AM bio 11 week of May 1st

AM Bio 11
Monday - Review dikaryotic stage of fungi, check your lab, Notes: Classification of Fungi

Homework: using these presentation slides, complete the questions handed out in class. 

Thursday - Discuss questions, Notes: Control of Fungi, check mold lab & begin writing it up.

Blocks 2 & 3 week of April 24th

Blocks 2 & 3

Monday - finish Cnidarian lab (omit Class Scyphozoa section) - submit by end of class

Tuesday - Group work on comparing Porifera to Cnidarians, complete porifera & cnidarian columns on Animalia Table, Notes: Phylum Platyhelminthes, Video: Shape of Life Cnidarians.

Wednesday: Platyhelminthes notes continued, start Platyhelminthes lab (just prepared slides).  These images might help you.

Class Turbellaria  – PlanariaDugesia sp.

Class Trematoda  –  FlukeClonorchis sinensis

Class Cestoda  –  TapewormTaenia sp.

Thursday - Lab continued with live Planaria; Worksheet: Planaria (do not hand this in, I can't handle any more marking ... we will discuss on Monday)

AM Bio week of April 24th

AM Bio 11
Monday - set up Fungi lab & review for Arthropoda & Chordata Test that is on Wednesday.

Wednesday - Arthropoda & Chordata test, post-test terms to define: Haploid chromosomal number (n), Diploid chromosomal number (2n), Sporangium, Spores, Gametangium, Gametes, Dikaryotic = a cell that has 2 nuclei

Thursday - Check fungi lab (record observations), Notes: Characteristics of Fungi and the 3 typical body plans

AM Bio 11 Apr 20th

AM Bio 11

- Finish Aves & Mammalia notes
- Discuss Mammalia reproductive groups and endo/exoskeleton (find slides here)

Reminder: Test on Arthropoda & Chordata on Wednesday

Blocks 2/3 week of April 18th

Blocks 2 & 3:

Tuesday - return and correct Taxonomy, Monera & Protista tests and review for tomorrow's midterm

Reminder re: Midterm: 31 m.c., 12 matching, 3 diagrams to label and/or discuss, 12 short answer BUT you choose 6 to respond to.  No organelles, mitosis or meiosis...start at genetics.

Wednesday - Midterm

Thursday - Porifera notes, worksheet on porifera (due at end of class... key found here)

Friday - Cnidaria notes, Draw the Life Cycle of a Cnidarian, Start Lab: Exploring Cnidarians

Blocks 2 & 3 - week of April 10th

Blocks 2 & 3

Midterm next Wednesday!!!

Monday - Presentations, Key for Protists notes found here, Review for tomorrow's test (quizlet and review sheet under review tab above).  For test identify and label: bacteria and the 3 protists (euglena, paramecium, amoeba)
Tuesday - Test on Taxonomy (Classification), Kingdom Monera and Kingdom Protista
Wednesday - starting Kingdom Animalia & Review time
Thursday - Phylum Porifera & Review time
Midterm next Wednesday

AM Bio 11 week of April 10th

Before-school Biology 11 class:

Monday - For homework you watched and wrote notes Mrs. Shuck's vodcast on Characteristics of Phylum Chordata.  Today we will dissect Subphylum Vertebrata in a little more detail by completing a table on the 7 classes.

Homework: Watch this video on external frog anatomy

Wednesday - Lab: Frog External Anatomy - drawings, fill-in-the blanks and questions are due today!

Homework: Watch this video on internal frog anatomy

Thursday - Lab: Internal Frog Dissection - drawings and questions due on Monday

Reminder: Test on Arthropods & Chordates on Monday, April 24th

Blocks 2 & 3 - week of Apr 3rd

Here is the plan (if you are/were away, you will need to check with a friend to see what we got to).  Early notice: Kingdom Monera & Protista test next Tuesday.

Monday - Submit formal bacteria labs (3 of them); Bacteria notes (continued) and Evolution and ecology of bacteria notes

Tuesday - Guest speaker: "The Science in Sports" - please take a moment to complete this survey AFTER our presentation (http://mysurvey.letstalkscience.ca/). Antibiotic resistance article and questions.

Wednesday - Introduction to Kingdom Protista and start on guided notes for the phyla of protista

Thursday - Lab: Live Protist Culture (observe & complete table in lab).  When finished, continue with guided notes from yesterday.

Friday - WEAR RED - Go Spartans!!!  Flex day: finish up any loose ends from this unit and review for Tuesday's test on Kingdom Monera & Protista.

AM Class - week of Apr 3rd

Monday - Notes: Arthropoda   

Homework: watch both videos below in preparation for Wednesday lab (note - class on Wednesday this week NOT Thursday)

External Crayfish Dissection 

Internal Crayfish Dissection

Wednesday - Crayfish dissection (Diagrams and questions due Monday)

Homework: complete lab and write notes from this introductory video on Phylum Chordata