Week 1
Agenda:
Intro to class
Review of Characteristics of Life
Video Cell Division
Text Book
Assignment log
1/13/14
Homework:
Get Composition
notebook
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Reflect on your first semester, How did it go?
What worked and what didn’t? What are your
plans for second trimester?
Agenda:
Video Cell Division
Chapter 10 Outline
Text Book
Assignment log
1/14/14
Homework:
Get Composition
notebook
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Write a paragraph explaining what the major
theme of Life Science is.
Agenda:
Course Guidelines (due 1/21/14)
CN 10-1 and 10-2
Text Book
Assignment log
1/15/14
Homework:
Get Composition
notebook
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What is cell purpose for cell division?
Agenda:
CN 10-1 and 10-2
Mitosis
Reading Guide (Ho)
Text Book
Assignment log
1/16/14
Homework:
Get Composition
notebook
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Explain what happens during interphase.
Agenda:
Reading Guide (Ho)
Mitosis Diagram
Text Book
Assignment log
1/17/14
Homework:
Get Composition
notebook
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What is the function of the spindle fibers?
Agenda:
Slide viewers
Set 53 – Mitosis
due today!
Text Book
Assignment log
1/21/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. How do you think the body repairs an
injury, such as a cut on a finger?
Agenda:
Complete any incomplete work
Organize notebook
Text Book
Assignment log
1/22/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Describe cell division in your own words.
Agenda:
Pre Test
CN 10-3
Text Book
Assignment log
1/23/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What happens to the centrioles after
telophase?
Agenda:
CN 10-3
Reading guide 10-3
Text Book
Assignment log
1/24/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Reflect on the test from yesterday.
Agenda:
Reading guide 10-3
Chapter Review
What does it start with
Text Book
Assignment log
1/27/14
Homework:
Study for test
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What do you know about mitosis? What do
you still have questions about and what about
mitosis would you like to learn more about?
Agenda:
Chapter Review
Text Book
Assignment log
1/28/14
Homework:
Study for testtest tomorrow
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. How does the number of chromosomes in
the new cell compare to the original cell?
Agenda:
Test
Text Book
Assignment log
1/29/14
Homework:
None!!
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Describe the role of cyclins in the cell cycle.
Agenda:
Outline chapter 11
Text Book
Assignment log
1/30/14
Homework:
Complete
notebook due
tomorrow
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Explain how two brown eyed parents have
a child with green eyes?
Agenda:
Notes 11-4
Turn in notebook
Text Book
Assignment log
1/31/14
Homework:
None! Enjoy your
weekend!!!
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What does the word dominant mean to
YOU, not the book definition?
Agenda:
Notes 11-1
Text Book
Assignment log
2/3/14
Homework:
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What are the differences between mitosis
and meiosis?
Agenda:
Periods 1-3 CAHSEE
4th and 6th
Reading guide booklet
Text Book
Assignment log
2/4/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
Suppose that for an organism, 2N=8. How
many chromosomes do the organism’s gametes
contain?
Agenda:
Periods 1-3 CAHSEE
4th and 6th
Reading guide booklet
Text Book
Assignment log
2/5/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
What happens during the process of meiosis?
Agenda:
Reading guide booklet
Text Book
Assignment log
2/6/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
Describe how Mendel cross pollinated pea
plants.
Agenda:
Guided Reading 11-3
Text Book
Assignment log
2/7/14
Homework:
None!!
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. How did Mendel prevent the pea plants
from self pollinating?
Agenda:
Video
CN 11-3
Text Book
Assignment log
2/10/14
Homework:
Reading Guide
11-3
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Examine figure 11-3 on pg 264 and identify
the dominant traits.
Agenda:
Notes 11-2
Text Book
Assignment log
2/11/14
Homework:
Reading Guide
11-3
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Examine the diagram on page 276 and 277
and identify the stage where the cell is diploid
and where its haploid
Agenda:
How are dimples inherited?
Reading guide 1-3
Text Book
Assignment log
2/12/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Write down three things that both meiosis
and mitosis have in common.
Agenda:
What genes do I have?
Punnett Square practice
Text Book
Assignment log
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What makes meiosis different?
2/13/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Agenda:
What genes do I have?
Punnett Square practice
Text Book
Assignment log
2/18/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Compare and contrast phenotype and
genotype.
Agenda:
Review for test
Text Book
Assignment log
2/19/14
Homework:
Study for test on
Friday
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. During which stage of meiosis does
crossing over occur?
Agenda:
Review for test
Text Book
Assignment log
2/20/14
Homework:
Study for test on
Friday
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Unlike mitosis, meiosis results in the
formation of ___________.
Agenda:
Test
Text Book
Assignment log
2/21/14
Homework:
None, Enjoy your
weekend
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Why does crossing over rarely occur in
mitosis?
Agenda:
Outline Chapter 12
Text Book
Assignment log
2/24/14
Homework:
Complete
Outline
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. How many letters are in the English
alphabet? How many words can be formed
with those letters?
Agenda:
Complete outline
CN 12-1
Text Book
Assignment log
2/25/14
Homework:
Complete
Outline
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. List some of the scientists involved in t
discoveries of DNA.
Agenda:
Reading guide
Text Book
Assignment log
2/26/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Notebook due
on Friday.!!!
Warm-up
1. What is the human genome project?
Agenda:
Reading guide
Movie- notes
Text Book
Assignment log
2/27/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work.
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What are Chargaff’s rules?
Notebook due
on Friday.!!!
Agenda:
CN 12-2
Text Book
Assignment log
2/28/14
Homework:
None!! Enjoy the
weekend!!!
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Describe the structure of DNA
Agenda:
Reading guide 12-2
CN 12-3
Text Book
Assignment log
3/3/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Complete the following DNA strand
A T C G G T C C A A
Agenda:
Build a bug
Text Book
Assignment log
3/4/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What is the difference between DNA and
RNA?
Agenda:
Build a bug
Text Book
Assignment log
3/5/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Where does transcription and translation
take place?
Agenda:
Reading guide
Build a bug
Text Book
Assignment log
3/6/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Which organelles are involved in protein
synthesis?
Agenda:
Video
Notes 12-4
Video
Text Book
Assignment log
3/7/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Summarize the process of protein
synthesis.
Agenda:
Video
DNA Key chains
Text Book
Assignment log
3/10/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Write the complimentary chain for the
following, AAGTACGAGC
Agenda:
Analysis DNA Key chains
Text Book
Assignment log
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Describe a DNA molecule
3/12/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Agenda:
Analysis DNA Key chains
Text Book
Assignment log
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What is replication?
3/13/14
Homework:
Complete any
incomplete work
Agenda:
Chapter Review
Text Book
Assignment log
3/14/14
Homework:
Study for test
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. How is a cell able to copy its DNA just
before cell division?
Agenda:
Chapter Review
Text Book
Assignment log
3/17/14
Homework:
Study for test
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What is the end result of meiosis?
Agenda:
Test
Text Book
Assignment log
3/18/14
Homework:
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. What is a nucleotide?
Agenda:
Complete test
Annotate GMO article
Text Book
Assignment log
3/19/14
Homework:
Annotate article
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Explain some of the ways that variations
within species occur?
Agenda:
Intro to GMO’s
Video “Harvest of fear”
Annotate GMO article
Text Book
Assignment log
3/20/14
Homework:
Annotate article
Khan Academy Power Point
Warm-up
1. Have we ever in our history manipulated
the genetics of an organism to get a type of
behavior, look, size…etc?