Week 1 August 19-23 | Week 11 October 28- November 1 | Week 21 January 13-17 | Week 31 March 24-28 |
Week 2 August 26 - 30 | Week 12 November 4-8 | Week 22 January 20-24 | Week 32 March 31 - April 4 |
Week 3 September 2-6 | Week 13 November 11-15 | Week 23 January 27-31 | Week 33 April 7-11 |
Week 4 September 9-13 | Week 14 November 18-22 | Week 24 February 3-7 | Week 34 April 14-18 |
Week 5 September 16-20 | Week 15 November 25-29 | Week 25 February 10-14 | Week 35 April 21-25 |
Week 6 September 23-27 | Week 16 December 2-6 | Week 26 February 17-21 | Week 36 April 28 - May 2 |
Week 7 September 30 - October 4 | Week 17 December 9-13 | Week 27 February 24-28 | Week 37 May 5-9 |
Week 8 October 7-11 | Week 28 March 3-7 | Week 38 May 12-16 | |
Week 9 October 14-18 | Week 29 March 10-14 | Week 39 May 19-23 | |
Week 10 October 21- 25 | Week 30 March 17-21 | |
Table of Contents
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Email: jared.ailts@k12.sd.us
Google Classroom link
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Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| | Due today: | Due today: | Due today: |
| | Lesson: Syllabus Statistics in science | Lesson: Gathering stats Stats: What are they and how are they used | Lesson: Running stats Stats: What are they and how are they used |
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Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Week: 8/19 - 8/23
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Statistics Scientific method game | Lesson: Transpiration lab overview Statistics practice problems | Lesson: RISING SCHOLARS MEETING | Lesson: Discuss sections of a good research paper Read Research Paper | Lesson: Microscopes and micropipettes Developing quantifiable questions |
Homework: | Homework: | Homework: | Homework:Read Research Paper | Homework: |
Week: 8/26 - 8/30
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday No School | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Due today: Read Research Paper | Due today: | Due today: | Due today: |
| Lesson: Set up transpiration lab | Lesson: Initial measurements Write background and methods Microscope parts | Lesson: Final measurements and stats analysis Finish writing lab report | Lesson: Write background and introduction and methods of brine shrimp lab |
| Homework: | Homework: Quiz 1 assigned | Homework: | Homework: |
Week: 9/2 - 9/6
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Due today: | Due today: | Due today: Quiz 1 Due | Due today: | Due today: |
Lesson: Brine Shrimp Lab | Lesson: Brine Shrimp Lab | Lesson: Brine Shrimp Lab | Lesson: Unit 1 Review | Lesson: Unit 1 TEST |
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Week: 9/9 - 9/13
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Introduction to biochemistry Poison investigation | Lesson: Poison discussion Molecules notes | Lesson: Molecules shapes, sizes, and interactions (kinases) Poisons | Lesson: pH and water Read ochem | Lesson: Ochem and carbs Unit 2 Quiz 1 |
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Week: 9/16 - 9/20
Class: College Biology
Teacher:Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday Homecoming |
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Lesson: Ochem and carbs | Lesson: Lipids | Lesson: Lipids Read Research Paper | Lesson: Proteins | Lesson: |
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Week: 9/23 - 9/27
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Due today: Quiz 1 Due | Due today: | Due today: | Due today: | Due today: |
Lesson: Proteins Unit 2 Quiz 2 assigned | Lesson: Discuss paper Lab | Lesson: LAB | Lesson: LAB | Lesson: Lab Presentations |
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Week: 9/30 - 10/4
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday HS Conferences | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday No School |
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Lesson: Lab Presentations | Lesson: Lab Presentations | Lesson: Unit 2 Review | Lesson: Unit 2 Test | |
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Week: 10/7 - 10/11
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday Inservice | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| Lesson: Intro: The Cell Microscopes | Lesson: Microscopes Cell structures | Lesson: Cell size | Lesson: Cell size Structure project |
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Week: 10/14 - 10/18
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Q1 ends | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Structure project | Lesson: Membranes Structure project | Lesson: Cheek cell lab Structure projects | Lesson: Presentations | Lesson: Presentations |
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Week: 10/21 - 10/25
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Finish Presentations Membranes | Lesson: Osmosis Lab | Lesson: Osmosis Lab Quizes | Lesson: Organelle Activity | Lesson: Review |
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Week: 10/28 - 11/1
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
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Lesson: UNIT 3 Test | Lesson: Energy and Life | Lesson: Anabolic and Catabolic | Lesson: Activation energy and thermodynamics | Lesson: Enzymes and enzyme regulation |
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Week: 11/4 - 11/8
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday No School | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| Lesson: Metabolic feedback | Lesson: Enzymes | Lesson: Quiz 1 | Lesson: �Lab toothpickase |
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Week: 11/11 - 11/15
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: LAB | Lesson: LAB | Lesson: Review | Lesson: Unit 4 TEST | Lesson: Mitosis |
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Week: 11/18 - 11/22
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday No School | Thursday No School | Friday No School |
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Lesson: Cell cycle intro | Lesson: Thanksgiving Mitosis | | | |
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Week: 11/25 - 11/29
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Mitosis | Lesson: Cancer Meiosis phases | Lesson: Student Opinion of Instructor Second Semester Registration | Lesson: Meiosis phases | Lesson: Nondisjunction and crossing over |
Homework: | Homework: Quiz 1 | Homework: | Homework: | Homework: |
Week: 12/2 - 12/6
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Mitosis/meiosis activity Genetic inheritance | Lesson: Aging Gene intro (do professional athletes have genetic advantages) | Lesson: Genetic inheritance Read chapter of your choice out of “Book Genome” (posted on Google Classroom) | Lesson: Mendel | Lesson: Inheritance Discrete genes Crosses |
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Week: 12/9 - 12/13
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday Early Out |
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Lesson: Multiple genes Gene Linkage | Lesson: Eugenics Inheritance probability | Lesson: Eugenics Inheritance probability | Lesson: Phenotypic Variance Pedigrees Nondominant inheritance patterns | Lesson: Christmas fun |
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Week: 12/16- 12/20
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday No School | Tuesday No School | Wednesday No School | Thursday | Friday |
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| | | Lesson: DNA replication | Lesson: DNA isolation LAB Complete outcome 2 |
| | | Homework: Read pg 19-30 | Homework: |
Week: 12/30 - 1/3
Class:College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Semester Test | Thursday Semester Test | Friday Semester Test / Q2 ends |
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Lesson: �SEMESTER TEST | Lesson: �SEMESTER TEST | Lesson: | Lesson: | Lesson: |
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Week: 1/6 - 1/10
Class:College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday Workshop | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| Lesson: Replication Review and activity Transcription reading | Lesson: Replication steps Prokaryote vs eukaryote | Lesson: Transcription� Post-transcriptional modifications | Lesson: Post-transcriptional modifications Read translation |
| Homework: read pg 42-54 | Homework: Read pg 42-54 | Homework: | Homework: |
Week: 1/13 - 1/17
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday No School | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| Lesson: Translation Mutations and fixing Quiz 1 | Lesson: Mutations and fixing | Lesson: Unit project Quiz 2 | Lesson: Gene regulation: amplification and chromatin remodeling Project |
| Homework: | Homework: | Homework: | Homework: Page 91-94 |
Week: 1/20 - 1/24
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Gene regulation: epigenetics and transcription factors | Lesson: Gene regulation: Transcription factors and DNA methylation mRNA processing control/stability/ translation Quiz 3 | Lesson: Gene regulation: DNA methylation and food paper read | Lesson: REVIEW | Lesson: ��TEST |
Homework: Read page 94-99 | Homework: | Homework: | Homework: | Homework: |
Week: 1/27 - 1/31
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: pGLO set up Pour plates | Lesson: Set up group plate Harvest samples | Lesson: pGLO plasmid insertion | Lesson: Gram staining | Lesson: pGLO observation and discussion |
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Week: 2/3 - 2/7
Class: College Biology
Teacher:Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday No School |
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Lesson: Crime Scene Lab | Lesson: Crime scene lab | Lesson: AILTS GONE Biotech investigation | Lesson: Biotech presentation | |
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Week: 2/10 - 2/14
Class: College Biology
Teacher:Ailts
Monday No School | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| Lesson: PTC Lab and GMO Lab | Lesson: PTC Lab and GMO Lab | Lesson: PTC Lab and GMO Lab | Lesson: Finish labs |
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Week: 2/17 - 2/21
Class:College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Plants | Lesson: Plants Plant kingdoms worksheet | Lesson: Photosynthesizers Plant kingdoms worksheet | Lesson: Major characteristics of plants | Lesson: Photosynthesis light-dependent� Read the start of photosynthesis (pg 40-58) |
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Week: 2/24 - 2/28
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Photosynthesis electron transport act it out | Lesson: Photosynthesis Calvin cycle | Lesson: Photosynthesis Calvin Cycle Glycolysis | Lesson: Glycolysis | Lesson: Krebs Cycle |
Homework: Read pages 58-64 | Homework: Read pages 58-64 | Homework: Photosynthesis Quiz | Homework: | Homework: |
Week: 3/3 - 3/7
Class: College Biology
Teacher:Ailts
Monday | Tuesday HS Conferences | Wednesday | Thursday Snow Day | Friday No School |
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Lesson: Cellular Respiration electron transport | Lesson: Cellular Respiration: Electron Transport | Lesson: Photosynthesis Lab | | |
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Week: 3/10 - 3/14
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday Q3 ends |
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Lesson: REVIEW | Lesson: Unit 9 Test | Lesson: Diversity of Life intro AILTS GONE | Lesson: Diversity of life discussion Ecology: Pesky Pathogens | Lesson: Diversity of life Invertebrates �Ecology |
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Week: 3/17 - 3/21
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Diversity of life Invertebrates | Lesson: Diversity of life vertebrates | Lesson: Diversity of life vertebrates | Lesson: Shark Dissection | Lesson: Shark Dissection Evolution Intro |
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Week: 3/24 - 3/28
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Evolution Concepts | Lesson: Evolution Concepts | Lesson: Human Evolution/Speciation | Lesson: Unit Project | Lesson: Unit Project |
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Week: 3/31 - 4/4
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Muscle | Lesson: Muscle | Lesson: STATE TESTING | Lesson: STATE TESTING | Lesson: Heart |
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Week: 4/7 - 4/11
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday Early Out | Friday No School |
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Lesson: Lymph Tissue Lungs | Lesson: Heart and breathing rate lab | Lesson: Immune Investigation | Lesson: Immune | |
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Week: 4/14 - 4/18
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday No School | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| Lesson: Endocrine system | Lesson: Brain neurons Brain: The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat reading and reaction | Lesson: �Discussion | Lesson: Whole Brain Lecture |
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Week: 4/21 - 4/25
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: SOI | Lesson: Brain Regions | Lesson: Brain Regions | Lesson: Brain Labs | Lesson: Language Brain Anatomy/ genetics/ evolution |
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Week: 4/28 - 5/2
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Lesson: Brain regions | Lesson: Final day fun | Lesson: | Lesson: | Lesson: |
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Week: 5/5 - 5/9
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Week: 5/12 - 5/16
Class: College Biology
Teacher:Ailts
Monday | Tuesday Semester Tests | Wednesday Semester Tests | Thursday Semester Tests | Friday Work Day |
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Week: 5/19 - 5/23
Class: College Biology
Teacher: Ailts