Week one:  Osmosis

    What's due:
              Post-lab:  Answer the post lab questions in COMPLETE sentence format.
                              Turn in the tables of raw data as well as the graphs and post-lab questions.
                              Include a couple sentences each for your observations to procedures 1 and 2

Quiz:  understand the terms in the glossary on page 14 (ie related to solutions and diffusion), BE SURE to understand the princibles of osmosis, including hypertonic, hypotonic, and isotonic (relative to solutions inside or outside the cell), and which direction WATER moves across a cell's selectively permeable membrane (know the drawing examples I gave in the intro).

Week two:  Microscope one

    What's due:
              No post lab this week.  No pre-lab available this week.

Quiz: KNOW:
the classification system for biological organisms (taxonomy)
how the organisms are classified? what characterisitcs of the organism is used (i.e. the importance of genetics)?
Cell biology of the two kingdoms we saw in lab last week (mainly protista)
the main differences between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells

Week three:  Microscope two

    What's due:
             Post-lab:  One drawing for each organism (BEST magnification, remember labels labels labels)
                                 five kingdoms: 2 bacteria, 3 protista, 2 fungi, 2 plantae, 2 animalia
                              Post-lab questions 1-5 (skip 6 and 7)  Complete sentence format, paragraph style, separate paper

Quiz:  know the biology of the three kingdoms we looked at (and still know bacteria and protista of course)
           major structural differences (tissues types, common structures within kingdoms, differences between kingdoms)