- Complete Invertebrate review (Arthropoda, Echinodermata); sheet due today
- View samples
- Begin Chordates
- Invertebrate review (Annelida, Arthropoda, Echinodermata)
- View samples
- Invertebrate review (Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Molluska, Annelida)
- View samples
- Invertebrate review (Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes)
- View samples
- Submit Fungi lab
- Begin Invertebrate review
- Complete Bacteria Lab
- Fungi lab questions? Lab due tomorrow
- Fungi lab; due Friday
- Invasive plant investigation; due today
- Last day for Seed plant lab; due Tuesday
- 2023 AP Biology FRQ sample responses
- Notes: plant meristems and leaf anatomy
- Complete Seed plant lab; due Tuesday
- Seed plant lab; due Tuesday
- Semester 2 Final exam part 2 (Natural Selection, Ecology, semester 2 AP Labs)
- Complete Chapter 18
- Final exam day 1 preview
- Plickers
- AP Exam debrief
- Complete Chapter 28
- AP Biology Semester 2 Final exam May 15 and 16th
- AP Biology exam is this afternoon 12-3:30
- Student questions
- AP Biology exam strategies
- Student questions
- Student questions about AP exam
- Tutoring after school for AP exam and Final exam
- FRQ practice
- Continue Chapter 28 summary
- HW practice
- Genetics Problems practice
- Pedigree practice
- Continue Chapter 28 summary
- Transpiration lab quiz
- Exam Strategy Part 2: Time allocation
- Math concept: HW Equilibrium
- Exam Strategy Part 1: Study partitioning
- Chi square practice
- Begin Chapter 28 summary
- Transpiration lab quiz tomorrow; know: definitions, how transpiration pulls water through a plant, the outcome for each variable from the lab
- Transpiration lab gallery walk
- Transpiration lab readings final day
- Stomatal peel procedure
- Trifold due on Monday
- Math Review
- Complete Lab review
- Math Review
- Begin AP Exam Review
- AP Lab Review: see lab Manual
- Transpiration lab readings
- Ecology Exam
- Animal Behavior lab due tomorrow
- Transpiration lab readings day 2
- Review Animal Behavior lab: see “Fruit Fly Behavior” and “Sac Zoo AP Biology Lab”; how do these lab relate to what you have learned so far about animal behavior
- Students that choose to not visit the Zoo will modify the “Fruit Fly Behavior” lab by either collecting Fruit Flies or Pill Bugs (Rolly Pollies) and create a PPT presentation similar to the trifold
- Regardless of choice, individual students will create a PPT for their presentation. PPT due Wednesday
- Ecology Vocabulary Quiz
- Set-up Transpiration Lab; group trifold due Monday May 1st
- Plickers
- Complete Chapter 43
- Plickers
- Complete Chapter 39
- Begin Chapter 43 summary (last chapter for AP exam)
- Chapter 39 summary
- Discuss Animal Behavior lab
- Chapter 41 Summary
- Read Chapter 39 (Animal Behavior section 39.3-39.6, inclusive)
- Complete Chapter 40 summary
- AP Classroom
- Chapter 41 Summary
- Complete Chapter 40 summary
- AP Classroom
- Chapter 41 Summary
- Predator prey lab; due today
- Complete Chapter 40
- Predator prey lab; due tomorrow
- Compete Chapter 42
- Begin Chapter 40 summary: Populations
- Continue Chapter 42
- Continue Chapter 42
- Continue Chapter 42
- Review Objectives for Energy Flow through Ecosystems
- Chapter 42 Summary
- AP Classroom
- AP Mock exam
- Natural Selection exam
- Submit Objectives journal
- Complete Chapter 25 summary
- Revisit Evolution examples
- Look and illustrative examples from course description
- Plickers
- Complete Chapter 24 summary
- Chapter 25 summary
- Revisit Evolution examples
- Look and illustrative examples from course description
- Chapter 24 summary
- Every Fifteen Minutes presentation
- Complete Chapter 21
- Continue Chapter 21 summary
- Complete Chapter 20 summary
- Begin Chapter 21 summary
- BLAST Lab due tonight by 7 pm; submission via e-mail
- BLAST Lab quiz
- Chapter 20 summary
- Complete Chapter 23 edits
- Chapter 20 summary
- BLAST Lab submission due tomorrow as a Microsoft Word™ document; must be submitted via e-mail
- BLAST lab quiz tomorrow; know: how to interpret a BLAST query, how to construct a cladogram given morphological or gene data, how to read a cladogram or table
- BLAST lab day 2; due Friday by 7 pm submitted via e-mail
- Submission must follow the guidelines in the lab manual and Google Classroom
- Include snapshots in Word document
- Hardy-Weinberg Problem set due
- BLAST lab day 1; due Friday by 7 pm submitted via e-mail
- Submission must follow the guidelines in the lab manual and Google Classroom
- Include photos in Word document
- Review Hardy Weinberg formula
- Hardy Weinberg problem set; due tomorrow
- Hardy Weinberg lab quiz
- Continue Chapter 23 summary
- Chapter 18 summary (18.6)
- Hardy-Weinberg Problem set due Tuesday; examples
- Begin Chapter 23 summary
- Hardy-Weinberg Lab due tomorrow via e-mail (Yahoo address)
- Hardy-Weinberg Lab quiz on Monday; know: know functions of commands used in Excel (e.g.s IF, SUM, RAND, CONCATENTATE, etc.), definitions (e.g.s allele frequency, concatenate, null hypothesis, etc.), HW problems
- Complete Chapter 22 summary
- Hardy-Weinberg lab due Saturday; email to my Yahoo address (in syllabus)
- Hardy-Weinberg Problem set; due Tuesday; solve problems on a separate piece of lined paper or on back of problem set
- Continue Chapter 18
- AP Lab: Hardy-Weinberg lab using Excel; last day to work in-class; lab must be submitted via email by 7 pm Saturday
- Use the Hardy-Weinberg lab in the lab folder section of the website for guidance
- Your work must be saved on an external source and cannot remain on the computer itself
- AP Lab: Hardy-Weinberg lab using Excel
- Use the Hardy-Weinberg lab in the lab folder section of Edmodo for guidance
- Your work must be saved on an external source and cannot remain on the computer itself
- Continue Chapter 22
- Hardy Weinberg lab tomorrow; bring a flash drive or your computer with Excel (any full version); you will be submitting your final version for assessment
- Complete Chapter 18
- Complete Chapter 19 summary
- Begin Chapter 22
- Transformation lab quiz
- Continue Chapter 19
- Begin Chapter 22
- Gene expression and regulation exam: 50 multiple choice questions
- View evidence for evolution in organisms
- Begin Chapter 19 summary
- Plickers
- Complete Chapter 18 summary
- Gel Electrophoresis spot test next Thursday (March 2nd); know: properties of DNA relevant to this lab, purpose of the gel and buffer solution
- Gene Expression and Regulation exam on Tuesday
- Complete Chapter 14 summary
- Begin Chapter 18 summary
- Continue Chapter 16
- Complete Chapter 13
- Transformation spot test
- Transformation survey
- Electrophoresis sign-ups
- Begin Chapter 16
- Continue Chapter 15 summary
- Chapter 13 summary (13.2 and 13.1 have already been covered)
- Transformation lab Day 2; check plates and see if they have transformed using UV lights
- Bacteria spot test
- Transformation lab quiz on Tuesday; Know: function of plasmids, definitions, results from lab, evidence that supports the results, materials from lab
- Continue Chapter 15
- Submit Bacteria lab
- Bacteria Lab quiz tomorrow
- Transformation lab Day 1
- Complete Bacteria lab; due tomorrow; bacteria lab quiz tomorrow; know: bacteria structure and function, growth types, cell wall composition
- Prelab for Transformation lab
- Begin Chapter 15
- The student is able to describe the structure and function of the various bacteria parts from a diagram and identify the type of the bacteria based on its shape.
- Bacteria Lab; due Wednesday; post lab quiz on Wednesday; know:
- Structure and function of bacterial parts
- Growth forms of the bacteria
- Killer Virus video; submit answers to questions
- Complete Chapter 24
- Prepare for Bacteria lab tomorrow
- Molecular genetics vocabulary quiz
- Discuss “The Hot Zone” book/limited series
- Begin Chapter 24 summary
- Submit DNA timeline assignment
- Complete Chapter 17 (Chapter 19 in class set); review lytic and lysogenic cycles, prions, viroids
- Review Chapter 4: compare and contrast prokaryote and eukaryote cells
- Chapter 14 reading guide; due Thursday
- Begin Chapter 17
- Molecular Genetics vocabulary quiz this Wednesday; word list is posted in Resources folder in Google Classroom
- DNA discovery timeline due tomorrow; at least 11 discoveries should be represented
- Chapter 14 summary
- Create a historical timeline for the discovery of DNA (starting with T.H. Morgan and ending with Meselson and Stahl); due Tuesday Feb. 7
- Complete Chapter 13
- Begin Chapter 14
- Continue Chapter 13
- Chapter 13 summary
- Review Final exam
- Semester 2 timeline
- Discuss upcoming labs
- Begin Chapter 13 summary