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Materials - please bring a 3-ring binder and textbook to class each day: February Assignments/Due Dates: Feb. 15th/16th Lab:  Human Karyotyping activity pdf pairs can turn in one set of karyotypes (4 total: 2 normal - a male and a femaie, and two abnormal karytypes assigned to your pair) each individual student should complete the research questions about the abnormal cases Feb. 15th per. 4/16th per. 6 classwork:  pg. 484 ch. 23 define "Understanding the terms" Feb. 14th classwork: DNA mutation activity pdf Feb. 13th per. 6/Feb. 10th per. 4- Testing Yourself pg. 505-506 #1-28. Feb. 10th per. 6/ Feb. 13th per. 6 - RNA simulation activity -lab day January Due Dates 1/3 1/4 1/5 1/6 Mitosis Quiz today! Know diagrams and phases of the cell cycle - ch. 5.1 and 5.2 1/9 Please plan to bring your textbook to class on a regular basis 1/10 1/11 Classwork today: Per. 5/6 lab Wed.:  Students should complete “Mitosis and Meiosis” worksheet activity with cut outs of chromosomes.  .  Students should individually draw out phases with chromosomes labeled on white paper - one side mitosis, one side meiosis.   1/12 Classwork today: Per. 3/4 lab Thurs. Part 1:  Students should complete “Mitosis and Meiosis” worksheet activity with cut outs of chromosomes.  .  Students should individually draw out phases with chromosomes labeled on white paper - one side mitosis, one side meiosis.   (per. 3/4 and per. 6) Part 2:  Students should complete two diagrams, labeled and colored.  First, pg. 96 fig. 5.15  Life cycle of humans and Second, pg. 97 fig. 5.16 Spermatogenesis and oogenesis.  Students should use white paper and colored pencils/markers which are either out on the front teacher lab bench or are in one of the long, center drawers in the front teacher lab bench. Part 3:  Students should create a list comparing oogenesis and spermatogenesis, listing similarities and differences in two columns. 1/13 no school today 1/16 Martin Luther King Jr Day No School Today 1/17 Midterm Review Packet You will be assigned a portion of this packet to work on in class each day for several days.  You will receive a photocopy of the packet in class. Today's in class assignmnet:  pages 1-4 of review packet 1/18 Carb's and hydrolysis/dehydration reactions power point to review! Look back to 12/15 for link to Eukaryotic Cells/organelles power point to review! 1/19 1/20 1/23 Work with your lab group to review from your study guide packet and practice for your exam! 1/24 Work with your lab group to review from your study guide packet and practice for your exam! 1/25 1/26 Midterm exams 1 & 2 today 1/27 Midterm exams 3 & 4 today 1/30 Exams 5 & 6 today 1/31 Exams 7 & 8 today December Due Dates 12/1 12/2 Cells quiz today, know prokaryotic and eukaryotic characteristics, know organelles/cell parts and functions! 12/5 Online microscope/cell activity due (some students finished in class, others took home to finish!) 12/6 12/7 12/8 12/9 Cell processes packet due 12/12 Plasma membrane power point here! Neuromuscular Junction You Tube Link 12/13 12/14 Cell to cell communication Lab Report Due 12/15 Study and Review for your test tomorrow!!! Eukaryotic cells power point to review 12/16 Chapter 3 and 4 Test Today!!!! 12/19 onions and potatoes lab due today - you are turning in labeled microscope questions and answered questions from the packet using complete sentences! 12/20 Mitosis power point with sample whitefish blastula and allium root tip slides 12/21 12/22 12/23 Enjoy Winter Break! See you in 2012! November Due Dates 11/1 catalase lab due 11/2 11/3 11/4 homeostasis/feedback questions from wkst. answered in ntbk. and color diagrams due today 11/7 11/8 pH lab due today Test on Chemistry - basic chem and organic molecules... all ch. 2, notes, worksheets, etc... 11/9 11/10- school closed 11/11- school closed 11/14 11/15 2nd m.p. begins drawings from lab yesterday/Friday are due if you did not turn in yesterday 11/16 11/17 11/18 ch. 3 vocabulary terms due current events group 4 11/21 11/22 Per. 6 - all microscope drawings (labeled!!!!) due today 11/23 Per. 4 - all microscope drawings (labeled!!!) due by today 11/24 Happy Thanksgiving school closed 11/25 school closed Shopping anyone? 11/28 11/29 11/30 Cell models with Key due October Due Dates 10/3 10/4 Isotopes stapled 2 pages worksheets hw due 10/5 10/6 Water observations lab questions due **Quiz on chemistry.... includes everything from ch. 2 we've done so far, all chem handouts in notebook 10/7 10/9 Compunds lab -drawings and questions due ball and stick molecules pdf use these examples to help you draw your structural models if you did not get to build each one in class 10/10 HW - due  - pre lab assignment:  in lab section of notebook, explain what Lugol's and Benedicts's solutions indicate in terms of carbohydrates. Per. 5/6 lab activity due - finish hydrolysis and dehydration reactions (total of six written out) 10/11 10/12 10/13 10/17 10/18 10/19  Quiz today Ch. 2 test yourself questions and nucleic acid diagrams due Organic chemistry graphic organizers due 10/20 Organic chemistry graphic organizers due 10/21 10/24 10/25 10/26 10/27 Enzyme activity in Pineapple/Gelatin Lab due- complete only the parts listed on your assignment sheet 10/28 Rewrite of worm lab due Per 4 Quiz on Enzymes today Per 6 - Catalase pre-lab assignment due 10/31   Happy Halloween! Per 6 Quiz on Enzymes today Per 4 - Catalase pre-lab assignment due Assignment Due Date Observation and Response to Stimuli - Earthworm Lab Report Fri. 9/30 2.2 Chemistry packet Bring to class completed 9/26 Chemistry model kit Lab packet Mon. 9/26 - packet will be collected and graded Rewrite of Pendulum Lab - mandatory Mon. Oct. 3rd Study for Chem Quiz Fri. Sept. 30 Water Observations Lab Questions Thurs. Oct.6th Assignment Due Date Course information sheet signature 9/12 Laboratory Safety contract signature 9/12 Ch. 1  sect. 1.1 and 1.2 Define bold vocabulary terms in ntbk. per.4  Due Thurs. 9/15   per. 6 Due Wed. 9/14 Pendulum Lab Report per. 4 Due Thurs. 9/22 per. 6 Due Wed. 9/21 Ch. 2  sect. 2.1-2.2 Define bold vocabulary terms 9/20