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Ms. Mathisen's SAT Level Biology Class (Part II) A&P, Botany, Ecology



Student Syllabus: High School Biology, Year 2

Week # Unit

Date 1

Anatomy & Physiology

2

Anatomy &

Physiology

3

Anatomy &

Physiology

4

Anatomy &

Physiology

5

Anatomy &

Physiology

6

Anatomy &

Physiology

7

Anatomy &

Physiology

Lessons

Homework

What's Living in My Mouth? (part one); You Make the Call; Your Immune System

What's Living in My Mouth? (part two); Who's on Our Side?; A System of Hats, Immune System Game

Sensory Organ Exploration Stations, Nervous System Experiment Design and Peer Review

Conduct Nervous System Experiment; Clay Brain; Giant Neuron Puzzle Peer Review of "Nervous System" Lab Report; Heart Disease Board Game; Human skin color case study

Carolina STEM Challenge: Circulatory System

Cow Heart Dissection

-Watch Vaccines ? Calling the Shots (If watching is technologically difficult/impossible, you may read the transcript instead.) -Finish illustration begun in class

-Read Ch. 40 -Do questions #1 ? 10, 11, 13, 15, 24 on p. 1057 -Read "How Vaccines Work" -Play "Fight the Disease in Illsville" -Read Ch. 35 -Do questions #1 ? 10 on p. 917 -Mantis shrimp online resource -Eye evolution video* -Optional: Tour the Tongue -Write "Nervous System" Lab Report -Read Ch. 18 -Do questions #1 ? 10 on p. 465 -Final draft of "Nervous System" Lab -Read Ch. 36 -Do questions #1-10 on p.939 -Optional: NOVA: How Does the Brain Work? -Optional: Sensory Systems -Read Ch. 33 -Do questions #1 ? 10 on p.867 -Optional: Map of the Human Heart

- Read Ch. 37 -Do questions #1-10 on p.967

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Anatomy & Reproductive System Model (Part I),

-Read Ch. 38, section 38-3

Physiology

Reproduction System Quiz Game, Biology of Contraception Brochure

-Read Ch.39 -Do questions #1 ? 10 on p.993 and #1 ? 10 on p.1027

-Optional: The Anatomy of

Childbirth



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Anatomy & Pregnancy Timeline, Reproductive System -Create an essay, poster,

Physiology Model (Part II), Asexual vs. Sexual

illustrated pamphlet, children's

Reproduction Strategy Modeling

book, cartoon, or other item to

explain one organ system, of your

own choosing. Be prepared to

share your item with your

classmates. -Optional: NOVA: Life's

Greatest Miracle



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Anatomy & Comparative Anatomy Scavenger Hunt,

-Review! Complete review sheet,

Physiology Review Activities

look over notes, re-read textbook

and handouts, etc.

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Botany

Anatomy and Physiology Unit Test

Photosynthesis Rummy

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Botany

Tobacco Hormone Kit (Carolina

Biological), Set-Up Day

-Read Ch. 22, 23 -Do questions #1 ? 10 on page

575 and questions #1-10 on page

605

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Botany

Modeling the Molecules of Photosynthesis; Rd. Ch. 24

Observing Photosynthesis in Elodea; Mini- -Do questions #1 ? 10 on page

photosynthesis experiments

629

-Bring in leaves or photos of

leaves of 10 different plants.

-Optional: Illuminating

Photosynthesis



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Botany

Design and Peer Review Transpiration

-Rd. Ch. 24

Experiments, Leaf Structure and Stomata -Do questions #1 ? 10 on page

15

Botany

Transpiration Experiments (Data

629 -Write "Transpiration" Lab

Collection), Translocation and Storage

Report

Organs, Data Analysis of Transpiration Lab -Bring in leaves or photos of

leaves of 10 different plants.

16

Botany

Leaf Variability and Adaptations, Stem and -Read Ch. 25

Leaf Scavenger Hunt, Flower Dissection, -Do questions #1 ? 10 on page

Flowers and Pollinators

651

-Optional: Flowers Modern and

Ancient



17

Botany

Evidence of Evolution: Form Fits Function -Read Ch. 15

-Do questions #1-10 on page 391

18

Botany

Tobacco Hormone Kit, Data Collection

-Read Ch. 21

Day; Human Impacts on Soil

-Do questions #1-10 on page 545

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Botany

Fruit Dissection, Design Your Own Fruit, -Read Ch. 16

Seed Dispersal, Natural selection of fruits -Do questions #1-10 on page 413

and seeds

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Botany

GMO research, discussion, and infographic -Write a children's book that

presentation

covers the most important things

about photosynthesis, things that

everyone should know. The

book should have 8 to 10 pages,

with pictures on every page and

no more than 30 words per page.

Remember, use textbook to

ensure that book is accurate.

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

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Botany

Review activities

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Review! Complete review sheet,

look over notes, re-read textbook

and handouts, etc.

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Ecology

Botany Unit Test

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

Owl Pellet Dissection/Data Collection

practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Read Ch. 3

-Do questions #1 -10 on page 83

-Optional: Population Ecology



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Ecology

Carolina Owl Pellet Kit, Population Growth -If taking Bio SAT II, do a

Experiment (First Day)

practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Read Ch. 4

-Do questions #1-10 on page 115

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Ecology

Habitat Choice Experiment

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

practice test or problem set, grade

What is a Niche?

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Read Ch. 34

-Do questions #1-10 on page 629

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Ecology

Species Interactions Scavenger Hunt,

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

Directional Selection Game

practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Biome Diorama

-Optional: The Human

Microbiome



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Ecology

Biome Diorama Presentations, Evolution -If taking Bio SAT II, do a

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Case Studies, Survival of the Fittest: What practice test or problem set, grade

Does this Mean?,

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Read cartoon:



-Find an example of evolution.

Explain why and how this

organism evolved. Note what

your source is.

-Read Ch. 5

-Do questions #1-10 on p. 135

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Ecology

Population Growth Experiment (Final Day), -If taking Bio SAT II, do a

Population Dynamics Game

practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Population Growth Lab Report

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Ecology

Nutrient Cycling: Carolina EcoKit:

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

Nitrogen Cycle

practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

Other Nutrient Cycles

wrong.

-Read Ch. 6

-Do questions #1-10 on page 163

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Ecology

Human Population Growth, Factors of

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

Population Growth, Dose and LD50 Levels practice test or problem set, grade

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

-Review! Complete review sheet,

look over notes, re-read textbook

and handouts, etc.

-Optional: Be a Demographer



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Ecology

Ecology Unit Test

-If taking Bio SAT II, do a

Mapping Out World Preserves, Top Ten practice test or problem set, grade

Environmental Concerns

it, and study the ones you got

wrong.

*This video illustrates concepts well, but it kind-of, sort-of misquotes Charles Darwin, which I find deeply annoying. Richard Dawkins quoted this portion of what Darwin wrote, "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. (Darwin 1872)"

That quote is correct as far as it goes, but Darwin continued his paragraph, "Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may

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remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound. (Darwin 1872, 143-144) He then continues with three more pages describing a sequence of plausible intermediate stages between eyelessness and human eyes, giving examples from existing organisms to show that the intermediates are viable. In other words, the BBC and Dawkins made this video ? but the essential line of reasoning was first published by Darwin in 1872. (Thanks to for putting the reference online so I didn't have to dig through a paper book to find it.)

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