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Class Notes/Slides                                                Links

8/ 17:  Introduction to Ecology                        Food Web Interactive Link
                                                                                      Video:  BBC Magical Forest


8/19:  Informed Consent                                    Tuskegee Airman Experiments


8/20:  Ecosystems and sustainability              Mesocosm link 1
                                                                                        
Assignments







8/20: Data based questions 216, 219 in text. 
             (due 8/24)
             Materials list/materials for mesocosm (due              8/24).  Begin bringing items to school.


8/24:   Carbon Cycles and Climate             Wolves in Yellowstone
                                                                            Climate change in yellowstone
                                                                            Geological Carbon Cycle
                                                                            Greenhouse effect


8/26:   Anthropocene                                      Click and Learn


8/27:  Coral Reefs in Hot Water-Activity    Coral Bleaching 
                                                                                    Coral damage
8/31:   Mesocosm Lab
9/2:      Finish mesocosm labs
9/3:      Climate Change lecture
9/7:      Holiday
9/8:     A-day schedule.  Chi square analysis practice.  
9/10:   Test chapter 4. (Link to study guide)
9/12:  SATURDAY LAB (IA/EE)

9/14:  In Class time for IA
9/16:  IA
9/17:  IA
9/21:  IA
9/23: IA
9/24: IA
9/28: IA

Chapter 5:  Evolution and Biodiversity
10/12:   Introduction to Evolution and Biodiversity
                HHMI short film-Making of a Theory
                Short video clips on sloth evolution:
                      1.   Why are sloths "strange"?
                      2.   Ancient sloths were supersized...
                      3.   Creative rendering of giant sloth sounds

​10/13:  Natural Selection
10/14:  Evidence for Evolution
                HHMI short film- mysterious origins of corn


10/19:  Antibiotic Resistance
​10/21:  Clonal vs. Sexual Reproduction
                 HHMI video clip:  Are males necessary?

​10/22:   Transitional fossils and introduction to classification
Activity:   Virtual Lizard Lab
Worksheet:  Virtual lizard Lab

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​10/26:  Classification and Cladistics
                Practice Dichotomous Key

10/27:  Cladistics and Molecular Clocks
                Link:   Limb regeneration in early tetrapods
                Link:   Mudskippers and evolution
                             
10/28:  Plant and Animal Classification Schemes

11/2:  Exam-Chapter 5
11/4:  Overview of the exams:  what to expect

CHAPTER 3:  GENETICS

11/5:  Introduction to genetics


11/9:  Genes and Alleles


11/11: Sickle Cell Anemia and Evolution
            Watch:   Sickle Cell and Evolution HHMI


11/12: Mutation and Evolution


11/16:Chromosomes, genes and genomes

             1.   Interactive karyotypes
             2.   karyotypes
             3.   Chromosome science

            4.  Video clip:  John Cairns on bacterial chromosomes
11/18: Meiosis and genetic variation 
11/19: Meiosis, mitosis and mutation


​11/23-11/27:  Thanksgiving holida

​11/30: Mendel and the Punnett Grids
              1.  Slides on Mendel
              2.  Slides on Human Genetics-non-disjunction
12/2:  Gene Editing Summit:  current events 
              1. Article link-Science News
              2.  Article link-UC Berkeley News
              3.  Article link-BBC News
              4.  Article link-Washington post
​12/3:  Genetics problem solving

                  
8/24:   Watch oceans and climate (due 8/27)
               Data based question p. 224, 237.  Due                            8/27)





8/26:  Due-IA Introduction,  hypothesis with variables. 

8/27:  Coral bleaching activity
             Coral temperature data


9/3:   HHMI Holiday Lectures on climate change
         
Questions for lecture (due in class-9/3)

9/11:  Due- IA complete draft (intro, hypothesis, variables, materials and methods)
 

9/15:  data based problems (TBA)

9/17:  
9/18:  Mesocosm lab report due.

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9/28:  Final IA biology due.

 Link to Chapter Objectives
10/12  Homework:  Read 5.1, complete DBQ p. 249
Watch
:  Natural selection
Guided Reading Questions (due 10/19)



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10/13: Read 5.2.
10/14:  Homework: Finish guided reading questions (due 10/19).
Watch:  Antibiotic Resistance (TED)


10/19:  Read:  "It's a Fishapod" by Sean Carroll

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10/21:  Bananas and genetic diversity

10/22:  Homework watch:  Bozeman science phyologenetics
Read:  5.3 pp 258-268 and complete DBQ p 262, 267 (due 10/26)


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10/26:  Read 5.4 pp. 269-75 and complete DBQ p. 273, end of the chapter question # 5 on p. 277 due 10/27.


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LINK TO CHAPTER 3 OBJECTIVES

11/3:  Read 3.1 pp. 141-148
            Watch:  Wired UK 23 and Me
             Reflect:  You are a prospective customer of                             23 and Me.  What are your questions?

             Extra (optional):  2009 TED 23 and Me




​11/12:  Read p. 149-159 Topic 3.2
 (chromosomes and genomes)
                DBQ p. 145
11/16:  Read:  pp. 159-168 Topic 3.3 (meiosis)
              Assigned Guided Reading-2 (due 11/30)
               DBQ:  p. 161

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11/18:  Meiosis and genetic variation
11/19:  Read p. 176-186
​               Watch:  Beginner's guide to Punnett Grids
               Finish Guided Reading (week 2)              

1/7:  Mutation and introduction to genetic engineering
           1.  slides
           2.  Video clip 1 Chernobyl
           2.  Video-clip 2 Chernobyl
           3.  Article-Chernobyl


1/11:  Biotechnology

            GM Organisms enters the food chain:  should we be concerned?
            Green Fluorescent Protein


1/13:  Gel Electrophoresis (lab)
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1/14:  Biotechnology: techniques and applications
            1.  Slides
            2.  Video clip Molecular Biology Techniques
         
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1/14:  Additional Useful Links
_           Gene Therapy
​           PCR Interactive

           Molecular Biology Technology Techniques
LIfe is wonderfully complicated.   Stay curious.  Be skeptical.    And above all, ask many questions!