First Week of IB Biology!!

This is what you can expect in the first week and a day of IB Biology!!

• Thurs 8/27:  Intro to class, fill out student information sheet, demonstrate Early Work, hand out Safety and Academic Honesty contracts (due back signed by Friday, 9/4!), basic class rules, start Brine Shrimp Lab by counting cysts and hydrating them with 3% salt water.  On your own, please read the Classroom Expectations in the document section of this site.  Please bring a TI-84 calculator or equivalent to class on Monday!
• Mon 8/31:  Continue with Brine Shrimp lab by counting the live shrimp and calculating percent hatched.  Discuss how to calculate uncertainty.  Finish Brine Shrimp Lab calculations, showing work.  Use the TI-84 calculators to calculate means, standard deviations, and t-test.  Complete TI-84 hand-out (on the back of the Brine Shrimp hand-out).  This double-sided hand-out is due Wed 9/2 at the beginning of class (actually you will have about 20 minutes to complete it).
• Wed 9/2:  Go over standard deviation, degrees of freedom and t-tests.  Turn in Brine Shrimp and TI-84 Hand-Out.  Rules for significant figures.  Do problems 1-17 on Sig Figs and Uncertainty Worksheet and complete the back.   Introduce LoggerPro and how to use it to make a good graph.  Using the classroom computers, EVERYONE will practice making a good graph and get it checked off by myself.  If time go over rules for propagating uncertainty (for problems 21-25 on worksheet).
• Fri 9/4:  Signed contracts due today if not turned in already.  Finish Sig. Figs and Uncertainty worksheet and turn it in.  First 2 pages of statistics packet.  Make a frequency distribution graph.  Do sample calculations for standard deviation and t-test.  Statistics Packet due in class next Tuesday 9/8.  Quiz on using numbers in biology next Friday 9/11.

Welcome to IB Biology 1-2 HL!!

Welcome back to the 2015-2016 School Year!  This will be the website for your IB Biology class for the next 2 years.  If you look through old entries you can see what classes before you have done.  This will be a good place to go to get class assignments, class resources, and just to keep yourself informed about the class.  When you miss class, come here first to see what we did in class and to find out if there is anything you can do from home.  After that, if you still have questions, you can e-mail me:  mkenny@pps.net

I look forward to meeting you and spending the next 2 years learning biology!  We will cover the following topics during the first year:

First Semester

Introduction to Course, Statistics, and Measuring

Biochemistry:  Macromolecules

Cells and Membranes

Cell Respiration and Photosynthesis

Cell Division:  Mitosis and Meiosis

Genetics

Second Semester

Replication, Transcription, Translation

Enzymes

Biotechnology

Plants

Ecology