Homework-APBio+2010-11

APBIO calendar [|AP Bio website]

(2nd set) || Jan 7 || see worksheets. Show your work. This is a "check" grade for making a good attempt at the problems. || Projects are due before leaving for the field trip. || PLEASE clean up each day after yourself- no dirt/plant pieces on the tables, paper scraps, etc- throw out any left overs. Tape/glue/colored paper, pins, etc are your responsibility- they will not be provided-bring all your own project supplies and do not leave them here. I will put out scissors. ||
 * NOTE: All the week's assignments dates will be in red, all upcoming ones will be in black and completed ones will be** gray.
 * ~ Assignment ||~ Due Date ||~ Details ||
 * Chewonki video! || May 26 || OUR LAST DAY-Come hungry for a yummy dessert and lots of laughing at yourselves! ||
 * Muscle/skeletal/dissection test; (finish presntations as needed) || May 24 || See list of parts to know and a few items in review. (this is a quiz-won't take long). We may have to use part of class to finish presentations first ||
 * Drosophila lab due || May 20 || Please see the rubric for the lab.(**turn the lab in before leaving** for your Senior com.service. day! A late grade will be given otherwise) We will look at the skeletal bones briefly in class but you need to do your own learning of those and the muscles-use your book, use the internet. See the muscle poster in class. ||
 * Circulation/immune exam || May 18 || See [|Review]. We will also look at the skeleton briefly before the test and you can check it out after you are done as well. See the immune system page for the immunity pdfs. ||
 * Disease presentations || May 16 || See the rubric. You will be presenting to the other Drs. at a round table report. Each should not take more than 10 min. plus a few min. on the summary sheet and question time. Those not completed that day will do theirs on the 24th. If you would like to try using a sphygomomanometer and stethoscope, come to class early during break! ||
 * Immune system HW || May12 || See booklet and worksheets- LAST WORKSHEET TYPE HW!! Bring this to the Blooddrive-I will pick it up when I come down to give blood. ||
 * doing pig dissection || May 10 || no HW to get ready- work on your immune HW and study for the circulatory exam. ||
 * AP EXAM!! || May 9 || Go to the text/links page and choose the Biology Place website for reviewing the 12 labs and/or the following link for the ppt review; the McGraw Hill animations and the link to the AP Bio class review posted by another AP class, as well as other links there. See the provided review packet for key concepts. See each of this wiki's ppts in topics you feel weak in. Use materials from Chewonki to review ecology and visit the Biology class ecology unit on this wiki for basic concepts like eutrophication and succession (use their pages for any of the concepts for more helpful and simpler animations, etc.) GOOD LUCK!! ||
 * Dissolved Oxygen lab || May 6 || Turn in the virtual lab answers when getting on the Chewonki bus. Those who are not going- please try to be here to drop it off with me before we leave. ||
 * Excretion, digestion, respiration Exam || Apr 28 || See [|Excretory review], [|digestion review], [|respiratory review], ppts, and notes. ||
 * Excretory system Chap HW || Apr 26 || See worksheets ||
 * Circulatory booklet || Apr 14 || See blood booklet and question packet. ||
 * Plant Exam || Apr 12 || See review, animations, ppts.notes ||
 * Animal HW Chap 30/31 || Apr 4 || See worksheets. BRING in Drosophila supplies and have your data in tables, ready to share. Review lab report scoring sheet. ||
 * Animal HW Chap 29 || Mar 31 || see worksheets ||
 * Plant 36/37 HW || Mar 25 || See worksheets ||
 * Muscle/sense Exam || Mar 23 || See [|Test review], animations and notes. ||
 * Plant 34/35HW || Mar 21 || See worksheets ||
 * Plant 32/33HW || Mar 15 || See worksheets ||
 * Nervous exam || Mar 13 || See test [|review], ppts., animations,and text ||
 * Plant 29/30HW || Mar 8 || See worksheets ||
 * Genetic disease project || Feb 28 || See guidelines. Strongly recommend do all typing before vacation so can be done-I can make copies of pages if you need. Due by 4pm-prefer it by mid morning. ||
 * Chap 25/26 HW || Feb 17 || See worksheets ||
 * Senses Booklet || Feb 15 || See worksheet and booklet ||
 * Chap 24 HW || Feb 10 || See worksheet ||
 * Chap 23 HW || Feb 8 || See worksheet ||
 * Evolution exam || Feb 3 || See the [|review]and view the ppts and use text. ||
 * Chap 22 HW and Drosophila lab prep || Jan 28 || See worksheet. For lab: prepare all your data tables in such a way that you will be able to share data easily. Each person needs their own set of tables as you will be adding onto them from 2 others. Write up your purpose and procedure(you will adding onto the purpose as you do the lab) and you may want to prepare some chi square tables that you can fill in later when writing the lab (that last part is not required). You will be keeping a hard copy of your data tables in class so your partner can use them if need be to do a count in an emergency. ||
 * Chap 21 HW || Jan 26 || See worksheet. ALSO keep working on the disease report! ||
 * Chap 20 HW || Jan 24 || See worksheet ||
 * Chap 18 HW || Jan 21 || See worksheet ||
 * Genetics Exam || J an 24 || See the [|test review] and ppts. on the wiki genetics page. as well as try sample word problems, tutorials from links on the my YHS [|teacher page]. ||
 * Chap19 HW || Jan 19 || See worksheet. ||
 * Tasting lab Final || Jan 14 || Final lab due in printed version. See googledocs for the feedback on rough drafts in order to make corrections. See the [|scoring sheet]for expectations. See recent email sent Tuesday for some clarifications. ||
 * Tasting lab prep || Jan 11 || Submit purpose,hypotheses, procedure submitted in the googledoc and all "outside" testing should be completed by now. We will be visiting classes to do the in school tasting today. ||
 * Tasting lab prep || Jan 10 || Submit background research in a shared googledocs to me. Be sure to site your sources in MLA format and use in text referencing. ||
 * genetic problems HW
 * genetic problems HW || Jan 5 || see worksheet. Show your work. This is a "check" grade for making a good attempt at the problems. ||
 * Genetic disease || Feb 28 || Begin research on your disease. A good place to start is symptoms, treatment, diagnosis and the molecular error. Start to brainstorm how your patient might present on first visit to you. Then work on a basic outline of a time line for the patient as s/he visits you. Try to work on this a little each day in a rough draft way. Then create your forms and begin to fill them in ||
 * Mitosis/meiosis & Embryology Exam || Dec 20 || See the [|review] and text Chap 10,17,49,50; Egg to adult booklet & ppts; mitosis/meiosis animations on the Biology page. ||
 * Chap 50 HW || Dec 14 || See worksheet ||
 * Chap 49 HW || Dec 10 || See worksheet ||
 * Egg to Adult || Dec 8 || See booklet and questions packet ||
 * Chap 14/15 Exam || Dec 7 || See[| review] and text, notes and ppts. ||
 * DNA Virtual Lab || Dec 3 || See on-line lab and worksheets. All work due by the end of class. ||
 * Chap 17 HW || Dec 2 || See worksheets for Chap 17. Come to class with the DNA virtual lab already downloaded and ready to use- see instructions. We will start in class and then finish in class tomorrow (this will not be HW) ||
 * Chap 15 || Nov 23 || See worksheet. Also TRY the restriction problems. VIEW the Sanger sequencing, cycle sequencing and microarray animations ( see the links on the genetic engineering page) to help you understand the reading better- come to class with questions! Also there are powerpoints to help- see the links in the table of contents. ||
 * Chap 14 || Nov 18 || See worksheet ||
 * DNA/RNA Exam || Nov15 || See the [|review] and text; ppts -simple ones on the Biology DNA page others at the sites on AP DNA and on AP text and links page-I recommend the McGraw Hill site chap 14 and 15; transformation lab, HW and notes. See the posted pictures resource for study help on experiments,structures, and processes as a quick review the day of the test! ||
 * Chap 13 HW || Nov 8 || See worksheets. ||
 * Bacterial Transformation Lab || Nov 5 || See lab sheets. ||
 * Photosynthesis Exam || Nov 1 || See review, text, notes,animations, ppts and lab ||
 * Respiration Exam || Oct 24 || See [|review], text, notes, animations, ppts and lab. See [|hippocampus]link for more help. directions are posted in the text and links page. ||
 * Respiration Lab || Oct 21 || Lab due- see lab book and follow class instructions. After class complete any experiment animations that you did not get through during class at the [|DNA timeline] (Beadle and Tatum; Oswald Avery(includes Griffeth in it); Hershey and Chase; Meselson and Stahl. ||
 * Chap 9 HW || Oct 20 || See worksheets ||
 * Chap 8 HW || Oct 15 || See worksheets. ||
 * Photo.Lab || Oct 14 || Lab is due in googledocs by class time. Include your corrected procedure. hypotheses, data table, your graph and an anlaysis of all group's data (see the graphs) and a final conclusion for the 4 hypotheses. ||
 * Chap 6/7 Exam || Oct 13 || See the ppts, the notes and the review ||
 * Photo. data || Oct 12 || All data for your group's lab graph has been uploaded to the shared googledoc for all groups to see by class time. ||
 * Photosynthesis Lab prep || Oct 8 || Purpose, hypothesis,procedure, prepared data table all in googledocs. ||
 * Summer collection || Oct 4 || See the descriptor, use classroom field guides or your own sources. Pay attention to the requirements and the dos and don'ts!
 * Summer collection work || Sept 29 /30 || Come to class prepared to work on your summer collection. See above due date for more.
 * Chap 7 HW || Sept 28 || See handout ||
 * Enzyme Lab || Sept 27 || Complete the lab in the lab workbook. ||
 * Chap 6 HW || Sept 24 || See handout. ||
 * Chap 4/5 EXAM || Sept 23 || See [|exam review] and 2 ppt posted in cells unit. See this great[| animation resource] for many processes (ex: osmosis, cotransport and the NA/K pump ). Se Chap.4 and 5 sections. ||
 * Chap 5 HW || Sept 22 || See handout. ||
 * Diffusion lab || Sept 21 || Complete the diffusion lab packet ||
 * Leaf Lab final || Sept 20 || See descriptor and additional class instructions. Print final version. ||
 * Leaf lab data || Sept 15 || All data collected and posted for class by 5pm. Be sure to check formatting, etc. as agreed by class. ||
 * Aquaporin article || Sept 14 || See handout. ||
 * Chap 4 HW || Sept 13 || See handout and ppt.(in Cells unit) ||
 * Chap 1-3 Exam || Sept 10 || See review sheet, ppts,(in Chemistry unit link) Text, HW and note packet ||
 * Leaf lab prep || Sept 9 || Purpose, diagrams, relevant principles, hypothesis (including rank order), procedure due for each group in googledocs. Data table(s) prepared. ||
 * Chap 3 HW due || Sept 7 || Use the text, notes, posted ppt and worksheet. ||
 * Leaf research due || Sept 3 || See the leaf project descriptor handout.Parts due: tree research, closeup photo taken; 3 relevent topics/resources to develop hypothesis. Be sure to post all work to the googledoc and include me as a member that can edit. ||
 * < Chap 1 & 2 || Aug 31 || Use text and fill in handouts; also see link to virtual lab ||