Updated May 2007
First Nine Weeks
Week
of August 20 assignments:
Issue textbooks class rules, needed materials; Start answering chapter 1
worksheet; PowerPoint: Introduction to Biology; Set up notebooks
Week
of August 27 assignments: 
Explain website & work on & complete chapter 1 worksheet ;
PowerPoint on scientific method; Scientific Method & Safety; Safety &
equipment worksheet and TEST; Handout: Writing lab reports
Week
of September 3 assignments: 
Lab: Heart Rate & the Scientific
Method;
*Chapter 1 Test; Read & outline chapter 2 on Chemistry
Week
of September 10 assignments:
PowerPoint:
Chemistry; Symbols & Formula handout; chapter 2 outline due; Worksheet on
atoms & molecules; *Symbol & Formula TEST
Week
of September 17 assignments: Interims 
Lab: Chromatography of Inks; Chapter 2 Chemistry TEST; Read & outline chapter 3 on Biochemistry; start PowerPoint: Biochemistry
Week
of September 24 assignments:
Lab write up due!; Chapter 3 outline due;
Assign nucleotide model; complete Biochemistry ppt
Week
of October 1 assignments: 
Video: Organic Compounds; Lab: Building
Organic Molecules; chapter 3 study guide; TEST on chapter 3 Biochemistry; Read
& outline chapter 4 on Cells; Organic Model due!
Week
of October 8 assignments:
Lab: Water Properties; Assign Chapter 4
Cell drawings; chapter 4 outline due; start PowerPoint on Cells
Week
of October 15 assignments:
Continue ppt
on Cells; Work on cell drawings
End of First Nine weeks
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-AP Biology
Biology
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Second
Nine Weeks
Week of
October 22 assignments: 
Assign Cell Model; Cell drawings due; chapter 4 study guide; TEST on chapter 4 Cells; Lab: McMush; Read & outline chapter 5 on Homeostasis & Transport
Week
of October 29 assignments:
Cell models due; PowerPoint: Homeostasis & Transport; McMush lab write up due
Week
of November 5 assignments:
Chapter 5 outline due; study guide for chapter 5 test; Lab: Egg Osmosis; TEST on chapter 5 Homeostasis & Transport; Read & outline chapter 6 on Photosynthesis
Week
of November 12 assignments:
Interims
PowerPoint: Photosynthesis; Video
Photosynthesis; Chapter 6 outline due; Lab: Chromatography of
Plant Pigments; chapter 6 study guide
Week
of November 24 - 28: 
Week
of November 26 assignments:
Chapter 6 TEST on Photosynthesis; Read & outline
Chapter 7 on cellular respiration, Start Cellular Respiration
PowerPoint: Chromatography
lab write up due
Week
of December 3 assignments:
Lab: Making Root beer; Complete
chapter 7 cell respiration PowerPoint; study guide for chapter 7 test; *TEST on
Chapter 7 Cellular Respiration; Read & answer chapter 9 worksheet
Week
of December 10 assignments:
Cover cell cycle, chromosomes, mitosis
& meiosis; chapter 9 worksheet due; TEST on Chapter 9 Cell Division; Review
for Semester Test
Week
of December 17 assignments:
Review for semester test!
End of First Semester
Pre
-AP Biology
Biology
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