Biology 2013-2014 Calendar
JANUARY
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
6
SNOW DAY!
7
-Introduction review activity
-Syllabus and class rules
8
-Cell division video clip
-Cell Division Notes
-Cut & Paste Cell Cycle Puzzle
Activity
-due Friday 1/10
-Information sheet due
tomorrow
13
-Check stages of mitosis
activity
-Mitosis video clip
-Mitosis Notes
-Put binders together
-Yarn Lab due tomorrow
14
-Mitosis Yarn Lab due today
-Review how to use
microscopes
-Onion Root lab due next
class period for 2nd hr and
Friday for 1st and 4th hr
HW: Look over 10.1-10.2
notes
21
-Quiz/Test= Quest over
Mitosis tomorrow
-Cancer Research Paper due
today.
-Jeopardy Review Game
-Bring book tomorrow.
15
-Review Mitosis
-Faces of Cancer activity
-Cell Regulation Notes
-Introduction to cancer
research project : due
Tuesday
-Work on research project
9
-Turn in Information sheet
-Cell Cycle Puzzle will be
checked for completion
tomorrow.
-Mitosis: Reading Diagrams,
Tables, & Charts
-Cut & Paste mitosis activity:
put pieces in order and label
each stage.
-Mitosis sequencing sheet:
number & label stages
-Read Chapter10.1 pages 223226
16
20
NO SCHOOL
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
DAY
22
-Check on stamped activities
for points : Cell Cycle Puzzle
& Mitosis Cut & Paste
Activity
-Chapter 10 Quest
-Chapter 11 Vocabulary: 11
words w/ definitions due
tomorrow.
-Review Quiz/test from
yesterday.
-Set up Biology binders
-Chapter 11 Vocabulary due
-Asexual vs. Sexual
Reproduction Activity
Friday
10
-Stamp Cell Cycle Puzzle:
Hold onto it!
-Mitosis cut & paste activity
due Monday.
-Mitosis Yarn Lab: due
Tuesday
-Read chapter 10.2
17
-Quiz/Test over cell cycle,
mitosis, and cell regulation
on Wednesday 1/22
-Onion Root Tip Lab due
today
-Mitosis Card Activity
-Work on Cancer Research
Project due Tuesday
24
-Finish Asexual vs. Sexual
Reproduction Activity
-Turn in responses, tables,
and graphs.
27
-Review Activity from
Thurs/Fri
-Sexual vs. Asexual
Reproduction video clip
-Sexual and Asexual Notes
-Diploid vs. Haploid video clip
28
-Diploid vs. Haploid Notes
-Fertilization video clip
-Diploid & Haploid reading w/
questions: Due at a date not
yet set.
29
-Karyotyping Cut & Paste
Activity
-Activity with questions
due Friday.
30
31
-Finish Karyotyping Activity:
due today
-Meiosis Cut & Paste Activity:
due Monday
-color chromosomes,
place pieces in correct
order, and label each
stage.
FEBRUARY
Monday
3
-Diploid vs Haploid reading
w/ questions due wed/thurs.
-Stamp Meiosis Cut & Paste
Activity/ Review correct
answers and order for
activity
-Meiosis Notes
-Meiosis Crash Course Video
Clip
10
-Work day on Mitosis vs.
Meiosis Project
-Project due at beginning of
class Tuesday
-Handed out study guide for
Test on Friday.
17
-Vocabulary due
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
4
5
6
7
-Introduce Mitosis vs Meiosis
Project. due Tuesday
-Meiosis Quiz/Test next
Friday 2/14
11
-Poster Project over Mitosis
vs. Meiosis due today
-Present posters to
classmates
-Meiosis Activity
-Mitosis vs. Meiosis activity
with Venn Diagram
18
-Finish Genetics Notes 12.1
12
-Organize binders
-stamp haploid vs. diploid
sheet
-Mitosis vs Meiosis Activity
with Venn Diagram
-Meiosis Jeopardy Review
for test on Friday.
19
-Review chapter 12.1 notes
13
14
Meiosis Test
-Chapter 12 vocabulary
assigned. Due Monday 2/17
20
21
-Genetics Packet due
-Review Meiosis Tests
-Genetics Notes 12.1
-Create a Person Activity
24
-Hand back Mitosis vs
Meiosis Posters
-Hand in packet from Friday
-Review Bikini Bottom
Genetics wksh
-12.3 Notes
-Bikini Bottom Wksh #2 due
tomorrow
-Look over Meiosis Notes
tonight and bring
binders/notes tomorrow.
25
-Extra Credit Opportunity
-Grade Bikini Bottom Wksh
#2
-Start Dihybrid Crosses
and ask at least 2 questions
on notes
-Chapter 12.2 notes on their
own
-Look over chapter 12.3 will
lecture some on it Monday
-Discuss Punnett squares as
a class
-Bikini Bottom Genetics wksh
due Friday 2/21
26
-Review Dihybrids
-Work on two dihybrid
problems
Monday 2/24
27
-Dihybrid Packets due
tomorrow
-Genetics Test next
Wed/Thurs.
-Interactive Reader due
Tuesday
28
-Grade dihybrid packets
-Introduce Harry Potter and
Dragon Genetics.
- Due Wed/Thurs.
-Interactive Reader due
Tuesday
MARCH
Monday
3
-Work on Harry Potter
Genetics and Dragon
Genetics due Wed/ Thurs
-Interactive Reader due
tomorrow to grade in class.
Tuesday
4
-Grade interactive Reader.
Turn in day of test
-Introduce Genetic Disorder
Brochure
-Harry Potter and Dragon
Genetics due next class
period
-Study Day/ Get caught up
Wednesday
5
-Collect Extra Credit
Bathroom Passes
-Collect Interactive Reader
-Genetics Test
-Work on Genetic Disorder
Brochure. It is due
Wednesday 3/12
Thursday
6
Friday
7
NO SCHOOL: END OF 3rd
QUARTER
day.
-Test next class period
11
-Discuss Beyond Mendelian
Genetic Notes
-Variations wksh: due
tomorrow.
-Brochure due tomorrow.
12
-Go over variations wksh
-Genetic Disorder Activity
with brochures
-Start on Baby Matthew
Activity.
13
-Quiz over Mendelian
Genetics
-Baby Matthew Activity due
at end of class.
14
NO SCHOOL!
PARENT/TEACHER
CONFERENCES
17
18
19
20
21
24
-Hand out bathroom passes
-Bill Nye the Science GuyGenes video
25
-Handed out Note packets
-Chapter 13.1 Notes
-DNA Replication activity due
tomorrow.
26
-Stamp check DNA
replication activity
-DNA 3-D model activity (due
by end of class)
-Model of DNA activity
27
28
-New Seating Chart
-Go over DNA Replication
activity from Tuesday.
-DNA replication video clips
-DNA replication Notes
-Work on Model of DNA
activity
Tuesday
Wednesday
10
-Discuss Genetics Test
-Beyond Mendelian Genetic
Notes
-Work on genetic disorder
brochure: due Wednesday at
beginning of class.
-Quiz on Thursday
APRIL
Monday
March 31st
1
2
Thursday
3
Friday
4
-Work on Model of DNA
Activity: due tomorrow
- Quiz tomorrow over 13.1 &
13.2
-Model of DNA Activity due
today
-Quiz over DNA
-Transcription notes
-Transcription reading
-Candy Lab: due tomorrow at
beginning of class
-Review Candy Lab: turn lab
in.
-DNA extraction Lab: due
Monday
-Start the movie GATTACA
7
-Watch GATTACA
8
-Finish GATTACA
-Write a review on movie
-Review notes 13.1-13.3
-Review Transcription
-Introduce mRNA coding
activity
15
-Activity due: turn into bin
-Review Chapter 14
-Quiz over transcription &
translation
-Mutations wksh: due Friday
TEST NEXT TUESDAY 4/22
9
-Questions over replication &
transcription
-Translation Notes and video
clip
-Work on mRNA coding and
translation activity
16
-Finished foldables
-Handed out study guide for
test
-work on study guide using
foldable
10
11
-Chuck Norris Translation
Activity
-Transcription/Translation &
Protein Synthesis Activity
17
18
-Mutations wksh due by end
of class
-Study Day
-Work on Study
Guides/foldable: due Tuesday
21
-Binder check tomorrow
includes: replication wksh,
mutations wksh, study
guide/ foldable
-Test tomorrow
-Create Jokes through
replication, transcription,
and translation activity.
22
-DNA, RNA, and Protein
Synthesis Test
-If test is not completed by
the end of the day Thursday,
the resulting grade will be a
zero in the gradebook.
23
-Go over test
-Test corrections
24
-Bill Nye Evolution
-Chapter 16 & 17 vocabulary
due tomorrow
25
-COSMOS: A SPACETIME
ODYSSEY
The Clean Room
28
-Handed out note packets
for evolution
-Evolution notes: section
29
-Darwin’s Observation Note
Section
-Finish relative dating
30
-Evolutionary Terminology
Activity
-Started Natural Selection
14
-Chapter 14 Notes on your
own
-Transcription/Translation &
Protein Synthesis Activity due
tomorrow
-Quiz tomorrow over
transcription and translation
Developing a Theory
-Who’s on first? A relative
dating activity
activity: due at end of hour
-Horse evolution activity
Notes
-Birds Beak Investigation Lab
MAY
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1
2
-Finish Birds Beak
Investigation Lab: due
Monday
-Survival of the fittest lab
5
-Turn in Birds Beak
Investigation Lab
-Finish up Survival of the
fittest lab: due by end of
hour
-Natural Selection video clip
6
-Finish Natural Selection
Notes
-All living things are related
slideshow
-Evidence of Change wksh:
due next class period
7
-Stamp Evidence of Change
Wksh: go over wksh in class
-Notes through 16.3
-The Lost Diversity of Easter
Island Activity
8
9
-Finish up The Lost Diversity
of Easter Island Activity
--COSMOS: A SPACETIME
ODYSSEY: Season 1 Episode 2
-Quiz on Monday over
Evolution 5/12
12
-Hand out Final Study Guide:
due Day of final
-Evolution Quiz
-Evolution Notes 17.2
-Frog Dissection is on Block
day this week: Students
need to dress appropriately.
*ALL MISSING WORK IS DUE
NO LATER THAN 5/16: AFTER
13
-Introduction to anatomy
-Body System Webquest:
due at end of hour
-Frog Dissection this week:
Dress appropriately!
14
-Frog Dissection: Lab is due
by end of class on Friday
15
16
-Finish frog dissection lab:
due at end of hour
-work on missing
assignments: last day to turn
in late work
-Work on Final Study Guide
FRIDAY NO LATE WORK
WILL BE ACCEPTED
-HW: Finish Evolution Notes
19
-REVIEW DAY! Work on
Study Guide.
-once finished with study
guide students can check
their answers with the
teacher’s answer key in class
20
-REVIEW DAY! Work on
Study Guide.
-once finished with study
guide students can check
their answers with the
teacher’s answer key in class
-STUDY GUIDE AND EXTRA
CREDIT BATHROOM PASSES
DUE DAY OF FINAL!
-Turn in textbooks!
21
FINALS!
Hour 1: 8:05-9:05
Hour 2: 9:15-10:15
Hour 3: 10:25-11:25
Hour 4: 11:35-12:35
22
FINALS!
Zero Hr: 7:00-8:00
Hour 5: 8:05-9:05
Hour 6: 9:15-10:15
Hour 7: 10:25-11:25
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