April 4 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will examine variation among organisms in order to recognize its importance in evolution.

WARM-UP: What is natural selection?

VOCABULARY:
1) evolution
2) theory
3) fossil
4) artificial selection
5) struggle for existence
6) fitness
7) adaptation

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Watch Jeff Corwin Galapagos Movie
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 15-2

HOMEWORK DUE:
15-1 outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

April 2 (B Day) and April 3 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will examine variation among organisms in order to recognize its importance in evolution.

WARM-UP: What is the definition of evolution?

VOCABULARY:
1) Archaea
2) Archaebacteria
3) Eukarya
4) Protista
5) Fungi
6) Plantae
7) Animalia

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Go Fish Classification Activity
3) Discussion of intro to evolution and examples
3) Video on Darwin's expedition
4) Shad in the classroom
5) Closure


TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and Outline 15-1

HOMEWORK DUE:
18-3 Outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

March 31 (B Day) and April 1 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will categorize organisms by similar traits in order to classify using the three domain system of classification.

WARM-UP: Presentation Pro 18.3
Categories that are used to organize an assortment of things should be valid. That is, they should be based on real information. However, categories should be useful, too. Suppose that you are taking a survey of traffic. You sit at the side of a busy intersection and record the vehicles you see in one hour.
1. What categories could you use to organize your count of vehicles?

2. Look at your list of categories. Are all of them equally useful?

3. Is there more than one valid and useful way to organize living things?

VOCABULARY:
1) derived character
2) cladogram
3) molecular clock
4) domain
5) bacteria
6) Eubacteria

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Review of 18-2 and 18-3 using PresentationPro
3) QuickLab in Section 18-2
4) "Go Fish"
5) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 18-3

HOMEWORK DUE:
18-2 Outline and Lab

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

March 27 (B Day) and March 28 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will examine how organisms are organized for study in order to use a dichotomous key to classify living things.

WARM-UP: How can you determine if one organism is related to another?

VOCABULARY:
1) order
2) class
3) phylum
4) kingdom
5) phylogeny
6) evolutionary classification

CLASSWORK:
1) Vocabulary and Warm-Up
2) Review of 18-2
3) Lab
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 18-2

HOMEWORK DUE:
18-1 outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

March 25 (B Day) and March 26 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will examine how organisms are organized for study in order to use a dichotomous key to classify living things.

WARM-UP: How would you classify a snicker's bar?

VOCABULARY:
1) taxonomy
2) binomial nomenclature
3) genus
4) taxon
5) family

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ Vocabulary
2) Review 18-1
3) King Phillip movie
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 18-1 in textbook

HOMEWORK DUE:
Spring Break Packet

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

March 12 (B Day) and March 13 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test in order to gauge their understanding of DNA and RNA.

WARM-UP: None

VOCABULARY: None

CLASSWORK:
1) Test
2) Work on Spring Break Packet

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Spring Break Packet

HOMEWORK DUE: Review Sheet

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Have and safe and enjoyable spring break.!!!

March 10 (A Day) and March 11 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Chapters 12 and 13 in order to prepare for their Chapter test next class.

WARM-UP: Spend a couple of minutes getting flashcards/BEE Books organized.

VOCABULARY:
1) recombinant DNA
2) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
3) plasmid
4) genetic marker
5) transgenic
6) clone

CLASSWORK:
1) Vocabulary
2) Discuss 12 and 13 Review Sheet
3) Turn in BEE Books/Flashcards
4) Work on Spring Break Packet

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test

HOMEWORK DUE:
BEE Book
Flashcards
12-1, 12-2, 12-3
Review Sheet

ANNOUNCEMENTS: TEST NEXT CLASS