March 18 (A Day) and March 19 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will investigate organisms that reproduce sexually in order to explain how traits are passed on.

WARM-UP: How many chromosomes are present in each human cell at the following stages concerning human life: sex cell, zygote, adult

VOCABULARY:
1) adaptation
2) classification
3) evolution
4) fitness
5) fossil

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review Chapter 11
3) Group Activity
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Do Section 11-4 Assessment on page 278.

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 12-3 Outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Make sure your parents pick up their passcodes to access your grades and attendance online. They can come right to school for the information.

March 16 (A Day) and March 17 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will complete a lab in order to determine how alleles are inherited.

WARM-UP: What is a mutation and how can they be inherited?

VOCABULARY:
1) recessive
2) sex chromosome
3) sex-linked gene
4) sexual reproduction
5) trait

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Review Chapter 11
3) Lab activity: Investigating inherited traits
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 12-3 in textbook

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-1 and 12-2

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

March 11 (B Day) and March 12 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA.

WARM-UP: none

VOCABULARY: none

CLASSWORK:
Test today

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 12-3

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-2 Outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

March 9 (B day) and March 10 (A day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze the structure of DNA in order to understand the function of it.

WARM-UP: Why does DNA replicate itself?

VOCABULARY:
1) nondisjunction
2) pedigree
3) phenotype
4) probability
5) Punnett Square

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Classwork
3) Drawing/Foldable
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
BEE Book and flashcards due next class. Test next class

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 12-2 Outline

Vocabulary words 85-159

1)
1) cell wall
2) centriole
3) chloroplast
4) chromatin
5) chromosome
2)
1) cilia
2) cytoplasm
3) cytoskeleton
4) diffusion
5) endocytosis
3)
1) endoplasmic reticulum
2) equilibrium
3) eukaryote
4) exocytosis
5) facilitated diffusion
4)
1) flagella
2) Golgi apparatus
3) homeostasis
4) hypertonic
5) hypotonic
5)
1) isotonic
2) lipid bilayer
3) lysosome
4) mitochondria
5) nucleolus
6)
1) nucleus
2) organ
3) organ system
4) organelle
5) osmosis
7)
1) aerobic
2) anaerobic
3) ATP
4) autotroph
5) calorie
8)
1) fermentation
2) pigment
3) chlorophyll
4) anaphase
5) cancer
9)
1) cell cycle
2) cell division
3) centriole
4) centromere
5) chromatid
10)
1) chromosome
2) crossing-over
3) cyclin
4) cytokinesis
5) diploid
11)
1) homologous
2) haploid
3) interphase
4) meiosis
5) metaphase
12)
1) mitosis
2) prophase
3) spindle
4) telophase
5) tetrad
13)
1) allele
2) asexual reproduction
3) autosome
4) dominant
5) fertilization
14)
1) gametes
2) gel electrophoresis
3) genetics
4) genotype
5) heterozygous
15)
1) homozygous
2) hybrid
3) karyotype
4) monohybrid cross
5) mutation

March 6 (A Day) and March 7 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze the structure of DNA in order to understand the function.

WARM-UP: How does DNA copy itself? (Replication)

VOCABULARY:
1) homozygous
2) hybrid
3) karyotype
4) monohybrid cross
5) mutation

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Classwork/ Reveiw DNA Structure
3) Drawing
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 12-2

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-1 outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Test on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. I will also be checking BEE Books and Vocabulary.

February 26 - March 5

HSA Testing has been going on for the last week. During this time, you should have completed the following assignments:

Review Sheet
Section 11-3 Outline
Section 11-5 Outline

Homework due on March 6 and March 9 is Section 12-1 Outline. You will have a test on Wednesday (B Day) and Thursday (A Day) and BEE Books and Flashcards will all be due on the same day.

February 24 (A Day) and February 25 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 6 in order to prepare for the test.

WARM-UP: What is the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction?

VOCABULARY:
1) gametes
2) gel electrophoresis
3) genetics
4) genotype
50 heterozygous

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Classwork
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Finish Review Sheet

HOMEWORK DUE: Section 11-2 Outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS: NONE

February 20 (A Day) and February 23 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 6 in order to prepare for the test.

WARM-UP: List three differences between mitosis and meiosis.

VOCABULARY:
1) allele
2) asexual reproduction
3) autosome
4) dominant
5) fertilization

CLASSWORK:
1) Vocabulary and Warm-Up
2) Classwork and Movie
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section 11-2 Outline

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 11-1 Outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
All honor's students must get copy of "The Hot Zone" by next week.

February 18 (A Day) and February 19 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will compare mitosis and meiosis in order to analyze how chromosomes separate during these processes.

WARM-UP: Why do cells undergo mitosis? Why do cells undergo meiosis?

VOCABULARY:
1) mitosis
2) prophase
3) spindle
4) telophase
5) tetrad

CLASSWORK:
1) Vocabulary and Warm-up
2) Classwork/ Movie
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Read and outline Section 11-1 in textbook.

HOMEWORK DUE: NONE

ANNOUCEMENTS: BRING TEXTBOOKS TO CLASS EVERYDAY!!!

February 13 (A Day) and February 17 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will compare mitosis and meiosis in order to analyze how chromosomes separate during these processes.

WARM-UP: What is the difference between cancer cells and normal cells?

VOCABULARY:
1) homologous
2) haploid
3) interphase
4) meiosis
5) metaphase

CLASSWORK:
1) Vocabulary/ Warm-Up
2) Classwork
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
NONE. Bring textbooks to class every day!!!

HOMEWORK DUE: worksheets

ANNOUNCEMENTS: NONE

February 11 (A Day) and February 12 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE:
Students will develop a cell cycle booklet in order to analyze and describe the phases of the cell cycle.

VOCABULARY:
1) chromosome
2) crossing-over
3) cyclin
4) cytokinesis
5) diploid

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

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 11-4 in textbook. If you would like to move ahead, you can also outline Sections 11-1, 11-2 and 11-3.

HOMEWORK DUE:
lab

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

February 9 (A Day) and February 10 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will complete a lab in order to analyze the phases of mitosis in eukaryotic cells.

WARM-UP: Why do cells divide instead of growing indefinitely?

VOCABULARY:
1) cell cycle
2) cell division
3) centriole
4) centromere
5) chromatid

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ Vocabulary
2) LAB
3) Closure

HOMEWORK DUE:
Setion 10-3 Outline

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
FINISH LAB

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NONE

February 5 (A Day) and February 6 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will complete a lab activity on mitosis in order to analyze the phases of mitosis in eukaryotic cells.

WARM-UP: How does a person start from a tiny sperm and egg cell and become a 7 pound baby, then adult?

VOCABULARY:
1) fermentation
2) pigment
3) chlorophyll
4) anaphase
5) cancer

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ Vocabulary
2) Quiz on photosynthesis/cell respiration (or foldable for period 5A)
3) Lab
4) Closure/Review

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Read and outline Section 10-3 in textbook

HOMEWORK DUE: Section 10-1 and 10-2 outlines

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

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

OBJECTIVE: Students will compare the equations for photosynthesis and cellular respiration in order to determine how they are interconnected.

WARM-UP: What is required for a plant to grow?

VOCABULARY:
1) aerobic
2) anaerobic
3) ATP
4) autotroph
5) calorie

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review photosynthesis and cellular respiration
3) Foldable
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 9-1 and 9-2

HOMEWORK DUE:
9-1 and 9-2 outlines

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NONE

January 23 and January 26

Test on Chapter 7. Review sheet and Section 8-3 outline due.

January 23 and January 26

Test on Chapter 7. Review sheet and Section 8-3 outline due.

January 21 (A Day) and January 22 (B Day)

NOTE: HSA testing occurred last week so the daily schedule was changed dramatically.

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 4 in order to prepare for the test next class.

WARM-UP: If a cell with 8% salt was placed in a solution with 20% salt, what would happen to the cell and why?

VOCABULARY:
1) nucleus
2) organ
3) organ system
4) organelle
5) osmosis

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review Sheet
3) Teacher Demonstration
4) Questions about test? Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
STUDY ALL OF CHAPTER 7 TO PREPARE FOR TEST

HOMEWORK DUE:
Seciton 8-3 outline if you haven't turned it in yet.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Email me at margaret.lynch@pgcps.org for 5 extra credit points. Expires on Monday, 1/26/09

January 8 (A Day) and January 9 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review osmosis and diffusion in order to predict which way water will move.

WARM-UP: What is a selectively permeable membrance?

VOCABULARY:
1) isotonic
2) lipid bilayer
3) lysosome
4) mitochondria
5) nucleolus

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Review osmosis/ discussion
3) Activity
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 8-2

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 8-1 outline

January 6 (A Day) and January 7 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Cell structure and function in order to prepare for the Ch. 7 test.

WARM-UP: N/A

VOCABULARY: None today

CLASSWORK:
1) Read the following pages in your green HSA books and complete the Reviews at the end of each unit:
-Page 2-1 through Page 2-3, complete 2.1 Review
-Page 2-8 through Page 2-9, complete 2.3 Review
-Page 2-10 through Page 2-12, complete 2.4 Review

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Study all of Chapter 7 in preparation for the test next week.
2) Read and outline Section 8-1

HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Winter Break Packet (A Day) and cell worksheet.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NONE