Following the Oak Hills High School open house on Wednesday night I wanted to be sure to reach out to all of the parents that were able to attend and to those who were not.  One of the things that was discussed was the use of Progress Book to monitor your student’s progress – being [...]

Just like with Chapter 1, I have included the Chapter 22 in-class presentation to our resources here.

I love evolution, I think I have mentioned that before.  In order to get everyone ready for the exciting world of natural selection, the evolution of population, the origin of species, and the history of life on Earth, I have pieced together a short “trailer” of the subject.  The “trailer” looks at some of the [...]

Over the past few days we have examined the characteristics that nearly all living organisms share.  Although our book gives eight characteristics, there are other sources that describe seven, or even six.  The key to understanding what all living organisms have in common is to really take a look at all the list and examine [...]

With Chapter 1 behind us, at least for the most part (thank you technology fail), we can begin to look ahead to our next chapter, Chapter 22: Descent with Modification.  As you prepare for our discussion of Chapter 22 on Wednesday, the same day that chapter’s book quiz is due, wanted to be sure to [...]

The following presentation is the Chapter 1 PowerPoint that we went over in class.

As we move towards our second week of school it is very important that all Honors Biology students get their essential classroom supplies.  Most important of  these is a dedicated composition notebook that will be used as your laboratory notebook (and only your lab notebook) throughout the entire year.  As scheduled, at this time, we [...]

With the power of the Internet and growing wave of social media use, there is no longer any excuse to be out of touch.  This goes for the classroom as well.  In order to provide as much up-to-date information about the happenings in our class, I have leveraged the power of some of the biggest social media [...]

Isn’t technology a wonderful thing.  As many of you noticed Blackboard crashed and burned Friday afternoon making it impossible to take Chapter 1 quiz.  Because I consider myself a reasonable person, the option to take the quiz we be extended until Monday at midnight.  This will give everyone who was unable to take the quiz [...]

With the first chapter, Chapter 1, in full swing (the chapter quiz posted on Blackboard) I have included some resources that will not only help you prepared for the chapter quiz, but also help you organize your notes and study for the unit test. The first item is the chapter’s learning objectives.  Each statement is [...]