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Readings:
Exploring the Way Life Works: Chapter 1
Websites:
http://waylifeworks.jbpub.com/web_exercises_visit.cfm?id=6&url=http://www.cellsalive.com/ Think through the questions at the top of the page as you explore the sections in the directions.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cells/cells2.html Review the way different microscopes work, noting the size of particles and organisms best viewed by each instrument.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html You've probably seen this before, but it's a good reminder about the diversity of size in the universe.
Assignments:
Come with a written list of what you'd like to learn about or accomplish in biology this year. I can't promise we'll get to all of it, but I can try to work your interests in.
Week Two
Readings: Exploring the Way Life Works, Ch. 2, Sections 1-7
Websites: http://biology.hippocampus.org/ Watch all three animated videos under "Cell Structure and Membranes"
Assignments:
Answer the questions at the end of Chapter 1 in "Exploring the Way Life Works". Answers should be in complete sentences.
Study cell structure using those videos or the Biology Coloring Book pages. Your choice, but please learn the parts of the cell and their functions.
Complete Surface Area Lab (http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/ProductEntrance/Launch/launch.jsp?unit=49)
http://www.ekcsk12.org/faculty/jbuckley/lelab/protistalab.html Euglena lab. Do in class, turn in report next week.
Readings:
Exploring the Way Life Works -- finish Chapter 2
Handout from Campbell book on Scientific Method
The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton), selection (from Biology Inquiry) Think about this question: What do you think the point Leavitt is trying to make?
Assignments:
Start working on the questions at the end of Chapter 2 -- they're due week 4!
Know the parts of the cell and their functions.
http://www.ekcsk12.org/faculty/jbuckley/lelab/Cell%20Observations%20Lab.pdf Onion cell lab. Do in class, turn in report next week.
Websites:
http://www.biologycorner.com/bio1/diffusion.html Study this site -- the bottom example defines and explains hypotonic, hypertonic, and isontonic solutions.
Assignments:
Write up lab report on osmosis and onion cells. (Investigating Osmosis in Plant Cells and The Osmosis Inquiry Egg from Biology Inquiry)
Answer the questions at the end of Chapter 2.
Week Five
Readings:
Exploring the Way Life Works Ch.3, pg 87-103
Websites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGA8sRwqIFg&feature=youtube_gdata This is a 13 minute lecture on ionic and covalent bonds. Read the book before you watch. We'll discuss this more on Wednesday.
Assignments:
Write up lab report on diffusion and sugar ( http://biologycorner.com/worksheets/diffusion.htm)
Turn in all questions for membrane diffusion lab done last Wednesday.
Class:
We'll review the lab reports, discuss some basic chemistry (ionic and covalent bonds), and review enzymes. Enzyme lab in class ( Review to prepare: http://www.northland.cc.mn.us/biology/biology1111/animations/enzyme.swf)
Week Six
Readings: Exploring the Way Life Works -- Finish Chapter 3
Websites:
Assignments:
Write up lab experiment after performing the lab on catalase and acetic acid (vinegar). (Potato Bubbles: An Introduction to enzymes, from Biology Inquiry) Exchange labs via email and give each other feedback.
Questions for Chapter 3 completed.
Class: Photosynthesis and leaf pigments. Paper chromotography lab exploring leaf pigments.
Week Seven
Readings: Review photosynthesis and re-read on cellular respiration. Check the chapters in Campbells' Concepts and Connections on those topics, but don't obsess about the details (unless you want to).
Websites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXmw3fR8fh0&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/Bio231/glycolysis.html Simple and straightforward glycolysis
Assignments:
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab5/intro.html Go through the whole thing-- key concepts, lab, quiz. Take your time and LEARN from the process!
See file section for questions on photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Answer and submit the photosynthesis questions
Class:
Cellular Respiration
Week Eight
Study your notes and review everything from the "This We Know!" When you're ready, print out Test 1 in the files section. Take the test (no notes, no books, no website) in one setting.
Assignments:
Lab report on yeast/fermentation
See file section for questions on cellular respiration and carefully answer these.
Week Nine
Assignments:
Test 1, completed
Week Ten
Reading: Campbell: Chapter 8 -- Take your time, since there is a lot here to absorb. Consider (gasp!) taking notes on key ideas.
Websites:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/ Do this virtual experiment before you write up your lab.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/ -- Same website. Take this stage of the tour.
Assignments:
Lab report, DNA extraction: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/howto/
Questions at the end of Chapter 8 (Multiple choice; true/false; and describing, comparing, and explaining).
Read and consider the thinking critically questions. We'll discuss those in class.
Week Eleven
Reading:
The Double Helix (selection)
Way Life Works 4.1 - 4.9
Websites:
http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm Carefully study meiosis and mitosis, step by step.
Assignments:
Answer content and application questions from Double Helix reading.
Class:
Readings:
The Selfish Gene (selection) by Richard Dawkins
Way Life Works: Chapter 5
Websites:
http://library.thinkquest.org/28599/index.htm General genetic site. Good for ideas for research.
Assignments:
Questions for The Selfish Gene, first two sections written. Review the questions for discussion.
Choose a topic in genetics to study (genetic engineering of some sort, genetic testing, etc.).
Websites:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/ Do the two interactive activities in the middle, under "Translation and Transcription"
Assignments:
Way Life Works, Chapter 5 questions
Prepare a list of resources you'll use for your genetics project and a basic plan.
Week 14
Websites:
http://library.thinkquest.org/28599/heredity.htm -- look at before the test http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab7/intro.html -- go through the entire experiment, including the introduction, key concepts (skip quiz). **This is tricky!** Don't worry about the chi square material. The point is working backwards from children to parents to determine the genotype of the parents. This material is a warm-up for new info -- it's not on the test. http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/ Okay, there's quite a bit of material here, but if you study this, it will help you on the test. Do watch at least the first section on Mendel, since we've spent the least amount of time on this information. Assignments: Take the test when you're ready (study first, keep some sense of time of test-taking). I have two shorter pages to have you do in class on Wednesday (can't link to them). Good luck! See files section for test. * Work on your genetics projects. I'll talk a bit about that on Jan 6. It's due on Jan 13th.
Readings: Experiments in Plant Hybridization (Mendel)
Assignments:Content and Application Questions at end of Mendel reading. Be ready to discuss discussion questions.
Week 16
Readings:
Campbell: Review blood typing (hopefully the cards will be in!)
Exploring the Way Life Works: Chapter 6
Campbell: Chapter 20.12 and 20.13
Assignments Due:
Remember to turn in written genetics project, Mendel questions.
Complete three test pages given week 14 to do at home.
Chapter 6 questions.
Week 17:
Readings:
Review blood typing if you didn't last time. The cards are in!! Prepare to bleed.
Campbell: Chapter 17. Read carefully. Questions will be due Feb 3.
Websites:
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/biosnippets/ Homeostasis and the human body and in animals. We've done the lab in the past.
Assignments Due:
Complete questions for dragon genetics lab (http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/pdf/DragonGenetics1Protocol.pdf and http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/pdf/DragonGenetics2Protocol.pdf)
Project alert: Working together, you two will develop a project on bacteria. We'll talk more about this in class.
Week 18
Readings:
None assigned, but reviewing ch. 17 in Campbell encouraged
Websites:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/threedomains.html -- Read and DIGEST the first page of this website. Exploring encouraged.
http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/n100/2k43domainnotes.html More on domains. Read and digest this page, too. It expands on the Berkeley info.
Assignments Due:
Campbell: Chapter 17 questions (Mulitple choice, true/false)
Week 19:
Readings: Read the articles from Scientific American (genetics related, picked by students)
Websites:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0303/04.html Watch the 8 minute clip and read through the links. And then wash your hands.
http://www.livescience.com/health/090731-bacteria-infection-movie.html Spoiler alert: The bacterium doesn't make it.
Assignments Due:
Lab report for the lab on the survey of bacteria in the house.
Write up information on assigned topics. Be prepared to present your information.
Class: Examine petri dishes with cleaner, made growth medium using beef broth, sugar, and plain gelatin (nothing plated on these yet), and set up trisected petri dishes with four different antibiotics. Dry antibiotics were crushed and rehydrated with sterile water. Paper towel squares soaked in the antibiotic solutions were placed on the trisected plates.
Week 20:
Readings: Campbell Ch. 20 and 21, first two sections of questions for both. Check your own work.
Assignments:
Lab report for cleaning supplies. Include the definitions of an antiseptic, antibacterial, and antiseptic.
Stephen: Lab from first petri dishes and paragraph on antibiotic resistance (what it is, why is occurs, what we can do about it)
Be ready to discuss the digestive system.
**Research questions of the week: A: digestive enzymes and what they need to work (and where they work)
S: absorption of nutrients and water -- what gets taken up where.
Class:
Labs on amylase and pepsin. Inquiry style. Each student does some research, makes a hypothesis, plans and experiment, and executes it.
Week 21:
Reading: Campbell Ch. 22 and 23
Websites:
http://notsohumblepie.blogspot.com/search/label/Biology: Okay, not part of the lessons, but I really liked the albino mice cookies and the petri dish cookies. See? Biology IS fun.
Assignments:
First two sections of questions forCh 22 and 23. Be ready to discuss the circulatory system and repiratory system.
Lab report on antibiotics
Lab report on your digestive enzyme
Class: Discussion of cardiovascular and respiratory system. Examine the effect of exercise on resting pulse rate. How fast does your pulse return to normal?
Week 21
Reading: Campbell Ch. 22 and 23
Websites:
http://notsohumblepie.blogspot.com/search/label/Biology: Okay, not part of the lessons, but I really liked the albino mice cookies and the petri dish cookies. See? Biology IS fun.
Assignments:
First two sections of questions forCh 22 and 23. Be ready to discuss the circulatory system and repiratory system.
Lab report on antibiotics
Lab report on your digestive enzyme
Class: Discussion of cardiovascular and respiratory system. Examine the effect of exercise on resting pulse rate. How fast does your pulse return to normal?
Reading: None
Websites: http://bio.rutgers.edu/~gb102/lab_10/skip.html There's quite a bit here, but it's worth reading carefully.
Assignments:
Biology Coloring Book pages on repiratory, circulatory, and digestive system. Also complete the page on the heart.
Start discussing what system you want to creat a video on. Remember, clearly explain and illustrate the workings of the system then discuss a few potential problems. Email, call each other, meet, whatever, but by Wed, have a game plan: system and problems. Document all resources!!!
Class: Sheep heart dissection. Fish dissection.
Readings: Campbell Ch 24 (focus especially on excretion and the mammalian kidney) and Ch 25
Websites:
Assignments:
Complete the first three groups of questions for Chapter 24 and 25
Start studying for your test (due March 17th)
Continue planning your project on the cardiovascular system
Class: Disect kidney and discuss.
Assignments:
Study for your test on the anatomy and physiology so far.
Take the test without notes or book when you are ready and send it to me by March 24
Class: Work on your project. It's due on March 31!
Readings:
Campbell Ch. 28
Websites:This is an 18 minute video of Oliver Sacks, a renowned neurologist and writer, talking about visual hallucinations in the blind. The mind is an amazing entity, and this talk gives a glimpse of that. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html
Assignments: Turn in test. Study diagrams of the eye and the brain
Class: Mammalian brain dissection.
Discuss nervous system
Readings: Campbell Ch 26. There's quite a bit there. See the files for a study guide to do along with the chapters to focus your reading.
Wesbsites:
Assignments: Study sheets for the nervous system and endocrine system. I'd STRONGLY advise doing these as you read and allowing them to focus your reading. No need to turn them in as long as I can tell in class that you're reading well. Write down your answers, however. For the class on March 31, focus on the neurological system (ch 28) and endocrine system (ch 26).
Class: Discuss endocrine system.
Eye research lab.
Your circulatory system project is due today.
Readings: Read Chapter 27 in Campbell and read Ch. 7 in The Way Life Works.
Websites:
Assignments: Finish study questions for the reproductive system. We'll discuss the questions at the end of Chapter 7 in The Way Life Works on April 7th, so have read these through and given them thought.
Class: Discuss development and reproduction.
Eye dissection.
Eye Research lab due. Write as lab report. Document ALL sources you use.
Readings: Chapter 8 -- The Way Life Works
Website: http://www.visembryo.com/baby/1.html This takes you through the development of a human in the uterus.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/04.html A short video on stem cells.
Assignments: Evolution essay: Write one to two pages (double spaced, please) on this topic: Are humans still evolving? Use what you already know about evolution to defend your position.
Readings: Re-read Chapter 8 in The Way Life Works if needed
Websites: Watch the three sections on evolutionary biology http://biology.hippocampus.org/
Assignments: Questions at the end of Chapter 8 (The Way Life Works)
Class: We'll discuss the essays about humans evolving and go over the questions at the end of chapter 8.
Finch lab.
Readings: Campbell Ch 36 and 38 -- read carefully and be ready to discuss. No questions due at this point. Websites:http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/visual/animation.php?shortname=anm_carbon_cycle
Assignments: Write up a lab report on the beak lab we did. Propose an extension of this lab or modification to explore another parameter of feeding. For more on the lab itself, see http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/sprague_beaks.php
Websites: http://www.newyorkscienceteacher.com/sci/files/user-submitted/LE_Must_Know_Facts.pdf Look this over, print it out, be ready to ask questions about what you don't understand or recall.
Assignments: Rewrite lab report following my notes.
Class: Review for final
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