We will be reviewing for the final exam this week.  The period 2 final exam will be on Wednesday January 23rd from 8:10-10:10 am and the period 3 final exam will be on Tuesday January 22nd from 8:10-10:10 am.

Friday January 18th is a minimum day (students are released at 12:16) and the minimum day schedule is in effect the week of January 22-25.

Monday January 28th is the first day of the second semester.  First semester grades will be available by this date.

• Continue Plickers

• Continue Plickers

• Final FRQ review
• Plickers

• Analyze graphing FRQ from yesterday
• In class GI (2)

In-class FRQ practice

• Discuss FRQs from Friday: correct
• Bring 2 pieces of graph paper tomorrow

• Practice writing free response questions

• Practice writing free response questions

• Review Grid-in topics for Final exam

• Heredity Unit exam

• Review other Chi square questions
• Heredity exam tomorrow
• Discuss FRQs for test
• Discuss Grid-ins
• Discuss Multiple choice
• Submit Objectives journal on table

• Video: Designer babies; answer questions on the sheet and submit at the end of the period
• Heredity Unit exam on Tuesday December 18

• Submit Chi-squared lab
• Final exam FRQ
• Review Cell Unit exam FRQ

• Chi-square lab; due tomorrow
• Final exam FRQ tomorrow

• Submit Fruit Fly lab
• Chapter 15 summary

• Complete Chapter 14 summary
• Complete Fruit Fly lab (if necessary)
• Discuss Final exam FRQ (Thursday Dec. 14^th)
• Begin Chapter 15 summary

• Fruit Fly Lab (Artificial Selection); due Monday
• Omit (skip) #6 from the assessment (Chi-square analysis)

• Complete Chapter 14 summary
• Genetics Problems questions?
• Review main concepts of problems for grid-in and FRQs
• Discuss FRQ topics for final exam (FRQ next week); FRQ Thursday December 13th

• Complete Chapter 13 summary
• Review HeLa Case study
• Begin Chapter 14 summary
• Vocabulary quiz on Friday; word list posted in Edmodo

• Submit Photosynthesis lab
• Cell unit exam FRQ; 15 minutes writing time
• Complete Chapter 13 summary

• Cell Unit exam
• Photosynthesis Lab write-up due on Monday

• Cell respiration and Photosynthesis Labs quiz
• Photosynthesis full lab write-up due Monday; submission must be typed and submitted as a hard copy; no digital submissions will be accepted
• Unit exam preview; exam tomorrow
• Begin Chapter 13 summary

Due to a lack of participation by all group members in the production of the lab trifolds, the photosynthesis lab will NOT be a trifold but rather an individual submission. See the rubric in the folder section to design the lab write-up

• Cell Division gallery walk
• Cell respiration and Photosynthesis Labs quiz tomorrow
• Know: safety hazards, plant pigments, how to calculate Rf values, photosynthesis reactants, purpose of the soap solution, name of the apparatus used in the cell respiration experiment, independent and dependent variables, gas law formula

• Photosynthesis lab
• Lab due on Monday: Gallery walk
• Cell Division Gallery walk this Wednesday
• Cell exam this Friday
• Cell respiration and Photosynthesis lab quiz on Thursday

• Complete Meiosis Bead lab; lab illustrations due Friday
• Submit photos to Edmodo (pictures of the chromosomes in the different conditions of meiosis i.e. meiosis {standard}, segregation, independent assortment, crossing over, etc.)

• 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