Honors Biology - Please note that this course is not being taught during the spring semester 2012

Objective of this course: This course is designed to help you prepare for the State Biology I exam at the end of this course. You must pass this Biology I Honors class and pass the end of course exam in order to receive biology I credit for graduation. You will be asked to learn essential biology topics that will be tested on the exam. Homework reading and writing assignments will be given to enhance your learning of biology.

Required materials: 3 prong binder with paper
color pencils for lab
# 2 pencil for scan tron tests

Grade: Chapter/Unit test 3 x 100
Labs/Class activities 100
Quizzes 100
Homework 100
Nine week project 2 x 100

Attendance is very important – remember each class is 90 minutes of learning

Labs: You must be present to receive the credit of the lab – see me for makeup in Rm 367 within a week of the lab.

Homework will be reading assignments, writing assignments and task assignments. Homework must be turned in on time to receive full credit. If you are absent on the due date, it must be turned in when you return. Field trips are not absences and work is to be turned in prior to the planned field trips.

Expectations:
1. You are to follow the Knight’s code of chivalry.
REPSONSIBILITY
CITIZENSHIP
KINDNESS
RESPECT
HONESTY
SELF-CONTROL
TOLERANCE
COOPERATION

2. Disrupting the learning environment of this class will earn you a detention. Detention will be served before and/or after school.

3. You are to be in your seat at the start of class. You will remain in your seat until I dismiss you.

4. You are to be on time.

5. You are to be prepared to learn.

6. You are to keep your area and room neat and clean. No food or drinks are permitted in the room. This is a lab room.

7. When you are absent, you are still RESPONSIBLE for all missed work, notes, tests, etc.

BE A LIFE LONG LEARNER AND A RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN

WEEK 1

Biology and You - Chapter 1

1. Homework - email me* and return signed safety sheet

*email me your name, period, and whether you are going to use the online textbook or take home a book

2. complete lab safety and complete lab safety test

3. complete scientific method lab

4. read Chapter 1 section 3 and 4 and in notebook, define terms from Chapter 1 section 3 only

5. How do scientist do it?

6. Biology I book scavenger hunt on

Chemistry of life - Chapter 2

1. read and all learn terms from Chemistry

2. know how to use the Periodic Table

3. complete pH lab

4. complete organic molecule lab

5. Analyzing the effect of pH on enzymes

6. complete enzyme lab

7. study and complete chapter 2 test on chemistry - test

Prefix #1 quiz

#1 Using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots

1. homo-, homeo- like, same

2. –ation - a suffix used to form nouns

3. a-, ab- from, from off, away, down, down from

4. bi- twice, two

5. bio- life

6. centi – one-hundredth

7. deca – ten

8. deci – one-tenth

9. dissect – cut

10. kilo – one thousand

11. mega – one million

12. meter – a measure

13. milli- one-thousandth

14. – ology – a science, a branch of learning

15. synthesis – a putting together

#2 USING GREEK AND LATIN PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, AND ROOTS quiz

1. de – from, down ,out

2. re – back, again

3. in – in, into

4. –ary – relating to, connected with

5. –optholmo – eyeball, eye

6. macro – large, enlarged, elongated

7. magni – great

8. micro – small, minute, one-millionth

9. mono – one, single

10. oculo – relating to eyes, vision

11. opti – relating to vision or sight

12. – osis – condition, state

13. –phoresis – transmission, carrying

14. – scope – an instrument for seeing or observing

15. centro – center

16. chromo - color

Chapter 3 - Cell structure and function Cell structure - Chapter 3

1. read and learn terms from Chapter 3

2. complete VIS sheet for section 4 and section 5 (12 words)

3. complete a Venn diagram on 14"x 22" posterboard to compare a plant and animal cell

 a.list 5 statements that are alike in both cells and include 4 pictures or drawings

 b.list 4 statements that are only found in animal cells

 c.list 4 statements that are only found in plant cells

ALL work must be neatly done - using typed or stick on letters

4. complete the microscope lab - learning how to use a microscope

5. complete the study animal and plant cell lab

6. study and learn Chapter 3 on the Cell

7. demo on diffusion through an egg

8. Observing osmosis lab

9. work on passive and active transport worksheet - cause and effect

10. Chapter 3 test on the cell and function (microscope too)

Plants - Chapter 21 sections 3 and 4  only

1. read and learn terms for plants

2. complete Microscope viewer on plant cells

3. Vocabulary quiz

#3 Greek and Latin Prefixes, suffixes, and roots quiz

1. – fuge – something that drives away or out

2. – graph – write or draw

3. electro – referring to electricity

4. maniple – handful

5. – plasm – the fluid substance of a cell

6. con – with, together

7. iso – equal

8. co – with, together

9. – al – to, toward

10. – id – a condition of

11. – ly – like

12. nuclear – nut

13. – cyte – a hollow cell

14. epi – upon

15. – oid – like, form

Chapter 4- Cells and Energy

1. read Chapter 4, sections 1, 2, 4, 6 - learning the overview of photosynthesis and cellular respiraion

2. 2 VIS sheets for Chapter 4 - 10 words for photosynthesis and 10 words for respiration

3. complete computer lab with partner

4. comparing photosynthesis and cellular respiration overhead

5.  Observing Oxygen Production/Carbon dioxide production with indicator

6. study for Chapter test (plant structures with energy transfer)

#4 Greek and Latin Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots

1. anti – against

2. calor – heat

3. endo – within, inside

4. exo – without, outside

5. inter – between, among

6. intra – within, inside of

7. – itis – inflammation

8. – lysis – dissolution, destruction

9. period – regularly occurring event

10. tri – three, having three parts

11. pro – before, in front of, forward

12. non – not

13. poly – many, much

14. morpho – form

15. appendic – referring to appendix

Chapter 5 Cell Growth and Division

1. read and study all sections 1-5

2. complete power notes in notebook

3. know the cell cycle

4. preview mitosis lab with microslide viewer

5. complete Mitosis lab write up from text - p. 143

6. complete mitosis activity on computer with partner

7. with computer - matching game - p. 157

8. asexual reproduction with yeast (budding) and prepared slide of hydra

9. Chapter 5 test  

#5 Using Greek and Latin Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots quiz

1. arterio – having to do with arteries

2. cephal – head

3. dent, don’t – teeth

4. hyper – over, above, excessive

5. hypo – under, beneath, below, less than

6. photo – light

7. stereo – solid, firm, three-dimensional

8. trans – across, beyond

9. ultra – beyond, on the further side of, excessive, extreme

10. hom, homo, homin – man

11. hetero- other, different

12. leuko, leuco – white

13. – neur – nerves

14. – gamet – sex cell

15. pseudo – false, deceptive

Chapter 6 Meiosis and Mendel

1. read Chapter 6 and learn terms from all sections 1-6

2. review differences between mitosis and meiosis

3. complete Karyotyping lab with partner

4. review the cell cycle and processes on computer with partner - p. 172

5. complete study guides to help learn meiosis - haploid cells

6. Mendel - corn lab

7. Probability lab

8. Chapter 6 test

Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 21

WEEK 9 - Exam week

Remember-- you will take the "End of Course" exam from the state.  Keep all of your biology materials so that you can review before you take the exam.

Second nine weeks

Science Fair Project - working on a problem that you can research and test

1. due date for a problem

2. research problem

3. you must have a research log- either a bound or spiral notebook (not loose leaf); handwritten in ink

4. due date for accepted problem and completed research and hypothesis

5. work on hypothesis and finding a valid experiment

6. - class time given to continue to work on project

7. All sources MUST be sited.  Most of your project will be sited because you used other researchers information.

8. A final research paper with you science fair board

   ****I will be available before and after school to help with individuals and their projects.

Get  science fair board NOW.   Keep board simple.

1. abstract - site sources - This is a concise summary that gives the reader a snapshot of your completed project.

2. problem

3. research- site sources

4. hypothesis

5. experiment - with materials and procedures listed - site sources

6. pictures of the experiment - no faces in the picture

7. collected data with results

8. conclusion - did you prove/disprove your hypothsis with explanation - site sources

Week one

Continue Mendelian Genetics - Chapter 7

1. read and study chapter 7, sections 1, 2, and 4 only

2. complete BABY lab

3. evaluating a pedigree

4. Incomplete/Codominance activity

5. Animation p. 217

6. study for test

#6 Using Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots quiz

1. hemi – half

2. hexa – six

3. octo – eight

4. ortho – straight, regular, upright

5. penta – five

6. platy – flat, broad

7. pteron – wing or feather

8. quadri – four

9. sclero – hard

10. dermat - skin

11. carn, carni - meat

12. herb – plant

13. – cide – to kill

14. zoa, zoo – pertaining to animals

15. – vor – feeding

16. pod - foot

Week two

Week three

Chapter 8

1. read and learn terms for chapter 8 - all sections

2. Modeling DNA structure

3. DNA model lab

4. review punnett square for traits

5. review from gene to proteins

6. complete comparing DNA and RNA worksheet in class

7. complete protein synthesis lab

8. Chapter test

# 7 Using Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots quiz

1. archae – ancient, original

2. auto – self

3. chloro – green

4. ecto – out

5. eu – true, modern

6. gastro – stomach

7. – gen – make, produce

8. hemo – blood

9. – phage, phago – eat, engulf

10. some, soma – body

11. troph – nutrition, feeding

12. – mere – a part

13. – ase – a suffix used in denoting an enzyme

14. muta – to change

15. onco – a mass

Week Four

Week Five

Chapter 10 Principles of Evolution

1. read and learn terms for sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 - complete Power notes

2. complete "sequencing the clock gene" due 11/28

3. use computer at home to complete the animated "Population evolved" p. 321 through BEEP

4. notes on Darwin and the Theory of Natural Section

5. "Timing is Everything" lab

6. test

#8 Prefix, suffix, and root study quiz

1. amphi – both
2. andro – male
3. audi – to hear
4. cardi – heart
5. chondri – cartilage
6. dys – bad, disorder
7. gyn – woman
8. hyster – uterus
9. kin/kine – movement
10. lip/lipo – fat
11. mal – bad
12. mela – black
13. meso/med – middle
14. myo – muscle
15. necro – dead
16. neo - new

Week six

#9 prefix, suffix, root quiz

1. para – beside or near
2. patho – sickness
3. ped – child
4. peri – around
5. philo – love of
6. retro – backwards, behind
7. sub – below
8. toxi – poison
9. troph – growth
10. lact/lacto – milk
11. aer – air
12. albo – white
13. amyl – starch
14. bacillo – a little stick
15. cili – eyelash
16. cyst - bladder

Chapter 11 Evolution of Populations

1. read and know terms from sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

2. Hardy-Weinbery lab

3. radioactive decay activity

4. notes on populations

5. test

Chapter 12 The History of Life

1. read and know terms from sections 3, 4, and 6

2. notes on Miller/Urey - origin of life

3. Comparing Hominid skull lab

4. test 

Week seven

#10 prefix, suffix, root quiz

1. dia – through, between

2. fruct – fruit

3. – fy – to make

4. gel – to stiffen

5. haplo – one, single

6. hist – tissue

7. mnesia – memory

8. ob – before, against

9. pan – all, universal

10. phyll – leaf

11. stasis – arrest, fixation

12. psychro – cold

13. tome/tomy – to cut

14. trope – turning

15. vitr – glass

16. zyme - ferment

Chapter 17 The tree of life

1. read and know terms for sections 1, 2, and 4

2. Dicotomous key lab

3. Comparative kingdom lab

4. complete Cladogram

5. notes on the 6 Kingdoms

6. Test

Week eight

The Human Body - with Circulatory system, Immune system, Nervous system

Chapter 29 section 4 - Central Nervous System

Chapter 30 section 3 - The heart and circulation

                  section 4 - Blood vessels and transport

Chapter 31 Immune System - sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

Chapter 34 Reproductive System - sections 1, 2, 3, 4

Week nine

Ecology- finishing up with Unit 5 on Ecology (this will be on the final exam and EOC from the state)

Chapter 13 Principles of Ecology

Chapter 14 Interactions in Ecosytems

Chapter 15 The Biosphere

Chapter 16 Human Impact on Ecosystems

Prefix, Suffix, and Root - final test

study all Prefix #1-10 for final test

All Biology books must be returned and checked in

Class time will be given for Final review

Exam week

Remember-- you will take the "End of Course" exam from the state.  Keep all of your biology materials so that you can review before you take the exam.

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