Evidence for Evolution WebQuest

Anatomists (scientists who study structures of living things)
• Evidence Supporting Biological Evolution (see “Common Structures”)
• Comparative Anatomy (see “Comparative Anatomy”)
• Fossils Can Show How Certain Features Evolved
• It’s a Bird, It’s a Dinosaur?

• How does comparative anatomy support the modern theory of evolution?

Molecular Biologists (scientists who study living things at a molecular level with an interest in proteins, DNA, RNA etc.)
• Evolution Makes Sense of Homologies
• Axing the Family Tree
• Evidence of Evolution
• Chemical Clues to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery
• Salvaged DNA Leads to Neanderthals’ Mystique

• Chickens, relatives of the mighty Tyrannosaurus

Paleontologists (scientists who study the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils)
• Fossils Can Show How Certain Features Evolved
• Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ
• Shaking the Family Tree
• Evolution Makes Sense of Homologies
• The Nature of Fossils
• Dating Fossils
• Getting into the Fossil Record

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Biology 30 Days in Class

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Unit 1: Biochemistry

> November 7 – Monday, Day 4

• Started section on Reproduction and gave some definitions
• TO DO:

1. Read pages 135-137 and do questions 1-4 (Pg. 138)
2. Read page 139
3. Read pages 146-152 and do questions 1-4 (Pg. 152)

• Handed out Amniotic Egg colouring assignment
• Homework:

1. Finish the Amniotic Egg colouring assignment, both the colouring of it and all the questions

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> October 14 – Friday, Day 6

• Showed Hydra from Biology Lab Photos: Question — how does something so small and “simple” get it’s oxygen?
• Handed out Morgan’s notes and read them (going to text to look at Hydra & Gills)
• Compared open to closed circulatory system
• Handed out Circulation assignment and questions
• Homework:

1. Complete circulation assignment for Monday

> October 13 – Thursday, Day 5

• All class to work on powerpoint presentations

> October 12 – Wednesday, Day 4

• All class to work on powerpoint presentations

> October 11 – Tuesday, Day 3

• Handed in research planning questions
• Hnded out reproduction presentation rubrics
• Discussed powerpoint formats
• Rest of time to work on powerpoints

> October 7 – Friday, Day 2

• Handed back test & reviewed (also handed back egg questions & diet data stuff)
• Finished video and discussed
• Handed out reproduction research topics and each person picked theirs
• Went to computer lab for time to work on research topics
• Homework:

1. Reproduction research planning sheet due Tuesday
2. Opinion questions on video due Wednesday

> October 6 – Thursday, Day 1

• Cell diagram quiz
• Corrected together
• Watched and discussed video

> October 5 – Wednesday, Day 6

• Handed out and completed parts for new cell diagram (animal and plant cell)
• Handed out How to Build a Human: Creation Questions
• Watched part of video
• Homework:

1. Study for tomorrow’s quiz!

> October 5 – Wednesday, Day 6

• Handed out Thermodynamics labs & prelabs
• Finished questions 9-11 on first package handout
• Notes: Negative/Postive Enthalpy Change (and diagrams)
• Notes: Calculating Enthalpy Change
• Notes: Hess’s Law and example 1
• Textbook examples: Pg 508 #28 and 29
• Homework:

1. Prelabs

> October 4 – Tuesday, Day 5

• Unit Exam #2 – Cell Structure & Function

> October 3 – Monday, Day 4

• Reviewed assigned questions
• Leaf adaptations
• Compared cellular vs. photosynthesis
• Handback & Review Cells Alive
• (Should have reviewed prokaryotes and eukaryotes)
• Handback & Review Eggsperiment
• Handed out review for tomorrow’s exam and rest of time given to work on it

> September 30 – Friday, Day 3

• Handed in egg questions
• We reviewed & Read pg 86-87
• Reviewed crazy running around from yesterday
• Cellular respiration
• Aerobic vs Anaerobic
• Photosynthesis stuff
• Homework:

1. Pg 87, question #1-5

> September 29 – Thursday, Day 2

• Bio Exam next Tuesday
• Crazy ATP running around throwing phosphates
• Read Pg 86-87 (Section 4.6)
• Handout on Glycolysis and cellular respiration
• Filled in blanks from video
• 6 Take home messages to write down
• Aerobic vs. Anaerobic respiration notes
• Homework:

1. Egg Experiment questions due for hand in tomorrow (Parts A & B)

> September 28 – Wednesday, Day 1 — Half class due to Terry Fox

• Reviewed passive and active transport with sheets (ex. Protein – large molecule…) while answering the four questions
• Rest of time to work on Eggsperiment questions
• Half class off to start Terry Fox Run!
• Notes on Radioactivity (and reacted Mg with HCl and harnessed the H2 gas in a balloon and blew up the balloon as it hung from the roof!!)
• Didn’t start Nuclear Stability section because of magazine drive (which took half the class)

> September 27 – Tuesday, Day 6

• Reviewed homework
• Notes: diffusion (notes on handout)
• Read 5.7 from the text together (Pg. 120-121)
• Watched video on Passive vs Active transport: LINK
• Notes: Passive & Active transport (notes on handout)

> September 26 – Monday, Day 5

• Handed in Cells Alive
• Handed out egg data and discussed
• Drawing and notes: phosholipid bilayer
• Handout and notes on hypotonic, hypertonic and isotonic solutions
• Handout of examples and did 2 together
• Homework:

1. Finish the rest of the handout for tomorrow (the one where you identify hypotonic, hypertonic and isotonic solutions)

> September 23 – Friday, Day 4

• Processed eggs, recorded their measurements, then put them into each of the final treatments (corn syrup, blue water, distilled water, molasses, 20% salt solution, tap water)
• Rest of class to work on Cells Alive (~40 mins)
• Homework:

1. Finish Cells Alive handout for Monday to hand in (those who were missing can hand this in on Tuesday/Wednesday)

> September 22 – Thursday, Day 3

• Handed in diet data and graphs etc.
• Processed eggs
• Handed back unit exam #1 and reviewed
• Time to work on Cells Alive in comp lab if time

> September 21 – Wednesday, Day 2

• Collected Egg data
• Did definitions on Egg worksheet
• Handed out Cells Alive assignment and students worked on it for the remainder of class

> September 20 – Tuesday, Day 1

• Handout Video Fill-in-the-blanks
• Watched Video: Matter and Energy – Organization in Living Systems
• Video-quiz on backside
• Reviewed answers to video questions
• Brought out eggs for Osmosis and Diffusion are Eggcelent (handout)
• Measured masses and circumferance for each egg and set in vinegar for observation tomorrow
• Homework:
  1. Diet data questions and Diet online research assignment due tomorrow

> September 19 – Monday, Day 6

• Biochemistry Exam (Unit Exam #1)
• Took about 35 minutes to write
• Afterward students picked up Diet Data graphs and had time to work on the homework
• Homework for Wednesday: Finish Diet Data questions and the Diet research on backside

> September 16 – Friday, Day 5

• Reviewed independent, dependent, and control variables
• Mini-quiz on the above variables
• Reviewed Mini-quizzes
• Handed back pineapple & jello questions & review
• Handed back pH & Organism lab and review
• Handed out reviews and let them work on them ALONE (so that they are familiar with their notes!)
• Biochemistry Unit Exam #1 on Monday

> September 15 – Thursday, Day 4

• Test on Monday, reviewing tomorrow
• class diet data –> need back food guides
• Pineapple & Jello experiment –> fill in a good copy of your table and what you predicted to have happen
• Once filled in, I brought out the jello
• Complete data table including what actually happened
• Handed out group worksheet which students finished and handed in
• Independent work to finish questions 1-3
• Class discussion
• Experiment notes
• Everyone handed them in

> September 14 – Wednesday, Day 3

• Students finished drafting their experiments and then did it
• At the end of class each group had their pineapple cups with their treatments set up (with marbles in each cup) in a separate tray
• We’ll observe the results tomorrow!

> September 13 – Tuesday, Day 2

• Mini-quiz #1
• Revisited Jello & Pineapple demo (handing around a package of jello to observe the label that says: “Do not add fresh pineapple”)
• Handed out Experiment handout
• Handed out and filled in Jello & Pineapple experiment handout
• Separated groups into their teams and had them fill rest of side 1 of the handout
• Handed out draft of experiment and worked on it until end of class
• Tomorrow you’ll finish drafting your experiment and then conduct it

> September 12 – Monday, Day 1 – Wendy Lutz Subbing (mr. g marathon day!)

• Watched Video on Aging (but it wouldn’t work past minute 24)

> September 9 – Friday, Day 6

• Handed in pH and Organisms lab
• Reviewed assigned questions (note: subunit means same thing as “building block”)
• Notes 4.10-4.11
• Pineapple demo prediction
• 24-hour food recall
• Diet handout for diet recording for 2 days
• Homework:

1. Record your diet intake over the weekend for any two days including Monday (since I won’t be at school Monday)

> September 8 – Thursday, Day 5

• Notes: 4.7-4.9 (took half the class)
• Rest of class time to work on homework, then to finish building their molecule if they still have time
• Homework:

1. pH and Organism lab
2. pg. 98 #1-4

> September 7 – Wednesday, Day 4

• Did Investigation 4.1 – Organisms and pH
• Handed out Investigation and separate extra date table, read through introduction and discussed lab procedure
• Conducted lab investigation
• Compiled group data table
• Handed out graph paper and discussed both graphs
• Questions will be due for Friday

> September 6 – Tuesday, Day 3

• Re-cap
• Hand back assignment #1 & reiterate full sentences
• Read pgs. 79-80 interchanging with notes (Notes 4.2)
• Students brought out molecule sheets and showed how stick models can be turned to structural formulas (remembering that C’s need 4 bonds, any non-given atoms will be Hydrogen)
• Began building molecules with model kits (just be careful as models can easily fall apart!)

> September 2 – Friday, Day 2

• Did main points and posted them
• Read pgs 77-79 alternating with notes
• Handed out Assignment 1 and handed it in completed
• Handed out molecule names to print off structural formula for molecular model building
• Everyone printed off their molecule

> September 1 – Thursday, Day 1

• Assembly for most of class (~40 mins)
• Handed out texts, textbook forms, class outline
• Did cue-card activity, reviewing answers at end

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Biology 30 Videos

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Unit 1: Biochemistry

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