Daily Assignments -- Evolution Unit -- 2014
August 21 -- Course Introduction, grading, schedule, morning classes, lab reports etc.
Homework:
Bring in 4 - 16 oz. colorless plastic or glass bottles with a lid/group of 6 students -- due
on Monday
Read Modules 65 and 66 in Principles of Biology, do the end of the module tests
and the interactive activities as well but no need to take notes -- due on Friday
August 22 -- Natural Selection and the Evidence and Examples of Evolution
Homework:
Bring in 4 - 16 oz. colorless plastic or glass bottles with a lid/group of 6 students -- due
on Monday
Go over the notes that we took in class and complete Modules 70-71 by Monday
August 25 -- Natural Selection, Evidence and Examples of Evolution
Introduction to Winogradsky Columns
Homework:
Fill up a bucket with mud from a designated pond or other body of water around
Aurora, remember to get several layers of the sediment. Bring in your buckets of mud
on Tuesday morning.
Read Modules 67, 68 and 72 in Principles of Biology, do the end of the module tests -Due on Tuesday
Morning class Per. 4a/5 tomorrow – you need to be here at 7:00 am
August 26 – Completing basics of evolution, Winogradsky Bottles are set up
Homework:
Read module 69
Additional help at http://www.bozemanscience.com/solving-hardy-weinberg-problems
Per. 5a/6 morning class starts tomorrow at 7:00
August 27 -- The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and population genetics
Homework:
Review, quiz on Friday on concepts 1-8 in the unit review sheet
Work on the given Hardy-Weinberg problem sheet
Hardy-Weinberg Problems are due and collected tomorrow
Per. 7 morning class starts tomorrow at 7:00
August 28 – Completing Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Homework:
Start to review, quiz on Friday on concepts 1-8 in the unit review sheet
Read Module 73 in Principles of Biology by Friday
August 29 --
Quiz on the basics of evolution
Starting biological species concept and speciation
Homework:
Read Modules 74 and 75
Crash course biology – speciation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKlKmrbLoU
Per. 4a/5 morning class on Tuesday
September 2 -- Biological species concept and speciation -- case study, discussions, notes
Checking, drawing and photographing the Winogradsky columns
Homework:
Read Modules 76-78 in Principles of Life
The Origin of Life: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/origins-life.html
Per. 5a/6 morning class on Wednesday
September 3 -- Completing the speciation section
The Origin of Life on Earth
Homework:
Read Modules 76-78 in Principles of Life
Additional help:
The Origin of Life: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/origins-life.html
Per. 7 morning class on Thursday
September 4 -- The evolutionary history of living organisms
Homework:
You will have a quick study quiz on the origin and evolutionary history of life on Monday
9/9
Read Modules 79-81
Lecture: http://www.bozemanscience.com/science-videos/2011/6/26/006phylogenetics.html -- Bozeman Biology Lecture 6
September 5 -- Quiz on the origin of life
The basics of phylogeny
Pre-lab write up discussion
Homework:
Complete your pre-lab write-up on Creating Phylogenetic Trees from DNA Sequences -Sea Shells
September 8 -- Sea Shell Lab
Homework:
Start to review
Unit 1 test on Thursday
Morning class Per. 4a/5 and 5a/6 tomorrow
September 9 – Sea shell lab
Homework:
Unit 1 test on Thursday
Period 7 morning class tomorrow
September 10 – Completing the lab and review
Homework:
Study
All review morning class tomorrow
September 11 -- UNIT 1 TEST ON EVOLUTION
Homework:
Read Module 176
Your complete lab report is due on Monday, September 16