Week of 4/26/15

This week we begin the topic of classification. Wednesday will be a full period lecture on the history of taxonomy. Thursday we will introduce dichotomous keys and follow up with a worksheet. Friday will be a short lecture on cladograms followed by time to finish the key worksheet and start one on cladograms.We will have a 25 pt quiz Friday only on Taxonomy lecture from Wednesday. Next week Monday will be a wrap up day and Tuesday will be test day. AP Biology we will spend the week focused on bacteria, virus and the immune system. No tests or quizzes are scheduled.

Week of 4/20/15

biology- We will start the week with the last of our notes on natural selection verses artificial selection. Tuesday will be Jeopardy review to get ready for the Evolution test scheduled for Wednesday. On Thursday we will introduce classification with a lecture which leads us to a dichotomous key activity for Friday. AP Biology... Monday speciation activity...Poster Island. Tuesday test on evolution notes up to this point. Wednesday Lecture classification and dichotomous keys. Thursday...lecture using cladograms supported by practice worksheet.

Week of 4/13/15

Biology... This week we are going hard core evolution. Monday will have time to finish off the fish lab plus a worksheet on natural selection. Both are due by the en of class. Tuesday we will lecture supports for evolution followed up with a RS on fossils. Wednesday lecture natural selection verses artificial selection. Thursday Lab evolution of the opposable thumb. Lab will be completed Friday analysis due Monday.

4/7/15

Biology- Evolution is our topic for the week with a plan that should go something like this... Monday- Lecture Darwin and Natural selection Tuesday- Activity on fish selection.Due Thursday Wednesday-lecture supports for evolution and finish fish lab. Thursday Activity...The Great fossil Find Friday Quiz and complete Lab AP Biology will continue with the topic of Evolution Monday lecture-Population Genetics follow up with Natural selection activity Tuesday-Lecture the history of biodiversity....cladogram activity...Planning a Genetics Quiz for today! Wednesday- Lecture the evolution of behavior...Lab beaks of Finches.

Week of 3/30/15

Biology- This week our focus is human genetics from blood types to GMO's. Monday-Lecture the history of blood typing followed up with a Punnett square worksheet on blood types Tuesday- Blood type lab Wednesday- Compete blood type lab report and blood worksheet both due by the end of class. Thursday- Lecture sex linked conditions Quiz AP Biology. Our topic for the week is Genetics and Punnett squares We will be doing practice problems interspersed with lecture. Remember Tuesday is our big DNA test.

Week of 3/.23/15

Biology- Because of the snow day Friday we will have our Punnett square test Monday. Be ready! Tuesday we will introduce going beyond Mendel in the study of Genetics starting with family pedigrees. Tuesday will be blood type heredity followed up with a work sheet and a lab which will run Wed and part of Thursday with report due Friday. Friday we will talk about twins and follow up with a video on the topic. Ap Bio Monday will start with reading lab results if there is anything left after the long weekend. Our respiration quiz is going to be Tuesday. Our topic for the week is DNA history, replication and protein synthesis. No labs this week but respiration report will be due Thursday.

Week of 3/16/15

BIOLOGY Hard to believe we made it through a full week! And what a great week it was with our intro to Punnett squares and the coin toss activity. We will build on that foundation this week with dihybrids and incomplete dominance on Monday and Tuesday. Each new type of square will be reinforced with a worksheet. Wednesday we will have Punnett Square races at the board in preparation for the Test which is scheduled for Friday. Thursday I will be out on a field trip but my sub will have a crossword review sheet to help you get ready for the test. AP Bio- So how are you loving photosynthesis? I know the topic is difficult but I have faith in you! Monday we complete lecture on the topic by introducing 2 variations from the norm. We will check our worksheet from last Thursday and get ready for Tuesdays quiz. Tuesday our quiz will start class followed by a lecture introducing respiration. We will begin our muscle fatigue lab if we have time and complete it on Wednesday.Remember Tuesday the Chromatography lab is due. Thursday most of us will be on the field trip if you are staying behind you can use the time to complete the muscle fatigue lab. Friday we willlecture aerobic respiration and set up our seed lab for Monday.