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Friday, January 18th
Chromebooks to complete research and slideshow presentation.
Begin creating notecards for Thursdays presentation
Take picture of drawing and insert to slideshow TODAY!
HOMEWORK: Complete project and be ready to present on Thursday!
Thursday, January 17th
Science Midterm during Advisory - no science class
HOMEWORK: Have research and drawing complete for project tomorrow
Wednesday, January 16th
Play KAHOOT review for Midterm **TRY THIS INSTEAD
Complete drawing for Friday
STUDY FOR MIDTERM TOMORROW!!!
Tuesday, January 15th
Draw, color and label organelle for disease project
HOMEWORK: Have drawing complete for Friday
Study for Midterm
Monday, January 14th
Discuss slide show guidelines and template on google classroom
Complete research on chromebooks and begin slide show
HOMEWORK: Study for Midterm
Complete Research for project
Have organelle drawing complete by Friday
Friday, January, 11th
No Warm-Up
Go over study guide for midterm Thursday, January 17th
HOMEWORK: Complete research on your disease/organelle project, be ready to talk about the slideshow on Monday.
STUDY for midterms!!!
Thursday, January 10th
No Warm-Up
Play a round of Around the world Review for Midterm
Continue working on study guide
HOMEWORK: Complete study guide to go over tomorrow.
Wednesday, January 9th
No Warm-Up
Log into powerschool/school net and take the practice test XU5QU8X
Work on study guide for midterms
HOMEWORK: Continue working on study guide to be completed by Friday
Continue working on Research to be completed by Monday
Tuesday, January 8th
No Warm-Up
Research disease/organelle project
HOMEWORK: Continue to research for project as all research should be completed by the Monday, January 14th
Continue working on Study guide
Monday, January 7th
No Warm-up
Mrs. Norton goes over Destiny Collection of research resouces sites (remember to log in through Scofield, Students, library media center, log in with ID/ID, go to Collections, Disease Organelles!
You may, but do not have to use the Notes template (just make a copy so you can type on it)
HOMEWORK: Continue research and continue working on study guide
Friday, January 4th
No Warm-Up
Discuss answer to Apple question...
Go over Project Presentation Guidelines and pick topic
Continue working on Study Guide for Midterm
HOMEWORK: Join my google classroom - u7jm774
Thursday, January 3rd
No Warm-Up
Share answers re: apple and discuss
Read Cells, Tissues, and Organs, pages 57-61
Rewrite explanation for apple as a CER with detailed evidence from the reading
Begin study guide for midterm
HOMEWORK: Continue working on study guide for midterm - Science Midterm - January 17th
Wednesday, January 2nd
No Warm-Up
Review cells and their organelles
In your lab notebook: would you consider a fruit, such as an apple, to be a cell, tissue, organ, organ system, or organism? Draw and label the parts of an apple and EXPLAIN why you think what you do.
Friday, December 21st
Complete cell model if you did not yesterday
Video - Human Body and cells
Thursday, December 20th
No Warm-Up
Create cell model
Wednesday, December 19th
No Warm-Up
Complete Cell Membrane model, finish data table and after drawing
Complete Cell Model Planning
Begin creating flags for organelle labels
HOMEWORK: Bring in materials for 3D cell model
Tuesday, December 18th
No Warm-Up
Plan 3D Cell Model
HOMEWORK: Bring in materials for 3D cell model project
Monday, December 17th
No Warm-Up
Set Up Call Membrane demo
Complete cell Analogies
Cell Simulation
NO HOMEWORK
Friday, December 14th
Cell City Analogy together as a class
Go through the bins and create an analogy of an organelle to an object in the bin:
crutches
army man
brain
glue
large plastic bag
solar panel
envelope
train track
battery
lego blocks
chef
Once you have created a connection between the objects and an organelle, tell me what type of cell you created (plant/animal) and why?
HOMEWORK: NONE
Thursday, December 13th
No Warm-Up
Open Note Quiz
Label/color plant and animal cell
HOMEWORK: Complete plant and animal cell diagram
Wednesday, December 12th
No Warm-Up
Amoeba sister's video on Cellular Respiration
Go over CER's
New Species?
HOMEWORK: Open Binder Quiz tomorrow (Bring everything you need to class)
Tuesday, December 11th
Warm-Up: What is yeast?
Cellular Respiration - a series of chemical changes that release energy from food; begins in the cytoplasm and finishes in the mitochondria of cells
Draw a before and after drawing of demo
Write a CER (minimum 5 sentences) - Are yeast living?
Claim - (answer to the question)
Evidence - (FACTS that YOU saw or know happened from the demo)
Reasoning - (Characteristics of Living things that connect the evidence to the claim)
HOMEWORK: Complete CER above
Monday, December 10th
Warm-Up: Which two organelles are found in ALL cells?
Complete Cell Stations:
1)Complete Venn Diagram
2) Matching Organelle structure and function
3) Microscope Drawings a) bacteria b) euglena c) paramecium d) plant or animal
HOMEWORK: NONE (Complete Definitions by Thursday's open binder quiz)
Friday, December 7th
Warm-Up: What is the difference between prokaryote and eukaryote? Give an example of each.
Cell Stations:
1) Complete Venn Diagram
2) Matching Organelle structure and function
3) Microscope Drawings a) bacteria b) euglena c) paramecium d) plant or animal
HOMEWORK: NONE (Complete Definitions by Thursday's open binder quiz)
Thursday, December 6th
Warm-Up: What are organelles? Do all cells have the same organelles?
Read pages, 31-38, Parts of Cells and complete Stopping to think #1a, 2ab, 3b, 4ab and 5ab
HOMEWORK: Complete questions if you did not finish in class.
OPEN NOTE QUIZ Thursday, 12/13
Wednesday, December 5th
No Warm-Up
Watch video on the Cell Theory, write all parts of Cell Theory down in lab notebook
Read pages 31-38 in Cell textbook, Parts of a Cell
Define the 12 bold terms in your glossary: structure, function, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, nuclear membrane, organelles, mitochondria, cell wall, chloroplasts, protists, and bacteria.
NO Homework
Tuesday, December 4th
No Warm-Up
Read pages 15-22 in Cells to Organisms textbook
Complete Timeline of Scientists and how they contributed to the Cell Theory/Germ Theory
NO HOMEWORK
Monday, December 3rd
Warm-Up: What is the difference between unicellular and multicellular organisms?
Discuss "Is Sammy Alive?"
Characteristics of Life: (write in your lab notebook)
Ability to grow, move, reproduce, respond/adapt to environment, use energy and be made of one or more cells
HOMEWORK: NONE
Friday, November 30th
No Warm-Up
Complete online test (15 min)
8 Stations: Alive or Not, claim/evidence
HOMEWORK: Is Sammy Alive?
Thursday, November 29th
No Warm-Up
Complete Unit Test online
HOMEWORK: Read the "Structure of Life" worksheet. Highlight important words/phrases, circle unknown words and write questions in the margins.
Wednesday, November 28th
No Warm-Up
Turn in letter "e" packet
Play Kahoot Review Game
HOMEWORK: Make certain your powerschool login information works
STUDY for test tomorrow
Tuesday, November 27th
Warm-Up: What happens to the image when you increase your power of magnification?
Complete the letter "e" packet
HOMEWORK: Study for test Thursday
Monday, November 26th
Warm-Up: What does magnification mean?
Label diagram of microscope, along with the function of the parts
Begin the Letter "e" packet
HOMEWORK: Study for Body Systems/Biomedical Engineering test on Thursday
Wednesday, November 21st
Go over Study Guides for test on Thursday, November 29th.
Play KAHOOT
HOMEWORK: Study for test Thursday
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
Tuesday, November 20th
Warm-Up
Continue working on study guide
HOMEWORK: Complete study guide in order to go over in class tomorrow
Monday, November 19th
No Warm-Up
Poster Project Reflection worksheet
Begin Study Guide
HOMEWORK: Continue working on study guide
Human Body Systems/Biomedical Engineering Test, Thursday, November 29th
Friday, November 16th
No Warm-Up
Chicken Wing Dissections
NO HOMEWORK
Thursday, November 15th
Warm-Up: What is the difference between a ligament and a tendon?
Compare the human arm to a chicken wing. Write 2 similarities and 2 differences.
Go over the procedure for chicken wing dissection.
NO HOMEWORK
Wednesday, November 14th
No Warm-Up
Complete Emmanuel's Gift
HOMEWORK: Poster Project due tomorrow
Tuesday, November 13th
No Warm-Up
Watch Emmanuel's Gift
HOMEWORK: Poster Project due Thursday
Friday, November 9th
Warm-Up: What are the four functions of the skeletal system?
Complete BEFORE column of the anticipation guide and tape in your notebook
Read and discuss pages B-31 - B-37
HOMEWORK: Complete typed project by Monday. Poster is due Thursday, 11/15
Thursday, November 8th
Warm-Up: What are the two gases that are exchanged in the Respiratory System and in which organs does it occur in?
Think - Pair - Share
C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
Explain this Equation.
Show project examples and go over any questions related to the project.
HOMEWORK: Poster projects due 11/15, type ALL sections by Monday!
Wednesday, November 7th
No Warm-Up
Media Center to graph team data for project
Complete data table for project as well
Begin typing all other information to put onto poster
HOMEWORK: Complete typing parts of project by Monday
Monday, November 5th
No Warm-Up
Complete Hypothesis and Procedure
Complete second half of lab with exercise
Begin errors/mistakes and conclusion/analysis sections
HOMEWORK: Complete errors/mistakes and conclusion/analysis sections by Wednesday
Friday, November 2nd
No Warm-Up
Discuss Question, Variables and Vocabulary, Materials and Procedure
Complete Part A of Lab
HOMEWORK: Complete Variables, Hypothesis, Materials and Procedure
1. Set up a control: In an empty cup, measure10mL
water and 5 drops of BTB and stir (1 time)
2. Measure 10mL water and pour into bag. Add 5
drops of BTB to bag and swoosh it around.
3. Place your straw in the bag and remove all the air
from the bag. Make an airtight seal at the top.
4. Exhale the air from your lungs through the straw
until the bag is inflated. Do not let air escape from the
bag when you remove the straw.
5. Shake the bag.
6. Pour the contents of bag into an empty cup.
7. Add 1 drop of NaOH to your plastic cup, stir once,
wait.
8. Repeat step 7 (while counting drops) until your
solution turns the color of the control.
Thursday, November 1st
Warm-Up: List the organs of the Respiratory System. (Turn in)
Label the respiratory diagram
Learn the respiratory system song
Go over project details and come up with your testable question.
HOMEWORK: NONE
Wednesday, October 31st
Warm-Up: Compare/contrast the three blood vessels.
Observe a sheep heart
Go through the Circulatory system Gizmos simulation
Try listening to your heart rate/breathing with the stethescopes.
HOMEWORK: Happy Halloween!
Tuesday, October 30th
Warm-Up
What are the structures inside the heart called that prevent the blood from flowing backwards?
Complete Pump Lab
HOMEWORK: Analysis questions for the Pump Lab
Monday, October 29th
No Warm-Up
Complete Integrating Systems Reading pages 53-58
Complete Stopping to Think questions #1, 2 and 3 and Analysis questions #1a, b, c and 4
HOMEWORK: Complete what was not finished in class.
Friday, October 26th
No warm-Up
Complete QUIZ
Thursday, October 25th
Warm-Up: List five things that the blood transports.
Read, Interacting Systems, pages 53-58. Complete the Stopping to Think questions #1-3 and Analysis #1a,b and c and #4
HOMEWORK: STUDY for quiz tomorrow
Wednesday, October 24th
Warm-Up: List the organs of the Circulatory System.
Discuss Bloodmobile Annotation Worksheet
Watch Bloodmobile Video
HOMEWORK: STUDY for QUIZ Friday (Path that food takes through the digestive system and what type of breakdown occurs where and the path that a nerve cell takes)
Tuesday, October 23rd
Warm-Up: What are some factors that might increase/decrease you heart rate?
Complete 7 nervous system vocabulary terms into your glossary from page 35
Bloodmobile annotation
HOMEWORK: Complete main ideas for Bloodmobile annotation and STUDY for quiz Friday
Monday, October 22nd
Warm-Up: What are the three parts of the human brain?
Tape in and label the parts of the brain and what each part's function is.
Watch Ted Talk
HOMEWORK: Study for quiz Friday (Path that food takes through the digestive system and what type of breakdown occurs where and the path that a nerve cell takes)
Friday, October 19th
Warm-Up: Imagine you are sitting in a quiet room and suddenly hear a loud bang. Predict how you would respond to the stimuli. Which systems are involved in the response and how.
Discuss, Finding the Nerve page 35-40 and define the 7 bold terms into your glossary
Try the patellar Reflex
HOMEWORK: There will be a quiz on the Digestive and Nervous Systems next friday, October 26th so you can start studying NOW!
Thursday, October 18th
No Warm-Up
Complete Blackworm observations to stimuli
Read pages 35-40 in Human Body textbook, Finding the Nerve
Begin CER (claim, evidence, reasoning)
HOMEWORK: Complete CER (due at the beginning of class tomorrow)
Wednesday, October 17th
No Warm-Up
Turn in Catch It: Reaction Lab
Blackworm Observations
HOMEWORK: CER due Friday regarding, "Do blackworms have a nervous system?"
Tuesday, October 16th
No Warm-Up
Complete Data Collection for Catch It: Reaction Time
Average data and begin analysis questions #1-55
HOMEWORK: Complete analysis questions in complete sentences in your notebook by restating the question first.
Monday, October 15th
Warm-Up: Does everyone have the same ability to react to stimuli? Why or why not?
Decide what you want to test and create a question, identify Iv, Dv and 3 constants, write an If, then because hypothesis.
Begin data collection
NO HOMEWORK
Friday, October 12th
Warm-Up: What are the three main organs of the nervous system?
Go over Liver worksheet and discuss organ transplants.
Begin setting up lab notebook for Catch It: Reaction Time lab
Tape in nerve cell diagram and label
HOMEWORK: Practice finding your pulse and think about what reaction you want to test.
Thursday, October 11th
No Warm-Up
Complete and go over Part B - Food Breakdown
Record that mouth = both chemical and mechanical (saliva and teeth), esophagus = mechanical (muscle contractions), stomach = both chemical and mechanical (hydrochloric acid and muscle contractions), small intestine = chemical (bile from liver and enzymes from pancreas help)
Digestion Video
Go over pulse and heart rate (for Pacer test next week)
HOMEWORK: Liver worksheet
Wednesday, October 10th
Warm-Up: How do the villi (in the small intestine) help to move nutrients into the blood so quickly?
Complete reading of part B - page 23.
Draw the carbohydrate molecule and the protein molecule through the organs showing where and how they breakdown. Label whether chemical/mechanical breakdown occurs there or both and how.
HOMEWORK: NONE
Tuesday, October 9th
Warm-Up: Which of the following groups has the largest surface area?
Group A =
Group B =
Go over Breakdown lab analysis questions
Begin reading page 21-24 Food Breakdown. Create macromolecules of carbohydrates and proteins with pop beads.
HOMEWORK: None
Friday, October 5th
No Warm-Up
Complete Organ/Function Quiz
Begin Breakdown analysis questions
HOMEWORK: Complete breakdown analysis questions #1-5 in your lab notebook in complete sentences by restating the question first.
Thursday, October 4th
No Warm-Up
Turn in STT Homework
Identify Variables for Breakdown and create Hypothesis
Complete experiment and write down time/observations for reactions
HOMEWORK: Study for quiz tomorrow
Wednesday, October 3rd
Warm-Up: What is the path that food takes through the Digestive System?
Set up Breakdown: Identify Variables, write hypothesis, and put the following in your glossary (mechanical breakdown - mashing, tearing, grinding of food by teeth, tongue and muscles; chemical breakdown - saliva, enzymes and bile breaking down food chemically)
ESPN video clip on what happens to your Digestive system if you are a competitive eater
Complete STT #1a, 2a/b, 3 and 4 on pages 15-20
HOMEWORK: Study for QUIZ and if you didn't finish your STT, complete them at home (due tomorrow).
Tuesday, October 2nd
Warm-Up: What is the main function of the Digestive System?
Set up lab notebook, Digestive System Diagram and Song
Begin Stopping to Think Questions, #1a, 2a and b, 3 and 4 on pages 15-20 of Human Body.
HOMEWORK: STUDY for Quiz on Friday!
Monday, October 1st
Warm-Up: Put the following in order from smallest to largest:
organ, tissue, organ system, cell, organism
Go over organ function worksheet to check and star rows to study for quiz:
Esophagus, stomach, large intestine, lungs, long bones, arteries, small intestine, trachea, alveoli, nerves, heart, veins
Begin Reading, Digestion, An Absorbing Tale
HOMEWORK: Begin studying for QUIZ Friday 10/5
Friday, September 28th
Warm-Up: Explain the difference between an organ and its system.
Complete matching organ cards to body systems and functions. Write onto worksheet to study for quiz next week.
HOMEWORK: Begin studying for quiz next week
Thursday, September 27th
Warm-Up: Your drawings will consist of empty space between organs. Is this really empty space? If not, what is in this space?
Complete body posters and turn in
Begin matching cards...
NO HOMEWORK
Wednesday, September 26th
NO Academic classes - Team Building Day!
Tuesday, September 25th
No Warm-Up
Complete Quiz
Continue working on body drawing(each person is responsible for drawing 5 organs, labeling and telling what they think it does and a question about the human body.
HOMEWORK: None... Team building day tomorrow!!!
Monday, September 24th
Warm-Up: List as many systems of the human body as you can.
Get your list of organs approved by Mrs. Olsen
Begin drawing the organs inside the human body (each person is responsible for drawing 5 organs, labeling and telling what they think it does and a question about the human body.)
HOMEWORK: Study for your quiz tomorrow (observation, inference, qualitative, quantitative, independent, dependent, controlled variables, control group and CER)
Monday, September 17th
Bionic Bodies Case Studies and worksheet
Practice, Identifying variables
Work in groups to complete a worksheet and go over
HOMEWORK: Identifying Variables worksheet
Tuesday, September 18th
Science Pre-Test (everyone needs to complete this)
HOMEWORK: NONE
Thursday, September 20th
Warm-Up: What are some causes of disease?
Watch the following video (5 min) on the disease of Pellegra.
Answer the following: 1) What are the symptoms of Pellegra?
2) What did people think caused Pellegra?
3) What did Dr. Goldberger observe/collect during his experiment on Pellegra?
4) What was Dr. Goldberger's conclusion about what caused Pellegra?
Complete the Observation vs. Inference worksheet regarding Pellegra
HOMEWORK: NONE
Friday, September 21st
Warm-Up: Identify the Independent, Dependent, Constant variables and control group in Dr. Goldberger's prison experiment.
Go over the observation/inference sheet
Read pages3-5 in Body Systems book
Begin organ list
HOMEWORK: Study for QUIZ Tuesday (observation, inference, qualitative, quantitative, independent, dependent, controlled variables, control group and CER)
Wednesday, September 12th
Compare data and collect class data averages
Set up bar graph (use ruler, colored pencils, title, label axis, plot data and create key)
Begin data analysis #1-4
HOMEWORK: Complete bar graph and data analysis #1-4 for Bubble-ology
Thursday, September 13th
Complete Reasoning for Bubble-ology lab and turn it
Begin Me, An Engineer (read the introduction, put on the sling and work to solve the four "problems" - tie a shoes, button a shirt, cut out a shape, fold an airplane)
Friday, September 14th
Complete the 4 tasks of Me, An Engineer
Begin Bionic Bodies, case studies
Thursday, August 30th
Half Day
Get to know each other and your teacher..
HOMEWORK: Get Safety Contract signed and have parent/guardian email me at solsen@stamfordct.gov 2 things about you related to school and 2 things unrelated to school.
You also need to get your health card filled out and turn in your Student handbook sheet signed.
Friday, August, 31st
Go over and collect safety contracts
Info Sheet
Share observations, Who is My Teacher?
Observation vs. Inference
Tuesday, September 4th
practive Observation and Inference
Discuss Qualitative - descriptive observations and Quantitative - nubers, measurements
Wednesday, September 5th
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning example based on the following video
Compare/Contrast the Scientific Method with the Engineering Design Process
Thursday, September 6th
Complete comparing/contrasting the scientific method with the engineering design process and discuss
The Nature of Science "Puzzle"; discuss
Friday, September 7th
Bubble-ology - Test which detergent makes the biggest bubbles
