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Monday IB Biology - First off I wanted to let you know that I forgot to remind you about tomorrows Open House at the Health Occupation Center. If you are interested, I will have all of the details for you in class, or just look back to last week to see what it is. ...and yes, you will get a bonus. So, on to what we did today. First we started with our narrative of life. We are doing this because it allows us to see the connections between the microworld and the macroworld. This will help you set context for biology from here on. As we worked our way through the story of life we realized that we are now in the area of populations, communities, and ecosystems. After this conversation we then talked about what do we see in populations. We discussed the idea that if biological organisms' goal is to pass on their genes, how do they interact with the environment? You then took a walk around campus and tried to spot evidence of the interaction between living organisms and the surrounding environment. using very specific details I would like you to describe this/these observation using a claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER). Next, I would like you to go through chapter 9.3 in your text books. Using this material about plants, tell me how the concepts of plant hormones (IAA and Auxin), tropism, and cellular membrane pumps play a role in what you viewed on campus. ... The only wrong answers would be ones that are not supported by some evidence. This should be on a separate piece of paper for submission. Honors Biology - It was so good to see you all back from break! Today we simply started with a game, See Hunter. In the course of this game you collected data and made some observations. On the left hand side of your entry I want you to: first watch "The making of a theory" and record the "big ideas" of this movie. Once you have that, tell us how it relates to what we experienced today. Please come ready to discuss the movie using the notes you took. http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/origin-species-making-theory Tuesday IB Biology - Today we looked at the work that you were responsible for from last night. I noticed that we are falling a bit into the same state of "find and answer and write it down" that many of you like to opperate in. It's not what I want. I want you to be clever and to think about the concept and how it applies to our world around us. Many of you also did not follow instructions and created a CER statement. Unfortunately I will not give credit for work that does not fit the criteria. BE A THINKER DOER! Regardless, I introduced you to a project which will be to raise a potato from spud to flower! You and a partner will attempt to grow a potato flow from a spud as fast as possible. This will take some time, but there are "hacks" that can be found in chapter 9.3 and 9.4. Since you did the DBQ found on page 424 today, you should have an idea of one that you could use. Now tomorrow you have a guest coming to speak to you about organ donation in the US, but I would like you to only prepared for that by having a question in mind of our speaker, but when I see you on Thursday I would like you (with your partner) to give me what you plan to do to your potato to get it to grow fast using information from chapter 9.3 and 9.4. In your write up you MUST address the light-dependent and light-independent reactions of photosynthesis, how growers induce out of season blooming (chpt. 9.4), as well as educating yourself a bit about potatoes. Please show me a clear Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning behind your approach to get your potato to flower the fastest! Lastly, below your potato growing plan, please describe the pollinators, how fertilization occurs, and how seed dispersal happens with potato plants in nature. This will all be due Thursday and almost every concept should be in your book (chapter 9), you just need to attach the potato research part to it all. Honors Biology - Today we started by looking at the work you completed after watching the video. There were two reasons I had you do this: 1) To start to see the mechanisms of natural selection, but 2) so that you can see the falible human side to science. After looking at your work we then created a new entry called "Natural Selection and Evolution" and took notes on this right hand page while watching the interactive video "The Beak of the Finch". If you did not complete this, you can find the video here: http://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/interactivevideo/finchquiz/?_ga=1.170644904.943343696.1489160994 Now tomorrow you have a guest speaker coming to discuss organ donation in the US. I know, pretty unrelated, but it's the only time I could get them. I was going to make this more formal and have you make questions for our speaker, but I'd like you instead to come prepared with a question in mind in a very informal way. Don't let me see you space out if the speaker asks for questions!!! In addition to this first easy task I want you to go to below your notes (or on the next right hand page)on the movie from today and describe, with a minimum of one sentence each, what these four terms have to do with what was observed with the finches. Your concepts are: Variation, selection, inheritance, and time. Wednesday IB Biology - I think that our guest speaker was very interesting today, and the message is a good one. Tomorrow we'll be coming in and playing with potatoes! Make sure you have your write up exactly as I have explained in Tuesday's blog. DO NOT forget to bring whatever materials you will need for your potato. The clock starts running when class begins! Honors Biology - Today we had Mr. Gardinera as a guest speaker, and what a great speaker he was! Tomorrow, please come prepared with your homework from last night. See you then! Thursday IB Biology - Today we attempted three tasks. 1) label your mesocosm, 2) submit your potato plan and begin your planting, and 3) complete your Group 4 project reflection. This last one was the killer! Dow found the easiest way of doing it. Click the link below, fill it out, click PRINT on the document but go to SAVE AS and save it as a PDF, then place this in your drive. Lastly, send to me as an attachment. ...I think I got that right! In preparation for tomorrow's work please complete the DBQ on page 204. Do NOT use the online answers as I will ask you to personally explain if your lucky number is rolled. No idea=no credit. Honors Biology - Today our goal was to examine evolution and natural selection, but since we are a medical bio class we'll do this by examining human evolution. using the following interactive, please create a timeline in ANY way you think is best. http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-evolution-timeline-interactive Recreate the Homonids (Homo genus) in a time line, and then add answers to the following: What was the climate like, what are the "landmarks", and what is the differences in these species, but also magnify and add information on the brain, tools, and social milestones. USE COLOR CODING TO HELP US SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING 1) When did homo sapiens almost go extinct? 2) Which species existed the longest? 3) In the past we had many species of homonids, why do you think we are the only that remains? 4) 12000 years ago, why so special? This should all be on the RIGHT page of this entry titled, "Human Origins" What you can't find on this interactive, you can find with a little bit of research on your own. Friday IB Biology - Starting now and into next week we'll be working on looking at the ecosystem we call school. To do this accurately, the following will need to be addressed: Describe the species and populations (counts of species) at Granite Hills. To do this you should include the kind of organism they are (autotroph, heterotroph, consumer, producer, detritivore, saprotroph, etc.) as well as how many there are. You should identify how each of these obtains the necessary nutrition. To do this you will need to conduct a survey as described on page 207. You need to describe the communities of each region. You need to describe the communities by energy conversion as a pyramid and express it as heat loss as well, (pg.216-219). A food web might better suit this. The ultimate question we are trying to answer though is, Is it sustainable? You simply can't say yes, or no, you must use your work as evidence. This will be done as an entire group. Your work will be due by the end of next week. GREAT OPPORTUNITY: Summer Camp for Students - Neuroscience Camp (non-HASPI event) Join us for a two-week long program and learn about Neural Engineering, be exposed to exciting and current research in the field, and engage in hands-on activities. For more information, contact Bianca Aviña at[email protected]. Hosted by San Diego State University July 9th – 19th, 2018 9:00am - 1:00pm Sponsored by: National Science Foundation (NSF) EVENT FLYER Honors Biology - We started today by reviewing the big ideas of natural selection and evolution: Variation, Inheritance, Time, and Selection. We added these to the left hand side of the entry we started on Tuesday which dealt with the Beak of the Finch movie. Next, using the work on human origins that you did last night we reviewed what you did and then created a bulls-eye diagram of Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Florensiensis, and Homo Sapien on the left hand side. But our big question is how do we know that evolution is real thing? How is is supported by science? This started our new entry which is what I need you to do is use this click and learn activity that shows how we know about evolution in man: http://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/click/Skeletons/01.html?_ga=1.174644514.1695008675.1489950999 notes on the right side of this new entry. List the many attributes used. I need you to finish this before Monday. One last thing, please be sure to update your Table of Contents in your notebook. GREAT OPPORTUNITY: Summer Camp for Students - Neuroscience Camp (non-HASPI event) Join us for a two-week long program and learn about Neural Engineering, be exposed to exciting and current research in the field, and engage in hands-on activities. For more information, contact Bianca Aviña at[email protected]. Hosted by San Diego State University July 9th – 19th, 2018 9:00am - 1:00pm Sponsored by: National Science Foundation (NSF) EVENT FLYER
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