Thursday, 10/31
Why are sloths the only mammal than can starve to death with a stomach full of food?
By Monday, do prelab flow chart making yeast spheres and testing the catalase reaction |
Friday, 11/1
Toothpickase lab - modeling enzyme activity and environmental conditions that affect enzyme activity with our hands and toothpicks. HW: See yesterday |
Monday, 11/4
Testing the catalase reaction - made yeast spheres and ran 10 trials under standard conditions HW: Design variables to test the effect of various environmental conditions on the rate of enzyme reaction. |
Tuesday, 11/5
Student designed labs HW due Thursday
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Thursday, 11/7
Graph enzyme data using rate: 25cm/AVG seconds Scale graph appropriately Finish Ch 6 homework, especially 6B - enzymes!! |
Friday, 11/8
Discussed enzyme lab graphs and explained the trends Enzymes and Cellular Regulation POGIL (cannot post) Through # 11 HW: Deadline for signing up for the AP Bio exam!!
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Monday, 11/18
Sloth model - why can it starve to death with a full stomach of food - what about the enzymes? Started Cellular Respiration Overview through first stop |
Tuesday, 11/19
Cell respiration Overview POGIL through 11 |
Thursday, 11/21
Notes on Oxidation/Reduction reactions and stepwise capture of energy Finished Cellulare Respiration Overview through #14 HW: Enzyme lab due!! Diffusion and Osmosis Lab last call! Retake any quizzes by Friday afternoon. |
Friday, 11/22
Pictorial lecture - finished glycolysis and "link" reaction DUE: D and O lab last call Enzyme lab |
Monday, 11/25
Finished Pictorial Lecture of Cellular Respiration including Kreb's cycle, Electron Transport Chain and Oxidative Phosphorylation |
Tuesday, 11/26
Completed Oxidative Phosphorylation POGIL |
Monday, 12/2
Covered Anaerobic respiration - fermentation at end of Cellular Respiration Overview POGIL |
Tuesday, 12/3
Cellular respiation quiz then discussion and scoring. Started Photosynthesis POGIL - through the first stop. Went over most questions. |
Thursday, 12/6
Photosynthesis POGIL to second stop Began discussion Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Lab on Monday and Tuesday HW Due Monday: Ch. 8 Reading guide -be ready for photosynthesis!! Algal Bead Lab -
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Friday - No School!
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Monday, 12/9
Prep for Algae Bead Lab |
Tuesday, 12/10
Ran algae bead lab Day 1 - Light and Dard |
Thursday, 12/12
Do Photosynthesis POGIL continued Planned experiments for algae beads |
Friday 12/13
Photosynthesis Pictorial Lecture - going through step by step. |
Monday, 12/16
Calvin Cycle part of Photosynthesis POGIL Finish experimental design of lab - ready for tomorrow |
Tuesday, 12/17
Algae bead lab - student designed |
Thursday, 12/19
Discussion/analysis of results Discussion of impact of wavelength of light on photosynthesis |
Friday, 12/20
Big overview of photosynthesis - diagramm of whole chloroplast with light reactions and Calvin Cycle |
Monday, 1/6
Photosynthesis Review HW: Algae Bead lab due Friday |
Tuesday, 1/7
Photosynthesis quiz and corrected together. Finished sloth story Started Bonnie BaslerTed Talk - How Bacteria Talk |