IB Biology Year 2 (Period 5) Assignments
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- 2016-2017 School Year
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IB Biology Final
IB Biology Internal Assessment Proposal
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Read and make an outline of the two booklets.
Collectively choose two experiments relating to water conservation to carry out when you come back from spring break.
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Read the following booklet and website.
Collectively make an outline of the reading to use for your Group 4 Project Water/Drought Awareness.
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PBS: Essay Contest on Cancer
Enter an essay and you will receive 5 extra credit lab points!
Essay must be approved before entry. Please see me for details.
You can win a scholarship and internship!
Cancer has been referred to as the "Emperor of all Maladies" and millions of people around the world are looking for a cure. In America, over 1,600 people die each day from the disease. Tell us why scientific research is so important to helping find a cure for cancer. And, if YOU could be a scientific researcher, what would you study and why?*
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Chapter 6.1-6.3 Quiz
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Chapter 6 Homework Packet
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Chapter 5: Evolution and Biodiversity Exam
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Group 4 Project Proposal Due
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Additional Chapter 5 practice:
Questions on page 71 of Study Book
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Please complete all Chapter 5 homework by this date.
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Owl Pellet Packet
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Data-based questions: Origins of turtles and lizards
Page. 273
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Chapter 5 Review
Complete 2 problems from page. 277 Questions
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Data-based questions: Classifying cartilagious fish
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Dichotomus Key Lab
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Data-based questions: Evolution in Rice Plants
Page. 253
Data-based questions: Galapagos finches
page. 255-256
Data-based questions: Chlortetracycline resistance in soil bacteria
page. 257
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Data-based questions: Missing link
Page. 243
Data-based questions: Domestication of corn
Page. 244
Data-based questions: Prediction rates in Biston betularia
Page. 248
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Chapter 5.1-5.3 Quiz
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Work on Dichotomous Key Lab
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Natural Selection Lab
- For each scenario explain why you collected the amount of beads that you did.
- Describe what is happening in each scenario using the information we learned from Chapter 5.1 and 5.2. Such as, does over population or variance play a factor in your struggle to survive?
- Include the data you recorded in the write up.
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Internal Assessment FINAL Draft
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Internal Assessment ROUGH DRAFT
Hello class,
The IA criteria can be found in the IB Biology Guide posted on google classroom. It is on pages 148 and on. Page 164 includes the rubric in which you will be graded on. I posted a IA summary rubric/checklist on the google classroom for your own information.
As for the IA samples found on google classroom the Light Intensity IA received high marks while all the others received half the marks or less.
Let me know if you have any more questions. Please have the report printed and ready.
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Final Exam
Chapters 3-4
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Chapter 4 Review Pages: (Choose 3 problems)
239-240
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Chapter 3 Review Pages:
Complete any two questions from questions 1-3
page. 200
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Chapter 4 Exam
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Chapter 4 Kahoot
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Data-based questions: CO2 Concentrations and global temperatures
Page. 233
Data-based questions: Phenology
Page. 234
Data-based questions: Comparing CO2 emissions
Page. 236
Data-based questions: Uncertainty in temperature rise projections
Page. 237
Activity
Page. 238
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Vehicle Emission Trends
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Chapter 4.1-4.2 Quiz
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Data-based question: Carbon dioxide and concentration
Activty: pH changes in rock pools
Data-based questions: Data-logging pH in an aquarium
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Data-based questions
Page. 216
Activity: Thinking about energy changes
Page. 217
Activity: Salmon and Soy
Page. 218
Data-based question: A simple food web
Page. 219
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Internal Assessment FORMAL: Research Question, Introduction, Hypothesis, Variables (Independent, Dependent, Controlled), Materials, Method (Procedure)
For Peer Review
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Activity: Cyanobacteria in caves
Page. 214
Data-based questions: Insolation
Page. 214
Activity: Bush and Forest Fires
Page. 215
Data-Based questions: Chi-square Testing
Page 209
Make sure to read the segment on Chi square testing found on page 207 and 208
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Chapter 4 Local Conditions: Ecosystems
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Identifying modes of nutrition
Pg. 206
Create a dichotomous key like the example on page 206 for modes of nutrition.
(If did not finish)
Activity: Cave Ecosystems
Write whether this (Figure 20) is more or less sustainable than ecosystems in dark caves.
PLEASE READ the Chi-square paragraphs.
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Activity: Galapagos tortoises
Pg. 203
Write your opinions on whether the examples presented justify the separation of the turtle species.
Data-based question: Unexpected diets
Pg. 204
Identifying modes of nutrition
Pg. 206
Create a dichotomous key like the example on page 206 for modes of nutrition.
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Read Chapter 4 Ecology
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Chapter 3 Exam
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Internal Assessment Data Collection Start
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Kahoots Review Chapter 3
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Data-based questions: PCR and Neanderthals
page. 188
Data-based questions: Transgenic pollen and monarch larvae
page. 195
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Chapter 3 Quiz
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Bioethics and You
191 Lesson 15.4
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Data-based questions: Coat colour in the house mouse
page. 173
Data-based questions: The two spot ladybird
page. 174
Data-based questions: Analyzing genetic crosses
page. 176
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Meiosis Quiz
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IA Orders Due
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Data-Based Question: Comparing the chromosomes of mice and humans
page. 153
Data-Based Questions: A human karyotype
page. 159
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IA Proposal Revise
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IA Proposal Due
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Follow the instructions on page 144.
Use the database to determine the differences in the base sequence of a gene in two species. You can choose any gene. Copy and paste the DNA sequence from the two species and describe how and why the base sequences differs. Make sure to describe the gene that you chose.
Page 147
Answer the questions in the Activity: Ethics of genome research.
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Syllabus Signature Page
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Data-Based questions: COX-2, smoking and Stomach Cancer
pg. 145
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IA Quiz