How to have a VOICE as a student? Get published and be recognized for something good

1. EPA blog, which is written for and by K-12 students: it goes out to kids in middle and high school nationwide from EPA. They are looking for student writers.  Not only will this look good on your CV, it would also help EPA understand what kids care about and how to best communicate with them.  Here is the link:   https://blog.epa.gov/students/about/


2. One World Education

Note Taking

What do I need to take notes on?


AT HOME: Type outlined notes using your review packet first, followed by details from the text.
GRADED at random for a homework grade of 10 points – due date is the day of topic lecture and deadline is day of the test.

IN CLASS: Warm-ups, cool downs, random picks, lab notes, test review, and summaries of AP Friday Discussions should ALL be recorded in a single spiral or bound composition notebook.
GRADED at the end of a quarter for completeness and organization (LABEL each thing ANF head EVERY page with TOPIC) for a formative grade of 60 points.

IN CLASS: ADD to your outlined notes using pen, pencil, and highlighting. You will often be asked to make drawings and add descriptors.
GRADED the day of the test for that topic/ chapter for a formative grade of 20 points – due each day we discuss and the deadline is the test day.

Chapter Title
I. Major Heading – state as a question (Purple text that corresponds to concept number;
ie. 6.1 is chapter 6, unit 1)
a. Sub Heading(Blue text in the textbook; italics in the review packet)
   i. Major Details (include the bolded vocabulary)
      1. Minor Details (clarify main ideas)
   ii. Major Details
      1. Minor Details
         b. Sub Heading (Blue text in the textbook; italics in the review packet)

***leave right side column free for adding notes and drawings.

AP Biology 2011-2012 Group Norms

Quiet time for processing
Allow for it during class AND find a quiet place to work at home.
Process for getting help on confussing points
Repet thinking for clarification
write down topic and ask for clarification during lunch
Write down topic and ask for help during Saturday School
Everyone show willingness to learn and do their part

One World Education

2011 Culture & Global Issues Reflection Contest
http://www.oneworldeducation.org/students/culture-global-issues-reflection-contest

Become a One World Education Student Ambassador and a published writer!

Contest Begins: January 3, 2011
One World Education will begin accepting submissions starting March 1, 2011 Deadline: March 11, 2011

One of Wheaton's students WON in 2009 and has since been published
Read Melissa Linsao’s story - Wondering Which is Home
http://www.oneworldeducation.org/students/melissa-linsao

Protein Synthesis

Protein Synthesis by Yukna, Eboni, Heidi
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Mutations
Mutations

by Anna S., Halima, Noe, Jitu
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Mutationws

Protein Synthesis by Reina G, Pool, Delmis, & Jeanne Marie
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Part 2
protein synthesis
Part 3
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Part 4
Protein synthesis

DNA synthesis summaries

DNA Replication
DNA Replication
Nucleotide excision repair
Neucleotide excision repair
by Halima, Samrawit, Yukna, & Anna

Welcome to AP Biology 2010-2011

Mrs. Sobieszczyk will be your teacher during the upcoming year.
Please feel welcome to contact her at anytime
Catherine_A_Sobieszczyk@mcpsmd.org

Use your summer wisely: How should you get ready for next year?
1. Use the chapter review packets and take notes using outline format.
e-mail them as an attachment to Mrs. Sobieszczyk if you want feedback.
Our first Chapter 6 - Tour of the cell, will be completed in the first several days of school; followed by Chapter 8 Membrane Structure and Function and Chapter 5 structure and function of Macromolecules.
2. Spend time exploring AP central:
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_bio.html
3. Spend time exploring this blog (links on right)

Campbell Texts
A copy stays at home, unless you don’t continue w/ AP Biology
The same text will be available during class
So you do NOT have to carry this huge text back and forth
The text chapters correspond to the review packets (homework grade)
Chapters 7 (cells),8 (membranes),& 5 (macromolecules) are available to you to work ahead this summer.
The Chapter on the cell will be due the 2nd day back from school.
We will cover about 1 chapter each week.
Typically notes are due BEFORE we start a chapter.
Notes should be written FIRST using the review packet.
Details can be added using the text
The review packets are due on Mondays,
so that you can utilize Saturday school for help
MC sections are completed on mini scantrons. (formative grade)

After the AP Biology Exam....

You will be reading:
Mountains Beyond Mountains By Tracy Kidder

As you read (both during and outside of class), you will be asked to do a Double Entry Journal (DEJ). The next paragraph is a description of this process.

Purpose for Reading: As you read, pull out quotes that connect to biological content that you have encountered in your Academy courses or AP Biology (text-text). Pull out quotes that paint a picture of the political and socioeconomic situation in Haiti (text-world). Finally, pull out quotes that impact you (text-self). You should pick out three quotes per chapter; one text-text, one text-world, and one text-self. Write a four-five sentence “connection” for each quote.


Partners In Health is a non-profit organization founded by Paul Farmer and others. See the "History" link for a timeline of events.
In 1987 - the following was directly copied from the above website.
"Partners In Health (PIH) is founded in Boston by Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack to support activities in Cange. They are joined in this effort by Dahl and Jim Yong Kim, also a medical student at Harvard. These activities by now include schools, clinics, a training program for health outreach workers, a mobile unit that screens residents of area villages for preventable diseases, and an ongoing study of sickness and health among the peasants of rural Haiti that will form the basis of Farmer's 1992 book, AIDS and Accusation."

Biotechnology

A quick power point to show background and purpose of the bacterial transformation
http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/teachers/Summer08/AmyDickson/Lab6Intro.ppt

Bacterial Transformation Lab
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab6/concepts1.html

DNA Gel Electrophoresis

Immune System

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpRpf1Ny9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlULOjUhSQ&feature=related

Muscle Contraction

Skeletal Muscle structure and general contraction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHzKYDxrKc

Details of the Sliding Filament Theory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlchs4omFDM&feature=related

Excretory System

Know Kidney structures and functions in reaborption and seretion from the filtrate to the transport epithilial cells

Go to this link to find a VERY helpful video on the kidney nephron

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cardiovascular/kidneyfunction.html

Digestion

Circulatory System

Know the heart's structure and how it components are specific to it's function

The connection between the nervous & endocrine system

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/hhw/hhw_electrical.html

Endocrine System

The Cell signaling and pathways - Do you know what GTP is?

Notice how the hypothalymus and pituitary are the major "control" glands for most hormones:

Outlined notes on the endocrine system

http://www.biol.sc.edu/courses/bio102/f97-41.html

Paragraph explanations of each of the glands:

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/endocrin.htm

Nervous System

Action Potential
http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/animations/actionpotential.swf

Helpful models of action potential

http://www.wickersham.us/anne/action.htm

CNS and PNS
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_01/d_01_cr/d_01_cr_ana/d_01_cr_ana.html
Nerves radiating from Spinal Cord
http://www.innerbody.com/image/nervov.html
National Geographic: Brain Anatomy http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/brain-article.html
Time Magazine: Images of Brain Structure: http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/busey/Q301/BrainStructure.html
Sensory, Motor, and Interneurons
http://www.biologymad.com/NervousSystem/nervoussystemintro.htm
Introduction to the Synapse
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/reward/neurontalk.cfm

Holiday Break Assignment

Midterm Book Review

Review each of the following sections and take annotated notes.

This will be a graded assignment as part of midterm review.

• Cell Structure and Function
• Passive and Active Transport
• Mitosis/Meiosis
• Macromolecules
• Enzymes
• Photosynthesis
• Cellular Respiration
• DNA replication
• Protein Synthesis
• Evolution

Microevoultion

Voyage of the odyssey - videos of the galapagos
http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/galapagos_logs.html

More cool videos from National Geographic
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/parks-and-nature-places/coasts-and-islands/ecuador_galapagos.html

MANY helpful websites that explain the mechanisms of evolution
http://www.uh.edu/sibs/tutorial/genbiol2.htm#evolution

Fruit Fly Genetics

An interactive website on fruit flies:
http://www.sciencecourseware.org/vcise/drosophila/Drosophila.php?guestaccess=1

Order two sets of flies:
1 - just noting specific eye color for the parents (this will be a monohybrid cross)
2 - order and note a wild type for eye color and wing shape and a mutant for both eye color and wing shape.

Example data for the dihybrid cross:
White eyes noted by “W” & vestigial wings by “vg”both are mutations and recessive
•Parental cross =
–wild type (X+X+++) female
–and XWYvgvg male
•F1
–607 wild type female
–603 wild type males
•F2
–458 wild type female
–225 wild type males
–151 red eyes and vestigial wings female
–88 red eye and vestigial wings male
–215 white eyes and normal wings male
–67 white eyes and vestigial wings male


RECORD all data for parents, F1 and F2 generation....

The Analysis?

Chi Square Analysis

•If the chi square value is higher than the critical value, the null hypothesis is rejected. If probability is lower than critical probability (we’re told is .05) the null hypothesis is also rejected.
•The probabilities given on the table is
•The probability the observed and expected results being EXACTLY the same.

Lab #7 Genetics of Organisms Post Lab Analysis worth 50 points

Date	Observations/ Tables	Questions	Total pts possible: 50 pts total
Week 1	Draw the possible parental flies and label their phenotypic characteristics. We probably never got to “observe” these, only their offspring (the F1 generation)	What does a Wild-type fly look like?	5pts
Week 2	Table 7.1 notations of F1 sex & corresponding mutations. Label your data found in each vial separately.	Read through #1-5 and consider implications of data thus far…	4pts
Week 3	N/A
Week 4	Table 7.2 notations of F2 sex & corresponding mutations.	#1-7 AND discussion questions #1-3	Table 7.2 4pts #1-7 – 21pts #1-3 – 6 pts
Statistical Analysis	Example #1 (table 7.3 & 7.4)	Practice problems a-c and (i) & (ii)	10pts

Conclusion Questions #1-7 (28 points)

1. Description of the mutations possible for each vial.

Vial 1 – (eyes and sex-linked)

Vial 2 – eyes and wings (dominantly inherited and linked traits)

2. Provide 2 null hypothesis (If…., then….)

A null hypothesis is what you expected (based on the punnett square)

3. Punnett Squares: Your expected data for BOTH vials and BOTH generations

Vial 1 – Eyes only (sex-linked)

What must the parents’ genotypes have been? Use the F1 offspring:

Vial 2 – Eyes and wings (linked; therefore, a dihybrid cross)

Predict parents to get F1 offspring inside Use F1 as parents & F2 offspring inside

4. Table

Vial and generation	Phenotypic ratio	Genotypic ratio
Vial 1 – F1
Vial 1 – F2
Vial 2 – F1
Vial 2 – F2

5. Do the actual (observed) deviated from the expected (punnett squares)?

(for both vial 1 & 2)

6. Add an extra column to include both vial 1 and 2

7. Do the full chi square analysis for BOTH vials. Show all your work.
1. Degrees of freedom for sex-linked eyes – (n-1)
2. Degrees of freedom for linked eyes and wings – (n-1)

Ch16 DNA replication & Ch17 Protein Synthesis

Visit www.DNAi.org for a comprehensive picture of DNA's structure and the history of it's finding

There are sooo many models available for describing DNA replication - find one that makes sense to YOU!

Look for animations through google. UTube will also have some good ones. Share ones you find in "comments".

As you watch animations, ask: 1. What enzymes are invovled? How are the leading and lagging strands created?
DNA replication: Animation at - http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAreplication.html

ATP verses nucleoside triphosphate