Unit 1
8/15
Video and Mrs. Page PPT
Assignment 1 - lab safety
Student groups have a choice to do a PSA or a presentation of a poster - detailing one aspect of lab safety (no rubric)
All students (and Parents) must read, sign and return the safety contract before they do any labs
All students must pass the lab safety quiz on Wednesday before doing any labs.
8/20-21
Safety lab quiz
Microscope Web quest
Begin on this page follow the directions on the page (ask if you have any questions)
Answer the questions to the best of your ability
Fill out the microscope diagram and explanations with help from this page
8/21
50 cent microscopes
Homework due Tuesday - 3 questions about what is happening now with the microscopes and
answer the questions and cite where you retrieved the information.
Advisory - mycelium ted conference
8/22 lab
skills with microscope
8/25
Review the lab
Begin scientific method
And Variables
vocabulary
.8/27
Comic assessment on scientific method
8/28
Design your own experiment handout
8/29-9/2
Design your experiment
Components needed
Video and Mrs. Page PPT
Assignment 1 - lab safety
Student groups have a choice to do a PSA or a presentation of a poster - detailing one aspect of lab safety (no rubric)
All students (and Parents) must read, sign and return the safety contract before they do any labs
All students must pass the lab safety quiz on Wednesday before doing any labs.
8/20-21
Safety lab quiz
Microscope Web quest
Begin on this page follow the directions on the page (ask if you have any questions)
Answer the questions to the best of your ability
Fill out the microscope diagram and explanations with help from this page
8/21
50 cent microscopes
Homework due Tuesday - 3 questions about what is happening now with the microscopes and
answer the questions and cite where you retrieved the information.
Advisory - mycelium ted conference
8/22 lab
skills with microscope
8/25
Review the lab
Begin scientific method
And Variables
vocabulary
.8/27
Comic assessment on scientific method
8/28
Design your own experiment handout
8/29-9/2
Design your experiment
Components needed
9/2
Introduction to cell theory
9/3
demonstration
metric system video
1-12 homework assignment (due 9/4)
9/4
SO news concerning the x class flare on the back of the sun
Laniakea
Cell Theory and what it means - the components of life -
Color changing bugs article
9/5
Organelles
MLA homework
Home work – Due Tuesday September 9, 2014
DO: Find a video (must be a video) that is 3-5 minutes long about cells, an organelle, homeostasis, DNA or RNA.
Summary: Write a paragraph summary (your own words of what you watched), 5-7 sentences with 7 or more words per sentence.
Commentary: Write a 3-7 sentence commentary (what you thought).
Citation: Use video (online) citation
9/8
Organelle list -
Deeper look at a few organelles
9/9
9/10
Foldables (Gamleah has training so substitute)
9/11
September 9th discussion (I felt the need to discuss the day)
Continue Foldables
Project Launch - Entry event.
Project Rubric (linked by Monday)
9/12
Volcano Video from Yesterday
SO news because of the X class CME discussed yesterday
Handout and Discussion on exemplars
9/15
Continue discussion on exemplars
Revisit KWL Plants and environmental
9/16
Finished newsletter protocol
9/17
Change in project - cell processes -
Due date changes: Project check in Sept 29. Presentations begin October 1.
Composition Notebooks due Friday Sept. 19.
Home work – Due September 19, 2014
DO: Find a magazine or newspaper article (from database - web), or article with date, title, and author listed. Topic must be about some kind of cell process (respiration, photosynthesis, mitosis, meiosis, communication, cell death, etc...)
Prediction: After you read the title, write a prediction (2-3 sentences) about what the article will be about - this is before you read!!!!
Summary: Write a paragraph summary (do not use I, you, we), 5-7 sentences with 7 or more words per sentence.
Reflection: Write a 3-7 sentence reflection on how the article was about your prediction or was not about your prediction.
Citation: magazine or newspaper article (from database - web) citation ... if you want to use a physical article follow the directions of MLA print...
9/18
Photosynthesis
Khan Academy photosynthesis introduction
Nice animation for photosynthesis (Just watch)
Work on project
9/19
Photosynthesis activity
Work on project...
9/22
Short discussion about cellular respiration
Reading
Short video (only half - photosynthesis is the second half)
9/23
Make a plan
Work day
9/24
Rubric handout
tick tak toe - other game for organelles
Work day
9/25
LAB
9/26- 9/29
Computer work
9/30
test review
touch ups and practice
10/1-10/2
Presentations.
Evaluations.
10/3
Reflections
test review
10/6
Unit test
Supplement - pick one of the following for credit on the test.
Introduction to cell theory
9/3
demonstration
metric system video
1-12 homework assignment (due 9/4)
9/4
SO news concerning the x class flare on the back of the sun
Laniakea
Cell Theory and what it means - the components of life -
Color changing bugs article
9/5
Organelles
MLA homework
Home work – Due Tuesday September 9, 2014
DO: Find a video (must be a video) that is 3-5 minutes long about cells, an organelle, homeostasis, DNA or RNA.
Summary: Write a paragraph summary (your own words of what you watched), 5-7 sentences with 7 or more words per sentence.
Commentary: Write a 3-7 sentence commentary (what you thought).
Citation: Use video (online) citation
9/8
Organelle list -
Deeper look at a few organelles
9/9
9/10
Foldables (Gamleah has training so substitute)
9/11
September 9th discussion (I felt the need to discuss the day)
Continue Foldables
Project Launch - Entry event.
Project Rubric (linked by Monday)
9/12
Volcano Video from Yesterday
SO news because of the X class CME discussed yesterday
Handout and Discussion on exemplars
9/15
Continue discussion on exemplars
Revisit KWL Plants and environmental
9/16
Finished newsletter protocol
9/17
Change in project - cell processes -
Due date changes: Project check in Sept 29. Presentations begin October 1.
Composition Notebooks due Friday Sept. 19.
Home work – Due September 19, 2014
DO: Find a magazine or newspaper article (from database - web), or article with date, title, and author listed. Topic must be about some kind of cell process (respiration, photosynthesis, mitosis, meiosis, communication, cell death, etc...)
Prediction: After you read the title, write a prediction (2-3 sentences) about what the article will be about - this is before you read!!!!
Summary: Write a paragraph summary (do not use I, you, we), 5-7 sentences with 7 or more words per sentence.
Reflection: Write a 3-7 sentence reflection on how the article was about your prediction or was not about your prediction.
Citation: magazine or newspaper article (from database - web) citation ... if you want to use a physical article follow the directions of MLA print...
9/18
Photosynthesis
Khan Academy photosynthesis introduction
Nice animation for photosynthesis (Just watch)
Work on project
9/19
Photosynthesis activity
Work on project...
9/22
Short discussion about cellular respiration
Reading
Short video (only half - photosynthesis is the second half)
9/23
Make a plan
Work day
9/24
Rubric handout
tick tak toe - other game for organelles
Work day
9/25
LAB
9/26- 9/29
Computer work
9/30
test review
touch ups and practice
10/1-10/2
Presentations.
Evaluations.
10/3
Reflections
test review
10/6
Unit test
Supplement - pick one of the following for credit on the test.
- · Create a graphic organizer to explain photosynthesis – do not copy off the internet(though you can look up information and get ideas from notes and the net – just do not copy the GO) and explain it.
- · Draw and label a plant cell, an animal cell and in a paragraph explain the difference between the two types of cells
- · Create a written experiment using microscopes, use terms of the microscope and procedure steps, also create a few questions and answer them with possible answers.
- · Draw and label a bacteria cell and explain the difference between prokaryote and eukaryote along with some historical beliefs of how they formed (no need to make it super detailed)
- Chose 5 organelles and compare the organelle structures (shape) relating to organelle functions, what type cells they are found in and how they are necessary in the cell. This should be with pictures and captions that explain the name and purpose of the objects.
10/7
Genetics reading
Vocabulary discussion
Asexual and sexual reproduction
10/8
Reminders
Video Life episode 9 (plant)
10/13
Discuss project and rubric
Vote on test placement
Finish plant video
10/14
Non-vascular plants
Non-vascular plants – plants without a vascular system (xylem and phloem)
Mosses – small flowerless plants that usually grow in dense green clumps or mats, in damp or shady locations.
Bryophytes – small, herbaceous plants that grow closely packed together in mats or cushions on rocks, soil, or as epiphytes on the trunks and leaves of forest trees.
Liverwort – small, nonvascular, spore-producing land plants
Rhizoid – a short, thin filament found in fungi and in certain plants and sponges that anchors the growing (vegetative) body of the organism
Gametophyte – the haploid, multicellular phase of plants and algae that undergo alternation of generations, with each of its cells containing only a single set of chromosomes.
Sporophyte – in certain plants and algae, nonsexual phase (or an individual representing the phase) in the alternation of generations—a phenomenon in which two distinct phases (a haploid and a diploid phase) occur in the life history of a plant, each phase producing the other.
10/15
video on non-vascular
10/16
Video on Alternation of generations
Group GO and explanation of Alternation of Generations
Best question on Alteration of Generations:
Period 3 - What percent of moss gametophyte sperm cells reach their female gametophyte targets?
10/17
Present GO
New project:
video on family history
Weekend homework
In your composition notebook, please begin creating your family tree –
10/20
GO if not done
Homework
KWL
Genetics protocol
10/21
Genetics/DNA
video baby Khan
Phenotype and Genotype video
Make a monster
10/22
Frankenfish monster
Punnett square Video
10/23
made report shared (sorry about that)
Lab report
Quiz practice
10/24
Work on project
project guidelines (rubric)
10/27-29
Video on traits and percentages
Human traits
visual and visual 2
work
Project work (rubric)
10/29 quiz (quiz will be put online tomorrow and real quiz will be next week)
there were technical difficulties getting it active - my apologies!
Question protocol
Video (half today) On the story of the discovery of DNA
Timelines
genome dot gov
DNA timeline (dnai.org)
11/1
Quiz... (first and last name on name part!)
Some answers ( look at quiz first!)
11/ 4
DNA Extraction
Timeline review
Quiz (extra credit for quiz)
11/5-6
Project
Citations for MLA
photo
Interview
11/7
Data Sheets
DNA
11 Sentence mention review will be on Wednesday
Project
Video
H-O
mRNA - Codes
11/10
Project day
RNA review
11/12
11 sentence paragraph work day
Graphic organizer 1
Graphic organizer 2
11/13
I will be absent
Test - you should know - phenotypes, genotypes, the alternation of generations cycle, DNA to Protein chain of events, reproduction, Punnett Squares -
and... Strawberries can have 6,8, and 10 identical copies of their 7 chromosomes. Bases in DNA (ATCG) and RNA (AUCG)
question 2 is written poorly - parent traits do not always go to....
11/14
I will be absent
Project work day (can use computers for typing up data sheet)
11/17-18
Presentations
Reflection writing
Unit 4
11/19
Data sheet due
Blank Rubric
Evolution unit (unit 4) begins
11/20-21
Cosmos episode 2
Sherlock Holmes Top Ten Lessons for Problem Solvers
11/24
Discussion on problem solving
Guided discovery (classification-evolution)
a. First pick a ‘target’ which will be a system, body part, or process
1. System- circulatory, neural, digestive…
2. Body part- hand, eyes, brain, skin…
3. Process – photosynthesis, reproduction, support….
b. Find a two plants or animals that fit into your ‘target’
1. Find where they belong in the classification system (list in entirety)
2. Name 3 distinguishing features of the plant or animal (skin color, long nose, big ears)
3. Note at least 2 relatives (common and scientific names needed only)
11/25
Continue with guided discovery and video "walking with dinosaurs' ep 3 Cruel Sea
Happy Thanksgiving
12/1
Finish guided discovery
group presentations and discussions
HW -3 things about Charles Darwin
12/2
KWL
Video evaluation on Darwin
HW-Geologic timeline (3 notes) Target range
12/3
Finish video (there are 5 parts, this is only part one)
Vocabulary and concepts Website
Phylogeny, mutation, adaptation, natural selection, Artificial selection (dogs), genetic variation, external influences, morphology, coevolution
HW - visit Purdue Owl and take notes on in-text citations
12/4-5
Research target with adaptations in mind
Write an 11-sentence paragraph Exemplar
Thursday - rough draft
Friday- final draft (turn in) (save a copy for digital portfolio)
12/8-9
Present paragraph and provide feedback to others.
12/9 - 10
Forkbird lab
12/11-12
Whale lab
12/12 - homework assigned due Wednesday
Using your geologic timeline, create (does not have to be real) an evolutionary line of an animal or plant, build the adaptations that make it succeed as a species surviving today... Water level, Stratigraphic chart, Global temperature chart, tree of life, catastrophic events.
(this will be graded at a difficult level - rubric) Attaching a picture to the end of the paper could give you 1 point of extra credit.
12/15
Whales, whales, whales and more whales.
Baleen whales and bubble net feeding.
If you want to do a bit of scientific reading - here is a paper.
12/16
Final quiz and lab (cumulative) STUDY!
12/17
Check out Army Educational Outreach Program if you want to do a cyber mission let me know by today (sorry about how quick!)
Finish Lab and work on story.
12/18-19
Movie
Holiday Break -
There is a tradition in Japan that I like very much - I want to challenge you to do this (well part of it). On December 31, the Japanese trek up mountainsides to climb to the top (this part you do not have to do). Then they stay awake all night (again, you do not have to do). So that they are awake to watch the sun rise the first morning of the year (this I challenge you to do). It makes you appreciate the year to come and sometimes unexpected things happen!
Genetics reading
Vocabulary discussion
Asexual and sexual reproduction
10/8
Reminders
Video Life episode 9 (plant)
10/13
Discuss project and rubric
Vote on test placement
Finish plant video
10/14
Non-vascular plants
Non-vascular plants – plants without a vascular system (xylem and phloem)
Mosses – small flowerless plants that usually grow in dense green clumps or mats, in damp or shady locations.
Bryophytes – small, herbaceous plants that grow closely packed together in mats or cushions on rocks, soil, or as epiphytes on the trunks and leaves of forest trees.
Liverwort – small, nonvascular, spore-producing land plants
Rhizoid – a short, thin filament found in fungi and in certain plants and sponges that anchors the growing (vegetative) body of the organism
Gametophyte – the haploid, multicellular phase of plants and algae that undergo alternation of generations, with each of its cells containing only a single set of chromosomes.
Sporophyte – in certain plants and algae, nonsexual phase (or an individual representing the phase) in the alternation of generations—a phenomenon in which two distinct phases (a haploid and a diploid phase) occur in the life history of a plant, each phase producing the other.
10/15
video on non-vascular
10/16
Video on Alternation of generations
Group GO and explanation of Alternation of Generations
Best question on Alteration of Generations:
Period 3 - What percent of moss gametophyte sperm cells reach their female gametophyte targets?
10/17
Present GO
New project:
video on family history
Weekend homework
In your composition notebook, please begin creating your family tree –
- Parents – grandparents – great-grandparents
- Find out DOB, place they were born, nationality, and maybe some physical features (height, coloring (hair, eyes and skin) nose and ear size, hair covering and any other interesting aspects)
- If you chose to include cousins, aunts, uncles make sure they have some out of the ordinary features that are worth mentioning.
10/20
GO if not done
Homework
KWL
Genetics protocol
10/21
Genetics/DNA
video baby Khan
Phenotype and Genotype video
Make a monster
10/22
Frankenfish monster
Punnett square Video
10/23
made report shared (sorry about that)
Lab report
Quiz practice
10/24
Work on project
project guidelines (rubric)
10/27-29
Video on traits and percentages
Human traits
visual and visual 2
work
Project work (rubric)
10/29 quiz (quiz will be put online tomorrow and real quiz will be next week)
there were technical difficulties getting it active - my apologies!
Question protocol
Video (half today) On the story of the discovery of DNA
Timelines
genome dot gov
DNA timeline (dnai.org)
11/1
Quiz... (first and last name on name part!)
Some answers ( look at quiz first!)
11/ 4
DNA Extraction
Timeline review
Quiz (extra credit for quiz)
11/5-6
Project
Citations for MLA
photo
Interview
11/7
Data Sheets
DNA
11 Sentence mention review will be on Wednesday
Project
Video
H-O
mRNA - Codes
11/10
Project day
RNA review
11/12
11 sentence paragraph work day
Graphic organizer 1
Graphic organizer 2
11/13
I will be absent
Test - you should know - phenotypes, genotypes, the alternation of generations cycle, DNA to Protein chain of events, reproduction, Punnett Squares -
and... Strawberries can have 6,8, and 10 identical copies of their 7 chromosomes. Bases in DNA (ATCG) and RNA (AUCG)
question 2 is written poorly - parent traits do not always go to....
11/14
I will be absent
Project work day (can use computers for typing up data sheet)
11/17-18
Presentations
Reflection writing
Unit 4
11/19
Data sheet due
Blank Rubric
Evolution unit (unit 4) begins
11/20-21
Cosmos episode 2
Sherlock Holmes Top Ten Lessons for Problem Solvers
11/24
Discussion on problem solving
Guided discovery (classification-evolution)
a. First pick a ‘target’ which will be a system, body part, or process
1. System- circulatory, neural, digestive…
2. Body part- hand, eyes, brain, skin…
3. Process – photosynthesis, reproduction, support….
b. Find a two plants or animals that fit into your ‘target’
1. Find where they belong in the classification system (list in entirety)
2. Name 3 distinguishing features of the plant or animal (skin color, long nose, big ears)
3. Note at least 2 relatives (common and scientific names needed only)
11/25
Continue with guided discovery and video "walking with dinosaurs' ep 3 Cruel Sea
Happy Thanksgiving
12/1
Finish guided discovery
group presentations and discussions
HW -3 things about Charles Darwin
12/2
KWL
Video evaluation on Darwin
HW-Geologic timeline (3 notes) Target range
12/3
Finish video (there are 5 parts, this is only part one)
Vocabulary and concepts Website
Phylogeny, mutation, adaptation, natural selection, Artificial selection (dogs), genetic variation, external influences, morphology, coevolution
HW - visit Purdue Owl and take notes on in-text citations
12/4-5
Research target with adaptations in mind
Write an 11-sentence paragraph Exemplar
Thursday - rough draft
Friday- final draft (turn in) (save a copy for digital portfolio)
12/8-9
Present paragraph and provide feedback to others.
12/9 - 10
Forkbird lab
12/11-12
Whale lab
12/12 - homework assigned due Wednesday
Using your geologic timeline, create (does not have to be real) an evolutionary line of an animal or plant, build the adaptations that make it succeed as a species surviving today... Water level, Stratigraphic chart, Global temperature chart, tree of life, catastrophic events.
(this will be graded at a difficult level - rubric) Attaching a picture to the end of the paper could give you 1 point of extra credit.
12/15
Whales, whales, whales and more whales.
Baleen whales and bubble net feeding.
If you want to do a bit of scientific reading - here is a paper.
12/16
Final quiz and lab (cumulative) STUDY!
12/17
Check out Army Educational Outreach Program if you want to do a cyber mission let me know by today (sorry about how quick!)
Finish Lab and work on story.
12/18-19
Movie
Holiday Break -
There is a tradition in Japan that I like very much - I want to challenge you to do this (well part of it). On December 31, the Japanese trek up mountainsides to climb to the top (this part you do not have to do). Then they stay awake all night (again, you do not have to do). So that they are awake to watch the sun rise the first morning of the year (this I challenge you to do). It makes you appreciate the year to come and sometimes unexpected things happen!