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2021/2022 AP BIOLOGY
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  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry of 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
  • AP Exam Prep
  • After AP TEST
  • 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
2021/2022 AP BIOLOGY
  • Home
  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry of 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
  • AP Exam Prep
  • After AP TEST
  • 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 of 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
    • AP Exam Prep
    • After AP TEST
    • 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 Friday)

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Wednesday 3/23

Essential Understanding- 7.1 Introduction to Natural Selection - Section Questions

1) ACTIVITY: Beetle Bonanza (printable version of activity) (Teacher Key) ; Alternative Assignment

  • Drawing Beetles

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 (complete digitally)

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

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Thursday 3/24

1) Discuss Evolutionary Fitness and Selective Pressure

2) Go Over Class Examples From Natural Selection Scenario Activity

3) LAB/Activity Quick Demo: Predator/Prey (IMAGE) ; not doing the worksheet, just discussing the activity as a class after we participate

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

-If you finish early, work on completing Chapter 21 Book Work

Essential Understanding- 7.2 Natural Selection- Section Questions

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

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

7) Types of Selection Worksheet

HWK: Complete Chapter 21 Book Work (due tomorrow)

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Friday 3/25 (Half Day)

Turn in Chapter 21 Book Work

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

  • Flowering time in relation to global climate change
  • Peppered Moths
  • Sickle cell anemia
  • DDT resistance in insects

2) SKIPPING

  • 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

HWK: Start: Chapter 23: The Evolution of Populations Chapter 23 BOOK WORK (due Wednesday)

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

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Monday 3/28

Essential Understanding- 7.3 Artificial Selection- Section Questions

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

2) ACTIVITY: Artificial Worksheet (not printing; look over with a partner)

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

    • make a list of examples of each

4) Watch Daily Video and Take Section 7.3 Progress Check

5) PIVOT - Plant Genetics- Single Trait Crosses (Complete TOGETHER as a class while projected)

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

HWK: Chapter 23 Book Work Due Wednesday

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Tuesday 3/29

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


Section 7.1,7.2,7.3, and 7.4 Quiz tomorrow

HWK: Chapter 23 BOOK WORK due tomorrow

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Wednesday 3/30

WE WILL BE MOVING INTO HYPER GEAR!!!! Watching Daily videos will need to be on your own at home

TEST next FRIDAY

DUE-Chapter 23 BOOK WORK

For Next Year Section 7.1,7.2,7.3, and 7.4 Quiz
  • go over Geographic Isolation

  • Hardy Weinberg

1) Practice Worksheet with Video (12 min) print

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

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

  • 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

Chapter 22 BOOK WORK

Chapter 22: Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life (Due Friday)

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

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Thursday 3/31

Essential Understanding- 7.6 Evidence of Evolution -Section Questions


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


Skipping: Nova Labs Video and Quiz Questions

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

3) Evolution Statistics Group Work (print)

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

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

6) BLAST website

7) Time to work on Chapter 22 BOOK WORK (due tomorrow)

HMK: Watch Section 7.6 Daily Video and Complete Progress Check

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Friday 4/1

TEST NEXT FRIDAY

  • Turn in Chapter 22 Book Work

March Madness (B Block 8:44-9:30); sorry, we can't go to the gym

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

Homework:

  • Finish Bacterial Identification Virtual Lab

  • Start Chapter 25 BOOK WORK (due Tuesday)

Chapter 25: The History of Life on Earth Chapter 25 BOOK WORK

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

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Monday 4/4

Essential Understanding- 7.7 Common Ancestry- Section Questions

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

2) Virtual Review: Membrane Bound Organelles- review from Unit 2 (discuss how/why this fits here)

  • not printing

Skipping: 3) 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

Essential Understanding- 7.8 Continuing Evolution- Section Questions

3)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)

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

5) Biology of Skin Color Video (20 min)

  • James Watson cocktail party discourse

HWK:

  • Watch Section 7.7 and 7.8 Daily Videos and Take Progress Checks

  • Chapter 25 BOOK WORK (due Tuesday)


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Tuesday 4/5

-Turn in Chapter 25 BOOK WORK

Essential Understanding- 7.9 Phylogeny


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

2) KHAN ACADEMY Quiz: Phylogeny

SKIP Skip: Phylogenetic Trees POGIL (key)

Essential Understanding- 7.10 Speciation- Section Questions

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

4) BOZEMAN: Phylogenetics 13 min (worksheet) print

5) Amoeba Sister's Speciation (7 min)

6) Look Over- Selection and Speciation POGIL (key) (not printing)

Homework:

  • Watch Section 7.9 and 7.10 Daily Videos and Take Progress Check

  • Skim Chapter 26 and Chapter 24 (NOT COMPLETING!)

Chapter 26: Phylogeny and the Tree of Life

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

Chapter 24: The Origin of Species

Optional Resources:Power PointClicker Questions

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Wednesday 4/6

Essential Understanding- 7.11 Extinction-Section Questions


Skipping Mass Extinction POGIL (print) (key)
  1. BOZEMAN: Speciation and Extinction 13 min (Video Sheet) print

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

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

  4. CREATE A CLADOGRAM: CLADOGRAM worksheet

HWK: Watch 7.11 Daily Video and Take Progress Check

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Thursday 4/7

Essential Understanding- 7.12 Variations in Populations-Section Questions

Skipping - VIDEO: Variation in Species (20 min)
  1. Evolution and Change - spend 5 minutes on this HUGE document (pages 1-32) and come up with 3 takeaways

  2. Read 7.12 Variations in Population and divide the illustrative examples for quick research between classmates

  3. Watch 7.12 Daily Video

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

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

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

  3. Earth's History in 100 yards (Key)- find distance on field

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

  5. Watch 7.13 Daily Video

HWK: STUDY and Complete Progress Check for Unit 7


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Friday 4/6

UNIT 7 TEST

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SPRING BREAK






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