Assignments

SEMESTER 1

1ST MARKING PERIOD

WEEK 1

(due Thursday, 9-7-17)
1. Fill in the AP Biology About Me form 
2. Read syllabus (on blog under important documents) and get safety contract signed
3. Register for online book here using access using student access code

SSNAST-BOWS-POME-SYNC-GOSH-ABLY (3rd hour) 

SSNAST-COFF-POME-SYNC-JATO-FEAT (4th hour)  

(Use course ID - MBBROWN87965, Campbell, Biology 8e MasteringBiology (For 5e–8e users) as the textbook)

4. Register for FlinnPREP using code: 2ykpr

5. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Introduction to AP Biology - 4 big ideas introduced

(due Wednesday, 9-27-17)
1. Read chapters 1 & 2 (pgs. 1-44 ebook)
2. Complete the ch.1-2 Reading guide (optional)
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on 3 Domains of Life


WEEK 2

(due Tuesday, 9-19-17)
Brine Shrimp Lab Report Requirements
Brine Shrimp Lab 

(due Wednesday, 9-27-17)
1. Read chapters 3-5 (pgs. 46-90 ebook)
2. Complete the ch.3-4 Reading guide (optional)
3. Complete Unit 1 (Fundamental Biology Skills and Knowledge) on FlinnPrep
4. Complete the ch.5 Reading guide (optional)
5. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Water
6. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Biological Molecules
7. Watch Crash Course in Biology #1 (carbon)
8. Watch Crash Course in Biology #2 (water)
9. Watch Crash Course in Biology #3 (macromolecules)
10. Watch Bozeman clip on Proteins
11. Complete Unit 11 (Biochemistry) on FlinnPREP

WEEK 3

(due Wednesday, 9-27-17)
1. Read chapter 8 - pgs. 142-143, 151-159 only
2. Toothpickase - we will do this in class
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on enzymes
4. Watch the Bozeman Biology clip 2 on enzymes
5. Watch the Animation How Enzymes Work
6. Do the Enzymes virtual lab 

(due Wednesday, 9-27-17)
1. Complete the ch.2-5 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Read Cliffs pgs. 11-24 (4th and 5th ed.) - A GREAT WAY TO STUDY FOR THE TEST!!!!!!!!!!
3. Complete units 1 and 11 of FlinnPREP

WEEK 4

1. Free Response Practice in Class
2. Watch Bozeman clip on the New AP Biology Exam
3. Take the post unit 1 Survey 




WEEK 5
(due Tuesday, 10-24-17)
1. Read chapter 6
2. Complete the chapter 6 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on Tour of a Cell
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #4 (animal cell)
5. Watch Crash Course in Biology #6 (plant cell)
6. Evolution of Organelles (Endosymbiosis Theory) Tutorial
7. Cell Structure and Function Tutorial
8. Cell size activity - in class
9. Watch Cell Size video 
10. Watch Introduction to Cells
11. Complete Unit 2 (Cells: Structure and Function) on FlinnPREP


WEEK 6
(due Tuesday, 10-24-17)
1. Read chapter 7
2. Complete the chapter 7 Reading guide
3. Watch KhanAcademy clip on Diffusion and Osmosis 
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #5 (cell membrane)

(due Monday, 10-16-17)
1. Lab 1 Diffusion and Osmosis (1A-1E need to be completed)
2. Review LabBench (lab 1)
Lab 1 Powerpoint - Water Potential
1E - Onion Cell Plasmolysis (video)
1E - Elodea Plasmolysis (video)
3. Watch Bozeman Biology Clip on lab 1
4. Watch Bozeman Clip on Cell Membranes 
5. Watch Bozeman Clip on Transport Across Membranes 
6. Membrane Structure and Transport Tutorial


(due Tuesday, 10-24-17)
1. Read chapter 11 (Pearson or Cliffs packet only)
2. Cell Communication Activity - we will do this in class
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Cell Communication
4. Watch the 3D animation on Cell Signals
5. Do chapter 11 activities (4), then take the activity quiz on the Pearson site
6. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Signal Transduction
7. Watch the TED video on How Bacteria Talk 
8. Visit the Bassler Lab website
9. Membrane Dynamics and Cell Communication Tutorial


WEEK 7

(due Tuesday, 10-24-17)
1. Read chapter 12
2. Complete the chapter 12 Reading guide
3. Watch Cell Cycle and Mitosis 
4. Mitosis Tutorial 2
5. Watch Mitosis video
6. Mitosis Virtual Lab
7. Cancerquest  
8. Read chapter 13
9. Complete the chapter 13 Reading guide 
10. Meiosis Tutorial
11. Meiosis Virtual Lab 
12. Visit NOVA website 
13. Watch Treating Cancer with Electric Fields (very interesting!)
14. Watch Crash Course in Biology #12 (mitosis)
15. Watch Crash Course in Biology #13 (meiosis)
16. Watch Bozeman biology clip on the Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis
17. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Mitosis/Meiosis Simulation
18. Watch Sex Determination video (very interesting!)
19. Lab 3 Mitosis and Meiosis
20. Complete Units 3 (Cell Cycle) & 4 (Meiosis:Heredity and Variation) on FlinnPREP

(due Tuesday, 10-24-17)
1. Review Lab Bench (lab 3)  
2. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Lab 3
3. Complete the ch.6-7, 12-13 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
4. Read Cliffs (4th edition) pgs. 31-44, 73-93, 165-166 (endosymbiotic theory only), also includes ch.11 - cell communication
5. Complete Units 2-4 on FlinnPREP
6. Tips for Unit 2 Test




(due Friday, 10-27-17)
2 Science Article Summaries - 3rd for 10 points extra credit - see requirements




WEEK 1

 (due Friday, 11-17-17)
1. Read chapter 9
2. Complete the chapter 9 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Respiration 
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #7 (cell respiration)
5. Cell Respiration Tutorial (aerobic vs. anaerobic)
6. Cell Respiration Tutorial 2
7. Watch Cell Respiration Song :)
8. Watch Cell Respiration Animation 

(due Friday, 11-10-17)
Respiration Lab
Lab Report Requirements
Watch Bozeman biology clip on Respiration lab 



WEEK 2

(due Friday, 11-17-17)
1. Read chapter 10
2. Complete the chapter 10 Reading guide
3. Watch the simple story of photosynthesis - cute ;-)
4. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Photosynthesis 
5. Watch Crash Course in Biology #8 (photosynthesis) 
6. Lab 4 Photosynthesis (chromatography only) and Floating Leaf Disks Lab
7. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Photosynthesis lab
8. Watch video on Sinking discs 
9. Watch Tressel youtube clip on Photosynthesis 
10. Photosynthesis Tutorial 1
11. Photosynthesis Tutorial 2


WEEK 3

 (due Friday, 11-17-17)
1. Complete the ch.9-10 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Review Respiration and Photosynthesis at this site (click on revise for tutorial, then test for each topic) 
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on Photosynthesis and Respiration 
4. Read Cliffs pgs. 45-72 (4th edition)
5. Complete Flinn PREP units 10 and 12

WEEK 4

(due Monday, 12-11-17)
1. Read chapter 14
2. Complete the chapter 14 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Mendelian Genetics 
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Genotypes & Phenotypes 
5. Mendel's Experiments (go to animation) 
6. Read over info on Mendel's Experiments 
7. Independent Assortment Tutorial 
8. Watch Bozeman clip on Punnett Squares
9. Do the Punnett Squares virtual lab 
10. Punnett Square Tutorial
11. Watch Crash Course in Biology #9 (heredity)


WEEK 5

(due Monday, 12-11-17)
1. Watch Bozeman clip on Probability in Genetics
2. Review the Chi Square Tutorial
3. Chi Square Analysis (Skittles) Lab
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Chi Square 
5. Try these genetics problems (1, 2, 4-7, 8ac, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20)
Watch out for answer key typos - 1) incomplete dominance and 11a) 1/4
6. Try these dihybrid cross problems 
7. Watch video clip on Epigenetics 
8. Read this article (about environmental triggers on genes)
9. Watch Crash Course on Epigenetics
10. Watch Pedigree Analysis 



WEEK 6

(due Monday, 12-11-17)
1. Read chapter 15
2. Complete the chapter 15 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Chromosomal Inheritance 
4. Do the Sex-linked virtual lab 
5. Sex-linked Inheritance Problem Set
6. Read info on Linked and Sex-linked Genes
7. Watch Bozeman clip on Linked Genes
8. Watch Bozeman clip on X Inactivation
9. Watch Bozeman clip on Advanced Genetics
10. Visualizing Nondisjunction


(due Monday, 12-11-17)
1. Complete the ch.14-15 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website 
2. Read Cliffs pgs. 101-122

(due Thursday, 12-21-17)
Fruit Fly Due
Article Summaries Due - do a 3rd for extra credit


SECOND SEMESTER

WEEK 1

(due Tuesday, 12-20-16)
1. Read chapter 16
2. Complete the chapter 16 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA/RNA part 1
4. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA/RNA part 2
5. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA Replication  
6. Do the DNA Replication Tutorial 
7. DNA Structure and Replication Tutorial 2 
8. Watch and answer questions about the following video clips:
DNA Packaging 
Chemical Structure of DNA 
DNA Pair Strands
Chargaff's Ratio
Watson Constructing Base Pair Models
Coding Sequences in DNA 
DNA Replication 
9. Watch Crash Course in Biology #10 (DNA structure & replication) 
10. Telomere Tutorial
11. Watch Telomeres and Aging TED talk 
12.Watch this clip on DNA Replication 


WEEK 2

(due Tuesday, 12-20-16)
1. Read chapter 17
2. Complete the chapter 17 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Transcription & Translation 
4. Watch Bozeman clip on the Central Dogma 
5. Complete the Protein Synthesis tutorial - 2
6. Watch clip on RNA splicing 
7. Watch clip on translation 
8. Do interactive tutorials on protein synthesis (includes awesome diagrams of translation)
9. Watch Crash Course in Biology #11 (protein synthesis) 
10. Study for test using review sheet 
11. Transcription/Translation worksheet 1
12. Transcription/Translation worksheet 2 (challenge)
13. Watch Bozeman clip on Mutations
14. Complete the ch.16-17 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website  
15. Read Cliffs pgs. 123-134 
16. Watch these great review videos of DNA replication  and Protein synthesis 
17. Watch this great animation of translation 

WEEK 3

(due Thursday, 2-8-18)
1. Read chapter 18
2. Complete the chapter 18 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Viruses
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Viral Replication 
5. Watch How a Virus Invades Your Body
6. Lac Operon Tutorial
7. Trp Operon Tutorial 
8. Watch clip on Lac Operon 
9. Watch clip on Trp Operon
10. Build model of prokaryotic operon (lac and trp per group)
11. Watch streaking technique clip 
12. Bacteria Transformation (pGLO) Lab
13. MRSA - When Good Bacteria GO Bad (transformation) 
14. Watch Bozeman clip on Mechanisms that create genetic variation 


WEEK 4

(due Thursday, 2-8-18)
1. Read chapter 19
2. Complete the chapter 19 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Gene Regulation
4. Watch Crash Course on Epigenetics (review from earlier unit)
5. Visit and read this site on Nutrition and the Epigenome
6. Watch clip on RNA interference 
7. Watch Epigenetics video clip on twins and mice


(due Thursday, 2-8-18)
1. Read chapter 20
2. Complete the chapter 20 Reading guide
3. Watch plasmid clip
4. Watch growing bacteria plate (gross!)
5. Read article about bacteria making human growth hormones (article summary?) 
6. Watch clip on restriction enzymes (ECORI)
7. Restriction Enzymes: How is DNA Manipulated?
8. Recombinant Plasmid Activity
*9. Complete the restriction enzyme digestion tutorial 
10. Restriction Mapping Tutorial
*11. Review the DNA fingerprinting tutorial (review from biology class)
12. Complete the DNA fingerprinting tutorial and problems
13. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA fingerprinting
14. Watch Bozeman clip on Molecular Biology 
*15. Complete PCR Animation  
16. Another PCR Animation 
17. Read info on cloning
*18. Clone a mouse (review from biology class)
FYI only 19. Stem cell tutorial 1 (even though I like Green and White)
FYI only 20. Stem cell tutorial 2

(due Thursday, 2-8-18)
1. Complete the ch.18-20 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website 
2. Read Cliffs pgs. 135-143

WEEK 5

(due Wednesday, 2-14-18)
1. Which of the following versions of Abiogenesis sounds most likely in your opinion? (write a 1-2 page position paper)
Research:
The Origin of Life
Campbell Website (go to ch.25 - Investigation: How Did Life Begin on Early Earth?) 
Did Life Evolve in Ice?
Is Deep Space the Birthplace of Life?  
The secret to how life on earth began 
Origin of Life: The Panspermia Theory 
Origin of Life on Earth: 'Natural Asymmetry of Biological Molecules May Have Come from Space'
The Volcanic Origin of Life
AP Biology book - pgs. 507-510 (chapter 25)
Cliffs book (4th ed) pgs. 164-166
Cliffs book (3rd ed) pgs. 139-140
2. Watch 5 Theories on the Origin of Life 
3. Watch Greatest Discoveries: Origin and Evolution
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Abiogenesis 
5. Watch Bozeman clip on Origin of Life - Scientific Evidence
6. Watch Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life


(due Friday, 3-2-18)
1. Read chapter 22
2. Complete the chapter 22 Reading guide
3. Evidence of Evolution Webquest
4. Watch Crash Course video on Evidence of Evolution 
5. Watch Bozeman clip on Evidence for Evolution 
6. Watch Bozeman clip on Natural Selection
7. Watch Bozemen clip on Examples of Natural Selection
8. Natural Selection Tutorial
9. Peppered Moth Tutorial
10. Peppered Moth video
11. What Darwin Never Knew (FYI)
12. Watch clip on Sexual Selection 
13. Watch Sexual Selection and Evolution 


WEEK 6

(due Friday, 3-2-18)
1. Read chapter 23
2. Complete the chapter 23 Reading guide
*3. Watch Bozeman clip on Solving Hardy Weinberg Problems
*4. Watch clip on Hardy-Weinberg Principle: Watch Your Ps and Qs
*5. Hardy-Weinberg Sample Problems
*6. Hardy-Weinberg Animation 
7. H-W Tutorial 
8. Read chapter 24
9. Complete the chapter 24 Reading guide
*10. Speciation Tutorial  
11. Watch Bozeman clip on Classification 
*12. Watch Bozeman clip on Speciation 
13. Watch Bozeman clip on Speciation and Extinction
14. Watch Crash Course video on Speciation
15. Watch Five Fingers of Evolution (microevolution) 


WEEK 7

(due Friday, 3-2-18)
1. Read chapter 25
2. Complete the chapter 25 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Macroevolution/History of Life on Earth
4. Lab 8 (answers to 1-6 Hardy-Weinberg Problems)
5. Review Lab Bench (lab 8) 
6. Read article on Extinct Galapagos Tortoise Reappearing

(due Friday, 3-2-18)
1. Read chapter 26
2. Complete the chapter 26 Reading guide
3. Watch Crash Course video on Taxonomy
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Cladograms
5. Pet Cemetary - DNA sequences
6. Watch Bozeman clip on Phylogenetics
7. BLAST homepage
8. Visit http://timetree.org/
*9. The Evolution of the Three Domains Tutorial 
10. Complete the ch.22-26 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website 
11. Read Cliffs pgs. 153-166 (4th edition)
12. Complete Flinn PREP Units 6-8

WEEK 8

(due 3-20-18)
1. Read chapter 29
2. Complete the chapter 29 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Clip on Land Plants
4. Watch Crash Course on Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants
5. Ch.29 and 30 online activities
6. Life Cycle of a Conifer Tutorial
7. Fruit and flower dissection online prelab 
8. Do the Angiosperm Life Cycle Tutorial  
9. Do the Double Fertilization Tutorial
10. Watch clip on Double Fertilization 
11. Fruit and flower dissection lab
12. Watch Crash Course on Vascular Plants
13. Watch Crash Course on Reproduction of Vascular Plants
14. Read chapter 30
15. Complete the chapter 30 Reading guide


WEEK 9

(due 3-20-18)
1. Read chapter 35
2. Complete the chapter 35 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Clip on Plant Structure
4. Read chapter 36
6. Complete the chapter 36 Reading guide
7. Watch Bozeman clip on AP lab 9 
8. Transpiration lab (AP lab 9) - using summer data :(
9. Review Lab Bench (lab 9)
10. Transpiration Virtual Lab 
11. Pressure Flow Model Tutorial 
12. Watch Bozeman clip on Plant Transport 
13. Plant Hormones Tutorial (not on our test but could be on the AP Bio exam)
14. Bozeman Clip on How to Find Stomata 
15. Watch review clip on water potential
16. Complete the ch.29-30, 35-36 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
17. Read Cliffs pgs. 181-183 (4th edition) and review Pearson packet (ch.29-30, 35-36)


4th Marking Period


WEEK 1

1. Watch Chimpanzee
2. Read chapter 51
3. Watch Imprinting (goose) video clip 
4. Watch Monarch Butterfly migration video clip 
5. Watch Kin selection in bees
6. Watch Bozeman clip on Animal Behavior 
7. Watch Do Human Pheromones Work? 
8. Animal Behavior Labs - Flies, Pillbugs and Termites



WEEK 2

(due Thursday, 4-26-18)
1. Read chapter 48 - Nervous System
2. Complete the chapter 48 Reading Guide
3. Watch Crash Course video on the Nervous System
4. The Resting Membrane Potential Tutorial 
5. The Action Potential Tutorial 
6. Synaptic Transmission Tutorial
7. Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Contraction Tutorial  
8. Watch Animation:Transmission across a synapse (this is helpful)
9. Read chapter 45 - Endocrine System
10. Complete the chapter 45 Reading Guide
11. Watch Crash Course on the Endocrine System 
12. Ovarian and Uterine Cycles tutorial 


WEEK 3

(due Thursday, 4-26-18)
* do 1-10 to review all systems other than Endocrine, Immune & Nervous
1. Read paragraph and watch the animation on positive vs. negative feedback
2. Watch Bozeman clip on Organ Systems
3. Watch Bozeman clip on the Digestive System 
4. Digestion and Absorption of Fats Tutorial
5. Watch Bozeman clip on the Respiratory System 
6. Airflow in Mammals Tutorial
7. Watch Bozeman clip on the Circulatory System
8. The Cardiac Cycle Tutorial 
9. Watch Bozeman clip on Osmoregulation/ The Excretory System

10. Mammalian Kidney Tutorial 

11. Read chapter 43 - Immune System
12. Complete the chapter 43 Reading Guide
13. Watch Bozeman clip on the Immune System 
14. Cells of the Immune System Tutorial
15. Immune System Tutorial
16. Watch Crash Course video on the Immune System
17. Complete the ch.43, 45, 48 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
18. Read Cliffs pgs. 191-210
19. Read Pearson review packet 
20. Look over test review