Date
Topics (subject to
revision)
Reading
Assignment Due
ECOLOGY
Week 1: Aug 30, Sept 1
Introduction to Ecology
Introduction to Ecology
Chapter 1; pp. 4
Chapter 52; pp. 11481159; 1166-1171
student info. sheet (inclass assignment);
Studingo
Nature Trail worksheet
(OUTSIDE)
Week 2: Sept 6, 8
Week 3: Sept 13, 15
Scientific Method
Chapter 1; pp. 18-24
Community Ecology
Chapter 54; pp. 11981210
Disturbance/Succession
Chapter 54; pp.12111214
Chapter 56; pp. 12601263
Restoration Ecology
Begin gall study
(OUTSIDE)
Continue gall study/Data
entry/analysis (class
split)
Continue gall study/Data
entry/analysis (class
split)
Succession Game
Dendrochronology
Fire Scar Dating Exercise;
Tuesday Sept. 20th,
Scientific report on galls
due
Field Trip
(OUTSIDE)
Week 4: Sept 20, 22
CELL BIOLOGY
Exam 1
Week 5: Sept 27, 29
Cell Cycle, Mitosis
Week 6: Oct 4, 6
Mitosis, Meiosis and Life
Cycles
Meiosis
Week 7: Oct 11, 13
Chapter 12; pp.
228-237
Chapter 13 entire
chapter
Chapter 15; pp.
289-290; 297-300
Exam 2
EVOLUTION & GENETICS
Week 8: Oct 18, 20
Week 9: Oct 25, 27
History of Evolutionary
Thought/Natural
Selection
What Darwin Never Knew
Great Transformations
Video
No Class Thursday; I am
gone at a conference
computer lab mitosis
assignment due (class
split Tues/Thurs
complete in class)
computer lab meiosis
assignment due (class
split Tues/Thurs
complete in class)
Chapter 1; pp. 1217
Chapter 22 entire
chapter
Video Worksheet
Evolution VideoWorksheet
Week 10: Nov 1, 3
Date
Week 11: Nov 8, 10
Week 12: Nov 15, 17
Natural
Selection/Speciation
Chapter 23; pp.
468-471; 475484/
Speciation Activity
Natural
Selection/Speciation
Topics (subject to
revision)
Chapter 24; 487498
Reading
Bottleneck Activity
Mendelian Genetics
Chapter 14 entire
chapter
Genetic worksheets
Population Genetics
Chapter 15; pp.
286-287; 294
Read Genetic
Counselor Case
Study
Genetic worksheets
Human Population
Ecology/Ecological
Footprint
Chapter 53; 11811195;
Human Population
Worksheet/Ecological
Footprint Activity
Conservation Biology
Chapter 56; pp.
1245-1260; 12641265
Division Street Video
Worksheet
Case Study:
Mendelian/Population
Genetics
Assignment Due
Case Study
EXAM 3-Genetics
Week 13: Nov 22, 24
Thanksgiving Break
CONSERVATION/BIODIVERSITY
Week 14: Nov 29, Dec 1
Conservation Biology
Conservation Biology
In-Class Exercise
Week 15: Dec 6, 8
Carbon Cycle
The Burning Season
Video
Final Exam: MONDAY
December 13th 12-2 pm
Chapter 55; pp.
1231-1233; 12391242
The Burning Season
Video Worksheet
In-class final exam