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  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
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  • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Emergency Sub Plans
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    • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
    • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
    • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
    • Emergency Sub Plans

Unit 2: Cells

Monday 9/29

1) What questions do you have from the test?

2) Intro: Watch this Unit 2 Review Video as a way to Intro next Unit (20 minutes) 

Color while you listen 

  • Prokaryotic Cell Coloring Diagram

  • Animal Cell Coloring Diagram

  • Plant Cell Coloring Diagram

Essential Understanding 2.10 Origins of Cell Compartmentalization

3) Eukaryotes vs. Prokaryotes

             Bacteria Bozeman (worksheet) (11 min)

             Eukaryotes Bozeman (worksheet) (7 min)

4) Complete a Venn Diagram for Eukaryotes v. Prokaryotes- Venn Diagrams 

5) Bozeman: Endosymbiosis (worksheet) (7 min) 

6) Endosymbiosis Contribution 

HMK:  Complete 3 blocks of the Endosymbiosis Contribution  by Tuesday

Start Chapter 6: A Tour of the Cell- Chapter 6 Book Work (Chapter 6 Book Pages) (due 10/6)

Optional Resources:Reading Guidelecture Power PointAnother Power PointLecture Videos-Mr J (Microscopes and Types of Cells) (Organelles)Other Lecturer part I and part II

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Tuesday 9/30

  1. Amoeba Sister's Endosymbiotic Theory (5 min) 

  2. Endosymbiosis Contribution (watch your video; skim your research; discuss)

  3. Watch Section 2.10 Daily Video (7 min) 

Essential Understanding 2.1- Cell Structure and Function

  1. WATCH BOZEMAN: Cellular Organelles (video worksheet) (10 min)

  2. Introduce: Story Board and Children's Story Cell Analogy- Due 10/8

  3. Cell Game -Cell Explorer 

  4. go over next two days activities (substitute) 

Homework: Section 2.10 Progress Check

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Wednesday 10/1- substitute 

  1. Log Onto Collegeboard and complete Section 2.11 Quiz (please have academic integrity, aka Don’t cheat!)

  1. Max Cohen (or in his absence the next tallest person) will use the smart board to pull up this video from the course website so you can all watch it together:

Inside the Living Cell (3 min) 

  1. After that video plays, watch the same video WITH COMMENTARY (awesome!) (7 min) 

  1. Then as a class watch: Cell City Analogy Video (8 min) 

  1. The shortest person in class will then come up with a place (for example: Amusement Park, Cafeteria, Super Market, Walmart, etc). Then the class will pass around the beach ball and create cell analogies. Whatever organelle your right thumb lands on is your organelle. (example: If I catch the beach ball and my right thumb is on Nucleus and the analogy is super market then I could say “In a super market the nucleus would be the manager because they are in charge and direct everyone as to what to do”) 

  1. You will be creating a Children’s Book using cell analogies. You can work with one other person if you want to. You can look over samples. You have the rest of class time to work on Children's Book

Homework: Work on Children's Book (due 10/8) and Chapter 6 is due 10/6

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Thursday 10/2- no school

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Friday 10/3- substitute

  1. Have the tallest student open and click (posted on website) on the video for the class to watch: 

2.1 and 2.2 - Cell Structure: Subcellular Components, and Cell Structure and Function Video (12 min)

  1. Cell Organelles (you got this worksheet in class Tuesday) and complete with your lab partner (one paper per person. Collaborative effort, but you each need your own sheet. 

Sample Answer for the first one to model how I want this done: 

Nucleus and ribosomes 

“The nucleus store DNA which are used as blueprints for creating proteins. These blueprints are transcribed to mRNA and that copy is sent to the ribosomes for them to use to create the corresponding proteins.”

  1. Open this google doc: Cell Types Activity, make yourself a copy and complete digitally. Be prepared to submit if asked for it on Monday. 

  1. Rest of Class to work on Cell Analogy Children's Book

HWK: Chapter 6 Book Work is due 10/6... Cell Analogy Children's Book due 10/8 

HWK: Chapter 6 Book Work is due 10/6... Cell Analogy Children's Book due 10/8

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Monday 10/6

Turn in Chapter 6 Book Work 

1) Agar Prep Team Collab

  • Time to make agarose gels (teacher resource)

2) Cell Organelle Disorders Activity

3) Section 2.1 Progress Check on CollegeBoard

Pervious Years:

 Cell Organelle Disorders Activity -Student Completion Portion-  Complete on Google Classroom- I put it up where you each have your own copy to complete

Malfunctioning Cell Organelle Quick Research Slide Poster (teacher resource) complete digitally

  • Diseases to Pick From

  • CHECK YOUR organelle before you get started. Presenting tomorrow 

Homework: Children's Book is due Wednesday 10/8

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Tuesday 10/7

  1. Section 2.1 Quiz

  2. POP Question

  • When you are done your progress check (play with this until everyone else is finished- Cell Size)

Essential Understanding 2.2- Cell Size

  1. Cell Size Lab (teacher version) 

  • During Down Time, work on your book

  • if you are absent- Cell Size Agar Lab Video (10 min) 

Homework: Finish all work from today, complete the Progress Check if you haven't and also Children's Book Due tomorrow

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Wednesday October 8th

  1. Show and Tell- Children's Book 

  2. Finish as a class: Cell Size Lab (teacher version) 

  • Cell Size Agar Lab Video (10 min) 

  1. Bozeman: Why Are Cells Small? (worksheet) 6 min

Skipping- Surface Area to Volume Worksheet 

  1. Surface Area and Cell Efficiency Clip (11 min)

  2. Talk about yesterday's Lab

  3. Diffusion Race

  4. Tonicity Video Lecture

Homework: Begin Chapter 7- Membrane Structure and Function Chapter 7 Book Work  due 10/16

Chapter 7 Book Pages

Optional Resources:Power Point- Ch 7 Power Point: Cell Transport NotesLecture- Watch Chapter 7 Review: Part I, Part II, Part IIIReading Guide- Chapter 7 Reading Guide

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Thursday October 9th

  1. Teacher's Resource

  2. Diffusion Race

Essential Understanding 2.3 Plasma Membrane & Essential Understanding 2.4 Membrane Permeability

  1. Cell Membrane Packet (not printing; review as a class digitally) (teacher key)

  2. VIDEO: Bozeman- Cell Membranes (video worksheet) 11 min

  3. LET's look at what last year made! AWESOME cell membrane diagram (and fix anything that has fallen off)

HMK: Watch: Section 2.3 and 2.4 Lecture (19 min) and complete 2.3 & 2.4 Progress Check on CollegeBoard

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Friday October 10th

  1. Finish Diffusion Race

  2. Ted-Ed Fluid Mosaic Model Video (5 min) 

  3. Section 2.3 and 2.4 Quiz

Essential Understanding 2.5 Membrane Transport

  1. WATCH VIDEO: Bozeman- Transport Across Cell Membranes (video worksheet) (14 min) 

  2.  Create a Graphic Organizer for the information in the Cell Membrane Transport Clip

  • Musetti's Example. 

  1. If you finish with extra time, work on Chapter 7 Book Work 

Homework: Chapter 7 Book Work  due Tuesday 10/16

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Monday 10/13

1) DISCUSS: Discuss factors that affect rate of diffusion-permeability, surface are/volume ratio, temperature, concentration difference, particle size, pressure (make a chart) 

  • How would you design a lab for these?

  • Review: Factors Affecting Rate of Diffusion Examples 

  • Discuss what molecules can come into a cell and what cannot. List HOW those that enter get it (type of transport) and list why those that cannot are incapable. 

Essential Understanding 2.6 Facilitated Diffusion 

2) Function of the Plasma Membrane (print version) (teacher key) 

3) Aquaporins Video (8 min)- Take Notes on the printout Musetti gave you

4) Cell Defense- Cell Membrane Game 

HMK: Chapter 7 Book Work  due 10/16

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Tuesday October 14th

  1. Watch: 2.6/2.7/2.9 Lecture Video (20 min) and take notes skipping: Fill out your slide with notes

Essential Understanding 2.7 Toxicity and Osmoregulation

  1. WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman: Water Potential 10 min (video worksheet)

  2. Water Potential Problems I (front teacher key) (back teacher key)

  3. Water Potential Practice (teacher key)

  4. Read Lab: Potato Core Osmosis Lab 

Homework: Chapter 7 Book Work  due 10/16


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Wednesday October 15th- 11th graders take PSAT

  1. Set Up: Potato Core Osmosis Lab (overnight Lab)

  2. Hold your Wee for a Wii- Radios deadly stunts the Jennifer Strange Story (22 min) 

  3. Water Can Kill (Exploring Effects of Osmosis) Case Study  (not printing)


Homework: Finish Water Potential Practice from Tuesday and complete your Chapter 7 Book Work 

and also Study, Test next Friday

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Thursday October 16th

Chapter 7 Book Work  Due 

  1. Dialysis Tube Lab Day 1 (hints from Day 1)

  • Dialysis Lab Day 1 beginning results overview

  1. Potato Core Osmosis Lab (good sample Potato Lab Data)

  • class data

Homework: Complete pages 3 and 4 of Dialysis Tube Lab and read pages 5 and 6. Also complete the Potato Core Osmosis Lab

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Friday October 17th

1) Dialysis Tube Lab Day 2 (Hints)

  • Data for Day 2 of Lab (Musetti template)

    • Teacher Set Up (Desks) (Weighing Samples) 

    • CLASS DATA

During Downtime:

  • Bozeman Videos that review this Lab

  • Complete the video worksheet while watching the (8 min) video: Diffusion & Osmosis 

  • Progress Check 2.5 & 2.6 on CollegeBoard

  • Predict what will happen during the lab?

HWK: Complete the Lab and take the progress check 

  • Study If you did not do well on the progress check (Quiz Monday  during lab down time)

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Monday 10/20

  1. Grade Dialysis Tubing Lab

  2. Discuss Hyponatremia

  3. Section 2.5 & 2.6 Quiz

  4. Look at: DIFFUSION AND OSMOSIS  Short Answer Practice (KEY for MUSETTI) 

  5. Complete the Osmosis and Diffusion Practice Problems (key front, key back) 

  6. Complete the Osmosis Diffusion Review (Teacher Key)

  7.  Water Potential Practice- (KEY)

Homework: complete work from today and do Section 2.7 Progress Check 

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Tuesday 10/21

  • Section 2.7 Quiz 

  • Grade Dialysis Tubing Lab

Review and collect- Water Potential Practice (teacher key)

  1.  Cell Membrane Bubble Lab (Bubble Activity Demonstrated- YouTube) (Cell Membrane Bubble Lab Video)

  2. Barron's Book- Have you guys checked out unit 2?

Homework: Bubble Lab Analysis Questions

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Wednesday 10/22

Essential Understanding 2.8 Mechanisms of Transport

2) PhET Membrane Channels Simulation with worksheet

3) Mechanisms of Transport: Maintaining Homeostasis in Living Organisms (15 min)

4) Review Colorful Doodle Outlines with a neighbor   

  • The Cell Membrane Doodle Notes 

  • Diffusion Doodle Notes

  • Osmosis Doodle Notes

  • Active Transport Doodle Notes

  • Cell Transport Comparison Chart Doodle Notes 

  • ALL TRANSPORT NOTES (KEY)

Essential Understanding 2.9 Compartmentalization

5) ​VIDEO: Bozeman- Compartmentalization (worksheet) 10 min

5) Remember when we did: Cell Types Activity (This is cell specialization) 

Homework: 2.8 and 2.9 Progress Check 

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Thursday 10/23

1) Section 2.8 and 2.9 Quiz

  • After you take the quiz- look over the 2 Unit 2 Progress Check FRQs

2) click through this: Active Transport Interactive Lesson 

3) Skim- AP Biology Unit 2 content information

4) Review Unit 2 Video (60 min) 

5) Unit 2 Progress Check

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Friday 10/24


UNIT 2 TEST 
  • Unit 2 FRQ Graph

HWK: Start Chapter 8 Book Work 


LAST YEAR- UNIT 2 TEST! (KEY) (short answers paper test)
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