December

• Monday 12/4:  Notes on the 3 types of blood vessels and the path of blood through the heart.  Hand out Circulation worksheet and start working on it.
• Wed 12/6:  Notes on control of the heartbeat, atherosclerosis, by-pass surgery, etc.  Continue working on Circulation Worksheet and get it checked off.
• Fri 12/8:  Methodology and Equipment list for your IA due today.  You can submit it in writing or e-mail it to me.  Notes on the lungs:  structure and function and the process of breathing.  Go over what will be the Circulation and Respiration short test next Thursday.
• Tues 12/12:  Review circulation and respiration.  Play Kahoot.
• Thurs 12/14:  Short test on Circulation and Respiration.  Work on your IA!  Pre-write for your IA is due through turnitin.com before break or within the first 5 days (so I have time to read them).

Hey, What's Going to Be on that Digestion Quiz??

The Digestion Quiz is on Thursday, 11/30.  This is what will be on it:

1. You need to be able to draw and label the digestive system (as seen in that video).  Include the liver, the gall bladder, and the pancreas and show how they are connected.
2.  You need to be able to describe what happens to food as it goes through the digestive system.  Include important vocabulary and what happens at each part of the system.
3. You will be given a choice of 4-5 short answer questions and answer 2-3.  Topics include digestive enzymes, absorption, structure and function of the villus, etc.
4.  There will be from 5-10 multiple choice questions.  We will play Kahoot on Tuesday 11/28.

End of October/all of November (revised on 11/20)

• Mon 10/30:  Notes on pace of evolution and polyploidy.  Explain correlations and what to do with the beak lab data.  Lab done in pairs due by Wednesday 11/1.  Beak quiz on Chapters 6+7 on Wednesday 11/1.
• Wed 11/1:  Quiz on Chapters 6+7 of Beak of the Finch.  Notes on the evolution of the first cell.  Read 1.5.  This is the end of Quarter 1.  
• Friday 11/3:  No School!  Teacher work day.
• Mon 11/6:  Human Evolution.  We will take a short Evolution Test next Wed  11/15.
• No School 11/8-11/10!!
• Mon 11/13:  Review Evolution.  Maybe start digestion!
• Wed 11/15:  Short evolution test.  Go over parts of the digestive system.  Read 6.1.
• Fri 11/17:  Parts of the digestive system and what happens to food as it goes through the system.  Check off digestion coloring.
• Tues 11/21:  Digestive enzymes and absorption.  Dialysis tubing demo and saliva's effect on starch.
• Wed-Fri 11/22-11/24:  Thanksgiving Break.
• Tues 11/28:  Joe Eats a Burger simulation.  Kahoot review for Digestion Quiz to be taken on Thursday.  Start circulation.  Read 6.2.
• Thurs 11/30:  Digestion Quiz.  Overview of the circulatory system.  Path of the blood through the system.  Blood vessels.

End of October

• Mon 10/16:  Go get Beak of the Finch.  Evidence for evolution.  DBQ's on pp 243, 244, and 249 if time.  Watch first 25 minutes of What Darwin Didn't Know video.  Read 5.1 if not already.  Read chapters 1+2 of Beak for a quiz on Friday.
• Wed 10/18:  Notes on Speciation and Natural Selection.  Come up with your own examples of natural selection.  TED Talk video on antiobiotic resistant bacteria.  DBQ's on pp 249 and 253.  Check off DBQ's.  Read 5.2.
• Fri 10/20:  Quiz on Chapters 1+2 of Beak of the Finch.  First we will have a student-led discussion of the chapters, followed by 10 minutes of quiz without the book and 5 minutes of quiz with the book.  Finish checking off DBQ's (243, 244, 249, 253) and go over.  Patterns of natural selection.  DBQ's on pp 457, 458, 459, and 460.  Read Chapters 3-5 of Beak of the Finch for quiz next Thursday.
• Tues 10/24: Gradualism vs Punctuated equilibrium.  Hardy-Weinberg activity.  Complete H-W packet and turn in.  Read 10.3.
• Thurs 10/26:  Quiz on Chapters 3-5 of Beak.  Take data for the Beak Lab and enter into class database.  Chapters 6-7 for a quiz next Wed 11/1.  

Biodiversity Quiz on Wednesday, October 11

• THIS TEST WILL INCLUDE:
• About 10 multiple choice
• List Domain through species categories and list all 8 for an animal and a plant (we did humans and the Coast Redwood)
• Use a cladogram or dichotomous key to sort out 8-10 animals that I will give you.  Please use characteristics (i.e. has 4 limbs) and not previously determined classification categories (like mammals) to do the sorting
• You will be given a cladogram with numbers on it and be asked to use it to determine which organisms diverged the longest ago or most recently, etc.
• 2-3 short answer questions comparing organisms from various groups (like aves and reptilia),  using Uniprot and Jalview to make cladogram, the concept of molecular clocks, why we classify, etc.
• A data-based question on biodiversity that has 3-4 short questions  No time for this one this year!

First 2 Weeks of October

• Tuesday 10/3:  Notes on cladistics.  Do 1st Cladogram Worksheet in pairs.  Work time for Animal Poster Project.
• Thursday 10/4:  Molecular clocks.  Making a cladogram using UniProt and Jalview.  Do 2nd Cladogram activity in pairs.  Work time for Animal Poster Project, which is due Monday 10/9.  Biodiversity short test on Wed 10/11.
• Mon 10/9:  Animal Poster Project walk around reading and evaluation.  Review for Biodiversity Test, which is on Wed 10/11.
• Wed 10/11:  Biodiversity Test.  Pick up Beak of the Finch from the book room.  Homework:  Read Chapters 1 and 2 of this book.
• Fri 10/13:  State Inservice.  No School!

What have we been doing these last 2 weeks?

• Tues 9/19:  Play Kahoot to review for Ecology Test.  Mesocosm Observations.
• Thurs 9/21:  Ecology Test.  Mesocosm observations.  Check website for Mesocosm Assignment.
• Mon 9/25:  Brief notes on classification, binomial nomenclature, and dichotomous keys.  Do Fish Dichotomous Key activity.  When finished, work on making your own key to separate 9-12 pictures, using observable characteristics.  Mesocosm observations.  Read 5.3.
• Wed 9/27:  Identifying Animal Phyla Lab.  Go through all 8 stations and use the Animal Phyla Dichotomous key to determine the animal phylum for each station.  Afterwards, answer the lab hand-out questions and turn in if finished (can be turned in on Friday).  Continue working on the dichotomous keys and turn in or get checked off when finished.  Mesocosm assignment due Friday through turnitin.com
• Fri 9/29:  Notes on Animal Phyla and Chordate classes.  Introduce Animal Poster Project, due Mon 10/9.  Mesocosm Write-Up due through turnitin.com by 3:30 today.  Read 5.4.