Biology
Beginning of the Year:
- Welcome to Biology Letter
- Safety Contract - Must be signed BY PARENT and returned
- Biology Remind Signup Directions
Week One - Sept. 3- Sept. 6th:
- Tuesday, Sept. 3rd : Introduction to Watson's Biology Class (See tabs under beginning of year), Escape Room Challenge
- Wednesday, Sept. 4th: Lab Investigation-Characteristics of Living Things, Click Here for Lab Sheet, Click Here for Data Table
- Thursday, Sept. 5th: Defending Sparty: Arguments involving Characteristics of Life
- Friday, Sept. 6th: Complete Lab Investigation - Click here for Post Lab Questions (Due Monday)
Week Two - Sept. 9th - Sept. 13th:
- Monday, Sept. 9th: Charac. of Living Things, Click Here for Student Note Sheet
- QUIZ Thursday!
- Tuesday, Sept. 10th : Developing a CER Response/ Examining through Research - Are Viruses Alive??
- Wednesday, Sept. 11th: Complete CER Response and Review for Quiz
- Thursday, Sept. 12th: QUIZ: Characteristics of Life (Biotic and Abiotic) and Graphing Preassessment
- Friday, Sept. 13th: Designing an Experiment : Abiotic Factors and their effect on Biotic Organisms
Week Three - Sept. 16th - Sept. 20th:
- Monday, Sept. 16th: Complete Set-up of Plant Lab (Abiotic Factors affecting Biotic Factors) and Setting up Data Tables/ Writing Lab Procedure
- Tuesday, Sept. 17th: Final Copies of Virus CERs --> Rubric for CERs, Article for Virus CER Evidence
- Wednesday, Sept. 18th: Article Questions: How Abiotic Factors Affect Biotic Factors and
- Thursday, Sept. 19th: Scavenger Hunt: Abiotic and Biotic Features
- NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS Friday Sept. 20th
Week Four - Sept. 23 - Sept. 27:
- Monday, Sept. 23rd : What do we know already?: Levels of Organization in Living Things
- Tuesday, Sept. 24th: Notes: Levels of Organization in Living things
- Wednesday, Sept. 25th: Article Questions: How Abiotic Factors Affect Biotic Factors and Human Body Cell Types Article and Questions
- Thursday, Sept. 26th: Questions from Text : Interacting Systems in Organisms
- Friday, Sept. 27th: Seed Data, Complete Notes from Tuesday, Posters for Levels of Organization
Week Five: Sept. 30 - October 4th:
- Monday, Sept. 30th: Notes on Levels of Organization, Review Sheet
- Tuesday, October 1st: Quiz: Levels of Organization, Abiotic/Biotic, and Charac. of Life
- Wednesday, October 2nd and Thursday, October 3rd: Plants: How do they transport food and water: Interacting Organ Systems --> Organelles
- Friday, October 4th: Complete Lab Data and Clean-up, Finish Plant Investigation
Week Six - October 7th - October 11th:
- Monday, October 7th : Graphing of Corn Seed Lab Data and CER for Corn Seed Germination
- Tuesday, October 8th - Model for How levels of organization in plants interact to perform functions
- Wednesday, October 9th - Structure and Function Relationship, Expert Individual and Team Research
- Thursday, October 10th- Human Cell Types - Structure and Function Relationship- Expert Team Presentation of Slide Shows
- Friday, October 11th - Quiz: Human Cell Types - Structure and Function
Week Seven: October 14th - October 18th :
- Monday, October 14th : NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
- Tuesday, October 15th - Thursday, October 17th: Work on completing Cell Type Projects - Thursday: Presentations Start
- Friday, October 18th: Cell Types - Plant and Human Cell Types - Structure and Function
Week Eight: October 21st - October 25th:
- Monday, October 21st and Tuesday, October 22nd: Complete Presentations of Human Cell Types and Finish Friday's Activity on Cell Types
- Wednesday, October 23rd: Quiz on Human and Plant Cell Types
- Thursday, October 24th: Pre-Lab for Chicken Wing Dissection - Pre-Lab : Chicken Wing Dissection
- Friday, October 25th: Chicken Wing Dissection - Lab : Chicken Wing Dissection
Week Nine - October 28th - November 1st:
- Monday, October 28th : Homeostasis - An introduction to Feedback loops - Click here for CW sheet - HW: Study for Quiz - Review Sheet
- Tuesday, October 29th : Quiz: First Quarter Overview Quiz - CW: Amoeba Sisters - Homeostasis
- Wednesday, October 30th: Video - The Virtual Body - Homeostasis- Click Here for Video Sheet
- Thursday, October 31st: Graphing Homeostasis
- Friday, November 1st : Completion of this week's assignments
- Monday, October 22nd and Tuesday October 23rd -
- Wednesday and Thursday - : Homeostasis - Examples of Negative and Positive Feedback and Graphing of Responses - Click here for CW sheet
- Click here for Worksheets/questions for station activity * Click here for link to articles used for station worksheets
- Click the following links for the textbook pages images : CarbBookReading LipidBookReading ProteinBookReading NucleicAcidReading
- Click the Following Video Links: Video for Station 6: Carbs so Important Video for Station 7: Proteins and Enzymes