Day 13, Homework for Wednesday July 1

Wednesday's Homework:

1. Check out the night sky around dusk and see the convergence of Jupiter & Venus.
2. Get this permission slip signed and bring to class tomorrow.
3. Lab Write up for Lab Investigation #6. Note, the rubric is on Athena.
4. If you did not complete Activity 9.2 from your workbook, please bring it completed to class tomorrow. Complete 10.1 & 10.2 from your workbook  (you may have time after the lab to complete this but it is due before leaving tomorrow).
   
5. Complete any outstanding work that you have missing from the grade book. Please ask any questions about your grade or the class today. 
6. Read, review, and prep for the the photosynthesis lab investigation #5, (starting on p 61) for tomorrow (here).
7.  Watch this ~5min video on how to gently sink your leaf disks.

Think your Tuesday is going badly...?

Checkout the poor bloke on the tug boat.
Care to see the 'Ketchup n Fries' plant? 

Day 12: Homework for Tuesday, June 30th.

Ready Team USA?

Ready Team Photosynthesis!

 Homework for tomorrow (Tuesday):

1. Workbook Activity 9.2 (including testing your knowledge portion) Due
2. Read Chapter 10
3. Complete Chapter 10 RG
4. Complete Enzyme catalysis lab.
5. Continue to work on Lab Investigation #6 Cell Respiration Lab write up. The Rubric is here.
6. Begin to organize your materials for review in preparation for the midterm exam on Thursday.

If this skater gentleman is the electron moving down the ETC, what is the sign at the bottom that 'causes' this great 'reaction'?

Day 11 Homework (Monday, June 29th)

Happy Friday! Kiss week two bye and welcome the upcoming week of work. Week three will have only four days so, as always but perhaps more importantly, efficiency will be your friend.

Homework For Monday, June 29 :

1. Read Respiration Lab Investigation #6 in preparation for Monday's lab. 
2. Kreb's cycle article: read and answer questions.
3. Work on Enzyme Lab write up (Due Tuesday). 
4. Get Grade Sheet signed.
5. Pack signed sheets and bring on Monday!
6. Get Lots of sleep.

Dog funny!

 

Looking ahead, Monday we will be covering chapter 9.and carrying out  Investigation 6: Cellular Respiration on page S71. If you have a moment, read through this lab and begin designing a procedure to carry out testing your hypothesis. Think about which organism you would like to make use to test your hypothesis...I will provide mung beans, pea seeds and pinto beans but you may start germinating your own seeds (start this now by soaking them in water...turnip seeds might be nice) or you may consider using an animal like rolly pollies. The organism you choose needs to be able to fit inside a small syringe (5 or 10ml. Also, your formal lab write up for the Enzyme Lab is due on Tuesday so plan out how best to attack its completion whilst managing the rest of your homework. Wednesday we will be discussing photosynthesis, Chapter 10. Thursday will be the completion and turning in of your respiration lab (rubric here) and the final exam will be administered. This exam will be likely be 100MC questions with 50% or more of them coming from chapters 9 & 10. Plan your time accordingly next week so as to have time to begin reviewing chapters 1 - 10. The exam will be alloted 2 hrs. Please ask any questions or bring up any concerns you might have to your teacher. 

Day 10 Homework (Friday, June 26)

What a lab. It is so happy that you turnip.

Its bark is big but it does not bite!

Tomorrow (Friday) we will be wrapping up this unit (chapters 6 - 8) with a test.  Please spend sometime reviewing.

HOMEWORK:

1. Review for Chapters 6 - 8 Test
2. Complete any unfinished work that you have not turned in.
3. Begin writing up lab (Enzyme Catalysis due Tuesday)

Stayed Focused

Stay focused so you know where you have been!

Day 9 homework, June 25

Homework for tomorrow:

1. Bring signed grade sheet
2. Read lab investigation #13 for tomorrow and come with ideas about what self-directed experiment to run for each inquiry section.
3. Read "Procedure" steps 1 - 6 of how to employ the spectrometer, page 3.
4. Get very close to completing the Diffusion/Osmosis lab handout (see HERE). You will have some time in class to work on this but have it near ready to turn in as you enter the room on so that you can definitely complete it by break on Thursday. 
5. Complete workbook activity 8.1 & 8.2 and have it ready to turn in at the beginning of class.
6. Complete RG 8 and have it ready to turn in at the beginning of class.
7. Review for test on Friday (Chapters 6 - 8).
8. Tomorrow in class you will have time to work on Lab Investigation #13.

Model your experiments after what works.

Day 8 (June 24) Homework

Homework for tomorrow (7/24/15)

Don't let anything stop you from your work! 

1. Read Chapter 8 (look at online quizzes as time allows)
2. Chapter 8 RG
3. complete 7.1 - 7.2
4. Work on Osmosis/Diffusion Lab completion (see HERE for details) (Due Friday). 
5. Read AP Lab Investigation #13 Enzyme Activity and think about the experiment you and your partner are going to carry out. Think about the formal lab write up that will potentially come out of doing this lab.
6. Get those grade sheets signed, please: .

Jumping into the middle of this week this video could be used to illustrate the steps an enzyme's catabolic pathway!

Day 7 (June 23rd)

Textbook video: Tour of an Animal Cell (better than the Brain Bustin' Beat Boyz)

Homework for Tuesday is

1. Read chapter 7 & pp. 782-785 (water potential).
2. Great job on the cell presentations today! One more to go tomorrow.
3. If unfinished, complete Article #2, and do homework 6.1 in the student workbook for Biology.
4. Complete RG chapter 6 
5. Read Lab Investigation #4: Diffusion and Osmosis. You will design experiments based on the standard trials carried out in class. 
6. Complete any incomplete work from today (e.g. get signed and bring to class your grade sheet, RG Chapter 6, Microscopy Lab , ...).

(CLICK HERE for Link to Havard Cell Animation)

Day 6 Homework (6/22)

You all had a great week. Make sure you are getting enough sleep to keep your brain's operational capacity at its maximum. This weekend and upcoming week could be a bit challenging so don't hesitate to get started. Summer is coming! Sunday is officially the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
Check out the alignment of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon just after sundown this weekend by looking to the west.
Homework for Monday:

1. Share your cell organelle presentation with your instructor, please.
2. read Chapter 6
3. Work on completing the reading Guide for Chapter 6 
4. Complete your Cell Organelle Presentation. Here are the criteria.
5. Read chapter 1 - 3 (S1 -S16) in your lab manual for ideas about how to record your observations and complete a formal write up.
1. Student Lab Appendix here to help with graphs.
6. Rest, and spend time with friends and family.

Onion Cells undergoing Plasmolysis:

Get out and have some fun with your friends (Click here for ideas but make the sangria without ethanol) otherwise you will end up like this cat, chasing your own tail.

Day 5 Unit 1 Test: chapters 1 - 5

 We will take a few moments (~20) to review with a partner and get settled in for the test. Then, the test: Unit 1 Chapters 1- 5. After the test we will have time to work on your cell organelle presentations (bring your laptop) and potentially start another lab from our lab notebook (bring that, too).

HOMEWORK for Friday

1. Complete Workbook Activity 4.2/5.2 to be collected at the beginning of class
2. Review text for test (chapters 1 - 5)
3. Work on any reading guides you have not finished.
4. Wrap up any portions of the water lab or the macromolecule lab that you have not finished (lab notebooks will be collected).
5. Bring completed Cal Academy of Science handout.
6. Summer is coming. Do you know where your whale is?
7. Get lots of sleep and dream of whales spouting rainbows!

Day 4 Homework (June 18th) Field Trip to Cal Academy of Science

HOMEWORK for Thursday/Friday

1. Try to access the schoology site using course access code 53RHB-3ZQJX HERE
2. Please go to the room in the morning (not the bus) so attendance can be taken. Thanks.
3. Complete Workbook Activity 4.1/5.1 & 4.2/5.2 to be collected at the beginning of class on Friday
4. Review text for test (chapters 1 - 5)
5. Complete Water lab observations and analysis
6. Complete Macromolecule lab observations and analysis (Lab Notebook will be collected on Friday).
7. For the trip bring a pen/pencil, a device to keep time with (like a cell phone) and $$ or a sack lunch. HERE you can check out the menu of a restaurant in Cal Academy of Science.
8. Get plenty of sleep and don't forget to ...

Day 3 homework 6/17/15

Tomorrow in class we will wrap up the first unit by discussing chapter 5 (i.e. lecture) and complete a macromolecule lab. 

Homework for Tomorrow is as follows:

1. Complete Reading Guides for Chapter 3 & 4. Remember, you can turn those in to have them graded and returned before Friday. This will help you with studying for the test because you will better understand that which you do not know. Knowing what you don't know is half the battle.
2. Work on the water lab as best you can. We will finish it first off tomorrow in class.
3. Read the macromolecule lab in preparation for tomorrow (Do not print...I will have copies for you tomorrow). 
4. Complete 2.1, 3.1 from practicing biology. It should be turned in tomorrow at the beginning of class.
5.  If time allows begin organizing your material for review for the test. Reviewing early and often help make the learning more like latent (but not) learning and thus can give the appearance of making learning easy.
6. For the trip on Thursday, we will leave here (Harker) around 8 (so arrive at 7:50) and return to Harker between 3 - 4PM.
7. Go Warriors!

Name ALL the properties of water represented in this video

 

Ninja Van der Waal skills as the gecko grabs a white cabbage butterfly.

Day 2: Welcome (Post #1)

Welcome to our very own blogspot for summer ap biology. This site will allow us to communicate with you those things that are of importance and keep us synchronized in our effort to learn the course content. Weighting for this summer is 50% tests, 25% Homework (quizzes, R.G.s, ...) and 25% Labs.

Homework for tomorrow (6/16)

1. Read and answer questions for Article 1 (if you did not complete in class).
2. Complete your autobiography introduction (if not completed in class).
3. Get signed "criteria for credit-Harker Students" form for Mr. Barth.
4. Read chapter 2, 3 & 4 (Chemistry, Water & Carbon in Biology)
5. Complete Reading Guide Chapter 1 & 2 if time allows (due on Friday). 
6. If time, work on Ch 3 Reading Guide as you are reading the chapter.
7. Pack your laptop and bring to class tomorrow (and always).
8. If not already completed, Signature Page (Read Lab Safety, Integrity, Course Summary).    

Remember to get some sleep :)!