Week of 11/27/12

Biology Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. It is never easy to get back to work after a vacation but this is a busy week. Tuesday- Academic classes will be given cell cycle flip books that will count as a quiz grade. They are due Friday. Wednesday will be Jeopardy review as a prep for Thursdays test on cells. We've been working with cells for 4 weeks so the test is a big one start studying early! Thursday- Test Day Friday- Intro lecture to photosynthesis...Flip books due for Academic AP Biology We are smack dab in the middle of our discussion of evolution. Tuesday we will try to demonstrate survival of the fittest with orgami birds Lab.that will carry over at least in part to Wed. Thursday and Friday in adition to lectures on importance of diversity and evolutionary design we will reinforce with a lab on Beaks of finches that demonstrates survival of the fittest

WEEK of November 19, 2012

BIOLOGY Short Week Guys HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL. Monday-Lecture on the cell cycle and meiosis/ a comparison make sure you have the transport lab handed in! Tuesday & Wed.- Today you will have a chance to test your ability to identify cells in the various atages of the cell cycle and do some calculationg as to how long they stay in each stage. We will finish the activity on Wednesday and the finished lab report will be due before you leave. AP BIOLOGY This week we start with Evolution a topic that will take us through Christmas. Good news labs start up again. Monday lecture on Darwin and the theory of Natural selection along with some supporting evidence of the process. Tuesday Lab Chemical evidence for evolution Lab Wednesday Lecture patterns of evolution followed by a start on lab beaks of finches.

Week of November 4 2012

Biology... Monday is a big day in Bio! Cell portfolios are due along with all of the requirements as listed on the direction page. Be sure you are ready to hand it in 20 points off for each day late. Tuesday Reading strategy on synthetic cells. Time to talk to the text. Wednesday we will watch a movie on clls to tie all our topics together. Thursday Quiz on cells and time to work on the word wall. AP Bio Monday- DNA lab followed by work sheets on protein synthesis and replication. Be ready for tomorrows Quiz Tuesday- Quiz Day. Followed by Meiosis Lecture Wednesday-Comparison of cell cycle and Meiosis worksheets Thursday-Quiz cell cycle Meiosis Lab notebooks due