9th+AP+Prep

Welcome to 9th grade AP Prep 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.**

Syllabus


 * TEST on 6.12 **

Review class procedures || Design your own experiment- Vitruvian man lab || Safety contract || Enzymes Liver lab ||
 * August **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 27.8.12 || [|Class registration] ||  || Class introduction- refer to syllabus at the top of the page
 * || Vitruvian man lab write up ||  || Safety
 * September **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 3.9 || Vitruvian man lab writeup ||  || Labor Day- no school ||
 * 6.9 || [[file:Enzyme Reactions Worksheet.pdf]] || Vitruvian man lab writeup

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 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 10.9 ||  || Enzyme reaction worksheet || [[file:Lactase enzyme lab for students.pdf]]
 * 13.9 ||  ||   ||   ||

Plan and perform || Write organelle name and function on sheet ||
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 17.9 ||  ||   || Enzymes skit
 * 20.9 ||  ||   || Color plant and animal cells


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 24.9 ||  ||   || Finish cell work ||
 * 27.9 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * October **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 1.10 ||  ||   || Work day in computer lab ||
 * 4.10 ||  ||   || No school- fall break ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 15.10 ||  ||   || Work day in computer lab ||
 * 18.10 ||  ||   || Work day in computer lab ||

for cake building! :D || Paper || Presentations ||
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 22.10 ||  || PowerPoint presentation || Presentations ||
 * 25.10 || Bring in supplies

Discuss functions of each organelle in detail ||
 * November **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 29.10 ||  ||   || Build cell cakes!
 * 1.11 ||  ||   || [[file:FermentationRespirationLab.pdf]]

Hand out cell books ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Discuss books and ask questions ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 26.11 ||  ||   || [[file:SymbiosisWorksheet.docx]] ||
 * 29.11 ||  ||   || [[file:Biomeworksheet.pdf]]

Resources: http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/biomes/biomes.cfm [] [] [] [] [] [] ||


 * December **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 3.12 ||  ||   || Computer lab- Biome project ||
 * 6.12 ||  ||   || TEST

Computer lab- Biome project ||

Biome presentations
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 10.12 ||  ||   || [[file:BiomesPPT.pptx]]

Fill in packet together || Slides 15-33 ||
 * 13.12 ||  ||   || PowerPoint slides 1-15


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 17.12 || finish drawing the cycles ||  || Nutrient cycles-draw and describe what is happening below diagram ||
 * 20.12 ||  ||   || The Lion King! ||

Carbon, Water, Phosphorus, Nitrogen || Videos- Biogeochemical Cycling Coevolution Ecological succession ||
 * January **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 7.1 ||  ||   || Cycles- draw and summarize in a paragraph below
 * 10.1 ||  ||   || Finish rest of PowerPoint Ecology


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 14.1 || Bring in dirt sample ||  || Vocabulary Quiz

Finish drawing cycles and descriptions ||
 * 17.1 ||  || dirt sample || Gram Staining lab



Climatogram activity ||

outline of chapter 22 ||
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 21.1 ||  ||   || Population ecology
 * 24.1 ||  ||   || Interpreting ecological data

Bean mark and recapture lab ||

11th hour? Planet in Peril? Inconvienient Truth?
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 28.1 ||  ||   || Conservation Ecology ||
 * 31.1 ||  ||   || Conservation movie

Recycled art project ||


 * February **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 4.2 ||  ||   || Winter break ||
 * 7.2 ||  ||   || Winter break ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 11.2 ||  ||   || Renewable articles ||
 * 14.2 ||  ||   ||   ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * March **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 4.3 ||  ||   || Outline evolution chapter/worksheets ||
 * 7.3 ||  ||   || Outline evolution chapter/worksheets ||
 * 4.3 ||  ||   || Outline evolution chapter/worksheets ||
 * 7.3 ||  ||   || Outline evolution chapter/worksheets ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 11.3 ||  ||   || Outline evolution chapter/worksheets ||
 * 14.3 ||  ||   || Outline evolution chapter/worksheets ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 18.3 ||  || Recycled art project || Recycled art project presentations ||
 * 21.3 ||  ||   || MSA presentations- no class ||


 * ** Date ** || ** Homework ** || ** Due ** || ** Assignment ** ||
 * 25.3 ||  ||   || Spring Break ||
 * 28.3 ||  ||   || Spring Break ||
 * April **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || Spring Break ||
 * ||  ||   || Spring Break ||

Great Transformations video ||
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 8.4 ||  ||   || Review evolution worksheets ||
 * 11.4 ||  ||   || Finish reviewing evolution worksheets


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 15.4 ||  ||   || Pom Pom lab ||
 * 18.4 ||  ||   || Earth Day coloring worksheet ||

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 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 22.4 ||  ||   || The Giving Tree ||
 * 25.4 ||  ||   || [[file:Origin of Life.pptx]]


 * May **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 30.4 ||  ||   || Evoltuion vocabulary pictures ||
 * 2.5 ||  ||   || Evolution vocabulary pictures ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 6.5 ||  ||   || Review Evolution vocabulary pictures ||
 * 9.5 ||  ||   || no school ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 13.5 ||  ||   || [[file:Chapter 13New.pptx]]

Microevolution Pom Pom demo ||
 * 16.5 ||  ||   || No school- Abi presentations ||

||  || Taxonomy
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 20.5 ||  ||   || No school- Pentecost ||
 * 23.5 || Semester project

Shoe lab?

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 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 27.5 || Semester project ||  || No school- Memorial Day ||
 * 30.5 || Semester project || create your own key || Caminicule lab
 * June **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 3.6 || Semester project ||  || Human evolution webquest
 * 6.6 || Semester project ||  || Human evolution webquest ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * 10.6 ||  || Semester project || Human evolution museum ||
 * 13.6 ||  ||   || Secrets of the Dead ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * ||  ||   || [[file:How We Are Evolving article.pdf]] ||


 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * July **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||
 * July **
 * ** Date ** ||  ** Homework **  ||  ** Due **  ||  ** Assignment **  ||