Welcome to Wildlife Biology for 2024-2025

 

 

  

Wildlife Biology is an upper level science class emphasizing the science-based management of wildlife in the United States.  There is an emphasis on applying the management model to current management issues.  

Class Objectives:

Understanding and applying the scientific wildlife management model

Understanding the complexity of wildlife management

Being an informed, scientific-literate citizen

 

Scope and Sequence for 1st Semester

Intro and History of Wildlife Management

Management of Wildlife

Tools and Techniques used in the field

Field Studies used in wildlife research

Habitat management - Starting with Aquatics

Fisheries Science

Endangered Species

 

 Scope and Sequence for 2nd Semester

Endangered Species and listing process, Delisting Case Study

Populations - Dynamics and Management

Analyzing management plans

Mammalogy, Furbearers

Nongame - Ornithology and Riparian Area assessment

 

Sample Schedule from last year

Wildlife Bio Weekly Schedule 8/29 - 8/30

Th:  Getting to Know one another and setting class goals

Fr:  Scope and Sequence for the year

Th/Fr:  Intro Activity Nature of Science and Wildlife Biology

 

9/3 - 9/6 - Continue  Intro to Wildlife Biology 

Tu:  Intro Activity:  Current Topics in  Wildlife Biology

Wed:  finish intro activity and turn in 

Th: Intro to Wildlife Management - Working definition of wildlife and why wildlife management is important

Fr:  finish activity, Start Wildlife Classification and Management in MT

 

9/9 - 9/13

Mon:  Finish Wildlife classification in Montana and connection to management, Start documentary:  Back from the Brink...

Tu:  finish documentary on 'History of Wildlife Conservation/Management in Montana

Wed:  fact sheet due BOP, PP lecture:  History of Management in Montana

Th:  Compare/Contrast pre and post PR Act in US

 Fr:  Reading with questions:  Why We Do It This Way?

 

9/16 - 9/20

Mon:  Reading questions due BOP,  PP lecture - Field Studies used in Wildlife Research, group activity -- types of field studies

Tu:  Go over reading questions, Review Scientific Field Sketching with descriptions

Wed:  Class outdoors - Scientific observations and field studies

Th:  Follow up activity to field observations - due Tu, 9/24

Fr:  Work Day, Reading with questions - Elk Research Study - due Mon BOP

 

9/23 - 9/27

Mon:  Elk research reading questions due BOP, hand out review sheet for upcoming test, practice writing quality scientific answers

Tu:  Field Observation Followup due BOP, Review for Test, go over reading questions

Wed:  Test - Unit 1

Th:  Start New Unit:  Intro to Fisheries Management: Aquatic Habitat Analysis 

Start DVD  - Planet Earth:  Fresh Water - Intro to River Continuum Concept Model

 Fr: Finish DVD and Opinion Summary

 

9/30 - 10/4

Mon:  Go over DVD and connect to RCCM, go over test and observation activity

Tu: PP -  Intro to River Continuum Concept Model (RCCM)

Wed: Create a working model of the RCCM

Th:  Work on models

Fr:  PP - Abiotic Aquatic Habitat Analysis - into

 

Wed, 10/3 is the first school wide missing work deadline.  Any missing assignments revert to a zero in the grade book

 

 

  1st Semester Scope and Sequence in Biology:  2024-2025

 

This is a lab-based class emphasizing in-class instruction.  There is no substitute for being in class.

If you are absent, Google Classroom will be the main platform you can use to access materials and the schedule.  

Please email if you have questions or concerns.  I cannot take a phone call while I am teaching, but I can call you if you email, and we pick a time for the phone conference.

Mrs. Hover

 

 

Welcome to Biology

1st Semester Scope and Sequence

Process of Science - Tools and Techniques used in Biology

Biodiversity/Classification - emphasis on microscopic diversity

Cell Biology:  Structure/Function, Biochemistry, Homeostasis, Metabolism, DNA Regulation, Protein Synthesis

 

2nd Semester Scope and Sequence in Biology

Cell Reproduction, Mitosis and Cell Cycle, Meiosis and Mutations

Genetics and Evolution

Ecology - emphasis on patterns and changes in our ecosystems    

 Biodiversity of Local Flora and Fauna  

FYI:  BOP - beginning of period

EOP - end of period

 Binder Assignments - these are assignments that are kept together and turned in at  the end of each unit for a grade rather than being turned in for  individual grades throughout the semester.  Students are responsible for keeping these together, numbered and in order. 

 

Sample Schedule from last year

Biology Weekly Schedule 8/29 - 8/30  

Thurs:  Getting to Know one another and setting class goals

Fr:  Criteria for success in a Biology classroom - brainstorm and compile

 

9/4 - 9/7 Nature of Science

Tu:  Intro Activity incorporating Nature of Science and Current Events in Biology

Wed:  hard copy of classroom policy - binder #1, Intro to Scientific Field Sketching

Thur:  Field Sketching Activity in the courtyard

Fr:  Followup activity to field sketching; questions and analysis - due Tu BOP

 

9/9 - 9/13

Mon:  PP Lecture - Model - How Science Works, Scientific Reading as HW, binder #3

Tu:  Work with reading and picking out parts of the scientific model- due EOP, Field Sketching Activity Due BOP

Wed:  videoclip on obs, fact, hypothesis, etc, Go over misperceptions about scientific obs, fact, hypothesis, theory - Binder #4

Th: Writing hypotheses, go over requirements

Fr:  go over hypothesis homework and check for completion

 

 

9/16 - 9/20

Mon:  Start microscope lab, demonstrate wet mounts

Tu:  Continue lab, demonstrate measuring objects

Wed:  Microscope Lab due EOP

Th: Explain and start lab - Biodiversity and Microscopy:  Discovering microscopic life

Fr:  Continue lab

 

9/23 - 9/27

Mon/Tu - Continue lab - discovering, sketching and describing organisms in a pondwater ecosystem

Mon - hand out the review sheet for the upcoming test lab , hand back the Microscope lab and go over

Tu -  Demonstrate how to fill in the review sheet with quality answers, Lab due EOP

Wed - practice writing quality scientific answers using a grading rubric, answer questions on the review sheet

Th:  Test - Unit 1

Fr:  Intro to Taxonomy - brainstorm Scientific Theories on Origin of Life, do Terminology for DVD, Start Origin of Life

 

9/30 - 10/4

Mon:  Finish DVD, go over discussion questions - Binder #6

Tu:  Connect Origin of Life to Scientific Process, hand back Test and go over, Intro Dissecting Scope Lab

Wed:  Finish Dissecting Scope Lab - due EOP

Th:  PP lecture - Taxonomy (Systematics)

Fr:  Finish lecture group activity - dichotomous key

Wed:  is the first 'Missing work deadline'. Any missing assignments revert to a zero after 10/2

 

10/7 - 10/11

Mon:  finish group activity and share with class

Tu: Intro Taxonomy Activity - Finding, observing, classifying and naming organisms

Wed: Start Taxonomy Activity - In search of macroinvertebrates in our terrestrial environment

Th:  Continue:  analyze samples, sketch and describe

Fr:  Finish activity by classifying and naming - due Mon BOP

 

10/14 - 10/16

Mon: Research component to Taxonomy Activity - Scientific interest in Tardigrades - 

Tu:  Graphic Organizer - 6 Kingdom Scheme with Domain level

Wed:  Hand back Taxonomy Activity, finish graphic organizer - due EOP

 

10/21 - 10/25

Mon:  go over taxonomy activities, hand out review sheet

Tu:  PP lecture - Modern Classification with video clip

Wed:  Review activities to prepare for the test

Th:  go over questions on the review sheet

Fr:  Test - Classification/Diversity