One week til Christmas!  Almost home a few things left to do.

Monday: Make corrections from the test on cells and cell membrane
Tuesday:  Problem solving  cell membranes (H. Bio-Field Trip)
Wednesday:  1st and 4th period--problem solving -water catchment system-6th and 8th period vocabulary review
Thursday: 1st and 4th period--problem solving -water catchment system-6th and 8th period vocabulary review
Friday:  1st and 4th period--problem solving -water catchment system-6th and 8th period vocabulary review

Time to warm up to cell transport!

Monday:  Notes on Active Transport; Examples: Set up Egg lab
Tuesday:  Worksheet on active and passive transport
Wednesday:  Review Game on Active and Passive transport
Thursday:  Test on Cell Membrane transport
Friday:  Review of Biology

Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break!  Three weeks until Christmas!  We have a lot to get done.

Monday:  Vocabulary and correct your test--
Tuesday:  Coloring sheet of the cell membrane
Wednesday: (h. bio--Wednesday will do d/o lab) Notes for diffusion and osmosis  hypotonic, isotonic, hypertonic Finish cell membrane
 Thursday: Honors biology diffusion lab   Notes for Honors Bio
  diffusion/osmosis lab
Friday:Worksheet on diffusion  H. Biology finish diffusion lab  Crash course cell membrane


Extra notes:  Utah Cell transport

Biology--Cells and Microscopes

Monday:  Prokaryotes and Endosymbiosis

Tuesday: Eukaryotes and Functions of the cell

Wednesday:  Microscopes and the cell theory

Thursday:  Test

Friday:  Cell Lab

Biology!  Finishing up cells

Monday:  Finish work from Thursday and Friday--Worksheet on Prokaryotes, Coloring sheet and Prokaryotes, Plants and Animals, Cell theory--all due Wednesday
Tuesday: Notes on Cell theory, Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes and the Map of the cell
Wednesday:  Finish notes, Microscope notes
Thursday:   Lab on the cells
Friday: Review of cells

Test on Monday!!!!!!! 11/18

Biology on to cells!  Time to bring out the microscopes

Monday: Finish Test, Notes on Microscope, Microscope Worksheet
Projects handed out (H. Bio) Bio
Tuesday: Background story on Schleiden, Schwann, and Virchow, Hooke, and Leeuwenhoek(see below)
Wednesday: Inquiry prokaryotes, Inquiry plant and animal cells, inside cells
Thursday: Worksheet on Cells,  Coloring Sheet: Plant, Animal, Prokaryote
Friday: Worksheet on the history of cell
  Notes on Prokaryotes (p1-4)

Tuesday Project: Biology
A.  Last name of their ancestor
B.  Timeline for the zombie apocalypse
C. Timeline for the cell theory
D.  Explain the cell theory and how this helped the scientist find a cure for the zombie apocalypse.
F.  Write a back story for your scientist

Tuesday Project:  Honors Biology
A.  Neisseria meningitidis (bacteria)
B.  How would a virus invade a bacteria (prokaryotic cell)
C.  Explain the cell theory-  How could it help find a cure
D.  Describe a timeline for the cell theory--mention Schlieden, Schwann, Virchrow, Hooke, and Leeuwenhoeke.
E.  Explain the different types of microscopes and how they could help find a cure.
     -Name
    - Type of scientist (same as their ancestor)
   - Organisms used in testing (same as their ancestor)
  -  Family, friends, emotional state, hobbies



For next week
Inquiry lab
Cell size
cell size utah

Test for ecology and on to cells

Monday: No school
Tuesday:  Review for Ecology test
Wednesday: Test for Ecology!  Cell vocabulary and parts of the microscope
Thursday:  Cell project -biology Cell project -h bio
Friday:  Quiz on the parts of the microscope; the cell parts
next project
cell diffusion

Animal interactions and Ecosystems

We have entered the world of predators and prey.  Are you the predator or prey?  Which biome are you in?

Monday:  Presentations of biomes, fill out the biome world map and biome chart during presentations H. Biology-owl pellet dissections
Tuesday:  Finish presentations of biomes, Symbiosis worksheet 
Acid Rain
Wednesday: Review for the test on ecology (the review will be given out on Wednesday..it will be due on Thursday and we will go over the answers)
Thursday: Food webs and food chains notes,  global warming
Friday: Global warming worksheet

Bye Bye Chemistry

Time for the outdoors.  Chemistry is behind us sort of....time to see what it really means

Monday:  Biome project.  Ecology project for honors.
Tuesday: computer lab for biome project
Wednesday:  Notes if we stay in.  Outdoor lab if we can go out
Thursday: Population/Graphing
Friday: Computer lab to finish biome project

Macromolecules are done, but don't think you won't see them again!  Time to finish biochemistry.  Acid, Bases, and Water oh my!

Monday:  Biology define; pH, solution, diffusion, dynamic equalibrium, hydrogen bonding, polar molecule--p 151 #4, p 156 1-5. p169 19-25
Science Fair Research-h.bio
Tuesday:  pH worksheet Science Fair Research--h bio MOM demonstration (acids and bases), What is pH?  Water dissociation notes 
Wednesday: pH lab h biology case study acids, pH, and buffers
Thursday:  Water chemistry....cohesion/adhesion and capillary action go to ppt on biology junction
Friday:  Review water chemistry and pH Science Fair Research due for honors bio

Crash course water chemistry 
Lab on cohesion, adhesion, surface tension

Macromolecules!  Macromolecule style!  Know your macromolecules: Lipids, Carbohydrates, Nucleic acids, and Proteins.  Test on Thursday!!!

Monday: Worksheet on Enzymes, Notes on Enzymes, endothermic and exothermic
Tuesday:Lab on Enzymes, Review for the test
Wednesday: Review for the test
Thursday:  Test on Macromolecules, covalent, ionic, and atoms
Friday: Water chemistry lab

My blog doesn't like what I am writing, so I'm going to make this short and sweet.  Here is what we are doing this week.  Macromolecules!  Proteins, Nucleic Acids, Lipids, and Carbohydrates.

Monday--Atoms, Covalent and Ionic Bonding.  Foldable Macromolecules, Sing Macromolecule style,  Honors Biology Topic for Science Fair is due!  Discussion on projects.
Tuesday--Foldable Macromolecules, Make a molecule, Crash Course Worksheet, Crash Course Macromolecues, Chemistry, hbio-Notes on Macromolecules
Wednesday--Enzymes (what are they and what do they do)
Thursday--Lab Macromolecules (see last blog)
Friday--Exothermic and Endothermic, activation energy,

Notes on Macromolecule ppt

Now we get to the fun stuff!  BIOCHEMISTRY IS COOL!  What makes you function?  How does it work?  Time to do real science.

Monday: Making biochemicals 
Science Fair (honors biology)
Tuesday:  Foldables with biochemistry (honors)foldable macromolecules
Wednesday: Biochem lab
Thursday: Finish up lab, Lorenzo's oil
Friday:Lorenzo's oil

So far we have covered the scientific method and the characteristics of life.  What is life?  Can something show all the characteristics of life and not be alive?  Can you replace body parts with robotics part and still be alive?  Think about it.  This week we start on the basic building blocks of life.  Enjoy the ride
Monday:  Martian Life? (honors biology), Finish Alien encounter worksheet from Friday (biology) Finish Chapter 1 Vocabulary (p. 27)
Tuesday:  Movie: Lorenzo's Oil
Wednesday:  Review
Review II
Thursday:(honors bio)   Lab on Fish and Moonbeams  
Biology--Vitruvian man
Friday: Test on Chapter 1-Scientific method, characteristics of life, vocabulary, and lab safety

The second week has started.  Time to learn what it means to be alive--biologically speaking.  Today we had fun with a biotic/abiotic scavenger hunt.  This week we will continue to understand what is life!
Monday- Off
Tuesday- scavenger hunt
Wednesday- discussion of what is life.
Thursday--Is Sammy Alive?, Feedback Loop worksheet
Friday--How can we test life?  Lab

We've made it through the first week of school! Yah!  Congratulations to the Football Team for last nights win!

We have studied the scientific method this week.  We watched a video, took a safety quiz, signed syllabuses, and started to discuss what is biology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8CIDUWQuMg
--here is the video scientific method grail style

biology syllabus Biology syllabus

School has started

Great start to the school year!  Biology is so much fun!  I love it and hope you will too!  It will be a great ride.

So far we have covered the syllabus and lab safety.  We will finish lab safety tomorrow and have a quiz on Friday.  Remember you must get a 90 on  the quiz  Friday to do lab.  You must also have a signed safety contract and syllabus form.

Honors Biology Reminder:  Chapter summaries from summer reading are due Wednesday!