Biology Schedule

October

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

 

Focus: Kingdom Protista

 

Chapter 21: Protists and Fungi

 

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

 

Work time: 

*Six Kingdoms - concept map

*Finish paramecium and euglena

*Interactions of individual organisms

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words/Study for unit test

 

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

 

Focus: Competition and population size

 

Chapter 4: Ecosystems and Communities

 

Beginning Assignment: Compare/Contrast paramecium and euglena

 

Work time: 

*Notes:  Symbiosis

*Biologix - Symbiosis

 

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words/Study for unit test

 

 

 

 

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

 

Focus: Symbiosis

 

Chapter 4: Ecosystems and Communities

 

Beginning Assignment: Compare/contrast cilia and flagella

 

Work time: 

*Finish symbiosis

*Study guide for unit test

*Logic Puzzle - Cell Organelles

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words/Study for unit test

 

 

 

Standard: SB1 Analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells

 

Focus: Introduction to the cell/Review interactions

 

Chapter 4: Ecosystems and Communities

 

Beginning Assignment: What is symbiosis

 

Work time: 

*Stations - microscopy and review

*Study Guides

*Notes:  Cell Theory

 

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words/Study for unit test

 

 

 

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

 

Focus: Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Cells

 

Chapter 4: Ecosystems and Communities

 

Beginning Assignment: Compare/contrast mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism

 

Work time: 

*Compare/contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells

*Review amoeba, paramecium, and euglena

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary test

*Unit Test

Reading - Endosymbiosis

 

Homework:  N/A

 

 

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Standard: SB1 Analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells

 

Focus: Structure and function of cell organelles

 

Chapter 7:  Cell Structure and Function

 

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

 

Work time: 

*Logic Puzzle - Cell organelles

*Notes:  Cell Organelles

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Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

 

11 

 

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

 

Focus: Review habitat and niche

 

Chapter 4:  Ecosystems and Communities

 

Beginning Assignment: Compare/contrast habitat and niche

 

Work time: 

*Habitat vs. niche project

*Color coding - plant and animal cells

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

 

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PSAT in morning

 

13

 

Standard: SB1 Analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells

 

Focus: Structure and function of cell organelles

 

Chapter 7:  Cell Structure and Function

 

Beginning Assignment: Compare/contrast the Golgi apparatus and the ER

 

Work time: 

*Color coding - plant and animal cells

*Matching - cell organelles vs. function

*Cell models

*Vocabulary review

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

14 

 

Standard: SB1 Analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells

 

Focus: Transport across the cell membrane

 

Chapter 7:  Cell Structure and Function

 

Beginning Assignment: What is a lysosome?  How does it help in the development of an organism?

 

Work time: 

*Structure of the cell membrane

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary test

 

Homework:  N/A

 

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Standard: SB1 Analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells

 

Focus: Transport across the cell membrane

 

Chapter 7:  Cell Structure and Function

 

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

 

Work time: 

*Notes:  Structure and function of the cell membrane

*Cell organelle matching

*Cell organelle crossword

*Demonstration of diffusion

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

 

18

 

Standard: SB1 Analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells

 

Focus: Transport across the cell membrane

 

Chapter 7:  Cell Structure and Function

 

Beginning Assignment: Describe diffusion.

 

Work time: 

*Transport across the cell membrane

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

19  

 

Standard: SB1 Analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells

 

Focus: Structure and function of plant cell organelles

 

Chapter 7:  Cell Structure and Function

 

Beginning Assignment: Begin vocabulary review

 

Work time: 

*MAP II

*Focus on Organisms: Kingdom Plantae - General Characteristics

*Focus on Organisms: Kingdom Plantae - Structure of a leaf

*Vocabulary review

 

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

 

Chapter 8:  Photosynthesis

 

Beginning Assignment: Compare/Contrast endocytosis and exocytosis

 

Work time: 

*Overview of photosynthesis and cellular respiration

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary test

 

Homework: 

N/A

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No School

 

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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: Write down vocabulary words

 

Work time: 

*Finish Energy and the Chemistry of Life - Part II

*Homeostasis and the Plasma Membrane

*Photosystems and Chemiosmosis

*Cellular respiration - concept map

 

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: What are the chemical equations for photosynthesis and cellular respiration?

 

Work time: 

*Photosystems and Chemiosmosis

*Cellular respiration - concept map

 

*Vocabulary Quiz - Photosynthesis/retake diffusion vocabulary quiz

 

*Posters for cell models

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

 

 

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

 

Focus: Mitosis and meosis

 

Chapter 10: Cell growth and division

 

Beginning Assignment: Which kingdoms use the process of photosynthesis?  Which kingdoms use the process of cellular respiration?

 

Work time: 

1st Block

*Notes: Cell Cycle

*Controlling the cell cycle

*Understanding the cell cycle worksheet

2nd Block

*Practice quizzes - USA Test Prep

*Cells Alive

 

Homework: 

Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

 

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

 

Focus: Mitosis and meosis

 

Chapter 10: Cell growth and division

 

Beginning Assignment: Compare/contrast photosynthesis and cellular respiration

 

Work time: 

1st Block

*Practice quizzes - USA Test Prep

*Cells Alive

 

2nd Block

*Notes: Cell Cycle

*Controlling the cell cycle

*Understanding the cell cycle worksheet

*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: Mitosis and meosis

 

Chapter 10: Cell growth and division

 

Beginning Assignment: What is mitosis and why is it important?

 

Work time: 

*Hand in vocabulary words

*Vocabulary test

*Analytical skills - animal symetry

*Bird Adaptations

 

Homework:  N/A

 

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