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2020/2021 AP BIOLOGY
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  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry or Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • End of Year Agenda
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 1
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 2
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 3
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 4
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 5
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 6
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 7
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 8
2020/2021 AP BIOLOGY
  • Home
  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry or Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • End of Year Agenda
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 1
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 2
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 3
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 4
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 5
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 6
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 7
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 8
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    • Home
    • Introductory Material
    • Unit 1: The Chemistry or Life
    • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
    • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
    • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
    • Unit 5: Heredity
    • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
    • Unit 7: Natural Selection
    • Unit 8: Ecology
    • End of Year Agenda
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 1
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 2
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 3
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 4
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 5
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 6
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 7
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 8

Unit 7: Natural Selection

Unit 7: Natural Selection (print)

-Genomes and Their Evolution Chapter 21 Book Work (due Monday)

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Friday March 19th

Essential Understanding- 7.1 Introduction to Natural Selection - Section Questions

1) ACTIVITY: Beetle Bonanza; Alternative Assignment

  • Drawing Beetles print

2) What is Natural Selection? What drives it?

3) VIDEO: Bozeman: Natural Selection 10 min (complete worksheet) (print)

4) DEMO: Peppered Moths

5) ACTIVITY: Natural Selection Scenario Activity (print)

Homework: Genomes and Their Evolution Chapter 21 Book Work (due Monday)

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Monday Mach 22nd

Turn in Chapter 21 Book Work

1) Discuss Evolutionary Fitness and Selective Pressure

2) Go Over Class Examples From Natural Selection Scenario Activity

3) SKIPPING- but give it a looksie- LAB: Predator/Prey (IMAGE)

4) Watch Daily Video and Take Section 7.1 Progress Check -Progress Check 7.1 (Key)

UNTIL EVERYONE IS DONE PROGRESS CHECK-) Some Class time to start: Chapter 23: The Evolution of Populations Chapter 23 BOOK WORK (Due Friday)

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

Essential Understanding- 7.2 Natural Selection- Section Questions

5) VIDEO: Bozeman: Examples of Natural Selection (video worksheet) (10 min) (digital worksheet) print

6) Types of Selection Video (take notes) (3 min)

7) Types of Selection Worksheet print

HWK: Work on Chapter 23 Book Work

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Tuesday March 23rd

1) Discuss Examples below in terms of selective pressure and future of populations

Flowering time in relation to global climate changePeppered MothsSickle cell anemiaDDT resistance in insects

2) SKIPPING- but... lets look at and REMEMBER a lab we did that was similar- Phenotypic Variation- LAB: Strawfish Lab

-tie to types of Evolution Graphs

3) Watch Daily Video and Take Section 7.2 Progress Check

Essential Understanding- 7.3 Artificial Selection- Section Questions

4) VIDEO: Natural Selection vs Artificial Selection | Mechanisms of Evolution (3 min)

5) ACTIVITY: Artificial Worksheet (print)

6) Divergent vs Convergent Evolution Video Explanation (14 min)

    • make a list of examples of each

7) Watch Daily Video and Take Section 7.3 Progress Check

HMK: 1) Take Section 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 Quiz

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Wednesday March 24th

1) PIVOT - Plant Genetics- Single Trait Crosses

2) Artificial Selection for Trichomes in Wisconsin Fast Plants Video of Student Lab Report (10 min)

HWK: Chapter 23 Book Work Due Friday

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Thursday March 25th

Essential Understanding- 7.4 Population Genetics-Section Questions

1) VIDEO: Bozeman: Genetic Drift 11.5 min (video worksheet) (digital worksheet) print

2) ACTIVITY: Gene Pools- print

3) ACTIVITY: Population Simulator

4) Watch Daily Video for Section 7.4 and Take Progress Check

Essential Understanding- 7.5 Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium- Section Questions

4) VIDEO: Bozeman: Solving Hardy-Weinberg Problems- 11 min​ (video worksheet) print

5) Practice Worksheet with Video (12 min) print

6) VIDEO: Bozeman: Hardy-Weinberg Punnett Square (9 min)

7) SKIPPING- but if you want extra practice- PRACTICE: The H-W Equation Worksheet (POGIL)

HWK: Chapter 23 BOOK WORK due tomorrow

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Friday March 26th (Half day for conferences)

DUE-Chapter 23 BOOK WORK

2)- REMEMBER THIS Activity we did? REVIEW- LAB: Hardy-Weinberg Lab

3) More Hardy Weinberg Problems (print)

4) Quickly go over this verbally with a partner Chapter 23 Quick Check (Teacher Key) (NOT PRINTING)

5) Watch Daily Video for Section 7.5 and Take Progress Check

HWK: Take the 7,4 and 7.5 Quiz and Chapter 22 Book Work

Chapter 22 BOOK WORK (Due After Break)

Chapter 22: Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

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SPRING BREAK!!!

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Monday April 5th

Turn in Chapter 22 BOOK WORK

Essential Understanding- 7.6 Evidence of Evolution -Section Questions


1) VIDEO: Evidence for evolution (13 min) take notes and attach

2) ACTIVITY: Nova Labs Video and Quiz Questions (30 min) (submit screen shot of quiz summary at end)

4) VIDEO: Carbon Dating and Half-Life (13 min) take notes and attach

Start Chapter 25 BOOK WORK (Due Friday)

Chapter 25: The History of Life on Earth Chapter 25 BOOK WORK (due Friday)

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

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Tuesday April 6th

1) Evolution Statistics Group Work (print)

2) Vestigial Structures- Proof of evolution that you can find on your body (4 min)

3) VIDEO: Bozeman: Comparing DNA Sequences (10 min) (BLAST LAB) (video worksheet) print

4) BLAST website

5) Time to work on Chapter 25 BOOK WORK

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Wednesday April 7th

1) Bacterial Identification Virtual Lab worksheet (website) ~Bacterial Identification Virtual lab print (teacher answer key)

Hmk: Work on Chapter 25 BOOK WORK

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Thursday April 8th

1) Watch the Daily Video for Section 7.6 and then take the Progress Check

Essential Understanding- 7.7 Common Ancestry- Section Questions

2) Watch the VIDEO: Common Ancestry (4 min) - scroll down on the website, you'll see it

3) WORKSHEET: Membrane Bound Organelles- review from Unit 2 (discuss how/why this fits here) print

4) Quick Review (Brain Break) Presentation

5) READ THIS: Why Eukaryotic Cells have Linear Chromosomes

-dig into this topic... what are your thoughts. Get with a group and come up with a reason you think we have linear chromosomes

6) Watch the Daily Video for Section 7.7 and then take the Progress Check

7) Class time to work on- Chapter 25 BOOK WORK due tomorrow

HWK: Take Section 7.6 and 7.7 Quiz

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Friday April 9th

Turn in Chapter 25 BOOK WORK

Essential Understanding- 7.8 Continuing Evolution- Section Questions

1) SKIM: Microbes mutating to be resistant to antibiotics

2) VIDEO: Why Antibiotic Resistance is Important (2 min)

3) SKIP- Start Case Study- Case Study about evolution of skin color (Maybe do after AP TEST)

3) Skin Color and Human Evolution Website Source (worksheet) print

4) Biology of Skin Color Video (20 min)

  • James Watson cocktail party discourse

5) Watch Section 7.8 Daily Video and Take the Progress Check

6) Start Chapter 26 BOOK WORK (due Thursday)

Chapter 26: Phylogeny and the Tree of Life

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

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Monday April 12th

Essential Understanding- 7.9 Phylogeny- Section Questions


1) KHAN ACADEMY VIDEO: Understanding and building phylogenetic trees (11 min)

2) KHAN ACADEMY Quiz: Phylogeny

3) Watch Section 7.9 Daily Video and Take the 7.9 Progress Check

Essential Understanding- 7.10 Speciation- Section Questions

4) VIDEO: Crash Course Biology: Speciation (11 min)

5) BOZEMAN: Phylogenetics 13 min (worksheet) print

6) Start (stop after #19)- Selection and Speciation POGIL (key) print

HWK: Watch Section 7.10 Daily Video and Take Progress Check



SKIP Skip: Phylogenetic Trees POGIL (key)

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Tuesday April 13th

1) Time to finish (#20-30): Selection and Speciation POGIL (key)

2) Amoeba Sister's Speciation (7 min)

3) CREATE A CLADOGRAM: CLADOGRAM worksheet

HMK) Take Section 7.8, 7.9, and 7.10 Quiz

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Wednesday April 14th

1) Chapter 26 BOOK WORK due tomorrow

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Thursday April 15th

  • Turn in Chapter 26 BOOK WORK

Essential Understanding- 7.11 Extinction-Section Questions


  1. POGIL: Mass Extinction POGIL (print) (key)

  2. BOZEMAN: Speciation and Extinction 13 min (Video Sheet) print

  3. VIDEO: Allopatric vs Sympatric Speciation (11 min)

  4. Jeopardy GAME (Everyone can connect): Speciation and Extinction

Homework: Watch the Daily Video and Take Section 7.11 Progress Check

Start- Chapter 24: The Origin of Species Chapter 24 BOOK WORK (Due Tuesday)

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker QuestionsSKIP- Chapter 24 Dice Game

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Friday April 16th

Essential Understanding- 7.12 Variations in Populations-Section Questions

  1. VIDEO: Variation in Species (20 min)

  2. Evolution and Change - spend 5 minutes on this HUGE document (pages 1-32) and come up with 3 takeaways

  3. Watch the Daily Video and Complete the Section 7.12 Progress Check

Essential Understanding- 7.13 Origin of Life on Earth- Section Questions

  1. BOZEMAN: Origin of Life on Earth 15 min (Video Worksheet) -print

  2. WORKSHEET: Early History of Science- print

  3. Interactive Chart: History of Life (spend 5 minutes on this)

HMK:

  • Earth's History in 100 yards- find distance on field

  • Watch the Daily Video and Complete the Section 7.13 Progress Check

  • Chapter 24 BOOK WORK (due Tuesday; test day)

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Monday April 19th

1) Take the 7.11, 7.12, 7.13 Quiz

2) Earth's History in 100 yards (Key) print

3) PLAY GAME- Nova Evolution (20 min)

4) Experimental Design, Evolution, and Statistics Worksheet (Teacher Key) print

5) BOTH Progress Checks for Unit 7

HMK: Finish Chapter 24 BOOK WORK due tomorrow AND STUDY

HWK: STUDY

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Tuesday April 20th

UNIT 7 TEST



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