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Mrs. Cindy Currie
Life Science Page
NORTH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
BOISE,   ID   83702
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Life Science 7th grade...Currie

***PLEASE KEEP ALL NOTES, FOLDABLES, AND WORKSHEETS UNTIL AFTER THE EOC AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER...

1/19/09

M: No School

Tu: Seats
Start Brine shrimp lab
WS Observation.  
HW: WS Observations

W: Turn in WS Observations
Check Brine Shrimp Day 1
Scientific Method notes
WS Case of the sleeping Frog.  
HW: WS Case of the sleeping frog.

Th: Turn in WS Case of the sleeping frog
Review Scientific method
Check Brine Shrimp Day 2
Start Splatter Lab
HW: none

F: Check Brine Shrimp Day 3
Finish Splatter lab...turn in today.
WS Challenge/Analyze
HW: WS Challenge/Analyze
    Quiz on Scientific Method Tuesday...Know the 6 steps in order and recognize what a hypothesis, control and variable is.

1/26/09

M: Turn in WS Challenge/Analyze
Review HW
Conclude Brine shrimp Lab Day 7...answer conclusion questions and turn in today.
Quiz on Scinetific Method
Check out text books
HW: none

Tu: Make Cell booklet
  Read pages 34-41 in text book, fill in first 3 pages of your Cell booklet...cell functions and lable cells
HW: finish first 3 pages of cell booklet

W: Structure of Living Cells...check your HW as we go.
WS Cell Structure...both sections use your Cell booklet
HW: WS Cell Structure

Th: Turn in WS Cell Structure
Video: Discover the Cell
Record Cell Theory in Cell Booklet
HW: none

F: Cell Assessment: color, detail, quality and spelling counts
HW: 1.finish Cell Assessment
    2.Quiz Tuesday: know what the 10 organelles look
    like and what their function is.
    Be able to recite the Cell Theory

2/2/09

M: Turn in Cell Assessment
Notes Cell Cycle (in your Cell booklet)
See Mitosis on lazer Disc
WS Cell Division
HW: 1.Finish WS Cell Division
    2.Study for quiz tomorrow

Tu: Turn in WS Cell Division
Cell Quiz
Start Mitosis Activity: label phases and label
all parts listed.
HW: none

W: Set up Egg lab
Finish Mitosis Activity...turn in today
HW: none

Th: Incredible world of microscope video
Do microscope pages in Cell booklet
HW: Microscope pages in Cell booklet
Have you turned in your Mitosis Activity?

F: Completion grade on microscope pages
Egg lab steps 4-7 only...brown pencil
Review the use of our microscopes
Start Cell Lab
HW: none

2/9/09

M: Egg Lab steps 8-10 only
Continue Cell Lab
HW: none

T: Cell Lab
Conclusion Questions
last day with microscopes??
HW: Finish Cell Lab and questions

W: Turn in Cell Lab with conclusion questions
Cell Process notes
Conclude Egg lab: measure, graph, and answer questions on conclusion page...due today?
HW: Finish Egg Lab

Th: Turn in Egg Lab with conclusion questions
New seats
Video: Bill Nye Cells
HW: none

F: Teacher Inservice...No School

2/16/09

M: Presidents Day...No School

Tu: Introduction: Human Genetics
Introduce Larkey Genetics
HW: WS Genetic Traits...this needs to be done with one or both parents.  Do the best you can if one or both parents are not present.

W: Turn in WS: Genetic Traits
Genetic Vocabulary notes in Cell booklet
Start Larkey Genetics
HW: none

Th: Video Genes, Genetics, and DNA
Start Activity 50:50 Chance
HW: none

F: Finish Larkey Genetics
Punnett square and conclusion
staple conclusion page to Larkey Genetic page and turn in today or Monday.
HW: Finish Larkey genetics if not done in class.

2/23/09

M: Turn in both pages of Larkey Genetics.
Practice Punnett Square
Meiosis notes...staple to Cell Booklet
Meiosis WS
HW: Start to study for Cell Test next Monday.

Tu: Review Meiosis WS...staple to Cell Booklet
How many Chromosomes do Other Species have practice
Review WS for Cell Test, finish 50:50 Chance
HW: Finish Review WS...Study completed Cell Booklet for Test tomorrow

W: Cell Test
HW: none

Th: Pass back tests...review
Nature at work activity
HW: none

F: Darwin notes
Finish Nature at work activity
HW: none

3/2/09

M: Bird Beak Activity
turn in today
HW: none

Tu: Peppered Moth reading and graph...due today
WS Darwins Voyage
HW: WS Darwins Voyage

W: Video Four Billion Year War
HW: none

Th: Finish Four Billion Year War
Evolution Foldable
HW: Finish Evolution Foldable

F: Turn in Evolution Foldable
How to use a Taxanomic Key
Fun with Fictitious Animals
HW: Fun with Fictitious Animals

3/9/09

M: Turn in WS Fun with Fictitious Animals
Explain Flow chart
Start Seed Activity
HW: none

Tu: Finish Seed Activity...due today
HW: none

W: Video: 5 kingdoms (~13 minutes long)
Read Classify...keep
HW: Finish Read Classify

Th: Completion grade for Read Classify...Keep
Review Read Classify...The levels of Classification
Kingdom notes
HW: Quiz Friday: Evolution and Classification

F: Kingdom Activity: poster or booklet of 5 knigdoms...Due Friday
HW: Study for Quiz Friday

3/16/09

M: Review WS for Quiz tomorrow on Evolution and Classification.
Work on Kingdom Activity...due tomorrow
HW: Study for Quiz tomorrow, Kingdom Activity due tomorrow.

Tu: Turn in Kindom Activity
Turn in Review Sheet
Quiz Evolution/Classification
HW: none

W: Video: Understanding Bacteria
HW: none

Th: Review video Questions
Bacteria Packet...due Thursday
HW: Bring Perisable food item (cheese, fruit, bread)

F: Pass back Quizes
Set up Land of Dlom
Finish Bacteria Packet
HW: Bacteria Packet due monday

3/30/09

M: Turn in Bacteria Packet
Check Fungi Day 10
Video: World of Protozoa
Protist Guide
HW: Finish Protist Guide

Tu: Completiton grade on Protist Guide...correct
Make Fungi/Protist Foldable
Protist Notes
HW: none

W: Start Pond Lab
HW: none

Th: Pond Lab
HW: none

F: Pond Lab *last day* turn in today or
HW: finish filling in colums for pond lab...due Monday.

4/6/09

M: Check Fungi day 17
Video: Putting Algae to work
Notes: Fungi Divisions
HW:none

T: Video: The World of Fungi
Conclude Land of Dlom...Draw, identify and answer conclusion questions.  Turn in today.
HW: none

W: Fungi Questions from booklet
3x5 card and review for test next Monday

Th: Make Protist/Fungi/Bacteria game...due Friday
HW: work on 3x5 card for Test Monday

Th: Play Protist/Fungi/Bacteria game
HW: work on game...due tomorrow

F: Continue to make games as review for test
Work on 3x5 card for test Tuesday

4/13/09

M: Finish Games...Play yours PLUS 2 others.
HW: test tomorrow prepare your 3x5 card

T: Bacteria/Fungi/Protist test.  Turn in 3x5 card.
HW: none

W: Start Earthworm draw and functions.
HW: none

Th: Invertebrate notes
Finish Earthworm draw and functions...due tomorrow after dissection.
HW: Finish Earthworm draw and functions

F: Earthworm dissection
For the next test be able to recognize: crop, gizzard, pharynx and aortic arches.
Turn in dissection packet and Earthworm Draw with functions today.
HW:none

Hermaperdite: an organism that has both male and female parts
HW: none

4/20/09

M: Read Arthropods...completion grade
Hide a butterfly
HW: Finish read Arthropods...due tomorrow

Tu: Invertebrate Explore
HW: none

W: Video: Insects
Finish Invertebrate Explore
Hide your butterfly
HW: none

Th: Pathfinder ISATs

F: Video Sharks
List 20 questions with answers.
HW: none

4/27/09

M: Finish Shark Video
Reptile Packet
HW: Reptile Packet...Due tomorrow

Tu: Turn in Reptile Packet
Vertebrate Notes
WS: Animal Classification
HW: Animal Classification

W: Turn in Animal Classification
Introduction to Frog dissection
form frog groups and begin dissection
HW: none

Th: Continue Frog Dissection
Quiz part I...identify 9 parts of frog (external and mouth)
HW: none

F: Continue Frog Dissection
Quiz part II...identify 9 parts of frog (internal digestive system)
work on invertebrate cards, Pass out test guidelines invertebrate/vertebrate and 3x5 cards.
HW: Work on 3x5 card for test Monday

5/4/09

M: Video Birds
Crossword puzzle birds
HW:prepare 3x5 card for invertebrate/vertebrate test.

Tu: Mammal Gestation WS
HW: Work on 3x5 card for test Monday

W: Invertebrate/Vertebrate test...You may use your 3x5 card and attach to test for extra credit.
HW: none

Th: Make Ecology Foldable.
Notes on habitat, population, community, and ecology.
Start video Crocodiles here be dragons take video notes on abiotic/biotic factors, habitat, population, and community members.
HW: none

F: Finish Crocodiles here be dragons...turn in video notes.
HW: none

5/11/09

M: Notes on Symbiosis
Symbiosis Activity
HW: none

T: Environment Activity choose Option A = comic script or Option B = Poem...due Thursday.

W: Population size notes
Environment Activity
HW: Environment Activity due tomorrow

Th: Turn in Environment Activity
Adaptation and Predation notes...see guidelines on overhead.
HW: finish Adaptation/Predation

F: Team Day: Nampa Rec Center

5/18/09

M: Notes: Energy Flows
Video: Ecology of the Human Body

T: The Steam Dr....Population count and graph
HW: The stream Dr.
COLLECT BOOKS TODAY...FINE NOTICES WRITTEN

W: Ecology test. You may use your living things and their environment foldable.
Stream Dr. Due today
Start Plant Packet: Angiosperm life cycle vs Gymnosperm life cycle. Pgs 287 and 292
HW none

Th: Notes: plant types and monocots vs dicots
look at stems and leaves under microscope or draw perfect flower in plant packet.
HW: none

F: Video Pollination
look at stems and leaves under microscope or draw perfect flower in plant packet.
HW: none

5/25/09

M: Memorial Day...no school

Tu: Leaf Explore
HW: none

W: Finish Leaf Explore
Start EOC review

Th: EOC review packet Q:1-40

F: EOC review packet Q:40-70

6/1/09

M: EOC review packet Q: 70-102

T: EOC tests
Periods: 1,2 and 8...out at 1:15

W: EOC tests
Periods: 3 and 4...out at 1:15

Th: EOC tests
Periods 6 and 7...out at noon

Please be aware I have collected the text book.  The best source to review for the EOC is to use the notes, worksheets, and foldables from the semester.



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