Unit+III--Week+by+Week

**AP Biology Unit III Week by Week Revised March 19, 2010**

40. Digestion and Human Nutrition** || **Take home test** 43. Animal Development ** ||  || **NOVA movie**
 * **From 3/10 through 5/5 (8 weeks) there will be a mandatory period J review session for the AP exam on Wednesdays.**
 * Each week, students will complete a practice AP exam, which will be corrected and discussed at the review session.** ||
 * **Area** || **Chapter in Text** || **Assessment** || **AP labs** || **Targeted completion date** ||
 * **B. Structure and function of plants and animals ** || **39. Respiration
 * Practice exams**
 * AP style essays** || **Lab 12: Dissolved Oxygen** || **3/22** ||
 * || **41. Maintaining the Internal Environment ** ||  || 
 * Supplemental: Dissections—specimens of 7 phyla** || **3/26** ||
 * || **42. Animal Reproductive Systems

20. Life’s Origin and Early Evolution ** ||  || **Continue dissections of different phyla**
 * Supplemental: Dissection of pregnant sheep uterus ** || **4/3 ** ||
 * || //**Field Trip to Mystic Aquarium** // || //**Interactive veterinary medical diagnostic class** // ||  || //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Tues, 4/6** // ||
 * **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">C. Diversity of organisms** || **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">19. Organizing Information about Species

24. Fungi ** ||  || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Complete lab 9B: Transpiration** || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**4/16** || 26. Animal Evolution—Chordates ** || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Unit exam** //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Topics to include:** // //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Respiration** // //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Photosynthesis** // //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Plant structure** // //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Hardy-Weinberg equation** // 12 essays** || **5 labs and write ups** || **4/30/10** || 8 AM** ||
 * Study and sketch tissue samples** || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**4/9** ||
 * || **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">23. The Land Plants
 * || **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">25. Animal Evolution—Invertebrates
 * Practice exams**
 * AP style essays** ||  || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**4/30** ||
 * || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Review**
 * //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Dihybrid crosses //** ||  || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Review 12 required AP labs, objectives, and experimental design** ||   ||
 * **Unit III. Subtotal: 50% of class time** || **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">28 chapters ** || **5 tests
 * **Unit III. Subtotal: 50% of class time** || **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">28 chapters ** || **5 tests
 * **Review** ||  ||   ||   || **5/7/10** ||
 * **AP EXAM** ||  ||   ||   || **Monday, 5/10/10
 * || **Landscaping project

Movie: //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Gattaca //**
 * <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The uses of genetic engineering in a future dystopia ** ||  || **Supplemental labs as time allows through end of year. Possibilities include:** <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">


 * Dissection of sheep brain**

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Never Let Me Go //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">—Kazuo Ishiguro // Brave New World // —Aldous Huxley // Survival of the Prettiest // —Nancy Etcoff // Silent Spring // —Rachel Carson // On Human Nature // —E.O. Wilson // Pink Brain, Blue Brain // —Lisa Eliot // Reading in the Brain // —Stanislaus Dehaene // The Survivor’s Club // —Ben Sherwood // Living Weapons // —Gregory Koblentz // Breeding Bio Insecurity // —Klotz and Sylvester // The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks // —Rebecca Skloot // The New Foundations of Evolution // —Jan Sapp // The Language of Life // —Francis Collins // Guns, Germs, and Steel // —Jared Diamond // The Seven Daughters of Eve // —Brian Sykes The Selfish Gene—Richard Dawkins // Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA— // Brenda Maddox // Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal— // Eric Schlosser //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">--Bill McKibben //The Andromeda Strain//--Michael Crichton //Congo//--Michael Crichton //State of Fear--//Michael Crichton //Next--//Michael Crichton //Omnivore's Dilemma--//Michael Pollan //Animal, Vegetable, Miracle--// Barbara Kingsolver //Through a Window, In the Shadow of Man—//Jane Goodall //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Panda's Thumb— //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Stephen Jay Gould //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives- //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">David Sloan Wilson <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">**More options can be found at** [|**http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/features/28371.html**] ||  || **5/21** ||
 * Further experimentation with fruit fly mutations** || **5/14** ||
 * **Book report on science-themed work.**
 * <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Possibilities include: **
 * || **Movie: //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Food, Inc. //**
 * <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Environmental and health impacts of large scale industrial farming ** ||  || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**In cooperation with Catskill Mountain Foundation, research and make a meal with organic/local food** || **5/28** ||
 * || **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Movie: //<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Earth //** ||  ||   || **6/4** ||
 * ||  || <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Final Exam** || **(Finals 6/10-6/11)** || **6/11** ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || **6/15-6/25 Regents** ||

= Unit III Week by Week =


 * ** Area ** || ** Chapter in Text ** || ** Assessment ** || ** AP labs ** || ** Targeted completion date ** ||
 * B. Molecular genetics (con’t) || 16. Studying and manipulating genomes ||  || 6B. Gel electrophoresis

7. Drosophila genetics (ongoing over 4 weeks)

11. Animal Behavior part B (Drosophila behavior) || 1/5/10 || 17. Evidence of Evolution 18. Processes of Evolution ||
 * C. Evolutionary biology (11 days) ||

Unit exam and weekly essays || 8. Population genetics and evolution-- Genetic papers and Teddy Grahams || 1/13/10 || 47. Ecosystems ||  || ** Wolf and rabbit online simulation ** || 1/22/10 || 48. The Biosphere || ** 1 test ** 31. Plant Development || ** Quiz ch. 30 & 31 ** || ** 12. Dissolved oxygen **
 * ** Unit II. Subtotal: 25% of class time ** || 9 chapters || ** 3 tests **
 * 6 essays ** || ** 4 labs and write ups ** || 1/13/10 ||
 * ** A. Ecology ** || 45. Population ecology ||  || ** Labs above continued ** || 1/15/10 ||
 * || 46. Community Structure and Biodiversity
 * || 49. Human Impact on the Biosphere
 * 3 essays ** ||  || 1/29/10 ||
 * B. Structure and function of plants and animals || 30. Plant Reproduction

Movie: "Botany of Desire" || 2/5 || 33. Neural Control 34. Sensory Perception ||  ||   || 2/12 || 36. Structural Support and Movement ||  ||   || 2/26 || 38. Immunity ||  || 10. Physiology of the circulatory system || 3/5 || 40. Digestion and Human Nutrition ||  || ** Supplemental labs as time allows. ** Possibilities include: Supp: Plant dissections Supp: Dissections—specimens of 10 phylla Supp: Dissection of sheep brain Supp: Dissection of pregnant cow uterus || 3/12 || 43. Animal Development || 3 tests and weekly essays || ** NOVA movie ** || 3/26 || 20. Life’s Origin and Early Evolution ||  ||   || 4/1 || 24. Fungi ||  || 9. Transpiration || 4/9 || 26. Animal Evolution—Chordates ||  ||   || 4/16 ||
 * || 32. Animal Tissues and Organ Systems
 * || 35. Endocrine Control
 * || 37. Circulation
 * || 39. Respiration
 * || 41. Maintaining the Internal Environment ||  ||   || 3/18 ||
 * || 42. Animal Reproductive Systems
 * C. Diversity of organisms || 19. Organizing Information about Species
 * || 23. The Land Plants
 * || 25. Animal Evolution—Invertebrates
 * || Catch-up/ Begin review || Unit exam and weekly essays ||  || 4/30 ||
 * ** Unit III. Subtotal: 50% of class time ** || 28 chapters || ** 5 tests **
 * 12 essays** || ** 4 labs and write ups ** || ** 4/30/10 ** ||
 * ** Review ** ||  ||   ||   || ** 5/7/10 ** ||
 * ** AP EXAM ** ||  ||   ||   || ** Monday, 5/10/10 **
 * 8 AM ** ||
 * || Party!!! || ** You Deserve It! ** ||  || ** 5/11/10 ** ||
 * || ** Landscaping project **
 * || ** Landscaping project **

Supp: Plant dissections Supp: Dissections—specimens of 10 phylla Supp: Dissection of sheep brain Supp: Dissection of pregnant cow uterus || ** 5/14 ** || // Never Let Me Go // —Kazuo Ishiguro // Brave New World // —Aldous Huxley // Survival of the Prettiest // —Nancy Etcoff // Silent Spring // —Rachel Carson // On Human Nature // —E.O. Wilson ||  || ** (Senior trip 5/20-5/24) ** || ** 5/21 ** ||
 * Movie: ** //Gattaca// ||  || ** Supplemental labs as time allows through end of year. ** Possibilities include:
 * || Book report on one of following:
 * || ** Movie: ** //The Cove// ||  ||   || ** 5/28 ** ||
 * || ** Movie: **// Earth // ||  ||   || ** 6/4 ** ||
 * ||  ||   || ** (Finals 6/10-6/11) ** || ** 6/11 ** ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || ** 6/15-6/25 Regents ** ||