8/27/07

(A-C-E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Introduction

• Review Syllabus

• What is Biology

Register for online book

8/29/07

(A-C-E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Lab Safety

Study for lab safety quiz

Read chapter 1-1

Define vocabulary

Answer Section Assessment questions

8/31/07

(A-C-E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Safety quiz

• The Science of Biology

• Scientific method

Read Chapter 1-2

Define vocabulary.

Answer section assessment

 questions 1-5

9/5/07

(A-C-E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Complete Scientific method

• Online activity

• leafcutter ant video

Review notes

complete worksheet

9/7/07

(A-C-E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• lab-designing a controlled experiment

.Answer lab questions

study for scientific method quiz

9/11/07

(A-C-E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Quiz-Scientific method

• Characteristics of living things/group activity

• Scientific method video/questions

Read chapter 2 section3

define vocab

review notes

Test Monday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Complete chapter 1

• review

• Scientific method activity

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Chapter 1 test

• Smallpox vaccine/handout/discussion

• Assign article critique

• article due 9/27

• Critique due 10/3

Read Chapter 2 sections1

define vocab.

answer section questions

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss matter, atoms, elements, atomic number, atomic mass

• practice sheets

complete practice sheets

review notes and vocab.

draw Be,Na,Cl

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss ionic bonds

• student practice sheets

Complete worksheet, both front and back

show how the following atoms form ionic bonds

Li + O

C + Cl

Be + S

Lesson Unit/Topic

• discuss covalent bonds

• student practice covalent bondgin

quiz structure of atoms

vocabulary

read chapter2.2

vocab and questions

test Wednesday

article for critique due 9/27

Lesson Unit/Topic

• review covalent bonds

• discuss water molecule

• demonstrate properties of water

review notes

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review properties of water

• Discuss pH

• Demonstrate concept mapping using properties of water

Study for test Wednesday.

Critique due Friday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Test - chemistry

• Handout "Naming Scientific Terms"

• Introduce macromolecules

Read 2-3

Define vocab

answer section questions

Lesson Unit/Topic

• prelab discussion

• discuss Carbon

• formation of monomers and polymers

• online demonstration of polymerization

• Discuss carbohydrates

Article critique due

review notes

prepare for lab

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Macromolecules lab

Answer lab questions

Typed, double space, complete sentences

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review polymerization

• explain Vee map format for lab

• discuss lipids

Lab due Tuesday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Nucleic Acids, proteins

• handout-chemical compounds

Read 2.4 vocab

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss enzymes

• online activity demonstration

• Review

Study for Chapter 2 test Monday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Test macromolecules

prepare for lab

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Microscope lab

lab questions due tueday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• discuss cell theory

• prokaryotes, eukaryotes

• basic cell structures

read chapter 7 section1

define vocab

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss various organelles in the eukaryotic cell

 Section 5 read section 7.2 vocab and questions

section 4 review organelle chart.

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss various organelles in the eukaryotic cell

• concept map cell structures

quiz chapter 7 sections 1 and 2

Lesson Unit/Topic

• cell lab

quiz- cell structures

labs due Friday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Structure of the cell membrane

• set up potato demonstration

lab due Friday

reveiw notes

Lesson Unit/Topic

• complete potato demonstration with worksheet

• Passive transport            

.read 7-4

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Write a paragraph discussing the cell as a factory

• review  worksheets

.Complete worksheets

review notes

test Tuesday, Nov. 20th

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Complete active transport

• review

Study test on Tuesday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Chapter 7 test

.Read Chapter 8 sections 1 and 2. Write definitions for vocabulary and answer sections 1 and 2 questions.

Lesson Unit/Topic

• no school

Lesson Unit/Topic

review class notes

memorize photosynthesis equation

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Scientists and their contributions to understanding photosynthesis (students)

• structure of a chloroplast

• pigment and light absorption

• overview photosynthesis

The absorption of chlorophyll

worksheet.

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Photosynthesis lab

Read 8.3 answer questions

quiz Thursday

Lab due Monday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss the light dependent reactions

• concept map

Reveiw notes

Lab due Monday

Lesson Unit/Topic

• The Calvin cycle

• review photosynthesis

Test Friday

Photosynthesis

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Complete Photosynthesis

• review with worksheets

Study for test Friday

Article critique assigned

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Test Photosynthesis

.Read chapter 9 section1

write vocab. definitions

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Introduce cellular respiration

• Structure of the mitochondria

• glycolysis

.Read 9-2

vocab

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Krebs cycle

• ETC

• Review worksheets

.

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

Lesson Unit/Topic

Prepare for Final Exam

1/17/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Introduce Cell division

• demonstration- impacts of cell growth

Read chapter 10 sections 1 and 2

Answer section questions

1/22/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss mitosis/cytokinesis

• Activity-modeling mitosis

• Handout-complete for homework

• quiz Thursday

Study mitosis information/quiz

complete worksheet

read 10-2/complete questions.

1/24/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Quiz-mitosis

• lab- stages of cell division

1/28/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Complete lab

• Discuss cyclins

• review cell division

Test Friday

read chapter 10-3

Complete concept map/the cell cycle- this assignment will be graded

Lab will be handed in Wednesday

1/30/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• discuss cancer cells

• review mitosis

• Begin chapter 11-4 Meiosis

Study for chapter 10 test

2/1/08

(A; First Friday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Test chapter 10

• stem cell webquest (section 5)

Complete webquest (section 5)

Read 11-4 complete section questions

2/5/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Section 5 no class/freshman testing

• section 4 introduce meiosis

• stem cell webquest

complete stem cell webquest

2/7/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss meiosis

• model meiosis

read chapter 11 section 1and 2 define vocabulary

review meiosis

2/11/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review Meiosis

• Introduce Genetics

study for meiosis quiz

2/13/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Meiosis quiz

• flower lab

complete complete flower lab

2/15/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Mendel's pea experiments

• monohybrid cross worksheet

complete monohybrid worksheet

review notes

2/26/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review monohybrid cross worksheet

• discuss incomplete and co dominance

Study for quiz it will include monohybrid crosses and vocabulary

Read 11-3 skipping independent assortment.

Answer section questions

2/28/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Quiz

• discuss polygenic inheritance

• Multiple alleles (human blood groups)

• Review

Review notes

Study for chapter 11 test on Monday.

3/3/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Chapter 11 test

• nondisjuction disorders

• begin karyotype/complete for homework

karyotype activity

Read chapter 12 section 1

3/5/08

(A; 1:10)

Lesson Unit/Topic

Griffith, Avery, Hershey and Chase experiments

review with worksheet

Review chapter 12 section 1

answer questions

review notes on experiments

3/7/08

(C; First Friday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• DNA structure

• Introduce replication

Read 12-2

review notes

3/11/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• discuss replication

• DNA structure and replication lab activity

.lab report

3/13/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• transcription

• the genetic code

• worksheet/working with the genetic code

review notes

quiz Monday

3/17/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Quiz

• Review transcription

• discuss translation

.Translation worksheet

read chapter 12-4

3/19/08

(E; Class Mtg)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss mutations

• review chapter 12

.

3/24/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review chapter 12

• Introduce Evolution (chapter 15)

read 15-1.

3/26/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Test Chapter 12

• Discuss Darwin

.

3/28/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Begin Case study- Natural Selection

.

4/1/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Case study

• Artificial selection, Natural selection, Decent with modification

.

4/3/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Complete case study

• discuss evidence for evoution

Online worksheets 15-2 and 15-3

4/7/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Evidence of evolution

online worksheets

16-1

16-3

4/9/08

(A; 1:10)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Freshman Retreat

.

4/11/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Evolution of populations

• Speciation

• Using a dichotomous key (fish key)

Review notes

4/22/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review evolution

• classification

Study for evolution test

4/24/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Evolution test

.

4/28/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

4/30/08

(E; Class Mtg)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/2/08

(A; First Friday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/6/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/8/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/12/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/14/08

(C; 1:10)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/16/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/21/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/23/08

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/28/08

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

.

5/30/08

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

Prepare for Final Exam