BIOLOGY 30
Prerequisite: 50% in Biology 20
Grade Level: 11-12
Classroom: Room 111
Period: Block 1 (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
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)
"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/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
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
Endocrine System Unit Exam
UNIT 3: Cell Division
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)
Mitosis: Splitting up is Complicated (CrashCourse Video)
Mitosis Quiz
Meiosis Square Dance (YouTube Video)
Meiosis: Where the Sex Starts (CrashCourse Video)
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
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Unsung Hero (TED-Ed Video)
Biotechnology (CrashCourse Video)
DNA Replication - 3D (YouTube Video)
DNA Structure and Replication (CrashCourse Video)
DNA Structure & Replication Quiz
Flu Attack! How a Virus Invades Your Body (NPR Video)
DNA, Hot Pockets & the Longest Word Ever (CrashCourse Video)
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)
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
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
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
Monohybrid & Dihybrid Crosses Quiz
Gene Mapping Multiple Choice Questions
Sex-Linked & Multiple Alleles Questions
Hereditary (CrashCourse Video)
Classical Genetics Review Questions
Classical Genetics Unit Exam
UNIT 7: Population Genetics
Population Genetics Note Package
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 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)
Population Genetics Unit Exam
IN-CLASS FINAL EXAMS & DIPLOMA EXAM
Take Home Practice Diploma Exam
In-Class Final Exam - TBA (Block 1)
Optional Diploma Exam Review Session - TBA (12:45-2:45 pm) in room 111
Diploma Exam - TBA (8:45 am-12:00 pm) in rooms 101/102