Biology by the Math Mom: Guided reading questions

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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Biology in Focus 2nd Edition Reading Guides and Videos

Next year, we are switching from Campbell's Biology 8th Edition to Biology in Focus 2nd Edition (BIF). The guided reading questions that I've been using (and blogged about here) were an edited version of the Holtzclaws' reading guides for Campbell's 8th edition. I used the Holtzclaws' AP Biology Review book to help me to know what questions to eliminate to shorten the reading guides so that they were only asking questions that were key to helping students understand content important for the AP Biology curriculum.

For many of the chapters, I just needed to change chapter and section numbers to adjust the guide for BIF. Other chapters combined the content of 2 Campbell chapters, so that took a little more work. Occasionally one section was moved from one chapter to another. I've been feverishly working on updating these for the entire book since I wanted to print hard copies for each chapter before I checked out of my classroom for the summer, so I can work on making keys for each of them while I'm home on summer "break." I'll include links to each of them here. I do imagine that I'll need to do some revision as I go through each of the guides this summer and fortunately they will show up automatically in the links.

Unit 8: Plants

Plant Form and Function

Chapters 28-31 Questions

Plant Control (Bozeman)

Unit 9: Ecology

Motor Mechanisms and Animal Behavior

Chapter 39 Questions

Tinbergen's Experiment

Population Ecology and the Distribution of Organisms

Chapter 40 Questions

Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery (Crash Course)

Human Population Growth (Crash Course)

Species Interactions

Chapter 41 Questions

Community Ecology: Feel the Love (Crash Course)

Ecological Succession: Change is Good (Crash Course)

Ecosystems and Energy

Chapter 42 Questions

Ecosystem Ecology (Crash Course)

The Water and Carbon Cycle (Crash Course)

The Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles (Crash Course)

Global Ecology and Conservation Biology

Chapter 43 Questions

5 Human Impacts on the Environment (Crash Course)

Conservation and Restoration Ecology (Crash Course)

Unit 10: Human Form and Function

The Internal Environment of Animals: Organization and Regulation

Chapter 32 Questions

Positive and Negative Feedback Loops (Bozeman)

Great Glands: Your Endocrine System (Crash Course)

The Immune System

Chapter 35 Questions

Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer (Crash Course)

Reproduction and Development

Chapter 36 Questions

The Reproductive System (Bozeman)

Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling

Chapter 37 Question

Nervous and Sensory Systems

Chapter 38 Questions

The Nervous System (Crash Course)

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Guided Reading Questions and Videos for AP Biology

I've been meaning to put this together all year, but life has just been too busy to get it all together. Even though it's my third year teaching the new AP Biology curriculum, I've come to realize that I will never finish tweaking this course, and so will never just breeze through a year of teaching it. On the bright side, I do feel like each year I teach it a little better! Here are my links to guided reading questions and corresponding videos to supplement the reading in AP Biology. All of these links are in old blog posts, but I thought I might be easier to have all of the links in one post. Here is a link to a document that has all of these units in table form, which I like better. It just doesn't copy and paste well into blogger. Right now the chapter numbers correspond to the Campbell Biology 8th Ed., but next year we are switching to the 2nd Edition of Biology in Focus, so next year, I'll be changing the chapter numbers. I may change the questions some, but they should already match fairly well with Biology in Focus since I had chosen them based on what I saw in the Holtzclaw Test Prep review book for Campbell Biology and Biology in Focus. I love that Test Prep review book by the way!

Biochemistry: Unit 1

Chemical Context of Life

Chapter 2 Questions

Water

Chapter 3 Questions

Crash Course Water

Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life

Chapter 4 Questions

Crash Course Carbon

Macromolecules

Chapter 5 Questions

Crash Course Macromolecules

Enzymes

Chapter 8 Questions

Bozeman Biology Enzymes

Cells: Unit 2

A Tour of the Cell

Chapter 6 Questions

A Tour of the Cell (Bozeman)

Membrane Structure and Function

Chapter 7 Questions

In Da Club: Membranes and Transport (Crash Course)

Cell Communication

Chapter 11 Questions

Cell Communication (Bozeman)

Signal Transduction Pathways

Effects of Changes in Pathways

Metabolism: Unit 3

Introduction to Metabolism

Chapter 8 Questions

Gibbs Free Energy (Bozeman)

Cellular Respiration

Chapter 9 Questions

Cellular Respiration (Bozeman)

Photosynthesis

Chapter 10 Questions

Photosynthesis (Bozeman)

Cell Cycle and Mendelian Genetics: Unit 4 & 5

Cell Cycle

Chapter 12 Questions

Mitosis (Bozeman)

Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles

Chapter 13 Questions

Meiosis (Bozeman)

Mendel and the Gene Idea

Chapter 14 Questions

Mendelian Genetics (Bozeman)

Heredity (Crash Course)

Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance

Chapter 15 Questions

Advanced Genetics (Bozeman)

Genetic Recombination and Gene Mapping (Bozeman)

Linked Genes (Bozeman)

Molecular Genetics: Unit 6

The Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Chapter 16 Questions

DNA Replication (Bozeman)

Gene Expression

Chapter 17 Questions

Transcription and Translation (Bozeman)

Regulation of Gene Expression

Chapter 18 Questions

Gene Regulation (Bozeman)

Viruses

Chapter 19 Questions

Viruses (Bozeman)

DNA Tools and Biotechnology

Chapter 20 Questions

Molecular Biology (Bozeman)

Genomes and their Evolution

Chapter 21 Questions

Evolutionary Development (Crash Course)

Evolution: Unit 7

Descent with Modification

Chapter 22 Questions

Natural Selection (Crash Course)

The Evolution of Populations

Chapter 23 Questions

Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel (Crash Course)

The Origin of Species

Chapter 24 Questions

Speciation: Of Ligers and Men (Crash Course)

The History of Life on Earth

Chapter 25 Questions

Evolution: It's a Thing (Crash Course)

Phylogeny and the Tree of Life

Chapter 26 Questions

Taxonomy: Life's Filing System (Crash Course)

Bacteria and Archaea

Chapter 27 Questions

Old and Odd: Archaea, Bacteria, & Protists (Crash Course)

Unit 8: Plants

Plant Form and Function

Chapters 36-39

Plant Control (Bozeman)

Unit 9: Ecology

Animal Behavior

Chapter 51 Questions

Tinbergen's Experiment

Ecology and the Biosphere

Chapter 52 Questions

Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery (Crash Course)

Population Ecology

Chapter 53 Questions

Human Population Growth (Crash Course)

Community Ecology

Chapter 54 Questions

Community Ecology: Feel the Love (Crash Course)

Ecological Succession: Change is Good (Crash Course)

Ecosystems and Energy

Chapter 55 Questions

Ecosystem Ecology (Crash Course)

The Water and Carbon Cycle (Crash Course)

The Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles (Crash Course)

Conservation Ecology and Global Change

Chapter 56 Questions

5 Human Impacts on the Environment (Crash Course)

Conservation and Restoration Ecology (Crash Course)

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Unit 10 Reading Guides-Human Form and Function

The last set of guided reading questions has been updated and is ready to go. The end of the year is in sight. I'm excited, since this year we'll actually finish the AP Bio curriculum by the exam. This means we get to do a fun (in a morbid way) Ebola unit for the last three weeks of the year. Anyway, for the human unit we focus on the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems and embryonic development. I'm going to try the Pom-Pom Potential activity from Learn Genetics Utah and possibly Jumpin The Gap. Then we'll look at the Nerve Cell Communication activity from the Life Sciences Learning Center of the University of Rochester. We also do a fun lab looking at circulation in goldfish tails and the effect of epinephrine on the circulation. Still looking for a good immune system lab or activity.

Chapter 40 Guided Reading-Animal Form and Function
Chapter 43 Guided Reading-The Immune System
Chapter 45 Guided Reading-The Endocrine System
Chapter 46 Guided Reading-Reproduction
Chapter 47 Guided Reading-Embryonic Development
Chapter 48 Guided Reading-Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
Chapter 49 Guided Reading-Nervous System

Now that I've finished updating these reading guides, I'm hoping to make a page that includes all of these guides...soon.

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Unit 9 Reading Guides--Ecology

We are coming up to our ecology unit soon, so I've been revising our guided reading notes for this next-to-the-last-unit for the year. We actually start this unit with animal behavior and I pull out the termites for us to experiment with. This unit also includes estimating population sizes--with a fun capture/recapture lab with "bean" organisms.

Here are the guided reading notes by chapter.

Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Chapter 52: An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere
Chapter 53: Population Ecology
Chapter 54: Community Ecology
Chapter 55: Ecosystems and Energy
Chapter 56: Conservation Ecology and Global Change

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Unit 8 Reading Guide-Plants

I've started to prepare for our next unit in AP Biology. This is our shortest unit of the year. We only take 8 periods for this unit--4 of which are spent on the Transpiration lab. The picture above was taken last year as part of this lab. I combine all of the plant chapters into one set of notes, since we primarily focus on transpiration and tropisms.

Here are the notes:

Guided Reading for Unit 8

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Unit 7 Reading Guides--Evolution

Since I've finished planning out our Molecular Genetics unit, it's time to start working on the Evolution Unit. Here are the guided reading questions for the chapters in this unit.

Chapter 22-Descent with Modification
Chapter 23-The Evolution of Populations
Chapter 24-The Origin of Species
Chapter 25-The History of Life on Earth
Chapter 26-Phylogeny and the Tree of Life
Chapter 27-Bacteria and Archaea

Friday, December 2, 2016

Unit 6 Guided Reading-Molecular Genetics

My AP Biology class will be finishing our Mendelian Genetics unit right before Christmas vacation. So, as soon as we return to school in January, we'll be diving into what I believe is the most intense unit in AP Biology. We also get to do the high-tech labs of bacterial transformation and electrophoresis. Fortunately there are several hands-on activities in addition to the labs to help make molecular genetics more concrete for students.

Here are the guided reading questions by chapter for this unit:

Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Chapter 17: Gene Expression-From Gene to Protein

Chapter 18: Regulation of Gene Expression

Chapter 19: Virus

Chapter 20: DNA Tools and Biotechnology

Chapter 21: Genomes and Their Evolution

Friday, November 11, 2016

Unit 5 Reading Guides--Mendelian Genetics

The Mitosis and Meiosis unit will actually get us to Christmas break. I've made some revisions to the guided reading questions for this two-chapter unit. Here are the Holzclaw guided reading questions pared down to fit within the new AP Biology framework.

Chapter 14 Mendel and the Gene Idea

Chapter 15 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance

Monday, October 31, 2016

Unit 4 Reading Guides-Mitosis and Meiosis

We're getting ready to start our Mitosis and Meiosis unit, so I've made some revisions to the guided reading questions for this two-chapter unit. Here are the Holzclaw guided reading questions pared down to fit within the new AP Biology framework.

Chapter 12: The Cell Cycle

Chapter 13: Meiosis and the Sexual Life Cycles

Monday, October 3, 2016

Unit 3 Reading Guides--Cellular Metabolism

In a couple of weeks, we'll begin our unit on cellular energetics. The class will be immersed in cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Here are the Holzclaw guided reading questions pared down to fit with the new AP Biology framework.

Chapter 8: An Introduction to Metabolism

Chapter 9: Cellular Respiration

Chapter 10: Photosynthesis

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Reading Guides for Unit 2--Cells

I finished tweaking the Holtzclaw's guided reading questions to fit within the new AP Biology curriculum framework for my Unit Two chapters. These should work for both the Campbell Biology texts and Biology in Focus (although the chapter numbers will be a little different). Chapter 6 focuses on organelles and their functions. Chapter 7 focuses on membranes and transport into and out of cells. This is where we do the AP diffusion and osmosis lab. Chapter 11 introduces the signal transduction pathway.

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 11

Happy reading!