First Week of School!

• Mon 8/29:  Take roll, demonstrate early work, overview of Class Expectations (see Class Expectations in the Document section and read it), get textbooks, start Brine Shrimp Lab.
• Wed 8/31:  Hand out Safety and Academic Honesty Contracts.  Please sign them and get a parent or guardian to sign them by next Wednesday 9/7.  Calculate number of brine shrimp on the grid, showing your work.  Count number of live shrimp for 3-4 different samples.  Calculate number of hatched shrimp and calculate percent hatched.  Share this number with the class.  Use a TI-84 calculator to do the TI-84 activity on the back of the Brine Shrimp lab handout.  Start working on the Significant Figures and Uncertainty worksheet.
• Fri 9/2: Notes on counting and calculating with significant figures.  Calculating mean and uncertainty.  Do all of the worksheet except 21-25 for now.  We will go over those later.   Meaning of t-test.  Do a t-test on the class data to determine if there was a significant different in hatching percentage between shrimp placed in 2% versus 3% solution.  Brine Shrimp write-up (directions to come later) submitted by next Friday 9/9 through turnitin.com

Welcome to IB Biology Higher Level 2016-2017!!!

Welcome back to the 2016-2017 School Year!  This will be the website for your IB Biology class for the next 2 years.  If you look through old entries you can see what classes before you have done.  This will be a good place to go to get class assignments, class resources, and just to keep yourself informed about the class.  When you miss class, come here first to see what we did in class and to find out if there is anything you can do from home.  After that, if you still have questions, you can e-mail me:  mkenny@pps.net

I look forward to meeting you and spending the next 2 years learning biology!  We will cover the following topics during the first year:

First Semester

Introduction to Course, Statistics, and Measuring

Cells and Membranes

Biochemistry:  Macromolecules

Cell Respiration and Photosynthesis

Cell Division:  Mitosis and Meiosis

Genetics

Second Semester

Replication, Transcription, Translation

Enzymes

Biotechnology

Plants

Ecology (maybe get it started)