Pre-AP BIOLOGY – 2015-2016

Teachers: ALCORIZA, CANTRELL, SCOTT

MONDAY / TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY / THURSDAY / FRIDAY
AUG-24 / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28
HO: Safety contract, syllabus, technology policy, notebook format
Teacher Introduction!
HW: Begin Notes on Chapters 1 and 2 in online textbook.
HW: Study for lab safety quiz, 8/26/13 / Go over class rules and requirements
HW: Study for safety quiz
Pick up any signed syllabus and safety contract / Pick up any signed syllabus and safety contract
Instructions on Interactive Notebooks
Get To Know Me survey (also troubleshoot computer use)
HW: Pre-assessment (HUB)
HW:HUB Lab Safety Test / Pre-Lab: Scientific Method – Diagrams of Independent/Dependent Variables; Design Detectives
HO: Lab Report Template – glue into notebook
HW: Design Detectives, due 8/29/14 / DUE: Design Detectives
Discussion: Design Detectives
Activity: Design Your Own Lab
AUG-31 / SEP-1 / 2 / 3 / 4
Trials: Design Your Own Lab
Make HW folders for files
Get ProCard: materials for McMush, dishwasher detergent, gummy bears, bubbles, purple onion, shrink dink / DUE: Design Your Own Lab Report
Begin Unit 1: Biomolecules
Video: Intro to Biochemistry (4 min)
Biomolecules: Carbs and Proteins (PPT or Prezi) / Biomolecules: Properties of Lipidsand Nucleic Acids(PPT or Prezi) / Lab: Identifying Organic Compounds (McMush) / Lab: Identifying Organic Compounds (McMush)
Quiz Grade: Part V. ID unknown substance
Video: Hamburger shrinking (denaturing)
HW: Lab Report
SEP-7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11
Labor Day
/ DUE: McMush Conclusion Questions
Properties of enzymes (PPT or Prezi)
  • Use pool noodle manipulatives
/ Reading Quiz: Characteristics of Life, Biomolecules, and enzymes
Lab: Hydrogen Peroxide Breakdown / Characteristics of Life, SM, and Biomolecules Review Stations: card sort, etc.
Reteach identified areas of weakness from quiz
Crashcourse video: Biomolecules as review
HW:Begin notes on ??? / Unit 1 Test: Characteristics of Life, Sci Method, and Biomolecules
Notebook check!
HW: Bring in something that represents assigned organelle FUNCTION; Cell Job and Its Functions Chartdue 9/14/15
SEP-14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18
Test Review
DUE: Organelle representative
Begin Unit 2: Cell Structure & Function
Warm-Up: List as many of the organelles as you can in 2 min.
From Fri HW: Describe how assigned organelle functions (get them to debate importance) / Gummy Bear Osmosis set up
Lab: Cell Membrane Bubble! / DUE: Movement Handout
Lecture while gummy bears sit: Movement through cell boundaries
HW: movement handout
HW: Microscope parts and use / Microscope Use – show me
Lab: Plasmolyzed purple onion / Quiz: Card Sort Organelles
Shrinky Dinks! (finish as HW)
SEP-21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25
Unit 2 Test: Cell Structure & Function
HW: Notes CH / Test Review
Begin Unit 3: Cell Growth and Differentiation
Lab: Cell Size – part 1 only
PPT: Cell Growth and Differentiation
Early Dismissal / Fall Holiday
/ PPT: Chromosomes and Cell Cycle
Crashcourse Mitosis
HW: Mitosis Foldable
HW: Units 1-3 Project, Due 10/5 / DUE: Mitosis Foldable
Warm-Up: 3x3 Cell Cycle Cards
Lab: Mitosis (large prints or microscope)
HW: Lab Report
SEP-28 / 29 / 30 / OCT-1 / 2
DUE: Lab Report
Post-Lab Review
Reading Quiz: Mitosis
Begin Regulation and Disruption (cancer) slides
HW: Cancer Warrior Video with questions / DUE: Cancer Warrior Video
Begin Meiosis / The Amazing Sperm Race
HW: Mitosis & Meiosis WS / DUE: Mitosis & Meiosis WS
Reading Quiz: Meiosis
Review Day / Unit 3 Test: Cell Growth & Differentiation
Notebook check!
OCT-5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9
DUE: Units 1-3 Project (8:30)
Project Presentations
Virus Graffiti Wall
HW: Unit 4 Packet / Begin Unit 4: Viruses
Video: Battlefield Cell / Finish Battlefield Cell
Facilitated Discussion of Hot Zone and Recent Ebola Outbreak
HW: Reading Quiz Hot Zone Parts 1 & 2 / Video: PBS (30 minutes) OR discussion of lytic/lysogenic cycles
HW: Reading Quiz Hot Zone Parts 3 & 4 / DUE: Unit 4 Packet
Patient Zero Activity
OCT-12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16
Going Viral Backpack activity / Going Viral Presentations
Review Day: Viruses on Kahoot! / Unit 4 Test: Viruses
Notebook Check!
HW: Notes on Chapter 12 / Test Review
Begin Unit 5: DNA STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
Intro: NOVA Cracking the Code (15 minutes)
Start Video: Secret of Photo 51 / Finish video: Secret Photo 51
HUB: Video quiz
Unit 5.1 Slides (DNA components and genetic code)
HW: Homecoming King and Queen of DNA (QR code) – due 10/21
OCT-19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23
  • DUE @ 8:30AM: Homecoming King and Queen of DNA poster
  • Unit 5.2 Slides
  • HW: POGIL Workbook HO – DNA Struc. & Replic
/
  • DUE: POGIL HO
  • Peer-review in class
  • Gallery Walk and voting: Homecoming King and Queen
  • Crashcourse Biology: DNA
  • HW: Pre-lab handout (Requires online access) – due 10/21
/
  • DUE: Pre-lab handout
  • Demo: extracting DNA from strawberries
  • Lab: DNA Extraction
  • HW: Gel Cap Activity
/ Test: Unit 5 - DNA Structure & Function
Notebook Check!
HW: Begin Notes on Chapter 13.1, 13.2, and 13.4 / Begin Unit 6: Transcription & Translation
Begin Transcription
HW: DNA vs. RNA HO, RNA Worksheet
End of Cycle 1
OCT-26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30
DUE: DNA/RNA handouts
Finish Transcription slides
Transcription Activity Stations:
  • Transcription model Competition
HW: Think of short message without letters B J O U X or Z and put it into DNA code / DUE: Short message
Begin Translation
HW: Translate your message / In-Class: Protein Synthesis Practice Worksheets, finish as HW
Early Dismissal
Cycle 1 Grades Due / Reading Quiz: Protein Synthesis
Fold-It ( – need laptops
Activity: SNORK / DUE: SNORK
Codon Bingo (2 rounds)
Assembly Schedule
Pep Rally
Report Cards Go Out
NOV – 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
PPT: Gene Regulation & Expression
Bozeman video: gene regulation
HW: 13.4 Gene Regulation HO / DUE: 13.4 Gene Regulation HO
Review Day (outside!):
  • Gene Regulation Card Sort
  • Other activity?
HW: Notes on Chapters 13.3 & 14 / Begin Unit 7: Mutations
Mutations PPT slides 1-12
Begin “Ghost in Your Genes” video / Finish Ghost in Your Genes
Due at end of class: Video Questions
Reading Quiz: Mutations / Lab: Monstrous Mutations
HW: Post-Lab Questions
NOV-9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13
DUE: Monstrous Mutations Post-lab questions
Reading karyotypes and Disorders PPT slides 13-19
Karyotypes and mutations at learn.genetics.utah.edu
HO: Chart of karyotype disorders / Go over Karyotype review handouts in class
Human Heredity – sex-linked, etc. / Creating/Reading Pedigrees
Activity: Pedigree mystery / Activity: Mutations (Gene You)
Demo: DNA fingerprinting and electrophoresis / Read electrophoresis results
Review Day! Protein Synthesis, Gene Regulation, and Mutations
NOV-16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
  • Test: Units 6 & 7
  • Notebook Check!
/ Test Review
Begin GATTACA / GATTACA
Early Dismissal /
  • GATTACA
/
  • GATTACA

NOV-23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
GATTACA
GATTACA Discussion
Cycle 2 project: Selections due in class 12/2/14; project due 12/9/14 by 8:30am / Begin Unit 8: Genetic Combinations
Genetics Intro Prezi
HW: Bozeman Science video w/questions - Mendel and inheritance / Thanksgiving / Thanksgiving / Thanksgiving
NOV-30 / DEC-1 / 2 / 3 / 4
  • Gene You Complex Traits Activity 1, 2 and 3 (dogs!)
/ Reading Quiz: Chapter 11
Gene You Activity 4 & 5 / Dihybrid crosses (FOIL)
HW: Monohybrid/Dihybrid crosses practice w/ Bozeman tutorial / Lab: genetic combinations (easter egg activity), PTC test/physical traits frequency per class / Reading Quiz: Chapter 15
Cycle 2 Project Work Day OR introduce Chi-square???!
DEC-7 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12
  • Review Day Unit 8
/ DUE: Cycle 2 Project
Test: Unit 8
Notebook Check!
HO: Fall Semester Final Study Guide / Test Review
Review Units 1-4 Kahoot! / Review Units 5-8 Kahoot! / Finals Study Day (Guide)
DEC-14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18
  • Finals Study Day (Guide)
/ FINALS / FINALS / FINALS / FINALS
End of Cycle 2
DEC-21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25
Winter Break! / Winter Break! / Winter Break! / Winter Break! / Winter Break!
DEC-28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / JAN-1
Winter Break! / Winter Break! / Winter Break! / Winter Break! / Winter Break!
Jan-4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Teacher Prep Day / Scott Handout: Scott’s Quick Reference for class
Welcome back
Symphony of Science video (The Greatest Show on Earth)
Graffiti wall: Natural Selection / Begin Unit 9: Natural Selection (CH 16)
Examples Intro PPT
Slides: Misconceptions / Quiz: Unit 9 (CH 16)
Short Lecture: Natural Selection At Work and Genetic Variation and Population Genetics / Lab: Survival of the Fittest (use pony beads instead of skittles)
12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16
DUE: Lab Conclusion Questions
PBS antibiotic resistance video (real player)
Tutorial:CrashCourse Video: Natural Selection / Begin Units 10-11: Evolution (CH 17-18)
Evolution in 60 seconds video
Slides Evidence of Evolution
HW: Evolution Concept Map / Finish Evidence of Evolution Slides
HW: Evidence of Evolution HO / Peer-review evolution concept map
Peer-review Evidence of Evolution
Lab: Mating Games Part 1 – Random Mating of Heterozygotes / Reading Quiz: Units 10-11
Lab: Mating Games Part 2 – Genetic Drift incl. bottleneck and founder effect
Virtual Lab: Molecular Connection
19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23
MLK Day
/ Lab: Mating Games Part 3 – Lethal Recessive Allele
Discussion: Card Shuffle
Hardy-Weinberg video / Lab: Mating Games Part 4 – Heterozygote Advantage
Introduce Hardy-Weinberg Principle and calculations for Analysis of Parts 1-4
Tutor: Hardy-Weinberg video
HW: Mating Games Conclusion Questions / Reading Quiz: 17.3 & 17.4
Due: Mating Games Questions – Peer-Review
Review H-W calculations and reteach if needed
 / Review Units 10 & 11
HHMI Asteroid video/kt boundary in TX
Crashcourse: Evolution
SciShow: Mass Extinctions

26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30
Begin Unit 12: Classification
Intro slide: Evolution of cell phone (group work)
CH 18 PPT: Taxonomy background, taxa, phylogeny, dichotomous key intro
HW: POGIL HO / Activity: dichotomous key using “Wacky People” activity – contest: first lab group to finish wins.
Crashcourse video:Taxonomy
 / DUE: POGIL worksheets
Continue CH 18 PPT/Notes
Real-world example of changing classification after DNA: red pandas/giant pandas
Early Dismissal / Reading Quiz: Unit 12
Go over POGIL worksheets
Finish CH 18 PPT / Classification Review
(2-3 station competition for groups)
  • Activity: Great clade race
  • Activity: Shark Dich.Key Worksheet

Feb – 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Test: Units 9- 12 Classification / Begin Unit 13: Homeostasis(CH 7.4)
Bozeman prezi on Homeostasis (several embedded videos) / Feedback mechanisms / Reading Quiz: Unit 13
Lab: Homeostasis – wall sits, stairs and heart rate, breathing, etc. / Lab: Holey-Moley Stomata
Start in Class: Why are Plants Green?/Why are Plants Not Always Green?HW: Valentine Cards
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13
DUE: Why are Plants Green/Not Green?
DUE: Stomata Lab
Begin Unit 14: Bio Processes in Plants and Animals
Go over homework in class / Photosynthesis: Light, Pigments, Light-Dependent Reactions / Quiz: Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis: Light-Independent Reactions / Inquiry lab “Sinkers and Floaters” / Valentine Card Presentation
HW: Notes on Chapter 8 and 9
Assembly Schedule
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
Cellular Respiration: Glycolysis
HW: Chloroplast and Mito Packet
 / DUE: Chloroplast and Mito Packet – peer review in class
Cellular Respiration: Kreb’s Cycle & ETC; Fermentation / Reading Quiz: Cellular Respiration
Activity: 3 Stooges
In-Class Activity: Venn Diagrams / Units 13 & 14 Review Cont. / Test: Units 13 & 14
HW: Notes CH 23
Handout – leaves, stems, roots chart
23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
Begin Unit 15: Bio Systems in Plants and Animals
Lab (microscopes) – drawing monocot vs. dicot tissue
HW: Bring flower for Thursday!
HW: Notes CH 24
HW: Angiosperm and Transport Handout for videos / Lab: Up, Up and Away! Transpiration / Plants- Reproduction
Video: Angiosperm Repro (8:49-14:03 for fertilization)
HW: Design a Seed, due 2/27/15
Handout: Angiosperm repro cycle
Early Dismissal / Lab: Flower Dissection / DUE: Design-A-Seed
DAS trials
HW: Notes CH 27 & 28
Mar – 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Reading Quiz: Plants
Plants: Hormones & Response
 / Plants: Adaptations and Communication / Begin Animal Systems
Animals – Digestion & Excretion
 / Animals – Circulation & Respiration
 / Animals – Reproduction

9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13
Reading Quiz: Animals
Animals – Response & Movement & Support / Animals – Immune System
Video: Why are you still alive? / Review Unit 15
Video: Bio Systems / Test: Unit 15 / End of Cycle 3
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
 /  /  /  / 
23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
Pre-Lab: Forensic Pig Dissection
HW: Forensic Pig Dissection Pre-lab video *if not completed by 3/11, don’t get to start the lab / Forensic Pig Dissection / Forensic Pig Dissection
Cycle 3 Grades Due / Forensic Pig Dissection / Forensic Pig Dissection
HW: Notes Chapter 3
30 / 31 / Apr – 1 / 2 / 3
STAAR English I / Post-Lab: Forensic Pig Dissection – Quiz and Discussion
HW: Notes on Chapter 3! / STAAR Engliss II (Soph)
Begin Unit 16: Matter and Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Intro PPT: Food chain, Food Web, / PPT: Ecological Pyramid
Classwork: 3D Pyramid
Early Dismissal / Spring Holiday

6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
DUE: 3D Pyramid
Group Discussion Activity: POGIL - Food Webs and Energy Pyramids, due at end of class
Activity: Carbon Cycle / DUE: Carbon Cycle Activity
Activity: Nitrogen Cycle / DUE: Nitrogen Cycle Activity
Animation: Phosphorus Cycle
Class/HW: Biogeochemical Chart / DUE: Biogeochemical Chart
Reading Quiz: Unit 16
Crashcourse Video
Peer Review: Chart
HW: Notes on Chapter 4 / Bear, Fish, Mosquito!
Group Debate/Discussion: Environmental Changes and Ecosystem Stability Scenarios
13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17
Test: Unit 16 / Begin Unit 17& 18: Variations and Adaptations in Ecosystems & Ecosystem Relationships
Lecture: Succession
Video: Life After People / Finish Video: Life After People
HW: CVHS Succession
Early Dismissal / DUE: CVHS Succession
Reading Quiz: Unit 17 Variations and Adaptations in Ecosystems
HW: Notes on Chapters 5 & 6
Study Biomes for tomorrow’s activity! / Bizarre Biome – finish as HW
20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24
Due: Bizarre Biome
Present Bizarre Biome creature / Begin Unit 18: Ecosystem Relationships
Symbiotic Relationship Brochure, finish as homework / Symbiotic Relationship Brochures / DUE:Symbiotic Relationship Brochure
Symbiotic Relationship Brochure Presentations / Reading Quiz: Unit 18 (20 min)
Video: “How Wolves Change Rivers” (4:33m)
Trophic Cascades Discuss (5m)
Start HW: Rainforest Feast, paper due Monday 4/27/15, food due 4/28/15
27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / May - 1
Units 16-18 Reteach/Review
  • Kahoot!
/ Units 16-18 Review / Test: Units 17-18 / STAAR EOC Practice Exam
HW: Self-Evaluation / DUE: EOC Self-Evaluation
STAAR Review
4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
STAAR Biology / STAAR Review (Scott administering US History) / STAAR Alg1 EOC / STAAR Review / Rainforest Feast
11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15
Independent Study / Independent Study / Independent Study / HISD Pre-Approved Assessment Administration (on HUB) / AP Human Geo
18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22
Independent Study / Independent Study / Independent Study / Independent Study /
  • FINALS P1 & P2

25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29
Memorial Day
/ FINALS P3 & P4 / FINALS P5 & P6 / FINALS P7
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
(End of Cycle 4) / IN-SERVICE TEACHERS
Graduation
Cycle 4 Grades Due

UNIT OBJECTIVES

2: Cell Structure & Function

  1. Explain the Cell Theory
  2. Distinguish between eukaryotes and prokaryotes
  3. Identify the cell parts and describe their functions
  4. Compare and contrast the different cell transport processes

3: Cell Growth & Differentiation

  1. Explain the problems that growth cause s for cells and describe how cell division solves these problems
  2. Name the events of the cell cycle and describe what happens during each event
  3. Identify factors that stop cell growth
  4. Describe how the cell cycle is regulated
  5. Explain how cancer cells are different from other cells

4: Viruses

  1. Describe the structure of a virus
  2. Explain how viruses cause disease and infection
  3. Differentiate between the following: lytic & lysogenic infections, viruses, viroids, and prions

5: DNA Structure & Function

  1. Identify components of DNA
  2. Describe how information for specifying the traits of an organism is carried in the DNA
  3. Recognize that components that make up the genetic code are common to all organisms

6: Protein Synthesis

  1. Differentiate between DNA and RNA
  2. Describe the structure and function of the three types of RNA
  3. Transcribe and translate from a genetic code
  4. Describe how lac genes are turned on and off
  5. Explain how eukaryotic genes are controlled
  6. Relate gene regulation to development

7: Mutations

  1. Define and identify the 3 types of gene mutations
  2. Define and identify the 5 types of chromosomal mutations
  3. Explain the significance of these changes
  4. Describe and interpret karyotypes including terms such as autosome, haploid, and diploid

8: Genetic Combinations

  1. Recognize the work by Mendel in the field of Biology and genetics
  2. Predict possible outcomes of various genetic combinations using monohybrid and dihybrid crosses
  3. Describe Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetics
  4. Explain the significance of meiosis to sexual reproduction
  5. Describe DNA fingerprinting and chromosomal analysis and how they are used to study genomes of organisms.
  6. Predict sex-linked traits on a pedigree

9: Evolution

  1. Analyze and evaluate how natural selection produces change in populations, not individuals
  2. Analyze and evaluate how the elements of natural selection, the potential of a population to produce more offspring than can survive, and a finite supply of environmental resources results in differential reproductive success
  3. Analyze and evaluate the relationship of natural selection to adaptation, and to the development of diversity in and among species
  4. Analyze and evaluate how evidence of common ancestry among groups is provided by the fossil record, biogeography, and homologies including anatomical, molecular, and developmental.
  5. Analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data of sudden appearance, stasis and sequential nature of groups in the fossil record.
  6. Analyze and evaluate the effects of other evolutionary mechanisms including genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, and recombination.
  7. Analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning the complexity of the cell

10: Classification

  1. Define taxonomy and recognize the importance of a standardized taxonomic system to the scientific community
  2. Categorize organisms using a hierarchical classification system based on similarities and differences shared among groups
  3. Compare characteristics of taxonomic groups including archaea, bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals

11: Homeostasis in Plants

  1. Describe the role of internal feedback mechanisms in the maintenance of homeostasis
  2. Discuss coupled reaction processes and describe the role of ATP in energy coupling and transfer
  3. Describe the major features and chemical events of photosynthesis
  4. Describe the interactions that occur among systems that perform the functions of transport, reproduction, and response in plants

12: Homeostasis in Animals