October 31                     

Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Understand the cell cycle and differentiation

Chapter 10: Cell growth and division

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

Work time: 

*Notes:  Regulation of the cell cycle and cell differentiation

*Video:  Cancer

*Reading - Endosymbiosis

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Introduction to Genetics

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: What is cancer?

Work time:

*Analytical Skills - Animal Symmetry

*Bird Adaptations

*Introduction to Genetics - Who was Gregor Mendel?

*Worksheet and reading - How are traits passed from one generation to the next?

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Punnett Squares

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: What are the organs of a plant and what is the purpose of each?

Work time: 

*Worksheet and reading - How are traits passed from one generation to the next?

*Analytical Skills: Probability

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB3 Derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems

Focus: Photosynthesis/Cellular Respiration

Chapter 9: Cellular Respiration

Beginning Assignment: Punnett Square Problem

Work time: 

*Cellular Respiration Internet Lesson

*Vocabulary Review

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Introduction to Genetics

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Punnett Square Problem

Work time: 

*Worksheet and reading - How are traits passed from one generation to the next?

*Codominance:  Oompa Genetics

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary test

Homework:  N/A

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Predicting Traits

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

Work time: 

*Finish "How Traits are Passed Down in Families"

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Meiosis

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Genetics Problem

Work time: 

*Vocabulary Test - Genetics I

*Meiosis

*Genetics since Mendel:  Comparing genotype with phenotype

*Genetics Problems - Oompa Genetics - Codominance and dihybrid crosses

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Meiosis/Genetic Diseases

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Genetics Problem

Work time: 

*Genetics Internet Lesson

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Predicting Traits

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Genetics Problem

Work time (2nd Block Assembly): 

*Genetics Problems - Oompa Genetics - Codominance and dihybrid crosses

*Structure of DNA

Homework:  N/A

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Veteran's Day

No School

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Structure of DNA

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

Work time: 

*Oompa Loompa Genetics

*Sex-Linked Traits

*Notes:  Structure of DNA

*The Language of the Cell - Introduction

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Structure of DNA

Chapter 12: DNA and RNA

Beginning Assignment: *Concept map comparing Mitosis and Meiosis

Work time:  (1st Block Assembly)

*Finish The Language of the Cell - Introduction

*Building DNA - Blueprints of Infection

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Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Transcription and Translation

Chapter 12: DNA and RNA

Beginning Assignment: Transcription Problem

Work time: 

*How DNA controls the working of the cell

*Transcription Sentences

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 15: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Vocabulary Review

Work time: 

*Notes:  Darwin and natural selection

*Antibiotic Resistance

Homework:  Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 15: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Vocabulary Review

Work time: 

*Review natural selection

*Overview of Invertebrate and Vertebrates for video

*Animal Armageddon

Homework:  N/A

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No School

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

Work time: 

*Review Animal Armageddon

*Darwin and Galapagos Islands - Tortoises and Finches; Iguanas with Punnett Squares

*Notebook Quiz

Homework:  Study for EOCT/Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB3 Students will derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems

Focus: Dichotomous Keys

Chapter 18:  Classification

Beginning Assignment: Reading - Patterns of Evolution

Work time: 

*Natural Selection Crossword

*Dichotomous Keys - Norns

*Vocabulary Test

Homework:  Study for EOCT/Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard:  SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Antibiotic Resistance and Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolutiontics

Beginning Assignment: Kingdom Fungi

Work time: 

*Internet Assignment - Antibiotic Resistance (under Epidemiology)

*Internet Assignment for November 30 - Microscopes and Natural Selection Activity

Homework:  Study for EOCT/Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

December 1

Standard: SB3 Students will derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems

Focus: Binomial Nomenclature and Overview of six Kingdoms

Chapter 18:  Classification

Beginning Assignment: Reading - Kingdom Fungi

Work time: 

1st Block - Patterns of Evolution

2nd Block - Dichotomous Keys (Norns)

*Binomial Nomenclature

Homework:  Study for EOCT/Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

December 2

Standard: SB4 Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems

Focus: Transfer of Energy and Matter

Beginning Assignment: Practice Graphs

Work time: 

*Viruses, Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic Cells

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary test

*Cell Organelles

Homework:  Study for EOCT/