TUESDAY, JANUARY 20
WELCOME.......
1. Intro to class - student code of conduct, class and lab safety rules, course outline and expectations, rules for critical thinking
2. List examples of the 8 themes of biology
3. Hand out books.
HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 1 and complete the study guide. Return all required forms signed, review Lab Safety Rules for a quiz tomorrow
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
Warm Up: What's the difference between a law and a theory?
1. Take Lab Safety Quiz
2. Review Chapter 1 Studfy Guide: Cell types,emergent properties, feedback regulation, the three domains of life, the unity and diversity of life, and the relationship among science, technology, and society
3. Notes: Scientific Laws and Theories
4. What do You Know about Evolution? .....The Evolution Revolution Quiz
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22
1. SSR: Entry 1: Read and answer Natural Selection and Species Diversity, pp. 138 - 140
2. Notes: The Revolution of Evolution: Descent with Modification
3. Evidence for Evolution - Complete the chart. How many pieces of evidence can you describe?
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
1. Warm Up: Why can't an individual organism evolve?
2. Clipbirds Lab
HOMEWORK: Chapter 24: Origin of Species study guide due Monday
MONDAY, JANUARY 26
1. Warm Up: Ch 24, Origins of Species Study Guide Quiz
2. Work on Clipbirds Analysis
3. Intro to Phylogeny and Natural History of Hardware Lab
HOMEWORK: Chapter 25: Phylogeny and Systematics SG due Tuesday, Clipbird Lab due Wednesday
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27
1. SSR: Entry 2: Read and answer Population Genetics, pp. 158 - 159
2. EvoDevo: Intro to Phylogeny
3. Work on History of Hardware Lab
HOMEWORK: History of Hardware Lab due Friday, Prefix Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow, Evolution Exam Friday
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28
1. Warm Up: Prefix Vocabulary Quiz
2. Complete the chart. How many pieces of evidence can you describe?
3. Work on History of Hardware Lab
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 - EARLY RELEASE
1. SSR: Entry 3: Read and answer Interdependence in Ecosystems, pp 142 - 144
2. Review for Exam tomorrow: Be able to compare and contrast all key terms, understand the premises of Darwin's theory of descent with modification and the basics of population genetics that drive evolution
HOMEWORK: Evolution Exam tomorrow
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30
Evolution Exam
HOMEWORK: Read pp. 523 - 524, Endosymbiotic Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids - Draw Figure 26.13 and take notes
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2
1. Review Theory of Endosymbiosis
2. Powerpoint and notes on Prokaryotes and bacteria
HOMEWORK: Complete Prokaryote section of Domain Comparison Chart
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
1. SSR: Entry 4: Read and answer Earth History, pp. 98 - 100
2. Complete you History of Hardware Lab
HOMEWORK: Hardware Lab due tomorrow
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4
1. Warm Up: Put your Hardware Lab together and turn it in...3 minutes!
2. Notes and PP on Protists
3. Work on you Protist Study Guide
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
1. SSR: Florida Writes! prep- Your prompt today is: Science plays an important role in our lives. How and why? Elaborate using examples, anecdotes, and facts.
2. Notes and PP today- Fun with Fungi an interesting look at diversity, structure, nutritional modes, intimate relationships, and impact that fungi have in our lives
3. Work on your Fungi Study Guide
HOMEWORK: Biological Diversity Study Guide due Monday, Biological Diversity Quiz Tuesday
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6
1. How to Use a Microscope - Before you get to use my equipment, you need to show me that you know how to properly handle it. Practice coarse and fine adjustment, adjust the diaphragm, prepare a slide, determine magnification, and properly draw your observations.
2. Biological Diversity Lab - Take an up close look at the many petite organisms we share this planet with. Prepare a few pond water samples and look for protists. Identify, draw, and label your discoveries.
3. Bacteria are Everywhere - In this activity you will learn to swab for bacteria. Visit your favorite spot on campus and and swab it, then bring it back to plate it. On Monday, we'll see where bacteria lurks on campus.
4. Fun with Fungi - Let's look at a mushroom. Check out the fruiting body and the gills where the spores are produced. We'll leave the mushroom out overnight and check for spore prints in the morning.
HOMEWORK: Biological Diversity Test Tuesday, Complete the Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya Comparison Chart. Your Biological Diversity Study Guide is due Monday.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9
1. Check out our bacterial colonies. No place is safe from bacteria, not even the air around us. Practice bacterial identfication through shape, margins, and surface texture.
2. Fun with Fungi, Part II - Observe the spore print from the mushroom, a perfect imprint of the gills.
3. Marvelous Mold Lab - Observe your bread mold samples under the stereoscopes or compound microscopes. Draw what you see. Label some sporangia, hyphae, and mycelia.
4. Review and grade the Biological Diversity Study Guide in preparation for tomorrow's test.
HOMEWORK: Biological Diversity Test Tuesday
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
1. Biological Diversty Test.
2. Complete any drawings and observations yet to be made on your Diversity Drawings.
HOMEWORK: Diversity Drawings due tomorrow. Download and read the notes for Chapters 30 and 31 on Plant Diversity.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11
1. Notes of Bryophytes and Pterophytes
2. Can you identify moss and fern?
HOMEWORK: Start working on Plant Diversity Study Guide
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12
1. SSR – Read pp 68-69, Relative Motion, do q 1-2
2. Notes on Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, Monocots and Dicots
3. Spot the phyla, identify the class
4. Introduce Plants of South Florida Project, due date March 11
HOMEWORK: Work on Plant Diversity Study Guide, Plant Diversity Vocabualry Quiz tomorrow
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13
1. Plant Diversity Vocabulary Quiz
2. Notes: Alternation of Generations, how plants reproduce
3. Set up Sex in a Dish: Studying the Life Cycles of Fern
HOMEWORK: Plant Diversity Vocabulary Quiz Monday
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Presidents Day !! See you tomorrow
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
1. SSR – Read pp 124-126, Conservation of Mass and Energy in biological Systems, q. 1-2
2. Plant Scavenger Hunt, Part I - Off we go around campus collecting and identifying our local flora and fauna. We’ll discuss the secret sex life of plants, the co-evolution of plants and insects, and unique protective mechanisms of plants. Bring your collections back to the classroom for closer observations HOMEWORK: Plants of South Florida Project, due date March 11
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Plant Scavenger Hunt, Part II – Today you will catalog and draw a sample of each phyla of plants – bryophytes, pterophytes, gymnosperm, and monocots and dicots (angiosperm). Provide a description for each phylum and answer analysis questions.
HOMEWORK: Plant Scavenger Hunt Lab due Friday, Plant Diversity Study Guide due tomorrow
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19
1. SSR – Read 162-166, Effects of Humans on the Environment, do q 1-3
2. Finish working on Plant Lab
3. Grade Plant Diversity Study Guide
HOMEWORK: Plants of South Florida Project, due date March 11, Plant Diversity test tomorrow
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
1. FCAT Pre Test
2. Review Plant Traits Checklist
3. Observe C-Ferns
4. Plant Diversity Quiz
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23
1. FCAT Crunchie – Today we start the 10 day count down to FCATs. All science classes, including us, will be doing last minute prepping during this crunch time. So we start our daily Crunchies… Reaction Rates, pp 40-41, q 1-3
2. Make ups for Plant Diversity Vocabulary Quiz and Plant Diversity Exams
3. Introduction to Plant Structure – Notes on plant organs, tissues, and cells – structures and functions.
HOMEWORK: Work on Plant Structure Study Guide, Complete root diagrams
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
1. FCAT Crunchie – Gravity, pp. 163 – 165, q. 1-4 and pp 181-182, q 1-2
2. Plant Structure Lab – We will spend the next few days examining the three primary organs of the plant, its roots, stems, and leaves under the microscope. Today we start with roots. Prepare a slide with a parsnip transverse section. Stain it with lugol’s solution. Carefully observe the differences among the cells of the epidermis, cortex, and vascular cylinder. Draw what you see. Logul’s is natuarally reddish-brown but turns black in the presence of starch. Which tissue turns black? So what does that mean? Next look at the prepared slide of the monocot and dicot root. How are they similar? Different? Compare them to the images on pgs. 722 and 723 of your text. Draw, label, and complete analysis questions.
HOMEWORK: Complete the stem diagrams and questions on your Plant Study Guide.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25
1. FCAT Crunchie – Energy, pp 189 – 191, q. 1-3
2. Carrot sampling – Look at your carrot. Identify the epidermal tissue, cortex (ground tissue) and vascular cylinder (with xylem and phloem). Does there seem to be a layer between the cortex and vascular cylinder. Consider the functions of each tissue. Now taste just the cortex. Then eat the vascular cylinder. Which tastes sweeter? Which is crunchier? Moister? How does this relate to the parsnip root you examined yesterday?
3. Look at the celery stalk from yesterday. What happened to it? Why?
4. Plant Structure Lab – Stems. Look at the stem slide. Examine the monocot and dicot stem. How are they similar? Different? Compare them to the images on pg. 724 of your text. Draw, label, and complete analysis questions.
HOMEWORK: Work on your Plant Structure Study Guide.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26
1. FCAT Crunchie – Energy Flow, pp 87 – 90 , q. 1–3
Ecosystems and Biomes, pp 91–92, q. 1 – 3
2. Notes on roots, stems, and plant growth
HOMEWORK: Complete the leaf diagrams and questions on your Plant Structure Study Guide.
I will be collecting this week’s FCAT assignments tomorrow. If you are missing any of them, please see me to check out a book overnight.
Chapter 35 Plant Structure Test Tuesday
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
1. FCAT Crunchie – Climate, pp. 158 – 159, Q 1- 4
I AM COLLECTING THIS WEEK’S FCAT ASSIGNMENTS TODAY.
2. Plant Structure Lab – Today’s menu is Leaves. Examine the prepared slide of monocot and dicot leaf cross sections. Draw what you see. How are they similar? Different? Compare them to the images on pg. 725 of your text. Next, take a small section of lettuce leaf, place a few drops of distilled water over it and examine that under the microscope. Look for the stomata. Draw what you see. Add several drops of salt water to the slide. It will take a few minutes for the salt water to affect the cells of the leaf but you should see some definite changes to the plant cells. In the meantime, draw, label, and complete analysis questions.
HOMEWORK: Complete all sections of your Plant Structure Study Guide. Due Monday.
Chapter 35 Plant Structure Test Tuesday
MONDAY, MARCH 2
1. FCAT Crunchie - Plate tectonics, pp 145-147, q 1-4
2. Grade Plant Structure Study Guide
3. Check C-Fern
4. Finish Plant Strucutre Lab
HOMEWORK: Plant Stucture Test Tomorrow!!!! Plant Structure Lab due tomorrow also
DON'T FORGET YOUR PLANTS OF FLORIDA PLANT
PROJECT - DUE 3/11
IF YOU WILL BE OUT FCAT WEEK, YOUR PROJECT IS DUE
NEXT MONDAY, MARCH 9!!!!
TUESDAY, MARCH 3
1. FCAT Crunchie - The Human Body, pp 111-115, q 1-5
2. Plant Structure Test
3. Observe C-Fern spores
HOMEWORK: Label the parts of the flower on your Plant Reproduction Study Guide
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
1. FCAT Crunchie - Cell Cycle and Reproduction, pp 67-69, q. 1-3
2. Plant Reproduction notes
HOMEWORK: Plant Reproduction Study Guide due Friday
THURSDAY, MARCH 5
FCAT Crunchie- Scientific Inquiry pp 1-5, Q. 1-3 and 1-4, Data Interpretation, pp. 6-10, q. 14
2. Seeds and Germination notes
3. Seed Germination Lab - For the past two weeks we've been planting seeds each day in clear plastic baggies creating a kind of "time-lapse" photography of germination. Choose from one of four seed types. Draw a composite of growth for each day. Then compare your seeds' germination rate to the other three plants. Complete the analysis questions.
HOMEWORK: Plant Reproduction Study Guide due tomorrow.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
1. FCAT Crunchie - Waves and Energy, pp 204-206, q 1-2
I'll collect the FCAT Crunchies for the past week today.
2. Complete the Seed Germination Lab
3. Work on the Flower Fertilization activity
4. Review Reproduction Study Guide
HOMEWORK: Plant Reproduction Quiz Monday (chapter 38)
WORK ON YOUR FLORIDA PLANT PROJECT - Due Wednesday!
MONDAY, MARCH 9
1. FCAT Science Post Test
2. Review fertilization activity and germination lab
3. Plant Reproduction Quiz
HOMEWORK: Plant Transport Study Guide - chapter 36 - due Friday
FLORIDA PLANT PROJECT - Due Wednesday!
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
1. Reading FCAT - Do your best!
2. First hour - see you Friday
Fourth hour - Introduction to Transport in Plants - Today we'll cover transpiration and model hydrogen bonds in water, adhesion, cohesion, water potential, and osmosis.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
Math FCAT - Do your best!
Turn in your Plant Project
See you Friday.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12
Science FCAT - Do your best
FRIDAY, MARCH 13
Catch up day! We'll explore transpiration through a number of activities, modeling diffusion, passive, and active transport, bending water, cohesion, adhesion, and capillary action. Along the way we'll figure out how water moves into the roots of a plant, up the stem, and eventually evaportate out the stomates. A good review for 4th hour, an intro for 1st.
MONDAY, MARCH 16
1. You wake up one morning and have been transformed into a molecule of wate. Oh no...you're headed for a root hair! Describe, naming cellular structures and processes along the way, the path from
A. the soil to the root hair
B. the root hair through the cortex and into the vascular bundle
C. the bottom of the xylem tube to a stomate on a leaf
2. Notes on translocation (how glucosse moves through the phloem) and how glucose gets loaded into and out of phloem.
TUESDAY, MARCH 17
Sorry, I'll be at jury duty today.
1. Open note quiz on Transport in Plants
2. Begin working on the Chapter 39 Study Guide, Plant Responses and Hormones.
HOMEWORK: Chapter 39 Study Guide due Monday
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18
1. Notes on Plant hormones and response to light.
2. See The Private Life of Plants: Plant Defenses
I'll be at the National Science Teachers Conference Thursday and Friday. See you guys Monday. In the meantime, start reviewing for your midterm. Also check on Pinnacle to make sure all your grades are up to date.
THURSDAY, MARCH 19
1. Work on your Chapter 39 Study Guide, Plant Responses and Hormones.
2. Begin preparing your cheat sheet for the midterm.
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
1. Work on your Chapter 39 Study Guide, Plant Responses and Hormones. 2. Begin preparing your cheat sheet for the midterm. HOMEWORK: Chapter 39 Study Guide due Monday
MONDAY, MARCH 23
Review study guide and begin review for midterm.
TUESDAY, MARCH 24
Review for midterm.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
1st period - Midterm
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
4th period midterm.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
Day off - Planning Day!
BEGIN SECOND SEMESTER
Wow, time sure flies when you’re having fun! Nine more weeks until the end of another great school year! So far in Biology II we’ve explored five of the six kingdoms of life; bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, and plants. We’ve saved the biggest and the best for last because this semester is devoted to the study of animals. We’ll start with an overview of classification and evolutionary trends then look at some of the tissue structures found in all animals. Then we’ll wend our way through the various systems that support and sustain animals, touching on all the phyla of animals but focusing on the chordates, particularly on mammals. We’ll support our studies through a series of comparative dissections. It should be a semester to remember!
MONDAY, MARCH 30
1. Introduction to the animal kingdom: What organisms are included in the animal kingdom? What are the unique characteristics (we biologists call them unique derived characteristics) that all animals possess?
2. Modeling the embryonic development of animals. We’ll “claymate” the stages of embryonic development, the first steps of development from the moments after fertilization through the beginnings of differentiation (cells taking on their unique functions. What’s so interesting about this process? Governed by your DNA, HOX genes to be exact that are identical in every animal, this process sets up the foundation for the development of every zygote into a fully functioning, breathing, living animal.
3. Take notes on what we’ve modeled and draw the diagram on page 627, labeling each stage.
4. How are animals further organized once this basic foundation has been laid? Let’s examine the range of body plans, tissue layers, body cavities, and developmental modes that exist in the animal kingdom. These four characteristics govern the classification of the animal kingdom.
HOMEWORK: Take notes on Chapter 32: 32.1, Embryonic Development, 32.2, the history of animals on Earth, 32.3, Animal Body Plans, 32.4, Hypothetical phylogenetic trees. Due tomorrow.
TUESDAY, MARCH 31
1. Review embryonic development.
2. Classifying animals. What do taxonomists consider when classifying the millions of different species of animals? We’ll examine two views of the animal phylogenetic tree, one based on morphology and embryology, the other on DNA. You will then draw your own phylogenetic tree and place the various developmental markers discussed yesterday on the appropriate spots on the tree.
HOMEWORK: Phylogenetic tree due Thursday
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
Complete your phylogenetic tree.
HOMEWORK: Complete the chart, Comparing Major Invertebrate Phyla. This represents your notes for chapter 33. Invertebrates, due Friday.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Early release day.
1. 10 minute quiz – Complete the Animal Organization Chart. You may use your phylogenetic tree for assistance.
2. Get a laptop and CD. Open the CD to chapter 33, section 33.8, Characteristics of Invertebrates activity. Use the activity to check and correct your Animal Organization Chart.
3. Explore the video clips on the CD and the specimen samples in the room.
HOMEWORK: Animal Diversity Exam tomorrow. This will be a practicum so know your stuff!
FRIDAY, APRIL 3
1. 20 minute exploration – you may explore the phyla specimens located around the room. Consider and discuss the questions posted at each station.
2. Animal Diversity Exam.
3. Invertebrate video wrap-up.
HAVE A GREAT SPRING BREAK.
ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS, FAMILIES, AND FRIENDS.
MONDAY, APRIL 13
Welcome back!
1. New this semester --- Word of the Day --- Today’s word: Abash
2. Turn in your two Animal Organization Charts (one on classification, one on systems). If anyone needs to make up the Animal Diversity Exam, you have until tomorrow to do so.
3. Intro to the chordate phylum. Complete the Chordate Comparison chart.
4. Begin a Daily Food Journal. List the food, brand, and amount for everything you eat for 7 days. Go to www.nat.uiuc.edu and begin inputting your meals on a daily basis.
HOMEWORK: Go online. Find and print out 2 pictures of animals that represent each of the 10 subphyla, classes, and order listed on your Chordate Comparison chart. You will be working with these 20 pictures in class tomorrow. Arrange your photos in pairs and leave enough space to write some notes. You can probably do this in 2 – 3 pages.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14
1. Today’s word: Abate
2. How are chordates classified? Take out your pictures from last night. Organize them, if not already arranged, in pairs. For each pair, list the subphylum and class (For urochordata and cephalochordate, just subphylum is fine.). Then circle or highlight the derived character for that clade and describe it in words. If the derived character cannot be observed from the photo, say amniotic sac or milk, draw a representation of it near the pictures.
HOMEWORK: Chordate Comparison chart and Chordate Pictures due tomorrow.
--- Also, start working on Chapter 40, Animal Form and Function notes – due Friday
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15
1. Today’s word: Abide
2. Review chordate derived characters and advantages.
3. Tissue Lab
HOMEWORK: Chapter 40 notes due Friday, keep working on your Food Journal, Chapters 34 (Chordates) and 40 (Animal Form and Function) Test Tuesday
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
1. Today’s word: Ablution
2. Notes on Bioenergetics, cell needs, and metabolism
3. Surface area vs Volume Lab
HOMEWORK: Chapter 40 notes due tomorrow, keep working on your Food Journal, Chapters 34 (Chordates) and 40 (Animal Form and Function) Test Tuesday
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
1. Today’s word: Abstract
2. First Dissection! Crayfish dissection
HOMEWORK: Crayfish dissection due Thursday, keep working on your Food Journal, Chapters 34 (Chordates) and 40 (Animal Form and Function) Test Tuesday
MONDAY, APRIL 20
1. Today’s word: Accountable
2. Why maintain internal balance? What factors affect homeostasis?
3. Draw an example of a positive feedback system and a negative feedback system. Label the receptor, control center, and effector.
4. Complete Surface Area vs Volume lab.
HOMEWORK: Chordate/Animal Form and Function Test tomorrow, Chapter 42, Digestion notes due Wednesday, Food Inventory due Wednesday, Crayfish Lab due Thursday
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
1. Today’s word: Accrue
2. Chordate/Animal Form and Function Test
3. Introduction to Digestion – Focus on the themes- Regulation, Form and Function, Evolution, and Continuity and Change – KWL – What do you know about digestion?
HOMEWORK: Chapter 42, Digestion notes due tomorrow, Food Inventory due Wednesday, Crayfish Lab due Thursday
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
1. Today’s word: Acme
2. Digestion Quiz
3. Bob the Body gives us a tour of the digestive system
4. Begin your life size digestive system drawing: Work in pairs, trace your torso from upper thigh to the ears. Draw to scale the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine, liver, gall bladder, and pancreas. Label all organs. Also label the sdalivary glands, cardiac and pyloric shpincter, villi, duodenum, appendix, and rectum. Describe the functions of all labels items. Include info on peristalsis, acid chyme, amylase, pepsin, trypsin, nucleases, bile, and lipase.
HOMEWORK: Food Inventory extension - due Monday, Crayfish Lab due tomoorw
THURSDAY, APRIL 23 – EARLY RELEASE AND TAKE YOUR CHILD TO WORK DAY
1. Today’s word: Addict
2. Continue working on your model – due tomorrow
HOMEWORK: Chapter 42: Circulation and Digestion Notes due Tuesday
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
1. Today’s word: Adherent
2. Complete your model.
3. Complete the Themes Chart: Digestive System Themes – Regulation, Form and Function, Evolution, and Continuity and Change
4. Digestion Quiz: Part 2
HOMEWORK: Chapter 42: Circulation and Digestion Notes due Tuesday
MONDAY, APRIL 27
1. Today’s word:
2. Earthworm Dissection
HOMEWORK: Chapter 42: Circulation and Digestion Notes due tomorrw, Earthworm dissection due Thursday
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
1. Today’s word: Aesthetic
2. Digestion Quiz
3. Complete a structure – function chart for the following structures of the circulatory system
Atria --- Ventricles --- Septum --- Aorta --- Arteries --- Capillaries --- Veins --- Red Blood Cells --- White
Blood Cells --- Platelets
4. Draw a fish, amphibian, reptile, and mammal heart (see page 870) Label the left and right atria, left and right ventricle, pulmonary artery and vein, aorta, septum, and capillaries. Describe how the overall structure of each circulatory system is suited to the animal’s environment and mode of obtaining oxygen
HOMEWORK: Chapter 42: Circulation notes due Thursday, Earthworm dissection due Friday
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29
1. Today’s word: Agog
2. Question: Is the fish circulatory system more primitive? Less efficient? What roles have the environment and energy modes played in the development of the circulatory system?
3. Organizing information – Complete the blood vessel chart – compare arteries, capillaries, and veins in terms of direction of flow (from where?, to where?) and structure (how many tissue layers? Valves? Thickest? Thinnest?)
HOMEWORK: Chapter 42: Circulation notes due tomorrow, Earthworm dissection due Friday, Chapter 42: Respiration notes due Monday
BRING IN PLASTIC WATER, GATORADE, OR SODA BOTTLES FOR MONDAY
THURSDAY, APRIL 30
1. Today’s word: Ambivalent
2. Heart Rate Lab
HOMEWORK: Earthworm dissection due Friday, Chapter 42: Respiration notes due Monday
Seniors: Enjoy Grad Bash. See you Monday
FRIDAY, MAY 1
1. Today’s word: Ambulatory
2. Catch up day: Complete the Heart Rate Lab, Complete I Love My Heart – Coloring the pathway of blood
HOMEWORK: Chapter 42: Respiration notes due Monday
MONDAY, MAY 4
1. Today’s word: Ancillary
2. Make your own working lung! Cut out the bottom of your bottle. Cut a circle from the plastic bags approximately two inches greater in diameter than the bottom of your bottle. Place the bag over the open bottom and secure with a rubber band. Cut your straw in two and push one piece through each of the two openings in the two hole rubber stopper. Place a balloon over the end of each straw (narrow end of the stopper) and secure with rubber bands. Insert the stopper into the top of the bottle. Pull down on the plastic bag and watch your “lungs” inflate! Then answer the lab questions.
3. Guided notes on the structure-function relationship of the respiratory organs, pathway of oxygen from the air to a somatic cell, mechanics of breathing (variations in pressure).
HOMEWORK: Circulation, Respiration, and Digestion Test tomorrow.
TUESDAY, MAY 5
1. Today’s word: Animated
2. Circulation, Respiration, and Digestion Test
3. Work on chapter 44 notes, Osmoregulation and Excretion. Use the Chapter 44 Guide for note taking.
HOMEWORK: Chapter 44: Osmoregulation and Excretion notes due Friday
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6
1. Today’s word: Animosity
2. Let’s exam Bob the Body’s excretory system as we take notes. What is osmoregulation? What type of waste product does Bob produce? What organs are included in his excretory system? How does his waste and his organs compare to that of other species? How is the structure of the kidney and nephron uniquely adapted to filter out wastes and reabsorb important materials? What roles do osmolarity and diffusion, osmosis, and active transport play in excretion?
HOMEWORK: Chapter 44: Osmoregulation and Excretion notes due Friday, Perch Dissection tomorrow- dress appropriately.
THURSDAY, MAY 7
1. Today’s word: Annals
2. Perch Dissection!!!!
HOMEWORK: Chapter 44: Osmoregulation and Excretion notes due tomorrow. Perch dissection due Wednesday
FRIDAY, MAY 8
1. Today’s word: Annex
2. Kidnesy conversations: What are three function of the kidney? What is the primary filtering unit of the kidney?
2. Draw a nephron. Use an entire 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper. Label the Bowman’s capsule. proximal tubule, descending loop of Henle, ascending loop of Henle, distal tubule, and collecting duct. Color the outer, mid, and inner cortex yellow, blue, and red respectively. Note the osmolarity of each section. Now you’re ready for today’s lab.
3. Nephron Lab. Follow the procedures. Write a few sentences regarding the events that occur in each of the 6 sections of the nephron.
HOMEWORK: Perch dissection due Wednesday. Osmoregulation Quiz Tuesday.
MONDAY, MAY 11
1. Today’s word: Apex
2. Finish Kidney Lab report and turn in.
3. Review Osmoregulation Quiz tomorrow.
HOMEWORK: Perch dissection due Wednesday. Osmoregulation Quiz tomorrow.
TUESDAY, MAY 12
1. Today’s word: Appease
2. Osmoregulation Quiz
3. Introduction to the Endocrine System: What is the endocrine system? What are the organs of the endocrine system? What are the functions of the endocrine system? Why do you do “hormonal”?
HOMEWORK: Chapter 45: Endocrine system Notes – make a chart of all human hormones, the glands they come from, and their function. Due Friday.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
1. Today’s word: Armament
2. Cell Communication notes and demonstration. How do cells actually communicate? What is a stimulus, a signal transduction pathway, and a response? How do hormones “know” which organs to stimulate? Today we’ll explore the complex but fascinating world of hormones and the endocrine system. We’ll compare the two systems our bodies use for communication, the endocrine and nervous systems and learn how surface proteins of hormones form unique shapes that ‘fit” onto the surface of their target organs.
3. Let’s play telephone. A simple game of telephone can help illustrate a typical simple hormone signal transduction pathway.
4. Find your glands. List one gland on each of your post-it notes. Place them on your body at each glandular site. Compare with your partner to self correct and memorize.
5. Hormone “Set”cards. Cut each of 3 sheets of paper into 10 equal sections. These will be your “Set” cards. Each card will contain one piece of information. List the names of the hormones (20) on each of 20 cards. List their functions on another set of cards. List their glands on a third set of cards. Now mix up your cards. Place twenty cards on the table, information side up. Take turns trying to match up ormones-glands-unctions. Whenever you do match asset of cards, remove them from the table and add three more cards. The person with the most cards at the end is the winner.
HOMEWORK: Chapter 45: Endocrine system Notes – make a chart of all human hormones, the glands they come from, and their function. Due Friday. Frog Dissection tomorrow – dress accordingly.
THURSDAY, MAY 14
1. Today’s word: Ascribe
2. Frog dissection!!! Cool!!!!!
HOMEWORK: Chapter 45: Endocrine system Notes due tomorrow. Frog dissection due Wednesday.
FRIDAY, MAY 15
I will be out today – sorry. I’m sure you will do just fine.
1. Today’s word: Asinine
2. Endocrine Disorders – Complete “At the Clinic” and other endocrine activities today.
HOMEWORK: Frog dissection due Wednesday.
NOTE: Seniors, this is your last week of school. Please make sure you have your Final study Guide and are working on your one page “cheat sheet”. As for midterms, you can include as much as you can fit on the 81/2 x 11 sheet, front and back, as long as it is handwritten.
3rd and 4th period finals – Friday
1st and 2nd period finals – Tuesday
Return Books to avoid obligations and graduation delays!
MONDAY, MAY 18
Out again. Oh well. Work on your notes.
1. Today’s word: Assail
2. Chapter 43: Immune System Notes and vocabulary. There’s a lot of vocabulary associated with the immune system. Define all terms. Vocabulary quiz Friday.
TUESDAY, MAY 19
1. Today’s word: Atone
2. Notes on Innate Immunity. Today we begin our tour of the immune system. There’s a lot to cover as you learned from your vocabulary list yesterday. What’s the difference between innate and acquired immunity? How does your skin provide the first line of defense? What happens if external barriers are breached? What are the different types of white blood cells involved in non-specific defenses and how do they work?
HOMEWORK: Review chapter 43 notes and the vocabulary list. Vocabulary Quiz Friday.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
1. Today’s word:
2. Test corrections for Digestion, Respiration, and Circulation test due by the end of the period. You know the routine.
HOMEWORK: Review chapter 43 notes and the vocabulary list. Vocabulary Quiz Friday.
THURSDAY, MAY 21
1. Today’s word:
2. Notes on Acquired Immunity. What is acquired immunity and how do we acquire it? There are two specific acquired immune responses, the cell-mediated response and the humoral response. Why do we need two systems? How do these two systems work? What is a vaccine and how does it produce active immunity? Why do we need booster shots?
HOMEWORK: Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow.
FRIDAY, MAY 22
4th Hour Seniors - Finals
1. Today’s word: Attrition
2. Vocabulary Quiz
3. Compare and Contrast the following terms
Nonspecific Defenses Specific Defenses
Innate Immunity Acquired Immunity
Complement Proteins Interferon
Leukocyte Lymphocyte
Antigen Antibody
B Cell T Cell
Plasma Cell Memory Cell
Helper T cell Cytotoxic T Cell
Anitobody Mediated Immunity Cell Mediated Immunity
Immune Response Autoimmune Response
Passive Immunity Active Immunity
Histamine Cytokine
Primary Response Secondary Response
Epitope Antigen Receptor
HOMEWORK: Complete Comparison Chart and check out this website: www.nhscience.lonestar.edu/biol/animatio.html Click on Anatomy and Physiology II, then on Lymphatic/Immune. View the videos sponsored by Harvard Education, The Cancer Institute, and McGraw Hill.
TUESDAY, MAY 26
1st Hour Seniors - Finals
1. Today’s word: Augment
2. The nervous system! How is the nervous system organized? Create a graphic organizer including the central and peripheral nervous systems, the somatic and autonomic nervous systems, and the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric divisions. Along the way explain the role of each.
3. Draw a sensory pathway. Label the sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons and describe the function of each. Then label the dendrite, cell body, and axon, the myelin sheath, and the nodes of Ranvier. Again, describe the function of each
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27
1. Today’s word: Baleful
2. Draw the brain. Include the brainstem, cerebellum, diencephalon, and cerebrum. Identify the medulla oblongata, pons, and midbran; the thalamus, hypothalamus, and pineal gland; and the frontal, temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes. See if you can throw in the corpus callosum. Add the functions of each of the lobes. List the functions of each section of the brain.
3. Psych students, help me out! What are neurotransmitters? Name them and tell the rest of the class what they do. Make a list of neurotransmitters and note what each one does.
4. What are some neurological disorders? We’ll discuss depression, schizophrenia, alzheimers, and Parkinson’s disease.
THURSDAY, MAY 28
1. Today’s word: Balk
2. More nervous system notes. How are messages transmitted? Today we’ll study action potentials, that's how impulses travel from sensory organ to brain to effector (responding) organ. Draw an action potential as recorded by a voltmeter and label and describe the functions for each section. We’ll view several clips to help us with this concept, http://www.dnatube.com/video/1105/Action-potential and .http://www.dnatube.com/video/1364/Action-Potential--Epilepsy . You might want to watch them again tonight.
3. I’m an Action Potential model. You will each play a role in the life of a neuron; a dendrite, cell body, axon, Na+, K+, synapse.
HOMEWORK: Know your vocabulary: membrane potential, resting potential, depolarization, threshold, action potential, refractory period, hyperpolarization, gated ion channel. Rat Dissection tomorrow – dress accordingly
FRIDAY, MAY 29
1. Today’s word: Bandy
2. Rat dissection!!! Whoa!!!
HOMEWORK: Rat dissection due Tuesday. Label the eye and ear and describe the function of each for Monday.
MONDAY, JUNE 1
1. Today’s word: Barage
2. Senses day…a slew of senses labs await us today
TUESDAY, JUNE 2
1. Today’s word: Battery
2. Final Review. You can work on your cheat sheet and ask me questions today.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3
Final Exam – 1st period. Good luck! Have a great summer!
THURSDAY, JUNE 4
Final Exam – 4th period. Good luck! Have a great summer!