9th+Biology

Welcome to 9th grade biology! We will be using this website throughout the year and you will be expected to keep up with the assignments. All papers will be handed out in class and you are responsible to print out additional copies if you lose any. **What is said in class supercedes this calendar. All grade 9 classes will operate on a day 1 and 2 schedule.** The first day of your class is day one and the second day is day 2.

Syllabus

Class Registration

__ SEMESTER TESTS: __ 9d- 6.12 9e- 3.12 9f- 5.11

Safety Family Crests ||
 * August **
 * ** Date ** 26.8 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Sign safety contracts ||  || Class Syllabus- refer to the link on the home page
 * 2 || [[file:bdol8-1.pdf]] || Safety contracts || Transport notes

Set up egg lab demonstration ||

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 * September **
 * ** Date ** 2.9 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 || Finish lab ||  || Diffusion lab
 * 2 || Finish outline ||  || Review Lab questions ||

Protist outline from book || stream, etc. ||  || Protist outline ||
 * ** Date ** 16.9 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Quick quiz
 * 2 || Bring in water sample from a pond, lake,

|| Alteration of Generations and the Evolution of Plants ||
 * ** Date ** 23.9 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 || Finish protist lab || water sample || Protist lab- look at preserved slides of protists and see if we can find any in the samples you brought in
 * 2 ||  ||   || Plant Overview- From Sea to Land


 * ** Date ** 30.9 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 || Finish part 1 ||  || Computer Lab- Part 1

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 * 2 || Finish part 2 ||  || Computer Lab- Part 2

[|http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/ind] ||

Part 1&2 || [|Alternation of generations animation 1] [|Alternation of generations animation 2]
 * ** Date ** || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  || The Great Plant Escape

Lecture bryophytes and pteridophytes || ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || Plant lab 1-2


 * ** Date ** || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Plant lab 1-2 ||
 * 2 || Finish plant lab 1-2 ||  || Plant lab 1-2 ||


 * October **
 * ** Date ** 7.10 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || NO SCHOOL- fall break ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || NO SCHOOL- fall break ||

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 * ** Date ** 14.10 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  || Plant lab 1-2 || Lecture gymnosperms and angiosperms
 * 2 ||  ||   || [[file:BIOLOGY Ch. 22.1-22.2 outline.docx]]

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 * ** Date ** 21.10 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 || Finish outline ||  || Outline Ch. 22.1-22.2 ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || Plant Lab 3-4

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 * ** Date ** || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Plant Lab 3-4 ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || [[file:Plant station 5.pdf]]


 * ** Date ** || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 2 ||  ||   ||   ||


 * Please ignore the calendar from here down, this is used for my planning purposes. **

Parts of a plant/photosynthesis What is photosynthesis? What is the equation? How do you balance an equation? Where does the oxygen get released from in photosynthesis? What was the experiment that demonstrated this? || What pigments are in plants? Which pigments are the most useful? Chromatography lab -Follow instructor's directions for lab ||
 * ** Date ** 3.9 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || [[file:bdol9-1.pdf]] || Lab safety contract || What is ATP?
 * 2 ||  ||   || What is a redox reaction?

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 * ** Date ** 10.9 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Finish plant lab ||  || Plant lab- identify different kinds of plant cells. Note pigments in each.
 * 2 ||  || Plant lab || Photosynthesis overview- big picture ||

||  || Light reaction drawing || photosynthesis review
 * ** Date ** 17.9 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Part 1
 * 2 || Part 2 of 9.2

Study for photosynthesis quiz || Part 1 of 9.2 || Light independent (dark) drawing ||

Redraw them both Review worksheets ||
 * ** Date ** 24.9 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Review light and dark reactions
 * 2 ||  ||   || Photosynthesis Quiz ||
 * October **
 * ** Date ** 1.10 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Plant video ||
 * ||  ||   || Fall break ||


 * ** Date ** 8.10 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Fall break ||
 * ||  ||   || Fall break ||

Photosynthesis lab review ||
 * ** Date ** 15.10 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Photosynthesis lab


 * ** Date ** 22.10 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Review ||
 * ||  ||   || TEST! ||

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 * November **
 * ** Date ** 5.11 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Finish hand out ||  || Plant unit
 * 2 ||  || Plant like protist outline || Plant powerpoint ||

||  || Finish protist outline ||
 * ** Date ** 12.11 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Plant diversity worksheet
 * 2 ||  ||   || No school-BERMUN ||


 * ** Date ** 19.11 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Finish computer lab webquest ||  || [[file:Protist lab.docx]] ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || No school-Thanksgiving ||

(file is too big to put online...come see me with a flash drive if you would like this document) ||
 * ** Date ** 26.11 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Plant PowerPoint
 * 2 ||  ||   || Continue PowerPoint ||
 * December **


 * ** Date ** 3.12 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || [[file:The Great Plant Escape Student.docx]]

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 * 2 ||  ||   || [|http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case1/ind] ||


 * ** Date ** 10.12 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Evolution of Plants ||
 * 2 ||  ||   ||   ||

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 * January **
 * ** Date ** 7.1 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Finish outline ||  || Outline chapter 22.1-.2
 * 2 || Study for quiz || Ch. 22.1-22.2 outline || Review outline

Plant chart ||


 * ** Date ** 14.1 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Study for quiz

Plant lab 1-2 ||  ||   ||
 * 2 || Plant lab ||  || QUIZ on evolution of plants

Plant Lab 1-2 ||


 * February **


 * ** Date ** 25.2 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Review day plant lab ||
 * ||  ||   || Quiz on plant labs

Man in Beans Cut square activity

Review expectations for next 2 weeks- (Miss Lyon is on the 8th grade ski trip) ||
 * March **
 * ** Date ** 4.3 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Reading guides Ch. 37 ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || Reading guides ||


 * ** Date ** 11.3 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || 9 d/e Reading guides

9f- w212 computer lab The Nervous System online activity ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || 9f- Reading guides at home (no 8th hour)

9 d/e- w212 computer lab The Nervous System online activity ||


 * ** Date ** 18.3 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || 9d- no school MSA presentations

9e/f- ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || 9d/e- no school MSA presentations

9e/f- ||


 * ** Date ** 25.3 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Easter break- no school ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || Easter break- no school ||
 * April **
 * ** Date ** 1.4 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Easter break- no school ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || Easter break- no school ||


 * ** Date ** 8.4 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  || Ch 37 outline || [[file:Man In Beans (PP).ppt]]

|| Depolarization/Repolarization animation Propagation of an action potential Synapse animation ||  ||
 * || Additional links:Inner Life of a Cell

Reflex arc animations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_ocr_21c/brain_mind/nervoussystemrev3.shtml http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/reflexarcs.html

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 * ** Date ** 15.4 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Nervous System website

The Nervous System video Action Potential video Anatomy of the Nerve video The Schwann Cell and Action Potential animation Animation Nerve Impulse || Synapse Computer Activity ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || Action Potential Computer Activity

optical illusions
 * ** Date ** 22.4 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || left vs right brain

[|Fight or Flight] || ||
 * ||  ||   || Reflex vs reation lab

Effects of Alcohol Effects of Meth Meth story of a girl Effects of Cocaine Effects of Ecstasy Effects of LSD || ||
 * ** Date ** 29.4 || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Effects of Marijuana
 * 2 ||  ||   || [[@http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html|Mouse Party]]

Effects of Alcohol Effects of Meth Meth story of a girl Effects of Cocaine Effects of Ecstasy Effects of LSD || ||
 * May **
 * ** Date ** 1.5 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Effects of Marijuana
 * 2 ||  ||   || Mouse Party


 * ** Date ** 6.5 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || The Drug Knot Movie ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || No school-ascension holiday ||


 * ** Date ** 13.5 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 ||  ||   || Senses- The Eye

[|The Senses Video] Color the anatomy of the eye ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || No school- Abi presentations ||


 * ** Date ** 20.5 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Semester project ||  || Senses Project

Eye anatomy

Eye Physiology Bill Nye Eyeball "Two Eyes" song Eye anatomy Eye worksheet Blindspot || Vision problems Astigmatism Eye Dominoes
 * 2 || Semester project ||  || Eye test

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coloring || Taste and Smell ||
 * ** Date ** 27.5 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Semester project || Eye worksheet
 * 2 || Semester project ||  || Taste-How Stuff Works

Smell during pregnancy ||
 * June **
 * ** Date ** 3.6 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Semester project ||  || Hearing

Mosquito ringtones

Anatomy of the Ear Anatomy of the Inner Ear ||
 * 2 || Semester project ||  ||   ||

Senses movie ||
 * ** Date ** 10.6 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1 || Semester project ||  || Present projects ||
 * 2 ||  ||   || Finish project presentation

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 * ** Date ** 17.6 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Online eye dissection


 * ** Date ** 24.6 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * July **
 * ** Date ** 1.7 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * July **
 * ** Date ** 1.7 ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||