HONORS BIOLOGY
Unit Ch. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
“Classification and a survey of life”
“bacteria & Protists” “Plants & Fungi” Invertebrates” “Vertebrates”
THINKING AHEAD:
 Lab Materials:
 Print Work:
assign. sheet labs , study guide: Use your study guide throughout this unit to take notes.
CHAPTER fifteen:
CHAPTER sixteen:
“classification“
“bacteria & Protists “
day 1:
Go over tests
DUE Notes: Ch.15.15, Ch.16.1-6 (omit 16.5)
Lecture: Aristotle, Linneaus, binomial nomenclature, Genus species, Hierarchy: kingdom  species, general 
specific.
Dichotomous Key Activity: Shark Key
Lecture: First life, Three domains: Bacteria, Archaea, (both prokaryotes) and Eukarya, Bacterial shapes, structural
features, endospores, Archaea and extreme environments.
day 2:
DUE Notes: Ch.16.8-10 notes and study guide
Lecture: Disease-causing bacteria, bioweapons, helpful bacteria.
Video: NOVA: “Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America” 60 min.
Assign groups for activity, see “Homework” section on Day 1 of activity packet.
day 3:
“Typhoid Mary” Day 2 discussion, individual work time.
DUE: study guide and group activity (graded assignment)
day 4:
Video: “Viruses, Bacteria, Protistans” 30 min. Program #12 .
Lecture: Protista
Study Guide over Bacteria & Protists
Quiz
CHAPTER seventeen:
“Plants, Fungi and the colonization of land “
day 5: Study time: study guide
Lecture: Evolution of plants, phylogenetic tree: stomates/waxy cuticle/mycorrhizae, vascular tissue (roots, stems,
leaves), seeds, flowers. Mosses, ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms: monocots & dicots.
day 6:
Seed Lab
Video: Plant Physiology (24 min), study guide due at the end of the period.
day 7:
Video: “Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind” (50 min), study guide due at the end of the period.
Quiz
CHAPTER eighteen:
“animals“
day 8: Invertebrates: use your study guide and chapter eighteen.
Lecture: symmetry, cephalization, coeloms, segmentation, complex nervous systems.
Look for “firsts” and new “inventions” for each group.
Activity: Invertebrate Characteristics Game
Activity: Invertebrate Critter Card Game
Invertebrate Animal PwrPt Game (Quiz)
day 9:
Chordates & Vertebrates: use your study guide and chapter 19.
Look for “firsts” and new “inventions” (derived characters) for each group.
Vertebrate Animal PwrPt Game (Quiz)
day 10: Use the study guide of systems to make notes of how different kinds of organisms satisfy the same requirements of
life.
day 11: Test
Mrs. Loyd
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