WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24,2012

BIOLOGY Well, our first chapter is now behind us and a new topic is on the horizon. The Chemistry of life. Monday and Tuesday are lecture with worksheets on Bohr Models and the periodic table. Wednesday we will start properties of water lab. The completed lab is due by Friday which will also be our quiz day for the week. AP Biology. The wonderful world of cells is our focus for the week. Moday will be a lab on Fractionation giving us a chance to use a centrifuge and see organelles outside of the cell.Tuesday will be a cell quiz followed by the worksheet on enzymes. Wednesday and Thursday our labs will focus on enzyme action. and it looks like cell Test will be Friday!

Week of September 10th 2012

BIOLOGY We will start our week Monday with a lecture on characteristics of life. Tuesday will be a lab that reinforces experimental design.Report will be due Wed. Wednessday- Lab is due and lecture on the microscope.Bell ringer THursday -Friday-will be lab using the microscope Report will be due Monday9/18. AP BIOLOGY Our focus for the week is Organic molecules and Life Monday will be a lab day on the polymer polyacrylamidewith time to review carbs and fats with a worksheet. Tuesday we will lecture proteins and nucleic acids update worksheet. Wednesday activities on plastic, styrofaom and GAK. Thursday is Test Day on Chapters 1-3 We will introduce cell in lecture Friday.

WEEK of September 4 2012

Biology This week our focus is Scientific Method. Tuesday will be a lecture discussion and the remainder of the week we will practice application...Wednesday worksheet on variables.Must be completed for homework. Thursday Experimental design with poster development,This is an in class team project. Friday is the first quiz of the year so be ready! AP Biology We are wrapping up our discussion on properties of water. Movement of water across a cell membrane is our last lecture topic for Tuesday. Followed by lab set up on osmosis.Wednesday we will read lab results determining sucar concentration based on % mass change. We will also be calculating water potential based on these results. Thursday is our first Quia with some time built in to complete labs as needed. Friday lab notebooks will be collected and graded. Lecture will introduce organic compounds and their importance to life.

week of May 15 2012

Biology Populations are our lecture focus Monday-Wednesday. Our activities will be on the use of survivor curves and scatter plots to predict population size. Our final lecture will be succession with a tentatively scheduled test for Friday.Hang in there it's almost over! AP Biology Completed clam labs due Monday No class ...Honor Society practice. Tuesday we will lecture seastars and begin our dissection. This will be our final activity. Report due Friday. I'd like to squeeze in 1 more quiz on animals Thursday? Thursday and Friday we will spend reviewing for the exam.

Week of May 7 2012

BIOLOGY Ecology is our topic for the week. We start the week with food chains and food webs. Our activity will include designing one of each showing the flow of energy with in the ecosystem. Tuesday 's lecture will be starvation verses predation which is better for an environment. A worksheet is included due Wednesday. Wednesday and Thursday is our predator prey lab.Completed report due for Friday! We will also have a Quiz Thursday this week. Have a good one! Ap Biology. Immunity begins our week.2 days of lecture with QUIZ Wednesday. Mollusca notes and clam dissection will finish our week. We will toss some review in to start getting ready for our final exam which is just days away!!!!!

Week of 4/30/2012

Biology This week we are focusing on virus. We will go into details about life cycles,spread of diseases and controls including vaccines. There will be a viral worksheet due Tuesday and a major chapter test on Thursday. There isn't much time left so be sure to study! AP BIOLOGY Our focus for the week will be virus and Immunity. There will be a split between lecture and independent research on the topics. Test will be Thursday.

Week of 4/2/12

Biology
We finally made it to Easter week. This week we wrap up classification. Monday will be a lecture day on cladistics with an activity on Tuesday worksheet due Wednesday.
Wednesday is test day so be ready.

AP BIO
We will wrap up evolution with our presentations on "look who came to dinner". That will end our unit on evolution and we will move on to genetics and heredity beginning with some facts about DNA.