Assignments

CALENDAR
COUNTDOWN TO AP BIOLOGY EXAM

SEMESTER 1

1ST MARKING PERIOD

WEEK 1

(due Thursday, 9-8-11)
1. Fill in the AP Biology About Me form 
2. Register for online book access using student access code SSNAST-JEHAD-OBEYS-SIDED-GUSTO-ROVES here 

(due Friday, 9-9-11)
1. Read chapters 1 & 2 (pgs. 2-45)
2. Complete the ch.1-2 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Chemical Basis of Life


WEEK 2

(due Tuesday, 9-20-11)
1. Read chapters 3-5 (pgs. 47-90)
2. Complete the ch.3-4 Reading guide
3. Complete the ch.5 Reading guide
4. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Water
5. Watch Properties of Water 
6. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Molecules of Life 
7. Watch Crash Course in Biology #1 (carbon)
8. Watch Crash Course in Biology #2 (water)
9. Watch Crash Course in Biology #3 (macromolecules)


(due Friday @ 3:30, 9-16-11)
1. Complete the ch.2-5 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Read Cliffs pgs. 11-22 (stop at Chemical Reactions in Metabolic Processes)

WEEK 3

(due Thursday, 9-22-11)
Free Response Practice 2009 #1 (2.5 minutes to read, 22.5 minutes to write)

(due Friday, 9-23-11)
Brine Shrimp Lab Report Requirements
Brine Shrimp Lab


(due Friday, 10-14-11)
1. Read chapter 6
2. Complete the chapter 6 Reading guide
(answer key)
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on cells
(after you watch this, post a comment on the blog telling me how much you loved the podcast:)
4. Eukaryotic Cell Tour Tutorial 
5. Watch Crash Course in Biology #4 (animal cell)
6. Watch Crash Course in Biology #6 (plant cell)

WEEK 4

(due Friday, 10-14-11)
1. Read chapter 7
2. Complete the chapter 7 Reading guide
3. Watch KhanAcademy clip on Diffusion and Osmosis 
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #5 (cell membrane)

(due Friday, 9-30-11)
1. Lab 1 Diffusion and Osmosis (1A-1E need to be completed)
2. Review LabBench (lab 1)
Lab 1 Powerpoint - Water Potential
1E - Onion Cell Plasmolysis (video)
1E - Elodea Plasmolysis (video)
3. Do Osmosis Tutorial  


WEEK 5

(due Friday, 10-14-11)
1. Read chapter 8 - pgs. 141-143, 146-157 only
2. Complete the chapter 8 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on enzymes
4. Do the Enzymes virtual lab 
5. Enzyme Catalysis Tutorial 
6. Allosteric Regulation Tutorial

(due Wednesday, 10-5-11)
Take Post Unit 1 Survey

(due Friday, 10-7-11)
1. Lab Toothpickase
2. Online Lab 2 Enzyme Catalysis
Go to site
3. Watch Catalase Demo (with liver)
4. Watch Catalase Demo - elephant toothpaste (with yeast)
5.  Complete the ch.6-8 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website

WEEK 6

(due Thursday, 10-13-11)
1. Complete the ch.12-13 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Mitosis 
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Meiosis
4. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Mitosis/Meiosis Simulation
5. Watch Sex Determination video (very interesting!)

(due Friday, 10-14-11)
1. Read chapter 12
2. Complete the chapter 12 Reading guide  
3. Read chapter 13
4. Complete the chapter 13 Reading guide 
5. Lab 3 Mitosis and Meiosis
6. Review Lab Bench (lab 3) 
7. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on Lab 3 
8. Mitosis Virtual Lab
9. Meiosis Virtual Lab 
10. Visit NOVA website 
11. Watch Treating Cancer with Electric Fields (very interesting!)
12. Read Cliffs pgs. 22-24, 33-39, 73-81
13. Watch Crash Course in Biology #12 (mitosis)
14. Watch Crash Course in Biology #13 (meiosis)


WEEK 7

(due Monday, 10-17-11)
Biochemistry Extra Credit (up to 15 points) - both parts must be printed and turned in
Part 1
Part 2

(due Thursday, 11-3-11)
1. Read chapter 9
2. Complete the chapter 9 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Respiration 
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #7 (cell respiration)

WEEK 8

(due Wednesday, 10-26-11)
1. Lab 5 Respiration
2. Review Lab Bench (lab 5)
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Lab 5 
4. ETC and ATP Synthesis Tutorial 
5. Watch Crash Course in Biology #8 (photosynthesis)

(due Thursday, 11-3-11)
1. Read chapter 10
2. Complete the chapter 10 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Photosynthesis
4. Complete the ch.9-10 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
5. Lab 4 Photosynthesis (Chromatography & Floating Leaf Disks)
6. Review Lab Bench (lab 4)
7. Watch Bozeman clip on Lab 4
8. Watch video on Sinking discs 
9. Watch Tressel youtube clip on Photosynthesis 
10. Review notes on lab 4 Part B 
11. Read Cliffs pgs.45-50, 57-63

(due Friday, 11-4-11)
3 Science Article Summaries
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2ND MARKING PERIOD

WEEK 1

(due Wednesday, 11-9-11)
Unit 3 Free Response Practice (and grade yourself)

(due Tuesday, 11-22-11)
1. Read chapter 14
2. Complete the chapter 14 Reading guide
3. Work on Lab 7 (Fruit flies)
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Mendelian Genetics 
5. Watch Bozeman clip on Genotypes & Phenotypes
5.  Do the Punnett Squares virtual lab 
6.  Do Virtual Fruit Fly Lab Activity (use guest entrance) 
7.  Read this article (about environmental triggers on genes)
8. Watch Crash Course in Biology #9 (heredity)

WEEK 2

1. Review the Chi Square Tutorial
2. Chi Square Analysis (Skittles) Lab
3. Watch Bozeman Clip on Chi Square

(due Tuesday, 11-22-11)
1. Read chapter 15
2. Complete the chapter 15 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Chromosomal Inheritance 
4. Do the Sex-linked virtual lab 
5. Try these genetics problems (1, 2, 4, 5-7, 8ac, 10, 11, 13, 17, 19 - look up epistasis, 20)
6. Try these dihybrid cross problems 

WEEK 3

(due Tuesday, 11-22-11)
1. Complete the ch.14-15 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website 
2. Watch Punnett Square Fun 
3. Watch video clip on Epigenetics 
4. Read Cliffs pgs.89-98

WEEK 4

(due Tuesday, 11-29-11)
Lab 7- Fruit Flies
Lab 7 Class Data (for Chi Square Analysis)

(due Tuesday, 12-6-11)
1. Read chapter 16
2. Complete the chapter 16 Reading Guide
3. Read chapter 17
4. Complete the chapter 17 Reading Guide
5. Do the DNA Replication Tutorial 
6. Watch and answer questions about the following video clips:
DNA Packaging
Chemical Structure of DNA
DNA Pair Strands
Chargaff's Ratio
Watson Constructing Base Pair Models
Coding Sequence in DNA 
DNA Replication 
7. Watch Crash Course in Biology #10 (DNA structure & replication)
8. Complete the Protein Synthesis tutorial - 1
9. Complete the Protein Synthesis tutorial - 2
10. Watch clip on RNA splicing
11. Watch clip on translation 
12. Watch Crash Course in Biology #11 (protein synthesis)
 

WEEK 5

(due Tuesday, 12-6-11)
1. Complete the ch.16-17 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA/RNA part 1
3. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA/RNA part 2
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Transcription & Translation 
5. Watch Bozeman clip on the Central Dogma 
6. Study for test using review sheet 
7. Transcription/Translation worksheet 1
8. Transcription/Translation worksheet 2 (challenge - extra credit?)
9. Read Cliffs pgs.107-116

(due Wednesday, 12-14-11)
1. Read chapter 18
2. Complete the chapter 18 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Viral Replication
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Gene Regulation
5. Read chapter 19
6. Complete the chapter 19 Reading Guide
7. Watch Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk" (very interesting!!!)

WEEK 6

(due Wednesday, 12-14-11)
1. Complete the ch.18-19 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Watch clip on Lac Operon 
3. Do the Lac Operon tutorial
4. Watch clip on Trp Operon
5. Do the Trp Operon tutorial
6. Build model of prokaryotic operon (lac or trp - your choice)
7. Watch clip on control of gene expression in eukaryotes 
8. Study for test using review sheet 
9. Read Cliffs pgs. 117-119 

(due Thursday, 12-15-11)
1. Prelab/Review Lab Bench (lab 6) 
2. Watch streaking technique clip

(due Friday, 1-6-12)
1. Read chapter 20
2. Complete the chapter 20 Reading guide
3. Read chapter 21
4. Complete the chapter 21 Reading guide
5. Watch plasmid clip
6. Watch growing bacteria plate (gross!)
7. Read article about bacteria making human growth hormones (article summary?) 
8. Watch clip on restriction enzymes (ECORI)
9. Restriction Enzymes: How is DNA Manipulated?
10. Recombinant Plasmid Activity
11. Complete the restriction enzyme digestion tutorial 
12. Review the DNA fingerprinting tutorial (review from biology class)
13. Complete the DNA fingerprinting tutorial and problems
14. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA fingerprinting
15. Complete PCR Animation  
16. Read info on cloning 
17. Clone a mouse (review from biology class)
18. Stem cell tutorial 1
19. Stem cell tutorial 2
20. Read article on stem cells (article summary?)
21. Read Cliffs pgs.119-120


WEEK 7

(due date TBD)
Lab 6

(due Friday, 1-6-12)
1. Read chapter 22
2. Complete the chapter 22 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Evidence for Evolution
4. Complete the ch.20-22 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website (OPTIONAL)
5. Read article on evolution (first shark hybrid)

WEEK 8

(due Tuesday, 1-17-12)
1. Read chapter 23
2. Complete the chapter 23 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Evolution of Populations/Microevolution (includes Hardy Weinberg)
4. Do activity: An Intro to Population Genetics and Hardy-Weinberg 
5. Read chapter 24
6. Complete the chapter 24 Reading guide
7. Watch Bozeman clip on Origin of Species
8. Read chapter 25
9. Complete the chapter 25 Reading guide
10. Complete the ch.23-25 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
11. Watch Bozeman clip on Macroevolution/History of Life on Earth
12. Lab 8 (answers to 1-6 Hardy-Weinberg Problems)
13. Review Lab Bench (lab 8) 
14. Read article on Extinct Galapagos Tortoise Reappearing
15. Read Cliffs pgs. 129-140

WEEK 9
(due Tuesday, 1-17-12)
3 Science Article Summaries
EXAM WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Info on Exam
Exam Review Sheet

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SEMESTER 2

3RD MARKING PERIOD

WEEK 1

(due Friday, 1-27-12)
1. Life Origins Activity 
Links:
Arrogant Worms
Investigators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIjDAbY8tDQ
Ribozyme vs. Ribosome
Abiogenesis
http://www.livescience.com/24-volcanic-origin-life.html
Entantiomer 
Chirality
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/3083/how-life-shatters-chemistrys-mirror
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/110401.html
Did Life Evolve in Ice?
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/nov/31-deep-sapce-birthplace-life-cosmos
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110107145634.htm
2. Watch Bozeman clip on Abiogenesis 
3. Synthesis of Prebiotic Molecules Tutorial

(due Thursday,  2-2-12)
1. Read chapter 26
2. Complete the chapter 26 Reading guide
3. The Evolution of the Three Domains Tutorial
4. Read chapter 27
5. Complete the chapter 27 Reading guide
6. Watch Bozeman clip on Classification 
7. Watch Bozeman clip on Tracing Evolutionary History


WEEK 2
(due Thursday, 2-2-12)
1. Read chapter 28
2. Complete the chapter 28 Reading guide
3. Family Tree of Chloroplasts Tutorial (endosymbiosis)
4. Read chapter 31
5. Complete the chapter 31 Reading guide
6. Bacteria/Protist/Fungi Lab
7. Watch Bozeman clip on Prokaryotes and Protists
8. Read Cliffs pgs. 139-140, 149-153
9. Complete the ch.26-28, 31 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website

(due Monday, 2-13-12)
1. Read chapter 29
2. Complete the chapter 29 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Plants, Fungi and Land!  (good review of fungi)
4. Life Cycle of a Moss Tutorial

WEEK 3
(due Monday, 2-13-12)
1. Ch.29 and 30 online activities
2. Life Cycle of a Conifer Tutorial
3. Fruit and flower dissection online prelab 
4. Do the Angiosperm Life Cycle Tutorial  
5. Do the Double Fertilization Tutorial
6. Fruit and flower dissection lab
7. Read chapter 30
8. Complete the chapter 30 Reading guide
9. Read chapter 38
10. Complete the chapter 38 Reading guide
11. Complete the ch.29-30 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
12. Read Cliffs pgs. 154-157, 167 (table only)

WEEK 4
(due Thursday, 3-1-12)
1. Read chapter 35
2. Complete the chapter 35 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Clip on Plant Structure
4. Secondary Growth Tutorial
5. Read chapter 36
6. Complete the chapter 36 Reading guide
7. Watch Bozeman clip on AP lab 9 
8. Transpiration lab (AP lab 9) - using summer data :(
9.  Ch.35-36 online activities
10. Review Lab Bench (lab 9)
11. Transpiration Virtual Lab 
12. Pressure Flow Model Tutorial 
13. Watch Bozeman clip on Plant Transport

WEEK 5
(due Thursday, 3-1-12)
1. Read chapter 37
2. Complete the chapter 37 Reading guide
3. Nitrogen and Iron Deficiencies Tutorial 
4. Nitrogen Cycle Tutorial
5. Read chapter 39
6. Complete the chapter 39 Reading guide
7. Tropisms Tutorial
8. Went's Experiment Tutorial
9. Auxin Affects Cell Walls Tutorial
10. Watch Bozeman clip on Plant Control 
11. Complete the ch.35-37, 39 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
12. Read Cliffs pgs. 167-178
13. Read Pearson review packet pgs. 207-222 (you have already been tested on ch.38)

WEEK 6 (due Thursday, 3-15-12)
1. Read chapter 32
2. Complete the chapter 32 Reading guide
3. Read chapter 33
4. Complete the chapter 33 Reading guide
5. Visit PBS website - Shape of Life 
6. Gastrulation tutorial
7. Online dissections:
    Earthworm
    Grasshopper
    Crayfish
    Clam
    Starfish
    Salmon (vertebrate - just for fun)
8. Invertebrate Dissections
9. The Life Cycle of Cnidarians Tutorial

WEEK 7 (due Thursday, 3-15-12)
1. Animal Phyla Matching Part 1
    Part 2
2. Read chapter 34
3. Complete the chapter 34 Reading guide
4. Complete the ch.32-34 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
5. Read Cliffs pgs. 157-160
6. Read Pearson review packet pgs. 186-197

(due Friday, 3-16-12)
Study for Unit 1 (topic 1) Review Quiz:
     - Read over Pearson packet pgs. 27-36
     - Read over Cliffs pgs. 11-22 (stop at Chemical Reactions in Metabolic
       Processes)
     -Take a cumulative practice quiz (ch.2-5) on the Campbell website

WEEK 8 (due Thursday, 3-29-12)
1. Read chapter 40
2. Complete the chapter 40 Reading guide 
3. Read chapter 41
4. Complete the chapter 41 Reading guide
5. Watch Bozeman clip on the Digestive System 
6. Digestion and Absorption of Fats Tutorial
7. Read chapter 42
8. Complete the chapter 42 Reading guide
9. Watch Bozeman clip on the Respiratory System 
10. Airflow in Mammals Tutorial
11. Watch Bozeman clip on the Circulatory System
12. The Cardiac Cycle Tutorial 
13. AP Lab 10
14. Review Lab Bench (lab 10)
15. Watch Bozeman clip on lab 10 (we use daphnia, not goldfish)

(due Friday, 3-23-12)
Study for Unit 2 (topic 2) Review Quiz:
- Read over Pearson packet pgs. 43-64
- Read over Cliffs pgs. 22-24, 33-39, 73-81
- Take a cumulative practice quiz (ch.6-8, 12) on the Campbell website

WEEK 9 (due Thursday, 3-29-12)
1. Read chapter 43
2. Complete the chapter 43 Reading Guide
3. Read chapter 44
4. Watch Bozeman clip on the Immune System 
5. Cells of the Immune System Tutorial
6. Complete the chapter 44 Reading Guide
7. Watch Bozeman clip on Osmoregulation/ The Excretory System
8. Mammalian Kidney Tutorial 
9. Complete the ch.40-44 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
10. Read Cliffs pgs. 185-193, 198-200
11. Read Pearson review packet pgs. 231-251

(due Friday, 3-30-12)
1. 2 Science Article Summaries (3rd one is 10 points e.credit)
2. Study for Unit 3 (topic 3) Review Quiz:
     - Read over Pearson packet pgs.75-89     
     - Read over Cliffs pgs. 45-50, 57-63
     - Take a cumulative practice quiz (ch.9-10) on the Campbell website

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4th MARKING PERIOD

WEEK 1

(due Friday, 4-13-12)
Study for Unit 4 (topic 4) Review Quiz:
     - Read over Pearson packet pgs. 97-111    
     - Read over Cliffs pgs. 76-81, 89-98
     - Take a cumulative practice quiz (ch.13-15) on the Campbell website

(due Thursday, 4-19-12)
1. Read chapter 45
2. Complete the chapter 45 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on the Endocrine System 
4. Read chapter 46
5. Complete the chapter 46 Reading Guide
6. Watch Bozeman clip on the Reproductive System
7. Ovarian and Uterine Cycles tutorial
8. Read chapter 47
9. Complete the chapter 47 Reading Guide
10. Fertilization in a Sea Urchin tutorial
11. Gastrulation tutorial (look familiar?)

WEEK 2

(due Thursday, 4-19-12)
1. Read chapter 48
2. Complete the chapter 48 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on the Nervous System 
4. The Resting Membrane Potential Tutorial
5. The Action Potential Tutorial
6. Synaptic Transmission Tutorial
7. Information Processing in the Spinal Cord Tutorial
8. Read chapter 49 - no reading guide
9. Molecular Mechanism of Muscle Contraction Tutorial
10. Watch Bozeman clip on the Muscular System 
11. Complete the ch.45-48 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
12. Read Cliffs pgs. 194-197, 201-202, 211-217
13. Read Pearson review packet pgs.  251-275
     (chapters are a little different, don't panic)


(due Friday, 4-20-12)
Study for Units 5-7 (topic 5) Review Quiz:
     - Read over Pearson packet pgs. 117-139   
     - Read over Cliffs pgs. 107-120
     - Take a cumulative practice quiz (ch.16-21) on the Campbell website

WEEK 3

(due Friday, 5-4-12)
1. AP Lab 11/Termite Lab
2. Watch Bozeman clips on lab 11 and Chi Square Analysis
3. Review Lab Bench (lab 11)
4. Read chapter 50
5. Complete the chapter 50 Reading guide
6. Biomes Tutorial
7. Read chapter 51
8. Complete the chapter 51 Reading guide
9. Foraging Behavior Tutorial 
10. Read animal behavior article (dolphins)
11. Watch Imprinting (goose) video clip 
12. Watch Monarch Butterfly migration video clip 
13. Watch Kin selection in bees
14. Read chapter 52
15. Complete the chapter 52 Reading guide
16. Watch Bozeman clip on Populations 
17. Exponential Growth Tutorial
18. Logistic Growth Tutorial
19. Predator-Prey Tutorial

(due Friday, 4-27-12)
Study for Unit 8 (topic 6) Review Quiz - LAST ONE:
     - Read over Pearson packet pgs. 151-163  
     - Read over Cliffs pgs.129-140
     - Take a cumulative practice quiz (ch.22-25) on the Campbell website

WEEK 4

(due Friday, 5-4-12)
1. AP Lab 12
2. Review Lab Bench (lab 12)
3. Read chapter 53
4. Complete the chapter 53 Reading guide
5. Watch Bozeman clip on Communities 
6. Primary Succession Tutorial
7. Read chapter 54
8. Complete the chapter 54 Reading guide
9. Watch Bozeman clip on Ecosystems
10. Global Carbon Cycle Tutorial 
11. Global Nitrogen Cycle Tutorial 
12. Complete the ch.50-54 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
13. Read Cliffs pgs. 225-229, 235-247
14. Read Pearson review packet pgs. 291-304
***THERE WILL BE NO UNIT TEST ON ECOLOGY ***

Extra Credit Opportunity (15 points) - go see the movie Chimpanzee
Turn in your ticket stub and write a brief movie review (1 page typed maximum) including a summary of the rain forest biome and animal behaviors that you observed.

WEEK 5

(due Friday, 5-11-12)
1. AP Biology Practice Test 1
2. Watch Bozeman clip on the AP Bio test  
3. Take online practice AP Bio test (m.c.) 
4. Preview old free response questions  
5. Review the 12 AP Bio labs
6. Read Cliffs book - take 2 additional practice tests in the Cliffs book, if you don't have it, ask me for copies
7. Review AP Biology Exam flashcards (by topic)
8. Take online quizzes (same as Pearson site)
9. Great AP Bio Exam Review Sites
STUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WEEK 6
1. Take the online survery
2. Think about your research topic