Regular Biology Assignments
- Instructor
- Phil Cohen
- Term
- 2018-2019 School Year
- Department
- Science
- Description
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This is a laboratory course that satisfies both graduation and A-G requirements for college. The curriculum is aligned with NGSS standards. Achieving competency in laboratory activities is a requirement. The reading and homework expectations are not as stringent as Advanced Biology.
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Past Assignments
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Reading 10-1
daily assignment 10-1
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Project time
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REtesting
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Project time
Study and review time
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Quiz- Evolution
Project: outlined
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What Darwin Never Knew Video.
Preparing for Quiz
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Choosing project groups, Final Seating chart
finish All work sheets. Everything is due at the end of the period.
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Fossil aging, half lives and radioactivity
Half life work sheet
What is the survival of the fittest?
What is fitness and Natural selection
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Reading chapter 15
Study guide from reading
What is fitness Study guides.
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TEST retakes : Advanced Genetic Engineering . only at lunch
1. Fossil aging, half lives and radioactivity
Half life work sheet
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Video: The Island
Final Projects for passing students and test retakes for those who are not.
* Group requests.
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Video: The Island
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Turn in Venn diagram
2. What is Cloning?
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T chart for positive and negative effects of GMO in food supply
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HW: bring food label that has either organic or GMO label.
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Read pages 356-357
2. DNA fingerprinting lab... Crime Lab
3. OJ Trial
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QUIZ: Human inheritance
www.classroomclipboard.com/663794
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seating chart
Review: Karyotyping, genetic diseases
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Complete work by End of period
Human Heredity and Genetic Disorders Unit: Karyotyping, Genetic Diseases, Blood typing, Pedigree Charts
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Complete work by End of period
Human Heredity and Genetic Disorders Unit: Karyotyping, Genetic Diseases, Blood typing, Pedigree Charts
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Human Heredity and Genetic Disorders Unit: Karyotyping, Genetic Diseases Pedigree Charts, Blood typing
1.Genetic Disease discussion
2. lect: Pedigree charts, Blood typing
3. Silent Reading
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Karotyping Lab- due end of period
2. Reading Pedigree charts chapter 14
3. discussion genetic diseases
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Holiday
*periods 2& 4 will do the Karyotype lab on Tuesday
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Human Heredity and Genetic Disorders Unit: Karyotyping, Genetic Diseases, Pedigree Charts, Amoeba Sisters Blood typing
Lect: Karyotyping
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Human Heredity and Genetic Disorders Unit: Karyotyping, Genetic Diseases, Pedigree Charts, Blood typing
Lect: Karyotyping
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Period 2&4
GATTACA : video assignment
Mutations Quiz make ups
GATTACA Socratic Seminar
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GATTACA : video assignment
Mutations Quiz make ups
GATTACA Socratic Seminar
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GATTACA : video assignment
Mutations Quiz
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GATTACA : video assignment
Mutations Quiz
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1. Unit- Mutations, gene regulation
Q&A Mutations and Gene Regulation
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BLOCK schedule starts today 2-4-6
1. Test retake in class
2. Unit- Mutations, gene regulation
4. Sickle Cell assignment
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BLOCK schedule starts today 1-3-5
1. Test retake in class, Turn in Protein Synthesis packet.
2. Unit- Mutations, gene regulation
4. Sickle Cell assignment
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study (silently ) for test retake in class, at lunch
1. Unit- Mutations in class reading
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Protein Synthesis Quiz #1
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Transcription to Translation Relay Race
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** Class schedule choosing
Protein Synthesis Unit .
LEct: Transcription to translation- practice from packet
Protein Synthesis activities using Codon Wheel
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Testing?
General store- individual
Reading: transcription and translation
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Spring Break!!!
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Spring Break!!!
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Spring Break!!!
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Spring Break!!!
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Spring Break!!!
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Video: Jurassic Park
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Video: Jurassic Park
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Video: Jurassic Park
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** Class schedule choosing
DNA test & Retakes- at lunch last day
Protein Synthesis Unit . READING
Proteins Synthesis Video, Protein Synthesis Lecture.
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** Class schedule choosing
DNA structure quiz or retakes
Protein Synthesis Unit
Proteins Synthesis Video
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1. Complete Section Requirements. Turn in lab at the EOP
2. DNA Quiz: Structure, DNA extraction, Replication
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DNA Unit- structure, replication.
Choose the order you in which to accomplish the requirements. Lab exercise on Thursday, Quizzing begins on Friday. All requirements must be competed before the Quiz is allowed.
1. Discussion: DNA structure, Chargaff's rules
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DNA Unit- structure, replication.
Choose the order you in which to accomplish the requirements. Lab exercise on Thursday, Quizzing begins on Friday. All requirements must be competed before the Quiz is allowed.
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1. Lect: incomplete dominance, co-dominance, Polygenic traits
2. Carnifern inheritance
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1. Q&A about Punnett squares and basic inheritance
2. Seating Chart
3. R&TN chapter 11-2, Study Guide 11-2
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HW: complete 11-2 study guide
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1. 50/50 Lab *Partners, Due EOP
2. Mendel and inheritance lecture
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1. finish and grade 11-1
3. Lect: inheritance
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Finish Spiderman
pass out papers
1. Read and take notes 11.1. Mendellian Genetics
2. Study Guide 11.1 Due wed.
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HW.: Study guide Due Wed
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1.Complete Spiderman- Genetic Chimera
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Spiderman
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Team Kahoot Review
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HW: prepare at least 2 notecards for test 10 points. Can do up to 7 for extra credit 2 points each
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2. Check for understanding: Telomeres
Discussion Telemeres and cancer
Last chance to Turn in Mitosis Lab
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Holiday
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1. Turn in Plant cell mitosis Lab
2. Animal Cell Mitosis lab * cards
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HW: complete lab labeling
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Plant cell Mitosis Lab * using Cards*
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HW: Complete Lab labeling
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Seating Chart, Complete Payroll, Passout papers
Turn in 10-2 Study Guide
Lect: Mitosis Stages
Mitosis Practice
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*turn in 10-1
1. read and take notes 10-2
2. receive study guide after proof of reading and notes
3. 10-2 study guide
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HW: complete 10-2 study Guide . due Monday
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1. Surface area to Volume Ratio Lab Due EOP
* the rationale for cell division
Study Guide 10-1
Turn in or complete as HW
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HW: complete Study Guide 10-1
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Photosynthesis and Respiration Unit- due Monday
lect: respiration, performance and oxygen debt
Complete Labs
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Photosynthesis and Respiration Unit- due Monday
lect: respiration, performance and oxygen debt
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*payroll. General Store next week.
Photosynthesis and Respiration Unit- due Friday
lect: respiration, performance and oxygen debt
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Photosynthesis and Respiration Unit- due Friday
Lect: light & Chlorophyll in photosynthesis, chemical reaction balancing.
Questions & Answers
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HW: READ TEXT for information on photosynthesis reactions
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1. Lect: physics of light and absorption
2. Photosynthesis and respiration reactions
3. Demo: water plants, snails
Diffusion, photosynthesis and respirations questions.
4. Test retake
** last Retakes at lunch
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Photosynthesis and Respiration Unit- due Friday
Lecture: physics of light
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Photosynthesis and Respiration Unit- due Monday
- groups assigned and new seating chart
- Silent reading to get background information
- Group meeting to strategize
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1. Reading 8-1, 8-2
2. Study guide chapter 8
3. Review for retake
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Quiz chapter 7.3
Turn in study Guide after Quiz
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1. Lect: 7-4 Tissues
2. Review chapter 7
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Study for quiz
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MLK Day
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1.Diffusion lab Due 1-22
2. Finish study guide
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1. diffusion Lab prep
2. Read chapter 7-3
3. Work on study guide diffusion and osmosis
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HW: Work on study guide diffusion and osmosis
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Water and Dye example
Quick Write: "if you put a drop of food coloring in water what will happen to the dye, Why?"
1. Lect: membrane parts and functions
2. Cell membrane coloring turn in
3. Lecture: diffusion
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1. seating chart
2. Expectations for semester (rules revisited, remind, website, Learning logs, phones in class, quizzes & study guides low credit until pass quiz, late work)
3. Cell membrane coloring
4. R&TN pages 182-184
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HW: complete Coloring and read and take notes chapter pages 182-184
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Cell microscope lab Due beginning of period Monday
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1. cell coloring due due after quiz
2. Quiz: cell parts and functions
3. Cell Microscope lab . (60 pts)
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Cell 7-1 Quiz
review chem test
Cell coloring: be able to identify cell parts by appearance
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HW: Cell analogy project
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1. Reading 7.1 & 7.2
2. Flash cards cell parts and functions
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HW: Create Flash cards for 15 cell parts and functions
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microscope intro Lab
Due End of period
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1. Introduction to microscopes
2. Microscope Drawing Rules
3. Microscope intro lab
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Test chapter 2.1-2.2, 2 note cards permitted with Notecard passes
Turn in pH lab
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Review Jeopardy
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1. pH lab
2. Critical Reading pH
3. Project Grading
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HW: Complete pH lab write up- due 12/4
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1. pH Lab
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1. Review Acids, Bases, pH scale, neutralization. pH pre lab questions
2. Turn in 2.2 study guide
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pass out papers, check grades
Q&A for 2-1, 2-2
1. Lect: water, acids and bases, pH scale, neutralization
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1. Projects due. All late projects drop one letter grade per day as stated in class rules. Absence is no excuse.
2. Chapter 2 study guide . * Due Thursday
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1. 2.1 review sheet
2. Silent Reading chapter 2.2
3. Complete Project- due 11/27
* one letter grade down for each day its late. Late homework passes invalid for this assignment
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Thanksgiving Break
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Thanksgiving Break
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Bonus Buck Quiz chapter 2.1
Work on Model Project
General Store Forms provided. Due Friday
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Work on Model Project
General Store Forms provided. Due Friday
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1. Criss Cross method of solving ionic compounds.
2. Work on Model Project
3. Payroll
4.General Store Forms provided. Due Friday
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HW: complete all late work. Last day to turn in
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1. Student Demonstrate, grade and turn in Ionic Bonding sheet
2. Lect: Covalent bonding Due Tuesday
3. Covalent Bonding practice
4. Atomic Compound Project
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HW: Complete Covalent Bonding practice
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Veterans Day
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1. Reading and taking notes chapter 2.1 1.
2. Lect: Chemical Bonding- Valence electrons & Oxidation-Reduction (Ionic)
3. Ionic Bonding practice
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Ionic Bonding practice due on Monday
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General store forms
1. REVIEW, grade atoms family in class and turn in.
2. ATOMIC BONDING AND EQUILIBRIUM
3. IONIC BONDING
Crisscross method atomic bonding
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Seating Chart?
1. Lect: Atoms and the periodic Table.
2. Atoms Family
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Complete Video and Discuss Science Fiction vs Science Fact
Day After Tomorrow
1. Climate change Science fiction vs Science fact paper due EOP.
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Lect: Climate Change
1. symptoms, problems, Solutions
Politics and Climate change
Video:Inconvenient Truth
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Study Time chapter 6.
Study Guide Chapter 6
Q&A: sustainability and renewable resources
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1. Silent reading chapter 6.2 &6.3 25 minutes
2. minimum 1 page of notes required before receiving study guide
3. Study guide 6.2 & 6.3 *Due Thursday
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1. Review Quiz
* Ecology Midterm next week.* . chapters 3-6
3. turn in chapter 5 study guide 15 pts
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Review Game
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Study for test
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Tag and Recapture Lab
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Tag and Recapture Lab
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1. Population growth Concept mapping and chapter review Individual Class share
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Lecture : Population Growth patterns
Wolf and Deer population problem/Graphing.
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Lecture : Population Growth patterns
Study Guide Time
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Reading chapter 5- Population studies
Study guide Chapter 5- to be completed by Friday for Quiz
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Whats important?
Seating Chart
Analyzing Ecological Relationships- Due EOP
Reading Chapter 5 population studies
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Quiz Terrestrial Biomes
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Oct. 10, all 10th and 11th graders will be taking the PSAT and the other grades will be doing a variety of activities for Kick Off to College.
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Reading and take notes Chapter 4.3
Biomes. Biome chart
Due EOP
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Video: Jungle
Take notes and fill in Biome Chart
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1. Survival of the Beakest Lab preparation
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HW: R&TN ch4.3
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1. video: hunting and escaping
* understanding the dynamics between predator and prey
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Review Quiz
Those that passed start on ch 4.3 study guide and Biome Chart
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Quiz Chapter 4
Period 2 Link
Turn in Design a Fish Model and Niche writeup
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Design a Fish project. Closure
Review Game
General Store
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"Design a Fish" to be camouflaged in our Coral Reef Biome
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Lect: Organism coloration
Camouflage, Warning coloration, Mimicry
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Bonus Buck Payroll
1. Video: Living together .10
ocean Symbiosis . 10 minutes
2. Assignment: list 5 different examples of symbiosis. List the type of symbiosis, organisms involved, how they help, or hinder their partner.
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Lect: Succession
Video: Bill Nye Succession
General Store
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Chapter 4 Study Guide
Due Friday
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1. Lect on Climate. Chapter 4 Q&A
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HW: R&TN chapter 4.2
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Ch4 study guide issued
Quiet Study Time
Chapter 3 re testing
turn in ch 3 Study guides
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hw: read and take notes 4.1
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* If you get an A or B on Quiz then you receive full credit for study Guide and its not required to turn in.*
Finish your Food web posters (50)
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Grade Whats for dinner.
Review Rubric for Project
Group Food Chain/Ecological Pyramid Poster . (50)
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Turn in " Whats for dinner?"
2. work time to finish study guide chapter 3 due Friday
Read and take notes chapter 3.2 & 3.3
* set up Group Project for Wed * pick Biome
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HW: Bring in pictures for Group project
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1.Food Chains and webs: Producers and consumers
2. Activity: What's for dinner?
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HW: complete "What's for dinner?"
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1. Quiz: Scientific method and measurements * postponed *
2. Lecture: Food webs and Ecological Pyramids
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1. How to read your text book
2. Read and Take notes 3.1
3. Q&A 3.1
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Read and take notes 3.2
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1. turn in Scientific Method work sheet . (5 points)
2. Grading and turn in Measurement lab (20points)
3. Discuss Galactic Mishap (5)
* missing lab safety contracts or tests *
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HW: Bring Textbooks to school
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LABOR DAY
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1. Postponed. Test Scientific Method 30 points.
** Allowed 1 notecard
2. complete measurement lab . 20 points
3. complete Galactic Mishap . 10 points
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1. Video: Insects
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turn in Scientific Method- gathering data through measurement.
1. LAB Skills " Measurement of a solid": length, width, height, Mass, Volume, Density
2. begin lab and re check for accuracy 40 points
3. Galactic Mishap- group discussion, individual turn in Due Friday
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HW: Galactic Mishap
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BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT
1. Grading and viewing grades
Infinite Campus
2. Communication
Website: tch.leusd.k12.ca.us
Remind 101: 2 text to . 81010
this message
for advanced Bio . @Abiopcohen
for Reg Bio @rbiocohen
Coach Cohen Email: [email protected]
3. Philosophy
Critical Thinking over memorization
simulations and case studies
Keeping it real
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Turn in Bioscientific Method part 1 10 points
1. Galactic Mishap
2. Scientific Problem Solving Discussion
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HW: complete Write up and due Friday
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seating chart
Safety Test make ups
1. KWL science problem solving: Groups of 4.
What do you know about the Scientific Method?, What would you like to learn about it.
2. discussion: Scientific Method
Problems and Hypothesis
3. Bio Scientific Method part 1
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HW: Complete Bioscientific method part 1... Due Tuesday
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1. Discuss paper Tower Lab designs
1. Lab Safety Contracts/ discussion of procedures
2. Turn in all signatures
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1. Biology Class Rules
2. Remind 101, Website
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HW : Turn in Rule signatures electronically through remind
Sign up for Remind