BIOLOGY

Syllabus Calendar

BIOLOGY

The important thing about science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. --Sir William Bragg

Date assigned Unit 0 & Ecology Date Due

8-23-10	signed safety contract and syllabus	8-24-10
8-24-10	Lab Safety cartoon safety rule assignment
8-25-10	SAFETY QUIZ Characteristics of Life HW: What is Biology wksh	8-26-10
8-27-10	What is ECOLOGY M&Ms Lab
8-30-10	Scientific Method scientific method in action HW: Sponge Bob variable wksh	8-31-10
8-31-10	Tools of Science Population Growth Lab
9-01-10	CHECKPOINTS TEST;
9-02-10	History of Measurement Cubit Lab; HW: SI unit wksh	9-03-10
9-03-10	Experimental Design Acid Rain Lab	9-24-10
9-07-10	Unit 0 SPA Bess Beetle Lab beetle article	9-16-10
9-08-10	ecological relationships HW: Deer population studies	9-09-10
9-09-10	Energy Flow & Tropic levels guided reading

9-10-10	Energy Pyramid desert food web	9-14-10
9-13-10	Owl Pellet Lab alternative owl pellet lab	9-14-10
9-14-10	Eagle Lab ; HW: Ecology Reading	9-15-10
9-15-10	complete Eagle Lab "Don't Go Near the Water"
9-16-10	Cycles, Greenhouse Lab
9-17-10	Biodiversity index set traps for lab
9-20-10	Biodiversity Lab
9-21-10 9-22-10	2 day lab oil spill lab HW: summarize article #1, #2, #3, #4	9-22-10
9-23-10	Ecology SPA OH DEER! article DUE 10-04-10	10-04-10
9-24-10	Work on OH DEER!
9-27-10	ECOLOGY TEST (study guide)
9-28-10	Complete Acid Rain Lab	9-29-10
9-29-10	70-100 page College Rule spiral notebook Due TODAY
9-30-10	Movie

**Students must have a 70-100 page College Rule spiral notebook for cells unit**

Date assigned Cells Date Due

	MUST HAVE 100 sheet, college rule, spiral notebook
10-4-10	Structure of the atom HW: atomic structure wk sh	10-5-10
10-5-10	Bonding
10-6-10	BioChemicals - Carbohydrates & Lipids HW: macromolecule wk sh	10-8-10
10-7-10	BioChemical - Proteins & Nucleic Acid
10-8-10	Enzymes Toothpickase lab
10-11-10	Food lab - Knowns HW: Ketones article	10-12-10
10-12-10	Food lab - unknowns
10-13-10	Work on BINS
10-14-10	Properties of water - cohesion surface tension lab
10-15-10	Properrties of water - adhesion

Date assigned Genetics Date Due

11-29-10	Genetics vocab frayer models
11-30-10	Genetic vocab & punnett square wksh; HW: Sponge bob genetics sheet 1 & sheet 2 (punnett square problems only)	12-01-10
12-1-10	Make a Baby lab HW: Heredity web quest	12-02-10
12-2-10	more genetics vocab, Meiosis
12-3-10	Meiosis web quest	12-3-10
12-6-10	Create Alien Parents and write story, HW: punnett square worksheet	12-6-10
12-7-10	Meiosis Microviewer lab
12-8-10	Modes of inheritance, Frayer models	12-8-10
12-9-10	Mode of inheritance booklet	12-10-10
12-10-10	Eye color - polygenic inheritance lab	12-10-10
12-13-10	Create Alien Children and write story
12-14-10	DNA extraction Lab	12-14-10
12-15-10	1st semester Genetics test	12-15-10
12-16-10
12-17-10	work on final exam study guide
12-20-10	Final Exams 1st & 2nd periods
12-21-10	Final Exams 3rd & 4th periods
12-22-10	Final Exam 5th & 6th periods
	End of 1st semester
1-5-11	dihybrid cross	1-6-11
1-6-11	DNA guided reading, HW: structure of DNA	1-7-11
1-7-11	A berry full of DNA ~ a DNA extraction lab
1-18-11	DNA replication color sheet
1-19-11	DNA replication lab; DNA replication active reading	1-20-11
1-20-11
1-21-11

Date assigned Evolution Date Due

Date assigned Classification Date Due

Have a GREAT Spring Break:)!!

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POWERPOINTS	COOL LINKS
Characteristics of Life
What is Ecology?	go.hrw.com
Scientific method	scilinks.org
Tools of Science	Biology News
Ecological Relationships
Flow of energy in an ecosystem	101 Science.com
Biodiversity, acid rain & greenhouse eff	Cell Biology Links
Cycles	Alpharetta High School
Atoms	Lab Report Template
Biomolecules	DNA song
properties of water	Ancient Human Footprint
Structure of DNA