Here you'll find videos, notes, and assignments from past units. All assignments will still be on Google Classroom as well.
Evidence for Evolution Notes
Sex Linked Genes
Pedigrees Practice
pedigrees_mutations.ppt | |
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Mixed Genetics Practice Problems
mixed-genetics-practice-problems-1.pdf | |
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Genetics Notes--Harry Potter
geneticsintrolesson1.ppt | |
File Size: | 711 kb |
File Type: | ppt |
Genetics note guide--Harry Potter
genetics_note_guide_for_intro_lesson_ppt.docx | |
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Autosomal and Sex-Linked traits notes
pedigrees_mutations.ppt | |
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DNA World
dna_world.doc | |
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GMOs activity
170031-genetically-modified-organisms-dating-game-instructions__5_.pdf | |
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Cracking your genetic code movie guide worksheet
cracking_your_genetic_code_video_worksheet.docx | |
File Size: | 15 kb |
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Cracking your genetic code
DNA: Curing Cancer
Strawberry DNA extraction lab
dna_extraction_lab__1_.pdf | |
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Monomer Polymer, DNA worksheets
dna_ws__3_.pdf | |
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monomer_polymer_ws__2_.pdf | |
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The Power of Genes
DNA notes
dna2.pptx | |
File Size: | 5208 kb |
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Homeostasis Mini-PBL! Building a Mars astronaut suit
homeostasis_pbl.docx | |
File Size: | 14 kb |
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Body Systems Videos
Circulatory System and Respiratory System Notes
Intro video Circulatory System
homeo_circ_resp_sys.pdf | |
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homeostasis_mini_pbl.docx.pdf | |
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Mitosis Notes
mitosis.pptx | |
File Size: | 2587 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Onion Cell Microscope Activity
onion_cell_mitosis_lab.pdf | |
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Questions for Crash Course
crash_course_diffusion_osmosis.pdf | |
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Crash Course Diffusion, Active/Passive transport
Ben's Bad Day Webquest: Check your email for the document. Click on the link on the document and answer questions.
Homeostasis Crash Course: Write 5 things you learned
Homeostasis Notes
homeostasis.pptx | |
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Supersize Me CER
Main Idea/Question: Is eating too many biomolecules healthy?
4-8 paragraphs on a google doc
4-8 paragraphs on a google doc
Endothermic/Exothermic Reactions Activity
endoexolab.docx | |
File Size: | 15 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Biochemistry Webquest
Mars biome project outline
mars_biodome_project.pdf | |
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How can we transform Mars into a habitable planet?
Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll do it
Ecology Notes
intro_to_ecology.ppt.pdf | |
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Syllabus 2017-2018
copy_of_biology_standards_and_progression.docx | |
File Size: | 16 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Supplies you will need for this class:
- box of Kleenex
- pencils/pens
- composition book or notebook
- binder or folder
- colored pencils
- ruler
- scissors and markers are not required, but will be helpful if you have your own
Ecological Systems
Molecules to Organisms – Structures and Processes
- Essential Questions
- How does matter and energy move through ecosystems?
- How do organisms interact with the living and nonliving environment to obtain matter and energy?
- How does biodiversity affect humans?
- What type of effect could an invasive species have on an ecosystem?
- Describe the demographic transition and explain how it might affect a population’s growth rate?
- How are scientists able to predict future population trends using carrying capacity, data, and graphs?
- What factors could influence change in a balanced ecosystem?
- What type of individual behaviors could influence the change in a species’ chances to survive and reproduce?
- Processes
- Scientific Method
- Review
- CER/R
- Review
- Scientific Method
- Describing ecosystems
- Physical and biological factors
- Conservation of matter & energy
- Matter cycles - Biogeochemical cycles
- Carbon
- In biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere
- Role of photosynthesis and respiration
- Cycling of matter in aerobic and anaerobic conditions
- Nitrogen Cycle
- Phosphorous cycle
- Water cycle
- Carbon
- Energy flow
- Trophic levels
- Energy flow in aerobic and anaerobic conditions
- Carrying capacity
- Factors that affect –boundaries, resources, climate, and competition
- Environmental change
- Most ecosystems are stable
- Factors affecting change – Human and natural
- Climate change, Invasive species, Extinction, Overpopulation
- hunting, flooding, volcanism, sea level changes
- effects on biodiversity and populations
- Reducing impact of human activities on the environment and biodiversity
- Effect of group behavior on survival and reproduction
- Assessment
Molecules to Organisms – Structures and Processes
- Essential Question
- How do the structures of organisms enable life’s functions? (LS1-1)
- How could a mutation within a specialized cell affect the body’s homeostasis? (LS1-2/3)
- How do organisms obtain and use energy they need to live and grow?
- What evidence supports the combination of essential elements to form amino acids and/or other carbon-based molecules?
- What happens to energy when bonds are formed and/or broken?
- What would happen to life on Earth if all plants became extinct?
- How might cycles help us to understand the relationship between life and physical sciences?
- What problems can growth cause in the cell?
- Practices
- Scientific Method
- Observation
- Testable questions
- Hypotheses
- CER/R – Making claim
- Microscopes
- Measurement – Volume, mass, distance
- Models & limitations of models
- Scientific Method
- Biomolecules
- Chemical makeup of organic molecules – CHONPS
- Monomer and polymers
- Basic Chemistry (Atoms, Molecules & formulas, Bonds – Covalent, Ionic, & Hydrogen)
- Carbohydrates – Structure and function
- Lipids – Structure and function
- Proteins– Structure and function
- Nucleic Acids, Chromosomes, DNA – Structure and function
- Levels of Organization
- Atom to Organism (to Biosphere?)
- Cell Wall
- Membrane (molecular movement – Diffusion, Osmosis, Passive & Active Transport)
- Nucleus
- Mitochondria
- Chloroplast
- Cell size
- Cell cycle & Cancer
- DNA Replication
- Mutations – Replication errors and environmental factors
- Mitosis
- Stem Cells - Growth, Differentiation
- Protein synthesis
- Effects of mutations on DNA and protein synthesis
- Cell Energy
- Photosynthesis – Model input and output
- Cellular Respiration – Model input and output
- Metabolism – Exothermic and Endothermic, Energy inputs and outputs
- Organ systems & Feedback mechanisms
- Explain and describe how a body maintains homeostasis
- Feedback mechanisms
- Assessment
- Essential Questions
- How do replications errors and mutations lead to genetic disorders/variations in traits?
- How are the characteristics from one generation related to the previous generation?
- What are the positive effects of crossing over?
- What are the differences between mitosis and meiosis?
- How do offspring get their characteristics?
- Practices
- Scientific Method
- Procedures
- Evidence collection (direct and indirect evidence)
- CER/R – Describing evidence
- Scientific Method
- Genes and Alleles definitions
- Coding & non-coding regions of DNA
- Gene expression factors: cell type and environmental factors
- Meiosis
- Cell reproduction
- Inheritance
- Genotype & Phenotype, Homozygous & Heterozygous
- Probability (Punnet squares)
- Single trait cross
- Pedigrees - Double trait cross, Linked traits, Incomplete dominance, Multiple alleles
- Variation of traits
- through Independent Assortment & Crossing over
- by mutations through DNA synthesis errors and environmental factors
- Assessment
- Essential Questions
- How can there be so many similarities among organisms yet so many different plants, animals, and micro-organisms?
- Explain what type of evidence will demonstrate relationships among organisms as you move throughout the phylogenic tree.
- Why do some organisms survive cataclysmic changes in the environment and others do not?
- Explain how evolution is the result of organisms interacting with their environments, but is not goal-oriented.
- Describe the role that variation in traits, caused by genetic mutation and sexual recombination, plays in natural selection.
- What evidence can be found to support the theory of evolution?
- Practices
- Scientific Method
- Evaluating interpreting data (what does the evidence support?)
- Conclusions
- CER/R – Reasoning (supporting the claim with evidence) Rebuttal
- Discussing opposing views (Accountable talk)
- Scientific Method
- Evidence for evolution
- DNA similarity
- Anatomical structures – homologous & vestigial structures
- Embryological development
- Process of evolution - Natural selection
- Factors influencing Natural Selection
- Potential for a species to increase in number
- Variations exist in populations due to mutation and processes in meiosis
- Competitions for limited resources
- Traits from organisms that survive better and reproduce become more prevalent in the population
- Adaptations of populations over time
- Increase and decrease of trait prevalence in populations
- Factors influencing Natural Selection
- Biodiversity
- Changing environmental conditions
- Factors affecting – natural and human
- Speciation
- Extinction
- Effects of human activity on biodiversity
- Classification
- Categories – Domain to Species
- Prokaryote/Eukaryote
- Domain characteristics
- Kingdom characteristics
- Large Phylum characteristics
- Scientific Naming
- Changing environmental conditions
- Assessment
Solar Eclipse 8/21/17
solar_eclipse.pptx | |
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What is Life notes
what_is_life__1_.pptx | |
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Life on Mars notes
life_on_mars.pptx | |
File Size: | 53 kb |
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Mars Biodome Rubric
marsbiodomeproject.pdf | |
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Succession Notes
ecological_succession.ppt | |
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Species interactions notes
notes_-_species_interactions__1_.pptx | |
File Size: | 8487 kb |
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Dichotomous key worksheets
dichotomous_key_practice_worksheets.pdf | |
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CERs:
1. How do you think life as we know it came to be? God? or Evolution? Provide two pieces of evidence.
2. Why is diversity of life so important to life on earth?
2. Why is diversity of life so important to life on earth?
Case study: Giraffe Neck Length
giraffe_neck__1_.pptx | |
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Video: The Planet of Life
1. Why was oxygen once poison to living things on earth?
2. What changed?
3. What are some characteristics of life?
4. What is the difference between how fire reproduces and how animals reproduce?
5. What does it mean to say, "We live in a symbiotic planet"?
6. Write 10 ways diversity of life is important for the survival of living things.
Write CER answering the question: What is THE MOST important reason diversity is important in living organisms?
At least 3 paragraphs due Monday, 10/2/17
2. What changed?
3. What are some characteristics of life?
4. What is the difference between how fire reproduces and how animals reproduce?
5. What does it mean to say, "We live in a symbiotic planet"?
6. Write 10 ways diversity of life is important for the survival of living things.
Write CER answering the question: What is THE MOST important reason diversity is important in living organisms?
At least 3 paragraphs due Monday, 10/2/17
Turn in questions in book on page 288-289
Evidence for Evolution worksheet
evidence_for_evolution_worksheet.pdf | |
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Nova Evolution Game
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/
Review for genetics test Monday, January 23
geneticsreview__1_.docx | |
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Write a CER about Evolution video
Use this claim: All living organisms evolved from a single celled organism
Use 2 pieces of evidence from the video
Use 2 pieces of evidence from the video
Bill Nye Discovery Evolution
Questions from DNA video:
1. What are 5 things that surprised you about DNA?
2. Why do scientists keep DNA samples on the International Space Station?
3. Why did scientists encode "It's a Small World After All" into a DNA strand?
2. Why do scientists keep DNA samples on the International Space Station?
3. Why did scientists encode "It's a Small World After All" into a DNA strand?
25 things about DNA
Strawberry DNA extraction
strawberry_dna_extraction.pdf | |
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Genetic disorder project/final
geneticdisorderproject09.doc | |
File Size: | 37 kb |
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Genetics problems (orange packet)
mixed-genetics-practice-problems-1.pdf | |
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Genetics Notes
geneticsintrolesson1.ppt | |
File Size: | 709 kb |
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harrypottergeneticslesson2.ppt | |
File Size: | 563 kb |
File Type: | ppt |
Crash Course Biological Molecules
Characteristics of life, levels of organization, biomolecules notes
characteristics_of_life.pptx | |
File Size: | 477 kb |
File Type: | pptx |
Nutrition/biomolecules
nutrition__1_.docx | |
File Size: | 14 kb |
File Type: | docx |
cer_rubric-cheat_sheet__1_.docx | |
File Size: | 303 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Supplies you will need for this class:
- box of Kleenex
- pencils/pens
- composition book or notebook
- binder or folder
- colored pencils
- ruler
- scissors and markers are not required, but will be helpful if you have your own