Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Cell Respiration Lab

Here is the website of the Cell Respiration Virtual Lab

http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab5/intro.html

See you Wednesday!

-Emily

Sunday, October 26, 2008

October 27, 2008

Trip to Washington DC!

Hi everyone!

To those of you that are going on the DC trip, I will see you there!

For those of you not going. you have an assignment using the Natural Museum of Natural History website. The assignment is on the wiki.

Remember, test on Ch 7 on Tuesday!! Study the figures from Chapter 7, your quiz, and your questions from the end of the chapter.

Here is the website from Friday that shows alcohol and lactate fermentation: http://trc.ucdavis.edu/biosci10v/bis10v/media/ch06/fermentation.swf

Happy Monday!

-Emily

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Extra Credit

Hi everyone

Here is an extra credit opportunity.

AP Biology Extra Credit

Current Events Articles and Summaries

Due Date: October 9, 2007


Read newspapers and magazines. Select up to 5 articles relating to cell biology. For EACH article:

1- Read the article.

2- Cut it out.

3- Summarize the article in two paragraphs.

4- Identify the topic and explain how it relates to our class.

5- Use proper grammar, check spelling, and use proper paragraph form.


Grading Rubric:

Article #: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5

Complete, original article included (1 point) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

Summary of article (4 points) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

Related topic/explanation (4 points) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

Grammar, spelling (1 point) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

Article Total (10 points) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____

Websites: http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/plants_animals/cell_biology/

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/interest/id/2363/topic/Genes_%2B_Cells

http://discovermagazine.com/topics/living-world

These can help you or you can use others.

-Emily

Monday, October 6, 2008

Thermodynamics Tutorial

Hi everyone-

For Tuesday, please continue reading Chapter 6 (pgs. 120-127) and use the Ch. 6 handouts (fill-in the black) as you read.

Also, please finish going through the thermodynamics tutorial by Wednesday. The address is
http://ats.doit.wisc.edu/biology/cb/td/td.htm

-Emily

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

For those not here on Wednesday:

Also check out-

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/membrane_transport/membrane_transport.swf

and

http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab1/intro.html