Mr. Rick's Science Pages

Calendar for College-prep Biology 2002

Sept 2
  • no school
 Sept 3
  • no school
 Sept 4
  • no school
 Sept 5 Sept 6
  • Warm up: Sketch the graph of a) y = ½x -1   b) y = -x +1
  • Continue height vs arm span activity.
Sept 9 Sept 10 Sept 11 Sept 12 Sept 13
  • Warm-up: Study for quiz
  • Quiz on experimental design
Sept 16
  • Warmup: Check grades
  • Review experimental design.
  • Read chap 1 for 9/18.
 Sept 17 Sept 18
  • Warmup: What is charge and mass of electron, neutron and proton?
  • Plagiarism presentations
  • Chapter 1 questions.
    Due 9/23
Sept 19 Sept 20
Sept 23 Sept 24
  • Warmup: Compare and contrast weight and mass.
  • Finish acid-base notes.
 Sept 25 Sept 26 Sept 27
  • Warmup: Compare and contrast ionic and covalent bonding.
  • PC lab for microscope paper.
 
Sept 30
  • Warmup: Is CaF2 ionic or covalent?
  • Work day
 Oct 1
  • Warmup: Draw Lewis diagram showing KCl, BeO, MgCl2.
  • Review chap 2 questions.
 Oct 2
  • Unit 1 practice test.
  • Mr. Rick @ meeting.
 Oct 3
  • Test review
 Oct 4
  • Unit 1 test
Oct 7
  • Warmup: Check grades
  • Return and review test
 Oct 8
  • Warmup: Draw the skeletal diagram for methane CH4
  • Organic chem notes.
  • Inspect eye-wash station and shower.
 Oct 9 Oct 10
  • Warmup: What gases are associated with plants?
  • Work on experiment design.
  • Microscope quiz.
 Oct 11
Oct 14
  • no school
 Oct 15 Oct 16
  • Warmup: Name 3 functional groups.
  • Draw leaf stomata.
 Oct 17
  • Warmup: What are stomata?
  • Estimate number of stomata per 1 cm2.
 Oct 18
  • Warmup: Pickup papers. Check grades.
  • Wrap-up stomata activity.
Oct 21 Oct 22
  • Warmup: Estimate crowd by sample in your area.
  • MSDS and safety review.
  • Demo of starch and sugar indicator tests.
 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25
Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30
  • Mr. Rick @meeting
  • Nye-day
 Oct 31 Nov 1
 
Nov 4 Nov 5
  • Warmup: Match the pyrimidine to its purine.
  • Review for test.
 Nov 6
  • Biochem Test
 Nov 7
  • Parent-Teacher conferences
 Nov 8
  • Parent-Teacher conferences
Nov 11
  • no school
 Nov 12
  • Warmup: Check grades.
  • Review test.
  • Revise Seed imbibition lab.
    Lab starts 11/18
    .
  • Read chapter 5 of Addison-Wesley
 Nov 13 Nov 14 Nov 15
Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 21 Nov 22
Nov 25 Nov 26
  • Warmup quiz: What is the fluid mosaic model?
  • Cell volume.
    Due 11/27
  • Potato - iodine diffusion measurement.
 Nov 27 Nov 28
  • no school
 Nov 29
  • no school
 
Dec 2 Dec 3 Dec 4 Dec 5
  • Warmup: In the days of wooden ships and iron men, why was salting a preferred food preservation technique?
  • Complete Three domains of life notes.
 Dec 6
Dec 9
  • Warmup: What are 2 characteristics of mitochondria and chloroplast that supports the endosymbiont theory?
  • Review Cell unit study guide.
 Dec 10 Dec 11
  • Cell unit test
 Dec 12
  • Return and review cell test
 Dec 13
  • Warmup: What is energy?
  • Create concept map of chapter 6.
Dec 16
  • Warmup: What are three components of ATP?
  • Metabolism diagram.
  • Metabolism brochure project.
    Due 1/13
Dec 17 Dec 18 Dec 19 Dec 20
 
Dec 30
  • no school
 Dec 31
  • no school
 Jan 1
  • no school
 Jan 2 Jan 3
Jan 6 Jan 7
  • Warmup: Write down everything you know about enzymes.
  • PC lab workday.
 Jan 8 Jan 9
  • Warmup: Why is oxygen involved in the ETC and why that 2nd step in fermentation?
  • Rambling lecture on recycling of e- carriers in glycolysis, Krebs and ETC.
 Jan 10
Jan 13 Jan 14
  • no school
 Jan 15 Jan 16 Jan 17
Jan 20
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
 Jan 21
  • Warmup: What are seven characteristics of living organisms?
  • Start Cell reproduction notes.
  • Start reading Chap 7.1 - 7.3
 Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24
  • Respiration test.
    Last day of semester.
Jan 27
  • no school
 Jan 28
  • Review of chapter 7.1 in book.
 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31
  • Draw three mitosis stages from allium root slides.
  • Questions for P53 reading.
    Due 2/5
    .
 
Feb 3 Feb 4
  • Cellular reproduction test
 Feb 5 Feb 6 Feb 7
  • Video
Feb 10 Feb 11
  • Chromosome school
 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 14
Feb 17
  • no school
 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 21
Feb 24 Feb 25
  • Review for test
 Feb 26
  • Mendelian genetics test
 Feb 27 Feb 28
 
Mar 3
  • Alternation of generations in plants
  • View moss, ferns in 'scopes.
 Mar 4
  • On white board stepping through meiosis.
 Mar 5 Mar 6
  • Correct and collect meiosis questions.
 Mar 7
  • Class outlines chap 9.1
Mar 10
  • Classwork on chap 9 & 12 outlines.
 Mar 11
  • Start presentations on chap 9 & 12 outlines.
 Mar 12
  • Finish presentations on chap 9 & 12 outlines.
 Mar 13 Mar 14
Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19
  • Early release day
  • Correct Genes question set p150 etc.
 Mar 20
  • Work day on human genetics question p207...
  • Receive practice test for chromosomes, meiosis and human disorders unit.
 Mar 21
  • Work day for projects and questions.
Mar 24
  • Transplant tomatoes.
  • Correct human genetics question p207...
 Mar 25
  • Karyotyping lab.
 Mar 26
  • Apply hormones to tomatoes
 Mar 27
  • Review for Chromosomes, Meiosis and Mutations test.
 Mar 28
  • Chromosomes, Meiosis and Mutations test.
 
Mar 31 Apr 1 Apr 2 Apr 3
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences
  • 10:00 a.m. to noon, 1 to 4 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m
 Apr 4
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences
  • 10:00 a.m. to noon
Apr 14
  • Get papers and check grades.
  • Final tomato data gathering.
  • DNA replication notes.
 Apr 15 Apr 16 Apr 17 Apr 18
  • Video
  • Mr. Rick at meeting.
Apr 21 Apr 22
  • WASL testing - no class
 Apr 23 Apr 24
  • WASL testing - no class
 Apr 25
Apr 28
  • WASL testing - no class
 Apr 29 Apr 30
  • WASL testing - no class
 May 1 May 2
 
May 5 May 6 May 7
  • Video - Mr. Rick @meeting.
 May 8 May 9
May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16
May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23
May 26
  • no school
 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30
  • Workday.
June 2
  • Explore Fossil Horse Cybermuseum.
  • Work day.
  • In-class horse evolution reading.
June 3 June 4
  • Correct and turn in Ring Species: Salamanders questions.
June 5 June 6
  • Turn-in time-line project.
June 9
  • Final review
June 10
  • Final review
June 11
  • 2nd period final
June 12
  • 3rd period final
June 13
  • End of semester
biop_calendar_2002.htm   |  revised as above