Feb 28

-Mar 4

PRACTICAL

• Respiration practical (this lab is being done after last week's Resp. exam)
• Day 1-students assemble respiration apparatus (gather data next day)

PRACTICAL

• Respiration practical day 2

• Respiration practical day 3

INTRODUCTION to photosynthesis

• Introduce: photosynthesis is a combination of 2 processes:
• light dependent (requires light)
• light independent (can occur without direct light but may use products of light dependent (!))
• Diagram electron transport chain in mitochondria (parallel to photosynthesis here so this is VERY important
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All students do chromatography according to Carolina's "AP Bio #4: Pigments & Photosynthesis:

• collect chromatography papers and paste in lab book
• record Rf values for all 4 pigments (note: 1 is at solvent front)
• attemtp to identify pigments based on Rf values using internet resources.  (note: source must be "relaible" not something like answers.com)

HL students (extra hours): crush geranium leaves in ethanol and use spectrophotometer to experimentally determine maximum absorbance of chlorophyll

(C) coloring for chloroplast, thylakoid system, and RuBC system

(B) complete spectrophotometry

Photosynthesis = Light dependent & light independent

• Detailed textbook explanation here
• Wikipedia's light dependent rxn here

B-block student's presentation of light dependent reactions:

Peter Baek

Jane Choi

Hye Soo Kim

Steve Lee

Kylie Reimer

Jennifer Oh

LIGHT DEPENDENT

Mar 28-Apr 1

Apr 4-8

Flowchart "How to test a leaf for starch" in lab book

Assign:

1. Read Tiger 117-120
2. Flowchart (in lab book): Instructions for doing leaf disc assay (see instructions as resource on PSOW page of this wiki) 

Review test results (from Photosynthesis exam on Monday)

Re-assign:  Students to make mindmap; 1 map for each page of reading (117-120)