State Standards Are Organized Into 5 Basic Areas. They Will Be Referenced As

State Standards are organized into 5 basic areas. They will be referenced as:

UNIT

TIME

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STATE STANDARD

UNIT 1:

Introduction

I & E

• Safety Comic Strip
• UVB-A Lab
• Pillbug
• Obscertainer Discs
• Snail Observation (55 min)
• Inference Cube (55 min)
• Jicama Demo
• Tricky Tracks
• Blue Lab
• Snail Olympics
• Ducoid Activity

 Glue Monsters

• Bacteria Clean-up
• Posters
• Round Robin w/ matrix of lab specimens
• Writing Assignment
• Head MCS/Poster (themes)

• Home, home on biome
• Botany/plant adaptation lab/plant structure
• Alien species – articles & chart
• Chemical cycles (C, O, N) diagram
• Identifying a limiting nutrient, p. 81
• Food web activity
• Climatograms
• Deforestation/changes in biome activity (?)
• Succession activity
• Predator/prey lab
• Design an organism/habitat (zoo)
• Biodome project

State Standards are organized into 5 basic areas. They will be referenced as:

UNIT

TIME

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STATE STANDARD

Biol1h, 1b boil 9a-I, biol10a-f

• HONC/Styrofoam balls
• Atomic card/structure
• Periodic Table for biologists
• pH of unknown lab
• Hot Liver lab (or lab showing effect of pH/temp on enzyme activity)
• Physical/Chemical Rxn Demos (see Jason)
• Shock ‘em
• Tesla coil
• Identify Organic Compounds Lab Amazing Burning Nut/Gummi Bear lab
• Build a Protein
• Identify Fat Lab (types) (sat & unsat)

• Poster of Immunity Topics/Presentations
• Heart Rate/Blood Pressure Lab
• Sensory Neuron Test

Chapter 7, 10

Biol1a, 1c, 1d, 1f, 1g, 1i, 1j

Biol2a, 2b, 2e, 2f

• Microscope Use: safety, use, types
• Letter “e” lab/colored thread
• Plant vs. Animal cell (microviewers, cheek cell, onion skin, potato)
• Cell organelle project
• Cell Brochure project
• Cell Analogy activity
• Pro/euk/virus

• Sauerkraut
• Bread mold
• Plating bacteria (benchmark)

• Cell theory mobile
• Cell theory time-line
• Scientific drawings format
• Preserved specimens
• Microscope specimens

• Dialysis tubing lab
• Egg lab
• Elodea leaf lab
• Osmotic concentration share sheet
• Diffusion demos & mcs
• Cell energy poster
• Photosynthesis labs
• Stomata lab
• ATP act-outs
• Pigment mcs
• Anaerobic respiration lab
• Mitosis flip-book
• Mitosis animal & plant microviewer labs
• Onion root tip lab
• Crossword
• Venn diagram: mitosis & meiosis
• Mitosis yarn lab
• Chromosome path wks
• Cell cycle wks

State Standards are organized into 5 basic areas. They will be referenced as:

UNIT

TIME

TEXT REFERENCE

STATE STANDARD

9 weeks

• Green pea, yellow pea reading
• Pea readers theater
• Punnet square problems
• Making a baby face lab
• Ratio & probability activity
• Pedigrees
• Karyotype activity (ladybug)
• DNA puzzle
• DNA model (alternative assessment)
• DNA, RNA venn diagram
• Transcription/translation paper lab
• DNA code wks
• Colorblind Lab (p. 351 Text)
• DNA De-coding Activity

State Standards are organized into 5 basic areas. They will be referenced as:

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• Bird beak lab
• Peppered moth lab
• Horse evolution wks
• Fossil evidence of evolution
• Geologic timeline
• Fossil dig
• Skull activity
• Types of evolution – jigsaw
• Diversity among organisms (ex: lima beans)
• Bell pepper lab
• Green bean variation lab
• El Nino video (finch)
• Modeling adaptation
• Using dichotomous keys
• Comparing adaptations of birds
• Modeling a gene pool lab
• Opposable thumb
• Biochemical evidence
• Evolution Videos (Jason)
• CNN News clips-Galapagos
• Master and Commander clips
• Real Eve video
• In Search of Human Origins
• Mutation Lab (Jill)

Chapter 35 – 40

• Pig dissection
• Heart Rate/Blood Pressure Lab
• Sensory Neuron Test
• Reaction time labs
• Sensory lab
• Eye puzzles (optical illusions)
• Poster of Immunity Topics/Presentations
• Slide presentations (info from Internet)
• 5 senses
• Tissue microscope lab
• Coloring wks
• Smell lab
• Eye lab (post-rotary)

State Standards are organized into 5 basic areas. They will be referenced as:

UNIT

TIME

TEXT REFERENCE

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• How is a cladogram constructed? p. 453
• Real World Lab- classifying organisms using a dichotomous key (book)
• Shark & Insect Key
• Jelly Belly Key
• Squid Dissection
• Insect/Leaf Collection
• Ticks & Lyme Disease –analyzing data, ch 28

• Quick Lab – How do seeds differ from spores?
• Identifying Growth Zones in a Plant
• Quick Lab – What is the structure of a flower?
• Plant a monocot & dicot plant
• Hydroponic lab?

• Grow bacteria
• Plate bacteria
• View different types bacteria – prepared slides
• Make cheese
• Gram +/-
• Antibiotic Lab
• Reading Unit/Project - Crichton, Cook

• Vocabulary Lists
• Flashcards
• Student-created crosswords
• Concept Maps
• Foldables
• Text worksheets
• Graphic organizers