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  • View HeLa Case study slides (Website)
  • Review select multiple choice questions
  • Review Course description objectives
  • Continue Chapter 9 summary

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  • Cell signaling video on wcscience website
  • Preview Cell Division Lab
  • Begin Chromosome simulation activity (part of Cell Division lab to be completed with the Heredity Unit)

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  • Trifold due Monday; lab will be open at lunch and before school to accommodate a shared work environment
  • Photosynthesis lab quiz on Friday; know: safety hazards, what is the main pigment we are studying in this lab, how we calculate Rf values, reactants in the experiment we are doing, what the soap used for in the experiment
  • Cell Division unit preview
  • Photosynthesis FRQ

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  • Photosynthesis Lab and supplement; trifold due Monday
  • Photosynthesis lab quiz on Friday; know: safety hazards, what is the main pigment we are studying in this lab, how we calculate Rf values, reactants in the experiment we are doing, what the soap used for in the experiment

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  • Complete your signing up for AP Classroom; this automatically enrolls you in the AP Biology Exam (no cost to you)
  • Complete Chapter 8 summary
  • Photosynthesis lab tomorrow; trifold due Monday October 28th

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  • Cell respiration lab debrief; individual assessment due tomorrow
  • Cell Respiration lab quiz Wednesday October 16th; know: purpose of experiment, name of apparatus, purpose of the chemicals used, variables for the lab, types of organisms that use aerobic respiration
  • Continue Chapter 7 summary

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  • Cell respiration lab; individual assessment due Tuesday
  • Cell Respiration lab quiz Wednesday October 16th; know: purpose of experiment, name of apparatus, purpose of the chemicals used, variables for the lab, types of organisms that use aerobic respiration

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  • FRQ review
  • Cell Structure and Function exam tomorrow; 22 MC and 1 medium length FRQ
  • Student questions
  • Osmosis and Diffusion lab partner rubric; due Thursday

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  • 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

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By AP Biology
  • Osmosis and Diffusion Lab quiz
  • Gallery walk on Monday
  • Complete Course Description review of objectives (Essential Knowledge)
  • Revisit Unit exam 1: MC (select questions)
  • Practice FRQ for next Wednesday’s exam
  • Cell Structure and Function unit test Wednesday October 9th; multiple choice (MC) and a medium length free response question (FRQ)

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  • Osmosis and Diffusion lab: procedure 1
  • Complete procedure 3: Anacharis wet mount
  • 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 Monday

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By AP Biology
  • Diffusion and Osmosis lab: procedure 3
  • 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 Monday October 7th

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By AP Biology
  • Diffusion and osmosis lab: procedure 2
  • Lab Trifold due on Monday October 7; 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 3; 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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  • Begin Chapter 4 summary
  • Organelle w.s.: write the functions of each organelle using the template provided; final submission must be typed; due Friday

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  • Warm-up: What are 3 properties that are shared by the macromolecules that we have examined so far?
  • Discuss Enzyme lab Parts B-D (lab groups); submit lab
  • Enzyme lab quiz
  • Enzyme FRQ practice
  • Plickers
  • Tutoring after school from 3:35-4:35

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  • Complete Part C of experiment
  • Complete Part D of experiment
  • Complete Analysis questions
  • Enzyme lab quiz on Monday; know: definitions from the lab, type of reaction, the balanced chemical equation for the reaction, the suffix for most enzymes
  • Lab due Tuesday; individual submission

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  • 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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  • Transpiration Lab quiz
  • 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
  • Use 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
  • Transpiration lab due tomorrow; gallery walk to view and assess trifolds
  • Complete Chapter 2 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
  • Begin Chapter 3 summary

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  • 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 spinach leaves
  • Transpiration Gallery Walk will be on Wednesday next week
  • Transpiration lab quiz on Thursday

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  • Seed plant lab due
  • Transpiration lab due Wednesday
  • Transpiration lab quiz next Thursday; know: definitions, how transpiration pulls water through a plant, the outcome for each variable from the lab
  • Begin Chapter 2 summary

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  • 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
  • Chapter 28 summary
  • Begin Seed plant lab; due Thursday (Friday with accomodations)