MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

August 22

(Note  order Bio rad kits)

August 23

August 24

First Day of School

Minimum Day  
Policy, Donations, 

Signature and Donation due tomorrow

HW: Bozeman Biology: Youtube Podcasts: Introduction to Biology Assign Ch. 1 (Read only) due 8/30

Policy, Safety (Safety Video on You tube)  w puppets

Lab Safety Movie (http://www.nclark.net

/Lab_Safety.wmv)

Safety Contract print out and sign (print out the last  page to turn in). due tomorrow

Introduction to Themes

Calling all pillbugs* or sowbugs please bring in as many as you can, leave no rock unturned

Bioluminescence in the deep ocean

August 26 

Academic Integrity contract due

Pod Lecture Behavior Behavior and Behavior and Natural Selection

Biodiversity Weekend Arthropod Collection HW due Monday in class (hand out yellow bowls, and meter string

Graphing...

Citations

How to Write in Biology PPT

Statistics PPT (xp version)

August 29 (Early Lab Day)
Chapter 1 due today

Biodiversity Weekend Arthropod Collection   due 9/2

Biodiversity Rubric

Assign Chapters 51: Behavior and Behavior and Natural Selection Chapter 52 Ecology Introduction due  9/2

Pop. Ecology  Population Growth Activity: (prelab due tomorrow) (bring a graphing calculator if possible)

In class data collection... graphs and findings due 9/6

Reminder: Book Review due by the end of September if you are going to do that extra credit assignment

August 30

Pop. Ecology  Population Growth Activity: (prelab due today)

Pepper lab in class

Example AP Biology Lab Write ups Example 1  Example 2

Helpful Links: How to generate graphs of:

Logistic Growth Model

Exponential Growth Model

M&M statistics lab

Ants as military strategists

M&M statistics lab

Pop. Ecology  Population Growth Activity: (Write up due 9/2) absent on lab day requirements

HW: Prelab AP Lab 11 Sowbugs (What's in a prelab) and Brine Shrimp (if available)

What is Inquiry?

Reminder: there are consequences for being absent on lab day  (additional write-up requirements)

peer review of lab; redo due

Labor Day

No School

AP Lab 11 Sowbugs and Brine Shrimp absent on lab day requirements

HANDOUT: Setting up a Lab
HANDOUT:  “Example of a Lab Report
          
HANDOUT:  Post Lab/ Write up Help

A Guide for Analyzing a Laboratory Report”

ECA Ecology 

Data Day

Chi-Square Statistic test for sowbugs and brine shrimnp (Chi-square tutorial )

AP Lab 11 Formal Lab Due 9/12 (Title, Abstract, Background/Intro, Procedure (short paragraph), Results( data, graph, paragraph, Chi Square calculations), Conclusion paragraph, references (2) Rubric

Excel 2007 instructions

 Biodiversity Lab due today
Group Reading Quiz Tomorrow (m/c up to 22 questions)

Introduction to ECAs

ECA Ecology 

Reading Quiz Ch 50-55

Review/Lecture

Unit Test Ch 1, 50-55

Ch 1, 51-56 multiple choice today, take home essay due 

September 13

AP Lab 11  Formal Lab due today

Assign Ch 2, 3, read only, Chapter 4 & 5 notes required  9/23

Lecture Podcasts:

Chemical Basis to Life     & Water a polar molecule    &   Biological Molecules 

AP Lab 2 Setup 2C Do 2B, 2D

ECA: Proteins and Enzyme 

 Biorad Biofuel Cellobioase Enzyme

 (New Biofuel/ Biorad Cellobioase Kit or Titration Demo Lab Technique

HW: Prelab AP Lab 2 due OR Biofuel lab due tomorrow

BioFuel Cellobioase Quick Guide

Background BioFuel Enzyme Lab+Activity One

absent on lab day requirements (see me on Wednesday if you are going to be absent today)

HW: Prelab AP Lab 2/ Biofuel Enzyme Activities 2-5 (Tables 1-2=Activity 2; Tables 3-4= Activity 3; Tables 5-6=Activity 4; Tables 7-8= Activity 5)

 due tomorrow

Do Titration of Control

Data Wrap-up

Intro to Inquiry Lab #2:

 Inquiry con't

absent on lab day requirements

Inquiry Lab #2 continued

absent on lab day requirements

  

How to get an A+ on a lab write-up  (not assigned this year AP Lab 2 RUBRIC)

Ch. 4,5 due

AP Lab 2/  Biorad Biofuel Cellobioase Enzyme Lab due 9/30 Use this Rubric this year BioFuel/Enzyme Rubric

test corrections due by next unit test

Reading Quiz Ch 4,5

Next Chapter Reading HW: Assign Ch 8  due 9/26

Lecture Podcasts:

Gibbs Free Energy/  Free Energy/Thermodynamics &  &  Enzymes 

 ECA: Proteins and Enzyme

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Ch 8 due

Review

FYI: 

Lecture and Review

 ECA: Proteins and Enzyme

Unit Test Ch 2-5,8 FRQ (essay in class)

Assign Ch 6,7 due  10/7

Lecture Podcasts:

Abiogenesis (creation of life from non-organic source)
The Cell  (Compartmentalism- Specialization)
Cellular Membranes  (Transport across membranes).

Last day to turn in Bio-fuel/enzyme lab for full credit

Please watch Podcast of  AP Lab 1  for Monday

If you want your own copy, print out the lab

ECA: Cell Membranes

Demo AP Lab 1

absent on lab day requirements

Are all potatoes equal?

Virtual AP Lab 1

H₂O Potential Lecture and Cell Organelles

-Demo Part A

absent on lab day requirements

AP Lab 1 Part B

Setup Part C

ECA: Cell Membranes

absent on lab day requirements

AP Lab 1 Part C measurements/ Results/ Calc. (help with calculations: notes on water potential)

Lab Write-up due 10/12 ( AP Lab 1)  Includes: title, abstract, background (must cite references), results (data tables- class data, graphs-try and combine 1B/C one graph,  statistics, trend paragraph see Pg 7, & molarity of sucrose), brief conclusion, references and the questions Pgs 13-16 includes one graph at the end of the AP lab, min 2 references AP Lab 1 Rubric  How to write an Abstract (2)

 How to get an A+ on a lab write-up

 Short unit test on Monday (includes organelles)

Ch 6, 7 due

  Short Unit Test and Essay

HW: Assign Ch 9 due 10/14

Introduction to Cellular Respiration

Bring AP Lab 5, demo respiration lab 

 Lecture: Cell Respiration

Demo procedure to AP lab 5

Change ups: different types of seeds, different temperatures

AP Lab 5

absent on lab day requirements

AP Lab 1 Write-up due today (see 10/6)

 ECA: Energy Transfer

Results Day

Formal Lab (skip procedure and materials) include Q10 calculations for your group and the class data- you should  use data from both classes' means. (Title, Intro/Background, Results (min 1 data table, min 2 graph), trend/result paragraph, discussion/conclusion, min 2 references ..due 10/19  How to get an A+ on a lab write-up  Q10 calculator (for fun q10 diatribe) Lab Rubric AP lab 5

Assign Ch 10 due 10/19

 Ch 9 due

Lecture continued

  Ch 9 Quiz

Start Photosyn

finish going over Q10

Wrap up Results if necessary

Lecture continued Krebs/ Oxidative Phosphorylation

Read thru introduction information on the use of a Spec 20 on Helms Lab #4

Demo AP Lab 4 (found in zip file, AP Lab folder) procedures

Spectrophotometer demo

Lecture continued

Changing up the experiment... wavelengths, different colored lights, distance to light, other plants besides spinach

AP Lab 5 formal lab due today

Ch 10 due

Assign Ch 11 due 10/27

Assign Ch 12 due  11/4

Prelab due for AP Lab 4

AP Lab 4(May have to repeat after school if problems). part 1 chromatography and part II

absent on lab day requirements

Quiz Ch 10 Quiz

AP Lab 4 Results/ 

due 10/28  AP Lab 4 Rubric

 How to get an A+ on a lab write-up

Assign Ch 12 due 11/8

Intro to AP Lab 12

Demo Titration of dissolved O₂

 Prelab AP Lab 12

Nomogram and information about DO in lakes

absent on lab day  (additional write-up requirements)

 Set up bottles for AP Lab 12

 AP Lab 12 Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity  absent on lab day requirements

(Early Lab Day) 

absent on lab day  (additional write-up requirements)

 Titration of bottles (Winkler Method)

Ch 11 due

AP Lab 12 Semi Formal Lab write-up due 11/3  Rubric

Results/Discussion

(title, abstract, results (graphs only) + trend paragraph, calculate the carbon fixed in the average light bottle handwritten in results section,  analysis questions from formal lab lists and include questions at the end of lab  AP Lab 12, (direct link to part C) discussion/conclusion, and references) due 11/3  How to get an A+ on a lab write-up

 AP Lab 4 today

ap lab 12 results cont

 My Dog is Broken

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Lecture: Cell Cycle

Photosynthesis Article Review Due today (see summer letter) see article link on front web page)

Lecture: Cell communication/ cell cycle

 Cancer Vaccines

read over AP Lab 3 A 

Onion Root Tutorial

AP Lab 3A: Mitosis (both sets analysis questions 5 questions and one pie chart),
data table from onion,  and analysis (handwritten okay)
questions only from 3A lab
(in download file) absent on lab day  (additional write-up requirements) due 11/7

Chapter 12 due

absent on lab day requirements

November 7

AP Lab 3A: Mitosis due (see 11/3)

Catch up/Review Day

November 8 

 UNIT TEST: CHAPTERS 9-12

Assign Chapter 13 and 16 due 11/15

Assign Chapter 20 and 21 due 11/28

Bring AP Lab 3B for tomorrow

November 9  

Sordaria

Image I, Images

Demo Sordaria

Lecture: Meiosis

Sordaria Pictures

AP Lab 3B Meiosis

 absent on lab day requirements

November 10

Short Sordaria (AP Lab 3B) Count asci:

AP Lab 3B Write-up due 11/18: (use copy of lab from zipfile)

Title, Background info, investigation and analysis questions p. 39-40, includes tables 3.2, 3.3 and Analysis of results on page 44, references. absent on lab day  (additional write-up requirements)  How to get an A+ on a lab write-up

November 11

Veteran's Day

No School

No School Today

Virtual AP Lab 6 Site

  Quiz Today Meiosis

Restriction Mapping Lab (dry lab)

Helpful background info

due tomorrow

restriction (dry lab this year)

 Restriction Mapping Lab  

Data for Restriction Mapping Dry Lab

Helpful background info

 Restriction

 Mapping Lab 

Semi-log Graph help

BioRad Restriction Mapping Practice #1

BioRad Restriction Mapping Practice #2

Video

Unit Review (Ch 13, 16, 20, 21) 

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

Friday

November 28
Chapter 20 & 21 due

absent on lab

 day requirements

run gels (doing dry lab this year)

 DNA Technology Continued 

(old school VNTRs, 

RFLPs, Southern

Blots; STR "new school")

 Don't forget to check out 
the podcasts for review

November 29

review for unit test tomorrow

Unit Review (Ch 13, 16, 20, 21) 

Ch 20 and 21 due 

Meiosis     (Chapter 8 Part II)              

Regulation and Timing in Development(AP Essentials #24)

Molecular Biology of the Gene (DNA Structure) (Chap 10)

Homeostasis Hugs
Cellular Specialization (Development) )Essentials #44) 

November 30 

Unit Test, Chapters 13, 16, 20 and 21

Extra Credit Article Review Due Assign Ch 17,18 due 12/7

Restriction Mapping Lab  Rubric on lab due today 

December 1 

Intro to Central Dogma

 DNA & RNA Part I (history) (Biology Essentials #27 A)
DNA & RNA Part II (structure)(Biology Essentials #27 B)

From Gene to Protein: Chapter 17
 Scitable from Nature: Essentials of Cell Biology Unit 2 &   Central Dogma & Eukaryotic Gene Control

December 2

absent on lab day requirements

Assign AP Lab 6 Summary

(read thru link Part I only) 

Bacterial Recombination

Summary 1 page due 12/16

December 5

Lecture Central Dogma 

 Unit ECA (Central Dogma-Gene Expression)... work in small groups on first page. Questions 1-10

From Gene to Protein Animation 
(Cell Function Overview)
Protein
Transport Movie
Transcription and Translation

Cystic Fibrosis Gene Defect Article

December 6

Pre-Lab

PV92 Quick Guide Instructions

 for lab starting tomorrow

PV92 Student Manual (all the info)

Intro to PCR animation

 Pseudogenes
no longer vestigial?

Origins
of Gene Regulation (2010) 
good extra credit article review

The Role of Nucleosome
Positioning in the Evolution
 of Gene Regulation  

pre-mRNA splicing Alternate Splicing Article

Hot Topic: RNAi silencing expression

Why is DNA the main nucleic acid for information storage instead of RNA?

Violation of Central Dogma???? Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis

Active RNA Polymerases: Mobile or Immobile Molecular Machines?

Pseudogenes Alu article (extra credit article)

December 7

Assign Ch 17,18  due

Assign Ch 19 (Viruses) 

due 1/5

PCR, 

absent on lab day requirements

PV92 Student Manual (all the info)

( do the harvest of 
 cheek cells today, 
and set up PCR to run)

absent on lab day requirements

PV92 Student Manual (all the info)

December 8 

Reading Quiz Ch 17, 18

 Ch 17,18 due

HEADS UP: LAST DAY TO TURN IN LATE, RED0NE, EX CR MONDAY JANUARY 9, 2012

Run gels

December 9

PCR resultsPV92 Student Manual (all the info)

Allele Server

PV92 Rubric 

(Use this link to get to additional information on Alu at DNALC

 read background and then click on "exercises" for instructions)  Title,

1 page summary of results, picture or drawing of gel,

relate results to

Allele Server ( use doing Exercises 1 thru 4 to help shape summary of results and conclusions) + min 2 references absent on lab day  (additional write-up requirements) Due 12/16

 Ghost in Your Genes (external gene expression)

Unit ECA (Central Dogma-Gene Expression)

Tweaking a Gene Makes it Stronger

Fruit fly intestines and the secret of longevity

Time to wake up

Search for Emerging Viruses (TED talk)

Humorous NPR animation of viral infections

 HHMI:  Viral Outbreak lectures

PCR lab due

Winter Break

School Resumes Jan 4, 2012

Reminder last day to turn in late or redone labs is Monday January 9th

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

January 2

AP Bio Fall Final Study Guide

No School Today 

January 3

AP Bio Fall Final Study Guide

 No School Today

January 4  School Begins

AP Bio Fall Final Study Guide

Eukaryote Gene 

Regulation  vs (prokaryotic regulation)

RNAi Animations

Octopus uses RNA editing to change protein to cope with frigid temperatures 

Search for Emerging Viruses (TED talk)

Humorous NPR animation of viral infections

January 5 

AP Bio Fall Final Study Guide

GENE ARTICLE REVIEW DUE TOMORROW

Chapter 19 reading notes due

 Quiz Ch 19 tomorrow 

PBS: RNAi Animations and more

RNAi Slideshow HHMI

Small hairpin RNA (shRNA) and viroids

January 6

AP Bio Fall Final Study Guide

LAST DAY TO TURN IN LATE, RED0NE, EX CR MONDAY JANUARY 9, 2012

GENE ARTICLE REVIEW DUE TODAY

LAST DAY TO TURN IN LATE, RED0NE, EX CR MONDAY JANUARY 9, 2012

Video: From Butterflies to Humans HHMI Lecture (lecture 4 online)

OR

 HHMI: On Sex and Gender (Lecture 4)

Lecture Four—Sexual Evolution: From X to Y, by David C. Page, M.D. (see the talk click on the link)
 

Unit Test, 

Ch 17-19 Wednesday

Ch 17-19 Study Guide

Review and Unit ECA (Central Dogma-Gene Expression)

Unit Test, 

Ch 17-19

Fall Final Review

Classic Biology Place: Biocoach (tutorials on major topics) LabBench (AP lab reviews)

January 16      

Martin Luther King's Birthday/Holiday

No Classes

January 17

 6th Period Final

AP Bio Fall Final Study Guide

January 18

1st and 2nd Period Finals

Final Exam

Chapter 1-21, 50-55

Appx. 90 M/C

2 Essays

January 19

3rd and 4th Period Finals

January 20

5th and A Period Finals

2nd Semester Begins Tuesday January 24