Hey, What's On Tuesday's Statistics Quiz/Test? (edited)

You should be prepared to do the following:

1. Use a TI-84 calculator to enter 2 sets of data, find standard deviation and t-test.  You are responsible to know how to use the calculator--no instructions given!
2. Describe the meaning of standard deviation and know what percentages of a sample are within 1 and 2 standard deviations
3. Find the number of degrees of freedom and use this and a chart of critical values to find the critical value for 2 sets of data
4. Interpret the meaning of the t-test value!
5. Calculate uncertainty using the high-low divided by 2 method.
6. Use data collected from a few quadrats to calculate the size of the whole (as you did in counting brine shrimp cysts)
7. Count number of significant figures
8. Compute and round using the appropriate rules
9. Propagate uncertainty (one adding example and one multiplying example)
10. Make sure that you show your work where asked and round all answers appropriately!

The Week of 9/15-9/19

• Monday 9/15:  Making Frequency Distributions.  Continue working on the Statistics Packet, which will be due tomorrow.  I will also check off the TI-84 Activity in class tomorrow.
• Tues 9/16:  Turn in Statistics Packet.  Check off TI-84 Activity.  Questions on Statistics?  Questions on Classroom Expectations?  Chemistry Review done with class text books.
• Thurs 9/18:  Finish Chemistry Review and turn in.  Water Olympics Lab.  Start Coloring in Dictionary of Biochemical Building Blocks.  Statistics Quiz next Tuesday 9/23.

Schedule for the first 2 weeks of school

• Tues 9/2:  Introduction to class, fill out Student Information Sheet, hand out Safety and Academic Honesty Contracts (due signed by Tues 9/9), Demonstrate Early Work, Start Brine Shrimp Lab (counting cysts).  Bring TI-84 calculators this week and next.
• Thurs 9/4:  Review brine shrimp calculations.  Count live shrimp and calculate percent hatching.  Hand out significant figure rules and worksheet.  Go over calculating average and uncertainty and counting sig figs and do 1-9, 18-20, and the back of the worksheet for Monday.
• Mon 9/8:  Characteristics of a good graph.  Using LoggerPro to make good graphs.  Graph the data from the 2 data tables on the back of the significant figure worksheet.
• Tues 9/9:  Turn in signed Safety and Academic Honesty contracts if not already.  Calculating with significant figures and propagating the uncertainty.  Finish sig. figs. worksheet.  Finish Brine Shrimp Hand-Out (calculate the uncertainty of the percent hatching, showing work).  Turn in completed Brine Shrimp Counting Lab hand-out today or Thursday.  Significant Figure worksheet sheet is due Thursday.  If time, use TI-84 calculators to work through TI-84 activity.
• Thurs 9/11:  Turn in significant figures worksheet and Brine Shrimp Lab..  Finish TI-84 activity and work through statistics packet, including making a frequency distribution and familiarizing yourself with the formulas for standard deviation and t-test.  Turn TI-84 Activity in today.  Statistics Packet is due Tuesday 9/16.

Welcome to IB Biology!!

This website will be a resource for you as you embark on 2 years of higher level IB Biology.  Here you can find useful links, most class documents, and a fairly-well updated schedule of what we are doing in class.  Come here first if you miss class, lose a hand-out, or just can't remember what is due.  Feel free to e-mail me at mkenny@pps.net if you have any questions at all.  I'm not connected to the web 24-7 like many people these days, but I do try to respond within 12-24 hours.

Add this to Plant Journal!

Add to Plant Journal:  Paragraph summarizing what you learned, what surprised you, what you would do differently in the future.  Plant journal is due Fri, May 30th or Tues June 3rd if you need more time.  

5/19-End of the Year

• Mon 5/19:  Submit plan for your Body Response Group Lab.  Tend to your plant and update plant journal.
• Wed 5/21 and Fri 5/23:  Take data for Body Response Lab and start writing it up.  Be a subject for other testers!  Tend to your plant and update plant journal.
• Wed 5/28:  Work on Body Response Poster.  Tend to your plant and wrap up journal.
• Fri 5/30:  Turn in Plant Journal.  Presentation of Group Posters.
• Tues 6/3:  Last Day of Class!  End of two year summative experience.

Plan for Wrapping Up Our IB Material and Review!!

This is my best thought-out plan for prepping for the IB Exam, although there may be things we need to change.  I will update this site as that happens.

• Wed 4/16:  Wrap up Behavior Notes.  Finish Data-Based Questions and evaluate.
• Fri 4/18:  Review topics for IB:  Mitosis/Meiosis, Genetics, Replication, Transcription, Translation, and Enzymes.  Also, we will cover the topic of lactase and lactose-free milk, which we haven't talked about yet and is a frequent topic on IB exams.   Hand out Review for Neurobiology and Behavior group test to be taken on Wed 4/23.
• Mon 4/21:  Review topics for IB:  Biotech topics and plants.  Also, we will take any questions you have about Neurobiology and Behavior.
• Wed 4/23:  Neurobiology and Behavior Group Test.  I will assign the groups of 3 and you will know them by Fri 4/18.  I will also post the groups on this website.  After the test, review more IB topics, especially Evolution.
• Fri 4/25:  Take Paper 3 or Paper 1 (but most likely Paper 3) Sample Exam.  It will be assessed using the IB markscheme, although the points you get will be curved.
• Mon 4/28:  Jeopardy Review on IB Exam Topics.  This might also be done with "clickers", which is a fun way to review multiple choice questions.
• Wed 4/30:  Paper 2 Sample IB Exam.  This is the long one, although you will not get the full time allotted that you will get for the exam.
• Fri 5/2:  Take Paper 1 (multiple choice) or Paper 3, whichever one we didn't take last Friday.  After the test, we will do more suggestions and review for the IB exam.
• Mon 5/5 and Wed 5/7:  IB Exams start this week, so many of you may be gone, but we will continue to review for your exam on these 2 days.
• Fri 5/9 and Mon 5/12:  IB Biology Exam!!  Good Luck!  For those of you not taking the Exam, come to class and we will do some fun stuff related to Biology.  It is required to come to class when you are not testing and you will get points for your participation.  Students taking exams that day are excused from these participation points, but if you are only taking a 1-2 hour exam in the morning, come on in to class afterwards!!