Mr. W’s 2018-2019 AP Biology Weekly Agendas

Links

• Student Flashcard Pages (qwizcards.berkeleyschools.net)
• Test corrections template/sentence frames
• sciencemusicvideos.com (Mr. W’s website with interactive tutorials and other materials)
• Study Questions for Campbell Biology in Focus, 2nd Edition
• AP Biology Themes and Thematic Reflection Guide
• Check your scores on sciencemusicvideos.com
• Link to last year’s agenda (just in case you’re interested)

Agendas (most recent on top)

• Agenda 37 (the last agenda!)
• Agenda 36 (week of 5/27)
• Agenda 35 (week of 5/20), including Hallmarks of Cancer Project Description
• Agenda 34 (week of 5/13)
• Agenda 33 (week of 5/6)
• Agenda 32 (week of4/29/19)
• Agenda 31 (week of 4/22/19)
• Agenda 30 (week of 4/15/19)
• Agenda 29 (week of 4/8/19)
• Spring break Assignment
• Agenda 28 (week of 3/25/19)
• Agenda 27 (week of 3/18/19)
• Agenda 26 (week of 3/11/19)
• Agenda 25 (week of 3/4/19)
• Agenda 24 (week of 2/25/19)
• Agenda 23 (week of 2/18/19)
• Agenda 22 (week of 2/11/19)
• Agenda 21 (week of 2/4/19)
• Agenda 20 (week of 1/28/19)
• Agenda 19 (week of 1/21/19)
• Agenda 18 (week of 1/14/19)
• Agenda 17: (week of 1/7/19)
• Agenda 16: (week of 12/17/18)
• Agenda 15: (week of 12/10/18)
• Agenda 14: (week of 12/3/18)
• Agenda 13: (week of 11/26/18)
• Agenda 12: (week of 11/12/18), with a link to Friday’s homework
• Agenda 11: (week of 11/5/18)
• Agenda 10: (week of 10/29/18)
• Agenda 9: (week of 10/22/18)
• Agenda 8: (week of 10/15/18)
• Agenda 7 (week of 10/8/18)
• Agenda 6 (week of 10/1/18)
• Agenda 5 (week of 9/24/18)
• Agenda 4 (week of 9/17/18)
• Agenda 3 (week of 9/10/18)
• Agenda 2 (week of 9/3/18)
• Agenda 1 (week of 8/27/18)

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Weeks 37 and 38

MONDAY, 6/3: Workday

TUESDAY, 6/4:

• INSENSITIVITY TO ANTI GROWTH SIGNALS
• LIMITLESS REPLICATIVE POTENTIAL
• Course survey

WEDS, 6/5:

ANNOUNCEMENT! BRING IN YOUR TEXTBOOKS ON MONDAY FOR TEXTBOOK RETURN

Period 3

• EVADING PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH: Annika, Julia, Leah, Sophia
• DEREGULATED METABOLISM: NOBODY
• GENOME INSTABILITY: Maggie, Claire, Shoshana, Grace

Period 5

• EVADING PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH: Lexie et al
• DEREGULATED METABOLISM: NOBODY: Sumi et al
• GENOME INSTABILITY: Gwen et al

THURSDAY, 6/6:

WEBPAGES SHOULD BE FINISHED; SHARE YOUR STUDENT LEARNING GUIDE WITH ME.

• INFLAMMATION; Carmen et al. ; p5 oliver
• TISSUE INVATION/METASTASIS: Eliza et. al, p5 Lena
• SELF SUFFICIENCY IN GROWTH SIGNALS; Harry et al. p5 Jill

FRIDAY: 6/7

• SUSTAINED ANGIOGENESIS;
• EVADING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
• Celebration, class picture

MONDAY, 6/10 (Mr. W is Away)

• Last day to work on your web page

DAY OF FINAL

• Read other’s webpages. Take Quizzes and flashcards
• Complete your student learning guide
• Leave it all with Mr. Kulunk (who will leave it for me).

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 36

Monday, 5/27/19

1. Memorial Day, No school

Tuesday, 5/28/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. 0 Period lab: by appointment, support and guidance from Mr. W (email to set up an appointment).
2. Periods 3/5: Most Juniors absent for testing. Figure out when to meet as a group and keep making progress.
3. Homework: as needed, work on your project.

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Wednesday, 5/29/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. See tuesday
2. Homework: as needed, work on your project.

Thursday, 5/30/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. See Tuesday
2. Homework: as needed, work on your project.

Friday, 6/1/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. Periods 3/5: eriods 3/5: Work with your group on your HoC project.
2. Homework: as needed, work on your project.

Presentation Order

TUESDAY, 6/4:

• INSESNSITIVITY TO ANTI GROWTH SIGNALS;
• LIMITLESS REPLICATIVE POTENTIAL

WEDS, 6/5:

• EVADING PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH
• DEREGULATED METABOLISM
• GENOME INSTABILITY

THURSDAY, 6/6:

• INFLAMMATiON;
• TISSUE INVASION/METASTASIS
• SELF SUFFICIENCY IN GROWTH SIGNALS;

FRIDAY: 6/7

• SUSTAINED ANGIOGENESIS;
• EVADING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
• Celebration, class picture

Link to scoring guide for presentations.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 35

Monday, 5/20/19

2. Malcolm X Day, No school

Tuesday, 5/21/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

4. 0 Period lab: by appointment, support and guidance from Mr. W (email to set up an appointment).
5. Periods 3/5: More orientation to the Hallmarks of Cancer Project. You can look at some exemplars from last year’s projects at https://qwizcards.berkeleyschools.net/2018-hallmarks-of-cancer-project/
6. Homework: as needed, work on your project.

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Wednesday, 5/22/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

3. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
4. Periods 3/5: Mr. Wolkenfeld (along with most of your fellow teachers) is possibly gone. You should join us in Sacramento to protest for increased funding for education.

Thursday, 5/23/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

3. 0 Period lab: by appointment, support and guidance from Mr. W (email to set up an appointment).
4. Periods 3/5: Work with your group on your HoC project.
5. Homework: as needed, work on your project.

Friday, 5/24/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

3. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
4. Periods 3/5: eriods 3/5: Work with your group on your HoC project.
5. Homework: as needed, work on your project.

Period 3 Topic Assignments

Period 5 Topic Assignments

Hallmarks of Cancer Project Step by Step Guide

Steps 1 and 2: Background Reading.

1. Follow this link for readings in Campbell Biology and a few other sources.

Step 3: Required Group-Specific assignments

Read the first article that’s connected with your group number. Note that the links will open in a new tab. Other articles are suggested, and you may use them as one of the two additional articles that you have to find about your topic. You’ll receive paper copies of the first one of these articles, but printing out other articles is up to you.

1. Self Sufficiency in Growth Signals, AND this from the original article
2. Insensitivity to Anti Growth Signals, AND this from the original article
3. Evading Apoptosis; AND this from the original article
4. Limitless Replicative Potential; AND this from the original article
5. Sustained Angiogenesis; AND this from the original article
6. Tissue Invasion and Metastasis; AND this from the original article, and Taming Vessels to Treat Cancer
7. Genome Instability and Mutation; AND Genomic Instability and Cancer
8. Tumor Promoting Inflammation; AND Feeling the Heat—the link between inflammation and cancer; AND Why Cancer and Inflammation
9. Reprogramming energy metabolism; AND Fundamentals of Cancer Metabolism
10. Evading the Immune System; AND Cancer Versus the Immune System

NOTE: Here’s another great link, especially if you’re covering topics 7 through 10: In March 2011, Hanahan and Weinberg (authors of the original Hallmarks of Cancer Article), wrote The Hallmarks of Cancer, the Next Generation. Within this article, search for “Enabling Characteristics and Emerging Hallmarks” and you’ll see excerpts about hallmarks 7 – 10.

Step 4: Find ONE more source about your hallmark (outside of the ones provided above)

These will probably be articles that you find on the internet (and which are publicly available). I have no special powers in terms of access to university library websites or journals that are pay-for-view only, like Nature or Science. But if you know someone in academia, you can, by all means, use that privilege. These could possibly be on-line lectures by university professors. All articles need approval from Mr. W

Step 5: Create an outline that explains your hallmark

With your group, synthesize everything that you’ve read into an outline. The best medium to do this is to create a shared google doc. I’m happy to look this over once you’ve finished it.

Step 6: Create a slide presentation and an interactive learning module about one of the 10 Hallmarks of Cancer

Each module consists of:

1. A 10 minute google slides presentation explaining your hallmark. Each presentation will include:

1. A Title Slide: the hallmark name and your group members’ names
2. At least 3 more slides explaining how the hallmark works.

1. Two of those slides have to be built around a diagram (probably one involving a metabolic pathway).
2. One of those slides has to explain how we know that this is a hallmark of cancer.

1. What were the studies?
2. What was the evidence?

3. One slide explaining how understanding this hallmark might be associated with a cancer treatment.
4. One closing slide listing your sources.

2. An interactive summary of your hallmark. This hallmark will be hosted at our class website, http://qwizcards.berkeleyschools.net/ap-bio-2017/. Each interactive summary is a text version of the presentation. It must include

1. A  3 – 5 sentence introduction. What this hallmark is, and why it’s worth remembering.
2. A  500 word description of the hallmark. This will include

1. The diagrams you used in your presentation, with an explanation of them.
2. The evidence you presented in your presentation about how we know this is an essential part of cancer.

3. Your Google slideshow, embedded into your page. (Note: I might need to do the embedding for you: please email me  the link to your slideshow)
4. A series of 10 long-form interactive flashcards. Long-form means that the answer is about 2 or or three sentences (as opposed to a single word or number or phrase).
5. At least 10 interactive multiple choice, interactive diagram or single word answer (hangman) questions. At least three of these questions has to involve a diagram, table, chart or graph.

3. A student learning guide for your interactive summary. Model this on the student learning guides that Mr. W created for you whenever you completed a module on sciencemusicvideos.com. Here’s a link to all of them.

Project Timeline

1. Monday, 5/20: Malcolm X Day, no school.
2. Tuesday, 5/21: Go over project requirements; timeline.
3. Wednesday, 5/22: Workday. Mr. W checks in on Textbook readings and Cornell Notes on Cell Biology and Cancer and Hallmarks of Cancer (in reader)
4. Thursday, 5/23: Workday (Mr. W is not here 3rd period).
5. Friday, 5/24: Workday
6. Monday, 5/27: No school, Memorial Day
7. Tuesday, 5/28: All 11th graders out for SBA testing. Workday for seniors. G212 is available for meetings during 0 period, lunch, and after school.
8. Wednesday, 5/29: All 11th graders out for SBA testing. G212 is available for meetings during 0 period, lunch, and after school.
9. Thursday, 5/30: ½ day testing for 11th graders for SBA testing G212 is available for meetings during 0 period, lunch, and after school.
10. Friday, 5/31: Course survey. Workday. Lottery for presentation order. G212 is available for meetings during 0 period, lunch, and after school.
11. Monday, 6/3: Workday
12. Tuesday, 6/4: Practice your presentation: Get feedback from Mr. W and others
13. Weds, 6/5: presentations 1 - 4
14. Thursday, 6/6: presentations 5 - 8
15. Friday, 6/7: presentations 9 - 10
16. Monday, 6/10: Last day to tune up/perfect your webpage
17. DAY OF FINAL: Reading other’s webpages, commenting, reflecting.

SCORING GUIDE FOR Hallmarks of Cancer,  GOOGLE SLIDES PRESENTATION

SCORING GUIDE FOR Hallmarks of Cancer,  Webpage

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 34

Monday, 5/13/19

1. AP Biology Exam
2. Homework: are you kidding? Relax! Work on your other classes!

Tuesday, 5/14/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. 0 Period lab: I”ll be there if you need me.
2. Periods 3/5:

1. Hand in your yellow books. -10/day for each day that these are late.
2. Introduce Post AP exam project. Sorry to not give you a day off ! I have to do this today, because I’m gone on Thursday and Friday, and many of you are gone tomorrow.

3. Homework: You can start the reading from the Hallmarks of Cancer project, but you can also take the day off.

Wednesday, 5/15/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. AP English Language and Composition (many 11th graders absent)
2. Periods 3/5: relax. Watch a nature video.
3. Homework: The goal for this week is for you to finish all of the background reading for your project. Your answers to questions, summaries, etc, are going to be kept in a notebook (your last one for AP Bio), which you’ll hand in toward the end of the project.

Thursday, 5/16/19 (NO LAB: Mr. W is away)

1. Periods 3/5: Mr. W. is away.
2. Lesson plan for Sub

1. Students should use the white “Hallmarks of Cancer Reader” and the 9th edition of Campbell biology (see the bookshelf in the back.
2. Write a short summary in Cornell notes format of the 10 hallmarks of cancer
3. Answer the questions from Campbell Biology (on the 1st page of the white reader)
4. Answer the questions about the article  Cell Biology and Cancer (also in the reader).
5. Whatever students don’t finish they should finish for homework

Friday, 5/17/19 (NO LAB: Mr. W is away)

1. Periods 3/5: Mr. W. is away. FINISH Reading about Cancer Biology in Campbell and other sources (see Tuesday for Links, and see

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 33

G212 IS AVAILABLE  EVERYDAY DURING LUNCH FOR YOU TO MEET WITH ME OR YOUR CLASSMATES. I can also be available this week Monday, Weds, or Friday after school (but please let me know).

A note from Ms. Williams: AP exams begin next Monday, May 6. Students who were unable to attend either of the preadministration sessions April 23 and 24 must report to the M Gym on May 6 at 7 a.m. regardless of when their first exam is. They will fill out the needed paperwork which will then be waiting for them at their first exam. Test locations are being emailed to the AP teachers. Students need to report to their test location at least 30 minutes before the scheduled start time so that they are seated and ready to begin on time. Morning instructions will begin at 8 a.m. The afternoon tests will start at noon. Once we begin instructions, no latecomers will be admitted .Seats not filled by start time will be given to those on the wait lists. All students should bring several number 2 pencils (NOT mechanical), a pen with blue or black ink and whatever devices (such as calculators) are allowed on the exam. Cell phones and smart watches are not permitted in the testing areas. Should they be seen, including during the break, the student will be dismissed and the test will not be scored. I will excuse students with morning tests through period 4 so that they can eat lunch before returning to class. Those with noon tests will be excused beginning period 3 so that they can eat before their exam. There are no early dismissals.

Monday, 5/6/19 (T - 5 SD, T - 7 D)

1. AP US Government Exam (some 12th graders absent)
2. Test corrections from final exam. Work on Biomania if you have spare time.
3. Homework:

1. Lots of Biomania. Get to at least 200 points on the MC, and 75 on the FRQs.
2. Practice FRQs: Set 7 # 6,  Set 7 # 7,  Set 7 # 8

Tuesday, 5/7/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)  (T - 4 SD, T - 6 D)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. TEAM FRQ writing: Set 3 # 1; Set 3 # 2, Set 3 # 6 
2. Biomania

2. Periods 3/5:

1. Brief discussion of Post AP exam project. You can request one person to be in your group, and I’ll try to honor that (but sometimes I can’t).
2. More time doing test corrections, or Biomania and/or FRQ writing.

3. Homework: Study for the second final. The best way to do that is by writing FRQs. Work on Set 5 # 1; Set 5 # 3; Set 5, # 8; Set 6 # 3

Wednesday, 5/8/19 (period 5 meets 0 period) (T - 3 SD, T - 5 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Note that I’m switching the order so that I can grade these and get them back to you)

1. Final Retry (required for everyone) (18 MC Questions), 3 short FRQs

3. Homework: Keep studying for the 2nd part of the final and the AP exam.

Thursday, 5/9/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL) (T - 2 SD, T - 4 D)

1. 0 Period lab
2. Periods 3/5:  Final Retry (required for everyone):  35 MC Questions.
3. Homework: None (because  most of you have another AP exam tomorrow: good luck)

Friday, 5/10/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL) (T - 1 SD, T - 3 D)

1. AP US History exam  (many 11th graders absent)
2. Period 3/5: Test corrections for final 2. I’ll be here during lunch or after school for this.
3. Homework for over the weekend:

1. Finish all of FRQs, set 7. Try to finish them in one sitting.
2. Get to 400 points on Biomania
3. Have a Karaoke biology party and sing as many songs as you can. Here’s a link to a playlist I’ve put together for you. https://www.sciencemusicvideos.com/ap-biology/ap-bio-review-menu/ap-biology-review-playlist/
4. Get a good night’s sleep on Sunday.
5. I’ll meet you at 7:30 am before the test. We’ll sing Glycolysis together, and I’ll wish you luck for the test!

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 32

Note: Final Exam is going to be given TWICE. Once this week, once next week. First adminstration is on Thursday and Friday of this week.

I will be available every day during lunch between now and the AP exam. If you also want me to be available after school, I can do that, too. Just ask.

Monday, 4/29/19 (T - 10 School Days, T - 14 Days)

1. Periods 3/5:

1. Test corrections for test 1. That means going over any questions you had with your group.
2. Start AP practice test 2
3. Complete these three FRQs: Set 1 # 1; Set 3 # 5; Set 4 # 3; 

2. Homework:

1. Finish AP exam test 2.
2. Self score or partner score all the FRQs we’ve done so far. All of the scoring guides are linked here.  The best strategy is to write first, then score yourself, then carefully note what you missed. If you construct your essays after looking at the scoring guides, your review will be less valuable.  

Tuesday, 4/30/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)(T - 9 SD, T - 13 D)

1. 0 Period lab: Practice FRQs. Set 7 # 1; Set 7  # 3; Set 7 # 4, Set 7 # 5 (link is to College board website)
2. Periods 3/5:

1. Test corrections and starting the next test (Start M. C. test 3)
2. 10 Minutes discussing problem areas from your review of the outline (which is right at the beginning of your test booklet).

3. Homework:

1. Finish MC Test 3
2. Spend another hour on practice FRQs. Set 4 # 4; Set 4# 6; Set 4 # 7:

Wednesday, 5/1/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)(T - 8 SD, T - 12 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5:

1. Talk through your questions related to FRQs and M.C. questions with your groups
2. Start M.C. practice test 4

3. Homework: Study for final exam, in class, tomorrow. The best way to study is to keep on taking practice tests and keep on doing FRQs.

1. Finish and self score M.C. test 4
2. Do these two FRQs: Set 6 # 1, Set 6 # 2

Thursday, 5/2/19 (period 3 meets 0 period) (T - 7 SD, T - 11 D)

1. 0 Period lab: Biomania. Do this on your phone or on one of the class computers.
2. Periods 3/5: FINAL EXAM, part 1 (35  M.C. Questions)
3. Homework: relax, or do some BIOMANIA!

Friday, 5/3/19 (period 5 meets 0 period) (T - 6 SD, T - 10 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Semester 1 final, part 2 (13 more m.c. questions) and part 3 (3 short FRQs)
3. Homework:

1. DO PRACTICE FRQs: Set 4 # 8; Set 6 # 6; Set 6 # 7; Set 6 # 8, Set 1 # 3; Set 2 #1; Set 2 # 4 . While this looks like a long list it’s one long, two medium, and four short FRQs. It should take you less than 90 minutes. Try to write them consequtively so you build up your writing stamina
2. Work on Biomania. Try to get to at least 150 M.C. questions, and 50 FRQs. Carefully study the feedback statements.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 31

Notes and News

1. AP preadministration meetings are on 4/23 and 4/24 (Tuesday and Wedsneday). YOU MUST ATTEND ONE. They will be in the Community Theater from 3:45 to about 4:45 p.m.

2. FINAL EXAM: First administration of the final exam is on Thursday and Friday of next week, May 2nd and May 3rd. There will be a second administration on Wednesday and Thursday of the following week, May 9 and May 10. You have to take both, and you keep your best score. The tests will consist of 53 m.c. questions, and 3 short FRQs.

3. Test on ecology on Thursday.

Monday, 4/22/19 (T - 15 SD, T - 21 D)

1. Periods 3/5:

1. Place your Pillbugs in the class pillbug hotel.
2. Final Ecology Topics

2. Homework:  

1. Everybody: Homework: Read about Animal Behavior, chapter 39. Answer the study questions or make flashcards
2. Period 5: Bring your AP Review booklet to class tomorrow.
3. FINISH THE ECOLOGY FRQs from last week

Tuesday, 4/23/19 (period 3 meets 0 period) (T - 14 SD, T - 20 D)

1. 0 Period lab: Animal Behavior Prelab
2. Period 3: Animal Behavior Lab
3. Period 5: AP Exam Math Review
4. Homework:

1. Everybody: Finish reading about Animal Behavior, chapter 39
2. Everybody: Start Reviewing for Ecology, the last unit test. Here’s a link to the review sheet.
3. Period 3: Bring your AP Review booklet to class tomorrow.

Wednesday, 4/24/19 (period 5 meets 0 period) (T - 13 SD, T - 19 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Period 3: AP Exam Math Review
3. Period 5: Animal Behavior Lab
4. Homework: Study for tomorrow’s test on Ecology.

Thursday, 4/25/19 (period 3 meets 0 period) (T - 12 SD, T - 18 D)

1. 0 Period lab Animal Behavior Practice FRQs
2. Periods 3/5: LAST CHAPTER TEST: Ecology
3. Homework: Spend another hour working on the Biomania Quiz, MC Questions either on the phone app or on sciencemusicvideos.com (see previous link). Carefully read the feedback statements for wrong and right responses.

Friday, 4/26/19 (period 5 meets 0 period) (T - 11 SD, T - 17 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5:

1. Ecology Test Corrections
2. Take MC Practice Test 1 from the Review Packet.

3. Homework:

1. Finish M.C. practice test 1 in your review book. Check your answers and do test corrections.
2. Complete practice FRQs 4:1 and 4:2
3. Over the weekend, spend at least one hour working on the Biomania practice FRQs on sciencemusicvideos.com. You can also do these on the Biomania phone app. Quickly write out your answers in the pages provided in the back of your review packet. Then check your answers.
4. Spend at least one hour looking over the review outline in the front of your packet. Identify areas where you’re less confident, and

1. Do targeted restudying using your own flashcards or Cornell notes
2. Choose specific FRQ and MC areas in the SMV app for review.

5. I’m going to collect a notebook on Monday. Here’s the link.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 30

AP Preregistration Meeting on 4/23 and 4/24 (Tuesday and Wednesday of next week)

Monday, 4/15/19 (AP test - 20 School Days, T - 28 Days)

1. Periods 3/5:

1. Give out AP Practice Test Booklet
2. Photosynthesis Test Corrections
3. Start Ecosystems on sciencemusicvideos.com

2. Homework

1. Work on Ecosystems on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Make sure the FRQs from last week are finished so we can score them tomorrow/weds in Lab: LOEYS DIETZ SYNDROME, BLOOD GLUCOSE, ALCOHOL AND URINE PRODUCTION, THERMOREGULATION

Tuesday, 4/16/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)  (T - 19 SD, T - 27 D)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Score FRQs from last week (see above)
2. Dissolved Oxygen Virtual Lab at http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab12/avail.html

2. Homework:

1. Finish ecosystems on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Start reading about population ecology (chapter 40).

Wednesday, 4/17/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)  (T - 18 SD, T - 26 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Lecture: Population Ecology, continued
3. Homework: Finish reading about population ecology (chapter 40)

Thursday, 4/18/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)  (T - 17 SD, T - 25 D)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. two POGILS (eutrophication and global climate change)
2. Finish Dissolved oxygen lab from Tuesday
3. Start next set of practice FRQs: Periods 3/5: In class FRQ practice

1. Interdependence in Nature
2. Beetle Population Interactions
3. Population Cycles
4. Simplified Carbon Cycle
5. Dissolved Oxygen

2. Periods 3/5: Lecture:

1. The Class Potato, part 1: etiolation and response to light.
2. Species Interactions and Community Ecology

3. Homework: Start reading/making flashcards/taking notes for Species Interactions and Community Ecology (chapter 41)

Friday, 4/19/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)  (T - 16 SD, T - 24 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3 and 5: Community ecology, continued. If you were absent, watch Some Animals are More Equal than Others on YouTube, and complete the questions on p. 7 - 10 of the ecology note-taking packet.
3. Homework:

1. Finish reading/making flashcards/taking notes for Species Interactions and Community Ecology (chapter 41)
2. Take home a petri dish. When you get home, put a moist paper towel in it. Then go outside, look under rocks, and find at least 10 pillbugs). Put them in the petri dish. Feed them with any soft, decaying plant matter. Your job is to bring at least 10 pillbugs to class on Monday. If you bring more, you’ll be a hero. Those who bring less will be filled with shame, as they think to themselves, “Biology is a team sport,  and I let down my teammates.”
3. From Ms. Williams: Plan to attend an AP  preadministration meeting on April 23 and 24. Students need to attend ONE of the sessions. They will be in the Community Theater from 3:45 to about 4:45 p.m.
4. Work on the practice FRQs you received in lab. We’ll score these on Tuesday or Weds morning.
5. If you have time, we have one more chapter to go: Animal Behavior, chapter 39.  Early next week, it’ll be homework.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 29

1. Test on Friday on Plants: Mostly photosynthesis, a bit on water movement/transpiration. 
2. Download the sciencemusicvideos app on the Apple or Android stores. I’ve had to change my software strategy, and I can only offer it for free until April 10. After that, you’ll still be able to access the same content on my website, but I won’t be able to give you the app for free. SO DOWNLOAD IT BEFORE APRIL 10. Go to https://www.sciencemusicvideos.com/app/

Monday, 4/8/19  (T - 25 School Days, T - 35 Days)

1. Periods 3/5:

1. Immune/Nervous system test corrections
2. Module 32: Transpiration and water movement on sciencemusicvideos.com. Finish by Thursday morning.

2. Homework

1. Make sure you’re finished the photosynthsis FRQs for scoring in class in lab, starting tomorrow.
2. Finish Transpiration and Water Transport in Plants on sciencemusicvideos.com
3. Download the Biomania test preparation app for free. Go to https://www.sciencemusicvideos.com/app/

Tuesday, 4/9/19 (period 3 meets 0 period) (T - 24 SD, T - 34 D)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. 3 POGILS:  Plant Hormones/Phototropism (p.208), Feedback Mechanisms (p. 177), Control of blood sugar (p. 183)
2. Peer scoring of photosynthesis FRQs.

2. Periods 3/5: Consolidation of material related to Animal homeostasis (thermoregulation, blood sugar regulation, diabetes)
3. Homework:

1. Read just a little bit about Plant Responses to Light. Make flashcards or cornell notes. Just do questions 1 - 6. This is difficult reading, but it illuminates a lot of cool underlying biology. I might or might not be able to explicitly teach this material, so read it carefully.
2. Second to last night to download the Biomania test preparation app for free. Go to https://www.sciencemusicvideos.com/app/

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Wednesday, 4/10/19 (period 5 meets 0 period) (T - 23 SD, T - 33 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Ecology, lesson 1
3. Homework:

1. Finish the Transpiration FRQ (in the Module 32/transpiration Learning Guide).
2. Start studying for a test on Photosynthesis and Water Transport in Plants, using this review sheet (you’ll get a hard copy in class, too).
3. Last night to download the Biomania test preparation app for free. Go to https://www.sciencemusicvideos.com/app/

Thursday, 4/11/19 (period 3 meets 0 period) (T - 22 SD, T - 32 D)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Scoring the Transpiration FRQ (on the fourth page of the Module 32, Transpiration Learning Guide
2. Animal physiology practice FRQs: LOEYS DIETZ SYNDROME, BLOOD GLUCOSE, ALCOHOL AND URINE PRODUCTION, THERMOREGULATION

2. Periods 3/5: Ecology, Lesson 2
3. Homework: Study for tomorrow’s test on photosynthesis

Friday, 4/12/19 (period 5 meets 0 period) (T - 21 SD, T - 31 D)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Test on Photosynthesis
3. Homework: finish the FRQs distributed in lab (Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Blood Glucose Homeostasis, Alcohol and Urine Production, Thermoregulation). We’ll grade these in lab next week (Tuesday or Weds).

SPRING BREAK ASSIGNMENT: 4/1/19 - 4/5/19

Sorry to make you work over spring break, but I’m trying to make sure we have a smooth landing as we prepare for the AP exam after Spring break. I’m hoping that it just takes you a few hours.

Note that I’m assuming that you’ve already finished the Photosynthesis Tutorials on sciencemusicvideos.com, and the Photsynthesis FRQs that I assigned earlier this week. If you haven’t, add that to the list below.

1. Complete the Animal Homeostasis tutorials on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Reading about Transpiration and Water Transport in Plants
3. Download the sciencemusicvideos app on the Apple or Android stores. I’ve had to change my software strategy, and I can only offer it for free until April 10. After that, you’ll still be able to access the same content on my website, but I won’t be able to give you the app for free. SO DOWNLOAD IT BEFORE APRIL 10. Go to https://www.sciencemusicvideos.com/app/

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 28

Notice: TEST ON THURSDAY; NEXT NOTEBOOK DUE ON FRIDAY

Monday, 3/25/19

1. Periods 3/5:

1. Set Up the  Transpiration Lab
2. Learning about Photosynthesis

2. Homework:

1. NOTE: grades for nervous system on SMV.com are going in tomorrow morning. Immune system grades are already in. FINISH THESE!
2. Start Photosynthesis on sciencemusicvideos.com. Note that you can skip reading the chapter on photosynthesis for this unit.
3. Start studying for Thursday’s test on the Nervous and Immune system using this review sheet
4. My musicvideos about the immune system have most of the science you need to know. You can watch them here Immune system music video part 1 and here: Immune system music video part 2.
5. Make sure you’ve finished all the FRQs on the nervous and and immune systems from last week (because we’re going to grade them in lab tomorrow morning.

Tuesday, 3/26/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Photosynthesis on sciencemusicvideos.com. 
2. Grade FRQs on the immune and nervous systems (these we handed out last week).

2. Periods 3/5: More lecturing about photosynthesis
3. Homework:

1. Photosynthesis FRQs (assuming that we’re ready for them). I’ll hand out a packet in class. They’re not due until the next notebook, but we might look at them in class on Friday.
2. Keep studying for Thursday’s test.

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Wednesday, 3/27/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Transpiration and leaf stomata lab, day 2 (record data)
3. Homework: Test on the immune and nervous systems TOMORROW.

Thursday, 3/28/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Feedback mechanisms (p. 177) and control of blood sugar (p. 183) POGILS
2. Periods 3/5: Test on the Immune and Nervous Systems.
3. Homework:

1. Prepare your notebook for handing in TOMORROW. Here’s the table of contents.
2. Animal Homeostasis on sciencemusicvideos.com

Friday, 3/29/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Photosynthesis: the Calvin Cycle
3. Homework: See the Spring Break assignment below

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 27

Monday, 3/18/19

1. Periods 3/5: TEST: Eukaryotic gene regulation and development. See last week’s agenda
2. Homework:

1. Finish the Immune System on sciencemusicvideos.com. Go to sciencemusicvideos.com to see the wordbank for the crossword puzzle
2. Make sure you’ve finished the cellular respiration FRQs from last week: we’re going to score these in class, during lab.
3. Register for the AP exam.

Tuesday, 3/19/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Immune system POGIL
2. In class grading of Cellular Respiration FRQs from last week.

2. Periods 3/5: Introducing the Nervous System
3. Homework:

1. Start eading about the nervous system in your textbook. Make flashcards on your webpage, or answer the quesitons in cornell notes format.
2. Period 5: see last night’s HW: Make sure you’ve done the cellular respiration FRQs.
3. Register for the AP exam.

Wednesday, 3/20/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Nervous System, Continued
3. Homework:

1. Finish reading about the nervous system (see last night)
2. You should be DONE with the immune system. Maximum points is 142.
3. Register for the AP exam.

Thursday, 3/21/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Nervous system POGILs
2. Nervous system on sciencemusicvideos.com

2. Periods 3/5:

1. Test corrections for Gene Regulation and Development
2. If time, work on Nervous system on sciencemusicvideos.com

3. Homework:

1. Nervous and Immune System FRQs (packet to be distributed in class)

1. Immune system and phylogeny
2. Nervous system and ion permeabiliity
3. Neurotransmitters and neurotoxins,
4. Astounding Nervous System

2. Register for the AP exam. 

Friday, 3/22/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Introduction to photosynthesis
3. Homework:

1. Finish nervous system on SMV.com
2. Finish Nervous/Immune FRQs (see Thursday)
3. Start studying for next week’s test on the Nervous and Immune Systems (probably on Wednesday, 3/27). Use this review sheet.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 26

Test on Monday, 3/18 on Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Development

Register for the AP exam. 

Monday, 3/11/19

1. Periods 3/5: Finish Development
2. Homework:

1. Finish Reading about Development, cancer, and stem cells (see thursday)
2. Finish eukaryotic gene regulation on sciencemusicvideos.com. 110 points gets you to 100% when I record the grade.

Tuesday, 3/12/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Cancer Webquest using the following webpages (you’ll receive a handout in class)

1. https://www.cancerquest.org/patients/what-cancer 
2. https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/p53-gene-and-cancer
3. https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/bcr-abl-cancer-protein-structure-and-function

2. Periods 3/5: Start learning about the immune system
3. Homework: Read about evo devo in the handout you received in class . Answer the  questions  in cornell in Cornell notes format.

Wednesday, 3/13/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Immune System, Continued
3. Homework: Cellular Respiration Review

1. To review cellular respiration, use  your own flashcards (or somebody else’s)  about cellular respiration. This was way back in chapter 7
2. Complete the Three FRQs on Cellular respiration (handed out in class). We won’t go over this until Friday at the earliest.

Thursday, 3/14/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Finish Cancer Webquest
2. Development on sciencemusicvideos.com

2. Periods 3/5: Immune System, Final Topics
3. Homework:

1. Finish Development on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Use this review sheet to start reviewing for Monday’s test on eukaryotic gene regulation and development
3. Start Immune System on sciencemusicvideos.com. Here’s a link to  the student learning guide. You don’t have to finish this until Monday night.

Friday, 3/15/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Start the nervous system
3. Homework:

1. Study for Monday’s test on gene regulation and development. Use this review sheet, your lecture notes, and the student learning guides for the two sciencemusicvideos.com tutorials on these topics.
2. Note: I’m going to have grades in Illuminate for Development by Monday morning. If you haven’t done these tutorials before the test, and you do them after, your maximum grade will be 70%. Same for Eukaryotic gene regulation. Links are above.
3. If you’ve studied enough, keep working on the  Immune System on sciencemusicvideos.com. Go to sciencemusicvideos.com to see the wordbank for the crossword puzzle

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 25

Take Note

1. Register for the AP exam. 
2. If you have a spare hour, sit down and watch Dinopocalypse: a Radiolab episode about the the extinction of the dinosaurs (and life’s subsequent recovery).

Monday, 3/4/19

1. Periods 3/5: Finish Great Transformations; Start eukaryotic genome regulation.
2. Homework: Test on Wednesday on Population Genetics, Speciation, and Phylogenetics. Use this review sheet.

Tuesday, 3/5/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab:

1. Mass Extinction POGIL; time to work on Lizard Phylogeny Lab Write Up (see below).
2. Lizard Phylogeny Lab Conclusion:

1. Set UP
   * You can have groups that include up to four people.
   * The final product goes on one person’s webpage. Others should have a link to the final product.
   * Creativity and Interactivity are a big focus on what you’re doing (see below)
   * Make sure you cover enough of the material below to get your desired score.
2. Guiding Questions

1. In relationship to the Anole lizards of the carribean, who’s more closely related. A crown giant lizard on Cuba and a crown giant lizard on Puerto Rico, or a crown giant on Cuba, and a Trunk crown lizard on Cuba? Explain.
2. Explain the story of Ecomorph evolution in the Caribbean. Choose what you think are the most important concepts related to these lizards.

1. Adaptation
2. adaptive radiation
3. Convergent evolution
4. Directional selection
5. Evolution of biological diversity
6. Interspecific (between species) competition
7. Microevolution
8. natural selection
9. niche
10. niche partitioning
11. Parallel evolution
12. Pace of evolution (and how this was experimentally investigated)
13. Phylogenetic trees
14. Reproductive isolation
15. Sexual selection
16. sympatric speciation

3. DRAFT SCORING GUIDE:

1. ____/10 Accuracy (10 (no errors) …. 5 (one error) ...2 (two errors)
2. ____/10 Comprehensiveness (10 (Answers question “i” above and explains 5 or more of the concepts in “ii”)
3. ____10: Interactivity (10 (highly interactive through use of flashcards, quizzes (multiple choice, hangman, interactive graphics, a great story or other use of an imaginative approach, images)...1 (boring, not interactive)

2. Class: Eukaryotic Gene Regulation
3. Homework:

1. Study for tomorrow’s test on Evolution: Population Genetics/Speciation/Phylogenetics/Mass Extinction.
2. Prepare your notebook for handing in on Thursday.

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Wednesday, 3/6/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Evolution Test
3. Homework:

1. Notebooks due tomorrow.
2. Read about Eukaryotic Gene Regulation: Make flashcards or Cornell Notes

Thursday, 3/7/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. O Period lab

1. Finish Lizard Phylogeny write up

2. Periods 3/5:

1. Hand in your notebook
2. Introduction to Development

3. Homework: Finish Reading about eukaryotic genomes.

Friday, 3/8/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5:

1. Test Corrections for Evolution Test
2. Eukaryotic Genome Regulation on sciencemusicvideos. Here’s a link to student learning guide (that you received in class).

3. Homework: Read about development (and related topics: stem cells and cancer). Make flashcards or cornell notes.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 24

AP EXAM REGISTRATION STARTS ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26: You do this at  www.TotalRegistration.net/AP/050290 . The portal will close March 21 at 11 p.m. The fee per exam is $115 payable by credit or debit card or by check. Students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch pay $20 per exam. Participation in the lunch programs can be verified by bringing a copy of the acceptance letter or email sent from the district  to Benette Williams in C106, or if the student has received a test fee waiver from the CCC, the CCC can send the student to me with a note. Those registrations will be held until verification is complete. All students will be asked to attend a preadministration meeting to fill out information on the first answer sheet to be used this year. The dates are not yet absolute, but will likely be April 23 and 24 after school. Students must attend one of the sessions. After March 15 there will be a $10 late fee per exam.

Monday, 2/25/19

1. Periods 3 and 5: Sympatric Speciation and Adaptive radiation
2. Homework: last night to finish the Species and Speciation tutorials on sciencemusicvideos.

Tuesday, 2/26/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Finish Speciation and Selection POGIL, pages 139 to 143 in our POGIL booklet
2. Fast Plants analysis with Chi 2

2. Periods 3/5: Speciation: Final Topics; start Earth History, Mass Extinction.
3. Homework: FOUR EVOLUTION FRQs (to be handed out in class). Do these tonight (but they won’t be scored until Thursday or Friday, depending on your lab section).

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Wednesday, 2/27/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Finish HHMI  lizard phylogeny
3. Homework: Start reading Chaper 20, Phylogenetics. Make flashcards, or cornell notes, depending on your preference. For some of you (period 3 section), the speciation FRQs are due tomorrow.

Thursday, 2/28/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Phylogenetics POGIL;
2. Scoring 4 evolution FRQs (from Tuesday)

2. Periods 3/5: Lecture: Phylogeny
3. Homework: Finish the chapter 20 reading

Friday, 3/1/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Watch Great Transformations (Nova Documentary) and complete these questions
3. Homework:

1. Start studying for a test on Wednesday  on Population Genetics, Speciation, and Phylogenetics. Use this review sheet.
2. Here’s a link to the table of contents for the next notebook.

FOUR EVOLUTION FRQs

Answer the following on lined paper. Write neatly.

FRQ 1:

 Do the following with reference to the Hardy-Weinberg model.

1. Indicate the conditions under which allelic frequencies (p and q) remain constant from one generation to the next.
2. Calculate, showing all work, the frequencies of the alleles and the frequencies of the genotypes in a population of 100,000 rabbits, of which 25,000 are white and 75,000 are agouti (fur in which each hair has alternate dark and light bands, producing a grizzled appearance.).  In rabbits the white color is due to a recessive allele, w, and agouti is due to a dominant allele, W.

If the homozygous dominant condition were to become lethal, what would happen to the allelic and genotypic frequencies in the rabbit population after two generations?

FRQ 2:

In a laboratory population of diploid, sexually reproducing organisms a certain trait is determined by a single autosomal gene and is expressed as two phenotypes.  A new population was created by crossing 51 pure-breeding (homozygous) dominant individuals with 49 pure breeding (homozygous) recessive individuals.  After four more generations, the following results were obtained.

a) Identify an organism that might have been used to perform this experiment, and explain why this organism is a good choice for conducting this experiment.

b) On the basis of the data, propose a hypothesis that explains the change in the phenotype frequency between generation 1 and generation 3.

c) Is there evidence indicating whether or not this population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

Explain?

FRQ 3: To determine the likelihood that a patient with a bacterial infection who is in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital could be successfully treated with antibiotic therapies, researchers investigated the frequency of antibiotic resistance in bacteria isolated from patients in ICUs in the United States from 1994 to 2000. The data from the study are shown in the table, along with the overall change in the frequency of bacterial resistance in patient samples from 1994 to 2000.

INCIDENCE OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN PATIENTS ADMITTED TO ICUs FROM 1994 TO 2000

(a)  A patient was admitted to the ICU in December 2000 with an uncharacterized bacterial infection. Based on the data from the study, identify the following.

• The antibiotic that was most likely to be effective for treating the infection  
• The antibiotic that was least likely to be effective for treating the infection  

(b)  Using the data, provide justification for the claim that antibiotic resistance may arise in bacterial species.  

(c)  Describe THREE different processes by which antibiotic resistance develops in individual bacterial cells.  

(d)  Describe TWO features of natural selection that lead to the spread of antibiotic resistance in a population over many generations. Give ONE reason that the development of antibiotic resistance is an example of evolution.  

(e)  Giving low doses of antibiotics to beef cattle to control the population sizes of intestinal bacteria can result in more efficient uptake of food materials by the cattle. Pose an ethical question that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should consider when deciding whether to approve this type of antibiotic use in beef cattle.  

FRQ 4: Adult male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) exhibit genetically determined spots, while juvenile and adult female guppies lack spots. In a study of selection, male and female guppies from genetically diverse populations were collected from different mountain streams and placed together in an isolated environment containing no predators.  The study population was maintained for several generations in the isolated area before being separated into two groups.

One group was moved to an artificial pond containing a fish predator, while a second group was moved to an artificial pond containing no predators. The two groups went through several generations in their new environments. At different times during the experiment, the mean number of spots per adult male guppy was determined as shown in the figure below. Vertical bars in the figure represent two standard errors of the mean (SEM).  

(a)  Describe the change in genetic variation in the population between 0 and 6 months and provide reasoning for your description based on the means and SEM.  

(b)  Propose ONE type of mating behavior that could have resulted in the observed change in the number of spots per adult male guppy between 6 and 20 months in the absence of the predator.  

(c)  Propose an evolutionary mechanism that explains the change in average number of spots between 6 and 20 months in the presence of the predator.  

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 23

AP EXAM REGISTRATION STARTS FEBRUARY 26: You do this at  www.TotalRegistration.net/AP/050290 . The portal will close March 21 at 11 p.m. The fee per exam is $115 payable by credit or debit card or by check. Students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch pay $20 per exam. Participation in the lunch programs can be verified by bringing a copy of the acceptance letter or email sent from the district  to Benette Williams in C106, or if the student has received a test fee waiver from the CCC, the CCC can send the student to me with a note. Those registrations will be held until verification is complete. All students will be asked to attend a preadministration meeting to fill out information on the first answer sheet to be used this year. The dates are not yet absolute, but will likely be April 23 and 24 after school. Students must attend one of the sessions. After March 15 there will be a $10 late fee per exam.

Monday, 2/18/19

1. No school: Presidents Day

Tuesday, 2/19/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Hardy Weinberg POGIL; Set up fast plants
2. Periods 3/5:

1. A lot of your are taking the test that everybody else took on Thursday
2. The rest of you are starting the next sciencemusicvideos tutorial on Species and Speciation. Here’s a link to the student learning guide (but I’ll give you a hard copy in class).

3. Homework: there’s a bunch of things you should be working on.

1. You should have finished the sciencemusicvideos Population Genetics Tutorials over the weekend
2. Read and make flashcards or Cornell notes about Chapter 21 (link goes to study questions).
3. Keep working through species and speciation (link is above).

Wednesday, 2/20/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Test Corrections for the Meosis Genetics Test. For some of you, time to work on Species and Speciation.
3. Homework: see last night. Keep working on everything listed above.

Thursday, 2/21/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Start Lizard Phylogeny and evolution lab at HHMI.

2. Periods 3/5: Population genetics review and consolidation.
3. Homework: Chapter 24/Speciation Reading: Make flashcards or take cornell notes.

Friday, 2/22/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Lecture: Introduction to Speciation.
3. Homework: Finish everything above:

1. Chapter 24 notes/flashcards
2. Chapter 21 notes/flashcards
3. Sciencemusicvideos modules 20 and 21.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 22

Genetics Test on Thursday, 2/14/18; Notebooks on Thursday, 2/14/18.

LUNCH TUTORING ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY IN G212

Monday, 2/11/19

1. Periods 3/5: Genetics: Final Topics
2. Homework: Study for Thursday’s test on Meiosis and Genetics. Here’s a link to the review sheet.

Tuesday, 2/12/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Genetics Practice FRQs.
2. Periods 3/5: Start Population genetics, maybe with  Population genetics on sciencemusicvideos.com. Here’s a link to the student learning guide (but I’ll give you one in class). The word bank to the crossword puzzle is only on the on-line version.
3. Homework: Study for a test on meiosis/genetics.

Wednesday, 2/13/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Population Genetics Lecture/Discussion.
3. Homework:

1. Study for tomorrow’s genetics test
2. Organize your notebook for handing in TOMORROW. Here’s a the table of contents. 

Thursday, 2/14/19 (lab is optional: last minute genetics tutoring)

1. 0 Period lab: optional
2. Periods 3/5: Genetics Test
3. Homework: finish Population genetics on sciencemusicvideos.com

Friday, 2/15/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. No School: Lincoln’s Birthday
2. This will be homework early next week: feel free to start if you want to get ahead: Read Chapter 21, and answer these study questions: Make Cornell notes or Flashcards on your webpage, depending on your presence.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 21

Monday, 2/4/19

1. Periods 3/5: More Genetics
2. Homework:

1. Finish Genetics Problems set 2 (Blood type)
2. Make sure last week’s FRQs (from lab) are finished.
3. Start reading chapter 11 (Mendelian Genetics) and Chapter 12 (Genes and Chromosomes), making flashcards on your qwizcards webpage, or making Cornell Notes

Tuesday, 2/5/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab:

1. Statistics of Inheritance Pogils
2. Scoring FRQs from last week.

2. Periods 3/5: More Genetics (Sex Linked Genes)
3. Homework:

1. Complete all Sex Linkage problems
2. Continue reading/taking notes on chapters 11 and 12

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Wednesday, 2/6/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: More Genetics (dihibrid crosses)
3. Homework:

1. Finish taking notes, making flashcards for Chapters 11/12
2. Complete assigned genetics problems (set 4)
3. Work on practice problems 2-10, 12-14 from the end of chapter 11 (also on the handout you received in lab yesterday or this morning)

Thursday, 2/7/19 (period 3 meets 0 period): BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT (tell your parents)

1. 0 Period lab: Chi square POGIL.
2. Periods 3/5: Linked Genes
3. Homework: Start Genetics on sciencemusicvideos.com.

Friday, 2/8/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Thursday)
2. Periods 3/5: Genetics: Linked genes conclusion/ pedigree analysis
3. Homework:

1. Finish Genetics on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Solve problems 1 - 10 at the end of chapter 12 of your book (also in the handout you received earlier this week). The answers are in the appendix (and the handout). Have these problems done by MONDAY, start of class. Your solutions must show your work.
3. TEST NEXT WEEK ON MEIOSIS/GENETICS

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 20

Monday, 1/28/19

1. NO SCHOOL: SEMESTER BREAK

Tuesday, 1/29/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Stickleback lab conclusion. This goes on your webpage, and it’s due on Friday,___/___. Pretend that you’re a host or producer for Radiolab, a fabulous science podcast that you should be listening to (if you’re not already). Your assignment is to do a report that’s going to called the Science of Sticklebacks. In your report, answer the following questions.

1. What are sticklebacks? What are the two forms of sticklebacks? How is each form adapted to its environment?
2. One study replicated in the lab focused on comparing three lakes: Bear Paw Lake, Frog Lake, and Morovo Lake. For sticklebacks, how is the environment in each of the lakes different?

1. If no selection was at work, what would you expect about the populations in each lake.
2. How were you able to use random sampling and the Χ2 (pronounced “Kai Squared”) test to confirm that selection was at work in each lake? Include a description of your null hypothesis, and how you either rejected ro failed to reject it.

3. Studies of fossil sticklebacks provides information about the pace of evolutionary change. Describe these studies, and explain how through fossil analysis you determined the rate of change in pelvic spine evolution in sticklebacks.

2. Periods 3/5: Genetic Engineering Test Corrections
3. Time to work on Meiosis Tutorial on sciencemusicvideos.com
4. Homework: Work on the meiosis Tutorial on Sciencemusicvideos. Finish this by Thursday, 1/31

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Wednesday, 1/30/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: Meiosis
3. Homework

1. Finish the Meiosis Tutorial on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Finish your stickelback evolution lab write up (see lab, Tuesday).

Thursday, 1/31/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab

1. Amino acid sequences and evolution activity
2. 3 practice FRQs

2. Periods 3/5: Finish Meiosis/chromosomal variation.
3. Homework: Make flashcards or cornell notes for Chapter 10  (also a little bit of chapter 12: this material covers meiosis and chromosomal variation))

Friday, 2/1/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5: start genetics
3. Homework:

1. Finish all reading for chapter 10 (see yesterday)
2. Finish the 3 practice FRQs from lab
3. NOTE: I’m going to put in scores for the Meiosis tutorial on sciencemusicvideos.com over the weekend (probably Sunday, after 6pm). Once I put it in, maximum score I’ll enter in illuminate  is 80%. If you check your scores, on sciencemusicvideos.com, you should be able to get to 229 (but I’ll count 220 as 100%).

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 19  (Semester 1 Finals)

NO LAB ON TUESDAY MORNING

Monday, 1/21/19

1. No School: MLK Day

Tuesday, 1/22/19 (NO LAB!!!)

1. Period 3 and 5: Peer editing of Genetic Engineering Lab Write Up conclusion.
2. Finish Exploring Life’s Origins at the http://exploringorigins.org website.
3. Homework:

1. Just prepare your notebook for handing in. It’s due the day of the final, but it’ll be appreciated if you can get it to me before that.
2. Note that On-line scores on sciencemusicvideos are going to be separately entered into Illuminate. Make sure those quizzes are done!

Wednesday, 1/23/19

1. No Meeting
2. No Meeting

Thursday, 1/24/19 (Period 3 meets from 8:30 to 10:30)

1. Hand in Notebook 5
2. Quiz on Bacterial genetics/Operons and Genetic Engineering.
3. A semester review activity (no studying required)
4. Lecture: Introduction to Meiosis.
5. Homework (due the 2nd day of 2nd semester, which is Weds, 1/30/18.

1. Reading and study questions for meiosis. Make flashcards or take notes.
2. Meiosis on sciencemusicvideos.com.

Friday, 1/25/19 (Period 5 meets from 8:30 to 10:30)

1. See yesterday for activities and homework.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 18

NO SEMESTER FINAL: there is one more test this semester...

Monday, 1/14/19

1. Another Biotechnology Lab: Ligation (use DNA ligase to create a recombinant plasmid from your restriction digests).
2. Various Biotechnology topics
3. Homework

1. Homework: finish all the assigned readings in the Amgen biotechnology lab manual
2. Note: You should be done with the reading in Cambpell about Biotechnology, and Module 17 on sciencemusicvideos.

Tuesday, 1/15/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab:

1. Biotechnology Lecture

2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Electrophoresis of Ligation products from yesterday
2. More lecturing about biotechnology

3. Start reading about the origin and early evolution of Life. Make flashcards or take cornell notes.

Wednesday, 1/16/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

3. 0 Period lab: see yesterday
4. Periods 3 and 5: Analysis of yesterday’s electrophoresis lab
5. Homework: Finish origin of life reading (see yesterday)

Thursday, 1/17/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: Origin of Life online exploration at http://exploringorigins.org, using this handout.
2. Period 3 and 5: Bacterial Transformation Lab (putting our engineered plasmid inside bacterial cells)
3. Homework: Start reviewing for our last unit test (bacterial genetics (operons), biotechnology, origin of life)

Friday, 1/18/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: see yesterday
2. Period 3 and 5:  Analysis of our Bacterial Transformation experiment.
3. Homework:

1. Study for unit test (see yesterday)
2. More homework: FINISH ALL PARTS OF THE lab conclusion handout.  

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 17

Monday, 1/7/19

1. Lecture: Understanding Cloning
2. Homework: Bacterial Genetics and Operons Tutorial on sciencemusicvideos

Tuesday, 1/8/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab:

1. Finish the stickleback evolution lab. Note that what you don’t finish has to be finished for homework.
2. Start Module 17, Genetic Engineering, on sciencemusicvideos

2. Period 3 and 5: Introduction to Genetic Engineering
3. Homework:

1. Start reading about Genetic Engineering (Concept 13.4 in Campbell). Make flashcards or Cornell notes.
2. Period 3: If you didn’t finish the stickleback evolution virtual lab, it’s now homework. It has to be done by lab on Thursday.

Wednesday, 1/9/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: see Tuesday
2. Periods 3 and 5: Genetic Engineering Labs, Continued
3. Homework: Finish Genetic Engineering Reading (see Tuesday)

Thursday, 1/10/19 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period:

1. Operons POGIL
2. Biotechnology on sciencemusicvideos.com. Complete the sections on PCR and DNA fingerprinting.

2. Periods 3 and 5: Genetic Engineering Labs, Continued
3. Homework: Readings 1, 2, and 3 in the Amgen Biotechnology Lab Manual (questions are below)

Friday, 1/11/19 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period: see yesterday
2. Periods 3 and 5: Genetic Engineering Labs, Continued
3. Homework: Finish all of  Module 17, Genetic Engineering, on sciencemusicvideos

AMGEN Biotechnology Manual Readings

AMGEN reading instructions: Over the next few days, complete these readings in the Amgen Biotechnology Booklet. As you do,record your answers in Cornell notes format (and note that these notes will go in your next notebook).

1. Reading 1: Pages 7 - 16:

1. How can you treat a disease with gene cloning
2. What is type 2 diabetes, why is teen diabetes on the rise?
3. What’s the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
4. How can insulin be made in recombinant bacteria?
5. What is RFP, and how are we using it in our lab

2. Reading 2

1. Page  24 - 25 (just read for background)
2. Pages 26 - 27: what is gel electrophoresis; how does it work?
3. Page 32 (read for background)

3. Reading 3: Pages 37 - 43

1. Describe the structure of plasmids, and why/how they’re useful for genetic engineering. In your description, copy figure 2.2 and explain the three labeled parts.
2. Describe restriction enzymes and explain how they work.
3. Summarize the problem of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
4. Page 43 should be mostly review...but add anything new that shows up.

4. Reading 4:  Page 46 - 47:

1. answer the four questions on the bottom of page 47

5. Reading 5: Page 58 - 60

1. Summarize this section about ligase and ligation

6. Reading 6: page 60

1. Copy the diagram of the pARA-R plasmid. Make a key describing what each labeled part of the diagram does.

7. Reading 7: page 73

1. What are the three plasmid configurations, and how do these configurations affect the outcomes of electrophoresis

8. Reading 8: pages 86 - 89

1. What is bacterial transformation?
2. What are competent cells?

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 16

A note about textbook readings: My goal is to have you read our textbook and master important content. That’s what the study questions are for. Flashcards are a great way to do this (especially if you practice with them), but some people might find the technical part difficult. So here’s a choice I want to make available to everyone.

1. Instead of doing flashcards, do Cornell notes. I showed you this at the beginning of the year, but here’s a link to a  guide for taking Cornell Notes. In short, summarize the question, and put it in the left column. Then put your answers on the right side. When you study, don’t re-read the chapter, or your notes. Instead, do retrieval practice. While covering up the right side of the page, ask yourself the questions on the left side, and recite the answers. At the end of each section, chapter, and unit, ask yourself what you know, how it connects to what else you know, and how you can apply it to the biology that you experience every day (in your body, your garden, the news, etc.)
2. If you like making flashcards, by all means continue to do them. On the next notebook, you’ll just indicate that instead of doing Cornell notes you did flashcards, and I’ll go to your webpage to check.

To do this, you have to meet these conditions.

1. They have to be error free, with no debugging required by me. That means no error messages popping up when your page opens.
2. Continue to put the most recent flashcard deck on top.
3. You can continue to work with a partner (and it doesn’t have to be your current table partner). If you do, then

1. Make sure you can meet all the conditions above
2. Copy the decks to each person’s page.

4. Use a header in wordpress to clearly label these as NAME1 and NAME2’s FLASHCARDS for CHAPTER X
5. Use the [h] in qwizcards to put the same label on your decks.

TEST ON WEDNESDAY, 12/19/18; Notebook 4 also due on Wednesday.

Monday, 12/17/18

1. Last topics related to viruses.
2. Homework:

1. Study for Wednesday’s test on DNA, RNA, Protein Synthesis, Mutation, and Viruses. Use this review sheet.
2. Your notebook 4 is due on the day of the test. Here’s the table of contents.

Tuesday, 12/18/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period Lab: HHMI Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab (you received the handout last week). Click the SAVE/RESUME tab on the virtual lab so you can continue on a new computer at the same spot (it’ll take a few days). We might also watch this short film explaining the key concepts.
2. Period 3 and 5: Regulation of bacterial genes/Operons. This material is not on tomorrow’s test.
3. Homework:

1. study for Wednesday’s test on DNA, RNA, Protein Synthesis, Mutation, and Viruses. Use this review sheet.
2. Prepare notebook 4 for handing in TOMORROW at the start of class (before the test)

Wednesday, 12/19/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: see Tuesday
2. Periods 3 and 5: TEST on  DNA, RNA, Protein Synthesis, Mutation, and Viruses.
3. Homework: Write short summaries of the last two readings in your virus packet (endogenous retroviruses, and why you need the flu shot every year). These will go in the FRQ section of your NEXT notebook.  

Thursday, 12/20/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: Stickleback evolution, continued. Remember to save your work, since we might pick this up in 2019.
2. Periods 3 and 5: More about operons and bacterial genetics.
3. Homework: read about operons in Campbell

Friday, 12/21/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: See Thursday
2. Period 3 or 5: Stickeback evolution or bacterial genetics
3. If you want to get it out the way, you can do this tutorial about operons over break. Otherwise, you can do it for homework on Monday, 1/7/19

12/24/18 - 1/4/19: Winter Break (no school)

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 15

Monday, 12/10/18

1. Periods 3 and 5: Transcription/Translation, continued.
2. Homework: Finish reading and making flashcards on Chapter 14.

Tuesday, 12/12/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period Lab: Pogils on Gene Expression (transcription) and Translation
2. Periods 3 and 5: Finish Transcription/Translation
3. Homework: Module 14 (Gene to Protein) on sciencemusicvideos.com

Wednesday, 12/12/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: see Tuesday
2. Period 3 and 5: Mutation and Other DNA/RNA/Protein Related Topics
3. Homework:  Practice FRQ. (Note: get this in class, and do this on the FRQ handout. This is a short FRQ)

In an experiment investigating the mechanism of protein secretion, researchers tracked the movement of radioactively labeled polypeptides in pancreatic cells. At various times after the labeling, samples of the cells were observed using an electron microscope to determine the location of the radioactively labeled polypeptides. Figure 1 summarizes the results at 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and 30 minutes. The dark dots in the figure represent the radioactively labeled polypeptides.

(a) Using the experimental results, describe the pathway that secretory proteins take from their synthesis to their release from the cell.

(b) Predict what the results would be if mRNA were radioactively labeled instead of polypeptides. Give reasoning to support your prediction.

Thursday, 12/13/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period Lab:

1. Genetic Mutations POGIL
2. In class reading/scoring of Meselson/Stahl and Okazakis interview (which is on your webpage)
3. Start Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab: https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/stickleback-evolution-virtual-lab

2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Finish Mutation, other issues related to replication, transcritption, translation
2. Viruses

3. Homework: Read about viruses, and make flashcards or cornell notes from these study questions.

Friday, 12/14/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: See Yesterday
2. Period 3 and 5

1. Finish Viruses

3. Homework:

1. viruses on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Start studying for a test next week on DNA, RNA, Protein, Mutation, and Viruses. Here’s the review sheet.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 14

Monday, 12/3/18

1. Test: Cell Communication and Cell Divsion
2. Homework: Start reading about DNA in Campbell. Note that this includes jumping back to chapter 3, and going forward to chapter 13. Here are the study questions.

Tuesday, 12/4/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab:

1. DNA structure reinforcement
2. Video: the Double Helix.

2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Lecture: DNA Replication
2. Activity: Meselson-Stahl experiment

3. Homework: Keep working on chapter 3 and 13 (see monday)

Wednesday, 12/5/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: see tuesday
2. Periods 3/5: DNA replication: the details
3. Homework: Finish chapter 3/13 study questions (see Monday)

Thursday, 12/6/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: : DNA Replication On-Line Exploration.
2. Period 3/5:

1. Cell Communication/Cell Division Test corrections
2. sciencemusicvideos.com, Module 13, DNA structure, function, and replication

3. Homework: Online FRQ (goes on your webpage). Imagine that you’re a science reporter at the world Biology Forum in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1970.  You get to conduct two sets of interviews. The first is with Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl, who explain to you how they figured out that DNA replication was semi-conservative. The second is with Reiji and Tsuneko Okazaki, who tells you about DNA replication. Write up your interviews, and put them on your qwizcards.berkeleyschools.net web page. Make sure that each interview fully explains how the discovery was made (in the case of Meselson and Stahl) and how the entire process of DNA replication works (in the case of Okazaki)

Friday, 12/7/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lecture: How DNA Controls the cell: Transcription and translation
2. Homework:

1. Finish sciencemusicvideos.com, Module 13, DNA structure, function, and replication
2. Make sure you’ve finished last night’s assignment on
3. Start reading and making flashcards or taking notes on Chapter 14.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 13

News: Test on cell division/cell communication on Monday, 12/3. See Tuesday for link to review sheet

Monday, 11/26/18

1. Hand in Notebook 3
2. Periods 3 and 5: Cell communication: continued
3. Homework: I’m assuming that you’ve

1. Finished the tutorials on sciencemusicvideos.com about the cell cycle and cell signaling.
2. Made flashcards relating to the reading and questions about a) cell communication  and b) control of the cell cycle (questions 12 -18 only)

Tuesday, 11/27/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: Cell Cycle Regulation POGIL; HHMI, Eukaryotic Cell Division and Cancer
2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Go over AP exam formative assessment 1.
2. Finish cell communication

3. Homework:

1. Cell Signalling FRQ (I’ll give you a hard copy in class), and Starch Synthase
2. Start studying for Monday’s test on cell division and cell communication

Wednesday, 11/28/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: see tuesday
2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Cell Cycle Regulation.
2. Review for cell division/cell communication test (on Monday)

3. Homework: Finish HHMI, Eukaryotic Cell Division and Cancer (you started this in lab).

Thursday, 11/29/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Introduction to Chi Square/Chi Square
2. Periods 3 and 5: Introduction to DNA
3. Homework: study for Monday’s test

Friday, 11/30/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: see yesterday
2. Homework: study for Monday’s test on cell division and cell communication.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 12

Big news: notebooks due on Friday: Click here

Monday, 11/12/18

1. NO SCHOOL: VETERANS’ DAY

Tuesday, 11/13/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: Cell division/Mitosis.
2. Periods 3 and 5: Lecture: Cell Division.
3. Homework: Practice FRQs. NOTE: YOU HAVE TO HAVE THIS ASSIGNMENT DONE BY FRIDAY, periods 3 or 4, because that’s when we’re going to score it in class:  Use the handout you received in class to complete this.
   Yeast cells are placed in an apparatus with a solution of sugar (a major nutrient for yeast metabolism). The apparatus detects bubbles of gas released by the yeast cells. The rate of respiration varies with the surrounding temperatures as indicated by the data below

1. Graph the results. Determine the optimum temperature for respiration in the yeast.
2. Respiration is a series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Using your knowledge of enzymes and the data above, analyze and explain the results of this experiment.
3. Design an experiment to test the effect of varying the pH of the sugar solution on the rate of respiration. Include a prediction of the expected results.

4. Homework: Note that answering the study questions for concept 5.6 is not required. However, reading those pages is HIGHLY recommended. Also, if you didn’t finish it over the weekend, finish Module 12 on sciencemusicvideos, the cell cycle. 

Wednesday, 11/14/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period Lab: see yesterday
2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Go over the enzyme lab (from last Wednesday).
2. Cell Respiration Test, test corrections
3. If you don’t have much to do in terms of test corrections, grab a computer and start Module 11: Cell Communication on sciencemusicvideos.com.

3. Homework

1. Start reading and making flashcards for Concept 5.6, Cell Communication and Concept 9.3, Control of The Cell Cycle (questions 13 - 18). Note two important things. First, this assignment is not due until after Thanksgiving break. Second, my lecture, the Mitosis Song, and the Cell Division Tutorial on sciencemusicvideos.com give you sufficient background about cell division and mitosis, and you don’t have to make flashcards on questions 1 - 11).
2. More homework: finish the enzyme lab write up (it’s due friday with your notebook).

Thursday, 11/15/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period Lab: POGILS: Cellular communication, page 77; Signal Transduction Pathways, page 82.
2. Period 3 and 5:

1. Go over respiration FRQ
2. Lecture. Cell Division, Conclusion; Start Cell Communication

3. Homework:

1. Prepare your notebook for handing in (it’s due tomorrow)
2. Keep on reading and making flashcards for Cell Communication and Control of the cell cycle (see last night)

Friday, 11/16/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: See Thursday
2. Periods 3 and 5: Lecture: Cell Communication

3. Homework (get the following done by the end of Thanksgiving break). The list is in order of what your priorities should be.

1. Your thematic reflection about Cell Respiration should already be online on your web page. I might grade it at any time. 20% off if it’s not up there when I go to grade it.
2. Finish the tutorials on sciencemusicvideos.com about the cell cycle and cell signaling.
3. Make flashcards relating to the reading and questions about a) cell communication  and b) control of the cell cycle (questions 12 -18 only: see Wednesday for why)
4. Have your notebook ready to hand in on Monday, 11/26

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Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 11

Monday, 11/5/18

1. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Lecture: Anaerobic Respiration/Fermentation
2. A few thoughts from our student experience survey (providing help, creating a supportive environment, amount of work connected to flashcards)

2. Homework: Use this review sheet to start studying for a test on cellular respiration on Friday.

Tuesday, 11/6/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: prepare p3 section for enzyme lab
2. Period 3: Perform Enzyme Lab
3. Period 5: last issues in cellular respiration.
4. Homework: review all of your flashcards for chapter 6 and 7:

Wednesday, 11/7/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Prepare p5 section for enzyme lab.
2. Period 3: Last issues in cellular respiration.
3. Period 5: perform enzyme lab.

Thursday, 11/8/18 (NO LAB: Mr. W is at NABT conference)

1. Period 3 and 5:

1. Oxidative Phosphorylation POGIL (on page 62 of your POGIL booklet)
2. Use the review sheet to study for the test

2. Homework: Study for test (see Monday for review sheet).

Friday, 11/9/18 (NO LAB: Mr. W is at NABT conference)

1. Cellular respiration test.
2. Homework:

1. Write a thematic reflection on cellular respiration. If you want some high quality examples of the level of detail I’m expecting, look at this one and this one  from two of my students last year. Use this as a guide for your thematic reflection, and put your thematic reflection at the top of your web page.
2. Early next week I’ll be collecting notebook 3.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 10

Monday, 10/29/18

1. Lecture: Cellular Respiration
2. Homework:

1. Just a reminder: you should have finished all of the on-line tutorials about cellular respiration on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Start reading chapter 7: Cellular Respiration, and making on-line flashcards from the study questions. You’ll have three nights to do these questions, so pace yourself. Do about 10 questions tonight.

Tuesday, 10/30/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period: Set up cellular respiration lab: Assemble respirometers
2. Periods 3 and 5: cellular respiration lab, second try: post your data here
3. Homework: Continue reading chapter 7: Cellular Respiration, and making on-line flashcards from the study questions. Do ten more questions.

Wednesday, 10/31/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period Lab:

1. Cellular Respiration POGILS
2. Cell respiration lab

2. Periods 3 and 5: Lecturing about cellular respiration
3. Homework: Finish reading chapter 7: Cellular Respiration, and making on-line flashcards from the study questions.

Thursday, 11/1/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: see weds.
2. Periods 3 and 5: Lecturing about cellular respiration.
3. Homework: answering all the questions on the lab handout

Friday, 11/2/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. NO SCHOOL: STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY
2. HOMEWORK: Start studying for next week’s test on energy, enzymes and cellular respiration. Here’s the review sheet.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 9

Monday, 10/22/18

1. Enzyme Lecture and Demonstration, Continued
2. Finish Enzymes Reading and Flashcards

Tuesday, 10/23/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: Enzymes and ATP POGILS
2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Cells/Membranes Test Corrections
2. Start Enzymes Tutorial on sciencemusicvideos.com, using this student learning guide (you’ll get it in class)

3. Finish the Enzymes Tutorial (see above)

Wednesday, 10/24/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: see Tuesday
2. Periods 3 and 5: Introduction to ATP and Cellular Metabolism
3. Homework:

1. Finish Enzymes tutorials on sciencemusicvideos.
2. Spend ½ hour doing retrieval practice using your flashcards, going back all the way to the start of the year.

Thursday, 10/25/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: Cellular Respiration Overview and Glycolysis/Krebs Cycle POGILs
2. Periods 3 and 5: Cellular Respiration, Continued
3. Homework: Start the sciencemusicvideos.com tutorials about cellular respiration.

Friday, 10/26/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: see Tuesday
2. Periods 3 and 5: More Cellular Respiration
3. Homework:

1. Continue working on the sciencemusicvideos.com tutorials about cellular respiration. Finish by the end of the weekend.
2. Next week you’ll make flashcards about Chapter 7: Cellular Respiration, and you’ll make flashcards from these study questions. If you have time in your busy life, start on that this weekend.

Mr. W’s 2018-19 AP Biology Agenda: Week 8

Note: Test on cells and membranes on Thursday; Notebook 2 is due on Friday.

Monday, 10/15/18

1. Get data from diffusion/osmosis labs, and post it on this shared spreadsheet.
2. Start studying for a test later this week on Cells and Membranes, using this review sheet (I’ll have this printed out by tomrrow).
3. Note: I’m going to feel free at any time to check your chapter 4 flashcards and your online work on cells and membranes on sciencemusicvideos.

Tuesday, 10/16/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: finish analysis of last week’s diffusion and osmosis labs.
2. Period 3 or 5:

1. Go over Biochemistry test
2. Study for cells/membranes test 

3. Homework: Study for cells membranes test (see above for review sheet)

Wednesday, 10/17/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab: see Tuesday
2. Periods 3 and 5

1. AP Bio Data Analysis Formative Assessment (part of a series of exercises I’ll be giving you to hone your data analysis skills).
2. Study for test/finish lab writeup.

3. Homework: Study for cells/membranes test 

Thursday, 10/18/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab: Free Energy Reading and POGIL,
2. Period 3 and 5: Test on Cells and Membranes
3. Homework:

1. Assemble notebook 2 for handing in.
2. Start reading and making flashcards for chapter six (an introduction to metabolism)

Friday, 10/19/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: see yesterday
2. Period 3 and 5:

1. Hand in notebook 2.
2. Lecture: Energy and Enzymes (new topic)

3. Homework: Keep reading and making flashcards for chapter six (an introduction to metabolism). If you have nothing to do and want to get ahead, you can try reading and making flashcards for the next chapter (chapter 7) but it’s a big chapter, and pretty dense.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 7

Monday, 10/8/18

1. No school: Staff Development Day. By this evening, you should have finished last week’s assignments: Flashcards for Chapter 4 and Modules 7 and 8 on sciencemusicvideos.com.
2. For this first test only, some of you are taking a re-take tomorrow, during lunch.

Tuesday, 10/9/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab. 1) Finish cell size lab. 2) Look at fast plants and discuss plant life cycle.
2. Periods 3 and 5: Cell Parts and Functions
3. Homework: Retrieval practice on ALL flashcards so far this year.

Wednesday, 10/10/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period Lab, see Tuesday
2. Periods 3 and 5: Introduction to Membranes.
3. Homework: Start reading and making flashcards for Chapter 5. Follow this link (Cell Membrane Structure and Function) for the study questions.

Thursday, 10/11/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Membranes POGILs
2. Periods 3 and 5: Membrane Structure and Function, continued
3. Homework: keep on working through chapter 5 (see Wednesday)

Friday, 10/12/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: See Thursday
2. Periods 3 and 5: Start Diffusion/Osmosis Labs
3. Homework:

1. Finish chapter 5 (see Weds.)
2. Spend ½ hour studying your flashcards about cells and cell membranes on your qwizcards web page.

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Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 6

Monday, 10/1/18

1. Protein POGIL
2. Homework:

1. Using the following link as a guide, write a thematic reflection for chapter 3 (biochemistry). It goes on your webpage, as the top item. I’ll explain how in class...
2. Your chapter 3 flashcards should have been finished a few days ago. In a day or two, I might go online and check them, so make sure that they’re ready. YOU HAVE TO FINISH THEM BEFORE THE TEST.  
3. Start studying for Wednesday’s Biochemistry test using this review outline. I’ll give you a hard copy in class.

Tuesday, 10/2/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 Period lab: Viewing Cells, part 1
2. Period 3 or 5:

1. Inauguration of the class potato: a 100 day observation
2. Introduction to Cell Parts and Function

3. LUNCH: Standard Deviation/Standard Error Clinic. If you got less than 11, you should come for some coaching/extra help.
4. Homework: Keep Studying for tomorrow’s test.

Wednesday, 10/3/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: See yesterday
2. Period 3 and 5: Test on Biochemistry
3. Homework: Start reading Chapter 4 (Cells). Use these study questions to make flashcards on your qwizcards web page.

Thursday, 10/4/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab:, viewing cells, part 2
2. Periods 3 and 5: Cell parts and functions
3. Homework: Keep working on making flashcards for chapter 4 (see Wednesday).

Friday, 10/5/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period lab (see yesterday)
2. Periods 3 and 5: The cell size lab
3. Homework: You have a long weekend (no school on Monday), so

1. Finish chapter 4 flashcards (see Wednesday)
2. Complete the cells tutorials (Modules 7 and 8) on sciencemusicvideos.com., using this student learning guide (which I’ll give out in class). If we haven’t already, I promise that we’ll sing the Cell Song next week!
3. If you took any good pictures during the microscope lab, you can do two things

1. Email them to me. Please put Cell Photo in the subject line. I might use them in a lecture, or put them on our website.
2. If you’re into wordpress and web page design, figure out how to make a gallery of your photos, and put them on your webpage. This is an OPTIONAL assignment. Only do it if it makes you happy. If you don’t know how, there’s probably a youtube video explaining it...

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Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 5

Monday, 9/24/18

1. Pollinating our fast plants (if they’re ready)
2. Introduction to carbon chemistry and functional groups
3. Homework:

1. Module 5 on sciencemusicvideos.com: Carbon and Functional Groups
2. Spend ½ hour doing retrieval practice on your flashcards and on two other students’ flashcards, all the way back to the start of the year. Use the comments feature to leave them a thank you note.
3. If you didn’t get to it over the weekend, copy this link, and send it in an email to your parents/guardians. It’s an invitation to Back to School night on September 27. I need your parents’ help to buy about 10 more netbook computers to replace the ones that are missing failing in our computer cart. Thanks!

Tuesday, 9/25/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab

1. Looking at our fast plants through binocular microscopes
2. Biochemistry POGIL

2. Periods 3-5: Lecture: Biochemistry
3. Homework:

1. Start reading Chapter 3, part 2. These concepts (3.2 to 3.5) in the textbook cover a lot of material, and we’ll be working on them throughout the week. Your job is to convert the study questions into flashcards on your web page. You’ll have three nights to finish this, so divide the work into 3rds.
2. Remind your parents about back to school night. If you haven’t already, share this link. Show them your webpage, and encourage them to make a proud comment.

Wednesday, 9/26/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: See yesterday
2. Periods 3/5: More Biochemistry
3. Homework:

1. Keep on reading Chapter 3 (see above).
2. Remind your parents to come to Back to School Night tomorrow night.

Thursday, 9/27/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: Protein structure POGIL. Start Module 6 (Biochemistry) on sciencemusicvideos.com, using this student learning guide.
2. Periods 3/5: More Biochemistry
3. Homework:

1. Finish the reading in chapter 3 (see above)
2. Work on the Biochemistry module on sciencemusicvideos. You’ll have the weekend to finish this, so pace yourself.

Friday, 9/28/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: See yesterday
2. Period 3/5:

1. Finish biochemistry
2. Very short quiz on standard deviation/standard error (and graphing this data).

3. Homework:

1. Finish Module 6 (Biochemistry) on sciencemusicvideos.com
2. Note that early next week (probably Wednesday), we’ll have a biochemistry test. Your flashcards are the perfect way to study. I’ll post a revew sheet in the next agenda.

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Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 4

Monday, 9/17/18

1. On-line editing of Evidence for Evolution Essay (see Friday for prompt)
2. Work on Chemistry for Biology at on sciencemusicvideos.

Tuesday, 9/18/18 (period 3, NO LAB). Anyone (in either section) can come to lab at 7:45 for extra help on web pages (or anything else).

1. Lab:

1. Look at radish seedlings and decide on what we should observe and measure.
2. Gather data and record on this spreadsheet: requirement: determine mean and standard error so that you can create a graph with error bars.
3. Do claim, evidence, reasoning with the resulting data.

2. Homework: Keep on working on Chemistry for Biology

Wednesday, 9/19/18 (period 5, NO LAB)

1. NO LAB (Mr. W will be absent)
2. In class: Finish Chemistry for Biology; start Chemisty and Properties of Water

Thursday, 9/20/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: Properties of water, part 1
2. Periods 3 and 5:

1. Closure on Radish seedling lab
2. Properties of Water Lab, part 1 or 2

3. Homework: Finish up Chemisty and Properties of Water

Friday, 9/21/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: Properties of water, part 2
2. Periods 3 and 5: Finish chemistry of water labs
3. Homework:

1. Copy this link, and send it in an email to your parents/guardians. It’s an invitation to Back to School night on September 27. I need your parents’ help to buy about 10 more netbook computers to replace the ones that are failing in our computer cart. Thanks!
2. Using this coversheet as a guide, organize your notebook for handing in on Monday.
3. Your web page is going to be graded, probably on Sunday. Here’s what I’m going to look at (and here’s the order it should be in, top to bottom): 1) Evidence for Evolution with Scoring Guide; Peter Grant Interview with Scoring Guide; 3) Chapter 19 Flashcards: You can look at my student page mockup as an example.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 3

Monday, 9/10/18

1. Hope you brought your book (sorry)
2. Finish your interactive flashcards or an interactive quiz for Campbell, Chapter 19 , using these study questions as a guide for what you should focus on. Remember that you can do an interactive quiz, or interactive flashcards. Also, remember that hangman style questions aren’t appropriate for study questions, but you can add them as needed to help yoursef with vocabulary building.
3. Finish all questions for the Peter Grant, Galapagos finches Scientific American article. Have these ready for tomorrow (so you can discuss with your partner).

Tuesday, 9/11/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab period: Biology Core Concepts on sciencemusicvideos.com.  The Module 1 Menu links you to 5 different pages. Complete these pages using the student learning guide (which you’ll get in class). Note that for the first item (AP Biology Themes…) you’ve already done the reading so you can skip down to the flashcards. Same with the Natural Selection Flashcards 
2. Period 3/5:

1. Look at Galapagos finches datapoints.
2. Go over answers to Peter Grant Finch Sciam Article
3. Lecture: Sexual selection

3. Homework:

1. Period 3: finish the work on sciencemusicvideos started this morning.
2. Everybody: Write up an imaginary interview with Peter and Rosemary Grant explaining their work on the finches. Here’s what to include

1. Their method of study (what the Grants did, and how their method enabled them to track evolutionary changes on Daphne Major)
2. What change occured
3. How that change occured.
4. How their work has changed how we think about natural selection.

3. This goes on the top of your qwizcards.berkeleyschools.net webpage, and it’s due on Thursday. Check out my sample page to see the order of material on your page: (peter grant, chapter 19 flashcards, themes of life application, chapter 1 flashcards)
4. Just checking: Everyone should be done with their Chapter 19 Flashcards.

Wednesday, 9/12/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: see yesterday
2. Period 3/5:

1. Finish sexual selection
2. Analyzing Data, Means and Standard Error. Antibiotic Case Study Activity

3. Homework

1. Everybody’s finishing their imaginary interview with the Grant’s
2. Period 5: finishing your work on sciencemusicvideos.com from this morning.

Thursday, 9/13/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: looking at radish seedlings and fast plants: comparing means, calculating standard error.

1. Using antibiotic case study, finish learning how to calculate and graph means, standard deviation, and standard error.

2. Period 3/5:

1. Peer evaluation of Peter and Rosemary Grant interview: at least one brave person shares their work.
2. Evidence for Evolution lecture and activity

3. Homework:

1. Make sure you’re up to date on all assigments (Grant interview, ch 19 flashcards, module 1 on sciencemusicvideos.com)
2. Make your page looks great, with headers, etc. Look at my mockup for an example.  Also, if I made any comments on your page, follow the instructions, then delete the comment).

Friday, 9/14/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: see yesterday
2. Finish Evidence for evolution activity
3. Homework:

1. Evidence for Evolution FRQ. In a far away county in a distant state, a local school board has declared that evolution has no basis in scientific fact, and that it may no longer be taught in their district. A group of science teachers has hired you as their lawyer. Your job: to present the evidence for evolution in court. Present your case. Cite at least six distinct categories of evidence. Be sure to fully explain and provide a clear example of each line of evidence. Include at least two diagrams. PUT THIS ON TOP OF YOUR QWIZCARDS WEBPAGE. 
2. Make sure you’re caught up on everything else (see thursday).
3. Sometime next week I’m going to collect certain papers from your notebook. This is a draft of the Notebook cover sheet. If you want to, you can start making sure you’ve got everything done (but you don’t need to print this out, and it’ll probably change before I hand out the final version).

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Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 2

Monday, 9/3/18

1. Labor Day: no school
2. HW: By tonight, you should have completed two assignments

1. On-line flashcards for chapter 1. These are on your class webpage, and based off of our study questions.
2. A write up of the four themes of biology applied to an organism of your choice.

Tuesday, 9/4/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. 0 period: set up fast plants
2. Watch the HHMI Video, Galapagos Finch Evolution
3. Period 3 or 5:

1. Lecture: Darwin and Natural selection, continued.
2. Reading: Natural selection (a reading about leaf insect evolution on sciencemusicvideos.com (available on line, but you have a hard copy)

4. Homework:

1. Type up your Four Themes of Biology,  and put it on your web page. It goes under the header for “Themes of the Study of Life,”  and above your flashcards for chapter 1. Click here if you want to see a mock-up of what this looks like.
2. Finish reading the Natural Selection handout (see above: the one we started in class)
3. Spend 10 minutes doing retrieval practive with the flashcards you wrote for chapter 1, and five minutes doing retrieval practice using someone else’s flashcards. Leave them a comment thanking them.

Wednesday, 9/5/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: see yesterday
2. Periods 3 or 5: Peppered moth computer simulation, part 1
3. Homework: take the night off!

Thursday, 9/6/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Period 3 Lab/period 5 class: Peppered Moth Simulation Activity, Part 2

1. Essential question. What is a scientific model? Why do we use them? How realistic/useful were the peppered moth models we explored in lab? What could we learn from them?
2. Note: Use this as an opportinuty to play with the scientific method.

2. Period 3: Claim/Evidence/Reasoning about peppered moth investigation.
3. Homework Start reading Peter Grant’s Scientific American Article Natural Selection and Darwin’s Finches. The answers to these questions go into the FRQ section of your notebook.

Friday, 9/7/18  (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab (see Thursday)
2. Peer evaluation of 4 big ideas applied to organism of your choice.
3. Periods 3/5

1. A few more techniques for your web page (“show me the answer” and “hangman” questions).
2. Signing up for sciencemusicvideos quizzes and flashcards. Look for the email I sent you with your access codes. You can register from the main page or from any of the assigned quizzes.

4. Homework: Read and make interactive flashcards or an interactive quiz for Campbell, Chapter 19 , using these study questions as a guide for what you should focus on. Note that this is also the lesson plan for class on Monday (when I’ll be absent), so BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS on monday (unless you can successfully log in to our online version of the textbook.

Monday, 9/10/18

1. Bring your book (sorry)
2. Finish your interactive flashcards or an interactive quiz for Campbell, Chapter 19 , using these study questions as a guide for what you should focus on.

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 1

NOTE ABOUT LABS: Each section will meet once this week for 0 period. 0 period starts at 7:23 am. Period 3 will meet with me in G212 during 0 period on Thursday, 8/30. Period 4  will meet with me in G212 during 0 period on Friday, 8/31

Starting next week (and for the rest of the year) , 0 period will work as follows.

• Period 3 will have 0 period on Tuesday and Thursday.
• Period 5 will have 0 period on Wednesday and Friday.

Monday , 8/27/18

1. Fill out personal information on note cards.
2. Course outline and overview.
3. Introductory Activity: Matching Sentences for AP biology “Enduring Understandings.”
4. Over to the texbook room to get books.

Tuesday, 8/28/18 (no zero period meeting)

1. A bit about your teacher
2. Finish AP Bio procedures
3. How to read and learn from Campbell
4. Homework: ..BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK TO CLASS TOMORROW. If you can, please bring your own laptop (because we’re just a bit short of having one computer for everyone).

Wednesday, 8/29/18 (no zero period meeting)

1. Learning from Campbell (and lecture): making interactive flashcards
2. Classwork/Homework: Period 3: Bring your books to lab so you can finish your flashcards. Bringing a laptop will also be helpful.

Thursday, 8/30/18 (period 3 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: Finish chapter 1 flashcards.
2. Class:

1. Introduction to the four themes (apple lab).
2. Darwin, Natural selection

3. Homework:

1. Finish making all of the rest of the interactive flashcards for chapter 1. Click here for a link to these questions on a shared google doc, or you can access them through my website
2. Here’s what success will look like

1. You have a working flashcard deck with between 10-15 flashcards. Use view page to look at your flashcards.
2. There are no error messages
3. Each card has a question on the front and an answer on the back.
   

Friday, 8/31/18 (period 5 meets 0 period)

1. Lab: See Thursday
2. Darwin, Natural Selection: Lecture and Reading (continued)
3. Homework: Type up or neatly write up your application of the 4 themes/big ideas to an organism of your choice. We’re going to do peer evaluation of what you wrote on Tuesday (or later next week, but have it ready on Tuesday).  Make sure you’ve covered

1. Evolution

1. How this species has changed over time from its ancestors (you might need to do a bit of research on this)?
2. How this species is related to other species. What it shares with them and how it’s unique (unity and diversity)?
3. Some adaptations that this species has.

2. Systems

1. How does this organism work as a system? Define/describe its boundaries, inputs, components, processes, and outputs?
2. What are some other systems that this organism interacts with?

3. Information flow. This should include

1. Genetic information (vertical information flow from generation to generation)
2. Other information processing that this organism does

4. Matter and energy flow

1. How does matter flow through this organism?
2. How does this organism use energy, and where does the energy come from?

The AP Biology Framework

AP Biology Course Themes

1. Evolution

1. Life has a history, consisting of events that unfolded in a contingent way. The features of living things can only be understood in relationship to life’s history.
2. Because of evolution, the pattern of life shows both unity and diversity.
3. Living things, unlike non-living things like planets or mountains, have adaptations: structures that perform functions.
4. Adaptations are not only structural: they’re also behavioral. Living systems, as Richard Dawkins would say, are programmed survival machines, carrying out behaviors that promote survival and reproduction.
5. The process of natural selection explains how adaptations arise.

2. Systems

1. Living things are complex systems with boundaries, inputs, components, processes, and outputs.
2. Living things are composed of interacting subsystems, and are embedded within larger systems.

3. Information flow

1. Living things can pass on their genes – instructions for recreating themselves – to their offspring.
2. Living things receive information, analyze it, and respond to it by transmitting information throughout their bodies and to other organisms.

4. Matter and Energy Flow

1. Living systems, during the course of their lives, can stave off entropy by channeling energy flow, enabling them to maintain high levels of order.
2. Matter flows through all living systems.

Thematic Reflection

To write a thematic reflection on a chapter (or anything else you learned), consider the  following questions. They might not all fit the topic, but you can only make that determination by trying to see if the question makes sense in relationship to the topic that you’re reflecting upon.

1. Evolution:

1. What parts of this chapter touched on the idea of evolution?
2. How did what you learn relate to the unity and diversity of life?
3. Where in this reading were there examples of structure/function relationships?
4. Where did you see examples of survival and reproduction strategies?
5. If this reading focused on a specific adaptation, how does that adaptation work? How do you think that it evolved?
6. Life is full of weird, quirky features that can only be explained by the fact that life was not engineered, but that it evolved over time. If there was evidence of features that can only be explained as a result of life’s contingent, quirky, historical nature, describe it.

2. Systems

1. What systems did you encounter? What were these systems’ boundaries, inputs, processes, and outputs?
2. What were the subsystems of the systems you learned about? How did this subsystems interact? What relevant larger systems was this system embedded within?

3. Information flow

1. What in this chapter related to the idea that living things pass on their genes – instructions for recreating themselves – to their offspring?
2. What related to the idea that living things receive information; analyze it, and respond to it?

4. Matter and Energy Flow

1. Where did you see information about how living systems maintain high levels of order by channeling energy flow?
2. Where did you see discussion about how matter flows through all living systems?

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 17 (draft)

Note for Mr. W about biotechnology labs

• Pick up materials at LHS on 1/7, 3pm.
• Lab 5 Fri 1/11
• Return Tue 1/22 at 2pm

Idea Bank

1. Homework:

1. Ask a question that you have. Anything related to biology is fair game.
2. Think about it in terms of the four themes.
3. Write something about your question and the four themes, and put it on your webpage. The only requirement: make it something that other people will find interesting and engaging. It should be long enough to fulfill that requirement.

2. Follow up activity: we read each other’s work and comment upon it, and then have a class discussion.
3. An Investigation into Human Behavioral Biology

1. Define what’s going on in the [behavior, event]. In addition to your own opinions, use at least two sources. Put your definition on your webpage. (note: We’re going to do this in assigned teams. You can go solo if you want to, but you are going to have to tell your team and explain).  if you’re working on a team, choose one person to list the sources: everyone else links to them, and the page with info links back to all contributors).
2. Explain what’s happening in biological terms.

1. Research human behavioral biology. We’ll start together by watching this TED Talk by Robert Sapolsky. After watching, you should skim the transcript.
2. Make up five flashcards. Make a descriptive header [h] (the black band on the top of your cards), and include a meaningful introduction [i]. Please make your questions and answers interesting.
3. Optional/possible.Skim this Wikipedia article on evolutionary psychology, and this one on behavioral neuroscience. But don’t spend more than ½ hour for now. On your own, find two additional written sources. Post links to them on your webpage
4. Add four more flashcards. This time, the questions have to be engaging to someone who probably didn’t read what you read. And they can’t be the kind
5. Write a summary of how human behavioral biology approaches the analysis of human behavior. Or, write down two discoveries related to human behavioral biology.
6. Apply what you’re learned in 1 and 2 above to what’s happening in the [blank] Write your findings on your web page.

3. Read other people’s web pages and comment.

4. Semester Final Project: The Origin of Life: A Thematic Approach

1. Work in groups of 2 - 4.
2. Learn

1. Read Concept 24.1 and 25.1 in your text and answer these Origin of Life study questions by creating either flashcards or cornell notes.
2. Watch these youtube videos

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_flx26bU0Q
2. https://youtu.be/mRzxTzKIsp8?t=177

3. Read your assigned article

3. Create a 5 - 10 minute learning experience on your  qwizcards web page.

1. A guided reading that takes about six  minutes to experience. This includes pre-reading questions; a reading; and post reading quesitons.
2. A series of flashcards with really interesting, though provoking quesitons, followed by equally interesting and thought provoking responses. Takes about 5 - 10 minutes to thoughtfully experience..
3. A interactive reading: Text, followed by questions that can be fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice, or open response. The questions are narratively linked together. Takes 5 - 10 minutes to thoughtfully complete.

4. Alternative: Instead of b.iii and c, you find a study related to the origin of life, and you

1. create report about that study that takes 5 -10 minutes to read.
2. Put the report on your webpage.

5. Scoring guide for (c) .

1. The learning experience has to explicitly involve at least two of the four themes of biology.
2. The

3. Only one gene is responsible for pelvic reduction. What is this gene? How is it deactivated in spine-less forms of sticklebacks. In four-limbed vertebrates, what’s the function of this gene?

Mr. W’s stuff

4. I’ll be absent. In my absense, your job is to go to sciencemusicvideos.com, log in and complete all of the interactive activities associated with Modules 1 and 2

1. The Module 1 Menu links you to 5 different pages. Complete these pages using the student learning guide (which the sub will give you a hard copy of). Note that for the first item (AP Biology Themes…) you’ve already done the reading so you can skip down to the flashcards.
2. Natural Selection Flashcards (you’ve already done the reading, so skip right down to the flashcards)

5. Homework: Whatever you don’t complete in class, finish for homework.

NEW (UPCOMING) AGENDAS

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 35

Monday, 5/27/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. Periods 3/5:
2. Homework

Tuesday, 5/28/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. 0 Period lab:
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

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Wednesday, 5/29/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

Thursday, 5/30/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. 0 Period lab
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

Friday, 5/31/19 (LAB IS OPTIONAL)

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 36

Monday, 6/03/19

1. Periods 3/5:
2. Homework

Tuesday, 6/04/19

1. 0 Period lab:
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

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Wednesday, 6/05/19

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

Thursday, 6/06/19

1. 0 Period lab
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

Friday, 6/07/19

1. 0 Period lab (see Tuesday)
2. Periods 3/5:
3. Homework:

Mr. W’s AP Biology Agenda: Week 37

Monday, 6/10/19

Mr. W gone to KCK to grade the AP Biology exam

Tuesday, 6/11/19

Mr. W gone to KCK to grade the AP Biology exam

1. Periods 1 - 2 finals

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Wednesday, 6/12/19  

Mr. W gone to KCK to grade the AP Biology exam

Periods 3 - 4 finals

Thursday, 6/13/19  

Mr. W gone to KCK to grade the AP Biology exam

1. Periods 5 - 6 finals

Friday, 6/14/19  

1. Last day of school

TOPIC LIST FOR HALLMARKS OF CANCER

1. Self Sufficiency in Growth Signals
2. Insensitivity to anti-Growth Signals
3. Evading Programmed Cell Death
4. Limitless Replicative Potential
5. Sustained Angiogenesis
6. Tissue Invasion and Metastasis
7. Deregulated Metabolism
8. Evading the Immune System
9. Genome Instability
10. Inflammation