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Biology 2nd
Semester 2011
How to
Study- Guide,
California
& District Life Science Standards
Academic Vocabulary, Test Correction Instructions Test your brain
Concept Mapping and Virtual Glossary and Scientific Root Words and Taking Lecture Notes and Reading: SQ3R and Cornell Note-taking
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January 24 - March 11, 2011
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January 24 No Classes Teacher Work Day NOTE: we are doing a trial using an
Online Free Biology textbook... you are welcome to use the online
to complete reading assignments or continue using your book. If you
choose to use the online version and would like to earn Extra
Credit, please keep track of your use of the chapters as well as
pertinent comments to help figure out if the District will use
the online textbook in the future.
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January 25 Physiology Science Content Standard 9 b-d
1st semester final exam results (extra credit test correction points see top of calendar) Homework Assignment due 2/11 New seating charts Intro to Nervous System |
January 26
Assignments: New In Class: FYI: NFL and Concussions
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January 27 In Class: FYI: The Living Body: The Nervous System: Nerves at Work or the Teenage Brain (Frontline) link to online version or Animal Structure dvd part 2 Nervous System and Drugs The Senses Reflex Fun On-line FYI: |
January 28 Assignments : Due Assignments: New
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January 31
In Class: Hemo the Magnificent or FYI:
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February 1
Assignments : Due In Class: |
February 2 Science Content Standards
9f,g,h,i
Assignments: New Assign online chapter on Excretion only or use Ch 38-3 notes and Draw and label cross-section of kidney and nephron (fig 38-17) explain the purpose of all the parts. Explain the purpose of dialysis. Due in journal 2/7 |
February 3 Plant Fast plants Assignments : Due Assignments: New
All about the Kidney and Excretion |
February 4 Science Content Standards 10,a,b Assignments : Due Assignments: New
lab Introduction to Fast Plants How Fast Plants were discovered
Association of diseases or conditions with substances found in urine |
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February 7 Science Content Standards 10 c,d,e,f Assignments : Due Assign online chapter on Excretion only Ch 38-3 Cornell
notes and
Draw
and label
cross-section
of kidney
and
nephron (fig 38-17) explain the purpose of all the parts. Explain the
purpose of dialysis. Due in journal
Assignments: New Thin "Fast Plants" UR in Trouble Class Results wrapup
Work on identifying disease linked to urine results Association
of diseases or conditions with substances found in urine
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February 8 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Extra Credit Article: Cancer and White Blood Cells due 2/15 2) Assign Online Virus Chapter (only read first part) Ch. 19-2 and 19-3; viruses, notes only in journal due 2/15 3)
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February 9 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Assignments : Due Assignments: New 2)
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February 10
Science Content Standards District Plant Standards 1st semester final exam results (test correction points see top of calendar) Homework Assignment due 2/11 Immune System/ HIV Video (#193) Immune continued.... Allergies and Cancer Cells and Organs of the Immune System Infection and the Immune System Antibody (Humoral) Immune Response Cellular (Killer T cell) Immune Response |
February 11 Make Bee Sticks Assignments : Due extra credit final exam test corrections due today Assignments: New Pre-lab: Reminder: Ch 40 charts and UR in Trouble lab due Monday Transmission of Disease Activity in class (note you will use a test tube instead of a cup and a pipette to exchange fluids) Immune System Wrap-up/ Immune Review
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February 14 Assignments : Due UR in Trouble Write-up: Lab Results UR in trouble.. write-up requirements, proper title, data table, answer the questions at the end of the lab, minimum 2 references; Ur in Trouble Rubric due typed (assigned 2/4)
Assignments: New
HIV Nova Program |
February 15
Assignments : Due
Assignments: New Review for Unit Test
3) Review Worksheets: (note pdf files) Immune 1, Immune 3, Digestion Excretion, Muscle From HowStuffWorks
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February 16
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February 17 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Test Corrections |
February 18 School Today: "Birds and the Bees" Video The Private Life of Plants |
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February 21 No School: President's Day
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February 22 Pollinate Science Content Standards 2a,b,c,d,e,f Assignments : Due Assignments: New
Begin Genetics Unit
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February 23 Pollinate? Assignments : Due Assignments: New
Codominance and Variations on 1st law Monohybrid Crosses Animated Monohybrid cross |
February 24 Pollinate? Assignments : Due Assignments: New PH Animated Concepts # 15-17 (review meiosis 3 segments) Review for quiz Meiosis Review Sheet |
February 25 Rally Schedule (Optional After School Rally School Ends 2:05)
Assignments : Due
Assignments: New Pre-lab Beaker Baby (Make a Virtual Baby) procedure and data table (please print out lab) due Monday |
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February 28 Science Content Standards 2g, 3a-c Assignments : Due Assignments: New
2) Make a Virtual Baby" Activity |
March 1 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Genetic Disorders by Chromosome Sex-linked 1, and 2 (challenging) |
March 2 Fine Arts Assembly (class 45 minutes long) Science Content Standards 2g, 3a-c Assignments : Due
Assignments: New Different colored eyes (Heterochromia iridium) Multiple Alleles/ Demo ABO/Rh Sex-linked 1, and 2 |
March 3 Assignments : Due Assignments: New (more ABO details if you're interested) X-linked, co-dominance and more pedigrees Color-blindness |
March 4 Assignments: New |
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March 7 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Optional Tutorials from your textbook: Chapter 11 worksheets and voc review (pdf) Chapter 14 worksheets and voc review (pdf)
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March 8 CAHSEE testing
Period 2: 1:09 PM - 2:07 PM) Period 3: 2:12 PM- 3:10 PM
Assignments : Due Assignments: New (more ABO
details if you're interested) |
March 9 (CAHSEE testing)
Period 4: 11:35 AM to 12:25 PM Assignments : Due Assignments: New
(more ABO details if you're interested)
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March 10
Science Content Standards 2g, 3a-c, 7b Assignments : Due Assignments: New Karotype and Non-disjunction |
March 11 Quiz Monday
(x-linked and dihybrid problems) Assignments : Due Assignments: New
Review Cold Spring Harbor/ Genetics |
March 14- June 10, 2011
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| March 14
Assignments : Due Assignments: New Review
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Assignments : Due Assignments: New Review/ practice problems |
March 1
Assignments : Due Extra Credit Assignments: New
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March 17
(Late Start Schedule) Science Content Standards 7a-c, 8a-e Assignments : Due Assignments: New Test Correction Instructions for Genetics due 4/14
Darwin Biography Link to State Science Framework/Standards |
March 18 Harvest F2 Fast Plants Remove Fast Plants Pods to dry today Assignments : Due Assignments: New Evolution "Gems" from Nature Magazine
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| March 21 No
School: District Furlough Day |
March 22 Sprout F2 today Assignments : Due Assignments: New Sprout F2 today
Early Whales Gave Birth on Land, Fossils Reveal |
March 23 Quiz tomorrow on Natural Selection Science Content Standards 8a-e Assignments : Due Assignments: New Breeding bunnies |
March 24
Assignments : Due Assignments: New
Abbott and Costello's Routine Who's on First?
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March 25 Assignments : Due Assignments: New
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| March 28 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Online Reading: Human Evolution
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M Assignments : Due Assignments: New
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March 30 Assignments : Due Assignments: New |
March 31
Science Content Standards 7a-c, 8a-e, 6g Assignments : Due Assignments: New
Online Reading: Human Evolution |
April 1 Upcoming Quiz
Wednesday 4/13 on reading assignments since last quiz Assignments : Due Assignments: New Video: The mind's big bang o |
| April 4
Spring Break
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April 5
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April 6
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April 7 | April 8 |
| April 11 Video: Quest: Finding Darwin; Chasing Beetles (if you were absent you can watch the program using the link above) Related links Origin of the Species
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April 12
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April 13
Homo erectus Trackway in Italy (325,000 years old fleeing a volcano) |
April 14
Standards Review for upcoming State Biology test (when you open the document, go to pages 51-56 of the file) California State Framework (detailed standards) PDF (see pages 36-66 of the pdf document) CST Biology Blueprint and 10th Grade Blueprint What will be on the NCLB/Life Science Test Blueprint (2006)
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April 15 Review for STAR
Review Sheets for Unit Test Ch 15-1, Ch 15-2, Ch 15-3, Ch 15 Voc, Ch 16-1, Ch 16-2, Ch 16-3, Ch 16 Voc Rev, Ch 32-3 |
| April 18 Evolution Unit Test Study Guide Review Sheets for Unit Test Ch 15-1, Ch 15-2, Ch 15-3, Ch 15 Voc, Ch 16-1, Ch 16-2, Ch 16-3, Ch 16 Voc Rev, Ch 32-3
Standards Review for upcoming State Biology test (when you open the document, go to pages 51-56 of the file) California State Framework (detailed standards) PDF (see pages 36-66 of the pdf document) |
April 19 |
April 20
State Testing: English Language Arts Periods 1,4, 6 meet (66-67 minute class)
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April 21
State Testing: End of Course Science Test Period 3,4, 5, A, meet today (63-64 minute class)
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April 22
Evolution
Unit Test (next Monday )
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| April 25
Assign
Unit Test Biotechnology Test Study Guide Begin Biotechnology Unit ..Background Info: DNA Fingerprinting, More on DNA fingerprinting |
April 26
State Testing: Mathmatics: Periods 1, 2,6 (66-67 minutes) Test Corrections for Evolution due by 5/9 Assign Unit test corrections and Introduction to Biotechnology Biotechnology Test Study Guide Begin ..Background Info: DNA Fingerprinting, More on DNA fingerprinting |
April 27 State Testing: 10th grade History/Social Sciences: Periods 3,4,5,A (66-67 minutes) Assign Test Corrections for Evolution due by 5/9 Introduction to Biotechnology/ Equipment and practice Weird Al Yankovic Palindrome Song ..Background Info: DNA Fingerprinting, More on DNA fingerprinting |
April 28 State Testing:10th grade only NCLB Life Science: 11th grade US History All classes meet (38-39 minutes)
DNA goes to the Races due in journal 5/2 DNA scissors con't Biotech tools Recommended Animations: Biotech
animations
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April 29 DNA Scissors, . homework due in journal tomorrow
The tools of biotechnology |
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DNA Scissors, . homework due in journal
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May 3
Review Biotech Test next Tuesday |
May 4
Barry Scheck and the Innocence Project
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May 5
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May 6
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| May Short Biotech Qu/est tomorrow
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May 10
Qu/test first Begin Classification and Diversity Unit What are dichotomous keys? Activity due 5/13 in journal includes "going further tree and explanation" Classification and Diversity Unit |
May 11
Science Content Standards 6a, 8b, I&Ek Shape
of Life/Life on the Flatworms Assign
Chapter 18: take notes and answer the following
questions: How are organisms named? What are shared derived
characteristics? What is a cladogram? Draw an example cladogram, label
shared derived characteristics. What are the three domains? List
descriptions and characteristics of all three. DUE 5/
What are dichotomous keys? Activity due 5/13 in journal includes "going further tree and explanation" Classification and Diversity Unit |
May 12
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May 13
Assignments : Due PDF of Animal's f for Practicum
Classification/Diversity Plant Earth:
Animals
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| May
PDF of Animal's f for Practicum Wordbank for Identifying Animals Review Worksheets: Ch 18-1, 18-2, 18-3, 18 Voc Review |
May
PDF of Animal's f for Practicum Tomorrow Unit Test includes 5-10 bottle identifications (invertebrate phyla and vertebrate classes)
Review Worksheets: Ch 18-1, 18-2, 18-3, 18 Voc Review
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May 18
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May 19 Science
Content Standards 6 b,c,d,e,f,g Ecology Unit Assign Notes Chapter 4 due in journal due May 26 Background Information for Project located in Chapters 4-6 Begin Ecology Unit Pre-assessment Test
Introduction to Real Survivor Project and survivor web links, possible habitats (groups will draw a habitat from a fish bowl) pick groups/assign jobs/ topic selections Group Participation Sheet , PowerPoint Rubric (one of each per group) and Presentation Rubric (one per person) HW: web search for information
Group Contract due Wednesday
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May 20 (meet in class then go to the Library)
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| May 23 Group
Contract
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May
24 Group
Contract Library Begin Reviewing for Final Exam chemistry, ecology |
May 25
Group
Contract Reviewing for Final Exam Membranes
Project
work
continued
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May 26 (Late Start Schedule) Final Project Presentations Begin today Reviewing for Final Exam Cellular Respiration/ Photosynthesis
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May 27 (Renaissance Assembly- Class 45 minutes)
Assign Notes Chapter 5 due in journal today Assignments: New Group Participation (NOTE: if you don't turn in this sheet you will get a zero on your participation grade). Reviewing for Final Exam Cells and Nucleic Acids/Central Dogma REMINDER:
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| May 30 Memorial Day/ No School |
May 31 (last day to turn in late, or
redone, or extra credit work) Group Participation Sheet , PowerPoint Rubric (one of each per group) and Presentation Rubric (one per person) Due Friday (NOTE: if you don't turn in this sheet you will get a zero on your participation grade)
Reviewing for Final Exam Biotechnology
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June 1
Final Projects Presentations Reviewing for Final Exam Meiosis and Genetics Group Participation Sheet Due (NOTE: if you don't turn in this sheet you will get a zero on your participation grade)
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June 2
Final Projects Presentations Reviewing for Final Exam Plants and Body Systems Group Participation Sheet Due (NOTE: if you don't turn in this sheet you will get a zero on your participation grade).
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June 3 Rally Schedule (Optional After School Rally School Ends 2:05)
Group
Participation Sheet Due Today (NOTE: if you don't
turn in this sheet you will get a zero on your participation grade) Reviewing for Final Exam Evolution
Final Exam Information: Yes it covers the whole year and you may have a 3x5" card both sides or one side of 1/2 a sheet of notebook paper (handwritten only no magnifying glasses) California State Framework (detailed standards) PDF (see pages 36-66 of the pdf document) |
| June 6 Final's Week Presentations |
June 7
Final's Week
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June 8
Final's Week
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June 9
Final's Week Last Day of School |
June 10
Graduation
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