Sunday, April 1, 2018

April 2018

We are down to our last month of new material!  Please take the time to study Option A carefully and to review all that you can from our former units.  If nothing else, refamiliarize yourself with old concepts so that they don't catch you off guard on our practice tests or on the actual IB exam.


  • Monday 4/2:  A1 on Neural Development and Begin A2 on the Human Brain.  Reread A1 and A2!
  • Wed 4/4:  Finish parts and functions of the human brain.  Identify parts on a Sheep's brain.  Begin A3 on Perception of stimuli:  the nose, eye, and ear.
  • Fri 4/6:  Dissect Cow Eyes (a video option is available if you don't want to participate in the dissection).  Innate versus learned behavior.  Reread A4.
  • Tues 4/10:  A4 concepts.  Neuropharmacology.  Slow and fast neurotransmitters, drugs, addiction, anaesthesia.  Study an animal behavior from A6 for Thursday (I will assign different behaviors to different groups).
  • Thurs 4/12:  Go over strange animal behaviors from A6 and play Kahoot review for Paper 3.
  • Tues 4/17:  Paper 3
  • Thurs 4/19:  Big Review for the 2 years!
  • Mon 4/23:  Paper 2.
  • Wed 4/25:  Paper 1.   Due to Senior Skip Day, we shifted this test to Friday, although anyone is welcome to take it today.
  • Fri 4/27:  Take Paper 1 and look at your Papers 3 and 2.  
  • Tues 5/1:  Shockingly, there are actually no IB Exams today, so we will go over your practice tests and review anything else that you want to.
In May, you will be expected to attend class if you are not testing that day and we can do further review for the IB test, but since many students will be gone for various tests each day, we won't do this very formally.  Individual students can request to look at different topics for review.  We will also grow plants and work on a Disease/Disorder Project while students are taking exams.  

The IB Biology Exam this year is:
Mon 5/14  Afternoon Session:  Papers 1 and 2
Tues 5/15  Morning Session:  Paper 3