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Mon 10/28:   Introduce Classification.  Dichotomous Key action alongside fish, done inwards pairs.  Then, equally a pair, yous should brand your ain dichotomous fundamental to organize x objects of your choice.  They tin last animals, songs, books, characters, people, etc. Wed 10/30:  Last Beak  quiz (Chapters 10-12).  Lab identifying organisms from half dozen dissimilar invertebrate phyla.  Introduce cladograms. Fri 11/1:  Making cladograms using amino acid sequences from on-line databases.

Monday 11/4:  SPARK Lecture on Sensing Sound today at 3:30 inward 169. Tues 11/5:  Dichotomous Key due for sixth (Thursday for seventh period).  Exchange keys.  Questions on Molecular Evidence WS?  Finish in addition to plough in.  Go to Computer Lab to produce on-line Cladogram Activity.  Hand out Evolution Review. Thur 11/7:  Deadline for whatsoever belatedly operate for the quarter.  Finish on-line Cladogram activity.  Start going over Evolution Review.  Test side past times side Midweek in addition to Thursday. Friday 11/8:  Teacher Work Day.  No School.  SPARK write upwards tin hold upwards turned inward using turnitin.com through today. Mon 11/11:  Veteran's Day.  No School!!

I promise you lot are enjoying your calendar week off from school!  Remember that you lot withdraw to complete the "Joe Eats a Burger" information tabular array for Monday 12/2 too you lot should accept a enquiry enquiry too excogitation for information taking for the Populations Lab (see documents if you lot don't accept it) past times Midweek 12/4.  Also retrieve to snuff it your Cadaver Field Trip flat signed past times 12/4. Mon 12/2:  Turn inwards Joe eats a burger.  Notes on villi too microvilli.  Overview of digestive enzymes.  Start Circulatory System worksheet.  Quiz on components of the total too blood menses on Friday.  Finish reading Chapter 41 too starting fourth dimension 42. Wed 12/4:  Turn inwards Cadaver Field Trip Form.  Turn inwards enquiry plans for Populations Inquiry.  Blood menses through the heart.  Include chambers of the heart, valves, of import vessels.  Difference betwixt arteries, veins, t...

Mon 12/9:  Cadaver Lab Field Trip!  Be inwards cast yesteryear 11:40-11:45, in addition to thence nosotros tin transportation away assemble to leave.  Bring something to eat, your Tri-Met pass, in addition to warm clothes. Wed 12/11:  Class cancelled due to Snow Day. Fri 12/13:  Feedback on Field Trip?  Check off Heart Worksheet.  Finish upwards Notes on the Circulatory System in addition to starting fourth dimension the Respiratory System.  Hand out Review Sheet for Digestion, Circulation, in addition to Respiration.  Read 42.5-42.7 Mon 12/16:  SPARK Lecture on Brain Cancer today.  Finish Respiratory System in addition to review the dissimilar systems. Wed 12/18:  Review for Digestion, Circulation, in addition to Respiration Test to get got on Friday. Fri 12/20:  Turn inwards Review.  Take Test.  Turn inwards Populations Lab (a difficult copy) in addition to a virtual re-create through turnitin.com. ...

It is too thence exciting getting all of your labs coming in!  Many of you lot convey asked most the turnitin.com data for this year.  The Class ID is:  7134730 too the Password is:  darwin Let me know if you lot convey whatever problems submitting your lab.  Enjoy the residue of your break! Ms. Kenny

I can't believe Winter Break is over, simply alas, it is.  That's okay because 2014 is going to hold out a slap-up year, the twelvemonth that yous graduate from high schoolhouse as well as displace on to exciting novel things! The deadline for slow operate as well as extra credit for this semester volition hold out Friday, Jan 17th.  It is coming upwards fast, as well as hence delight continue that inward mind. Mon 1/6:  Muscle Contraction Video as well as Muscle Contraction Worksheet.  Complete it for Wednesday.  Introduce Disease/Disorder Mini-Project.  Optional quiz on the bones of the human skeleton on Wed 1/8: Wed 1/8:  Optional os quiz.  Get Muscle Worksheet checked off.  More on musculus contraction.  Research for Disease/Disorder Project. Fri 1/10:  Dissecting chicken wings.  More on muscles, tendons, ligaments.  With leftover time, operate on project. Mon 1/13:  Turn inward fly dissection worksheet i...

› Lab Should Include:   Question › Background › Short procedure › Data tabular array (observations, uncertainty) › Data processing, calculations, tests, graphs? › Conclusion › Evaluation:  at to the lowest degree three uncertainties/limitations together with three suggested improvements to procedure You volition become points for Question, Background, together with Short Procedure, simply volition non locomote assessed on IB criteria for these parts (Design).  You WILL locomote IB assessed inward Data together with Data Processing together with Conclusion together with Evaluation. Final Lab should locomote turned inward equally a difficult re-create together with through turnitin.com

Long fourth dimension no see!  Come prepared to direct maintain a curt Biochemistry exam on Midweek 2/12.   Wed 2/12:  Short biochemistry quiz.  Finish AIDS/Vaccination worksheet too become over.  Immunology Quiz on Friday.  Get Group IV Project Field Trip cast signed correct away!  By Fri please!  Fri 2/14:  Turn inwards Antibiotic Lab.  Immunology Quiz.  Start Excretion/The Kidney.  Start reading Chapter 44. Mon 2/17:  President's Day.  No School.   Wed 2/19:  Group IV Project.  Check scientific discipline classroom doors for your grouping too motility into at the appropriate room past times 8:10 on Wed.  You volition move busy alongside this projection all day!  Be prepared to move an active squad member. Thurs 2/20:  This is the get-go scheduled twenty-four hr catamenia of the Teacher Strike.  If things haven't been settled past times then, delight depository fiscal estab...

  6.3  Immunology 6.3.1 Define pathogen. 6.3.2 Explain why antibiotics are effective against bacteria exactly non against viruses. 6.3.3 Outline the component of peel together with mucous membranes inward defense forcefulness against pathogens. 6.3.4 Outline how phagocytic leucocytes ingest pathogens inward the blood together with inward trunk tissues. 6.3.5 Distinguish betwixt antigens together with antibodies. 6.3.6 Explain antibody production. 6.3.7 Outline the effects of HIV on the immune system. 6.3.8 Discuss the cause, transmission together with social implications of AIDS. 11.1 Defence against infectious disease  11.1.1 Describe the procedure of blood clotting. 11.1.2 Outline the regulation of challenge together with response, clonal alternative together with retentiveness cells every bit the solid pose down of immunity. 11.1.3 Define active together with passive immunity. 11.1.4 Explain antibody production. 11.1.5 Describe the production of monoclon...

Fri 2/21:  Some notes on the human kidney.  Watch "Crash Course Excretion Video".  Kidney simulation on computers.  Color Kidney (1st side) together with Nephrons together with other minor parts (2nd side).  Read 44.3-44.5. Mon 2/24:  Functioning of a nephron.  Review Cell Topics for Quiz on Wednesday.  Finish coloring kidney. Wed 2/26:  Short Quiz on Cells (topics inwards previous post, emphasis on eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic cells, together with membranes).  Kidney Simulation alongside your group.  Practice together with and hence demonstrate to Ms. Kenny.  Review Kidney for Quiz on Friday. Fri 2/28:  Kidney Quiz (not a "test", simply longer than the jail cellphone review quiz on Wednesday).  Start homeostasis together with nerves past times working on Nerves, Homeostasis, together with Hormones Worksheet.  Do Nerve Impulse Computer Simulation.  Guess what?  We are having about other quiz on ne...

Mon 3/3:  Go over Resting Potential/Action Potential too Synaptic Transmission.  Work on Nerves too Hormones Worksheet.  Read parts of Ch 40, 45, too 48. Wed 3/5:  Get Nerves too Hormones WS checked off.  Homeostasis too Hormones.  Insulin too Glucagon.  Type I too Type II Diabetes.  Review topics for Cellular Respiration too Photosynthesis. Fri 3/7:  Nerves too Hormones Quiz.  Start Human Reproduction.  Roles of hormones inward the menstrual cycle!! Mon 3/10:   Draw too label diagrams of the manly someone too woman someone reproductive systems.  What fun for a Monday!  Start introducing inward vitro fertilization (IVF). Wed 3/12:  Finish IVF too verbalize over ethical issues.   Spermatogenesis too oogenesis.  Drawing a mature sperm too a mature egg.  . Fri 3/14:      More on spermatogenesis too oogenesis.  Fertilization.  The purpose of HCG inward early on pregnancy...

Mon 3/17:  No Cell Resp together with Photosynthesis quiz today or this week!  We volition commencement reviewing these of import topics this week, simply it doesn't appear to brand feel to quiz until nosotros convey reviewed some.  Last twenty-four hours for checking off Reproduction Coloring.  Function of the placenta, early on development, together with birth.  Reproduction Quiz/Short Test on Friday.  Mr. Minato is doing a SPARK lecture today at 3:30! Wed 3/19:  Review the Reproduction System together with review photograph together with prison theater cellular telephone respiration.   Fri 3/21:  Quiz/Short Test on Reproduction.  Review instructions for Spring Break.

Mon 4/7:  SPARK Lecture:   doc Peter Hurlin of Shriners Hospital for Children:  A Wholistic View on Embryonic Development, Evolution, too Cancer Tues 4/8: Turn inward Eye Dissection if non already.  Check off Eye too Ear coloring.  Structure too Function of parts of the Human Brain, sympathetic too parasympathetic control, educatee reflex, encephalon death, perception of hurting too endorphins.  Video on Einstein's Brain. Thurs 4/10:  More on neurotransmitters too synapses.  The effects of cocaine too THC.  Causes of addiction.  Practice data-based questions. Fri 4/11:  Teacher Work Day for End of third Quarter.

Welcome to the quaternary Quarter together with Your Last Quarter of High School!! (edited) Mon 4/14:  Types of animate beingness behavior.  Finish neurobiology information analysis questions together with evaluate using the IB Markscheme.   Wed 4/16:  Finish demeanour notes.  Video on Bees!   Plan for the side yesteryear side ii + weeks.   Finish neurobiology information analysis questions together with evaluate. Fri 4/18:  Review Topics for the IB Exam:  Mitosis/Meiosis, Genetics, Replication, Transcription, Translation, together with Enzymes.  Lactase together with lactose-free milk.  Group exam on Neurobiology side yesteryear side Midweek 4/25.

This is my best thought-out excogitation for prepping for the IB Exam, although at that spot may last things nosotros require to change.  I volition update this site equally that happens. Wed 4/16:  Wrap upward Behavior Notes.  Finish Data-Based Questions too evaluate. Fri 4/18:  Review topics for IB:  Mitosis/Meiosis, Genetics, Replication, Transcription, Translation, too Enzymes.  Also, nosotros volition comprehend the theme of lactase too lactose-free milk, which nosotros haven't talked virtually silent too is a frequent theme on IB exams.   Hand out Review for Neurobiology too Behavior grouping bear witness to last taken on Midweek 4/23. Mon 4/21:  Review topics for IB:  Biotech topics too plants.  Also, nosotros volition stimulate got whatsoever questions you lot stimulate got virtually Neurobiology too Behavior. Wed 4/23:  Neurobiology too Behavior Group Test.  I volition assign the groups of iii too you lot voliti...

Mon 5/19:  Submit innovation for your Body Response Group Lab.  Tend to your institute together with update institute journal. Wed 5/21 together with Friday 5/23:  Take information for Body Response Lab together with rootage writing it up.  Be a plain of written report for other testers!  Tend to your institute together with update institute journal. Wed 5/28:  Work on Body Response Poster.  Tend to your institute together with roll upwards journal. Fri 5/30:  Turn inwards Plant Journal.  Presentation of Group Posters. Tues 6/3:  Last Day of Class!  End of ii twelvemonth summative experience.

Add to Plant Journal:  Paragraph summarizing what you lot learned, what surprised you, what you lot would produce differently inward the future.  Plant magazine is due Fri, May 30th or Tues June third if you lot withdraw to a greater extent than time.  

This website volition hold upward a resources for yous every 2nd yous embark on ii years of higher flat IB Biology.  Here yous tin detect useful links, virtually degree documents, in addition to a fairly-well updated schedule of what nosotros are doing inward class.  Come hither offset if yous missy class, lose a hand-out, or simply can't scream upward what is due.  Feel gratuitous to email me at mkenny@pps.net if yous accept whatsoever questions at all.  I'm non connected to the spider web 24-7 similar many people these days, but I produce endeavour to response inside 12-24 hours.

Tues 9/2:  Introduction to class, fill upwards out Student Information Sheet, mitt out Safety together with Academic Honesty Contracts (due signed past times Tues 9/9), Demonstrate Early Work, Start Brine Shrimp Lab (counting cysts).  Bring TI-84 calculators this calendar week together with next. Thurs 9/4:  Review brine shrimp calculations.  Count alive shrimp together with calculate percentage hatching.  Hand out pregnant figure rules together with worksheet.  Go over calculating average together with incertitude together with counting sig figs together with produce 1-9, 18-20, together with the dorsum of the worksheet for Monday. Mon 9/8:  Characteristics of a expert graph.  Using LoggerPro to brand expert graphs.  Graph the information from the two information tables on the dorsum of the pregnant figure worksheet. Tues 9/9:  Turn inward signed Safety together with Academic Honesty contracts if non already.  Calculating alon...

Monday 9/15:  Making Frequency Distributions.  Continue working on the Statistics Packet, which volition live on due tomorrow.  I volition too banking concern gibe off the TI-84 Activity inward flat tomorrow. Tues 9/16:  Turn inward Statistics Packet.  Check off TI-84 Activity.  Questions on Statistics?  Questions on Classroom Expectations?  Chemistry Review done alongside flat text books. Thurs 9/18:  Finish Chemistry Review as well as plough in.  Water Olympics Lab.  Start Coloring inward Dictionary of Biochemical Building Blocks.  Statistics Quiz side yesteryear side Tuesday 9/23.