2022
Week 1 – Sept 7/8
Week 2 – Sept 12/14/15
Week 3 – Sept 19/21/22
Week 4 – Sept 26/28/29
Week 5 – Oct 3/5/6
Week 6 –Oct 10/12/13
Week 7 – Oct 17/19/20
Week 8 – Oct 24/26/27
Week 9 – Oct 31, Nov 2/3
Week 10 – Nov 7/9/10
Week 11 – Nov 14/16/17
Week 12 – Nov 21/23/24
Week 13 – Nov 28/30, Dec 1
Week 14 – Dec 5/7
Week 14
Week 14 – Day 1
(Ch. 34) – Mammals – primates – humans
Svaante Paabo – DNA clues to our inner Neanderthal
Week 14 – Day 2
Student term project presentations
Week 13
Day 1 –
Morphological and biological species concepts activity
Chapter 25 – History of life – David Attenborough series
Day 2 – Chapter 26 – Phylogeny and systematics
Day 3 – Quiz 2 – VCC
Flies lab
Week 12
Week 12 – Day 1
Week 12 – Day 2
The origin of species.
Week 12 – Day 3
MIDTERM 2
Weekend:
Week 11
Week 11 – Day 1
This week has become what is known in pedagogical terms as asynchronous. In other words you will do some activities on your own.
Day 1 – Write an outline of your project report. Begin with the introduction, and then analyze your data, draw your graphs, do your statistics, and write your results summary.
Week 11 – Day 2
In order to study the evolution of primates, including humans, we are looking at two episodes of David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals.
The first is called “Life in the Trees.” I’d like you to start with this one. Use this worksheet:
You can find the documentary at:
(2021) Exercise: each student took notes on a few animals in the film, then on Jamboard entered data on each primate. Then the class sorted the data into categories that have similarities among all the primates, and require socialization and a large brain.
Day 2 – second activity:
Meiosis and chromosomal inheritance.
Non-mendelian inheritance and chromosomal theory of inheritance review (with practice problems):
Week 11 – Day 3
This day is for experimental trials – if you are doing a second trial there will be a lab. If you are not, they you can work on your reports.
Week 10
Week 10 – Day 1
Ch 23. Evolution of Populations
Ch 22. Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life (film)
Statistics and term project check in
Week 10 – Day 2
Evolution of populations/ Ch 24 Origin of Species
Lab experiment at VCC.
Week 10 – Day 3
Remembrance Day – no class today
Midterm and fruitfly experiments (both are online)
Week 9
Week 9 – Day 1
Chapter 14 – Mendel and the gene idea
Reviewed Mendelian genetics with Hank Green on Crash Course:
Worksheet for Heredity:
Pedigrees: starring the Amoeba Sisters:
Pedigree worksheet:
Week 9 – Day 2
November 2 2022 – college closed for VCC day
Week 9 – Day 3
Week 8
Week 8 – Day 1
Week 8 – Day 2
Lab at VCC – Animal behaviour and experimental design
Please read the site access form and let me know if you answer yes to any questions. Thanks!
https://mariabiocourses.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/vcc-site-access.pdf
Week 8 – Day 3
Designing an experiment, equipment available
Population Ecology continued
Week 7
Week 7 – Day 1
Animal behaviour
Chapter review:
Week 7 – Day 2
Assign Literature Review – first part of the class project
Watch population ecology videos 1-3.
Population ecology
Experimental design and statistics
Week 7 – Day 3
Week 6
Energy acquisition lab: https://mariabiocourses.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/bio1100-activity-guide-06fall-1.pdf
Week 6 – Day 1 (Wed)
Interactions activity:
Rainforest video,
Food web activity:
Introduced species (Video)
Week 6 – Day 2
Ecosystems – lecture
TALKS this week:
Week 5
Week 5 – Day 1 (Oct 3)
This week: watch lectures: Ch 50 Ecology and the biosphere 1, and Ch 50 Biomes
Subject: Ecology and the Biosphere
Ecology terminology:
British Columbia biogeoclimatic discussion
Exercise: Choose a biome & present
Film: Freshwater (Planet Earth)
River Basins of the World: maps
Week 5 – Day 2 (Oct 5)
Please watch community ecology lectures 1-3 for today.
Community Ecology
Leafcutter ants video
Wolves at Yellowstone introduction.
Deer and wolf introduction exercise:
Week 5 – Day 3
We will be at VCC, room 3275:
Quiz 1 – microscopes/prokaryotes, protist lab, invertebrate lab
Vertebrate lab: foetal pig dissection, lancelets
Lancelet lab
Week 4
Week 4 – Day 1
Watch two lectures: Ch 34 vertebrates fishes, Ch 34 vertebrates amphibians reptiles birds
Chapter 34: Vertebrates
Week 4 – Day 2
Chapter 34: Vertebrates
Film: Life of Mammals
Film: Flying Dinosaurs in the City
Worksheet:
Week 3
Week 3 – Day 1 (no class today Sept 19)
Please watch invertebrate lectures: Ch 33 invertebrates 1, Ch 33 seastars
Invertebrate project.
Week 3 – Day 2
Protists and invertebrates
Week 3 – Day 3
Invertebrate lab
Film:
Blue Planet: The Deep – from invertebrates to vertebrates. Here is a worksheet for the film:
Week 2
Week 2 – Day 1 (Monday September 12)
Lecture: prokaryotes
Harvard video of evolving bacteria
Film and/or discussion about antibiotics
Student investigation into bacteria applications.
Activity: identifying organisms using the dichotomous key here:
Week 2 – Day 2
Please watch the Protist Lecture: Chapter 28 – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3eh3yRNbgJ9IqjJKn9Fz_wa3b8vEwHAm
Tidal seas video. Please download the worksheet:
Week 2 – Day 3
Protist lab:
Week 1
Week 1 – Day 1 – Wednesday (online)
Introductions – how to use zoom, icebreaker. Here is the zoom link for the class, it will remain the same all semester:
https://vcc.zoom.us/j/62205599156?pwd=MGk4eVBHdW4yemZQdHdUUmdZMGE5QT09
Lecture: Chapter 1 – Exploring Life
Lecture slides are on the Biology 1100 tab, and the password is ‘biodiversity.’
Here is an activity guide for the course. You can download it into a folder on your computer.
Film (next week): Blue Planet: Tidal Seas.
Here is a worksheet to download for the film next week (it is a word document).
Week 1 – Day 2
Today we are doing two labs at VCC, room A3275 – microscopes and bacteriology
Here are scanned copies of the labs to bring with you. Also, please bring goggles. If you are unable to make it because of illness, then please let me know.
If you would like to follow up on the in-class lab, here is a file with a summary of last year’s lab, student image submissions, and resources for you to become more familiar with all aspects of this lab, in particular videos produced by our own amazing lab staff, Robyn Wood, Hilary Brown and Klaudia Jurkemik.
For the past two years, we have held classes online, so I recorded all of the lectures. If you miss a lecture, you can catch up by watching it online, or by reading the text chapter.
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3eh3yRNbgJ9IqjJKn9Fz_wa3b8vEwHAm
VCC Biology - Instructor Maria Morlin 
