Biology Weekly Calendar Archive 2016-2017
Scroll down the page to get to more recent weeks.
If you were absent, you can look for the entry task question on the PowerPoint for each day.
Week 20
Monday January 30, 2017
Final Exams - Period 1, 3, 5
Semester 1 Final Review KEY
Tuesday January 31, 2017
Final Exams - Period 2, 4, 6
Wednesday February 1, 2017
Day Between Semesters
Thursday February 2, 2017
Ms. Wang out sick. Watch "DNA Episode 1: The Secret of Life" and fill out this worksheet.
Friday February 3, 2017
Ms. Wang out sick. Complete Semester 1 Reflection and Genetics Unit Pre-Assessment.
Week 21
Monday February 6, 2017
Snow Day!! No school today.
Tuesday February 7, 2017
Snow Day: 2-hour late start.
Week 22
Monday February 13, 2017
Ms. Wang out today.
Week 23
Monday February 27, 2017
Week 24
Monday March 6, 2017
Ms. Wang out today.
Week 25
Monday March 13, 2017
Week 26
Monday March 20, 2017
Ms. Wang out today.
2-hour Early Release.
Week 27
Monday March 27, 2017
Week 29
Monday April 17, 2017
Week 30
Monday April 24, 2017
Week 31
Monday May 1, 2017
Week 32
Monday May 8, 2017
Week 33
Monday May 15, 2017
Starting new unit: Population Ecology
Monday May 22, 2017
Thursday/Friday May 25-26, 2017
Week 35
Monday May 29, 2017
Memorial Day Holiday.
Tuesday May 30, 2017
Wednesday/Thursday May 31-June 1, 2017
Friday June 2, 2017
Biology EOC Day 1
Monday January 30, 2017
Final Exams - Period 1, 3, 5
Semester 1 Final Review KEY
Tuesday January 31, 2017
Final Exams - Period 2, 4, 6
Wednesday February 1, 2017
Day Between Semesters
Thursday February 2, 2017
Ms. Wang out sick. Watch "DNA Episode 1: The Secret of Life" and fill out this worksheet.
Friday February 3, 2017
Ms. Wang out sick. Complete Semester 1 Reflection and Genetics Unit Pre-Assessment.
Week 21
Monday February 6, 2017
Snow Day!! No school today.
Tuesday February 7, 2017
Snow Day: 2-hour late start.
- Today's PowerPoint
- Fill out Expressing Ideas about DNA, Proteins and Traits
- Today's PowerPoint - Take notes on Traits, Proteins, and Enzymes
- Lactase Enzyme Lab - Here is some sample data if you missed the lab.
- Homework: Protein Reading (due Friday 2/10)
- Today's PowerPoint
- Protein Folding Activity (due Monday 2/13)
Week 22
Monday February 13, 2017
- Today's PowerPoint
- Conclusion Practice: Lactase Lab
- Template and Conclusion (due Tuesday 2/14)
- Sample Data for the lab
- Homework: Skin Color Article
Ms. Wang out today.
- Today's PowerPoint
- Partner Work: Fill out this worksheet while you and your partner read articles on Sickle Cell Anemia and Cystic Fibrosis
- LT9 Attempt 1 Quiz (Proteins, Traits, and DNA)
- Feedback on Lactase Lab Conclusion
- Homework: finish Fruit Fly Conclusion (see this PowerPoint for pictures of chromatography and data chart)
Week 23
Monday February 27, 2017
- Today's PowerPoint
- Structure and Function of Molecules and Cells (finish for Homework)
- Today's PowerPoint
- See Proteins and DNA page for Flexible Classroom handouts
- Continue Flex Class assignments
- Today's PowerPoint
- Continue Flex Class assignments
Week 24
Monday March 6, 2017
Ms. Wang out today.
- Continue Flex Class assignments.
- Today's PowerPoint
- Continue Flex Class Assignments
- Today's PowerPoint
- DNA to Protein to Trait: PTC Taster Model
- Continue Flex Class Assignments
- Today's PowerPoint (We did an activity called Cereal Proteins in class, to model protein synthesis)
- DNA to Protein to Trait: Cystic Fibrosis Model
- LT9 Review and Key
Week 25
Monday March 13, 2017
- LT9 Attempt 2
- Today's PowerPoint
- Initial Ideas on Salamander Leg Regeneration
- Cell Cycle POGIL
- Today's PowerPoint
- Flexible Classroom Assignments
- See Wednesday's PowerPoint
- Worked on Flexible Classroom Assignments
Week 26
Monday March 20, 2017
Ms. Wang out today.
- Flexible Classroom Assignments
- See last Wednesday's PowerPoint.
- Flexible Classroom Assignments.
2-hour Early Release.
- LT10 Attempt 1
Week 27
Monday March 27, 2017
- Flexible Classroom Assignments
- Flexible Classroom Assignments DUE
- LT10 Attempt 2
- Today's PPT
- Initial Ideas on Inheritance/Variation
- Snorks
- HW: Take notes on Homologous Chromosomes
Week 29
Monday April 17, 2017
- Today's PPT
- Meiosis POGIL - Do Pages 1-3
- Homework: Genetic Variation Reading
- Today's PPT
- Finish Meiosis POGIL
- Start Amoeba Sisters Meiosis video with notes
- Today's PPT
- Finish Amoeba Sisters
- The Mating Game
- Today's PPT
- Finish The Mating Game
- LT11 Attempt 1
Week 30
Monday April 24, 2017
- Today's PPT
- Peer-grade LT11 Attempt 1
- Mutation Reading (finish for homework)
- Today's PPT
- Review with the Twin Model
- LT11 Attempt 2
- Today's PPT
- Bird Skin Lab. If you were absent today, use descriptions and pictures from the Audubon Society website to draw beaks and describe habitat and diet of the following birds: hooded merganser, mallard duck, sharp-shinned hawk, dark-eyed junco, and white-crowned sparrow. Click here for a video on how to draw a cladogram and use these birds on your cladogram.
- Cosmos: Some of the Things Molecules Do. Click here for the video, and here for the worksheet.
Week 31
Monday May 1, 2017
- Today's PPT
- Initial ideas on Darwin's Finches on the Galapagos Islands
- Types of Selection Notes -- come in if you were absent to get these notes
- Today's PPT
- Introducing the 4 Factors needed for natural selection to occur
- Homework: Antibiotic Resistance Reading
- Today's PPT
- We practiced using the 4 Factors to explain how antibiotic resistant bacteria developed.
- Bird Beak Buffet activity. If you were absent, click here for data you can use for the analysis.
- Today's PPT
- We discussed the data and analysis from Bird Beak Buffet and turned it in.
- We used Bird Beak Buffet to practice the 4 Factors and turned in the worksheet.
Week 32
Monday May 8, 2017
- Today's PPT
- Complete the Evidence for Evolution packet AND online assignment on Schoology. If you cannot get online, complete this full packet.
- Today's PPT
- We used whiteboards to review the 4 lines of evidence that support evolution over time.
- Worksheet to accompany Stated Clearly: Evidence for Evolution
- LT12 and LT13 Attempt 1
- Life Has a History handout and website
- Phylogeny website
- Bird Song website
- Homework: EOC Packet Pages 3-6
Week 33
Monday May 15, 2017
- Today's PowerPoint.
- Complete stations 1-2 AND one other station in the Evolution Review.
- Darwin and Natural Selection Reading (Station 1)
- Evidence of Evolution Reading (Station 2)
- LT12-13 (Evolution) Attempt 2
- Homework: EOC Packet Pages 7-8
Starting new unit: Population Ecology
- Today's PowerPoint - See Ms. Wang.
- Initial Ideas about Orca Whales
- Population Activities (instructions and student worksheet). Do analysis questions 1-8 in sections 1-2.
- Orcas, Salmon and Plankton - the version linked here is for students who were absent for this activity and includes data.
- Homework: EOC Packet pages 9-11.
Monday May 22, 2017
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Thursday/Friday May 25-26, 2017
Week 35
Monday May 29, 2017
Memorial Day Holiday.
Tuesday May 30, 2017
Wednesday/Thursday May 31-June 1, 2017
Friday June 2, 2017
Biology EOC Day 1