Cell Respiration and Photosynthesis Coming Up!

Hello Students!  The cell respiration and photosynthesis unit is typically one of the most challenging units and we will be covering it between now and Winter Break.  I highly recommend that you get ahead of the material by reading through the sections: 2.8, 8.2, 2.9, and 8.3.  I also recommend watching videos such as the Crash Course ones I have posted and others like Khan Academy.  The repetition and hearing explanations from different perspectives can really help!  The more you let the material into your brain, the more likely your brain will be to accept it and not fight it.  Start now and revisit the material regularly!  Your brain and your stress level will thank you.  But also remember to get some exercise, listen to good music, eat healthy food, and get some sleep!

Planning Ahead: 3 Weeks Between Thanksgiving and Winter Break

• Mon 11/26:  Video on Cell Respiration (Crash Course).  Notes on Cell Respiration up to the Krebs Cycle.  Read 8.2!
• Wed 11/28:  Check off 2.8 Questions and Go over.  Review Cell Respiration notes and include the Electron Transport Chain.  Introduce the Metabolic Rate Lab and do preliminary trials.
• Fri 11/30:  Take Metabolic Rate Lab data and enter into the class database.  Start processing data and working on lab write up.  Quick intro to Photosynthesis.  Read 2.9!!
• Tues 12/4:  Notes on Photosynthesis, including the basic processes and where they occur.  Read 8.3.
• Thurs 12/6:  Finish notes on Photosynthesis.  Coloring Sheet for Mitochondrion and Chloroplast.  Work time on Metabolic Rate Lab, which is due before Winter Break through turnitin.com
• Mon 12/10:  Overview of Cell Respiration and Photosynthesis.  Kahoot review.  Multiple Choice part of the test will be on Wednesday, 12/13.
• Wed 12/12:  Multiple Choice part of Cell Resp/Photosynthesis test.  
• Fri 12/14:  Short answer part of Cell Resp/Photosynthesis Test.  Metabolic Rate Lab due through turnitin.com by Wednesday, 12/19 at 3:00 pm.  Pick up Mitosis Worksheet.  It will be due Monday 1/7 by the end of the period, so you don't have to do it over break, but if you want to get started on it, that is fine.

2.8 Questions. Do these after the test on Thursday, 11/15.

Please do these questions in your notebook after the Biochemistry Test.  Complete it as homework for Monday 11/26!

1. Define cell respiration.
2. What is ATP and what is its advantage for cells?  What is it used for in the cell?
3. Why do cells need a continual supply of ATP?
4. What is anaerobic respiration?  Where/when does it occur?
5. List the 2 summary equations for anaerobic respiration (animals, and yeast and plants).
6. Discuss bread making and bioethanol as examples of anaerobic respiration.
7. Do the data-based questions on p. 125.
8. Discuss anaerobic respiration in humans.
9. Write the equation for aerobic respiration and state its differences from anaerobic respiration (at least 3).

End of 1st Quarter and start of 2nd Quarter

• Mon 10/22:  Take Cell and Membrane Test!  Do 2.1 questions in your notebook for Friday.  Also, read 2.2 on the Amazing properties of water!
• Wed 10/24:  Many of you in Period 1 will miss class due to the PSAT.  I recommend that you read 2.2 and takes notes in your notebook from the Biochemistry Notes (go through slide 11).  For the afternoon class, we will go over some main parts of 2.1 and 2.2 and then relax with a biology video.
• Fri 10/26:  Quick overview of properties of water.  Water Olympics Lab.  Complete hand out and turn in today or next Wednesday.  Read 2.3.
• Mon 10/29:  No School!  Teacher grading day for the end of quarter 1.
• Wed 10/31:  Comparing water and methane.  Transport of different substances in blood plasma.  Structure of carbohydrates, including condensation synthesis.
• Fri 11/2:  Structure of lipids, energy storage, fatty acids and BMI.  Do DBQ's on p 81 and on pp. 85-86 in notebook.  Read 2.4 on proteins.
• Tues 11/6:  Check off DBQ's and go over.  Amino acid structure and types of amino acids.  Build clay models (one amino acid, one monosaccharide, and either glycerol or a fatty acid).
• Thurs 11/8:  Put clay models together!  More on protein structure and function.  Molecular Visualization Activity.
• Mon 11/12:  Veteran's Day Holiday.
• Tues 11/13:  Review for Biochem Test on Thursday 11/15.
• Thurs 11/15:  Biochemistry Test.  Start Cell Respiration

Do these questions after you finish the Cell and Membrane Test on Monday 10/22

1. What is molecular biology?
2. What discovery revolutionized the study of molecular biology?
3. What is vitalism?
4. Why was the synthesis of urea significant to the idea of vitalism?
5. What is special about carbon compounds and their bonding?
6. List the 4 types of carbon compounds that we will be studying and give a brief description of each.
7. Define metabolism.
8. Define anabolism and catabolism and give several examples of each that occur in our bodies.

When finished, read 2.2 about the amazing properties of water!!!

Mid-October

• Mon 10/8:  Turn in Bubble Lab/Paramecium Lab if not already.  Work on Membrane Structure and Transport Worksheet.  Group planning for Potato Osmolarity Lab.  Give your proposal to Mr. Runion.
• Wed 10/10:  Very short classes!  Go over Potato Osmolarity Lab proposals and fine tune them.  Turn in Membrane Structure and Transport Worksheet.
• Thurs 10/11:  Potato Lab!  In your group, prepare solutions, cut potatoes, and soak them in solution.  While waiting, work on the lab write-up poster (see post below for information).  Remove potatoes, process data, and clean up.  Posters are due Tuesday.  You will have about 20 minutes to put them together, so make sure that each group member knows what they are doing. Hand out Review Sheet for the Cell and Membrane Test to be taken Monday 10/22.  The review sheet is also on this website.
• Tues 10/16:  20 minutes to prepare posters, then walk around viewing all of the group posters.  Poster debrief.  Review concepts from the Membrane Structure and Transport Worksheet.  View red onion plasmolysis.  
• Thurs 10/18:  More review for the Cell and Membrane Test, including Kahoot!  If you are absent this day, you can access the Kahoot game by making a Kahoot account and looking for the quizzes of "mokenny".  I will make the quiz public after all 3 classes have played the game today.
• Mon 10/22:  Cell and Membrane Test.  Multiple choice part is first, then Part II has drawings, short answers, and a microscope question.  Start Biochemistry!  Read 2.1.

Potato Osmolarity Lab Instructions

These are the items that you need on your poster:

1. Focused Question (0.5 pt)
2. Detailed Procedure (1.5 pts)
3. Data Table (labeled with uncertainty) (1.5 pts)
4. Calculations (1 of each type, clearly shown with blank equation, etc) (1 pt)
5. Graph:  needs to have all the parts of a good graph: I would graph percent change!) (1.5 pts)
6. Conclusion:  Refer back to question, give results using data, attempt to explain your results using science! (1.5 pts)
7. Evaluation:  Discuss sources of uncertainty (at least 3), being specific, and give suggestions for improvement as well.  Also, include the strengths of your investigation.  (1.5 pts)
8. Poster Presentation:  is it clear?  neat? easy to follow?  (1 pt)