Periods 2–3

AP Biology Agendas

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  • Record Objective and submit journal
  • Osmosis and Diffusion lab gallery walk; set up your display at your lab station; find out who you are grading and where their trifold is; when completed, turn in your forms to the lab assistants
  • Osmosis and Diffusion lab quiz tomorrow; know how a plant maintains its turgor pressure, definitions from lab (e.g.s semipermeable, osmosis, diffusion, etc.), difference between turgor pressure between plant and animal cells, and your variables used in each of the procedures.

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  • Chapter 6 summary: ATP
  • Review objectives for unit
  • Illustrative examples: Neuron
  • Trifold Gallery walk Wednesday
  • Cell Structure and Function Unit test tomorrow
  • Tutoring today after school
  • Plickers

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  • Complete Chapter 5 summary
  • Osmosis and Diffusion lab: procedure 3 Part 1
  • Complete procedure 3: Anacharis wet mount and Onion Epithelial wet mount with iodine and salt solution
  • Lab quiz on Thursday; know how a plant maintains its turgor pressure, definitions from lab (e.g.s semipermeable, osmosis, diffusion, etc.), difference between turgor pressure between plant and animal cells, and your variables used in each of the procedures.
  • Gallery Walk on Wednesday

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  • Cell Vocabulary quiz
  • Diffusion and Osmosis lab: procedure 1 “Surface Area and Cell Size”
  • Lab quiz on Thursday Oct. 1; know how a plant maintains its turgor pressure, definitions from lab (e.g.s semipermeable, osmosis, diffusion, etc.), difference between turgor pressure between plant and animal cells, and your variables used in each of the procedures.
  • Gallery walk on Wednesday Sept. 30

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By AP Biology
  • Cell Vocabulary quiz tomorrow
  • Diffusion and osmosis lab: procedure 2: “Modeling Diffusion and Osmosis”
  • Lab Trifold due on Wednesday Sept. 30; we will have a gallery walk where each group will evaluate 2 other groups along with teacher; collective score will be lab grade
  • Diffusion and osmosis post lab quiz on Thursday October 1; know how a plant maintains its turgor pressure, definitions from lab (e.g.s semipermeable, osmosis, diffusion, etc.), difference between turgor pressure between plant and animal cells, and your variables used in each of the procedures.

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By AP Biology
  • Cell vocabulary quiz Thursday
  • AP Classroom videos and review questions are available; Unit 1 exam released
  • Begin Diffusion and Osmosis lab; Procedure 3 Part 2 “Observing Osmosis in Living Cells”, potato core procedure
  • Trifold due Wednesday Sept. 30th; gallery walk
  • Cell Structure and Function exam Tue. Sept.29th; tutoring for exam will be on Monday Sept. 28th

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  • Submit Organelle assignment; assignment must be typed and ready for submission (hard copy only)
  • Transpiration lab quiz
  • Discuss Unit 1 FRQ
  • Continue Chapter 4 summary
  • Microscope lab due tomorrow

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By AP Biology
  • Continue Microscope lab; due Wednesday
  • Transpiration lab quiz tomorrow
  • Organelle assignment due tomorrow; must be typed and printed
  • Unit 1 exam make-ups

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By AP Biology
  • Transpiration Lab gallery walk; each lab group will grade two other assigned groups (see white board)
  • Transpiration lab quiz Tuesday; know: definitions, how transpiration pulls water through a plant, the outcome for each variable from the lab

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By AP Biology
  • Organelle w.s.: write the functions of each organelle using the template provided; final submission must be typed; due Tuesday
  • Care and Use of the Microscope video
  • Begin Microscope lab
  • Transpiration Lab Gallery Walk tomorrow
  • Transpiration lab quiz next Tuesday; know: definitions, how transpiration pulls water through a plant, the outcome for each variable from the lab

Agenda

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  • Begin Chapter 4 summary
  • Course description review
  • Chemistry of Life Exam tomorrow; bring your Chromebook to class fully charged; you will need lined paper for the FRQ
  • Plickers

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By AP Biology
  • Transpiration lab readings final day; add your data to the slide projected to the class; this will be shared in Google Classroom
  • Stomatal peel procedure using leaves
  • Transpiration Gallery Walk will be on Friday next week
  • Transpiration lab quiz on Thursday
  • Unit test on Wednesday

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By AP Biology
  • Transpiration Lab day #4
  • Transpiration lab trifold due Friday Sept. 11th; gallery walk
  • Transpiration lab quiz next Thursday; know: definitions, how transpiration pulls water through a plant, the outcome for each variable from the lab
  • Complete Chapter 29 summary
  • Chemistry of Life exam Wed. Sept. 9; format will be an AP Classroom assessment based on the AP exam in May; accommodations length (32 minute test, 57 minute testing window); 20-22 mcq, 1 short essay

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By AP Biology
  • Transpiration lab Day #2: measure your mass and record it (2 members should be recording it); you do not need to take another picture unless there has been a dramatic change from yesterday
  • AP Participation Agreement Form (QR)
  • Chapter 28 summary
  • Trifold examples

Agenda

By AP Biology
  • Set-up Transpiration Lab; group trifold due Friday September 11th; check the lab folder for lab manual, examples of a trifold, and the scoring rubric
  • Begin Chapter 28 summary
  • Unit 1 exam on Wednesday Sept 10th; format will be an AP Classroom assessment based on the AP exam in May; accommodations length (32 minute test, 57 minute testing window); 20-22 mcq, 1 short essay

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By AP Biology
  • Complete Analysis questions
  • Lab debrief: graphing
  • Lab due Friday; individual submission
  • Enzyme lab quiz on Friday; know: definitions from the lab, type of reaction, the balanced chemical equation for the reaction, the suffix for most enzymes
  • Continue Chapter 6 summary of enzymes
  • Enzyme FRQ

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By AP Biology
  • Complete Part C of experiment
  • Do Part D
  • Enzyme lab quiz on Friday; know: definitions from the lab, type of reaction, the balanced chemical equation for the reaction, the suffix for most enzymes
  • Lab due Friday; individual submission

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  • Complete lab safety
  • Safety contracts due
  • Continue Chapter 3 summary
  • Use the water model kits to demonstrate a knowledge of the type of bonds that affect the properties of water: polar and non-polar covalent bond, ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds; adhesion, cohesion, transpiration, capillarity; diagram and take photos

Agenda

By AP Biology
  • Complete lab safety
  • Safety contracts due tomorrow
  • Continue Chapter 3 summary
  • Use the water model kits to demonstrate a knowledge of the type of bonds that affect the properties of water: polar and non-polar covalent bond, ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds; adhesion, cohesion, transpiration, capillarity; diagram and take photos

Agenda

By AP Biology
  • Continue Chapter 2 summary
  • Enzyme Lab preview
  • Unit 1 Free Response Question preview
  • Review lab equipment for tomorrow’s quiz
  • Complete modeling activity

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By AP Biology
  • How to take notes using documents
  • How to use the Course Description to study
  • Complete Chapter 2 notes
  • Begin Chapter 3 summary
  • Complete your work with the chemical model kits to demonstrate a knowledge of carbon and its properties; How can carbon form single, double, and triple bonds? Make models simple organic compounds (methane, ethane, propane, 1-butene, benzene); form isomers; form functional groups (see page 64-65).  Again, you should diagram, and photograph

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By AP Biology
  • Review Course syllabus: take home to parents to have signed by early next week
  • Review Course outline
  • Access to website, Remind code, Google Classroom
  • AP Classroom access will be provided next week
  • Begin Chapter 2 summary