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BIOLOGY 30

Prerequisite: 50% in Biology 20

Grade Level: 11-12

Classroom: Room 111

Period: Block 2 (1st or 2nd semester)

Credits: 5

Total Duration: 18 weeks

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UNIT 1:  Nervous System & Sensory Reception

Nervous System/Sensory Reception Note Package

Terms of Review

The Cockroach Beatbox (TED-Ed Video)

What Can You Do Without a Brain? (Backyard Brain Video)

The Nervous System, Part 1 (CrashCourse Video)

Receptors in the Skin ("Discovery Biology" Animation)

Reflex Arcs ("Discovery Biology" Animation)

The Sodium-Potassium Pump (Ricochet Science Video)

The Resting Membrane Potential ("Biological Psychology" Animation)

Action Potential Propagation in an Unmyelinated Axon (YouTube Video)

Action Potential Conduction (Learn Alberta Interactive Animation)

The Nervous System, Part 2 - Action!  Potential! (CrashCourse Video)

Synaptic Transmission ("Neuroscience" Animation)

The Nervous System, Part 3 - Synapses! (CrashCourse Video)

Neurons Questions

"Brainstem" Music Video (Pinky and the Brain Video)

Are People Really Left-Brained or Right-Brained? (SciShow Video)

Girl Living With Half Her Brain (Today Video)

The Phineas Gage Case (Harvard University Video)

Central Nervous System (CrashCourse Video)

Autonomic Nervous System (CrashCourse Video)

Mammalian Brain Dissection Lab Booklet

Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems Questions

Nervous System Quiz

A Life Without Pain (20/20 Video)

How the Eye Works and the Retina (EyeSmart Video)

Those Maddening Eyeball Floaters! (SciShow Video)

Why Do We See Illusions? (TED-Ed Video)

8 Mind-Blowing Optical Illusions (SciShow Video)

LASIK Eye Surgery in Six Minutes (YouTube Video)

Do Those Glasses Really Fix Colorblindness? (SciShow Video)

Vision (CrashCourse Video)

Why Do Some People Tolerate Spicy Food? (SciShow Video)

Taste & Smell (CrashCourse Video)

Photoreceptors & Chemoreceptors Questions

Mammalian Eye Dissection Lab Booklet

Why Do We Have Earwax? (SciShow Video)

Effects of Sound Waves on Cochlear Structures (McGraw Hill Animation)

Sensorineural Hearing Loss Explained (YouTube Video)

Conductive Hearing Loss Explained (YouTube Video)

What Does a Cochlear Implant Sound Like? (SciShow Video)

Hearing & Balance (CrashCourse Video)

Mechanoreceptors & Thermoreceptors Questions

Nervous System Study Cards

Nervous System/Sensory Reception Unit Review (Questions on 2-4, 6-8 & 10-16 pages 402-403 & questions 2-3, 6, 9-10 & 14-17 on pages 432-433 of the textbook)

Nervous System/Sensory Reception Unit Exam

UNIT 2:  Endocrine System

Endocrine System Note Package

Terms of Review

What is Acromegaly? (YouTube Video)

What If You Stopped Drinking Water? (ASAPScience Video)

Hypothalamus, Pituitary Gland & Pineal Gland Questions

Can Stress Actually Kill You? (ASAPScience Video)

Endocrine System, Part 1 - Glands & Hormones (CrashCourse Video)

Adrenal Gland & Islets of Langerhans Questions

Endocrine System Quiz

Pancreas & Insulin (YouTube Video)

What is Diabetes Mellitus? (Khan Academy Video)

Why Is Salt So Bad For You, Anyways? (SciShow Video)

Endocrine System, Part 2 - Hormone Cascades (CrashCourse Video)

Thyroid Gland, Parathyroid Gland, Thymus Gland & Gonads Questions

Unit Review Booklet

Endocrine System Study Cards

Endocrine System Unit Exam

UNIT 3:  Cell Division

Cell Division Note Package

Terms for Review

What is DNA and How Does It Work? (Clearly Stated Video)

Genes vs DNA vs Chromosomes (Scientific American Video)

Why Ferns Have More Chromosomes Than You (SciShow Video)

Genetic Material Questions

Mitosis Questions

Mitosis:  Splitting up is Complicated (CrashCourse Video)

Mitosis Quiz

Meiosis Square Dance (YouTube Video)

Meiosis:  Where the Sex Starts (CrashCourse Video)

Meiosis Questions

Why Sex? (SciShow Video)

Hydras:  Our Immortal, Tentacled Friends (CrashCourse Video)

Reproductive Strategies Questions

Cell Division Unit Exam

UNIT 4:  Molecular Genetics

Molecular Genetics Note Package

Terms for Review

Rosalind Franklin:  DNA's Unsung Hero (TED-Ed Video)

Biotechnology (CrashCourse Video)

DNA & RNA Structure Questions

DNA Replication - 3D (YouTube Video)

DNA Structure and Replication (CrashCourse Video)

DNA Replication Questions

DNA Structure & Replication Quiz

Flu Attack!  How a Virus Invades Your Body (NPR Video)

DNA, Hot Pockets & the Longest Word Ever (CrashCourse Video)

Protein Synthesis Questions

Sickle Cell Mutation Questions

Bodies and Dollars (Start playback at 7:06) (CrashCourse Video)

How Are GMOs Created? (YouTube Video)

How CRISPR Lets You Edit DNA (TED-Ed Video)

Human Nature (PBS Nova Documentary)

The First Gene-Edited Babies Are Here, Like It or Not (SciShow Video)

CRISPR-Cas9 Position Paper

Gene Therapy Explained (AGTC Video)

Gene Therapy - The Time is Now (TEDx Video)

How a Gene Gun Works (YouTube Video)

Gel Electrophoresis Better Explained (3D Animation)

The Century of the Gene (CrashCourse Video)

Gene Editing (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Video)

Molecular Genetics Study Cards

Molecular Genetics Unit Exam

UNIT 5:  Reproduction & Prenatal Development

Reproduction Note Package

Terms for Review

Human Physiology - Spermatogenesis (YouTube Video)

Reproductive System, Part 2 - Male Reproductive System (CrashCourse Video)

Male Reproductive System Questions

The Great Sperm Race (YouTube Video)

Female Egg Development (Prentice-Hall Animation)

Menstrual Cycle (Prentice-Hall Animation)

Reproductive System, Part 1 - Female Reproductive System (CrashCourse Video)

Female Reproductive System Questions

Sexually Transmitted Infections Questions

Reproductive System Quiz

Prenatal Development Note Package

Abby & Brittany Hensel - Conjoined Twins (YouTube Video)

Former Conjoined Twins Defy Odds (YouTube Video)

Resurrection Biology:  How to Bring Back Animals from Extinction (SciShow Video)

Reproductive System, Part 3 - Sex & Fertilization (CrashCourse Video)

Assistive Reproductive Technologies & Contraception Questions

Life's Greatest Miracle (PBS Nova Documentary)

Stem Cells (SciShow Video)

First Spinal Cord Surgery with Stem Cells (ABC News Video)

A Stem Cell Story (YouTube Video)

Animal Development:  We're Just Tubes (CrashCourse Video)

What Causes Morning Sickness? (SciShow Video)

Intersex Across the Animal Kingdom (SciShow Video)

What We Really Know About Placenta Eating (SciShow Video)

Reproductive System Part 4 - Pregnancy & Development (CrashCourse Video)

Prenatal Development Questions

Reproduction/Prenatal Development Study Cards

Reproduction/Prenatal Development Unit Exam

UNIT 6:  Classical Genetics

Classical Genetics Note Package

Terms for Review

Gregor Mendel:  Great Minds (SciShow Video)

How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped Us Understand Genetics (TED-Ed Video)

Genetics - Lost and Found (CrashCourse Video)

Monohybrid & Test Crosses Questions

Incomplete and Co-Dominance Questions

Dihybrid Crosses Questions

Monohybrid & Dihybrid Crosses Quiz

Gene Mapping Multiple Choice Questions

Gene Mapping Questions

Sex-Linked & Multiple Alleles Questions

Hereditary (CrashCourse Video)

Pedigrees Questions

Classical Genetics Review Questions

Classical Genetics Unit Exam

UNIT 7:  Population Genetics

Population Genetics Note Package

Terms for Review

Wild Ways (PBS Nova Documentary)

Population Genetics:  When Darwin Met Mendel (CrashCourse Video)

Hardy-Weinberg Principle Questions

Population Genetics Quiz

Textbook Chapter 20:  Population Growth and Interactions

Population Growth Questions

Population Ecology:  The Texas Mosquito Mystery (CrashCourse Video)

Humpback Whales Feeding on Krill (BBC Earth Video)

Community Ecology II:  Predators (CrashCourse Video)

The Most Horrifying Parasites! (ASAPScience Video)

Succession Questions

Population Genetics Unit Exam

IN-CLASS FINAL EXAMS & DIPLOMA EXAM

Biology 30 Data Booklet

Diploma Exam Review Booklet

Biology 30 Assessment Exemplars

Take Home Practice Diploma Exam

In-Class Final Exam - Thursday, June 13 (Block 1) in room 111

Optional Diploma Exam Review Session - Tuesday, January 21 (1:00-3:00 pm) in room 111

Diploma Exam - Wednesday, January 22 (8:45 am-12:00 pm) in rooms 101/102

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