Advanced Placement Biology ( A BCC CAP Course)

Cherokee High School

Mrs. Patricia Sidelsky, Instructor

 

Major Assignments and Laboratories

Assignments- Semester I Date Due and Comments
Course Outline and Overview- Link to overview Course requirements for AP Biology. What you need to know.
Summer Science - 2005  
Endangered animals( Outline) AP BIO - Summer Project -
Endangered animal links Summer References
Examples of Previous Projects  

ECOLOGY and the ENVIRONMENT

  
Microscope Picture  
Microscope Lab  
Aquatic Pond Study  
Marine Biomes  
How to Transform Raw Data- Graphing Practice from Pond Study  
Scientific method and laboratories
How to graph with Microsoft Excel
Laboratory Report Format ( Basic Overview)
Herbarium laboratory  
Plant study  
Tables for Duckweed and Pillbug Tables for laboratory reports
Ecosystems, Communities, and Populations Terms and study guide

Advanced Placement Aquatic Biology PhotoGallery

  

Rainforest WebQuest - AP Biology

  

Pinelands References - AP Biology

  

Pinelands Herbarium - AP Biology

 October
Notes from Ecosystems  
Link on productivity in Ecosystems  
Food Chains and Trophic levels  
Coral Reef Food Webs Construct a food web for homework 10-2
Carbon cycle Study guide with links
Nitrogen Cycle Study guide with links
Sulfur Cycle Graphics
Phosphorous Cycle Graphics

Coral Reef Food Webs

  
Grasslands Food Web  

Temperature Forest Food Web

  
Cold Desert Food Web/Ocean  
Desert Food Web  

Link on productivity in Ecosystems

  
Food Chains and Trophic levels  
Worksheet and Study Guide for Ecosystems  
Graphs for the Spectrophotomer: How To Graph with  Excel - Linear Graphs  
Examples of Student Graphs  
Aquatic Productivity  
AP Bio Endangered Animal Projects - Featuring Student Projects  
Community Power Point  
Population Power Point  

Endangered Animal PowerPoints

  
Endangered Animal Links  
   
   

BIOCHEMISTRY

  
Micropipetting laboratory  
Electrophoresis Pictures   
Flash Cards  

Small Moleclule Worksheet

  
Chromatography with a Flair Outline

Chromatography-Chromatography with a Flair - student results

  
The Origin of Life Notes Class notes - Purves
Protein Notes Class notes - Purves

Protein structure and Functionalanine 3D

 Class notes - Purves
Carbohydrates Notes Class notes - Purves
Lipids Notes Class notes - Purves
Nucleic Acids Notes Class notes - Purves
Biochemistry Worksheet 2 ( Due on Monday, November 22, 2004)  
Amino Acid Review Learn the different types of amino acids.
Proteome Project Internet Research Project on Proteins
Myoglobin Research  
Macromolecule Problem Set  
Excel Graph  
Review for Test  
DNA Graphing  
   
DNA Electrophoresis DNA practice gel - Class gel and practice graphing
DNA Graphing  Semi-Logarithmic graphing with Excel
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/genetics/biotech/gels/agardna.html       Internet agarose gel link
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/genetics/biotech/gels/virgel.html -  Virtual DNA Lab

MICROBIOLOGY

  
Prokaryote Parade - Lab # 1.  
Extraordinary Extremophiles  
Prokaryote Parade  

Archaea

  
*Domain Archaea - PowerPoint  
Microbiology Lecture Notes. Microbiology Test
Laboratory Techniques  
Microbe Page.  Computer and Lab Lessons  
Colony Morphology  

Kirby- Bauer

  
   
Basic Microbiology( Culture Techniques and Procedures) vocabulary
Microbiology Unit - Vocabulary use Purves Resources Text worksheet due on Thursday - December11
Aseptic technique Aseptic Technique
Culture media http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/microbugz/labindex.html
Isolation Streak Isolation Streak 2
Gram Stain Gram Stain
Gram Stain and Identification of Prokaryote Cell Types http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/video/Gram.html
Colony shape and morphology Pictures to help identify- characteristics of colonies
Anaerobic growth media http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/microbugz/06anaerobicjar.html
How to use Oil Immersion Step by step procedure

Prokaryote-Eukaryote

 http://www-class.unl.edu/bios201a/spring97/group6/ - eukaryote

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/pev/page3.html -eukaryotes

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/pev/page2.html - prokaryotes
Microbiology Data Sheet Data Sheet for Micro Lab
Domains and classification Tree of Life References
Link for Tree of Life

Tree of Life

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/Antibiotics_Attack/frameset.html Antibiotics - tutorial web page
Dawn of Eukarya  
Eukaryote Cells I ( Introduction ) Lab Sheet
Good Bug  
Bad Bugs  
Tree of life http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Eukaryotes&contgroup=Life_on_Earth
Dawn of Eukarya PowerPoint
Dawn of Eukarya Internet Research
The Dawn of Eukarya Worksheet
Protist Pictures for study Protists
Study notes Summary notes on the Origin of Cells and the Dawn of Eukarya
Chapter 4  A comparison of Prokaryote and Eukaryote cells follow the links
Chapter 28.  The Dawn of Eukarya Worksheet.  
Slime molds http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Slime_Molds/
Water molds http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chromista/oomycota.html

CELLS

  
Electron Microscopy  
Scanning electron microscopy http://www.mos.org/sln/sem/intro.html
Great Pictures from the microscope Microangela's electron microscopy site
Microscopy Microscopy primer
Ultrastructure I- notes  
Ultrastructure II - notes  
Chapter Five Outline  
   Class Notes. Part One.  
  Class Notes. Part Two.  
Lab Pictures for discussion  
Eukaryote Specialization and Differentiation  
Cytoskeleton Lab and Questions  
Cell Membrane Structure Questions  
Cell Wall Terms and Questions  
Cell Wall, Cell Membrane and Vacuoles  

QUIA

 http: www.quia.com/pages/psbiogen.html
*Introduction to Microbiology - Power Point  

*Microbiology Techniques - Power Point

  
*Dawn of Eukarya - PowerPoint  
*Electron Micrograph PowerPoint  
*Cell Differentiation and Specialization PowerPoint  
*Cell Membrane PowerPoint  
MIDTERM REVIEW  
LAB PRACTICAL REVIEW  
Midterm Essays  
REVIEW *Review vocabulary