1st Qtr Honors and Academic Biology 2011-2012
Mrs Rosperich
First Quarter Syllabus
Day Date
1
8/29-30
Today’s Lesson
Introduction to class
2
8/31,9/1
Safety Orientation
3
9/2-6
Introduction to lab
equipment
4
9/7-8
How scientists think
5
9/9-12
Equipment and Safety Test
Developing a theory
6
9/13-14
9
Academic: How to write a
lab report
Hon: How to write a
literature review, intro to
watershed study
9/15-16,9/19- Academic: Supersize Me
20
and the scientific method,
bioethics
Hon: Using Statistics to
analyze experiments
9/21-22
Classification
10
9/23-26
Domains and Kingdoms
11
9/27-28
Test Scientific Method and
Classification
Intro to Ecology
12
9/29-30
13
10/3-4
Food chains and webs,
cycles
Ecosystem Interactions
7/8
Today’s Lab/Activity
Introductory activities
Lab: what is this class
like?
Lab: How to work safely in
a lab
Lab: Equipment
Exploration
Experiment: Hand Size
versus gender
Lab: Scientific Method, Dr
Kravitz research
Lab: North and South, the
battle of the leaves
HW Assignment
Return safety contract
signed
Read Ch 1-3, 1-4.
Answer qs
Read Ch 1-1, 1-2, 1-5
Answer qs
Study for Equipment
ans Safety Test
Read scientific journal
article and answer
evaluation qs
Lab: Frankenkorn
Lab: Statistics Practice,
honors only
Read Ch 17-1, 17-1
answer qs
Lab: Dichotomous Keys
Lab Set Up: Succession in
a Milk Ecosystem
Lab: Constructing a
Cladogram
Lab: Set up population
growth lab
Lab: Field Study,
Biodiversity of a Plant
Community
Lab Set Up: Effect of Acid
Rain on Seed Germination
Lab: Bugs and
bioaccumulation
Lab: Bird Beaks
Lab: count pop growth
jars, continues until Nov 1
Read Ch 17-3, 17-4,
answer qs
Study for scientific
method and
classification test
Read Ch 13-1,13-2,133, answer qs
Read Ch 13-4,13-5,136
Read 14-1,14-2,14-3
answer qs
14
10/5-6
Population growth,
succession
15
10/7-11
16
17
10-/12-14
10/17-18
18
10/19-20
19
10/21-24
Test Ch 13,14
Biomes
Marine Ecosystems
Human Impact on the
Biosphere
Biome Presentations,
counts as test grade
Chemistry of water
20
10/25-26
Macromolecules
21
22
10/27-28
10/31,11/1
Macromolecules part 2
Enzymes
23
11/2-3
Test Ch 2
Intro to cell theory
Finish up population lab
and write up report
11/4 End of
first qtr!!!!
Lab: Succession in a field
ecosystem, on campus
field trip
Lab Biome Project
Lab: Biome Project
Lab: Biome Project
Lab: Unique properties of
water
Lab: pH of common
substances
Lab: Contents of food
Lab: Lock and key model
Lab: Peroxidase Activity
Lab:TBA
Study for Ch 13, 14
test
Read Ch 15-1,15-2,153 answer qs
Read Ch 15-4,15-5
Finish up PowerPoint
Read Ch 2-1,2-2
answer qs
Read Ch 2-3 answer qs
Read Ch 2-4
Read Ch 2-5 answer qs
Study for Ch 2 test
Read Ch 3-1,3-2,3-3