Digestion Quiz on Thursday 11/29

Just a heads up so that you know what to prepare for.  The quiz is about 35 points and has these components:

1. Draw and label the digestion system, including the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.  There is an example at the end of the notes slide show.
2. Describe what happens to food as it moves through the system.
3. Pick 2 out of 3 short answer questions on digestive enzymes, absorption, and villi structure and function.
4. About 7 multiple choice questions

The 3 Weeks Until Winter Break!

• Tuesday 11/27:  You should submit a focused question for your IA to me today.  If you are not sure, it is great to have a back up!  Revisit the starch dialysis tubing labs.  Joe Eats a Burger Simulation.  Kahoot review for digestion quiz/test to be taken on Thursday.
• Thursday 11/29:  Digestion Quiz.  Start human circulation with the Circulation Worksheet.  Read 6.2.
• Monday 12/3:  Go over parts of the heart and the path of blood through the body.  Discuss William Harvey and Galen.  Continue working on the circulation worksheet, due Friday.  Work on your materials and procedure for your IA!
• Wednesday 12/5:  Check off Circulation Worksheet.  Dissect Pig Hearts.
• Friday 12/7:  Check off Circulation Worksheet and go over.  Review control of the heartbeat, occlusion of the arteries, bypass surgery, and more!  Practice taking heart rate and blood pressure measurements using equipment in the lab.  Submit your methodology and materials for your IA today.
• Tues 12/11:  Review circulation material, play Kahoot, and practice taking heart rate and blood pressure.   Short circulation test on Thursday 12/13.  Continue working through details with your IA.  Pre-lab (background, question, procedure, discussion of variables, etc) or due through turnitin.com before you start taking data in January.
• Thurs 12/13:  Circulation Quiz.  Read 6.4 and start working through concepts on the lungs.

Enjoy your Winter Break!!  See you in 2019!

Moving into the 2nd Quarter!!

• Tues 10/30:  Notes on Antibiotic Resistance and Speciation.  Work time for the Animal Poster project.  Read 10.3 if not already.   Do 2 out of the 4 DBQ's  from section 10.3
• Thurs 11/1:  Start Notes on Cell Evolution.  Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.  Hardy-Weinberg simulation.  Complete the packet and turn it in today or next Monday.  Work on poster project.  Read 1.5 on Cell Evolution.  
• Mon 11/5:  You will have 10 minutes to do quick work on your poster project.  Walk around poster evaluation.  Turn in Hardy-Weinberg if not already.  Finish Notes on Cell Evolution and brief notes on Human Evolution.
• Wed 11/7:  Review Evolution.  Short evolution test on Friday.
• Fri 11/9:  Short Evolution Test.  Start digestion!!  Read 6.1.
• Wed 11/14:  Review parts of the human digestion system and enzyme action.
• Fri 11/16:  Structure of villi and absorption.

Biodiversity Test next Tuesday, 10/23. What is going to be on it?

• THIS TEST WILL INCLUDE:
• About 10 multiple choice
• List Domain through species categories and list all 8 for an animal and a plant (we did humans and the Coast Redwood)
• Use a cladogram or dichotomous key to sort out 8-10 animals that I will give you.  Please use characteristics (i.e. has 4 limbs) and not previously determined classification categories (like mammals) to do the sorting
• You will be given a cladogram with numbers on it and be asked to use it to determine which organisms diverged the longest ago or most recently, etc.
• 3-4 short answer questions comparing organisms from various groups (like aves and reptilia),  using Uniprot and Jalview to make cladogram, the concept of molecular clocks, why we classify, etc.

Mid-October

• Tues 10/9:  Notes on Invertebrate Phyla and Chordate Classes.  Work time for Dichotomous Key Activity (have ready for another student to do on Monday 10/15).  Mesocosm Observation.
• Wed 10/10:  Short classes!  Brief introduction to cladograms and do Cladogram Activity Part I done in pairs.  Mesocosm write-up due through turnitin.com tomorrow, 10/11.  Read 5.4.
• Mon 10/15:  Exchange dichotomous keys and do them.  Cladogram computer activity (cladogram Part II).  
• Wed 10/17:  Finish Cladogram Activity, Molecular Clocks, and other cladogram activities.  Overview of Biodiversity Test to be taken next Tuesday 10/23.   Read 5.1 and do 2 out of the 3 DBQ's in that section in your notebook.
• Fri 10/19:  Review for Biodiversity Test.  Darwin Video.  List evidence for evolution and do 2 out of 3 DBQ's in 5.1 in not already.
• Tues 10/23:  Short Biodiversity Test.  Principles of natural selection and evidence for evolution.  Read 5.2.  DBQ on p. 253 and 255.
• Thurs 10/25:  Darwin and the Galapagos Finches.  DBQ on p. 255.  Introduce animal poster project.  

Lesson Plan for Friday 10/5/2018

Early Work:  What phylum of animals has bilateral symmetry, jointed legs, and an exoskeleton?

Daily Schedule:  

1. Early Work
2. Turn in Animal Phyla Lab if not already
3. Fish Dichotomous Key:  done in pairs.  Using the key provided, identify all of the types of fish.  Write the key numbers as we did in the Animal Phyla lab and the name of the fish next to each fish.  When finished, put both of your names on the fish part and turn it in.  You can return the key part.  There are a few challenges to this activity, especially with the question of whether or not the fish has scales because that is hard to see.  Mr. Kral can help you identify which fish have scales.
4. When finished, start make your own dichotomous key to separate out 10 items of your choice.  Themes can include types of foods, tv shows, characters, sports teams, items of clothing, etc.  You need to provide pictures of all 10 items and write the key so that it is easy to follow using the pictures.  We will present these in class on Wednesday 10/10.  Yes, we now have class that day if you haven't already heard.  This activity can be done in pairs or by yourself!
5. Make sure that you do a Mesocosm Observation today.  The final mesocosm write-up is due Thursday 10/11 through turnitin.com.

What are/have we been doing?

• Tues 9/25:  Kahoot review for ecology test.  Mesocosm Observations.  Turn in Whitaker Ponds assignment through turnitin.com by 9:00 pm tonight.
• Thurs 9/27:  Questions?  Take Ecology Test.  Mesocosm observations.  Read 5.3 for next week.
• Mon 10/1:  Notes on Classification, including reasons for classifying, classification categories, the 3 domains, and binomial nomenclature.  Work time:  1) Find 10 unusual species names and write them in your notebook 2)  Make up 10 species names using an analogy and at least 4 different genera  3)  DBQ on p. 262   4)  Mesocosm observations
• Wed 10/3:  Animal Phyla ID Lab!  4 Phyla of plants.  Complete hand-out and turn it in or turn in on Friday.  Mesocosm Observations.
• Fri 10/5:  Fish Dichotomous Key Activity.  Make your own dichotomous key for 10 items based on visible characteristics.  Make sure that you include pictures so that a student could do your key without knowing about the items.  Dichotomous Key is due Monday 10/16.  Read 5.4 in the text.