BIOLOGY CALENDAR

Calendar

August

September

October

November

December

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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2	3: HW (if not completed in class): WKSTs for 18-1, 18-2, 18-3; Quck Lab (LAB #2) (p.453--in lab notebook)	4: Lecture and practice: phylogeny and cladograms; HW: create cladogram for shark/ray or salamander list (HINT: Use dichotomous key)	5: DUE: Cladogram, etc.; Review for Unit 1 test	6: Review for Unit 1 Test (Juniors taking ASVAB)	7:Unit 1 Test	8
9	10: LAB #3: Chemistry Inquiry Lab (p34); Lecture: Nature of Matter; HW: PRELAB pH LAB, WKST 2-1	11: LAB #4: pH Lab; HW: WKST 2-1	12: Lecture: Biological macromolecules	13:	14:LAB NOTEBOOKS DUE;	15
16	17: Test Review?	18: Unit 2 Test Review	19: Unit 2 Test	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

January

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1	2	3: Unit 2 Test Diagnostic and discussion	4: Lecture 2-1, self-quiz	5
6	7: Cell Inquiry Lab	8: Lecture 2-2, self-quiz	9: Lecture 2-3, self-quiz	10: No school	11: Lecture 2-4, self-quiz	12
13	14: Unit 2 Re-test	15: Cell: Unit Outline; Cell Model assigned; 7-1 groupwork and self-quiz	16: 7-2 Jigsaw: Cell Organelles	17: 7-2 Self-Quiz and Review; Begin 7-3 Lecture	18: Cell Project workday	19
20	21: No School	22: Cell Projects Due; Cell Project Evaluation	23: 7-3 Lecture; 7-3 Self-Quiz	24: 7-4 Activity and Unit Review	25: "Cells" Test	26
27	28: Unit Outline; Discussion: cell division	29	30	31

February

March

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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2	3	4: First day of class; review syllabus; "What's an animal" Inquiry Activity; Lecture: Survival; HW: Survival Collage (Due 3/6), p663 Q1-5 (Due 3/5)	5: Go over HW; Quiz 26-1; HW: Sponge Flipbooks (Due 3/6)	6: Collect Survival Collage; Evaluate Sponge Flipbooks; Sponge/Cnidarian Lab	7: Quiz 26-2; Cnidarian Flipbooks	8
9: WASL Week	10: Evaluate Cnidarian Flipbooks; 26-3 Quiz; HW: Practice Test (Due 3/14)	11: (see 3/10)	12: Review for test	13: (see 3/12)	14: TEST: Sponges and Cnidarians (Quizzes and Practice Test DUE)	15
16	17: Begin Chapter 27: Worms and Mollusks; HW: Worms Flipbook (Due 3/19)	18: Flatworms Microscope Lab; Self-Quiz 27-1; HW: Finish Worms Flipbook	19: Evaluate Worms Flipbooks; Lecture 27-2; Self-Quiz 27-2; Research in Library (3rd Per. Only) (Due 3/26)	20: Lecture 27-3 (PPT); Self-Quiz 27-3; Review Project Expectations	21: "Eaten Alive" Video and Reflection (SUB)	22
23	24: (1st period in library to make up 3/19); Mollusk Flipbook (Due 3/25); Optional Extra Credit (Due 4/7)	25:Evaluate Mollusk Flipbooks; Lecture: Mollusks; HW: Finish Projects For Tomorrow	26: Research Presentations/ Projects DUE; Research in Library (Presentations Due 4/9); Project Guidelines	27:TEST: Worms and Mollusks (In-Class: Vocabulary; Take-home: Written Responses)	28: Short Schedule (No Class)	29
30	31

April

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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6	7: Test Due; EC Due; Arthropods! Lab with Vernal Pool invertebrates	8: Finish Arthropods! Lab (Due 4/10); Begin Chapter Outline (Due 4/10)	9: Arthropods Research Presentations; Research in Library (Presentations Due 4/23)	10: Chapter Outline & Lab Due; Echinoderm Flipbook	11: Crayfish Dissection	12
13: WASL Week	14: Sea Star Dissection	15: Discussion of Dissections; Concluding Lecture of Arthropods and Echinoderms; Vocabulary Quiz; Work on Evolutionary Trends Posters	16: (see 4/15)	17: Vocab Test; Work on Evolutionary Trends Posters (Due 4/21)	18: (see 4/17)	19
20	21: Evaluation of posters; Oral Testing; Introduction to Chordates and Vertebrates	22: Dogfish Dissection; HW: Finish Lab Qs (Due 4/24); WS 30-2 (Due 4/24)	23: (Fish, Amphibian, Reptile or Bird) Research Presentations; Research in Library (Presentations Due 4/30)	24: Lecture: Chordates, Fish; Survival of Fish Small Groups; Quiz 30-1	25: Survival of Fish Small Group Presentations; Fish Videos; Quiz 30-2; HW: WS 30-3, 31-1 (Due 4/28)	26
27	28: Observe Frogs; Discuss Amphibians	29: Quiz 30-3; Discuss Reptiles, Birds; HW: WS 31-2	30: Mammal Research Presentations; Research in Library (Presentations Due 3/26)

May

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
				1: Finish Birds; 31-2 Quiz; Begin Mammals + Small Group "Mammal" Presentation Prep	2: Small Group "Mammal" Presentations; Mammals Video; HW: Test Review, 32-1, -2, -3 WS	3
4	5: Chordates Test Review	6: TEST: Chordates	7: Nervous System Disease/Disorder Research Presentations; Research in Library (Presentations Due 5/14)	8: Introduction to Human Body Systems; Finish Posters; Evaluate Posters	9: Guided Notes: Nervous System WS; HW: Finish WS (Due 5/12)	10
11	12: Nervous System Video; Finish Nervous System WS; Nervous System Quiz; HW: Extra Credit (Due 5/16)	13: Define Key Vocabulary From 36-1; Begin Arm Lab	14: Muscular, Skeletal, Integumentary Systems Research Presentations; Research in Library (Presentations Due 5/14)	15: Finish Arm Lab; Evaluate Arm Lab (Oral Quiz); Ch 36 Key Concepts WS	16: EC Due; Ch 36 Discussion; Ch 36 Quiz; Begin Student-Led Learning Project (Due 5/20, 5/21(?))	17
18	19: Work on Student-Led Learning Projects	20: Work on Student-Led Learning Projects	21: Period 1: Present Student-Led Learning Projects; Period 3: Endocrine System Research Presentations; Research in Library (Presentations Due 5/28)	22: Present Student-Led Learning Projects	23: Period 1: Endocrine System Research Presentations; Research in Library (Presentations Due 5/28) ; Period 3: Present Student-Led Learning Projects	24
25	26	27: Review Student-Led Learning Worksheets; Big Quiz over Chapters 37, 38	28: Immune System Research Presentations; Brief Lecture and Video: Endocrine System; Begin Hormone Modeling Lab	29: Hormone Modeling Lab	30: Video: Reproductive System + Discussion	31

June