Spring Semester 2017 - Pace Chart / Calendar

SCI203B
CC: Monday- Thursday 9:00, 10:30, 12:30 and 2:00
(NOTE: Red items will be graded)

Week 1
January 16 January 20

JANUARY 16th - MLK DAY HOLIDAY- NO SCHOOL

Attend Class Connect
Benchmarks January the biology benchmark is worth a
completion grade an A or and F!!!
Course Orientation
Visit Course Information Tab and become familiar with
course structure and expectations. Print this Pace Chart and
use throughout the course. Check off each item when
completed.

Student
Expectations:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:

Points per
Assignment
Holiday: No School
1.03 How Proteins Work
1.06 Biotechnology
ORIENTATION AT 12:30

Thursday:

Friday:

Week 2
January 23 January 27

1.07 Genetic Engineering

2.01 Evolution and Biology

Attend Class Connect

Complete Unit 2 Quizzes

Student
Expectations:

B.5C describe the roles of DNA,

ribonucleic acid (RNA), and environmental
factors in cell differentiation

Monday:

2.02 Evolution and Populations

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

2.03 Variation

2.03 Quiz
2.04 Natural Selection

2.04 Quiz

Points per
Assignment

6 points

3 points

2.05 Evolutionary Thought

Thursday:

2.05 Quiz

3 points

Friday:

Week 3
January 30- February 3

Outing

Attend Class Connect

Natural Selection Lab-2.09
Student
Expectations:

B.7C analyze and evaluate how natural

selection produces change in populations,
not individuals;

Monday:
2.06 Evidence of Evolution 1

Points per
Assignment

3 points

Tuesday:
2.07 Evidence of Evolution 2

2.07 Quiz

6 points

Wednesday:
2.08 Earth History

2.08 Quiz
Thursday:

3 points

2.09 Lab: Natural Selection 1

PHET Lab

20 Points

Friday:
2.11 Genetic Basis of Evolution

2.11 Quiz
Week 4
February 6 February 10

3 points

Attend Class Connect

Unit 2 Test
Student
Expectations:

B.7A Analyze and evaluate how evidence

of common ancestry among groups is
provided by the fossil record,
biogeography, and homologies

Monday:

2.13 Geographic Isolation

2.14 Genetic Isolation

Points per
Assignment

2.14 Quiz

6 points

Wednesday:

2.16 Unit Test

54 Points

Thursday:

3.01 Individuals and Populations

Tuesday:

Friday:

3.02 Communities

3.02 Quiz

6 points

Week 5
February 13 February 17

FEBRUARY 15 - PRESIDENTS DAY NO SCHOOL

Attend Class Connect
Ecosystems discussion-3.03
Energy flow discussion-3.07

Student
Expectations:

B.7D Analyze and evaluate how the

elements of natural selection, including
inherited variation, the potential of a
population to produce more offspring than
can survive, and a finite supply of
environmental resources, result in
differential reproductive success;

Points per
Assignment

3.03 Ecosystems
Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Discussion: Ecosystem in Your

World
3.04 Ecosystem Stability

3.04 Quiz
3.05 Biomes

20 points

6 points
5 points

3.06 Biodiversity
Thursday:

3.06 Quiz
3.07 Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Friday:

Week 6
February 20 February 24

3.07 Quiz
3.07 Discussion

8 points
3 points
20 points

Attend Class Connect

Student
Expectations:
Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:
Thursday:

Friday:

B.12F describe how environmental change

can impact ecosystem stability.

Points per
Assignment

Presidents Day
3.08 Food Chains and Food Webs

3.08 Quiz

3 points

Catch Up Day!
3.11 Succession

3.11 Quiz
Outing

3 points

Week 7
February 27- March 3

Attend Class Connect

3.12 Lab
3.19 Assignment
Student
Expectations:

Points per
Assignment
3.12 Patterns of Succession

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Week 8
March 6 March 10

3.12 Lab Assignment

3.13 Changes in Ecosystems

3.13 Quiz

20

3 points

3.14 Water and Nitrogen Cycles

3.15 Carbon and Oxygen Cycles

3.15 Quiz
3.19 Natural Resources

3.19 Assignment

9 points

20 points

Attend Class Connect

Unit 3 Test
4.03 Lab
Student
Expectations:
Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Points per
Assignment

3.25 Unit 3 Test

4.01 Classification and Taxonomy

4.01 Quiz

45 Points

6 points

4.02 Modern Classification

4.03 Lab: Dichotomous Key

4.03 lab
4.04 Viruses and Prokaryotes

4.04 Quiz

26 Points

3 points

Week 9
March 13 March 17
Student
Expectations:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:

Week 10
March 20 March 24

Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break

Attend Class Connect

Student
Expectations:
Monday:
Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Week 11
March 27- March 31

Points per
Assignment

Points per
Assignment
Biology Interim
4.05 Protists and Fungi

4.05 Quiz
4.06 Animals

4.06 Quiz
4.07 Plants

4.07 Quiz
4.08 Three Representative Organisms

4.08 Quiz

3 points

3 points

3 points

3 points

Attend Class Connect

Student
Expectations:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:

Points per
Assignment
4.10 Getting Energy

4.10 Quiz

3 points

EOC
EOC
EOC
4.11 Digestion

4.11 Quiz

3 points

Week 12
April 3- April 7

Attend Class Connect

Childhood Obesity Assignment due Monday
Student
Expectations:

Points per
Assignment
4.12 Digestion in Humans

Monday:

4.12 Quiz &

Assignment: Childhood Obesity

Tuesday:

4.13 Human Digestion Actions 1

Wednesday:

Thursday:

4.14 Waste Removal

4.14 Quiz
4.15 Human Digestion Actions 2

4.15 Lab

Friday:

Week 13
April 10 April 14

3 points

12 points

Outing

Attend Class Connect

Unit 4 TEST is this week!
Student
Expectations:
Monday:

Tuesday:

Week 14
April 17- April 21

3 points
20 points

Points per
Assignment
4.16 Waste Removal in Humans

4.16 Quiz
4.17 Obtaining Oxygen

4.17 Quiz

Wednesday:

4.18 Oxygen and the Human Body

Thursday:
Friday:

UNIT 4 ASSESSMENT

3 points

6 points

51 points

Holiday

Attend Class Connect

Student
Expectations:

Points per
Assignment

Monday:

5.01 How Organisms Monitor Their

Environment

Tuesday:

Biology EOC Review

Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:

5.01 Quiz

5.02 Human Nervous System

5.02 Quiz

3 points

3 points

Biology EOC Review

5.03 Feedback Mechanisms

5.03 Quiz

3 points

Week 15
April 24- April 28

Attend Class Connect

Mid-Unit 5 TEST is Wednesday

Student
Expectations:

Monday:

Tuesday:
Wednesday:

Week 16
May 1- May 5

Week 17
May 8- May 12

Points per
Assignment
5.04 How Living Things Respond to their
Environment

5.04 Assignment
5.04 Quiz

20 points
3 points

Biology EOC Review

5.05 Muscular Systems

5.05 Quiz

Thursday:
Friday:

Biology EOC Review

Catch Up Day!

Student
Expectations:

CATCH UP ON ALL OF YOUR MISSING

ASSIGNMENT! GOOD LUCK ON THE
STAAR TEST

Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:

EOC Testing/ Make Up Work

EOC Testing/ Make Up Work
EOC Testing/ Make Up Work
EOC Testing/ Make Up Work
EOC Testing/ Make Up Work

6 points

Points per
Assignment

Attend Class Connect

Student
Expectations:

Points per
Assignment
5.10 Flatworm Reproduction

Monday:

5.10 Quiz

3 points

5.11 Human Reproduction

Tuesday:

5.11 Quiz

6 points

5.12 How Organisms Defend Themselves

Wednesday:

5.12 Quiz

3 points

5.13 Human Immune Response 1

Thursday:

5.13 Quiz

Friday:

5.14 Human Immune Response 2

6 points

Week 18
May 15- May 19

Attend Class Connect

Unit 5 Test
Chicken Muscles Lab
Student
Expectations:

Points per
Assignment
5.15 Plant Defenses

Monday:

5.15 Quiz

4 points

5.17 Unit Test

45 Points

Tuesday:

Honors Research Paper Due

Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:

6.7 Lab: Chicken Muscles 1

6.7 Lab: Chicken Muscles 2
Exemption Deadline is 11:59 pm
No Work to Complete

15 points

ALL WORK IS DUE MAY 22nd!!!

Student
Expectations:

May 22- May 26

Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:

May 26th

Points per
Assignment

Last day for all assignments: 11:59 pm

Finals Review
Finals Review
FINALS
FINALS
Second Semester Ends
Last Day of School

115 points