Welcome to Forensic Biology.

Use this page to find out what is going to be happening in class, when tests and assignments are scheduled, etc.

Text book homework questions will be posted under the Homework/Assignments page on this website.

Find the RESEARCH assignments on Google classroom.

SEMESTER ONE . 1st Grading Period

WEEK ONE : AUG 18- 20 Lab Safety and Equipment/Observations

8/18 Introduction , Observation/Inference Activity - Venn Diagram

8/19 Safety Rules and Equipment - Worksheet / Observation vs Inference Wksht

8/20 Observation Lab

WEEK TWO: Aug 23 - 27 Rolling block schedule Metric System / Observation Skills

8/23 Observations of Organisms

8/24 Metric System Lab : Grams/Meters

8/25 Metric system Liters / Volume

8/27 Metric conversions worksheets / How Observant are You? PPT

WEEK THREE: Aug 30 - Sept 3 Review Metric System/ Density/ Metric Calculations

8/30 Metric conversions / How observant are you? Photos 1-3

8/31 Sink or Float Demo / Density Lab

9/1 Height and Body Proportion Activity - Metric conversion practice

9/3 Metric and Observation Quiz / Observation activity (Pep Rally)

WEEK FOUR: Sept 6 Chp. 2 Properties of Water

9/6 Labor Day Holiday

9/7 Crab Observation /Sign In to Google Classroom/ Begin Crab Research on Google classroom

9/8 : Virtual Back to School Night

9/8 Properties of Water Lab/ Red Crab Video (10 mins) Continue Crab Research on Google Classroom

9/10 Properties of Water Notes : Video and Interactive Reader

WEEK FIVE Sept 13 - 17 Crime Scene Investigation Forensics Chp 2

9/13 How to Sketch a crime scene / Observation skills

9/14 Locard's Principle of Exchange Lab : Crime scene Lab Recording physical evidence/ Case

Study : Cornell Notes on Physical Evidence/ Wksht on Observations of a Crime Scene Chp 2

The Case of the Toxic tea Crime Scene.

9/15 Continue. T he Case of the Toxic Tea

9/17 Analysis of data and Re do sketch of Case of Toxic test (final report)

WEEK SIX Sept 20 - 24 Chemistry Organic Molecules Chp. 2

9/20 Your an Eye Witness 1-2 / Estimating Weight. Review metric conversions for test

9/21 Lotus Leaf Observations/ Begin Acid and Base

9/22 Finish Acids and Bases Lab /What parts make up an Atom? Periodic Table Review

9/24 Major Test Chp 1 and 2

END OF GRADING PERIOD

2nd Grading Period Begins

WEEK SEVEN Sept 27 - Oct 1 Organic Molecules Chp. 2 Chemistry

9/27 Finish - What parts make up an Atom?

9/28 Organic vs. Organic molecules - View Elements / Chemical Reactions Lab/Finish / Worksheet Carbon

Compounds 1

9/29 Stroop Test/ Observations/ Optical illusions/ Gorilla Video

10/1 Elements PPT

WEEK EIGHT Oct 4 - Oct 8 Chp. 7 Organic Chemistry (Biology)

10/4 Macromolecules - Carbohydrates /Proteins/ Lipids

10/5 Who Stole Jerrell's cell phone? Part A + Part B

10/6 Finish Who Stole Jerrell's Cell Phone Conclusion -Who did it? / Begin Macromolecule Worksheet

10/8 Carbohydrates/ proteins / Lipids card sort. Carbon Video -Review for Quiz- /CK12 google classroom

WEEK NINE Oct 11 The Cell Chp 7 Cells .

10/11 Review organic chemistry Chp 2 Function on each part /Label diagram

10/12 Test Chp 2 - Parts of a Microscope / Letter e / Guided reading on cell organelles P172

10/13 STEAM Activity - Cell Poster Group work/ Wacky cell video

10/15 Eukaryote cell - Plant / Prokaryote vs eukaryote /Wacky cell theory video

WEEK TEN Oct 18 Cell Transport Chp. 7 No block schedule this week PSAT

10/ 18 Animal cell/ Prokaryote cell / Guided reading on the cell organelle Cell Transport : Set up Diffusion and Osmosis Lab Demo / Worksheet Cell Membrane

10/19 Field of View / Onion cell lab with Microscope/Cheek Cell.

10/20 Pond Organism Lab/ Mystery Slides

Quiz Review in google classroom

10/ 20 Quiz on microscopes and cells /finish guided reading on organelles/Amoeba sisters Video

WEEK ELEVEN Oct 23-25 Respiration Chp. 8 Mitosis

10/23 Plasma membrane/ Cell diffusion demo set up.

10/22-23 Cell size and diffusion lab

10/24 Cancer -What is it? (AST/NGSS lesson)

10/25 Finish Beating Cancer activity Hela Cells

WEEK TWELVE Oct 28- Nov 1 History of DNA Chp 12

10/28 Active Transport / Plasma membrane

10/29-30 Mitosis Dry Lab / The Cell Cycle/ Hidden Kingdom Video -If time

10/31 Quiz on Cell Transport and Mitosis/Begin Cancer research for assignment - Formatting on google classroom

11/1 Library - Cancer assignment

END OF GRADING PERIOD

3rd Grading Period Begins

WEEK Thirteen Nov 4-8 DNA to RNA Chp 12

11/4 DNA Replication PPT/ HHMI Video

11/5-6 DNA Extraction Lab/ Rosalind Franklin Ted Ed Video/

11/7 Structure of DNA / Vocabulary Rating Chart using DNA Evidence (2 articles)/ Teachers pet video DNA

11/8 DNA Structure - Make a model of DNA Replication

WEEK FOURTEEN Nov 11- 16 DNA Profiling . Chp 13

11/11 Veteran's Day holiday

11/12-13 Micropipetting Practice and Micropipetting with dyes

11/14 Gene to protein - codon dictionary / DNA Video if time. (DVD)

11/15 Making codons - DNA to RNA to Protein Activity

WEEK FIFTEEN Nov18 - Nov 22 Ecology Chp 3

11/18 Review for quiz

11/19-20 Gel electrophoresis

11/21 Quiz DNA and RNA- Innocence project

11/22 OJ Simpson Case (Does the evidence find him guilty or innocent?)

THANKSGIVING BREAK NOV 25-29

WEEK SIXTEEN Dec 2 - 6 Ecology Chp 5

12/2 The Case of the Vanishing Bees.

12/3-4 Wild Ways Video?

12/5 Oh Deer Activity /Continue Invasive species report / food web packet

12/6 Ecology PPT with graphic organizer.

WEEK SEVENTEEN Dec 9-13 Ecology Chp 4 Climate Change

12/9 Finish Endangered species PPT

12/10-11 Food Web Posters / How can humans help endangered species?

12/12 Endangered species/ pond food web and biomass pyramids.

12/13 Exam review group work

12/13 LAST DAY FOR LATE WORK

WEEK EIGHTEEN DEC 16-20 FINALS WEEK

12/16 Exam review

12/17 Exam review

12/18 Period 1 & 2 Exam Student release time 11:49 AM finals week

12/19 Period 3 & 4 Exam

12/20 Period 5 & 6 Exam

END OF SEMESTER ONE

Christmas Break Dec 20 Note: Students return to school Jan 7th, 2020.