• April 3^rd, 2024

•     Learning Intentions

•     Evolution Quiz

•         take, grade and discuss

•     Continue Chapter 22, 23, and 24 Notes: Evolution (pages 44-47)

•     Hardy-Weinberg Equation practice (#1-7)

•         walk through #1 as a class

•         in table groups in your notebooks 

•     March Mammal Madness update

•     Wrap Up/Launch

• April 4^th, 2024    

•    Learning Intentions

•     Go over any questions from Hardy-Weinberg Equation practice (#1-7)

•     Finish Chapter 22, 23, and 24 Notes: Evolution (pg 49-54)

•     Review AP BIO Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution prelab

•     Wrap Up/Launch

• April 5^th, 2024 

•     Learning Intentions  

•     AP BIO Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution

•         Do PTC Hardy-Weinberg Equation Part A

•         Review Part A calculations

•         go over mating interactions and process

•         go outside and to collect data fro Part B: Case A Testing and Ideal Population

•     Wrap Up/ Launch

• April 15^th, 2024

•     Learning Intentions

•     AP BIO Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution

•         review Part B Case C and D

•         go outside to collect data for different generations of the different test cases

•         return inside and record class data

•     Wrap Up/Launch

• April 16^th, 2024

•     Learning Intentions

•     Finish data collection for AP BIO Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution

•         Case D and record class data

•     Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Quiz

•         take, grade, discuss

•     Work on and review results and analysis questions for AP BIO Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution

•         self score lab

•     Wrap Up/Launch

• April 17^th, 2024 

•     Learning Intentions

•     Review analysis questions for AP BIO Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution

•     Review questions from Daily Video 7.12 Variations in Populations.

•     Review at least one AP Free Response Questions (2019 #5, rubric, 2018 #1, rubric, 2010 Form A #3c  rubric , 2008 Form B #3 rubric , 2004 Form A #2 rubric)

•      Explore Population genetics simulation program

•         come up with some predictions and test them

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Review/Finish AP Free Response Questions linked above and Watch Daily Video 7.10 Speciation, Daily Video 7.11 Extinction, and Daily Video 7.13 Origins of Life on Earth.

MU: Review/Finish AP Free Response Questions linked above, explore Population genetics simulation program and do pre-lab for AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST  as stated above.

• April 18^th, 2024

•     Learning Intentions

•     Start AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST (starting on pg 11)

•             start pre-lab: write purpose question, read background and summarize most important sentences in each paragraph on front page, copy objectives, and do Getting Started questions #1 and 2

•             to help prepare for the exploration explore "The Evolution of Flight in Birds"  a real-world example of how cladograms are used to understand evolutionary relationships

•             download gene 1, gene 2, gene 3, gene 4 to your computer to use in BLAST (use link here instead of one in lab handout)

•     Wrap Up/Launch

• April 19^th, 2024

•      Learning Intentions

•      Continue AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST

•         check off pre-lab

•         go through procedure (starting pg 14 of linked document), follow each step carefully

•         download gene 1, gene 2, gene 3, gene 4  to your computer to use in BLAST (use link here instead of one in lab handout)

•         answer Analyzing Results questions #1-4 for each gene downloaded and then Evaluating Results questions #1-3 to reflect on all

•      Wrap Up/Launch

• April 23^rd, 2024 

•     Learning Intentions

•     Turn in Evolution Labs

•     Review answers to questions from the Daily Video

•     Animal Research Project Google Slides

•         decide on an animal to research and complete items #1-6 on your slides

•         example presentation

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Finish slides #1-6 if you did not in class and watch Daily Video 8.3 Population Ecology and Daily Video 8.4 Effect of Density of Population

MU: Turn in Evolution Labs and complete the first six slides for your Animal Research Project Google Slides, you can use the linked example to help guide you.

• April 24^th, 2024

•     Learning Intentions

•     Population Growth Practice Problems

•     Population Growth POGIL

•     BioInteractive: Lionfish Invasion- Density Dependent Population Dynamics

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Finish one of the Population Growth Assignments, (Population Growth Practice Problems, Population Growth POGIL, BioInteractive: Lionfish Invasion- Density Dependent Population Dynamics)

MU: Complete one of the Population Growth Assignments, (Population Growth Practice Problems, Population Growth POGIL, BioInteractive: Lionfish Invasion- Density Dependent Population Dynamics)

• April 25^th, 2024

•     Learning Intentions 

•     Review Population Growth Assignments 

•     Animal Research Project Google Slides

•         complete items #7-8 on your slides

•         example presentation

•     Simpson Diversity Index

•             Simpson's Diversity Index Practice Problems

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Finish Simpson's Diversity Index Practice Problems and watch Daily Video 8.5 Community Ecology and Daily Video 8.6 Biodiversity

MU: Review Simpson's Diversity Index link above and complete Practice Problems and watch Daily Video 8.5 Community Ecology and Daily Video 8.6 Biodiversity