Guest Hollow’s High School Biology Curriculum Online Schedule

Welcome to Guest Hollow’s Biology Curriculum schedule!

This online version of the schedule is provided as a courtesy. Access to this online schedule is not guaranteed due to various potential technical and business (and life!) circumstances. 

If you’ve purchased the printable version of this schedule, please make sure you download the schedule from your store account. You can do so by visiting the “My Account” page. Visit the help page if you need more assistance. You can click directly on links either via your downloaded documents or this online schedule.

The online version of the schedule is kept up-to-date and will immediately reflect any changes we make to the schedule whether they are small or major updates. Make sure to keep a copy of your downloaded schedule to always have a copy that matches the books and resources you decide to purchase.

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The Internet is always changing! If you find a dead link, please let us know by leaving a comment on the page where you found it, so we can keep this schedule as up-to-date as possible for everyone! Let us know, too, if you find any mistakes!

We hope you have a terrific year learning biology!

Sincerely,

The Guest Family
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Click on each week below to see the online curriculum schedule. You can click directly on the links!

Last update: 3/1/2023. Click here to see the update history.

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Week 1	1.1 Science and the Natural World 1.2 Biology: The Study of Life
Week 2	2.1 Matter and Organic Compounds 2.2 Biochemical Reactions
Week 3	2. 3 Water, acids and bases
Week 4	3.1 Introduction to cells 3.2 Cell Structures
Week 5	3.3 Cell Transport and Homeostasis
Week 6	4.1 Energy for Life 4.2 Photosynthesis: Sugar as Food * You may want to SKIP or SKIM this section if your student is NOT “into” science and likely to not pursue science in the future
Week 7	4.3 Powering the Cell: Cellular Respiration * You may want to SKIP or SKIM this section if your student is NOT “into” science and likely to not pursue science in the future. 4.4 Anaerobic Respiration
Week 8	5.1 Cell Division and the Cell Cycle 5.2 Chromosomes and Mitosis
Week 9	5.3 Reproduction and Meiosis
Week 10	6.1 Mendel’s Investigations
Week 11	6.2 Mendelian Inheritance
Week 12	7.1 DNA and RNA 7.2 Protein Synthesis
Week 13	7.3 Mutation 7.4 Regulation of Gene Expression
Week 14	8.1 Human Chromosomes and Genes 8.2 Human Inheritance
Week 15	8.3 Biotechnology
Week 16	9.1 Classification ****CATCH UP / EASY WEEK******
Week 17	10.1 Exposing the Flaws in Evolution ****CATCH UP / EASY WEEK******
Week 18	11.1 The Science of Ecology 11.2 Recycling Matter 11. 3 Biomes
Week 19	12. 1 Community Interactions 12. 2 Characteristics of Populations
Week 20	13.1 Prokaryotes 13.2 Viruses
Week 21	14.1 Introduction to Protists 14.2 Types of Protists 14.3 Introduction to Fungi
Week 22	14.4 Ecology of Fungi 14.5 Protists, Fungi, and Human Disease
Week 23	15.1 Introduction to the Plant Kingdom 15.2 Four Types of Plants
Week 24	16.1 Plant Tissues and Growth 16.2 Plant Organ: Roots, Stems, and Leaves
Week 25	16.3 Variation in Plant Life Cycles 16.4 Plant Features and Responses
Week 26	17.1 Overview of Animals 17.2 Overview of Invertebrates
Week 27	18.1 Sponges, Cnidarians, Flatworms, and Roundworms 18.2 Mollusks and Annelids
Week 28	18.3 Arthropods and Insects 18.4 Echinoderms and Invertebrates
Week 29	19.1 Overview of Vertebrates 19.2 Fish 19.3 Amphibians
Week 30	19.4 Reptiles 19.5 Birds
Week 31	20.1 Mammalian Traits 20.2 Reproduction in Mammals
Week 32	20.3 Classification of Mammals 20.4 Overview of Animal Behavior

Updates

3/1/2023 – Week 15 – The New Answers book chapter 18 link was fixed.

1/23/2023 – Weeks 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 have been updated to reflect how the New Answers Book 2 changed the order of some of its chapters.

1/4/2023 – The 11.2 True or False page of the workbook has been edited to take out several questions that are not discussed in the text.

1/3/2023 – Big Yearly Link Check (a huge thank you to Stephanie S. for checking links!):
A 2nd link was added for Ellen McHenry’s Cells book.
A link to one of the supplies was fixed.
The link to the Grow a Frog kit in the supply list was updated.
A few small edits/corrections were made to the formatting.
Week 19: The link for the Amoeba Sisters video was added.
Week 29: The Grow a Frog link was updated.

10/18/2022 – A few edits were made to the workbook in a variety of places.

9/12/2022 – Wider margins were added to the workbook pages to make room for hole punches. Page numbers were also added.

9/6/2022 – Week 10 – The Genetics video was added for the Biology 101 series of videos.

8/11/2022 – Week 3: One of the lapbook links wasn’t working. It was replaced.

8/1/2022 – Week 21 – Episode 3 of Planet Earth was added in. The formatting of the printable schedule was also fixed (several tables in the later weeks were too long and messed up the page flow).

7/11/2022 – Amoeba Sister videos were added to multiple weeks.

5/5/2022 – The 2nd edition of Cells (by Ellen McHenry) was scheduled in. The following weeks were affected: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12
Week 4: The cell size and scale activity was added to the the schedule.

3/22/2022

Week 27: The schedule prematurely stated that there were no workbook pages for the rest of the year, but there are pages for chapter 18.1. That’s been fixed now. 🙂

2/21/2022

• Week 29: Instructions to dissect the frog from the Advanced Dissection Kit were added.

2/11/2022: Our big yearly link check was completed for this schedule.

The following schedule changes were made:

• The links for the study guides and answer keys that accompany the New Answers books have been updated.
• In week 12 of the Guest Hollow labs, the links for the DNA to Protein, Modeling Transcription, and Modeling Translation online activities have been updated.
• The week 28 IGHBE lab link for mealworms has been updated.
• Week 8: The animal mitosis slide link has been updated.
• Week 11: The BrainPOP Heredity link has been updated. A Recipe for Traits link has been updated in the extras section.
• Week 12: The K’Nex link was updated.
• Week 32: The BrainPOP movie about humans was changed to movies about mammals.

A huge thanks to our volunteer link checker, C. S.! We appreciate her so much!

1/18/2022

Week 27: The link for The Genesis of Germs study guide has been updated: https://www.masterbooks.com/amfile/file/download/file/229/

11/11/2021

• Week 12: The links for the online activities have been updated: DNA to Protein, Modeling Transcription, and Modeling Translation

10/29/2021

Workbook section 4.3 – #12 was changed to false.

8/30/2021

• Week 1: I added a link under the notes’ section for the free version of the Answers book.

8/24/2021

• Week 1: The link for the Answers Book study guide was changed and a link to the answer key was added.

8/16/2021

• Week 2: The Enzyme Catalyst link was updated.

7/20/2021:

• The animal mitosis slide link in the supply list was changed.

7/6/2021:

• The video Evolution vs. God was marked as unscheduled (you can watch it whenever you wish). The Gregor Mendel book was missing in the printable schedule book list. It was added.

5/14/2021:

• The link to the online enzyme catalysis activity is no longer working. It has been removed.

5/11/2021:

• Week 20: The link for the You Make Me Sick game is no longer working and has been removed.
• Week 18: The link for the Food Chain game is no longer working and has been removed.
• Week 12: The link for Protein Synthesis Race is no longer working and has been removed.
• Week 11: The link for Crazy Plant Shop is no longer working and has been removed.
• Week 6: The link for the Photosynthesis and Respiration game is no longer working and has been removed.
• Week 5: The links for the Cell Command Game and Cell Defense Game are no longer working and have been removed.

2/21/2021:

19.3 Amphibians was linked in week 29.

2/10/2021:

A note about BrainPOP was added to the printable schedule:
I’ve scheduled in some BrainPOP videos. Some high schoolers may find BrainPOP too childish. However, the videos are short and quite informational with short quizzes for each one. My kids still thought the BrainPOP videos were fun, even when they were older. You may want to look for a trial before spending the money on a subscription. If you decide BrainPOP is not a fit for your family, feel free to skip it.

12/2020:

All links were checked and broken links were fixed. Schedule formatting was changed. Videos were added in. Textbook links were updated to reflect our updated website. Workbook links were removed (as the workbook is now a single download found here: https://guesthollow.com/store/free-high-school-biology-workbook/)