Biology
Biology “A” Lesson Plans
Skyline High School
August 21 – August 25
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- (PP) New Beginnings
- Class Syllabus
Biology Objectives
Check out textbooks
Reading Assignment – Chapter 1
- vt - Microscope
Lab #3 – Microscope
- (PP)Chapter 1 Notes/Discussion – ‘Science of Biology’
Vocab Puzzle
- (PP)Scientific Method
Lab #1 – Solving a Problem with the Scientific Method
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August 28 – September 1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Lab #2 – Metric Lab
- Powers of Ten - video
DVD – Greatest Discoveries in Biology (45 minutes)
Review Sheet/Chapter Review
- TEST – Chapter 1
*Chapter 2 Reading Assignment
- Review Test
(PP) Chpt 2-Notes/Discussion – Chemistry of Living Things
- (PP) Quiz – Chpt 2
Worksheet on ‘Atoms and Molecules’
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September 4 - 8
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- LABOR DAY – No School
- (PP) Enzymes
DVD – Enzymes
Quiz – on Videotape
WordMatch Vocab Puzzle
- DVD – Periodic Table (23 min)
Elemental Games
- Lab – Carbohydrates
Review Sheet for TEST
- DVD – Properties of Compounds (23 min)
TEST – Chpt 2
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September 11 - 15
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- vt – The Magic of Cells (19 min)
Chapter 7 Reading
- (PP) Chpt 7 Notes/Discussion
- (PP) Quiz over Notes
vt – Inside the Cell (Part I & II) w/worksheet
- Cell Model Assignment (Due: Sept 30)
Computer Lab – Cell Internet Study
- Lab #7 – Basic Unit of Life
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September 18 - 22
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- (PP)Cell Organelles
Organelle Color Book Assignment
- (PP)Quiz over Cell Organelles
Cell Organelle Puzzle
- Beginning of two-day assignment: Cell Organelle Booklets
- Cell Organelle Booklets
- vt – Understanding the Cell Membrane (Part I)
Make drawing of Cell (Plasma) membrane (p.184) and label
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September 25 - 29
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- vt – Understanding the Cell Membrane (Part II)
Transparency Review
WordMatch Vocab Puzzle
- vt – Inside A Cell (45 min)
Review
- CD – Computer Lab - “Inside the Cell” (lkr)
- vt – Cell Biology In The Cell City
TEST – Chpt 7
- Cell Projects Due!
Chapter 8.1 Reading
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October 2 - 6
Monday
Tuesday
- Unit Plan for ATP
(PP)ATP and Cell Energy
ATP/ADP Worksheet
Crossword Puzzle – ATP
- Review Test
ATP Section Review Worksheet
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
ATP Word Scramble
- DVD – Energy Balance (1st Part)
Lab #8 ATP
- State Inservice Days
- State Inservice Days
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October 9 - 13
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- P/T Conferences (1/2 day)
(PP)QUIZ – ATP and Cell Energy
ATP Word Scramble
ATP Unit Plans Due
- vt – Photosynthesis (20 min)
Chpt 8 Reading (Photosynthesis)
- Photosynthesis Brochure Assignment – Due: Friday
(PP)Notes/Discussion on Photosynthesis
- Lab – Leaf Cross Section Microscope Lab
Leaf Coloring Assignment
- DVD – Photosynthesis
(Use materials folder – QUIZ)
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October 16 - 20
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- vt – Seeing (Absorbing) the Light (Part 1 - 2)
*WordFind Vocab Puzzle
- vt – Photosynthesis: Energy from Light
(Parts I and II, with worksheet)
- Photo 1-Day Project
- Photosynthesis Review Using Leaf Model and Overheads
Flow Chart
WordMatch Vocab Puzzle
Color Book – Structures of Photosynthesis
- DVD – Photo (Standard Deviants)
8 – Section Review (6 pages)
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October 23 - 27
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Lab Internet – Photosynthesis (1/2 day)
Review Sheet
- TEST – Chpt 8
Chpt 9 Reading Assignment
Unit Plan
- (PP) Respiration Notes/Discussion
- (PP) Open Notes Quiz
Respiration Facts Sheet
vt – Cellular Respiration (43 min)
- Respiration Booklet Assignment
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October 30 – November 3
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Lab – ‘Unleash the Yeast’
Chpt 9 Worksheet
9 – Vocab Puzzle
- vt – Respiration (from Biology DVD)
Chpt 9 Chapter Book Review
Respiration Graphic
Overheads
Photosynthesis/Respiration Comparison
- TEST – Chapter 9
*Chapter 10 Reading Assignment
- Review Test
(PP)Cell Growth and Division Notes
- (PP)Notes Quiz
vt – Mitosis (13 min)
Vocab Puzzle (WS)
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November 6 - 10
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Demonstration/Discussion using Mitosis Models
DVD – Mitosis and Cytokinesis (21 min)
Mitosis Flash Card Project
- Quiz over Mitosis Models
Computer Lab – Online Onion Root Tip
vt – Meiosis (13 min)
(PP) Meiosis
- *Reading Assignment Chpt 11 (Section 11-4, p.275-278)
Vt – Meiosis Square Dance (10 min)
Color Book Assignment
- Mitosis CD Rom Computer Assignment
- Cell Cycle Review
Mitosis Pre-Lab (10 min)
Lab #11 – Mitosis
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November 13 - 17
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- TEST – Chapter 10 (Mitosis and Meiosis)
vt – Never Say Die (Telomers)
Discussion on Telomers
- ECA Review
- ECA (Period 3)
- ECA (Periods 4,5)
- Teacher Work Day – No School
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November 20 - 24
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- ECA
- vt – Never Say Die (segments 1-3)
(PP)Telomers
Article – Telomers
TEST – Chapter 10 (Mitosis and Meiosis)
- ECA Review
- ECA TEST
- ECA TEST
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February 18 - 22
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Computer Lab - Mitosis
- Meiosis Crossword Puzzle
- (PP)Germ Theory of Disease (entire period)
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February 25 – March 1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Reading – Germ Theory of Disease
Vocab Puzzle – Germ Theory
- vt – The Last Wild Virus
- Computer Lab – Germ Theory of Disease
- vt – Where Plants and Animals Live (25 min)
*Chapter 16 Reading Assignment
- Computer Lab – Food Chains
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March 4 - 8
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
- Video/filmstrip – Ecology: Matter, Energy, Ecosystems
Color Book – Communities
- vt – Northern Forest
- (PP)Notes – Ecosystems of the World
16 – Vocab Puzzle (Crossword)
- (PP)Quiz on Ecosystem Notes
ECA Review
- ECA
- Teacher Work Day
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March 4 – 8
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
- Collect books
vt – Sands of the Namib
- Chapter 16 Reading Assignment
- vt – Open Ocean
- f.s./cassette – Biomes of the World (Deserts, Tundra, Grasslands)
- (PP)Earth’s Major Ecosystems
Ecosystems Crossword Puzzle
- TEST – Chapter 16
f.s./cassette – Deciduous Forest/Coniferous Forest Biomes
vt – Wetland Resources (25 min)
- vt – Forest in the Clouds
Review of ECA