General Info and Links

• Mahaffy's Course Outline 2014
• Diploma Exam Info
• Quest A+ (practice tests)
• How to take Cornell Notes

2016 Practice Diploma / KEY
Released Diplomas (pre-2006 curriculum is slightly different)
Course Review / KEY
Review for Diploma Powerpoints: Units A+B, Units C+D

Unit A: The Nervous System

New Notes:

• Nervous System (filled in)
• Nervous System (blank)

Old Notes:
Use these if you're looking for more diagrams or another approach

• Organization of the Nervous System
• Cells of the Nervous System
• The Neuron
• Impulse Transmission
• The Spinal Cord
• The Brain
• Disorders of the Nervous System
• The Eye Part 1, Part 2
• The Ear Part 1,   Part 2

Nervous Handout Package

Media:

• Resting Potential
• Nerve Impulse Molecular Mechanism
• Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight
• Severed Corpus Callosum

• WCBA - Parkinson's Disease

Drugs and the Brain:

• The Reward Parthway
• Mouse Party (How drugs affect the brain)
• The Adolescent Brain (Addiction and the young brain)

Assignments:

• Nervous System Infographic

Unit B: The Endocrine System

New Notes:

• Endocrine System (filled in)

Old Notes:​

• Glands and Hormones of the Endocrine System
• Regulating the Regulators
• The Thyroid Gland
• The Adrenal Gland
• Hormone Regulation of Blood Sugar

Endocrine Handout Package

Media:

• Crash Course - Endocrine System

Assignments:

• Quiz Matching Page
  
• Handout for Endocrine Assignment
  
• Resources for Endocrine Assignment
  

Unit C: Reproduction and Development

Notes:

Media:

• Male Reproductive System
• Female Reproductive System
• Hormonal Regulation of the Male Reprod...
• Hormonal Regulation of the Female Reprod...
• STIs and the Reproductive System
• Fertilization and Embryonic Development
• Fetal Development and Birth
• Reproductive Technologies and Society

Reproduction Handout Package

Unit D: Mitosis and Meiosis

Notes:

• The Cell Cycle
• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• Genetic Recombination
• Reproductive Strategies

Mitosis and Meiosis Handout Package

Assignments:

• Karyotyping Activity Link

Media:

• Crash Course: Mitosis
• Crash Course: Meiosis
  

Unit E: Heredity

Notes:

• Inheritance
• Incomplete and Co-dominance
• Multiple Alleles and Blood Type
• Dihybrid Crosses
• Patterns and Probabilities
• Genetics and Society

Heredity Handout Package

Media:

• Gregor Mendel Rap
• Crash Course: Heredity
• Independent Assortment Animation
  

Assignments:

• Spongebob Genetics
• Multiple Alleles  /  KEY

Unit F: Molecular Biology

Notes:

• History of DNA and Structure
• DNA Replication
• Protein Synthesis and Gene Expression
• Mutation and Genetic Variation
  
• DNA and Biotechnology
  

Molecular Biology Handout Package

Media:

• DNA Replication Animation
• Crash Course: DNA Structure and Replication
• TED: James Watson: How we discovered DNA
• ​Transcription Animation
• Translation Animation
• ​Protein Folding

Unit G: Population

Notes:

• Hardy-Weinberg Principle
• Factors Affecting Population Change
• Population Growth
• Interactions in Ecosystems
• Sharing the Biosphere
  

Assignments:

• Hardy-Weinberg Problems / KEY (10c is wrong -- should be 3000 people)