Biology Honors
Homework: 9/17/09
Page 50 in Biology book stating with Process and Procedures answer all the questions and continue through the Analysis on page 51.
Graphing Homework for Prey Predator simulation:
Please graph the final population for Hunt 1 (not the individual Hunters). Each color of dot should be represented on the graph, and how many of each was left over at he end of that Hunt. You also need the same graph for Hunt 2.
Be sure to add a title to each graph. Add a conclusion (good chunky paragraph) to the graphs explaining what happened to the population and why.
9/22/09
Using the Biology book answer questions on page 56-58 about Iceman and the artifacts that were found with him. Answer through question #9 (no need to do Analysis).
9/23/09 In the book starting on page 43 we are going to complete the next 4 sections that teach about Science from 4 different type of scientist's view. These will be done in groups but each person will answer questions on their own sheet of paper. The following is some hints for each group, but you must answer all the questions in each of the sections from the book.
Paleontologist: pg. 43
Skip Activity in Question #2
Strata Layers- Green= Hyracotherium
Red = Merychippus
Blue= Equus
Read essay in book on page 102 and 104
Evolutionary Biologist: Pg. 44
Do not color in packet-- make your own drawings.
Draw your own Bat and Human bone diagrams
Read essay on Page 107
Developmental Biologist: Bottom of pg. 45
After putting puzzle together, get key from Ms. Brown
Read essay on page 107
Add what you learned about DNA to your own paper.
Physical Anthropologist: Page 47
Be careful with Bones and be sure to wash your hands
Read essay on page 110
Draw your own pictures of the skulls
All of this material will be tested in a quiz next week.
9/24/09 Continue the 4 Scientist Activities.
9/28/09 Finish 4 Activity groups Class discussion on Homologous and Vestigial Structures. Reviewed 4 Activities from previous days.
9/29/09 Block day- Groups came up with requirements to be considered "Living". Read article on page 121 about Mars and life, followed by class discussion on Life in the Universe. Groups then made short presentations on each of the Unifying Principals of Life.
10/2/09 Discussion and introduction of Classification system (Binomial Nomenclature) Students then classified a group of Birds of Prey by their given traits.
10/5/09 Students will watch beginning of Zebra film to identify and classify different zebra breeds. Students will take notes, with a class discussion afterwards. Notes on classification, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, species
10/6/09 Finish Zebra activity with your group.
10/7/09 Reviewed for Test "Mama" died : (
10/9/09 Students will observe a number specimens that were passed around the room and through their observations
will try to determine their classification and the traits they are classified by.
10/12/09 Test
10/13/09 Graded and discussed Test
10/14-- 10/16 Students worked on Graph packet. Ms. Brown not here.
10/19/09 Notes on Homeostasis. Definition, and examples in animals and human body plus Osmosis in cells and
different solutions. Hypo, Hyper and Isotonic solutions
10/20/09-- Students read page 151 in Biology book. Students then answered question 2 on page 150 and 1 and 2 of
the Analysis on page 150.
10/21/09 Students were "acquainted" with their egg. made observations of the egg, discussed story that was read in
Biology Book. Looked at soda, energy drinks, and juice for sugar content.
10/22/09 After being put into groups students designed their own experiment to test Osmosis, and made observations
of the egg.
10/23/09 Students completed Egg Osmosis experiment.
10/26/09 Students will observe Osmosis of an onion cell in a microscope.
Students will then begin a cell project to test what they remember of the cell.
10/27/09 Students will complete the Cell project.
11/2/09 Students will use the Owl book (page 73) and an Essay in the Biology book (pg. 220) to create a drawing of
the Circulatory System and it's components.
11/3/09 Students will take the test.
11/5/09 Students will take notes on Circulatory System, focus on the path of blood through the heart.
11/9/09 Students will be in the computer lab working on Science Fair Projects.
11/10/09 Students will be in the computer lab working on Science Fair Projects.
11/12/09 Students will answer questions about Heart Attacks and Procedures used to help them.
1. What is a heart attack? (M.I.) What happens to the heart?
2. Explain what Atherosclerosis is and what could effect it.
3. Can it effect other parts of the body? How?
4. Explain Coronary Artery Disease and what other disorders it can cause.
5. What is Angina? (This is not reproduction)
6. Explain all the "things" that can cause Angina.
7. How can too much exertion cause Angina?
8. What are the symptoms and treatments?
9. How does Atherosclerosis cause a Heart Attack?
10. What are 7 symptoms of a Heart Attack?
11. Why does some heart muscle die in a heart attack?
12. What occurs with Heart Failure?
13. What happens in Ventricular Fibrilation? How do you treat it?
14. What are 5 lifestyle risk factors that can lead to a Heart Attack.
15. How are Heart Attacks diagnosed?
16. How do a woman's chances of having a Heart Attack compare to her getting breast Cancer?
17. Why is it harder to diagnose a woman for a heart attack than a man?
18. Choose 4 Procedures or Surgeries and give a light description of each and how the treatment helps
people.
11/16/09 Students will take notes on the Circulatory system, and will receive a packet of Anatomy visuls to be used in their studies.
11/17/09 Students will calculate % of cells in Blood, and take notes on components of blood. Powerpoint on
circulations in body and arteries, veins and capillary bed.
11/18/09 Student will complete a series of 3 activities regarding the circulatory system.
1. Students need to create a simple experiment that will show the relationship between body activity and heart rate. This should be simple, and should include a problem, hypothesis, data and a conclusion.
2. Heart sounds-- Use the stethescope to hear your own heart and after reading the heart sound paper and then write a paragraph about how the heart rate and sounds of the heart change as we go from an infant to an elderly person.
3. Blood Pressure-- Using the cuff, find your partners blood pressure, it may take a couple of times. Write a short paragraph explaining Systolic and Diastolic pressure. What factors could change either the Systolic or Diastolic pressure and explain why.
11/20/09 Students will finish the Circulatory Stations. Students will discuss a documentary called "The Blood
Detectives" after watching it.
11/23/09 Given a list of vocab that pertain to the respiratory system students will define them in their own words and then read in Owl book the mechanisms of the Respiratory system.
Vocab- Expiration, Inspiration,
11/24/09 Students will observe a pair of Lungs and discuss how the lungs will react to maintain homeostasis.
Given different extreme situations students will identify how the body will react in order to maintain
homeostasis.
Have a Grate-Full Break!!
11/30/09 Students will be introduced to the pH scale and will read pages 40-42 in Owl book. Then answer question
16 on page 44. Define solvent, solute, solution, acid, base, and dissociation.
12/1/09 Students will complete a pH worksheet and will be prepped for the pH lab the next day, and talk about pH in the body.
12/2/09 Students will first make an hypothesis about different substances and their proposed pH. They will then use pH paper and pH meters to test their Hypotheses.
12/3/09 Immune system, Triage + Hospital and General Homeostasis Benchmark first, then my Final on 16/17th.