The Week of 10/21-10/25

There is a SPARK lecture on Monday 10/21.  The speaker is an engineer from Intel.  You may get extra credit for going to one SPARK lecture per month, although remember that there is a limit on extra credit of 5% of the quarter grade.

• Mon 10/21:  Turn in Speciation Worksheet.  Questions on Hardy-Weinberg Packet?  Turn in today or Wednesday.  Overview of human evolution.  Radiometric dating.  Problems with the fossil record.  Humans as mammals and primates.  Cultural evolution versus biological evolution. Read 25.2.
• Wed 10/23:  Beak of the Finch quiz on Chapters 7-9.  Working with Hominid skull replicas.  Take careful measurements of different aspects of each of the skulls.  Read 34.7 and 34.8.
• Fri 10/25:  Phylogeny of the Hominid skulls.  Complete Skulls hand-out and turn in.  Changes in diet and changes in brain size of humans.  Last Beak quiz (Chapters 10-12) on Wed 10/30.

Heads up!  We will be going on a Field Trip on December 9th to a Legacy Emmanuel facility where we will view a preserved human cadaver to learn about human anatomy.

The Week of 10/14-10/18

• Tues 10/15:  Quiz on Chapters 4-6 of Beak of the Finch.  Natural selection and sexual selection.  Species and speciation.  Barriers between gene pools.  Read 24.1 and 24.2.
• Wed 10/16:  Gene pools and allele frequencies.  Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.  Read 23.1 and 23.2.
• Fri 10/18:  Hardy-Weinberg Activity.  The concept of half-life and radiometric dating.  Read 25.2.

Next week:  Beak of the Finch quiz on Chapters 7-9 on Wed 10/23.  Last quiz (Chapters 10-12) will be on Wed 10/30.   We will also be working with replicas of Hominid skulls as we explore human evolution!

Turnitin.com Info

For any of you who went to the SPARK lecture on Monday, let me remind you that we are turning in these assignments (summary and your response) through turnitin.com The class info for this year: Class ID #: 7134730 Password: darwin Please turn in SPARK lectures by the Friday of the week of the lecture, although I will give you until next Wednesday this time.

SPARK Lecture!

The first SPARK lecture of the school year will be Monday, October 7 at 3:30 in Room 169. The speaker is Dr. Kathleen Dalke, ObGyn. Please come and learn about her work and earn some extra credit for your science class!

9/30-10/10

• Mon 9/30:  Turn in Field Trip Assignment.  Ecology Data-Based Question Practice.  Use Markscheme to grade.  Questions on Ecology Review?  Pick up Beak of the Finch.  First quiz on Chapters 1-3 on Tuesday 10/8.  Ecology Review due before test on Wednesday.
• Wed 10/2:  Turn in Ecology Review.  Take Ecology Test. Significant Figures practice.  Basics of Darwinian evolution.  Read 22.1 and 22.2.
• Fri 10/4:  Evidence of evolution:  animal breeding, antibiotic resistance, industrial melanism.  Graphing practice using LoggerPro.  Remember the Beak of the Finch quiz on Tuesday.  Read 22.3.
• Tues 10/8:  Beak Quiz #1 on Chapters 1-3.  Origin of Life.  Read 25.1 and 25.3.  Next Beak Quiz (Chapters 4-6) on Tues 10/15.
• Thurs 10/10:  Finish origin of life.  Speciation, gene pools, and barriers between gene pools. Read 24.1 and 24.2.  Quiz on Chapters 4-6 on Tues, 10/15.

The Weeks of 9/16-9/27

• Mon 9/16:  Turn in Climate Change Packet if not already.  Simpson's Diversity Index calculation.  Testing water for dissolved oxygen, dissolved carbon dioxide, and pH.  Finish field tests if necessary.  Turn in weather worksheet.  Read 55.4.
• Wed 9/18:  Soil Tests.  Climate Change Notes.   Carbon Cycle (will do later). 
• Fri 9/20:  Signed Field Trip formed due.  Sorting macroinvertebrates and using the count to determine water quality.  Turn in Biotic Factors worksheet.  Population growth curves.  (will do later)
• Mon 9/23:  Gather materials for the field trip, pack, and label for your group.  Go over Field Trip activities.
• Wed 9/25:  Field Trip Day!  Gather in class by 9:50.  When we are all assembled, we will take the materials we packed and load them onto the bus.  The school bus will leave by 10:00 am.  We should return by 1: 45 pm.  You should have packed a lunch, water, and snacks if needed.
• Fri 9/27:  Debrief field trip.  Enter field trip data into database.  Field Trip Assignment due on Monday!  Go over Carbon Cycle and Population Growth Curves.  Review ecology concepts for test next Wednesday 10/2.

Beginning of the 2013-2014 School Year

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  Welcome back for the 2nd year of IB Biology! By now you have seen the 2nd year time-line and know what we will cover this year. During the 2nd semester of this year, we will continue to cover new material, but also go back and review material from last year. In addition, we will do 2-3 more labs that can be used as part of your IB Internal Assessment. 
•  Wed 9/4: 2nd year time-line. Hand out Safety and Academic Honesty Contracts. Please get them signed by Wed 9/11. 
•  Fri 9/6: Hopes and Concerns for 2nd year. Ecology preassessment. Ecology overview. Basic definitions. Autotrophs and Heterotrophs. Types of heterotrophs. Read 52.1 and skim 52.2. Read 54.2. 
•  Mon 9/9: Table groups make food chains. Food web simulation. Each group make a food web. 
•  Wed 9/11: Signed Safety and Academic Honesty Contracts due signed. Energy pyramids. On-line Climate Change Activity. Read 55.3 and 55.5. 
•  Fri 9/13: Discuss Climate Change. Carbon Cycle. Population dynamics. Read 55.4 and skim 53.