Spring Sustainability Projects - consent form due next period - updated form

During April and May we will

• Study Kingdom Plantae:  Here are notes 1 and notes 2 for download.  Note that brown algae and red algae is no longer a part of Kingdom Plantae and is now considered to be Protozoans according to evolutionary biologists
• Embark on two major sustainability projects: our major projects for term 3
• Sustainability Tour:  dates are April 23 bi 11 pre-visit.  April 25, visit grade 8, April 27, visit CIRS building and CK Choi building with grade 8s.
• Bog Buddy please note that for the saturday work parties, the dates are incorrect in the doc. the actual dates are: 14th of April and 21th of April 
• consent form for both projects
• Monitor and care for the radishes and spinach we planted in one of the school garden beds!

Hand in your consent next period please




In mid-May, we will focus on preparing for our final exam.

Kingdom Plantae Quiz

Kingdom Plantae notes here
you will get a quiz Friday on the sexual reproduction of land plants, the definition of plants, the three things that happen to glucose and trends in plant evolution on land. mainly page one.  There will be 10 questions from these notes.  Also, I will include 5 questions from this set of notes to start our review for the final exam:  classification


Great job on our garden work party!

Homework for Biology 11

On Thursday, there will be a mc test on the following content:

molluska notes
flatworms and roundworms
kingdom animalia
cnidaria and porifera
Some notes on arthropoda

And you ought to bring to class your own set of notes on the following for which there will be an open book assignment:
annelida (key words, bolded)
echinodermata (key words, bolded)
arthropoda compare and contrast the different subphyla for life history and mouthparts and adaptations.


This will finish our animalia unit.  

Be sure to vote on BC Green Games. There are prizes for projects with lots of votes.  This funding can be used to promote sustainability at PW - particularly PW garden.    Many bi 11s and ex-trekkies were very involved with these projects:
PW sustainability Prezi

bog buddy program

PW Community Garden Blog

Plan-It Earth Student Conference

I love the site BC Green Games because it demonstrates the power for positive change initiated by youth, supported by teachers.  PW has a pretty good track record of this through its leadership program.

Arthropoda notes

Some notes on arthropoda with an assignment at the end of it.
And Dr. Wayne Maddison's jumping spider video:  click on the picture below

And for the wolf spiders, take a look below:

test on tuesday, Feb 21 lab on thursday 23

Next week there will be a test on

molluska notes
flatworms and roundworms
kingdom animalia
cnidaria and porifera

Loligo lab on feb 21. That's a squid dissection.

flatworms and roundworms

Notes from today's lesson may be downloaded here

animalia intro

intro to kingdom animalia
intro to cnidaria and porifera

homework:  read and make notes on the bolded words and illustrations in section 26-1, 26-2 and 30-1 of your text