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Day
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Scheduled Time
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Topics
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| Monday |
8:30
Administration/Orientation
9:00
Introduction/Reintroduction
to AP Bio
Syllabus Items
Discuss Texts
10:50 Break
11:15 Set up Vinca Transpiration
Perform“Lab 0”: Beet Diffusion
Evolution Simulation
Prep Lab 8: Population Genetics
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Perform, Discuss Lab 8:
Population
Genetics & Evolution
2:00 Break
2:15 Prep & Perform Lab 1:
Diffusion
& Osmosis
4:00 Free |
- Membrane Permeability.
Using beet cubes and three concentrations of three alcohols, study the
nature of the effect of the molecular sizes and concentrations of the
alcohols, and their effect on the cell membrane.
- Begin collecting
transpiration data over
a week-long time course.
- Perform the suggested
AP Hardy-Weinberg lab and an alternate lab.
- Perform the sugested AP
lab with dialysis bags and potato cells.
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| Tuesday |
8:30
Reading: Vinca Transpiration
Do Lab 1 Calculations & Discuss
9:00 Prep & Perform Lab
6A:Bacterial
Transformation Break
(integrated…)
11:30 Prep Lab 6B: Electrophoresis
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Perform Lab 6B:
Electrophoresis
(load and run gels)
2:00 Break
2:15 Prep & Perform Lab 4:
Photosynthesis & Discuss same
Integrate Lab 3: Mitosis/Meiosis
4:00 Free |
- Discuss the background
information for biotechnology; perform Carolina's transformation lab
with pBLU, a plasmid that contains both an ampicillin-resistant gene,
as well as one that codes for an enzyme that causes transformed
colonies to metabolize X-gal.
- Set up and perform an
electrophoresis gel, using Ward's "DNA fingerprinting" materials.
- Perform the suggested
AP lab with spectrophotometers and DPIP. Set up alternative labs using
bromthymol blue indicator.
- Discuss Mitosis;
observe live Sordaria peritheca and attempt to calculate crossover
frequency.
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| Wednesday |
8:30
Reading: vinca Transpiration
Check electrophoresis gels
Check transformation cultures
Prep Lab 11: Behavior
10:00 Break
Perform & discuss Lab 11:
Behavior
Prep Lab 5: Cellular Respiration
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Perform, Do Calculations,
& Discuss
Lab 5: Cellular Respiration
2:00 Break
2:15 Integrate Lab 10: Circulation
4:00 Free |
- Perform the suggested
AP behavior lab (pill bug, not fruit fly!); discuss alternative labs.
- Use Vernier probes to
study the production of carbon dioxide by germinating seeds.
- Perform the suggested
AP lab to study respiration using volumeters, and adapt same to Vernier
pressure probes.
- Discuss suggested AP
circulation lab.
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| Thursday |
8:30 Reading:
Vinca Transpiration
Check Electrophoresis gels
Check Transformation plates
9:00 Preparing for the AP Exam
Grading the Exam
10:00 Break
10:15 Grading the Exam
Discuss: Energy & Enzymes
Prep Lab 2: Enzyme Catalysis
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Perform Lab 2: Enzyme Catalysis
2:00 Break
2:15 Discuss Lab 2 & do calculations
Perform Lab 6 Calculations
Transformance efficiency
DNA migration distances
Integrate Lab 10: Circulation
4:00 Free |
- Discuss a plan to
prepare students for the rigors of an AP exam in biology.
- Practice grading
free-response questions
- Perform the suggested
AP enzyme lab using catalase and peroxide; titrating with potassium
permanganate.
- Perform the same lab
using Vernier pressure probes to measure the production of oxygen gas.
- Perform parts of the AP
circulation lab
- Observe circulation in
living specimens (Daphnia/goldfish)
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| Friday |
8:30
Reading: Vinca Transpiration
Perform calculations (Lab 9:
Transpiration Lab)
Prepare and View Xsec
10:00 Break
10:15 Lab 12: Dissolved Oxygen
11:00 Wrap-up and Course Evaluations
12:00 Lunch |
- Perform suggested AP
lab on transpiration
- Observe stomates in
Zebrina
- Perform suggested AP
lab on primary productivity using Ward's snap test.
- Complete course
evaluations
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| Post-conference |
Keep in touch with other A.P. teachers. Go to conferences. Collaborate! |
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