Labs+and+Activities

== =Introduction= [|Bozeman 8 types of animal behavior] [|Bozeman explains the animal behavior lab] [|Bozeman chi-squared Test]

[|Wet vs. Dry Experiment]

 * Lab Activity**





Link to Data Table for entering group data

Virtual Isopod lab "Crusty the Isopod" =Part 1: Biology Basics=

1. What is Biology?

 * Biology Coloring Workbook**

2. The Chemistry of Life

 * Labs**

In this lab you will document your work in your lab notebook. For **each** organic molecule that you build provide the following information:
 * Macro-molecule Group
 * Carbon Compounds (5 models)
 * Carbohydrates (2 models)
 * Lipids (6 models)
 * Nucleic Acids (2 models)
 * Amino Acids (5 models)
 * Organic Molecule Name
 * Molecular Formula
 * Structural Formula
 * A photograph of model (the printed version that is secured in your lab notebook should be no larger that 2 inches square)





[|How Stuff Works: Why Hydrogen Peroxide Foams when you put it on a cut] Virtual lab


 * Biology Coloring Workbook**

**Lab Instructions for "Investigating Cell Types":**

 * Pick up a "Lab Copy" student guide and complete the following tasks in you lab notebook. Make sure to give your lab a title and to label each section of the lab in your lab notebook.**


 * Engage Section (page s-1) **
 * Background reading and "prior knowledge" questions 1 and 2


 * Explore Section (page s-2) **
 * Activity One. Observing Prepared Slides
 * **Your drawings must include a title label, a field of view circle, magnification, and scale.**
 * Activity Two. Observing Live Organisms
 * Your descriptions of movement must be in complete sentences
 * Your drawings must include a title label, a field of view circle, magnification, and scale.
 * Activity Three. Altering Cellular Conditions
 * **Describe changes to the cells in the chart in your lab notebook.**


 * Extend Section (page s-12)**
 * In complete sentences, answer questions 1 to 10 in you lab notebook.



Paramecium: The Movie The Euglena Project



[| Shared Class Data Spreadsheet]

 * Biology Coloring Workbook**

4. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
[|Using Floating Leaf Disks to Investigate Photosynthesis]
 * Lab on Photosynthesis**
 * [|FLOATING LEAF DISK CLASS DATA TABLE]*

[|***ALASKA PEA RESPIRATION CLASS DATA TABLE***]
 * Lab on Aerobic Cellular Respiration**


 * Lab on Anaerobic Lactic Acid Fermentation**


 * Lab on Anaerobic Alcoholic Fermentation**

Biology Coloring Work-Book
 * [[file:BCW 2-8 Energy Flow in Living Things.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-9 Structures of Photosynthesis.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-10 Photosynthesis- the light reactions.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-11 Photosynthesis- the dark reactions.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-12 Glycolysis.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-13 The Krebs Cycle.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-14 Electron Transport and Chemiosmosis.pdf]]

=Part 2: Cell Reproduction and Genetics=

1. The Cell Cycle, Mitosis, and Meiosis-
Labs In this lab we will explore the cell cycle using onion root tips and chromosome models. Prior to starting this lab it is important to have a working knowledge of the microscope and a basic understanding of cell structure and function. [|Onion Tip Preparation] [|Online Onion Root-Tip Activity] [|Cells alive! Animal Cell Mitosis] [|Control the Cell Cycle]

[|****CLASS DATA SPREADSHEET for the RELATIVE LENGTH OF STAGES OF MITOSIS*****]

Biology Coloring Work-Book
 * [[file:BCW 2-15 The Cell Cycle.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-16 Mitosis.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 2-17 Meiosis.pdf]]

Labs Drop and Drag Genetics Learn Genetics DNA Learning Center
 * [[file:Modeling Genetic Inheritance.pdf]]

Biology Coloring Work-Book
 * [[file:BCW 3-1 Mendelian Genetics.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-2 The Monohybrid Cross.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-3 The Dihybrid Cross.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-4 The Testcross.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-5 Incomplete Dominance.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-6 Multiple Alleles.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-7 Polygenic Inheritance.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-8 Sex Determination.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 3-9 Sex-Linked Traits- Color Blindness.pdf]]

3. Molecular Genetics: from DNA to Proteins
Labs
 * [[file:Discovering Nucleac Acids.pdf]]


 * [[file:Gram Staining and Bacterial Morphology.pdf]]

Biology Coloring Work-Book


 * [[file:Protein Synthesis Reading and Coloring Plates.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-1 Structure of DNA.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-5 DNA and Chromosomes.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-6 DNA and Transformation.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-11 Gene Regulation (Lactose).pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-12 Gene Regulation (Tryptophan).pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-13 Mutation and Gene Expression.pdf]]

4. Human Genetics and Biotechnology

 * Labs**

>> Make a Karyotype >> How Scientists Read Chromosomes >> Cytogenetics and Chromosomal Disorders >> Common Genetic Disorders with Photos >> Your Genes-Your Health A multimedia guide to genetic disorders
 * [[file:Chromosomes Karyotyping and Genetic Disorders.pdf]]


 * [[file:Human Inheritance Lab.pdf]]


 * = CLASS DATA TABLE =


 * [|Line Diagrams of traits]
 * [|Human Mendelian Genetics]
 * [|Are you a PTC taster?]
 * [|Dominant isn't always common]


 * [[file:Recombinant Paper Plasmids Lab Instructions.pdf]][[file:Paper Plasmids Handouts.pdf]]


 * =Glowing Bacteria Transformation Lab=
 * [[file:Glowing Bacteria Transformation Pre-Quiz.pdf]]
 * [|How a Firefly's Tail Makes Light]
 * [[file:Glowing Bacteria Transformation.pdf]]
 * [|DNA Restriction Enzyme Animation]
 * [|Bacterial Transformation Animation]
 * [|Bacterial Transformation Animation 2]
 * 3D [|Transformation Animation Video]


 * [[file:DNA Extraction Using Wheat Germ.pdf]]
 * Extraction of DNA from wheat germ (milled seeds of wheat)
 * How it works
 * @DNA Extraction without meat tenderizer


 * BRCA Genetic Testing
 * [[file:BLAST.pdf]]
 * [[file:BRCA Genetic Testing Instructions.pdf]]
 * [[file:BRCA Genetic Testing Handouts.pdf]]
 * [[file:BRCA1_DNA_Protein_Sequences.doc]]
 * [|60 MINUTES SEGMENT-BREEDING OUT DISEASE]
 * [|TED TALK-GENE THERAPY]
 * [|60 MINUTES-KILLING CANCER]
 * NCBI BLAST website



Biology Coloring Workbook
 * [[file:BCW 4-14 Recombinant DNA.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-15 Genetic Engineering.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-16 Gene Probes.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-17 DNA Fingerprinting.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-18 Gene Therapy.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-19 Antisense Technology.pdf]]
 * [[file:BCW 4-20 Transgenic Plants.pdf]]

=Part 3: Evolving Species in an Ever-Changing World=

1. Life: from First Organisms Onward

 * Gram Staining and Bacterial Morphology Lab**
 * [[file:Gram Staining and Bacterial Morphology.pdf]]
 * Video Tutorial on Classification and Phylogenetics**
 * Classifying Animals by Appearance Versus DNA Sequence
 * [[file:Analyzing DNA Sequence Similarity on the Computer.pdf]]
 * [[file:Making Phylogenetic Trees using the Computer.pdf]]
 * [[file:Seven Mammals DNA.pdf]]


 * Biology Coloring Workbook**

2. The Theory of Evolution
https://docs.google.com/a/charterschool.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As3VCqWkeTEydFhQX0hXclVSa2RzandhTG1ibmdfeGc
 * Labs**
 * Simulating the Darwinian Theory**


 * Biology Coloring Workbook**

= Part 4: Observing How Organisms Get Along =

1.The Principles of Ecology
**Labs:**

[|Good Resource on Owl Pellets]

[|HYPERLINK TO CLASS DATA TABLE]

[|Calorie Counter Restaurant Chains] Food Fast Chains Calorie Count

Interactive Diagram of the Nitrogen Cycle Somethings Fishy


 * Reading:**




 * Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare**

By Paul Colinvaux


 * Directions: Follow the hyperlink to the book above and answers the questions below on a separate sheet of paper as your read chapters 1 to 3**.


 * Chapter One: The science that reasons why**
 * 1) According to Colinvuax how does “life work from the sun”?
 * 2) What does Colinvaux feel is “odd” when it comes to the inner workings of natural systems?
 * 3) What some of questions he asks concerning the inner workings of natural systems?
 * 4) What, according the Colinvaux, is the role of natural selection when it comes to the inner workings of natural systems?


 * Chapter Two: Every species has a niche**
 * 1) What are some of the necessary skills that a good Wolf-Spider must have?
 * 2) What does a Wolf-Spider need in addition to skill in order to survive as an individual and thrive as a species?
 * 3) Define the term “niche” and apply it to the Wolf-Spyder.
 * 4) How do niche and habitat help to explain the constancy of a species population?
 * 5) Why do individuals within a species try to breed as fast as they can if the species’ population stays relatively constant from one generation to the next?
 * 6) According to Colinvuax, what does “survival of the fittest” really mean?


 * Chapter Three: Why big fierce animals are rare**
 * 1) How does Colinvuax use the power of ten to explain life on land (temperate forest) and in the sea. Can you think of any exception examples?
 * 2) Briefly describe what Charles Elton observed in theArcticbeside frostbite to different parts of his anatomy.
 * 3) From his observations what did Elton conclude about carnivores?
 * 4) What are some of the exceptions to Elton’s conclusions?
 * 5) What are three false reasons that big animals are so rare?
 * 6) What is the correct reason put forward by Lindeman and Hutchinson?
 * 7) Give some example, reasoned, exceptions to the rare animal rule.

**Biology Coloring Workbook:**

2. Communities and Populations
**Labs** Population growth math Human population, habitat use, and health

Animal diversity web

**Biology Coloring Workbook**

=Part 5: It's a Small Interconnected =


 * Labs**

Classification of Living Things San Diego Zoo


 * Biology Coloring Workbook**

=Part 6: Systems Galore!=

Our final few weeks will be spent learning body systems. Our unit will include a fetal pig dissection. Group presentations will begin following the fetal pig lab.
**Body Systems Group Project**

Our class will divide into groups of 2 to 4 students. Each group will teach a body system to the rest of the class. **Everyone is also expected to read the sections.**

 * 1) ==A [|Nervous] Group Presentations [[file:The Nervous System.pdf]]==
 * 2) ==B [|Digestive] Group Presentations [[file:The Digestive System.pdf]]==
 * 3) ==C [|Excretory] Group Presentations [[file:The Excretory System.pdf]]==
 * 4) ==D [|Respiratory] Group Presentations [[file:The Respiratory System.pdf]]==
 * 5) ==E [|Circulatory] Group Presentations [[file:The Circulatory System.pdf]]==
 * 6) ==**F [|Skeletal]** Group Presentations [[file:The Skeletal System.pdf]]==
 * 7) ==**G [|Muscular]** Group Presentations [[file:The Muscular System.pdf]]==

In addition to teaching a body system, you will be responsible to:

 * 1) ==Conduct a demonstration or build as model or lead the class in a activity ( just **some extra thing** to help us to understand what you are teaching)==
 * 2) ==Create a fill-in study guide for each person in class to use as you teach the lesson. You must print out a hard copy for each person==
 * 3) ==End your presentation with a 7 to 10 **question quiz.**==
 * 4) ==Group presentations will be organized as a google "power point" and will be presented to the class using the Smart board. The last page of your powerpoint will be for citation urls.==

Grading- you will be graded on:

 * 1) ==Organization and teaching presentation, including study guide==
 * 2) ==Your extra activity- lab demonstration, model, activity==
 * 3) ==Your quiz==


 * =** LABS **=

Virtual Pig Dissection

[|Dissection Review]