Welcome Back to the 2015-2016 School Year!!

Hello students!  I am so excited to see you back in the classroom this week and next!  As I checked back into this blog, I realized that the last thing I wrote about was the surgical viewing.  Those of you who were signed up know that it was cancelled.  Hopefully it will be rescheduled for this fall.  This year we will be studying the following topics, in pretty close to this order:

First Semester

Ecology

Biodiversity

Evolution

Digestion and Absorption

Circulation

Gas Exchange

Immunology

Second Semester

Muscles and Movement

The Kidney

Nerves, Hormones, and Homeostasis

Sexual Reproduction

Neurobiology and Behavior

In addition, we will be doing several inquiry labs this fall that will prepare you for the larger Internal Assessment that you will perform in the winter.   The IB Biology Exam is scheduled for May 4th and 5th, 2016.  During and after testing, we will have time to do fun, biology-related projects.