Turnitin instructions again!

I know a lot of you are having trouble finding the turnitin info, so here it is again.

Class ID #: 7134746 
Password:  polypeptide

Get that thing in there and then enjoy your break!!  Catch you in 2014.  :)

The Weeks of 12/9-12/20

These are the last 2 weeks before Winter Break!  We have a big test (Chapters 9+10) and a big lab (Metabolic Rates Lab) before the break, but then you are done with the toughest unit of this course.  Yippee!

• Mon 12/9:  Turn in Photosynthesis worksheet if not already.  Notes on Photosynthesis through the light dependent reactions.  Read 10.1-10.3.
• Tues 12/10:  OAKS testing for Juniors.  When finished testing, return to class and work on the Mitochondrion and Chloroplast coloring worksheet.  Rough Draft for Metabolic Rates Lab due on Thursday.  Hand out 9+10 Review for test next Thursday 12/19.
• Thurs 12/12:  Color-Marking (a form of peer review) Metabolic Rates Lab.  Final Draft due Tuesday 12/17 (please keep the color-marked version and turn it in as well).  Notes on the Light Independent Reactions of Photosynthesis.  Complete Mito/Chloroplast worksheet and get checked off.  Try computer simulation of photophosphorylation.  Finish reading Chapter 10.
• Mon 12/16:  SPARK lecture on Brain Cancer today.  Review Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis.
• Tues 12/17:  Turn in Final Draft of Metabolic Rate Lab and Color-Marked version.  Jeopardy Review for 9+10 Test.  Maybe start Mitosis?
• Thurs 12/19:  Turn in 9+10 Review.  Take 9+10 Test.  Work on Mitosis.

Have a Fantastic Winter Break!  Remember that this is a perfect time to read a book from the Extra Credit Book List (see documents section) or to review semester material.  Final Exams are earlier than normal this year.

The Week of 12/2-12/6

I hope you are enjoying your week off!  Remember to read the lab hand-out for the "Measuring Metabolic Rate" lab before you come in on Monday.  I also recommend reviewing Chapter 9 and to start reading Chapter 10.

• Mon 12/2:  Practice the protocol for data-taking for the "Measuring Metabolic Rate" lab.  Take preliminary data.  Get ready for the lab tomorrow.
• Tues 12/3:  Take data for the Measuring Metabolic Rate Lab and enter your data in the class data-base.  Come up with a research question, background, variables, etc.  Your completed rough draft should be done by next Tuesday, 12/10.
• Thurs 12/5:  More on lab and processing the data.  Start photosynthesis.  Photosynthesis worksheet using the class textbooks.  Read 10.1 and 10.2.

What's on the Quiz on Thursday, 11/21/13

-Know 3 ways that things can be oxidized (and reduced:  always the opposite)

-K›now first 3 parts of cell respiration

-›Should know inputs and outputs

›-Should know energy yield (in the form of carriers) for each part

-›Should know the number of carbons in each part

›-Basic stages of glycolysis

The Week of 11/18-11-22

SPARK Lecture on cell membranes on Monday!  Cell Respiration Quiz on Thurs 11/21.

• Mon 11/18:  More on Cell Respiration.  Link reaction.  Krebs Cycle.  Keep reading Chapter 9.
• Tues 11/19:  Krebs Cycle and Electron Chain Reaction.  Anaerobic respiration.  More on Chapter 9.
• Thurs 11/21:  Short Quiz (4 stages of Cell Respiration, locations, inputs, outputs, energy carriers).  Review Electron Chain Reaction.   Introduce Cell Respiration Lab.  Finish reading Chapter 9. 

Enjoy your week off!  Finish reading Chapter 9 and start reading Chapter 10 if you have time.  Remember that you can also pick an extra credit book to read and get started on that!  See the book list in the documents section under "Extra Credit Opportunities".

The Week of 11/11/13.

• Mon 11/11:  Veteran's Day.  No School!
• Tues 11/12:  Turn in Agar Cubes Lab (completed data table, 4 sample calculations, and answers to the 3 questions on the hand-out).  Jeopardy Review for Cell Test.  Finish Cell Review.  Due before the test on Thursday.
• Thurs 11/14:  Turn in Cell Review.  Take Cell Test.  Start on Glycolysis.

The Week of 11/4-11/8

End of the Quarter is on Friday!  Your deadline for late work is Wed 11/6.

• Mon 11/4:  Cell Model Project Due!!  Evaluate your own model and three others.  Get Bubble Lab and Membrane WS checked off.   Hand out Cell Review and start working on it.  SPARK lecture on Sensing Sound today at 3:30 in 169!  Summary and your response can be turned in through turnitin.com through Friday 11/8.
• Wed 11/6:  Turn in any late work by class time.  Agar Cubes Lab.  In between, work on your Cell Review.  Cell Test next Thursday 11/14.
• Fri 11/8:  No School.  Teacher Work Day.

The Week of 10/28-11/1

If you want to correct your Biochemistry Test (up to a 55), you need to get it done this week, either during FLEX or a time that you arrange with me!

• Mon 10/28:  Questions on Paramecium Lab?  Introduce membranes and the Bubble Lab.  Check off Paramecium Lab while you do the Bubble Lab. Check in on Cell Model Project.  Read 7.1-7.2 in new text.
• Tues 10/29:  Dialysis Tubing Lab demonstrating osmosis and diffusion.  While your tube sits, do some research for your Cell Model Project.  Finish Dialysis Tubing Lab, due Thursday.
• Thurs 10/31:   Turn in Dialysis Tubing Lab.  Agar Cubes Lab.  Cell Model Project due on Monday 11/4!

Link to video of Paramecia Eating Pigmented Yeast

We watched this in class, but you can see more detail in this Youtube video, while listening to the Maple Leaf Rag!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ymaSzcsdY&safe=active

The Week of 10/21-10/25

SPARK Lecture on Monday 10/21 at 3:30 in 169.  The speaker is an engineer from Intel.  You may go to one SPARK lecture per month for extra credit, although remember that there is a limit on extra credit (5% per quarter or usually about 20-25 points).

• Mon 10/21:  Questions on Cell Worksheet?  Turn in.  Microscope work.  Draw cork, onion skin, algae and euglena (if not already) and paramecium.
• Tues 10/22:  How to calculate magnification of your drawings.  View bacteria through the oil immersion lens of the microscope.  Complete drawings and finish the lab hand-out for Thursday.  Read 6.1-6.5 in your new book (chapter 7 in old books in class).  The cell's cytoskeleton.
• Thurs 10/24:  View and draw amoebas.  Turn in Microscope Lab.  Finish up the cytoskeleton.  Start plasma membranes.  Hand out Cell Model project.  Read 7.1-7.2 in new text.

The Week of 10/14-10/18

• Mon 10/14:  Questions on Biochemistry Review?  Questions on Food Lab due Wednesday?  Hand-out Microscope Reading.  Introduce how to use microscopes and scale tool.  Draw cork, elodea, and onion skin.  Draw 2 critters.
• Wed 10/16:  20 minute classes.  Turn in Food Lab.  Work on Cell Worksheet using class textbooks.
• Thurs 10/17:  Take Biochemistry Test.  Continue working on Cell Worksheet (due Monday).  If time, continue with Microscope Lab.  Read 6.1-6.4 in textbook.

Turnitin.com Instructions

For any of you who went to the SPARK lecture on Monday, please submit your write-up (summary and your response, 1-1.5 pages) through turnitin.com The class info for this year: Class ID #: 7134746 Password: polypeptide Instructions for getting signed in are here. Please turn in SPARK lectures by the Friday of the week of the lecture, although I will give you until next Wednesday this time.

SPARK Lecture

The first SPARK lecture of the school year will be Monday, October 7 at 3:30 in Room 169. The speaker is Dr. Kathleen Dalke, ObGyn. Please come and learn about her work and earn some extra credit for your science class!

9/30-10/10

Mon 9/30:  Turn in Water Olympics if not already.  Organic Chemistry.  Important chemical groups.  Hand out Dictionary of Organic Molecules.  Highlight amino and carboxyl groups.  Start molecules of life:  carbohydrates.  Read 5.1 and 5.2.
Tues 10/1:  More on molecules of life.  Amino acids and lipids.  Properties and linkages.  Read 5.3 and 5.4.
Thurs 10/3:  Structure of nucleic acids.  Building clay models.  Each group builds a sugar, an amino acid, a lipid or glycerol, and a nucleic acid.  Read 5.5.
Mon 10/7: (Block Schedule today).   Make linkages of clay models.   4 tests for organic molecules.  Bring food to test on Wednesday.
Wed 10/9:   Food testing!  Try to detect the different types of organic molecules in foods using the tests learned on Monday.
Fri 10/11:  Statewide Inservice.  No School!!

The Week of 9/23-9/27

• Mon 9/23:  Check off Statistics Packet in class.  Questions for short test tomorrow?  Work on Chemistry Review.  Use chapters 2+3 of old text books.
• Tues 9/24:  Statistics, Uncertainty, and Significant Figures Short Test.  When finished, continue working on chemistry review.  Special properties of water.  Finish Chemistry Review for Thursday if not already finished.
• Thurs 9/26:   Turn in Chemistry Review if not already.  Amazing Properties of Water Lab.  When finished, turn in the hand-out and pick up the "Dictionary of Organic Molecules".  Begin highlighting the groups specified.  Start reading Chapter 4.

Statistics and Uncertainty Short Test on Tuesday 9/24

What will be on this short test?  Use your class worksheets to review.

• Calculating average, standard deviation, and t-test using a TI-84 or equivalent calculator.  Thus, you need to bring one of these calculators and know how to use it to get the above information.
• Be able to explain the meaning and ranges for standard deviation.
• Interpretation of meaning of t-test (you will be given chart of Critical Values)
• Estimation of total number of organisms in a grid given information about numbers in a number of quadrats (like what you did in brine shrimp lab).  Show your work!
• Significant Figures:  counting them and computing with them.  Remember that the rules differ for multiplying/dividing and adding/subtracting!
• Be able to calculate the mean and uncertainty given a set of data.
• Adding/Subtracting and Multiplying/Dividing with uncertainty

Beginning of the Year Lessons

Sorry for the delay in getting this updated!  Please look here weekly for updates on what we are doing in class, class hand-outs, etc.

The school year so far and the coming week:

• Wed 9/4:  Introduction to course.  Demonstrate Early Work.  Hand out Safety Contract and Academic Honesty Contract.  Please get both signed by yourself and a parent/guardian by next Tuesday, 9/10.  Bring TI-84 Calculator or equivalent next week.
• Thurs 9/5:  Go over class expectations.  Count brine shrimp cysts using dissecting microscopes, hydrate in 3% salt water, and then let sit out over the week-end.  Complete first half of Brine Shrimp Count worksheet showing work.  Hand out IB Biology Survival Guide.
• Mon 9/9:  Get out microscopes and inspect your brine shrimp.  What type of activity do you see?  Any unhatched cysts?  Any hatched but dead shrimp?   Do TI-84 Activity hand-out. 
• Tues 9/10:  Safety and Academic Honesty Contracts due.  Explain meaning of t-test.  Finish TI-84 Activity hand-out and turn in.  Count live brine shrimp, using 5 independent 1 mL samples.  Estimate number of live shrimp and calculate % hatched and survived.  Hand out planning sheet for Brine Shrimp Inquiry.  In your groups, determine what you will test and how you will do it.   Do some trials with the brine shrimp to help figure out your direction.  Bring completed planning sheet on Thursday.  Start reading Chapter 1 (1.1 and 1.2) in your text book.
• Thur 9/12:  Carry out Brine Shrimp Investigation.  Explain expectations for lab conclusion (see previous post).   Brine Shrimp Lab due Tuesday 9/17.  Hand-out significant figures hand-out and explain how to count significant figures.
• Mon 9/16:  Computing with significant figures.  Propagating uncertainty.  Complete both sides of significant figures hand-out for tomorrow.
• Tues 9/17: Turn in Brine Shrimp Lab.   Hand-out LoggerPro tips.  Go to library to create 2 graphs using LoggerPro (using the data tables on the back of the sig. figs. sheet).   Staple graphs to completed sig. figs. hand-out and turn in today or Thursday.   Return to class, hand out Statistics Packet and work on it.  Make sure that you show your work!  Packet is due by the end of class on Thursday.  Finish reading Chapter 1 in textbook.
• Thurs 9/19:  Turn in sig. figs hand-out and graphs is not already.  Finish statistics packet.  Turn in by the end of class.  Statistics Quiz next Tuesday 9/24.   Requirements for life.   Start molecules of life.

Conclusion for Brine Shrimp

The Brine Shrimp Lab is due Tuesday, 9/17/13.  You should include your completed Brine Shrimp Count hand-out (showing work where applicable.  Skip the last question about calculating the uncertainty of the percent hatching), the completed Planning Sheet (updated after doing the lab), and a neatly-written or typed conclusion using the requirements below.

• ›Refer to focused question (restate it) and refer to your results
• ›Use data to support your results (also using comparative words like “more”, “less”, “increase”, etc)
• ›Attempt to explain your results using scientific language and knowledge
• ›Describe at least 3 sources of uncertainty and/or limitations being specific (don’t use the term “human error”)
• Suggest at least 3 realistic and specific improvements to the investigation (matched up to uncertainty above).

This should take approximately 3-4 paragraphs:  1-2 for stating and explaining the results, 1 for describing uncertainty/limitations, and 1 for suggesting improvements.

Welcome to the 2013-2014 School Year!

This will be your class website for the next 2 years. You can come here to find out what we are doing in class, get homework assignments, and get links to class documents. If you don't find what you are looking for, you can e-mail me with questions at mkenny@pps.net. I am looking forward to a fantastic school year!

4/29-5/10

We are moving into IB Testing this week.   It is expected that you will come to class if you are not testing.  We will do something Biology-related and you will get participation points for attending that day.  Students who are IB Testing will be excused from the daily activity.

Mon 4/29:  Hand back Paper 2 Part B practice and go over.  Turn in Take Home Test if not already.
Wed 5/1:  Review Jeopardy for IB Test.
Fri 5/3:  IB English for many students.  Life Video for the rest of the class.
Mon 5/6:  Most students here.  Go over Paper 3 Concepts.
Wed 5/8:   Pollution Game.
Fri 5/10:  Life Video on Plants.

4/22-4/26 (Practice IB Tests this week!)

• This week we are getting ready for the IB exam!  Everyone will participate in these practice tests, even students who are not taking the test.  We are doing Papers 1 and 2 during class and you have an extended form of a Paper 3 as a take-home test (see documents section if you don't have it).  Turn it in through turnitin.com by Friday, 4/26.  You also have a data-based question that you need to turn in as a hard-copy by Friday.  
• Mon 4/22:  Practice Test of Paper 1.  This is 40 multiple choice questions.  You will get 20 points just for taking it (but do your best!  no 20 simply for filling in bubbles.  Put some thought into it) and then up to 5 more for doing well.
• Wed 4/24:  First part of Paper 2.  This is a long data-based question and then some random questions about the higher level syllabus.
• Fri 4/26:  Second part of Paper 2.  There are 4 sets of 3 essay-type questions and you need to answer 2 complete sets.  Answer as thoroughly as you can!   Your practice test for Paper 3 (evolution and Neurobiology and Behavior) is due by today!  Turn in essay part through turnitin.com and the data-based question as a hard-copy.

Cow Eye Dissection Assignment

Many of you have already turned this in.  If you did the dissection, you should turn in your observations of the dissection, as well as an explanation of the relationship between structure and function for the following eye parts:  sclera, cornea, iris, lens, retina, optic nerve.  You can turn in one of these per pair who did the dissection.

If you did not do the dissection, go to the virtual dissection linked on the website and do it.  You may also watch the video from the Exploratorium on Cow's Eye Dissections.  Then, explain the relationship between structure and function for the same 6 eye parts listed above:  sclera, cornea, iris, lens, retina, and optic nerve.  For people not doing the dissection, this should be done individually.  Turn in by Friday, April 19.

April 15-April 19

3rd Quarter Grades are Updated.  Check yours and see if you have any questions.  There is a SPARK lecture on Earthquakes on Mon 4/15.  All SPARK lecture write-ups need to be turned in by Friday of the week they are given and we are now asking that they be submitted through turnitin.com.

• Mon 4/15:  Finish up Neurobiology and Behavior.  Innate behavior vs. learned.  Pavlov's dogs.  Birdsong.  Turn in Eye Dissection if not already.  Hand out Review for Evolution and Neurobiology and Behavior.'
• Wed 4/22:  Review biochemistry, cells, cellular respiration, and photosynthesis.
• Fri 4/24:  Review replication, transcription, translation, biotech, and evolution.

April 1-11

• Mon 4/1:  Action Potential and Neurotransmitter Simulations on the computer.  Write down the steps of each and turn in as a pair.
• Wed 4/3:  Stimulus and Response.  Synapses.  Excitatory and Inhibitory responses.  Action of drugs. Cocaine and THC.
• Fri 4/5:  Parts of the human brain.  How do we know about the brain?  Pupil reflex, unconscious behaviors, and pain.  Animal behaviors:  foraging, rhythmic behaviors, social organization, exaggerated traits.
• Tues 4/9:  Innate behavior vs. learned behavior.  Birdsong.  Sensory receptors.  Structure of the human ear.  Structure of the human eye.
• Thurs 4/11:  Dissecting cows eyes.  Wrap up neurobiology.  

The Mind Project Simulation Website

Here is the link.

Go to this site and watch the section on Action Potential.  Watch it several times and write down the steps of transmission in order.  Then go to the Classical (chemical) Neurotransmitter part, watch it a couple of times, and write down the steps in order.

Happy Spring Break!

If you missed class on Friday, I added some additional questions about the nervous system.  You should answer them in your notes and I will check them off when we get back from break.  I also added a review packet for the topics we covered last year (with the exception of evolution).  You should start going over the topics, checking what you know pretty well, what you need lots of review on, and what you haven't heard of before.  We will be doing some comprehensive assessments to prepare for the IB exam towards the end of April.  Everyone will participate in these assessments, not just IB testers, so make sure that you spend some time on the review.  Many of you have already submitted the Antibiotic Lab, but there are still many that have not been received, so hopefully I will be seeing those soon.

Enjoy your time off!

Book Work after Reproduction Test

Start on page 960 in old text

1. Define the following:

Central nervous system, effector cells, nerves, peripheral nervous system

2.  Define the main parts of a neuron:  cell body, dendrite, axon, myelin sheath, Schwann cell, synaptic terminal

3.  Draw a vertebrate neuron and label the above parts

4.  List the 3 classes of neurons and their functions?

5.  What is a reflex?  Describe the knee-jerk reflex in detail.

6.  What are "glia" and what is their purpose?
7.  What is the importance of the blood-brain barrier?
8.  What is the purpose of the myelin sheath around axons?  What disorder involves the degradation of this sheath?
9.  What is membrane potential and what causes it?
10.  How do ion channels affect the membrane potential?
11.  What are the resting potential and action potential of a neuron and what do they have to do with polarization and depolarization?

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3/11-3/22

Whoops, I forgot to update this last week.    There is a SPARK lecture on engineering on Monday 3/18.  If you are taking the IB Biology Exam, please turn in any graded or ungraded IB labs before Spring Break!!

• Mon 3/11:  Fertilization videos.  Structure of mature sperm and mature oocyte.  Human fertilization.
• Wed 3/13:  Pregnancy and IVF worksheet.  Do the pregnancy part with the text books and the IVF part using the internet (site your resources).  
• Fri 3/15:  Antibiotic Lab due.  Please turn in a hard copy and a copy via turnitin.com.  Practice drawings for this unit.  Exchange drawings and check for accuracy.  Notes on the placenta and IVF.  Hand out Hormone and Reproduction Review.  Test on Wed 3/20.
• Mon 3/18:  Ethics of IVF.  Any questions on Review Sheet?  Writing outlines for this Review Sheet is optional.
• Wed 3/20:  Turn in Hormone and Reproduction Review before test if you are going to turn it in.  Take Hormone and Reproduction Test.  Start the nervous system.
• Fri 3/22:  Neurons and synapses.

2/25-3/8: Group IV Project on Monday 3/4!!

Have you submitted your kidney essay yet through turnitin.com?  The class ID number is 6161786 and the password is "nephron".  There is an instructions document that will help you through.  Group IV Field Trip is coming up on Monday, March 4.  You are required to go if you are testing in an IB science and you did not do the Group IV Project last year.  Please get your Field Trip form signed ASAP so that teachers know you will be gone.

• Mon 2/25:  Turn in hormone worksheet if not already.  Notes on hormones, feedback, thermoregulation, and diabetes.  Read 40.2, 40.3 and Chapter 45 (which you essentially did in doing the worksheet).   Get your Group IV Project Field Trip form signed.  
• Wed 2/27:  Introduce Antibiotics Lab.  Bring in something that you think has antibiotic properties to test!!  Watch video for Group IV Project preparation.  Start reproduction.  Start reading Chapter 46.  
• Fri 3/1:  Make plates for antibiotics lab and get them incubating.  The human reproduction systems and the role of hormones. 
• Mon 3/4:  Group IV Project!  All Day Field Trip.   Lists will be out the previous week to tell you which group you are in and where to go.  Bring weather-appropriate shoes and clothing as you will be walking around downtown.  Bring your Tri-Met ID if you plan to use transit and bring money for lunch if you plan to buy it.
• Wed 3/6:  Record qualitative and quantitative data for antibiotics lab.  Lab write-up due Fri 3/15.  Continue with human reproduction.  
• Fri 3/8:  Spermatogenesis and oogenesis.   

OHSU Field Trip and Topics for Short Test on Friday 2/22, and Kidney "Essay" information

Are you ready for the field trip tomorrow?  Make sure that you eat a good breakfast, bring a snack, bring your Tri-Met ID and dress for the weather.  We will meet (quietly) in the alcove by the elevator at the end of sophomore hall.  I will need to do a final check of field trip forms and get a final count of who is going with us.  Please be patient during this process.  Remember that there is no cell phone/camera use when we are viewing the cadaver.  If you are feeling faint, bend your knees and move around to increase your circulation. You can also step out into a neighboring room or the hallway if you need to.   We should be back to Lincoln in time for your 4th period class.

Topics for short test on AIDS/Vaccines/the Kidney on Friday 2/22:
1)  Outline the effects of HIV on the immune system.
2)  Discuss the cause, transmission, and social implications of AIDS.
3)  Explain the principle of vaccination.
4)  Discuss the benefits and dangers of vaccination.
5)  Define excretion.
6)  Draw and label a diagram of the kidney.
7)  Annotate a diagram of a glomerulus and associated nephron to show the function of each part. (be able to label parts and describe their function).
8)  Explain the process of ultrafiltration, including blood pressure, fenestrated blood capillaries, and basement membrane.
9)  Define osmoregulation.
10)  Explain the reabsorption of glucose, water and salts in the proximal convoluted tubule, including the role of microvilli, osmosis, and active transport.
11)  Explain the role of the loop of Henle, medulla, collecting duct, and ADH in maintaining the water balance of the blood.
12)  Explain the differences in the concentration of proteins, glucose and urea between blood plasma, glomerular filtrate and urine.  (we will look at this one on Wednesday)


Kidney "Essay:  we will sign up on turnitin.com on Wednesday.  You may turn in your essay through turnitin.com starting on Wednesday 2/20 and continuing through Friday 2/22.

In this essay, you should describe what happens in the kidney, from the entrance of blood in the renal artery to the exit of the filtrate out the ureter and filtered blood out the renal vein.  You may be creative and use an analogy in your essay if you would like, but please use scientific vocabulary.  Approximate length should be 1-2 pages depending on spacing.  It seems to me that 1 page at 1.5 spacing should be adequate, but make sure that you check your work for completeness.   Having a friend read through it is always a good idea.

A New Semester! (And your last at LHS)

• Mon 2/4:  Final Exams Back and Recollect.  Group work on HIV/AIDS.  
• Wed 2/6:  Hand out Permission Slips for OHSU Cadaver-Lab Field Trip on Tuesday, February 19th.  Computer research on HIV/AIDS and Vaccination.  Turn in group work from Monday.  Read 43.4.
• Fri 2/8:  Notes on HIV/AIDS, Vaccination, Autoimmune Disorders, and start the Kidney.  Short video clips on HIV/AIDS.  Read p. 947 on vaccinations.  Turn in computer research hand-out from Wednesday.  Please get Field Trip Permission Forms (2 of them) signed ASAP!
• Tues 2/12:  Structure and function of the kidney.  Start with overall form, glomerulus, nephron, fenestrated blood capillaries, and basement membrane.  Reabsorption of glucose, water, and salts.  Color parts of kidney on both sides of anatomy coloring sheet.  Read 44.3.
• Thurs 2/14:  Explain the roles of the Loop of Henle, medulla, collecting duct and ADH in maintaining the water balance of the blood.  Kidney computer simulation.  Read 44.4.
• Fri 2/15:  What can go wrong?  Kidney problems and dialysis.
• Mon 2/18:  President's Day.  No School!
• Tues 2/19:  OHSU Field Trip.  Please meet outside my room no later than 9:55!  We will be heading out the door at 10:00 am sharp!  Remember to wear comfortable shoes and bring your Tri-Met ID.  We will have lunch at OHSU before we return.  You can bring your lunch or purchase at the cafeteria
• Wed 2/20:  Finish up work on the kidney.  Short test on the kidney, HIV/AIDS and vaccination on Friday.

Final Exam Guidelines and Reminder about Body Response Lab

1.Bring pencils, paper, and something to do quietly when you are done

2.Go to restroom BEFORE the test!  No bathroom passes until after you are done, and then 1 at a time

3.NO CELL PHONES OUT PERIOD!!  Bring something else to do.

4.No talking until EVERYONE is finished.  This is basic courtesy to your classmates.

5.Cheating on any part of the test will result in a zero.  Don’t do it!

Finally, get enough rest, eat healthy food, and try not to stress too much about the test.  You will be okay!

Also, remember to turn in your Body Response Lab before the end of this week.  You get 10 points of completion for turning it in, but that will become a zero in this semester's grade if you don't.

1/14-2/1

The end of the semester is drawing near!  This week you should bring in your data presentation and processing of the Body Response Lab on Wednesday 1/16 to be checked off and peer-reviewed.   The final draft of the lab is due Wed 1/23 and we will have a short test on Muscle and Movement and some Immunology on Fri 1/25 (review to come).   Late work and extra credit deadline is Friday 1/25 by 3:20 pm.

• Mon 1/14:   Things to watch out for on Muscle and Movement Lab.   Immunology terms.  Read 43.1.
• Wed 1/16:  Get your Body Response data presentation and processing checked off and peer-reviewed.   Process of blood clotting.  Antibody Production.  Read 43.2.
• Fri 1/18:  Active and Passive Immunity.  Clonal selection and challenge and response.   The process of vaccination.  Benefits and dangers of vaccination.   Read 43.3.
• Mon 1/21:  Martin Luther King Day Holiday.  No School.
• Wed 1/23:  Final draft of Body Response Lab Due.  Review Muscles and Movement and Immunology so far.  Start reviewing for semester exam.  
• Fri 1/25:  Short test on muscles and movement and immunology.  Review for final exam.  Late work/extra credit due by 3:20 pm.
• Mon 1/28:  Full 8 Monday.  Last minute questions.  How to calculate your desired percentage on final exam.
• Tues-Thurs 1/29-1/31:  Final Exams.  Tues (1,4,7), Wed (2,5,8), Thurs (3,6)
• Fri 2/1:  Teacher Work Day.  No School.

Happy New Year! The Weeks of 1/2-1/11

• Wed 1/2:  Questions on Muscle Action?  The Elbow Joint.  Remember that you can take a quiz on the human skeleton on Friday.  If you do well, you can get extra credit.  Finish Muscle and Movement worksheet for Friday.
• Fri 1/4:  Check off Muscle and Movement worksheet.  Human bones quiz.  Dissecting Chicken Wings.  Hand-out Physiology Inquiry Lab.
• Mon 1/7:  Physiology Lab exploration with equipment.  Decide what you want to do and have pre-write ready for Wednesday.
• Wed 1/9:  Data-taking for Physiology Lab.
• Fri 1/11:  Data-taking for Physiology Lab.