this when you feel warmer after exercising and how we are able to
maintain 98.6oF even in winter!!
Mon., Nov. 20:
Chapter 9 Test
Tues., Nov. 21:
Science
Fair Planning Day w. computer and Library resources
Wed.........Sun.: Go away, now! 
Mon., Nov. 27:
Collect Science Fair Project Proposals *****************************
Grade 10-1 HW
Agar Lab
Tues., Nov. 28:
Collect Labs
Discuss 10-1
Video of Cell Parts
Mitosis film loop (1st time)
10-2 for HW
Wed., Nov. 29:
Grade HW
Fill in mitosis WS *****************************
View film loop (2nd time)
Thurs., Nov. 30:
Mitosis Lab w. Allium root tips
Film
loop (3rd time)
Fri., Dec. 1:
Quiz on film loop
10-3 together
discuss cylcin’s control and cancer
Cancer article and WS for HW
Mon., Dec. 4:
Collect
Lab
Collect
article WS
Finish
10-3
Review
for Chapter 10 Test
Science
Fair interviews
Tues., Dec. 5:
Chapter 10 Test
Begin
Chap[ter 11 packet; 11-1 for HW
Interviews,
if time
Wed., Dec. 6:
The
story of Gregor Mendel *****************************
Thurs., Dec. 7:
Discuss
11-1
Probability
and coin tosses
Fri., Dec. 8:
11-2,
11-3 in class…finish for HW
Mon., Dec. 11:
Begin
Punnett square problems
2
more for HW
Tues., Dec. 12:
Monohybrid
recessive and dominant disease problems
(Short
classes …50 minutes)
Wed., Dec. 13:
Finish monohybrid problems
Take Quiz
Thurs., Dec. 14:
Dihybrid
crosses
Return
Quizzes
Incomplete
dominance, codominance, epistasis, pleiotropy
Why
fruit flies?, peas?, mice?, monkeys?
Fri., Dec. 15:
Science
Fair board orders
Mitosis
vs. meiosis WS and colored pencils
Intro
to crossovers
Mon., Dec. 18:
Science
Fair board orders
Crossovers
and mapping with WS
Chapter
12: the story of Griffith, Avery, Hershey-Chase, Watson and Crick
Tues., Dec. 19:
Science
Fair board orders
Build model DNA
Visit The Eagle Tavern
Wed., Dec. 20:
Science
Fair Interviews
Science
Fair board orders
Thurs., Dec. 21:
DNA
Extraction Lab! (cheek cells, detergent, meat tenderizer and rubbing
alcohol!)
Fri., Dec. 22:
NO SCHOOL!
**********************CHRISTMAS BREAK***********************
Thurs., Jan. 4:
Science Fair Project progress?
Boards
have arrived…payment/pickup instructions
Intro
to protein synthesis
Review
of DNA replication
New
players (CD: 16D #1,2, 5, 6; 17D #3, 4,5)
Video clip
Fri., Jan. 5:
Protein
synthesis w. WS and “Wheel”
Video clip again
Mon., Jan. 8:
Quiz
on Protein Synthesis Diagram *****************************
Mid
Year Exam Review
Tues., Jan. 9:
Mid Year Exam Review
Wed., Jan. 10:
8-10
am
A Block Exam
Collect Notebooks ; Video: Oprah on Twins (w. RHS grad Amy Frankiewicz)]
10:30 -
12:30pm B Block Exam
1-3pm
E Block Exam
Thurs., Jan 11:
8-10
am
C Block Exam
10:30 -
12:30pm D Block Exam
1-3pm
Make up Exams
Fri., Jan. 12:
Make up Exams
Mon., Jan 15:
Martin
Luther King Day (No School!)
Tues., Jan. 16:
Great Molasses Disaster! (hermits to commemorate)
12-4
for homework
Wed., Jan. 17:
Discuss
12-4
12-5
together
Thurs., Jan. 18:
Intro
to Ch 13 w. packet
Course
recommendations
Fri., Jan. 19:
Inbreeding,
mutations
Intro
to genetic engineering *****************************
Mon., Jan. 22:
Gel
electrophoresis
Show
Video: San Diego Rape case
Hand
out DNA Fingerprint WS for HW (one of you is guilty!)
Tues., Jan. 23:
Compare
Fingerprints for the culprit
Vermont
case as precedent
Thermal
Cycler
Wed., Jan. 24:
DNA
sequencing w. WS
Cell
transformation in bacteria, plants and animals
Thurs., Jan. 25:
Applying
genetic engineering
Cloning
Review
for Test
Fri., Jan. 26:
Ch 13 Test
Go
over Science Fair Abstract and Scoring
Mon., Jan. 29:
Board
design video
Ch
14 notes (hand copy): karyotype, pedigree charts, sex-linked traits, X
chromosome inactivation
Tues., Jan. 30:
Chromosomal
disorders
Testing
DNA
Human
Genome Project
Gene
therapy
Wed., Jan. 31:
How
to graph in Excel (for Science Fair)
15-1
for HW
Thurs., Feb. 1:
Discus
Darwin's life and trip on the Beagle
Attenborough
Video: Infinite Variety
Science Fair Tonight!
Fri., Feb. 2:
Science Fair Class Presentations
Mon. Feb. 5:
Science Fair Class Presentations
Finish
15-2 for HW
Open House Tonight
Tues., Feb. 6:
Grade
HW
Development
of Darwin's theory *****************************
Compare
to Lamarck
Wed., Feb. 7:
5
parts of Darwin's theory
role
of Hutton, Lyell, Malthus
Thurs., Feb. 8:
Evidence
for Evolution (15-3)
Fri., Feb. 9:
Lab: Jelli bellicus
Review
for Ch 15 Test
Mon., Feb. 12:
Ch 15 Test
Finish Jelli bellicus Lab
Happy
Birthday Charles!
16-1
for HW
Tues., Feb. 13:
Grade
HW
Discus
Darwin vs. Mendel *****************************
Gene
pools, rel. frequencies of alleles, single gene traits, polygenic traits and
graphs
PTC taste paper Lab
Wed., Feb. 14:
SNOW DAY!
Thurs., Feb. 15
SNOW DAY!
Fri., Feb. 16:
SNOW DAY!
*************************************V A C A T
I O N !!!*****************************
Mon., Feb. 26:
Toyger
story
Colossal
Squid discovery
Jelly Belly Jelly Bean Lab (selection pressures)
16-2
for HW
Tues., Feb. 27:
Team reports to explain Lab graphs
Discus
16-2
16-3
for HW
Wed., Feb. 28:
16-3
Notes: genetic drift, founder effect, speciation, reproductive isolation
Thurs., Mar. 1:
Review
the main points of genetic drift, founder effect, speciation, reproductive
isolation this time with examples
Read:
The Blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek
Intro.
to Ch. 17....page 1 of notes for HW
Fri., Mar. 2:
SNOW DAY!
Mon., Mar. 5:
Paleontology
Fossils
Intro
to Timeline Lab
Tues., Mar. 6:
Begin
Timeline Lab: A block: measure room, install paper
B
block: Calibrate events
C
block: attach artwork
Label/discuss
Miller-Urey apparatus
Wed., Mar. 7:
Discus
completed Timeline *****************************
Finish
Miller-Urey discussion
Discus
proteinoid microspheres (and coacervates), endosymbiosis and mass extinctions
National Geographic's: Impact
Thurs., Mar. 8:
Finish
Ch 17 w. disc. of 6 patterns of macroevolution
Distribute/explain
Lab for Friday
Fri., Mar. 9:
Coacervates Lab
*****************************
Mon., Mar. 12:
Review for Ch 16. 17 Test
Collect
Coacervates Lab
Classification Lab w. Animal Cards
Tues., Mar. 13:
Ch 16. 17 Test
18-1
for HW
Wed., Mar. 14:
Grade
HW
disc.
18-1
fill
in 18-2 together
finish
18-3 for HW
Pour
petri dishes during A block, explain procedure
Inoculate plates C block today, A and E on Thursday
Salamander Key Lab for HW
Thurs., Mar. 15:
Review
Salamander Key Lab results *****************************
Inoculate plates A and E block today
Parent-Teacher Conferences tonight
Fri., Mar. 16:
Parent-Teacher Conferences today
Mon., Mar. 19:
Return/go
over Tests
Begin
19-1 in class
Hand
out 3rd Quarter Notebook Contents page
Tues., Mar. 20:
Collect Notebooks
Discus
19-1: prokaryotic characteristics, growth and reproduction
Wed., Mar. 21:
Thurs., Mar. 22:
Fri., Mar. 23:
Mon., Mar. 26:
Tues., Mar. 27:
Wed., Mar. 28:
Thurs., Mar. 29:
Fri., Mar. 30:
Mon., Apr. 2:
Tues., Apr. 3:
Wed., Apr. 4:
Thurs., Apr.5:
Fri., Apr. 6:
Mon., Apr. 9:
Tues., Apr. 10:
Wed., Apr. 11:
Thurs., Apr. 12:
Fri., Apr. 13:
Mon., Apr. 23:
Tues., Apr. 24:
Wed., Apr. 25:
Thurs., Apr. 26:
Fri., Apr. 27:
Mon., Apr. 30:
Tues., May 1:
Wed., May 2:
Thurs., May 3:
Fri., May 4:
……………………………………………… 2006-07………….. 2005-06 ¯ ……………………………………………………………….
finish Green Machine
Ethnobotany discussion/CBS News clip
Fri., Nov. 4:
“Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot!
I see no reason why gunpowder
treason
Should ever be forgot!”
Chapter 10 Test tips.....Did you
know that when cytoplasm from a cell undergoing mitosis is injected into a cell
that is in interphase, the second cell will enter mitosis!?
And that Cancer affects ALL multicellular organisms,
not just humans (Yeah, plants too!)
Begin GATTACA movie
polymerase, editing, introns and exons.
12-4 for HW
Thurs., Dec. 18:
Discuss 12-4 w. handouts on mutation types
Fill in 12-5 tonight for HW (leave out #
3,6,9,12,14,17,18)
Fri., Dec. 19:
Gene Regulation (lac operon) and
organismal development....12-5
Science
Fair Consultations
DNA sequencing techniques
Sequence puzzles
Dangerous Friends, Friendly Enemies,
Part 1
Typhoid
Mary story!
)
Bacteriology 101 *****************************
Demo Tuesday Lab techniques
Thurs., Mar. 2:
Finish 19-3
with discussion about viruses
Diagram Lytic and Lysogenic cycles
(and coloring!)
Fri., Mar. 3:
Mon., Mar. 6:
Ch 20 discussion
Label Amoeba, Paramecium and Euglena diagrams
20-3 and 20-4 for HW
Tues., Mar. 7:
Discuss Algae (20-3,
20-4)
Study for Quiz on these
labels
Wed., Mar. 8:
Quiz on protozoan labels *****************************
SUB: Video: Deep Sea Invasion
Protozoan Lab
Lab WIDWIL tonight
Video footage of RHS
Protozoans
Fri., Mar. 10:
Collect Labs
Review for Test
of CH 19/20
Test on Ch 19/20 Monday
*******Important info for Monday’s test:
You should study the diagram of the life cylce of
the organism that causes Malaria, Fig. 20-7 on page 501. And, you should remind
yourself WHERE in the world this is such a big problem (tropics), WHEN does the
person experience body wide symptoms (when the parasite invades the red blood
cells), what other ORGAN is affected by the parasite (the liver), and WHO
transmits this disease (mosquitoes)******************
Mon., Mar. 13:
Chapter 20 Test
hand out Notebook Content page (notebooks
due
tomorrow)
hand out Ch 21 WS … 21-1 due
Monday, March 20
Tues., Mar. 14:
PM: Class…. Video
AM:
TESTS
PM: Class…. Video
Fri.., Mar. 17:
Parent
Conferences....no school!
Mon., Mar. 20

Spring Equinox! Try balancing an egg!
Finish Protozoan Notes?
Fungi notes using B/L Ch 21
handout
Tues., Mar. 21:
Return tests, go over
Show Algae pics from desktop
Video:
Fungi; The Rotten World About Us *****************************
Wed., Mar. 22:
Animal Kingdom notes using B/L
Ch 26 handout *****************************
Bilateral
symmetry activity
Thurs., Mar. 23:
Sponge notes…label sponge
diagram
Sponge video clip (Shape
of Life, Part 1)
Cnidarian notes…label Hydra
diagram
Fri., Mar. 24:
Cnidarian video clip (Shape of Life, Part 2)
Hydra/Daphnia
Feeding demo Lab
Mon., Mar. 27:
Collect remaining Labs
Review Ch 21 and 26 for Test
Conquest of the Parasites
Tues., Mar. 28:
Chapter 21&26 Test
Ch 27-1 and 27-2 for HW
Wed., Mar. 29:
Class
Pictures (buddy shots!)
Grade HW
Discuss flatworms (flukes,
tapeworms, planarians)
Hoop, anyone?

Thurs., Mar. 30:
Discuss roundworms
Show part of filmstrip (RW)
Use LCD for magazine/book pics
of roundworm examples
27-3 for HW
Fri., Mar. 31:
Tues., April 4:
Squid
dissection
Announce Ch 27 Test for
Thursday
Wed., April 5:
return Quizzes
review for Test
Spider video (Life on a
Silken Thread)
Thurs., April 6:
Label crayfish diagram
Fri.,
April 7:
Label grasshopper diagram
Mon., April
10:
Locust
Video (SUB)
Tues.,
April 11:
announce Crayfish Quiz for Wed.
echinoderm notes
label starfish diagram
starfish Lab
30-1 for HW
Thurs., April 13:
grade HW
return Quizzes
Discuss 30-1, fill in half of 30-2, finish for HW
Fri., April 14:
………………………….V A C A T I O N !…………………………….
30-3 :Amphibians
announce Perch Quiz for Tuesday
Video: Victors of the
Dry Land (Reptiles)
Fri., April 28:
31-2 for HW
32-2 in class together, 1-2
32-2, 7-18 for HW
32-3 for HW
(Primates)
Mon., May 8:
review
for Ch 31 & 31 Test
Tues., May 9:
Ch
31 & 32 Test
Wed., May 10:
SUB
Thurs., May 11:
return
HW
Fri., May 12:
SUB
35-2 notes
announce t-shirt project: HW:
everyone wears a t-shirt tomorrow…for 24 hours!
35-3 notes
Fri., May 19:
SUB
Last
minute questions?
Exam
reminder :Friday, 8 am (C block), 10:30 am (D block) Room 7
Bring Textbooks to Exam!!!!
one
3x5 card allowed
Thurs., May 22:
8-10
am
A Block Exam
10:30
- 12:30pm B Block Exam
1-3pm
E Block Exam
Fri., May 23::
8-10
am
C Block Exam ********
10:30
- 12:30pm D Block Exam ***********
1-3pm
Make up Exams
Tues., May 30:
Make up Exams
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