Biology Spring 2014
Date / Agenda / Journal Question01/27/14
Monday
#1 / Objective: Students will be able to examine and critique lab work using established criteria in order to improve their own writing.
o JQ
o Syllabus
o Website Info.
o You Give the Grade / When writing lab reports last semester, what specific difficulties did you have? Give examples.
HW:
01/27/14 / Sign and return all paperwork for class.
Purchase Composition Notebook.
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
01/28/14
Tuesday
#2 / Objective: Students will be able to examine and critique lab work using established criteria in order to improve their own writing.
o JQ/Popsicle sticks
o Finish: You Give the Grade: Critiquing Cell Respiration Lab Analysis / What are 2 things that the example student did in the example lab report that you have done in your lab report?
HW:
01/28/14 / Finish #’s 4,5 for tomorrow
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
01/29/14
Wednesday
#3 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the limits to cell growth in order to explain why cells are small.
o JQ/HW check
o Intro Ch. 10 Cell Cycle: Reading Guide
o Pre-Lab: The Great Divide: Soaking it all In / ATP from respiration is used for HOG RACER. How might ATP specifically be used for cellular growth?
HW:
01/29/14 / Finish 10-1 Reading Guide and 10-1 Section Assessment Qs 1-4 p. 243
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
01/30/14
Thursday
#4 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the limits to cell growth in order to explain why cells are small.
o JQ/HW check
o Pre-Lab: The Great Divide: Soaking it all In / What are the 2 major issues a cell faces as it gets bigger?
HW:
01/30/14 / Pre-Lab: Complete Background and Hypothesis
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
01/31/14
Friday
#5 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the limits to cell growth in order to explain why cells are small.
o JQ/HW check
o Quiz Ch 10
o Pre-Lab: The Great Divide: Soaking it all In --Finish / What will measuring the distance the color travels in the agar tell you?
HW:
01/31/14 / Pre-Lab: Complete All—LAB MONDAY—Dress Appropriately
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/03/14
Monday
#6 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the limits to cell growth in order to explain why cells are small.
o JQ/HW check
o Lab: The Great Divide: Soaking it all In / How will you figure out your SA:V ratio?
HW:
02/03/14 / Post-Lab: Complete Calculations and Questions
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/04/14
Tuesday
#7 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the limits to cell growth in order to explain why cells are small.
o JQ/HW check
o Post-Lab: The Great Divide: Soaking it all In / Why is accuracy so important in this lab?
HW:
02/14/14 / Post-Lab: RD Analysis and Conclusion in notebooks,
Final Draft DUE Thursday at 11:59 pm at turnitin.com
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/05/14
Wednesday
½ Day
#8 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the limits to cell growth in order to explain why cells are small.
o JQ
o Post-Lab Handout (green)--debrief / What did the NaOH represent in lab? The agar?
HW:
02/05/14 / Lab Write-up DUE Thursday at 11:59 pm at turnitin.com
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/06/14
Thursday
#9 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the cell cycle in order to explain how cells respond to their environment.
o JQ
o Graphic Organizer: Cell Cycle
o Mitosis / What does a cell do when it gets too big?
HW:
02/06/14 / Lab due tonight (turnitin.com by 11:59pm)
No quiz tomorrow
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/07/14
Friday
#10 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the cell cycle in order to explain how cells respond to their environment.
o JQ
o Cell Cycle (questions)
o Pink Handout: 10-2 Note-taking guide / What happens to the Surface Area to Volume ratio as cells get bigger?
HW:
02/07/14 / Organize Notebook—notebook due Thursday
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/10/14
Monday
#11 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the cell cycle in order to explain how cells respond to their environment.
o JQ
o Cell Cycle: Graphic Organizer
o Analyzing Data p. 249 #’s 1-4 / What are the steps in the Cell Cycle?
HW:
02/10/14 / Section Assessment questions p. 249 #’s 1-6
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/11/14
Tuesday
#12 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the cell cycle in order to explain how cells respond to their environment.
o JQ
o Read and complete Reading Guide for Chapter 10 Section 3
o Section Assessment Questions p. 252 #’s 1-5
o Vocabulary Review Handout
o Practice Problems (review for exam Thursday) / What is the spindle apparatus in mitosis, when does it appear?
HW:
02/11/14 / Finish Practice Problems and any classwork
Organize Notebook
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/12/14
Wednesday
#13
Cohort Schedule / Objective: Students will be able to describe the cell cycle in order to explain how cells respond to their environment.
o JQ
o Review for Exam tomorrow / How does a cell “know” when to divide?
HW:
02/12/14 / Notebook Check
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/13/14
Thursday
#14 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the cell cycle in order to explain how cells respond to their environment.
o JQ
o Exam Chapter 10 / What is the relationship between SA:V, Cancer, and the Cell Cycle?
HW:
02/13/14 / Notebook Check
Stem Cell Article: Close Read
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/14/14
Friday
#15 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the cell cycle in order to explain how cells respond to their environment.
o JQ
o Stem Cells MiniJigsaw
o Notebook Due / What is a stem cell?
HW:
02/14/14 / Happy Valentine’s Day! Enjoy Your BreakJ
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/24/14
Monday
#16 / Objective: Students will be able to describe how gametes are formed in order to explain human genetics.
o JQ
o Intro Genetics: Meiosis
o Graphic Organizers
o Modeling Meiosis / In terms of chromosome number, how do your gametes (sperm/eggs) differ from the rest of your cells?
HW:
02/24/14 / Reading Guide 11-4
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/25/14
Tuesday
#17 / Objective: Students will be able to describe how gametes are formed in order to explain human genetics.
o JQ
o Meiosis: Graphic Organizers
o Modeling Meiosis / How is meiosis similar to mitosis? Different?
HW:
02/25/14 / Finish Classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/26/14
Wednesday
#18 / Objective: Students will be able to describe how gametes are formed in order to explain human genetics.
o JQ
o Meiosis: Graphic Organizers
o Modeling Meiosis / During which phase of meiosis does crossing over occur? Sister chromatids separate?
HW:
02/26/14 / Finish Classwork—Quiz on meiosis Friday
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/27/14
Thursday
#19 / Objective: Students will be able to describe how gametes are formed in order to explain human genetics.
o JQ
o Modeling Meiosis
o Mendelian Genetics: 11-1 SpiderMap / What are 2 sources of genetic recombination in meiosis?
HW:
02/27/14 / Finish Classwork—Quiz on meiosis tomorrow
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
02/28/14
Friday
#20 / Objective: Students will be able to describe how gametes are formed in order to explain human genetics.
o JQ
o Quiz: Meiosis
o Mendelian Genetics 11-1, 11-2: Intro to Punnett Squares: Guest Speaker / How does the formation of skin cells differ from that of egg cells in humans?
HW:
02/28/14 / Read and Take Notes 11-2 (you choose: descriptive outline or SpiderMap).
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/03/14
Monday
#21 / Objective: Students will be able to set up Punnett Squares in order to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
o JQ
o Section Assessment Questions p. 269 #’s 1-5 & Thinking Visually, stamped
o R&TN (SpiderMap or Descriptive Outline) pp. 270-274, stamped / What are gametes?
HW:
03/03/14 / Finish Classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/04/14
Tuesday
#22 / Objective: Students will be able to set up Punnett Squares in order to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
o JQ
o Section Assessment Questions p. 274 #’s 1-5 & Sharpen Your Skills
o R&TN (SpiderMap or Descriptive Outline) pp. 279-280, 11-5
o Section Assessment Questions 11-5 #’s 1-4 & Writing in Science p. 280
o Vocabulary-define all sections p. 282 in notes
o Complete “Thinking Visually” p. 282, stamped / What is homozygous and heterozygous?
HW:
03/04/14 / Finish Classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/05/14
Wednesday
#23 / Objective: Students will be able to set up Punnett Squares in order to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
o JQ
o Answer Reviewing Content Questions 1-10 p. 283
o Answer Understanding Concepts pp. 283 #’s 11, 13,17,18
o Critcal Thinking p.284 #22,24,25,26,27,28,29,30 , Stamped / What are alleles?
HW:
03/05/14 / Finish Classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/06/14
Thursday
#24 / Objective: Students will be able to set up Punnett Squares in order to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
o JQ
o Practice with Punnett Squares / If two parents were both dominant for a particular trait can they have a child who is recessive? Explain.
HW:
03/06/14 / Finish Classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/07/14
Friday
#25 / Objective: Students will be able to set up Punnett Squares in order to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
o JQ
o Practice with Punnett Squares continued
o Determining gametes
o Dihybrid crosses / Cross a homozygous dominant dad with a heterozygous mom for eye color if B=brown eyes, and b=blue. What is the genotype and phenotype of the F1 generation?
HW:
03/07/14 / Finish Punnett Square problems
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/10/14
Monday
#26 / Objective: Students will be able to set up Punnett Squares in order to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
o JQ
o Dihybrid crosses
o Trihybrid crosses / Cross 2 fruit flies who are both heterozygous for 2 traits: red eyes and curled wings if R=Red, r=white; C=normal, c=curled wings.
HW:
03/10/14 / Finish Classwork (practice problems: di/trihybrid crosses)
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/11/14
Tuesday
#27 / Objective: Students will be able to identify and describe inheritance patterns that are different from simple dominance in order to apply genetic principles to all organisms.
o JQ
o Review Mendel
o What Mendel Never Knew / Perform the following cross in fruit flies:
RrCc x rrcc
R=Red, r=white; C=normal, c=curled wings.
HW:
03/11/14 / Handout
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/12/14
Wednesday
½ Day Cohort
#28 / Objective: Students will be able to identify and describe inheritance patterns that are different from simple dominance in order to apply genetic principles to all organisms.
o JQ
o Review Mendel
o What Mendel Never Knew / What is the difference between simple dominance and incomplete dominance?
HW:
03/12/14 / Handout: Review for Exam Friday
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/13/14
Thursday
#29 / Objective: Students will be able to identify and describe inheritance patterns that are different from simple dominance in order to apply genetic principles to all organisms.
o JQ
o What Mendel Never Knew
o Review for Exam tomorrow / How does incomplete dominance differ from codominance?
HW:
03/13/14 / Study for test tomorrow
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/14/14
Friday
#30 / Objective: Students will be able to identify and describe inheritance patterns that are different from simple dominance in order to apply genetic principles to all organisms.
o JQ
o Exam: Chapter 11 / If a trait has multiple alleles, do you still only get one allele from mom and one from dad? Explain.
HW:
03/14/14 / R&TN Chapter 14 Section 1 pp. 340-348 (Descriptive Outline or SpiderMap)
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/17/14
Monday
#31 / Objective: Students will be able to make and analyze karyotypes in order to explain chromosome abnormalities.
o JQ
o Intro: Chapter 14 Karyotypes / How can geneticists identify whether or not an individual has a chromosomal abnormality?
HW:
03/17/14 / Notebook Check
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/18/14
Tuesday
HSPE testing
#32 / Objective: Students will be able to make and analyze karyotypes in order to explain chromosome abnormalities.
o JQ
o Continue with Chapter 14 Karyotypes
o Turn in Notebook Check / What types of genetic abnormalities can you identify when doing a karyotype?
HW:
03/18/14
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/19/14
Wednesday
HSPE testing
#33 / Objective: Students will be able to make and analyze karyotypes in order to explain chromosome abnormalities.
o JQ
o Continue with Chapter 14 Karyotypes / Did you have any pairs of chromosomes that were not matches? What would this mean?
HW:
03/19/14 / Finish classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/20/14
Thursday
HSPE testing
#34 / Objective: Students will be able to make and analyze karyotypes in order to explain chromosome abnormalities.
o JQ
o Continue with Chapter 14 Karyotypes: Problems?
o Basic karyotypes of normal humans
o Genetic Counselor / What are 3 things that can be determined by making a karyotype?
HW:
03/20/14 / Finish classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/21/14
Friday
#35 / Objective: Students will be able to make and analyze karyotypes in order to explain chromosome abnormalities.
o JQ
o Genetic Counselor assignment / How is a karyotype different from a Punnett Square? How is it similar?
HW:
03/21/14 / Finish classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/24/14
Monday
#36 / Objective: Students will be able to make and analyze karyotypes in order to explain chromosome abnormalities.
o JQ
o Genetic Counselor assignment—finish karyotype, identify disorder, begin letter / Where can you find the possible disorders your “child” has? (look at paperwork I gave you Friday)
HW:
03/24/14 / Genetic Counselor Letter Due Friday, turnitin.com
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/25/14
Tuesday
#37 / Objective: Students will be able to make and analyze karyotypes in order to explain chromosome abnormalities.
o JQ
o Intro Pedigrees / Besides karyotypes, and Punnett Squares, what is another tool geneticists use to trace traits within a family?
HW:
03/25/14 / Genetic Counselor Letter Due Thursday night at 11:59pm, turnitin.com
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/26/14
Wednesday
#38 / Objective: Students will be able to use and construct pedigrees in order to study human traits.
o JQ
o Intro Pedigrees, cont’d / If both of your parents were homozygous recessive for a trait, could you have the dominant form of the trait? Explain.
HW:
03/26/14 / Finish the yellow handout: Pedigree problem
Genetic Counselor Letter Due Thursday night at 11:59pm, turnitin.com
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/27/14
Thursday
#39 / Objective: Students will be able to use and construct pedigrees in order to study human traits.
o JQ
o Pedigrees
o X-linked traits
o Blood Typing / What steps did you use to identify the blood types of 1,2,&3 on the green handout?
HW:
03/27/14 / Genetic Counselor Letter due tonight at 11:59pm, turnitin.com
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/28/14
Friday
#40 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the structures that sort independently and explain linkage.
o JQ/turn in letter
o Quiz: Karyotypes, Pedigrees, and X-linked traits
o Blood Typing / What is an X-linked trait?
HW:
03/28/14 / Finish classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
03/31/14
Monday
#41 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the structures that sort independently and explain linkage.
o JQ
o Blood Typing MiniLab / Cross a female who has hemophilia with a male who does not. If H= normal, h=hemophilia.
HW:
03/31/14 / Post-Lab questions
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
04/01/14
Tuesday
#42 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the structures that sort independently and explain linkage.
o JQ
o Blood Typing MiniLab—Post Lab
o R&TN Chapter 14, Section 2 / Draw a pedigree for your family, indicate the people who have brown hair in your family. Try to get at least 3 generations.
HW:
04/01/14 / Finish Classwork
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
04/02/14
Wednesday
#43 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the structures that sort independently and explain linkage.
o JQ
o More Pedigree practice / Which type of genetic tool would you use to determine if your child will have a type of breast cancer that runs in your family? Why?
HW:
04/02/14 / Exam Friday
Lab due Friday
Date / Agenda / Journal Question
04/03/14
Thursday
#44 / Objective: Students will be able to describe the structures that sort independently and explain linkage.
o JQ / How many autosomes are in a human?
HW:
04/03/14 / Exam Friday
Lab due Friday
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