5. All electronic devices (including i-pods, CD players, cell phones, etc..)
must be turned off and put away upon entering the room.
6. Be in your seat at the bell to avoid tardy.
7.Check schoolnotes.com for homework whenever you are absent from class and/or lose or forget to write down the homework assignment given in class.
Grades are based on points earned:
45% test/quizzes
30% labs/activities
25% classwork/homework
ADDITIONAL:
Summer school Reflection-
The Essay is broken down
into individual paragraph assignments.
Students will read aloud reflection paragraphs
during the DO NOW each Monday of Summer school.
During The Year:
A.Your Portfolio with a "reflection" essay is a very important test grade.You will receive a handout explaining this. Do not neglect to do it,
as it is an alternative way to help you increase your test/quiz average.
The portfolio is also YOUR record of what you do in the class, in
case of any error I make in recording grades.
B.ANYONE WHO WANTS TO REVIEW THEIR GRADE WITH ME MUST
bring their portfolio at LUNCH to MY ROOM in order to review
the grade and receive a printout of grades.
C.Final reminder, it is up to you to check schoolnotes.com
when you are absent, for all makeup work.
However, you have as many days as
you have excused absences, in which to make up work you missed.
_______
Personalized Research Paper- MAKE IT PERSONAL, TAKE IT IN THE DIRECTION(s) THAT INTEREST YOU.
A. Written Report*** NO PICTURES IN THE WRITTEN REPORT!
FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS DIRECTLY FROM THE PROJECT HANDOUT.
INK or typed (single or double spacing)
1. Part I-100 test points;due 3/9/09.
Minimum 2 pages(1 page front and back).
2. Part II- 100 test points and 400 lab points; due Thursday April 30th...
Min. 4 pages (2pages front and back).
3. Part III-100 test points and 700 lab points; due on the day you sign-up to present, May/June.
Min. 6 pages (3 pages front and back).
Include documentation as described on the handout.
B. Class Presentations***YOU MAY INCLUDE PICTURES FOR THIS.
Create a power point presentation or a full-sized display board that is patterned after parts I,II,III.
Share these three parts of your project with us.
100 test points and 400 lab points.
6/23/09
HELLO SUMMER SCHOOL BIOLOGY!
DO NOW: Copy and answer.,:
1.List the steps in the scientific method.
2.Why is the scientific method important?
3.Is it unique to science?
Standards:Investigation and Experimentation.
1. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful
questions and conducting careful investigations.
As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing
the content in the other four strands, students should
develop their own questions and perform investigations.
Objectives:
1. DO NOW-After the seating chart.
Discussion. Review Student background knowledge.
2.The Basic RULES are on www.schoolnotes.com.
You will get the special summer school edition
tomorrow, and must turn them in by Friday.
3.Complete and Review the ch. 1 study guide.
10:25 GET BOOKS!
4.Closure:The Organization of Life example can be
written down as a a concept map.
A concept map links important vocabulary together,
using linking words to connect the terms.
If done correctly, you can actually read it aloud.
Regarding the orgnization of life:
How do we know these levels are connected?
Example: Refer to My Introduction To Topics notes.
HW: 6/23/09
1.Use favorite link #5 to print out the state standards
2.Study for your chapter 1 test.
3. Buy a set of colored pencils or
fine line markers to put in your portfolio.
Friday you must show me your new portfolio,
containing the pencils or markers.
By Friday you must turn in the signed
summer school compact, worth 50 test points.
________________________________________________________________
6/24/09
Biology DO NOW.
I WILL COME TO YOUR DESK AND CHECK OFF
YOUR NOTES AND CONCEPT MAP (THE CLOSURE) FROM YESTERDAY.
Respond on a new sheet of paper,
to the following.:
If you are a mammal, you canft hold your breath forever,
you HAVE to BREATHE.
Why?
What does breathing have to do with your blood?
What gas do your cells need?
Why?
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The answer to questions like these,
at first seem simple.
But, in fact they involve complex processes
that are related to each other
,and can be examined at various levels.
Letfs go over a few concept maps.
Compare yours to pg. 21.
Compare yours to the handout, "The Organization of Life".
Are they comparable?
Do they make sense?
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Standards:Investigation and Experimentation.
1. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful
questions and conducting careful investigations.
As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing
the content in the other four strands, students should
develop their own questions and perform investigations.
Objectives:
1. Check in homework/review concept maps
for the Orgnization of Life.
Besides being organized, what are the other
characteristics of living things (organisms)
discussed in chapter 1?
2. Overview of the Summer School Compact (contract).
3. Powerpoint review of ch 1 content w/Q and A.
4. Take the ch. 1 test
5. When done place a microscope on your desk.
Using Appendix D, page 1070
Review the microscope,and label your diagram of
its parts.
5. Read Lab on page 29.
See Materials for the lab. Lab work w/partner.
6. Closure:
See favorite links for metric conversions
and review of the microscope.
For the lab:
Recieve your "How to Write up a Lab"
handout for review.
We will resume the lab tomorrow when you
are expected to make accurate colored picture drawings
under low(100X) and high (400 or 430X)power.
The hypothesis for this lab is:
A light microscope may be used to examine smaller objects
in greater visual detail.
HW: 6/24/09
1.Use favorite link #5(pages 51-56)
to print out the Life Science state standards.
This must be in section 1
of your portfolio for the "check" Friday.
2. Complete the ch. 2 study guide.
3. Buy a set of colored pencils or
fine line markers to put in your portfolio.
Friday you must show me your new portfolio,
containing the pencils or markers.
By Friday you must turn in the signed
summer school compact, worth 50 test points.
___________________________________________________________________
6/25 Thursday
Bio DO NOW:
Your lab report for "Using a Compound Microscope"
will be due Friday, in addition to your portfolio check.
The data section is found between which two other sections in the lab report?
Standards:Investigation and Experimentation.
1. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful
questions and conducting careful investigations.
As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing
the content in the other four strands, students should
develop their own questions and perform investigations.
Objectives:
1. DO NOW review.
2. ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR YOUR LAB REPORT:DUE TOMORROW.
a.Data: The microscope diagram I gave you to label, along with
the 8 pictures to draw under low and high power.
If you could not get 2 drawings of bacteria,
you can SUBSTITUTE 2 of the micrographs of bacteria from favorite link #16.
Simply sketch them from the favorite link.
Make sure you label the name of each picture and the total magnification.
b.For(Section 7)Analysis and Conclusions.,:
Remember that you have to write 2 paragraphs
before you write the questions and answers for the lab.
Make sure you re-write the notes I gave on
"typical problems with high power",
in one of you analysis paragraphs.
c.The Q and A of the lab go last in your lab report.
For Applying Concepts:
Why use high power at all?
What are the disadvantages using high power-Is it easy to focus under high power?
Is the image under high power clear, and well focused?
Can you always see the entire object you are looking at under high power?
Can that be a disadvantage of using high power?
For Drawing Conclusions #3:
I will demonstrate the newspaper print under low power, 4x.
Observe that, the microscope lenses turn
what you look at into a mirror-image.
Letters appear to move in the opposite direction
when you move the slide in one direction.
This is important to know, since you may want to observe
an organism that is swimming to your right through the scope,
by moving the slide to the left!
For Drawing Conclusions#4:
They want to know which fiber was placed on top of which fiber
when you made the cross.
**Anyone need time to re-do a slide?
3. Complete pg. 57 #1-25 ,
write out the answers only (not just letters)
while new students take the ch. 1 quiz.
4. Review the study guide for ch. 2
5. More practice with the microscope.
Prelab-Complete the Paramecium coloring worksheet.
Most of the answers come from the Reading in the worksheet.
Reference section 20-2, pg. 499,especially pages 501 and 502
to answer what is not covered on the worksheet.
Making wet mounts of paramecia.
Make a low power picture of paramecia as they swim.
Mix in a drop of protoslow to slow them down when you make the wet mount.
Now, add a drop of iodine stain under your cover glass.
Then make a low and high power picture of the paramecium when it stops swimming.
REPEAT THIS PROCEDURE with Blepharisma,ciliate.
Notice that they look quite different than paramecia,
although they are in the same phylum (Ciliophora, or, Ciliates).
6. Closure:TBA
HW:
1.Use favorite link #5(pages 51-56)
to print out the Life Science state standards.
This must be in section 1
of your portfolio for the "check" Friday.
2. Turn in your lab reports.
3. Buy a set of colored pencils or
fine line markers to put in your portfolio.
Friday you must show me your new portfolio,
containing the pencils or markers.
By Friday you must turn in the signed
summer school compact, worth 50 test points.
6/26/09 FRIDAY!
BIO DO NOW:
1.Drop off your portfolios
where you see the open cabinet doors.
2.Take out the DO NOW and notes from yesterday.
We will finish the ch. 2 powerpoint.
and you will need to :
a. Pay attention as we go through the sections.
b. Answer questions on the same paper we started yesterday.
Standards:
1. The fundamental life processes of plants and animals
depend on a variety of chemical reactions that occur
in specialized areas of the organismfs cells.
a.Students know cells are enclosed within semipermeable membranes
that regulate their interaction with their surroundings.
b.Students know enzymes are proteins that catalyze
biochemical reactions without altering the reaction equilibrium
and the activities of enzymes depend on the temperature, ionic conditions, and the pH of the surroundings.
Objectives:
1.Finish yesterday's trip through the ch. 2 powerpoint,
and answer questions along the way.
2. Complete the Chapter 20 study guide on The Kingdom protista.
I will grade portfolios during that time.
3.Receive papers and review pg. 57 #1-25.
4. Complete the paramecium coloring worksheet.
(reference ch. 20 if needed.)
5. Procedure for practice making wet mounts and using the microscope:
A. Make a low power picture of paramecia as they swim.(40X or 100X)
Mix in a drop of protoslow to slow them down when you make the wet mount.
B. Add a drop of iodine stain under your cover glass.
Then make a low and high power picture of the paramecium when it stops swimming.
REPEAT THIS PROCEDURE with blepharisma, another ciliate.
Notice that they look quite different from paramecia,
although they are in the same phylum (Ciliophora, or, Ciliates).
Total of 6 new pics.
Staple the paramecia worksheet to your pics and turn them in.
6. Closure:
Receive back and review the ch. 2 study guide.
If we do not finish reviewing the study guide today,
we will do so before your test on Monday.
HW:
1.Study for your test Monday on ch. 2. It will be done after we do a lab.
2.Finish the coloring sheet and colored/labeled
pictures of paramecia and blepharisma.
3.Write a paragraph "relection"
about what we did in our first week; what we learned about.
This will be a homework assignment at the end of each week.
Be ready to share what you wrote!
4.Finish the ch. 20 study guide on protists
Background on Catalase:
This enzyme is found throughout aerobic
organisms. One function of catalase within cells is to prevent the accumulation of toxic
levels of hydrogen peroxide (formed as a by-product of metabolic processes). Catalase
may also take part in some of the many oxidation reactions that occur in all cells.
The primary reaction catalyzed by catalase is the decomposition of H2O2 to form water
and oxygen: 2H2O2 ---2H2O + O2 (gas)
In the absence of catalase, this reaction occurs spontaneously, but very slowly. Catalase
speeds up the reaction considerably.
Question: Which cells contain more catalase, animal, or plant cells?
Which type of cell, plant or animal,do you think must carry out more metabolic activities,
and thus would evolve to have more catalase?
Hypothesis:
6/29/09
Bio Do Now:
Share paragraph "reflection"
about what we did in our first week;
what we learned about. Don't you remember,
you took notes on it the first day?
Standards:
1. The fundamental life processes of plants and animals
depend on a variety of chemical reactions that occur
in specialized areas of the organismfs cells.
a.Students know cells are enclosed within semipermeable membranes
that regulate their interaction with their surroundings.
b.Students know enzymes are proteins that catalyze
biochemical reactions without altering the reaction equilibrium
and the activities of enzymes depend on the temperature,
ionic conditions, and the pH of the surroundings.
Objectives:
1. Share DO NOW
paragraph refections.
2. Complete the ch. 2 test/
finish examination of
our two species of protozoa.
3. Get into groups of 4 to read
about your next lab,
"Comparing the Catalase Content of Cells".
Share examples of the 2 hypotheses.
If time allows, carry out the lab.
4. Closure: Ch 7 study guide.
HW:
1.Section 7-3 pages 182-189
Take 3 pages of notes and
add a 4th page for the Q/A 1-5 at the end of the section.
2.Comparing the Catalase Content of Cells lab report is due Weds.
6/30/09
Bio
DO NOW: Refer to chapter 7.
Prokarote and Eukaryote.
Which do you think might have
appeared first on the planet?
Standards:
1. The fundamental life processes of plants and animals
depend on a variety of chemical reactions that occur
in specialized areas of the organismfs cells.
a.Students know cells are enclosed within semipermeable membranes
that regulate their interaction with their surroundings.
b.Students know enzymes are proteins that catalyze
biochemical reactions without altering the reaction equilibrium
and the activities of enzymes depend on the temperature,
ionic conditions, and the pH of the surroundings.
c.Students know how prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells
(including those from plants and animals), and viruses
differ in complexity and general structure.
e.Students know the role of the endoplasmic reticulum and
Golgi apparatus in the secretion of proteins.
f.Students know usable energy is captured from sunlight
by chloroplasts and is stored through the synthesis
of sugar from carbon dioxide.
g.Students know the role of the mitochondria in making
stored chemical-bond energy available to cells by
completing the breakdown of glucose to carbon dioxide,
water and ATP.
Objectives:
1. DO NOW Review
2. Copy into your notes:
a. Students who have been absent over 3 days,
will be dropped from summer school.
b. Students who are absent MUST go to schoolnotes. com
for the whiteboard and homework.
Missed tests must be made up after school.
Missed labs cannot be made up, but I will create
a project for you. To create it, stay after school.
c. AS of today, some students may be eligible
for the after school detention.
They will be scheduled the day after you get it,
I will call your parent to inform.
3. Re: Ch: 7 Video clips on cells and cell physiology
What are the main ideas shown here?
4. Chapter 7 Study guide-complete it.
5. Standards worksheets-highlight or underline.
answer the questions.
6. Closure:
What do your lab groups need to bring tomorrow?
Decide who will bring in a potato,
and who will bring in an onion.
Our test on Thursday will include
ch. 7,8,and 9 as these are essential
to understanding cell biology.
HW: 1. Lab report for
"Comparing the Catalase Content of Cells"
due, tomorrow, 7/1/09.
2.Bring in onion, or potato for lab.
3.Complete the series of standards worksheets.
Underline or highlight the important concepts
as you read, and answer the questions
Our chapter 7,8,9 test is Thursday.
It will be at 60 questions, worth 180 test points.
7/1/09
Biology DO NOW:
I will collect your lab reports,
and 3 worksheets(staple together)
while you read through our next lab.
You will work in pairs for this lab
and list your partner's name in
your Introduction.
***Write down questions you have as you
read through this lab, for our discussion.
Standards:
1. The fundamental life processes of plants and animals
depend on a variety of chemical reactions that occur
in specialized areas of the organismfs cells.
a.Students know cells are enclosed within semipermeable membranes
that regulate their interaction with their surroundings.
b.Students know enzymes are proteins that catalyze
biochemical reactions without altering the reaction equilibrium
and the activities of enzymes depend on the temperature,
ionic conditions, and the pH of the surroundings.
c.Students know how prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells
(including those from plants and animals), and viruses
differ in complexity and general structure.
e.Students know the role of the endoplasmic reticulum and
Golgi apparatus in the secretion of proteins.
f.Students know usable energy is captured from sunlight
by chloroplasts and is stored through the synthesis
of sugar from carbon dioxide.
g.Students know the role of the mitochondria in making
stored chemical-bond energy available to cells by
completing the breakdown of glucose to carbon dioxide,
water and ATP.
Objectives:
1."The Basic Unit of Life" after snack.
Write down questions you have, to prepare for the lab.
2. If absent yesterday, complete the ch. 8 study guide,
and see me after school. The rest do ch 9 study guide.
3. Pick up and complete the
cell transport worksheets.
4. After snack:
Review how to cut and prepare the wet mounts
for our lab.
Then-work in pairs to complete the procedures.
5. Review of ch 8 study guide.
6. Closure:
Review Short clips on photosynthesis
and respiration.
HW: 1.Inside the Cell-Apply.
Construct a concept map on a
separate piece of paper (to staple to the skills worksheet).
A further review of concept maps is found in the back
of your textbook, Appendix A.
***2.
Review all work in ch. 7,8,9
for 60 question test tomorrow.
3. Lab report for
"The Basic Unit of Life" is due
Tuesday, July 7th.
3.Students absent yesterday complete the ch. 9
study guide.
______________________________________________________________________________
7/2/09
BIO DO NOW:
We will first take a practice quiz on cell
organelles from favorite link #2.
Second-Ask me any questions you have about
the cell lab we did yesterday.
In your Introduction, name your lab partner.
Also, refer to the State Standards that involve this lab.
Standards:
1. The fundamental life processes of plants and animals
depend on a variety of chemical reactions that occur
in specialized areas of the organismfs cells.
a.Students know cells are enclosed within semipermeable membranes
that regulate their interaction with their surroundings.
b.Students know enzymes are proteins that catalyze
biochemical reactions without altering the reaction equilibrium
and the activities of enzymes depend on the temperature,
ionic conditions, and the pH of the surroundings.
c.Students know how prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells
(including those from plants and animals), and viruses
differ in complexity and general structure.
e.Students know the role of the endoplasmic reticulum and
Golgi apparatus in the secretion of proteins.
f.Students know usable energy is captured from sunlight
by chloroplasts and is stored through the synthesis
of sugar from carbon dioxide.
g.Students know the role of the mitochondria in making
stored chemical-bond energy available to cells by
completing the breakdown of glucose to carbon dioxide,
water and ATP.
Objectives:
1. Cell organalle quiz/questions about the lab.
2. Review of chapter 9 study guide.
3. Weeks-end reflection.
Write and share.
4. Video clip review
5. Ch.7,8,9 test
6.Notes on DNA, decoding the Book of Life
7. Voc. ch. 11,12,13,14
Closure:
Have a nice 4th of July!
HW: 1. The Basic Unit of Life lab
is due Tuesday, July 7th.
2.Vocabulary list for Genetics
Ch. 13,14 is due by Tuesday, as well.
7/6/09
Biology DO NOW:
See Brown Text pages
Read and take notes on concept mapping.
Complete the exercise.
Standards:
2.Mutation and sexual reproduction lead to genetic variation in a population. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a.Students know meiosis is an early step in sexual reproduction in which the pairs of chromosomes separate and segregate randomly during cell division to produce
gametes containing one chromosome of each type.
b.Students know only certain cells in a multicellular organism undergo meiosis. c.ðÀ Students know how random chromosome segregation explains the probability that a particular allele will be in a gamete. d.ðÀ Students know new combinations of alleles may be generated in a zygote through the fusion of male and female gametes (fertilization).
e.Students know why approximately half of an individualfs DNA sequence comes from each parent.
f.Students know the role of chromosomes in determining an individualfs sex.
g.Students know how to predict possible combinations of alleles in a zygote from the genetic makeup of the parents.
Objectives:
1. Practice the skills of
Concept mapping. Read and Take notes out of Brown text.
a. It requires:
knowledge/access to knowledge of the subject
creative imagination, and time invested.
b. IT CAN BE READ.
c. It contains LINKING WORDS between the concepts
to connect them in a meaningful way.
2.Pair up to rework concept maps
from "Inside the cell-Apply".
3. Two students put theirs up.
Others will share theirs. More practice is on the way!
4.Finish the ch. 11 Study guides.
g. Pass back and revisit our text
on Enzymes.
Problem Lab Questions:dd to your notes thus far.
#3-What are the reactants?
The products?
#3 a reactant is also called a _____.
A synonym for reactant is ______.
#5 Is the catalase chemically changed in the reaction?
#6 Where does the catalase come from?
#7-IN NATURE-Where does the hydrogen peroxide come from?
#*8-We didn't chop the samples up so they could fit in the test tube,
We choppped them up to release _____ from inside the cells.
#9 What gas is produced?
#10-Heat and ph can alter the ability of an enzyme to function.
#11-page 52-53 of your text. Turn there now.
#12.FOR THIS LAB.
Lock=?
Key=?
Where is the active site?
#14-Manipullated variable=the amount of catalase(by using different cells
containing these different amounts).
responding variable= amount of oxygen gas produced, ranked on a scale of 0-10.
5. Meosis video/lab optional.
6. Review of study guide.
7. page 283 ch. 11 assessment.
8. Ch. 11 standards worksheets/standards practice 285.
9. Closure: video clips through ch. 11.
HW:
Lab report due tomorrow.
Remaining ch. 13/14 voc lists ue tomorrow
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