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Buford High School CURRICULUM CALENDAR

COURSE: Biology SEMESTER: 1 and 2

TEACHER(S): Jason Burton, Pam Jones, Tamia Rowland, Dale Tyson

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WEEK DAY CONCEPT OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES STANDARDS(CCGPS, GPS, AP)

Week 1 Friday, 8/3 Biology Course Introduction

What do you expect for our biology classroom procedures?

1. Attendance and seating chart.2. Syllabus and Classroom Procedures3. Cube Activity

n/a

Monday, 8/6 Biology prior Knowledge

What is your prior knowledge of biology?

1. Biology pre-test2. Lab Safety Activity.3. Lab Safety Sheet (Flynn) to get signed and returned.

SCSH1-6

Tuesday, 8/7 Scientific Method How do scientists investigate and try to solve scientific problems?

1. Pre-test Results/EOCT Domains2. Scientific Method and Metric Notes/G.O.3. HW: Metric System Notes and Problems

SCSH1-6

Wednesday, 8/8 Scientific Method How do scientists investigate and try to solve scientific problems?

1. Review and Turn in Metric Problems2. Lab Equipment Activity/ID3. Making Measurements Lab4. Metric Problems and Graphing5. Preview in Scientific Method Lab

SCSH1-6

Thursday, 8/9 Scientific Method How do scientists investigate and try to solve scientific problems?

1. Review and Turn in Metric and Graphing Problems2. Scientific Method Lab.

SCSH1-6

Friday, 8/10 Scientific Method How do scientists investigate and try to solve scientific problems?

1. Finish, review and turn in scientific method lab.2. Pre-view Characteristic of Life and Ecology

SCSH1-6

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Week 2 Monday, 8/13 Ecology and Levels of Organization

What is ecology and how is the living world organized?

1. Introduction Ecology and LOO Notes2. LOO Pop Corn Activity3. Energy Pyramid Graphic Organizer

SB4b

Tuesday, 8/14 Energy Flow How does energy flow through an ecosystem?

1. Review and turn in G.O.2. Food Web Activity3. Food Chain and Web Worksheets

SB4b

Wednesday, 8/15 Energy Flow How does energy flow through an ecosystem?

1. Review and turn in Food Chain and Web Worksheets2. Energy Flow Quiz3. Introduction Notes to Ecological Cycles

SB4b

Thursday, 8/16 Ecological Cycles What materials recycle though the biosphere and how?

1. Review Ecological Cycles2. Water Cycle Lab/activity

SB4b

Friday, 8/17 Ecological Cycles What materials recycle though the biosphere and how?

1. Review and turn in water cycle lab2. Carbon Cycle, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Phosphorus

activity

SB4b

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Week 3 Monday, 8/20 Ecological Cycles What materials recycle though the biosphere and how?

1. Review and turn in C, O, N, P activity.2. Cycle Quiz3. Pre-view Symbiosis

SB4b

Tuesday, 8/21 Community/Ecosystem Interactions

How to biotic and abiotic factors interact in an ecosystem?

1. Symbiosis and Other Relationships Notes2. Symbiosis Matching Activity3. Trout Mayfly Lab.

SB4a

Wednesday, 8/22 Community/Ecosystem Interactions

How to biotic and abiotic factors interact in an ecosystem?

1. Finish Trout Mayfly Lab2. Review and Turn in TML3. Succession Pre-view

SB4a

Thursday, 8/23 Succession How do ecosystems change over time?

1. Succession Notes2. Succession Graphic organizer

SB4c

Friday, 8/24 Succession How do ecosystems change over time?

1. Turn in and Review Succession G.O.2. Succession Board Game3. Succession Board Game Review Questions.

SB4c

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Week 4Performance Essay LA and Fine Arts 8/29

Monday, 8/27 Succession How do ecosystems change over time?

1. Review and turn in succession questions2. Succession Quiz

SB4a & SB4c

Tuesday, 8/28 Ecology Unit Assessment

To assess the students in Ecology

1. Ecology Test2. Benchmark Review Sheet

SB4a & SB4c

Wednesday, 8/29 Biomes What are the different biomes that make up our biosphere? What are their individual characteristics?

1. Biome Notes ppt with Flipbook – Using the textbook students will fill out the major characteristics of each of the 6 major biomes on a Flipbook. These characteristics are (average temp. and rainfall, major flora and fauna, where the biome is found and one keyword)

2. Biome Re-enforcement Sheets

SB4a

Thursday, 8/30 Biomes What are the different biomes that make up our biosphere? What are their individual characteristics?

1. Biome World Tour Lab/Activity2. Biome Activity ( Computer Lab)

SB4a

Friday, 8/31Professional Learning (Early Release)

Biomes What are the different biomes that make up our biosphere? What are their individual characteristics?

1. Work on Biome Activity SB4a

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Week 5BenchmarkWeek#1

Monday, 9/3 LABOR DAY HOLIDAYTuesday, 9/4 Biomes What are the different

biomes that make up our biosphere? What are their individual characteristics?

1. Work on Biome Activity SB4a

Wednesday, 9/5 Bench Mark #1 To review for the upcoming Benchmark

iMax Serengeti Mid Term Review SB4a, SB4c

Thursday, 9/6 SCIENCE + HEALTH/PEFriday, 9/7 Biomes What are the different

biomes that make up our biosphere? What are their individual characteristics?

1. Present and turn in Biome Activity SB4a

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Week 6 Monday, 9/10 Ecological Populations

How do populations grow in an ecosystem?

1. Biome Quiz2. Population Growth Notes3. Population Activity

SB4a

Tuesday, 9/11 Ecological Populations

What are the limiting factors in population growth?

1. Limiting Factor Notes2. Isle Royale Lab3. Ecology Test #2 Review Sheet

SB4a

Wednesday, 9/12 Ecological Populations

What are the limiting factors in population growth?

1. Review and Turn in IRL2. Start Human Impact (notes)

SB4a

Thursday, 9/13 Ecological Populations

What is the human impact on population growth?

1. Human Impact Notes (including global warming, population growth, pesticides, water and energy consumption.

2. Biomagnification Lab

SB4d

Friday, 9/14 Ecological Populations


1. Turn in and Review Biomagnification Lab2. Who polluted the Potomac Lab or water/energy

consumption lab?

SB4d

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Week 7Performance Essay SS + CTAE 9/19

Monday, 9/17 Ecological Populations


1. Continue Pollution Lab SB4d

Tuesday, 9/18 Ecological Populations


1. Review and turn in WPTPL2. Review for Ecology #2 Test

SB4d

Wednesday, 9/19 Ecology Unit Assessment

n/a 1. Ecology Test #22. Pre-view Chemistry of Life

SB4a, SB4d

Thursday, 9/20 Nature of Matter What makes up living things?

1. Nature of Matter Notes2. Ticket out the door review

SB4b

Friday, 9/21 Properties of Water

What makes up living things?

1. Properties of Water Review2. Water Olympics lab

SB4b

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Week 8 Monday, 9/24 Properties of Water

What are the properties of water?

1. Review and Turn in Water Olympics lab2. Macromolecule Preview

SB4b

Tuesday, 9/25 Macromolecules What are the properties of water?

1. Properties of water quiz (solution, suspension, acid and base)

2. Macromolecules Data table/Graphic Organizer

SB4b

Wednesday, 9/26 Macromolecules What are the major macromolecules in living things?

1. Macromolecule ID ppt.2. Macromolecule Cut and Paste Organizer3. HW: Macromolecule Worksheet

SB4b

Thursday, 9/27 Macromolecules What are the major molecules in living things?

1. Turn and review C&P Organizer2. Macromolecule ID ppt.

SB4b

Friday, 9/28 Macromolecules What are enzymes and what are their functions in living things?

1. Macromolecules Quiz/ID2. Enzyme Notes

SB4b

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Week 9

10/3, 10/4 Grad. Writing Test

Monday, 10/1 Enzymes as catalysts

How does temperature and pH affect enzymatic activity?

1. Chicken Liver Enzyme Lab - Students will see how temperature and pH affect enzymatic activity

SB1b

Tuesday, 10/2 Enzymes as catalysts

How does temperature and pH affect enzymatic activity?

1. Review and turn in Enzyme Lab2. Graph, ID and explain enzymes writing activity

(template given). 3. Pass out Benchmark #2 Review Guide

SB1b

Wednesday, 10/3 Microscope How do scientists use a compound light microscope?

1. Cell Introduction and Microscope Notes2. Labeling Part of a Microscope and proper usage

SCSh4

Thursday, 10/4 Microscope How does scientist use a compound light microscope?

1. Microscope Lab2. Review and Turn in Microscope Lab

SCSh5

Friday, 10/5 Cell Structure What are the parts of the cell and what are their functions?

1. Chromfather Madlib2. Chromfather Play3. Levels or Organization and Cell Types, Structure

Notes

SB1a

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Week 10Benchmark Week #2

Monday, 10/8 Cell Structure What are the parts of the cell and what are their functions?

1. Finish Cell Structure Notes2. Cell Structure and Function ppt ID3. Cell Analogy Activity

SB1a

Tuesday, 10/9 Cell Structure What are the parts of the cell and what are their functions?

1. Review and Turn in Cell Analogy Activity2. Cell Structure and Function ppt ID3. Cell Re-enforcement Sheet

SB1a

Wednesday, 10/10 Benchmark #2 To review for the upcoming Benchmark

1. Benchmark 2 Jeopardy Review SB1a, SB1b, SCSh4, SCSh5

Thursday, 10/11 SCIENCE + HEALTH/PEFriday, 10/12 Professional Learning Day (Student Holiday)Monday, 10/15 FALL HOLIDAYTuesday, 10/16 Cell Transport How do cell move

materials in and out of themselves?

1. Cell Transport Concept Map/notes2. Preview Osmosis Lab3. Pass out Cell Test Review Sheet

SB1a, SB1d

Wednesday, 10/17 PSAT/ASVAB/College FairThursday, 10/18Professional Learning (Early Release)

Cell Transport How does osmosis affect a cell?

1. Set up osmosis lab (How gummy bears are affected in different solutions, water/corn syrup)

SB1a, SB1d

Friday, 10/19HOMECOMING (Early Release)

Cell Transport How does osmosis affect a cell?

1. Record osmosis data2. Finish osmosis lab

SB1a, SB1d

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Week 11 Monday, 10/22 Cell Transport How does osmosis affect a cell?

1. Active and passive transports video notes.2. Active and passive transport HW sheet

SB1d

Tuesday, 10/23 Cell Transport How do cells move materials other than water in and out on themselves?

1. Review and turn in Transport HW2. Cell Unit Review Sheet Questions/white boards

SB1d

Wednesday, 10/24 Cell Transport How do cells move materials other than water in and out on themselves?

1. Review Cell Unit with Vocabulary Carousel Activity SB1d

Thursday, 10/25 Cell Unit Test What are a cell’s structures and their functions? How do they move materials in and out?

1. Review: Cell Unit Chromefather Play2. Review: Tic Tac Toe Whiteboard

SB1d

Friday, 10/26 Cell Unit Test What are a cell’s structures and their functions? How do they move materials in and out?

1. Cell Test2. Preview Cell Energy

SB1d

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Week 12Performance Essay MA& FL

Monday, 10/29 Cell Energy How do different cells get and use energy?

1. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Notes2. Cell Energy Rap

SB3a

Tuesday, 10/30 Cell Energy How do different cells get and use energy?

1. Cell Energy Rap2. Finger Summary Activity (Respiration)3. Preview Photosynthesis Lab

SB3a

Wednesday, 10/31 Photosynthesis How do autotrophs make their own food?

1. Photosynthesis Mini -Lab SB3a

Thursday, 11/1 Photosynthesis How do autotrophs make their own food?

1. Photosynthesis Virtual Lab (Computer Lab) SB3a

Friday, 11/2 Photosynthesis How do autotrophs make their own food?

1. Photosynthesis Quiz 2. Preview Cellular Respiration Lab

SB3a

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Week 13 Monday, 11/5 Cellular Respiration

How do cells obtain energy from food?

1. Cellular Respiration Lab2. Pass out Benchmark 3 Review Sheet

SB3a

Tuesday, 11/6 Cellular Respiration


1. Cellular Respiration Virtual Lab(Computer Lab) SB3a

Wednesday, 11/7 Cellular Respiration


1. Respiration Quiz2. Finger Summary Activity3. Cell Energy Review Sheet

SB3a

Thursday, 11/8 Cell Energy How do cells trap sunlight energy and obtain energy from food?

1. Review for Cell Energy Test2. Photosynthesis/Respiration comparison jingle

(BOOM, BOOM).

SB3a

Friday, 11/9 Cell Energy How do cells trap sunlight energy and obtain energy from food?

1. Cell Energy Test SB3a

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Monday, 11/12 Benchmark 3 To review for the upcoming benchmark

1. Jeopardy/whiteboard Review SB3a, SB1a, SB1d

Tuesday, 11/13 SCIENCE + HEALTH/PEWednesday, 11/14 Cell Growth and

DivisionHow do cells grow and divide?

1. Cell Growth and Division Graphic Organizer/Notes2. Mitosis Labeling Activity3. Ticket out the Door

SB1a

Thursday, 11/15 Cell Growth and Division

Identify and describe the process that somatic cells use divide?

1. Mitosis Review2. Mitosis Onion Root Tip Lab

SB1a

Friday, 11/16 Cell Growth and Division

Identify and describe the process that somatic cells use divide?

1. Finish, Review and Turn in Onion Root Tip Lab2. Mitosis ppt ID Activity3. Pass out Cell Division Test Review Sheet

SB1a

THANKSGIVING BREAK

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Week 15Performance Essay

Monday, 11/26 Cell Growth and Division

Identify and describe the process that gametes use divide?

1. Review Cell Cycle ppt. 2. Meiosis Notes

SB1a

Tuesday, 11/27 Cell Growth and Division

Identify and describe the process that gametes use divide?

1. Meiosis Lab2. Compare and Contrast Mitosis/Meiosis Table (finish

for HW).3. Meiosis/Mitosis Rap (last 7 minutes of class).

SB1a

Wednesday, 11/28 SCIENCE + HEALTH/PEThursday, 11/29 Cell Growth and

DivisionTo review the cell division unit.

1. Review and Turn in Meiosis Lab2. Go over HW.3. Meiosis/Mitosis Rap.4. Review Cell Division Unit – Password/Draw

Something. Using vocabulary words students will pick words and give one word hints and draw objects to have the students guess the word picked.

SB1a

Friday, 11/30 Cell Growth and Division

To assess the cell division unit.

1. Cell Division Test SB1a

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Week 16 Monday, 12/3 Survival of the fittest, fate vs. free will, civilization vs. nature.

To read scientific material and relate it to topics learned in class.

1. Semester 1 Review Sheet2. Begin Reading “Call of the Wild”

SCSh9 a-d

Tuesday, 12/4 Survival of the fittest, fate vs. free will, civilization vs. nature.


1. “Call of the Wild” Discussion Question Set 1 SCSh9 a-d

Wednesday, 12/5 Survival of the fittest, fate vs. free will, civilization vs. nature.



Thursday, 12/6 Survival of the fittest, fate vs. free will, civilization vs. nature.



Friday, 12/7 Review Assessment.

To take a practice to identify weaker areas in advance of the upcoming final.

1. Semester 1 Practice Test SCSh9 a-d, SB3a, SB1a, SB1d, SB4a & SB4c

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Week 17 Monday, 12/10 Test Corrections To discuss and review corrections on the practice test.

1. Review Practice Test2. Data analysis with EOCT pre-test

SCSh9 a-d, SB3a, SB1a, SB1d, SB4a & SB4c

Tuesday, 12/11 Data Analysis To analyze the data obtained from the Test Review and reflect on how to improve in specific domains.

1. Individual Domain Remediation with written summary and reflection.

SCSh5

Wednesday, 12/12 Data Analysis To analyze the data obtained from the Test Review and reflect on how to improve in specific domains.


SCSh5

Thursday, 12/13 Data Analysis To analyze the data obtained from the Test Review and reflect on how to improve in specific domains.


SCSh5

Friday, 12/14 Finals Review To discuss and review corrections on the practice test.

1. Semester 1 Class Review – Big Wheel SCSh9 a-d, SB3a, SB1a, SB1d, SB4a & SB4c

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Monday, 12/17 Semester Exams (Benchmark #4) – 7th PeriodTuesday, 12/18 Semester Exams (Benchmark #4) – 1st & 2nd PeriodsWednesday, 12/19 Semester Exams (Benchmark #4) – 3rd & 4th PeriodsThursday, 12/20 Semester Exams (Benchmark #4 – 5th & 6th PeriodsFriday, 12/21 Professional Learning Day (Student Holiday)

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