Week of Dec 17 - 21st

Monday "B" District Mid-term Exam
Tuesday "A"     "            "


Human Reproduction

HW 1:  Read pp. 788 - 790.  Write 10 facts
HW 2:  Answer # 1-5 on p. 790.  RESTATE


Mon - Tues
Mid-term Exam
Begin human reproductive system

Weds - Thurs
Complete Reproductive Packet
Begin watching "Life's Greatest Miracle"

Fri
Pregnancy Trimesters
Finish" Life's Greatest Miracle"

Week Dec 10 - 14th

MID-TERM DISTRICT EXAM:    "B" Day students  Monday, Dec 17th
                                                 "A" Day students  Tuesday, Dec 18th
You have completed a study guide for this exam which you should have taken home to study.  We will continue reviewing each day in class.

Unit Test this week on Cell Division - Mitosis and Meiosis
 Study Guide will be completed in class Monday and Tuesday
 "A" day test is Weds, "B" day is Thur



HW 1:  Read pp. 189 - 191 and write 10 important facts about Genetic Variety
STUDY for Cell Division Test on Weds/Thursday
HW 2:   Stages of Mitosis and Meiosis and Comparing worksheet


Mon - Tues
Exam Review for Midterm next week
Test Review of mitosis and meiosis for TEST this week:
  Finish study guide, tangram puzzle, Cell Division Jeopardy
Watch: Meiosis Made Simple and   Meiosis


Weds (Early Release) - Thur
Cell Division TEST
Begin Reproduction

Friday
School wide testing - FSA Writing Practice 9th and 10th
All classes will be 45 minutes after testing is over

Week of Dec 3 - 7th

Reminder:  Mid-Term Exam Dec 17 & 18th


HW 1:  Read pp. 168 - 176, Write 10 important facts
HW 2: p. 171, # 1-5 and p. 176, # 1-5


Monday
Exam Review
Finish Mitosis

Tuesday - Wednesday
Quiz on Mitosis - phases and stages
Meiosis
Begin Study Guide for Exam

Thursday - Friday
Meiosis

Week of Nov 26 - 30th

Coming up:  Duval County Bio Mid-Term Exam:  Dec 17 & 18
We will begin reviewing this week.
Comprehensive Study Guide will be going home soon.

Note:  If you missed the Open Notes TEST on Plants and Flowers before the break, this week on Friday is the last day you may make it up.  Come any day during lunch or after school.

HW 1:  Read pp. 144 - 150.  Answer # 1-5 on p. 150. Restate, as always.
HW 2:  Guided Reading Mitosis - we started this during class last week.  It will be due as homework at the end of this week.


Monday - Tuesday
Exam Review: Types of Cells
Notes:  Cell Cycle
Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction

Wednesday - Thursday
Exam Review:  Organelles
Microscope Lab - Animal and Plant mitosis

Friday - Monday
Reveiw:  Macromolecules
Continue mitosis.
Begin meiosis

Week of Thanksgiving!

No HW this week!

Monday and Tuesday:
Open Notes Test - Plants and Flowers
Begin:  Cell Cycle and Mitosis

Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of Nov 13th - 16th

Quiz Thursday - Friday Parts of the Flower, Study p. 668
                                       No word bank, spelling counts!

HW1:  Guided Notes for Plant Anatomy, Ch 21, Sec 1, 2 and 4
            No passes.  You use these notes for an open notes quiz next week
HW 2: Study for Flower Quiz

Tuesday - Weds
Flower model
Plant foldable
Finish notes on plant tissues for open notes quiz Monday - Tuesday
Watch:  Plant Transport through Xylem and Phloem

Thursday - Friday
Quiz on the parts of the flower
CR Lab

Week of November 5-8th

HW 1:  Read pp. 648 - 655, 10 facts on plants
HW 2:  Draw, label and define the 9 parts of the flower labeled 
                     on p. 668 - NO PASSES!


Watch: Plant Transport: Xylem and Phloem

Mon - Tues
Begin: Plant leaves and tissues
Stomata Lab

Wed - Thur     
Energy tangram
Leaf packet

Friday
Off

Week of Oct 29 - Nov 2

HW 1 and 2:  Study Guide for Quiz on Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Thurs and Friday



Monday
Cellular Respiration notes and graphic organizers

Tuesday - Weds
Photosynthesis Lab - Floating Chads

Thurs - Friday
Cellular Respiration Lab - Exercise time!
Quiz:  Photosynthesis vs. Cellular Respiration

Week of Oct 22 - 26

Quiz this week: Cell Membrane and Transport.
Study Guide will be completed Monday and Tuesday
     Note:  8th period is a class behind and will take this test next week on a day to be determined.

*PLEASE BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK WEDS/THURS*

HW 1:  Complete the following 2 Achieve Articles - just read the articles and take the Quiz.  (No Passes!)

     Note: You must score a 75 the first time for it to count. If you make below a 75, search for any article related to Bio and use that.

   Article 1 - Life Without Light or Air?

   Article 2 - Water These Plants?

STUDY: QUIZ ON CELL MEMBRANE AND TRANSPORT
               WEDS (A) AND THURS (B) (except 8th)

HW 2: Read p. 100 - 102.  p. 102, # 1- 5 Restate

Monday and Tuesday

Finish Cell Transport

Baggie Diffusion Lab

Study Guide for Quiz on the Cell Membrane

Begin:  Photosynthesis

Weds and Thursday

Powernotes on Photosynthesis

Quiz - Cell Transport

Friday 

Continue: Photosynthesis 

Absent this week, watch:

Watch:  Ted Ed The Simple Story of Photosynthesis
Watch:  Hyper, hypo, isotonic
            The Cell Membrane in the Virtual Cell
             Getting materials through the membrane
             Active and passive transport

Week of Oct 15 - 18

9 WEEKS EXAM THIS WEEK!  You have 2 Study Guides to review.
Wednesday - A day will be testing
Thursday -  B day will be testing

NOTE:  THE 9 WEEKS EXAM will be taken off line on Thurs, 10/18.  If you do not take it by that date, you will reeive a 0 for this Exam on your 9 weeks grade/report card.

If you will not be in class for your test day, please plan to take the Exam at another time.  I am available any day at lunch or after school, Monday through Wednesday of this week.

ALSO NOTE:  Friday is teacher planning.  No school!

HW 1:   Read pp. 81 - 89.  Define all highlighted words

HW 2:   Read pp. 103-105.  Answer Apply ? p. 103,
              Identify ?, p. 104 and Summarize ? p. 105
          * There will be a question like one of these on the Exam

Monday and Tuesday
Complete notes on osmosis and diffusion
Exam Review

Weds and Thurs 
Types of Transport
Hyper, hypo and isotonic solutions

Fri - OFF

Absent this week watch:  Hyper, hypo, isotonic
            The Cell Membrane in the Virtual Cell
             Getting materials through the membrane
             Active and passive transport
            Voyage Inside the Cell

October 8 - 12th

HW 1:   p. 95, # 1-12, restate
HW 2:   Cell Biology TEST REVIEW coloring worksheet

TEST on Cells Thursday (A) and Friday (B):

    Need to know - Organelles function Study Guide 3.2 Review ws

                              Pro vs. Eukaryotes - Study Guide 1

                              Plant vs. Animals cells - Study Guide 1

                              Labeling plant and animal cell - Study Guide 2 (Quiz)

Monday B day

Organelle Review 

Microscope Lab - Plant vs. Animal Cells

Tuesday  A day

Test Review Jeopardy

Wednesday  PSAT

Classes will only meet for 25 minutes

Thursday and Fri

TEST - Cells and Organelles

Begin: Cell Transport - hyper, hypo and isotonic solutions
Active vs. Passive Transport

Video Clips to Watch:  

             Hyper, hypo, isotonic
            The Cell Membrane in the Virtual Cell
             Getting materials through the membrane
             Active and passive transport
            Voyage Inside the Cell

Week of October 1st - 5th

TEST on Cells and Organelles - next week, Thur 8/11 "A" day, Fri 8/12 "B" day
District 9 Weeks Exam is Thursday - Friday Oct 17 & 18th.  Study Guide coming soon!


HW 1:  Finish the Cell Organelle Color Coding worksheet - Be memorizing what each organelle looks like, as well as its function from last week's homework.

             QUIZ Weds/Thurs on labeling organelles in plant and animal cells

HW 2:  Read pp. 81 - 87 and write the 10 most important facts you read about the cell membrane


Monday - Tuesday
Cells and organelles, continued


Weds - Thursday
Begin Cell Membranes

Fri - Monday
Cells Lab
Study Guide for Cells Test next Thursday and Friday

Week of Sep 24 - 28th

HW 1: Read pp. 70-72, Cell Theory Review W/S (Ch 3, Sec 1)
HW 2:  Read pp. 73 - 79. Describe the functions of all 12 organelles highlighted in yellow  (No HW Passes)


If you are absent this week be sure you watch:
An Intro to Cells


Monday 
Finish DNA Replication
Strawberry DNA Lab

Tuesday- Weds (Early Release)
Open Notes Test on DNA Replication
Begin Cell Theory

Thurs - Fri
Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes
Plants vs. Animals
Begin Organelles
Microscope lab

Week of: September 17 - 21st

HW 1:  Read pp. 230 - 238, Write 10 important facts
HW 2:  p. 233, # 1-5, AND p. 238, # 1-5, Restate

If you are absent this week be sure to watch:
Watch: Bozeman Science Nucleic Acids
            How DNA copies itself
            What is a Gene?
            What is DNA and How Does it Copy Itself?

Mon - Tues
TEST - Macromolecules

Intro to DNA
DNA models

Weds - Thur
DNA Replication
LAB:  Strawberry DNA Extraction
Cell Theory

Friday
Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Cells

Week of Sep 10 - 14th

MACROMOLECULES and ENZYMES

HW 1:  p. 56, answer # 1-5, restate
HW 2:  p. 63, Benchmark Review # 1-6. Restate.
,

Monday - 9/10 B day
Elements and Macromolecules in organic compounds
Macromolecules Matching -  cut'n paste table
Pre-reading assignment - enzymes.  Read pp. 54-56, write 10 important facts 
Watch:  Amoeba Sisters Biomolecules

Note: Wednesday is Early Release
Tuesday & Weds 9/11 -12  Enzymes
Lab:  Urinalysis - Testing for Proteins, Lipids and Sugars to
          diagnose kidney disease in patients

Powernotes on Enzymes

Thurs & Friday
Complete Enzyme notes

Enzyme virtual lab

Organic Molecules Test Study Guide and Test review

TEST on Macromolecules and Enzymes Monday (A day)  & Tuesday (B day) 

Week of Sep 4 - 7th

No school Monday - Happy Labor Day!

HW 1: Section 2.3 Review worksheet
HW 2:  Read pp. 48 - 53, write 10 important facts



Tuesday, 9/4th
Finish Powernotes on Macromolecules
Watch:  Crash Course on Carbon
Making models - 4 macromolecules and their monomers

Weds - Thur 9/5-6
Lab:  Using Indicators to test for Bio Molecules
Complete models and label
Watch:  Crash Course on Macromolecules

Fri  9/7
Macromolecules of Organisms
M/M Comparison Chart
Begin:  Enzymes

Week of Aug 27 - 31

Reminder:  Early Release this week!

HW 1:  p. 43, # 1-6 Restate

HW 2:  p. 31, # 9 - 19 Restate

Due Thursday/B day and Friday/A days

TEST on Properties of H2O Weds (A) and Thurs (B) - Learn your Study Guide

Good to watch to Review for TEST Weds and Thurs:

Watch:  Amazing Properties of Water

Watch: Crash Course:  Properties of Water

8/27 - 28 Monday and Tuesday

Lab: Properties of Water
Notes on pH

Study Guide for Properties of H2O TEST next class

8/29 - 30 Weds and Thursday
TEST Properties of H2O
Begin notes on macromolecules

Watch:  Crash Course - Carbon

8/31  Friday
Macromolecules

Week of August 20 - 24th

OPEN HOUSE:  Monday, Aug 20th  6:00 PM

HW 1:  Properties of H2O w/sheet
HW 2:  Read pp. 4 -11.  Restate answers to questions # 1-4 on p. 6

             and questions # 1-6 on p. 11.

NOTE:  All homework is due the last day I see you, either Thursday or Friday.  I don't accept late homework, with the exception of the Safety Contract.  I must have that ASAP if you haven't turned it in signed by your parent/guardian already.

8/20

Lab Safety Quiz

Martian and the Car Debate

Begin: Properties of Water

Color Coding Activity

8/21-22

Theories vs. Laws

Baseline Testing

Watch:  Intro to the Microscope
Discuss Microscope Etiquette
Pre-reading pp. 40 - 43 Properties of Water (1st period only)
Intro to the Microscope Lab

8/23-24

Properties of Water notes and lab

Quiz - next class

Watch:  Eye of Nye  Pseudoscience
Lab Safety and watch:  Crash Course Lab Techniques

Week of August 13th

BIOLOGY

Intro and Syllabus review
Real science vs. pseudoscience
Observations and inferences
Science is CONPTT
Eye of Nye Video - Pseudoscience

Microscope Safety How to use a compound microscope
Science Chat!  Lab Activity

Note: You have 2 homework assignments every week, due the last day of class (either Thurs or Fri)

HW 1: Get Safety Contract signed. Bring in supplies - 3 subject spiral notebook with pockets.
           1 roll of Scotch tape, colored pencils
HW 2: The Language of Science

Week of May 21st

Watch:  National Geographice - The Incredible Human Machine

How to Dissect a Frog

Week of April 30

BIO EOC EXAM is Monday or Tuesday.  The list should be out this week so I can tell you exactly which day.
Be prepared, well rested and ready to take a lengthy and difficult exam.  I know you will all do great!

Topics:  Finishing Blood Flow
              Immune System
            
HW 1:  Go over the EOC Study Guide and review the PowerPoint I emailed you
HW 2:  Go through your Bio notebook and study anything you've forgotten about


Mon - Blood Flow
How to Pass the EOC Practice


Tuesday - Weds
Immune System - Pathogens
EOC Review: Energy Flow in the Ecosystem
         and Osmosis

Thurs - Fri
Immune System - Antibodies and Antigens
EOC Review:  Photosynthesis 

Week of April 16 - 20th

BIOLOGY EOC STATE EXAM:  MAY 7TH
Please be reviewing on this link:  Escambia County Bio EOC
You also will be finishing up the big EOC Study Guide and bringing it home by the end of this week to study and I will email you the PowerPoint that goes with it.


HW 1:  Read pp. 445 - 447, p. 447 Answer # 1-5 and p. 474, # 1-5, Restate
HW 2:  Spend time on Escambia County Bio EOC Review webpage, link above


Note:  Many students will be taking the Reading FSA this week and missing my classes.  Please remember to come by and get/do your make up work.  I'm available every day at lunch or after school.  You will receive a 0 for each class period you miss, just like any other absence, until the work is made up.

Monday - Changes in Ecosystems, Greenhouse Effect

Tuesday - Wednesday  Human Impact, Loss of Biodiversity
    Watch:  TedEd Biodiversity

Thurs - Friday   Sustainability

Week of April 9th

Food Webs, Energy Pyramids, Cycles
Changes in Ecosystems, Succession

HW 1:  Read pp. 440 - 444.  Define all yellow terms
HW 2:  p. 444, # 1-5


Monday
Food Webs and Energy Pyramids
Water Cycle
EOC Review:  Macromolecules
Begin EOC Study Guide  

Tuesday - no class SAT Day

Weds - Thursday
Carbon Cycle
Changes in Ecosystems
Succession  

Friday
"How to Get a 32 and Pass the EOC"
Review Packet # 1-20
EOC Review: Natural Selection
Study Guide, finish p. 1

Week of April 2 - 6th

Biology End of Course Exam:  May 7th

HW 1:  Read pp. 408 - 411.  p. 411, # 1-5, Restate
HW 2:  Read pp. 412 - 419, write 10 important facts


Mon - Thursday
Kingdoms Stations Lab

Friday
 Succession and Changes in Ecosystems

Week of March 26 - 29th

BIOLOGY END OF COURSE EXAM:  MAY 7-8TH

This week:  CLASSIFICATION

HW 1:  Read pp. 406 - 407.  Answer # 1-5, p. 407
HW 2:  Read pp. 408 - 411. Write 10 important facts
             Study:  Classification Quiz Weds (B) and Thurs (A)


Monday - Tuesday
Classification facts and complete Study Guide
Binomial Nomenclature
Notes on Taxonomy

Weds - Thursday
Classification Review
Notes on Cladograms and practice 
Quiz

Week of March 12th

9 WEEKS EXAM - Tuesday (A) and Wednesday (B)

HW:  Study for Exam!

Monday B Day
Origin of Life
Hominid Lab


Tuesday and Wednesday - EXAM

Thursday  A Day
Origin of Life
Hominid Lab

Week of Mar 5th - 9th

Primates and Hominid Evolution
The Brain

EOC "Mock" Exam - March 13 - 14th 

It counts as a Test grade.  

HW 1:  Read pp. 379 - 383, 10 facts
HW 2:  Read pp. 368 - 371, # 1-4, p. 371 Restate
Quiz Thurs/Friday on the brain.  Study pp. 727-728

Monday
Natural Selection Review
Evolution Lab
Test:  Evolution and Natural Selection
EOC Review: Photosynthesis

Tues - Weds
Watch:  What Are Primates?
Powernotes on Hominids
The Brain - label study guide
EOC Review: Cell Membrane and

Thur - Fri
Brain Quiz
Powernotes on Origin of Life
Lab:  Occipital Differences
Watch: The Miller Urey Experiment Stated Clearly
EOC Review:  Meiosis vs. Mitosis and Plant Anatomy

Week of February 26 - March 2nd

MOCK EOC:  Mar 13th - A Day and Mar 14th - B day
                        It counts as a grade.  If you miss it that will be a 0.
                        If you won't be here the week before Spring Break - please plan to take it early!

Evolution and Natural Selection

HW 1: p. 314, # 1-5 Restate
HW 2: Read pp. 328 - 337, 10 facts 
           Study: TEST Fri/Monday on Evolution 

Monday and Tuesday
Building Vocab
Breeding Bunnies lab
EOC Review:  Plant vs Animal Cells

Weds and Thurs
Evidence of Evolution Study Guide

Friday
TEST - Evolution

                 

Week of February 20th

Note:  Your MOCK EOC - which counts as a grade - will be the week of March 12th.  That is the week before Spring Break, so please plan to be at school and take the test!


HW 1:  p. 303, # 1-5  Restate
HW 2:  Read pp. 304 - 314, 10 important facts

Monday - no school

Tuesday and Weds - Begin Natural Selection
Watch:  Darwin's Secret Notebooks

Thursday and Fri
Breeding Bunnies Lab
Factors Affecting Natural Selection

February 12 - 16

Genetics TEST Thursday Friday
HW 1:  p. 207, # 1-6
HW 2: Study Guide - Complete the Vocab Section
         and learn for TEST Thur-Fri


Monday
Finish Genetics and review for TEST

Tues - Weds
Complete the rest of the Study Guide for TEST
Dragon Genetics Lab

Thurs - Fri
TEST on Genetics
Begin:  Natural Section

Week of February 5-9th

 Mendel's Genetics and Beyond

HW 1 and 2:  Bikini Bottom Genetics

Monday
Sex Linked Traits
Dihybrid Crosses
Mutations

Tues - Weds
Pedigrees
Watch Amoeba Sisters: Sex Linked, Pedigrees, Dihybrid Crosses

Thursday - Friday
Biotechnology
Genetics WebQuest Lab

Week of Jan 29th - Feb 2nd

Protein Synthesis TEST

Begin Genetics

HW 1: Read pp. 272 - 285  Write 10 important facts

HW 2: p. 255, # 1-5 and

           Study - TEST on Protein Synthesis  Tues "B" day/Weds "A" day

Monday

Test Review

Study Guide

DNA/RNA Scavenger Hunt 

Tuesday - Wednesday

TEST - Protein Synthesis

Begin Genetics

Genetic Engineering

Thurs - Fri
Incomplete Dominance, color blindness, polygenic traits, pedigrees

Next week - Monday - Tues
Blood types, multiple alleles, dihybrid crosses

Week of Jan 22nd

Protein Synthesis

HW 1:  DNA Crossword
HW 2:  p. 242, # 1-5 and p. 247, # 1-2  Restate all answers.
Watch for a great Test review:  Transcription and Translation

Monday - 1/22 Tues 1/23
Protein Synthesis Powernotes
 and videos

Weds- Thurs 1/24 & 25th
Putting It All Together
Codon Wheels

Friday - Monday
Making Protein Lab

Before next week
Watch:  Exploring Genetics

Week of January 16th

HW 1: Define the 12 highlighted terms pp. 239 - 247 
HW 2: pp. 239 - 247, Write the 10 most important facts you find

Protein Synthesis

Tues - Weds  
Milestones of pregnancy
Test: Reproduction
Finish movie:  Life's Greatest Miracle
Begin DNA Replication Review, p. 238, # 1-3


Thur-Fri 
Transcription of DNA
Protein Synthesis
Watch: Amoeba Sisters: Protein Synthesis

Week of January 9th

HW 1:  Read pp. 788 - 790. Answer # 1-5 on p. 790.  RESTATE
HW 2:  Read pp. 798 - 801.  Write the 10 most important facts you find.


Tuesday - Weds
Complete Reproductive Packet
Begin watching "Life's Greatest Miracle"

Thurs - Fri
Pregnancy Trimesters
Finish" Life's Greatest Miracle"
TEST review and Study Guide

TEST on male and female reproductive anatomy Monday - Tuesday