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Welcome to Biology!

Second Semester

FINALS!

When finished with the final, please go the the End of Year Course Evaluation.
When done, please return to your seat.
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!

Tuesday June 2 - Wednesday June 3

FINAL REVIEW (click here)
- Work through the review on your own.
- Studying is an independent thing - do not visit or distract your neighbor
- NO PHONES or other digital devices that will distract you from preparing for the final
- DO NOT WASTE your time - this study session is for YOU to help you be successful in Biology!

Wednesday May 27

Frog Dissection Lab
- Follow the instructions here.

Tuesday May 26

Presentation of owl pellet skeletons.
Frog Dissection Introduction Assignment
- Must be completed to join dissection tomorrow.

Monday May 25

No School - Memorial Day

Wednesday May 20 - Friday May 22

Owl Pellet Dissection Lab - Continued...

Tuesday May 19

Owl Pellet Dissection Lab

All students must have passing grade to participate in dissection. If you are not passing, see Mr. Beals immediately to get your make-up work so you can improve your grade and join us for dissection
Follow the instructions entirely.

Click the link for the Owl Pellet Dissection Lab.

Monday May 18

Visual Vocabulary - Vertebrate

Fold paper so you have 6 boxes on the front and 6 on the back.

Vocab Quiz on Friday

Invertebrate
Vertebrate
Chordate
Notocord
endoskeleton
amniotic egg
placenta
ectotherm
endotherm
mammal
eutherian
Wild Card (choose any key word in Ch25 or Ch26)

Friday May 15

Phylogenetic Tree Final

Exploring relationships in evolution: How does all this we've learned tie together?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/

Deep Tree
- On the main page of the NOVA Evolution Lab, click the "Deep Tree" in the upper left corner
- Watch the video
- Choose any two organisms and explore their "relatedness"
  - Write down a brief explanation (and diagram if necessary) of how they are related
- Continue until you have explored and written down the relatedness of 5 pairs of organisms
  - (that means 10 total organisms but you will only have 5 explanations)
- Put a heading on your paper with "Phylogenetic Tree Final" as the assignment.

Thursday May 14

Phylogenetic Tree Final

Exploring relationships in evolution: How does all this we've learned tie together?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/

Wednesday May 13

Working with your partner:

Alpine Ecology Tree ring count #2
- Visit each of the prepared tree cores and record the number of rings and the date the tree was born.
  - DO NOT USE PEN OR PENCIL ON THE CORES!
Macroinvertebrate Diversity Day #2
- Finish your diversity study using the bucket of creek water in the lab.
  - 10 Macroinvertebrates identified.
  - Macroinvertebrate Key click HERE

Monday May 11 - Tuesday May 12

We will be at Pioneer Park exploring the following:
- Plant Diversity - Classifying characteristics/traits of plants of the park
- Macroinvertebrate Diversity - Collecting and classifying macroinvertebrates from Pioneer Creek

Thursday May 7 - Friday May 8

Building a cladogram of leaves from Pioneer Park!
- Click here for activity
- Turn in on front table when finished.
Finish you Micro-ecosystems of Pioneer Park lab book
- This included the "Analysis and Conclusion Section" and the "Living Vocabulary" on the back.
- Instructions for "Living Vocabulary"? Look at Tuesday May 5
If you do not finish the "Micro-Ecosystem Lab Notebook" it is HOMEWORK and most be completed when you show up for the next class period of Biology - again...it is homework if you don't get it done in class!!!

Tuesday May 5

Visual Vocabulary Quiz - 14.1,14.2
Seats?
"Living Vocabulary"
- Using the vocabulary from Chapter 14.1,14.2, choose 5 words and explain how you experienced each of these processes happening in your area of study at Pioneer Park.
  - For example:
    1. Commensalism is where one organism benefits from an ecological relationship and the other is not affected. I saw this in real life in Pioneer Park when I observed moss growing on the North side of my cottonwood tree on the banks of Pioneer Creek. The moss is using the tree as a place to root and grow so the tree must be providing structure for the moss. The tree, as far as I can tell, is gaining nothing from this relationship. This is the "commensalism" in real life!

Monday April 27 - Thursday April 30

There are three assignments that must be completed. Finish them in the order listed below. Anything you DO NOT finish this week is homework and must be completed over the weekend. Do not waste time. Be respectful of your guest teacher and be amazing - OK?! Good.
1. Assignment #1 - RSVCP: Click here for instructions.
2. Assignment #2 - Finish your Tree Ring Analysis (instructions are posted below on Tuesday April 21)
3. Assignment #3 - Visual Vocabulary 14.1,14.2.
4. Remember ALL of these are due on MONDAY, MAY 4th! Have them completed!
Have a great week! I will tweet all the amazing things I get to do in D.C. including my meeting with President Obama! You can follow along @BealsScience

Tuesday April 21

Quizlet 15 minutes of studying for tomorrow's test
Tree ring data analysis (First count. Click HERE for data)

Alpine Ecology Tree Ring Data Analysis

4 Groups (to be assigned)
- 1. Find any outliers and record them as outliers
  - Do they need to be thrown out because they are too far from the others?
  - Record any outliers on your data sheet
- 2. Find mean and median of data given to you by Mr. Beals
- 3. Record Mean and Median on your data sheet
- 4. Write your Mean and Median on the data sheet on the SMART Board
- 5. Graph ALL of the tree core averages on your data sheet (use an appropriate graph!)
- 6. Answer the following questions on your data sheet:
  - 1. Explain why you chose the outliers that you did. Be specific and justify your data.
  - 2. Is the mean and median different for the data sets? Why? What does this tell us?
  - 3. Which tree is the oldest? How old is it?
  - 4. Which tree is the youngest? How old is it?
  - 5. Explain why these preserved tree cores could be beneficial to Biologist and Ecologist 100 years from now? Be specific.

Monday April 20

Radish Measurements - 3rd Measurement
Create an account in Quizlet - You MUST USE YOUR REAL FIRST AND LAST NAME!!!
Vocab Study (make a quizlet account)
- Study the words, play the games, make it count!
- Chapter 13.1,13.2 Quiz Review
- Chapter 13.3,13.4 Quiz Review
- Chapter 13.4, 13.5, 13.6 Review

Friday April 17

Vocab Quiz 13.4-.5-.6
Read/Outline 13.6
- All Ch13 outlines should be done by Monday
- They will be graded
Wolves of Yellowstone

Thursday April 16

Radish check, no water(?)!
Yellowstone's Wolves - record important facts RSVCP

Wednesday April 15

Radish check and water! (How many more days?)
Read/Outline 13.5 (Due tomorrow!)

Tuesday April 14

Radish check and water! (How many more days?)
- Visual Vocabulary Ch 13.4, 13.5, 13.6
  - Fold paper hot dog style then grilled stuffed burrito style. Write the definition in your own words, draw a picture to describe the definition!
  - QUIZ on FRIDAY!
  1. Decomposer
  2. Specialist
  3. Generalist
  4. Trophic Level
  5. Food Web
  6. Hydrologic Cycle
  7. Biogeochemical Cycle
  8. Nitrogen Fixation
  9. Biomass
  10. Energy Pyramid
  11. -troph
  12. -geo

Monday April 13

PIR DAY!

Friday April 10

Quiz: 13.3,13.4 Vocab
Notes/Outline Due - 13.3,13.4 (see Thursday)
Video clip: Return of the Wolves - The Next Chapter
- http://video.pbs.org/video/2365145208/

Thursday April 9

Discuss Yellowstone Wolf Paper - Trophic Cascade
Finish Tree Rings
Read/Outline 13.3,13.4
- In notes, nicely, draw a food web (similar to p410) but with animals of Yellowstone.
- Include:
  - Wolf, Grizzly, Elk, Deer, Moose, Eagle, Grass, Trees, Flowers, Beetles, the Sun, and 4 other animals/plants of your choosing.
  - Label each as producer or consumer.
  - Draw an arrow to show the direction that energy flows from one organism to the other
- DUE FRIDAY!

Wednesday April 8

Radish Growth Data #2
- Tree Core Counting!
  - See Wednesday April 1

Tuesday April 7

Kimchee and Sauerkraut
- ph?
- Taste?
- How did they form?
Visual Vocabulary
- Fold your paper hot dog style then grilled stuffed burrito style.
- Write the word, a definition in your own words, and draw a picture to describe the definition.
  1. Producer
  2. autotroph
  3. consumer
  4. heterotroph
  5. chemosynthesis
  6. food chain
  7. herbivore
  8. carnivore
  9. omnivore
  10. detritivore
  11. -omni
  12. -hetero

Thursday April 2

Assignment 1
- Read: "Will gray wolves save the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem" by Craig Beals (thats me!)
- When finished answer the following question is a well-written paragraph with complete sentences and evidence from the paper and/or class.
  - "What did you learn?"
- Assignment 2:
  - Continue with the Ecological Monitoring Tree Ring count from yesterday. Please be accurate in your counts! Download the pictures for better resolution (you can zoom WAY in if you download).

Wednesday April 1

Ecological Monitoring Tree Ring counting
Please record the exact number of tree rings along with the information provided about the ring.
- Picture 1: Tree #1 Core: North
- Picture 2: Tree #1 Core: South
  - Picture 3: Tree #2 Core #1
  - Picture 4: Tree #2 Core #2
  - Picture 5: Tree #3 Core #1
  - Picture 6: Tree #3 Core #2
  - Picture 7: Tree #4 Core #1
  - Picture 8: Tree #4 Core #2

Biology Links

Calendar
Biology Roots
Syllabus

Tuesday March 31

Collect Homework - Review answers
Check outline from 13.1,13.2
Radish water check
Ecological Monitoring Project Overview.
Kimchee pH
Saurkraut pH

Monday March 30

Bottle Biology - TerrAqua Column - Radishes Data Collection
Read/Outine: Ecology 13.1, 13.2.
- When finished, see Mr. Beals for today's homework assignment.
Assignment: DUE TOMORROW!
- 13.1 p400 #1,#2 (choose either #3 or #4)
- 13.2 p404 #1,#2 (choose either #3 or #4)

Friday March 27

Bottle Biology
- Kimchee!
- Sauerkraut!
  - See handout at bottom of page for instructions.

Thursday March 26

Bottle Biology - TerrAqua Column - Radishes

Wednesday March 25

Termite Races!!
- Be sure to do the conclusion and input your data on the lab Termite Study sheet.

Tuesday March 24

Termite Study Day 2!

Friday March 20

Vocab Quiz - 13.1, 13.2
Termite study day !

Thursdaty March 19

Bacteriology Data Analysis and Conclusion (see link below)

Wednesday March 18

Bacteriology Day 5 and Clean up

Tuesday March 17

Bacteriology - Observation only
- Remove from incubator, examine changes (if any), return to incubator upside down and return to front of room for discussion.
Assignment: Visual Vocabulary 13.1,13.2 DUE WEDNESDAY AT BEGINNING OF CLASS!
- Fold paper hot dog style, then grilled stuffed burrito style. This gives you six squares on the front and six on the back!
- Definition should be in your own words and should be accurate. Picture should describe the definition of the word.
Ecology introduction

Monday March 16

Bacteriology Lab - Day 4

Wed - Fri March 11-13

MontCAS testing
- Bring pencil and SSR book

Tuesday March 10

Outside! - Microecosystems of Pioneer Park
- Bring your Microecosystems Field Notebook

Monday March 9

Day 3: Bacteriology Lab

Friday March 6

Incentive Day

Thursday March 5

Chapter 11 - Evolution of populations VOCAB QUIZ
Day 2: Bacteriology Lab (click lab instructions from yesterday)

Wednesday March 4

Bacteriology Lab Instructions

Tuesday March 3

Chapter 11 Visual Vocabulary
DUE Tomorrow (Wednesday).
1. Gene pool
2. Allele frequency
3. microevolution
4. gene flow
5. genetic drift
6. bottleneck effect
7. founder effect
8. sexual selection
9. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
10. speciation
11. behavioral isolation
12. geographic isolation

Thursday Feb 26

Post Test Self Evaluation: CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT FORM
Post Test - Fixing the problems you missed
- Compare answers with lab partner to see which ones you got wrong.
- Write out the correct answers on the back of your ZipGrade
Finish your drawings for MicroEcosystems

Wednesday

Pioneer Park - Microecosystems OUTSIDE
- Gone today? See Mr. Beals for instructions.

Tuesday Feb 24

TEST!
- Evolution and Natural Selection (Chapter 10)

Monday Feb 23

Turn in Review from Friday
Study for Test
Turn in Lab: BeanBugs (see attached lab sheet on the bottom of this page)

Friday Feb 20

Assignment: Evolution Review (Chapter 10)
- Ch 10 Review: #8,10,11,13,16, pg 325 #1-6 DUE MONDAY

Tuesday Feb 17

Visual Vocabulary - Due TOMORROW - QUIZ ON FRIDAY!
1. Artificial Selection
2. Heritability
3. Natural Selection
4. Population
5. Fitness
6. Biogeography
7. Homologous Structure
8. Analagous structure
9. Vestigial structure
10. Paleontology

Tuesday Feb 11

Video continued - See Monday Feb 10 for instructions.

Monday Feb 10

Video: Darwin's Darkest Hour
Miss class? Watch the video at the link below and answer the questions on the handout "Darwin's Darkest Hour PBS" attached at the bottom of this page.
- Watch the video for free here: http://video.pbs.org/video/1286437550/

Tuesday, February 3

Visual Vocabulary
- Fold your paper hot dog style (in half long way), Fold your paper grilled stuffed burrito style (like a letter). Crease.
- Open paper and you have 6 equally sized boxes. Use these for each word in visual vocab.
Chapter 10 visual vocab:
1. Evolution
2. Species
3. Fossil
4. Catastrophism
5. Gradualism
6. Uniformitarianism
7. Variation
8. Adaptation

Monday, February 2

Video: Ghost in your Genes
- Miss class? Watch the entire video at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4LGZlHSAQY
- Answer all of the questions on the worksheet "Ghost in your Genes" attached at the bottom of this page.