• Submit Cell Respiration lab
• Complete Chapter 10 summary
• Discuss Cell Division lab
• Discuss Grid-in options for Cell exam
• Review Free response options for Cell exam

• Cell respiration lab debrief
• Begin Photosynthesis summary (Chapter 10)
• Discuss Grid-in options for Cell exam
• Review Free response options for Cell exam

• Cell respiration lab
• Submit Daily objectives journal

• Complete Chapter 9 summary
• Cell Respiration lab preview

• Correct FRQ of Chemistry of Life exam
• Correct GI of Chemistry of Life exam
• Correct MC of Chemistry of Life exam
• Continue Chapter 9 summary

• Complete Chapter 12 summary
• Begin Chapter 9 summary

• Modeling Mitosis: using pop beads, model the action of the chromosomes during mitotic phases and diagram the action for each phase (including interphase)

• Diffusion and Osmosis lab quiz
• Chapter 12 summary
• Questions on Mitosis lab?
• HeLa cells discussion

• Gallery Walk for Osmosis and Diffusion lab
• Osmosis and Diffusion lab quiz tomorrow: know how a plant controls its turgor pressure; what the difference is between hypotonic, hypertonic, and isotonic solutions; know why it is important to have IV salts in solution

• Begin Mitosis lab (Cell Division): do Part 2: Effects of Environment on Mitosis; begin with section on age S 88 “Counting Cells and Analyzing Data”; use the three field of views to count the phases of Mitosis and compare them to the number of cells in Interphase
• Do Case 1 page S 91: HeLa cells; read the pdf in the lab section on HeLa cells; be prepared to answer the questions on page S 91

• Complete Chapter 7 summary
• Chapter 11 summary
• Mitosis lab will begin tomorrow (Read chapter 12 and lab manual)

• Diffusion and osmosis lab: procedure 1
• Lab Trifold due on Wednesday October 31; we will have a gallery walk where each group will evaluate 2 other groups; collective score will be shared among group members

• Diffusion and Osmosis lab: procedure 3
• Procedure 1 tomorrow; lab quiz next week on Tuesday
• Gallery walk on Wednesday

• Osmosis and Diffusion lab: procedure 2
• Procedure 3 on Thursday
• Procedure 1 on Friday
• Lab quiz next week on Tuesday
• Gallery Walk next Wednesday (happy Halloween)

• Chapter 7 summary
• Discuss Osmosis and Diffusion lab

• Complete Microscope review; submit

• Submit Organelle assignment
• Complete Chapter 6 summary
• Begin Microscope review

• Organelle assignment due tomorrow
• Chapter 6 summary
• Care and Use of the Microscope video

Organelle w.s.: write the functions of each organelle using the template provided; final submission must be typed; due Friday

• Chemistry of Life exam

• Test Tomorrow: know your macromolecules and enzymes!
• Correct rubric scoring sheets (period 2 only)
• Plickers?
• College week: Careers in Life Science

• Complete Chapter 8 summary
• Develop a model for the induced fit between an enzyme and its substrate using kits provided (pages 153-154 in textbook); be prepared to explain how the induced fit model provides a more accurate explanation for enzyme function than the lock-and-key model
• Explain the function of competitive and non-competitive inhibition using the models (see page 156 for illustration)

We will have tutoring available after school today from 3:30-4:30

• Enzyme lab Gallery walk
• Review FRQ from Evolution unit
• College week: senior year deadlines; financial aid
• Tutoring for Tuesday’s exam? Today or tomorrow

• How to improve science ACT scores
• FRQ possibilities

• College Week: presentation #2 ed, ea, ra
• Share ideal data set; compare to group data
• Prepare graph for lab; lab due Thursday
• Review grid-in possibilities for exam next week

• College Week presentation #1
• Complete Chapter 5 summary (period 3 only)
• Chapter 8 summary
• Enzyme modeling with kits

• Complete Part C of experiment
• Complete Part D of experiment
• Complete Analysis questions
• Lab due Thursday; group trifold; see lab rubrics (Poster board rubric)

• Enzyme Lab Part B
• Prep part C for tomorrow

• Continue Chapter 5 summary
• Begin Chapter 8
• Begin Enzyme lab: Teacher demo

• Discuss Grid-in from exam; correct
• Review Unit 1 free response
• Continue Chapter 5 summary

• Chapter 5 summary
• Preview Enzyme lab

• Lab equipment quiz
• Make formal lab groups
• Begin Chapter 5 summary: review
• Discuss Grid-in from exam; correct

• Complete Chapter 4 summary
• Lab material quiz on Friday: know what each of the objects are in your cupboards and drawers; quiz will be visual in nature
• Continue review materials at lab stations

• Review and complete assignment from Monday
• Chapter 3 and 4 summary
• Review lab materials; lab material quiz on Friday

• History of Life and Phylogeny unit exam
• 20 multiple choice questions
• 2 grid-ins
• 1 medium-length free response question

• 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 submit photo via Edmodo
• 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, photograph, and submit via Edmodo.
• Tutoring today after school from 3:15-4:15

• Hardy-Weinberg lab quiz
• BLAST Lab due tomorrow by 7 pm; document should be saved as a Word™ file
• Complete chapter 31 summary
• Grid-in examples
• FRQ examples
• Evolution and Diversity of organisms exam on Tuesday

• Questions for the BLAST Lab? Due Saturday at 7 pm via Edmodo (Word document preferred)
• Complete Chapter 28 and 31 summary
• Evolution and the Diversity of Organisms exam preview; exam on Monday
• Exam will be in the following format: 20 m.c., 2 g.i., 1 medium-length f.r.q.

• Hardy-Weinberg debrief
• Hardy-Weinberg Quiz on Friday: know definitions and functions (RAND, CONCATENATE, SUM, NULL HYPOTHESIS, IF) and be able to solve a problem
• BLAST Lab deductions examples
• Discuss Chapter 28
• Begin Chapter 31

• BLAST Lab; due Saturday by 7 pm submitted via Edmodo
• Submission must follow the guidelines in the lab manual and Edmodo
• Submitted document cannot have any restrictions set on it i.e. it must be able to be opened through Edmodo; documents that don’t meet this qualification will receive a zero

• BLAST Lab; due Saturday by 7 pm submitted via Edmodo
• Submission must follow the guidelines in the lab manual and Edmodo
• Include photos in Word document

• Complete Chapter 26 summary
• Examples of cladograms
• Observe examples of evidence of evolution
• Bring Flash drive on Monday

• Hardy-Weinberg lab common errors
• Observe examples of evidence of evolution

• Complete Safety protocols and submit contract
• Chapter 25 summary
• Begin Chapter 26 summary

• Hardy-Weinberg lab (day 2 of 2)
• Lab due on Saturday by 7 pm: submission must be of an Excel spreadsheet submitted via Edmodo; no Google Sheets or Numbers spreadsheets will be accepted

• Submit Geological Timetable
• Hardy-Weinberg lab (day 1 of 2)
• Using the sample lab and the instructions in the lab manual (found in Edmodo) to guide you, create a spreadsheet that demonstrates a mathematical model of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; due Saturday (via Edmodo submission) by 7 pm

• Summer reading quiz
• Hardy-Weinberg problem set due today
• Complete Chapter 24 summary
• Complete the Geological Timetable; due Monday
• Begin Safety protocols
• Bring Flash drive for Monday: Hardy-Weinberg lab (create an Excel® spreadsheet; see lab guide in Edmodo for assistance)

• Summer reading quiz tomorrow
• Questions on Hardy-Weinberg problem set; due tomorrow
• Review Chapter 24: Speciation

• Summer reading quiz preview
• Pepper moth due
• Review Chapter 22 and 23 end slides
• Discuss the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
• Hardy-Weinberg problem set due on Friday

• Discuss Evidence for evolution
• Pepper Moth Case study; due tomorrow
• Review Chapter 22 end slides, Chapter 23 end slides

• Complete course material review from yesterday
• School website
• Edmodo
• How to use the course and exam description guide
• How to use the PPTs
• What are the 4 Big Ideas for AP Biology

• Review Course syllabus: take home to parents to have signed by early next week
• Review Course outline
• Discuss Course expectations