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Week of October 30th

9th grade biology;

Monday

Station lab on patterns of Natural Selection

Tuesday

Finish stations – Review for exam

Wednesday

Go over review for Evolution

Thursday

Exam on Evolution

Friday

CER  evolution

 

AP Biology

Monday

ppt on Cells types, size, nucleus,

Worksheet – online size and organelles

Tuesday

Cell Races size

Wednesday

Cell races/ organelle sheet

Thursday

ppt organelles

Friday

Review for ch. 3 exam

Week of October 23rd

Biology 9th grade

Monday

Simulation on Genetic Drift

Works sheet the uses a double bubble to compare bottleneck effect and founders effect

Tuesday – Wednesday

Evolution Webquest and vocabulary foldable

Sutdents will complete a webquest that focused on mechanisms of evolution and darwin

Sites:

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/lines_01

https://evolution.about.com/od/Darwin/p/Who-Is-Charles-Darwin.htm

to improve their vocabulary students will make a foldable

Thursday – Friday

Effects of evolution

selection and speciation

Students will be able to look at a graph and interpret the type of natural selection that is occurring

 

AP Biology

Monday – Tuesday

Lab Write up are due for the enzyme and pH lab

Review for the Exam will continue

Wednesday:

Exam on ch. 3

Thursday – Friday

Chapter 4 guided reading is due

Microscopes / structure and use

Week of October 16th

Biology 9th grade

Monday

1.What are 4 pieces of  evidence that support the theory of evolution?

2.How do scientists use these FOUR (4) pieces of evidence to support the theory of evolution?

  • Please provide ONE (1) example of each

Tuesday – Wednesday

  • Please create a 4-Square on the front of your group’s poster paper (it should take up the entire paper)

In each box:

´Vocabulary Word (BOLD & COLORED)

  • Explanation (IN YOUR OWN WORDS)

´Real Life Example

  • Picture (LARGE & COLORED)

Create a foldable with vocabulary

Thursday – Friday

Types of evolution – when given a scenario  be able to identify if it is convergent, divergent, coevolution or punctuated equilibrium and give an explanation of why

Evaluating Scenarios of natural selection

 

 

Week of October 2nd

Biology

Monday – Wednesday:

Students are using the simulation of Thirsty Birds to develop an awareness of how competition, resources and pollution can affect a population’s evolution

  • collect data
  • Analyze data
  • graph data and explain the results

Thursday – Friday

Students will complete an evolution station lab and apply methods of evolution

  • reading for comprehension
  • evaluating resources and methods

AP Biology

Students will be beginning biochemistry carbon and macromolecules

Monday – Friday

glucose models are used to develop dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis – monomer and polymer

students will develop an understanding of functional groups and their role in macromolecules

students will be able to identify macro molecule’s structure and function

Foldable of each macromolecule

 

 

Week of September 25th

9th Grade biology

Monday

Students will hand in their lab reports on paper towel absorbency

We will begin our study of Evolution with Cosmos questions

Tuesday – Wednesday

Students will create a Cosmos calendar that represents the major events in the creation of Earth

Thursday – Friday

Thirsty Birds Lab – students will develop an understanding of natural selection

 

AP Biology

Monday – Tuesday

Students will develop an understanding of pH and the effects it has on human metabolism

perform pH lab

Wednesday

Chapter 1 & 2 Exam

Thursday – Friday – begin Ch. 3

Chapter 3 guided reading will be due

We will begin learning about carbon and the diverse molecules that it can form

 

September 12th

Biology 9th grade:

Students will continue working on their Energy observation lab and turn it in at the end of the hour

For homework they will complete the Graph analysis worksheet

 

AP Biology

Students are completing their data collection for the Paper Towel lab

The write up will be due next Monday or Tuesday