Mon

• Start Term 2 / Survey
• Intro to Natural Selection: What causes antibiotic resistance
  • Superbugs
  • Megaplate agar experiment
  • Another interesting video about it, that I didn’t show in class
  • And yet another!
• Homework: Respond to the claim: Natural selection causes bacteria to adapt to changing environmental conditions
  • Give evidence
  • Explain your reasoning
• Join the Biology B Quizlet class

Wed

• WTK: Evolution Unit
• Cornell Notes: How to take good notes
• Direct Instruction: Darwin’s Voyage and Thinking
• Film: What Darwin Never Knew
  • Film notes
• Read Ch 17.1, 17.2, 17.3 for homework
• Darwin Online

Thu

• Homework Quiz
• Video: Rock pocket mice – answer questions
  • http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/pocket-mouse-film-quiz
  • HHMI rock pocket mouse w quiz-1
• Direct Instruction: Selection

Fri

• Video: The Beak of the Finch

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Mon 3/11

• Simpson’s Biodiversity Lab

Tue 3/12

• Intro: Body systems
• Direct Instruction: Homeostasis, Neuron structure & function
  • Crash Course Biology: Nervous System

Wed 3/13

• Direct Instruction: Sensation and perception
• Lab: Ruler Response

Thu 3/14

• Direct Instruction: Brain and Nervous system
• Lab: Balance and Proprioception

Fri 3/15

• Lab: Get a Whiff of This: Scent detection
• ALL LATE WORK DUE at 3:30 pm

Mon 3/18

• Labs due

Tue 3/19

• Review as needed
• Memorelephants

Wed 3/20

• Review as needed

Thu 3/21

• Final Exam

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Mon

• Open Lab Lab Quiz
• Direct instruction: Human population growth
• Crash Course Ecology #3

Tue

• MiniQuiz
• Direct Instruction: Biodiversity (6.3)
• Reading Guide 6 & 7
• Start Environmental Impact Report Project

Wed

• Ecological Footprint Calculator
• Work on EIR

Thu

• Direct Instruction: Climate Change
• IPCC Data
  • Polar Ice
• Review as needed – WTK for the Unit test tomorrow
• Work on EIR

Fri

• Unit Test: Ecology
• Due: EIR

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Mon

• No school: Presidents’ Day

Tue

• Direct Instruction: Population Ecology (Text Ref Miller Ch 5)
• Lab: Random Sampling

Wed

• Debrief Random Sampling Lab
• Lab:_Mark Recapture

Thu

• Pearson Realize Online Assignment
  • https://clever.com/in/eugenesd4j
• Western Snowy Plover Population Lab (due tomorrow)

Fri

• Lab: Population Controls (Due Monday)

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Mon

• Direct instruction:Energy Flow
  • Notes Energy (Text ref Miller Ch 4)
• Begin Group Inquiry Activity: Energy Transfer (turn in tomorrow)
• Due tomorrow: Mastery of Quizlet set 209
• For Tues: complete # 11 – 17 in ch 4 reading guide packet

Tue

• Excerpts from Cosmos Episode 12: A World Set Free

Wed

• Finish Group Inquiry Activity (turn in one group paper)
• Collaborative study groups: # 1 – 17 assignment
• Direct Instruction: Productivity
• For Wed 2/20: reading “Lessons from the Wolf” article & answer questions
  • Lessons from the Wolf article
  • Lesson from the Wolf questions
• Optional Study:
  • Group inquiry_Ecological Pyramids

Thu

• Happy Valentines Day!
• Debrief Wolf Reading (A and B miniquiz)
• Quizlet Live review for tomorrow
• Direct Instruction: Nutrient Cycles Intro
• Group Inquiry: Nutrient Cycles

Fri

• Big Quiz Ch 3 & 4 (Biosphere, energy flow)
• For Monday: complete # 1 – 11 – ch 5 reading guide
  • ch 5 reading guide packet

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Mon

• Practice: Plants
  • Kahoot!
  • Quizlet
    • Use this link if you aren’t already in my Biology B Quizlet Class
    • Set 208 Plants click -> Learn 
    • Play Quizlet Live
  • Use Ch 22 Reading Guide to quiz your study table
  • p. 759 # 3,4,5
  • p. 756 # 1 – 10

Tue

• Quiz: Plants
• Start Ecology Unit
  • Reading Guide Ch 3 (1-19 for tomorrow)
  • Read 3.1
• Chapter 3: The Biosphere
  • Global Systems

Wed

• Check homework
• Direct Instruction: The Biosphere (Text ref: Ch 3)
• Climate Diagram: Eugene (due tomorrow)
• Read Ch 3.2

Thu

• Direct Instruction Biosphere, cont’d
• Laptops for 
  • Climate diagram activity part B (using laptops to access geoknow.net) Due Today
  • Pearson Realize eQuiz 3.1 (use a Chrome incognito browser window) 
  • Quizlet set 209 practice (achieve mastery of all 7 activities; Due Tues 2/12)

Fri

• Laptops for
  • Quizlet Live
  • Quizlet set 209 practice
  • Pearson Realize

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Mon

• Finish animal presentations

Tue

• Open note test over animal taxa
• Homework: finish reading guide: Ch 22

Wed

• Start Plant mini unit
• Direct instruction: Direct Instruction: Plants
• Crash Course Bio: Nonvascular. Vascular

Thu

• Lab: Comparison of Plants

Fri

• Teacher Professional Development and Grading Day

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