August 2013 Dr. Lau
Monday
RM 119 Lab 117
Tuesday
AP Biology 2013-14
Wednesday
DeBakey HSHP
Thursday
Welcome
Friday
Teacher
prep
Back
week
26 A/B
27 A
Policies, Procedures,
Introduction
Ch.2-3: The Chemical Context of Life
+ Water & the Fitness of the
Environment
28 B
29 A
Ch.4-5: Carbon & Molecular Diversity of
Life + The Structure & Function of
Macromolecules
HW Ch 4-5
HW ch 2-3
30 B
September 2013
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
2
3A
Labor Day Holiday
Ch 5
Ch 6 Enzymes Review Ch2-6
HW ch 6
HW Ch 8
9A
10 B
4B
Thursday
11 A Ch.8: Membrane
5A
Friday
6B
12 B
13 A Fall Holiday
19 B
20 A
Structure & Function
FR protein structure/function
AP BIO LAB 13 Enzyme activity
Ch 6
16
17 B
18 A
TEST: CH.2-5 and 6
Ch.11 Cell Communication,
Ch.11 Cell Communication,
HW Ch 11
Assign project of signal
transduction
Assign project of signal
transduction
23 B
24 A Ch.7: A Tour of the Cell 25 B early
Cycle test reviewAP BIO LAB 4
dissmissal
Diffusion and Osmosis
HW ch 7
26 A
Cycle 1 Project Signal
transduction presentation
27 B
October 2012
Monday
30 A
Tuesday
1B
2A
Cycle 1 Project Signal
transduction presentation
7B
8A
Thursday
9B
LAB 4, 13
HW Ch 9
10 A
AP BIO LAB 6 Cell respiration
15 B
Ch.10:
Friday
3 B TEST: Ch. 7-8, 11 & AP BIO 4 A End of cycle 1
Ch.7: A Tour of the Cell Cycle
test review
Ch.9: Cellular Respiration
14 A
Wednesday
16 A
Ch.10: Photosynthesis
17 B AP BIO LAB 5
Photosynthesis
11 B
18 A
photosynthesis
HW Ch 10
21 B
22 A
Cycle 2 Project
24 A
Photosynthesis/cell respiration
Cycle 2 Project
Photosynthesis/cell
respiration
28 A
23 B
early Dismissal
29 B Ch.12: The Cell
Cycle
HW Ch 13
30 AHalloween
25 B TEST: Ch. 6,9-10 & AP
BIO LABS 2,4-5
HW Ch 12
31 B Ch.13: Meiosis & the
Sexual Life Cycles,HW Ch 14
November 2012
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1A
4B
5A
6B
Quiz: Ch. 12&13,
Election Day
TEST: Ch. 12-14 & AP BIO LAB
5 6 7 ...
Ch.14: Mendel & the Gene
Idea A
11
12 B Ch.16: The Molecular 13 A
Basis of Inheritance HW
Ch 16
18 B Ch.17: From Gene 19 A
Cycle 3 Project assigned.
26 A
8 B end of cycle 2
Ch.15: The Chromosomal Basis of
InheritanceHW
Ch 15
14 BQuiz: Ch. 15-16, Ch.17: 15 A
From Gene to Protein Part
IHW
ch 17
20 Ch.18-19: Prokaryotic & 21
22Ch.18-19: Prokaryotic &
Eukaryotic Gene Expression
Eukaryotic Gene Expression Part II to
Protein Part iHW 18(19)
Part I
25 B
7A
HW 19 (21)
Thanksgiving Day
December 2012
Monday
2A
Tuesday
3B
4A
HW ch 20
10 A
5B
17 B
6A
AP BIO LAB 8 Biotech Bacterial
transformation
12 A
13 B
18 A
Cycle 3 Project on gene
regulation
19 B
20 A end of cycle 3
Cycle 3 test
Cycle 3 Project on gene
regulation
Friday
11 B
AP BIO LAB 9 RFLP/PCR
16 A
Thursday
Ch.20: DNA Technology &
Genomics
TEST: Ch. 15-19
9B
Wednesday
Ch.22: Mechanisms of Evolution
HW Ch 22 23
23
24 Christmas Day
25
26
27
January 2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
31
1 new year
holiday
2
3
6 teacher
prep
7 A/B
8A
9B
10 A report card
13 B
14 A
Most-missed questions in the Ch.23: The Evolution of
Fall final Exam
Populations
Post-test review
15 B
Ch.24-25: The Origin of
Species + Phylogeny &
Systematics Evolution Trees.
20
Hw Ch 25
21 A
28B
TEST: Ch. 22-25 + AP BIO School out
LAB 1-T2 HW Ch 43
16 A
Hardy Weinberg lab: random
mating and evolution
Lab 8 in old manualInvestigation
2 in the new manual
22 B
Chi Square analysis of fly
M L King Day
holiday Cycle 4 Project genetics and evolution
Lab 7 in old manual
phylogeny
Due midnight
27 A
Hardy-Weinberg lab Investigation 3
29 A early
dismissal
Cladogram lab-dinosaur
tree (new lab manual)HW Ch
17 B
24
23 A
24 B
Quiz on Hardy Weinberg and
Chi Square analysis.
AP Exam Math review.
school out
30B
Quiz on Hardy Weinberg and
Ch.43: The Body’s Defenses Chi Square analysis. AP Exam
Math review.
February 2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
31 B
Test on evolution
3B
4A
Ch.43: The Body’s
Defenses I
Ch.43: The Body’s Defenses II
10 A
11 B
Ch 45 Redesigned
17 B
5B
12A
Ch.47&21: Animal
Development + The Genetic
Basis of Development
Ch.45: Chemical Signals
(hormones) in Animals
13
HWBCh 45
18 A
19 B
25 B
7B
14 A
Ch.48: Nervous Systems (focus on
neurophysiology)HW Ch 49
Cycle 4 Test
Ch.49: Sensory & Motor
Mechanisms
HW Ch 47
24 A
6A
20 A
end of cycle 4
21 B
Ch.49: Sensory & Motor
Mechanisms (emphasis on last
portion on muscle contraction
26 A
27 B
Ch.27: Prokaryotes & the Test Ch 48 49 Nerve
Origins of Metabolic
Ch.28: The Origin of Eukaryotic
Diversity
Diversity
HW Ch 27 28 HW Ch 32
28B
March 2014
Monday
3B
Ch.28: The Origin of
Tuesday
4A
Eukaryotic Diversity
Ch.32-34: Animal Evolution,
Invertebrates & Vertebrates
Wednesday
5B
34: Animal Evolution,
Invertebrates &
Vertebrates
Pass out cycle 5 plant project
packet
HW Ch 34
10A
Thursday
6A
B TEST:
Friday
7B
Embryo,
animal phylogeny Ch 21,
Ch.32- 34
HW Ch 36 HW Ch 37
11B
Ch.36: Transport in Plants
12A
13B
14 Field A/B
day
AP BIO LAB 11 Transpiration
Cycle 6 project assigned and
started (research prop
winsconsin plants)
HW ch 50
17 Spring Break
18
19
20
21
24 A
25 B
26 A
27 B
28 A
Ch.37: Plant Nutrition
Cycle 5 plant project
Presentation
Plant test
April 2014 Including afterschool tutorials
Monday
31 B
Tuesday
1A
Wednesday
2B
Big idea 1 with mock
8B
Big Idea 1
9A
Friday
3A
4B
Cycle 5 test=Mock 1 End of Cycle 5
Cycle 5 plant project
Presentation
7A
Thursday
Big Idea 1
10B
Big Idea 2
exams, mock quizzes
APES field day
AP Bio lab 10 Biomass
Cycle 6 Self-inquiry research
project
14B Report
Ch 50-51 Ecology 15A
16B
17A
Big Idea 3
HW Ch 50 Ch 51
11 A
18B
Big Idea 2
Big idea 4
Ecology Test
AfterSchool: Big
AfterSchool: Big Idea 1 AfterSchool: Big Idea 2 Idea 3 key/ Ecology AfterSchool: my APES
key
key
review (not Dave)
review
Ecology test MC/FRQ
21A LTF FRQ review 22B
23A LTF/NMSI 24B
25A
Big idea 4
lab review
FRQ Outline/Rubric
AfterSchool: more on Afterschool:Frq test Test
Afterschool: Ecology post AfterSchool: Big Idea4 NMSI review
key
test review
28B
29A All math
Afterschool:more math
review
prom
May 2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
30B
1A FRQMock 2B
Test
After school Mock test
review
Grading: student help
5A
APES EXAM
AP EXAM Week
6B
7A
8B
9A
12B
13A
14B
15A
16B
19A
20B
21A
22B
23A
26B
27A
28B
29A
30
AP Bio Exam
Final Exams
Monday
2
Tuesday
3
June 2014
Wednesday
4
Thursday
6 End of
cycle 6
Friday
7