RTC: reviewing the Chapter
TS: Thinking Scientifically
CTC: Connecting the Concepts
TY: Testing Yourself
BIO-E: Bioethical Issues
1st Quarter (1,20,45, 29)
Chapter 1: View of life
- Define life (1.1)
- How Things are Classified (1.3): “intro notes (ppt)”
- Process of Science (1.4): “Porcus boriforicus (ppt)” “Checks lab” “Questioning Strategies (ppt)(paper)”
“Outside Observation” “ Scavenger Hunt”
Book Work: RTC #1, 4, 7, 8, 9; TY #1-17; TS #1, 2; BIO-E- “oil drilling”
Chapter 20: Classification of living Things
- Taxonomy (20.1): “intro notes (ppt)”
- Phylogenetic Trees (20.2): “music genres (lab)”
- Systematics (20.3): “notes (ppt)(print)” “ Cladisticules lab”
-Classification Systems (20.4): “Begin Animal Research”
Book Work: CTC; RTC #1,2; TY #1-22; TS #2;
Chapter 45: Animal Behavior
- Nature v Nurture: Genetics (45.1): “Notes (ppt)” “continue animal research” “present behavioral study”
- Nature v Nurture: Environmental (45.2): “present behavioral study”
- Adaptive Mating Behavior (45.3): “Why Sex Video (wksht0”
- Sociobiology (45.4):
- Animal Communication (45.5):
Book Work: CTC; RTC #1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; TY #1-20; TS #1; BIO-E- “putting animals in zoos”
Chapter 29: Intro to Invertebrates (hydra, planaria, flat worms, round worms, rotifers)
- Evolution of Animals(29.1): “notes”
- Multicellularity (29.2): “sponges” “diagrams”
- True Tissue Layers (29.3): “cnidarians” “diagrams”
- Bilateral Symmetry (29.4): “”flat worms” “parasites” “diagrams”
- Body Cavity (29.5): “round worms” “rotifers” “diagrams”
Book Work: CTC; RTC #1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9; TY #1-12;
Animal Project (built in days for animal training)
- conditioning animals (wksht)
- observing baseline data (wksht)
- zoological unit (wksht)
- zoological journal (wksht)
Level Projects
-print outs I, II, III
RTC: reviewing the Chapter
TS: Thinking Scientifically
CTC: Connecting the Concepts
TY: Testing Yourself
BIO-E: Bioethical Issues
2nd Quarter (30,31,32) Large Part Dissection
Chapter 30: More invertebrates (clams, snails/slugs, leech, earthworm, grasshopper, crayfish, stars, cucumber)
- Advantages of coelom (30.1): “notes (ppt)”
- Mollusks (30.2): bivalves, squid, snails, slugs “diagrams”
- Annelids (30.3): leeches, earthworms “diagrams”
- Arthropods (30.4): bugs, grasshopper, crayfish, scorpions, horseshoe crab, spiders “diagrams”
- Echonoderms (30.5): urchins, starfish, sea cucumber “diagrams”
Book Work: CTC; RTC #1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12; TY #1-29; TS #2
Chapter 31: Vertebrates
- Chordates (31.1): “Notes (ppt)”
- Vertebrates (31.2): fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals “diagrams” “tetrapods”
Book Work: CTC; RTC #1, 3, 6, 10, 11; TY #1-13; TS #2
Chapter 32: Human Evolution
- Evolution of Primates (32.1): “Notes (ppt)” ”Skull lab”
- Early Hominids (32.2): “diagrams”
- Later Hominids (32.3):
- Early Homo (32.4):
- Later Homo (32.5):
Origins of genus Homo p 588
Human Migration- research paper
Book Work: CTC; RTC #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; TY #1-23; TS #2; BIO-E- “manipulation of evolution”
Animal Project (built in days for animal training) Final Trick Day
- conditioning animals (wksht)
- observing baseline data (wksht)
- zoological unit (wksht)
- zoological journal (wksht)
Level Projects
-print outs I, II, III