Biology and Honors Biology March 25-28

Monday: Benchmark Review and Plant Word Search Review

HW: Charge your computers for our benchmark.

Tuesday: Biology Benchmark, in the afternoon we’ll do a Reaction Time Lab

Wednesday: Levels of Organization journal assignment and Quizziz

Thursday: Body Systems Matching Activity, use the cards to fill out a chart in our journal

 

Honors:

Monday: Benchmark review and Plant Review

HW: Charge your computers for our benchmark

Tuesday: Biology Benchmark, Reaction time lab in class

Wednesday: Levels of Organization journal assignment and Escape room

Thursday: Body Systems Matching Activity and use the cards to fill out chart in your journal

Biology and Honors Biology, March 18-22

Biology Lesson Plans:

Monday: Get our 4th 9 weeks journals, Plant Introduction, Leaves Anatomy assignment

HW: Leaves anatomy assignment is due at the start of class on Wednesday

Tuesday: Leaves discussion; Stomata Lab; Work on the Leaves anatomy assignment

HW: Leaves anatomy assignment is due tomorrow

Wednesday: Plant Reproduction and Flower discussion; Plant System Interaction google form

Thursday: Flower dissection

Friday: Plant Tropisms and Hormones journal assignment

 

Honors Lesson Plans:

Monday: Get your 4th 9 weeks journals; Plant Introduction short topic review guide; Plant Tissues journal assignment

HW: Complete the tissue assignment by the start of class tomorrow

Tuesday: Roots, Stems and Leaves discussion; Stomata Lab

Wednesday: Plant Reproduction and Flower journal entry; Plant System Interaction google form

Thursday: Flower Dissection

Friday: Plant Tropisms and Hormones assignment

Biology and Honors Biology, March 4-8

One more week until Spring Break already!

Biology and Honors Biology Lesson Plans:

Monday: Six Kingdoms notes pages and complete the Six Kingdom mini-poster

Tuesday: Algebra I benchmark and Dichotomous Key Activity in the afternoon

Wednesday: Six Kingdom Classification Lab

(Honors – Six Kingdoms Escape room for homework)

Thursday: Protist Kingdom discussion and microscope review; turn in journal

Friday: Protist Lab

Biology and Honors Biology 2/25 to 3/1

Here is what we have coming up this week!

Biology Plans:

Monday: Intro to Taxonomy discussion and journal entry; Google form practice

Tuesday: Six Kingdom intro; Rough draft of your kingdom water color project

Wednesday: Early Release day!  1st and 8th periods will do their water color project

Thursday: 3rd and 5th will do their water color project; 1st and 8th can finish their project and will also do a dichotomous key

Friday: Six Kingdoms notes

 

Honors Plans:

Monday: Intro to Taxonomy; Scientific Naming video and discussion; Google form practice

Tuesday: Six Kingdom intro; Rough draft of your kingdom water color project

Wednesday: Early Release Day! 7th period will work on their water color project

Thursday: 6th will do the watercolor project; 7th will finish project and do a dichomous key

Friday: Six Kingdoms notes

Biology and Honors Biology, Feb. 20-23

Hope everyone has enjoyed the long weekend!

Biology plans for this week:

Tuesday: Phylogenetic tree discussion and journal entry; Evolution Review Quizizz (1st and 3rd), Phylogenetic tree practice assignment (5th and 8th)

Wednesday: English I Benchmark test in the morning; Evolution Review Quizizz (5th and 8th periods)

HW: Study your crossword review, journal and Quizizz for our Evolution test

Thursday: Evolution test

Friday: Intro to Taxonomy and Classification groups; Test Corrections

 

Honors plans for the week:

Tuesday: Phylogenetic tree discussion and journal entry; Constructing a Cladogram google slide assignment

Wednesday: Evolution Review Quizizz; Hardy Weinberg practice problems

HW: Study for Evolution test

Thursday: Evolution Test

Friday: Introduction to Taxonomy and Classification groups; Test Corrections

Biology and Honors Biology 2/5 to 2/9

Here is what we will be doing this week!

Biology:

Monday: Natural Selection discussion with Tuskless Elephant video as our example (journal entry)

HW: Complete Friday’s assignment “Animal Adaptations” if you did not finish last week

Tuesday: Rock Pocket Mouse Activity

Wednesday: Tricky Ticks activity

Thursday: Evolution Vocabulary in journal

Friday: Evolution Vocab google form practice

 

Honors Biology:

Monday: Superbug activity on Natural Selection

Tuesday: Rock Pocket Mouse video and discussion; finish lab handout

HW: Finish the lab handout if you don’t finish in class

Wednesday: Mechanisms of Evolution and Evidence of evolution discussion and journal entries

Thursday: Evolution Vocabulary in journal and google form

Friday: Molecular Homologies assignment

HW: Complete any activity from Thursday or Friday you did not finish in class

Biology and Honors Biology, 1/22 to 1/26

This week we will be focusing on Punnett Square Genetics!

Biology

Monday: Monohybrid cross practice; Human Mendelian Genetics activity

HW: Complete today’s activity if you don’t finish in class

Tuesday: Dihybrid Genetics journal entry and practice

Wednesday: Non-mendelian Genetics journal entries and practice, Talk about blood types!

Thursday: Sex-linked inheritance discussion and Quizizz practice

Friday: Punnett Square practice and Begin the Genetics Task Card Review

We will have our test over Meiosis and Genetics on Tuesday of next week!

 

Honors Biology

Monday: Human Mendelian Genetics Activity and Genetics Challenge google form

HW: Complete the google form if you don’t finish in class

Tuesday: Dihybrid Genetics Journal entry and practice

HW: Complete the practice page if you don’t finish in class

Wednesday: Non-Mendelian Inheritance discussion and practice

Thursday: Labrador Genetics Challenge activity, due by Monday

Friday: Genetics Task Cards

HW: Complete the Genetics Challenge if needed, and we will have a test on Tuesday over Genetics and Meiosis!

Biology and Honors Biology, 1/18 and 1/19

I hope everyone has stayed warm this week!

Here is what we’ll be doing for the last 2 days this week in Biology:

Thursday: Meiosis and Karyotype Review and Practice assignment

Friday: Intro to genetics vocab and Monohybrid Cross journal entry

 

Honors Biology:

Thursday: Color Your Own Karyotype is due today; Meiosis and Karyotype Review practice quiz

HW: Topic Review Guide in journal, p. 14-15

Friday: Monohybrid Punnett Square practice; Genetics dominoes

Biology and Honors Biology, 1/9 to 1/12

Welcome back to school!  I hope everyone enjoyed their break.

Tuesday: Welcome back, Chromosome and Reproduction journal entry, Chromosome assignment

HW: Complete today’s assignment if you don’t finish in class

Wednesday: Meiosis journal entry; Mitosis vs. Meiosis Venn Diagram

Thursday: Meiosis and Reproduction google slide assignment (Archery tournament today)

Friday: Karyotype introduction and Genetic Disorder assignment

 

Honors Biology Lesson Plans

Tuesday: Welcome back; Vocab in journal; Chromosome and Reproduction journal entry; Haploid/Diploid assignment

HW: Complete the Haploid/Diploid assignment

Wednesday: Meiosis journal entry; Venn Diagram; Meiosis google slide assignment

HW: Complete the google slide assignment by Friday

Thursday: Nondisjunction journal entry and Karyotype activity (Archery tournament today)

Friday: Color Your Own Karyotype activity

Biology and Honors Biology, Dec. 11-15

Last full week of school in 2023!

Biology Lesson Plans:

Monday: Look at Bacterial Lab Results, Gel Electrophoresis journal entry

Tuesday: 9 weeks review (worth +5 on 9 weeks test grade)

Wednesday: 2nd 9 weeks test

Thursday: Pros and Cons of DNA testing videos and discussion

Friday: DNA testing opinion essay

 

Honors Biology Lesson Plans:

Monday: Look at Bacterial Lab Results; Gel Electrophoresis discussion and assignment

HW: 9 weeks test review (a portion of it)

Tuesday: Complete the test review and Gimkit

Wednesday: 2nd 9 weeks test

Thursday: Pros and Cons of DNA testing videos and discussion

Friday: DNA testing opinion essay