Biology
Welcome to Biology!
Below you will find a list of handouts for assignments, announcements, as well as links for resources. These are provided to you online for convenience. If links are not functioning, refer to the handout crate located in the classroom. Take advantage and be responsible about your own progress in the class. :)
- Student Survey: It's All About You!
Fall
WHAT IS LIFE?
GOALS OF SCIENCE & THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
- Lab: Is It Alive? (procedures & pictures)
- Notes: Goals of Science; How Scientists Work
- Penny Lab
- Controlled Experiments with The Simpsons (EXTRA CREDIT, unless otherwise stated)
- Controlled Experiments with The Simpsons (EXTRA CREDIT, unless otherwise stated)
- EXTRA CREDIT: practice with controlled experiments
THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE
- Notes
STRUCTURE & FUNCTION OF CELLS
- Vocabulary Shutters #3: Cell Structure & Function
- Diagrams: Prokaryotic Cell Plant Cell Animal Cell
- Lab: The Microscope & Cells
- Cellular Energetics: Chloroplasts & Mitochondria
- Growth & Reproduction
Mitosis Diagram
Meiosis Diagram
- Study Guide: Structure & Function of Cells (EXTRA CREDIT)
- 5.5 Book Questions (EXTRA CREDIT)
Click here to explore and learn more about the cell
Use the link above to answer the questions in this packet (EXTRA CREDIT)
MENDELIAN GENETICS
- Make a Face Activity
- Human Karyotyping Lab (EXTRA CREDIT)
- Punnett Square Practice
- Bikini Bottom Genetics: Incomplete Dominance
- More Practice (EXTRA CREDIT): Bikini Bottom Genetics #2
MOLECULAR GENETICS/CENTRAL DOGMA
- Flashcard Set #4: From DNA to Proteins (optional)
- Lab: Making a Model of DNA
- What are DNA, Genes, & Chromosomes
- Lab: Transcription-Making RNA
- Mutations & Their Consequences (EXTRA CREDIT)
- Ch. 8.5-6 Book Questions (EXTRA CREDIT)
- Lab: DNA Extraction
EVOLUTION
- Notes Handouts: 10.2-10.4
- Notes Handouts: 11.1-11.6
- Article: Artificial vs. Natural Selection - Read the article, then create a Venn diagram comparing & contrasting these two ideas
- Lecture Series
- Lab: Natural Selection
- Procedures & Data Table Example Data
- Timeline Project
ECOLOGY
- Lecture Series
- Handouts
- Ecological Hierarchy
- Levels of Organization: Procedures Rubric
- Sorting Activity
- Activity: Who Eats Whom? (Food Web)
- Rubric
- Journey of a water drop (activity must be done in class)
- Population Ecology: Deer Worksheet
- Symbiosis Worksheet (On the next page of your notebook, be sure to EXPLAIN your answer for each pair of organisms given)
- EXTRA CREDIT: Biome Research
Grasshopper & Frog Dissection: Group Packet
- Grasshopper Background Info... excerpt from Biology: Principles & Explorations (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2001)
PHYSIOLOGY
- Notes Handout for Physiology unit
Lecture Series:
- Chapter 30 Immune System
- Chapter 28 Notes: Human Systems & Homeostasis
- 29.1 Power Notes: How Organ Systems Communicate
- 29.2 Power Notes: Neurons
- 30.1 Power Notes: Respiratory & Circulatory Functions
- 32.2 Power Notes: Digestive System
- 32.4 Power Notes: Excretory System
- 34.1 Power Notes: Reproductive Anatomy
Lab:
- HIV Lab
- Dissection Packet
Final Exam Review Guide