Standards for the week:
SCSh9. Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by:
a. Reading in all curriculum areas
Read a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books per year from a variety of subject disciplines and participate in discussions related to curricular learning in all areas.
Read both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse.
Read technical texts related to various subject areas.
d. Establishing context
Explore life experiences related to subject area content.
Discuss in both writing and speaking how certain words are subject area related.
Determine strategies for finding content and contextual meaning for unknown words.
SB1. Students will analyze the nature of the relationships between structures and functions in living cells.
a. Explain the role of cell organelles for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, including the cell membrane, in maintaining homeostasis and cell reproduction.
b. Explain how enzymes function as catalysts.
c. Identify the function of the four major macromolecules (i.e., carbohydrates, proteins,
lipids, nucleic acids).
d. Explain the impact of water on life processes (i.e., osmosis, diffusion).
SB2. Students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.
a. Distinguish between DNA and RNA.
b. Explain the role of DNA in storing and transmitting cellular information.
c. Using Mendels laws, explain the role of meiosis in reproductive variability.
d. Describe the relationships between changes in DNA and potential appearance of new traits including
Alterations during replication.
Insertions
Deletions
Substitutions
Mutagenic factors that can alter DNA.
High energy radiation (x-rays and ultraviolet)
Chemical
e. Compare the advantages of sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction in different situations.
Activities: This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Tuesday
Lecture on the parts of the cell and their functions
Beginning of Recreation of the skit of The Case of the Dividing Cell: Mitosis and Meiosis in the Cellular Court
Homework:
Output (choose one):
Create a dialogue between two organelles of the cell, illustrating their relationship to each other within the conversation.
Find (using the internet, encyclopedia or your book) a listing of different types of cells. List 7 of these types and where you find them in the body.
Wednesday
Quiz on cell diagram
Lecture/Notes on Mitosis
How to use a compound microscope discussion
Mitosis Stages foldable
Homework:
No output homework tonight
Thursday
Cell Centers
- Microscopes
- Vocabulary matching
- Others (TBA
Homework:
Output:
Create a song about the stages of mitosis, giving key features of each stage
OR
Draw the stages of mitosis from your book.
Friday
Lecture on Mutations and mutagenic factors
Cancer and the Cell Cycle activity
Homework:
No homework unless you didn't pass the quiz, then all of the questions on pg. 243, 249 and 252 (ALL questions, write questions and answers, full sentences) due Monday or you have detention on Tuesday
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