9/8/08
WELCOME TO BIOLOGY!
WELCOME TO MY NEW EARTH SCIENCE CLASS!
Room 352
Mr. Paul J. Noto
NOTES FOR ALL TO COPY:
THIS IS THE SUMMARY OF MY EXPECTATIONS.
These are my 6 rules.I expect you to respect them.
1. Follow teacher’s directions.
2. Be prepared for class.
3. Respect others and their property.
4. No food or gum is allowed.
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.
Continue to copy these notes before reading the guidelines.
ADDITIONAL:
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. If you are uncertain,I or your peers can tell you what you missed.
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Earth Science 10/10/08
COPY ALL
Do Now:
Most minerals are composed of 2 or more elements. And rocks, themselves are composed of 2 or more minerals.
There are about 3000 minerals.
The following is called a "quick write".
Use pages C20-C21 and write your response: What 3 top minerals would YOU say are the most important as resources in our great state? For each of three examples you provide, write why you chose them as important mineral resources.
Prepare to share aloud.
Standard: We are introducing Dynamic Earth Processes
and need to know what minerals are, and how they form and change.
Objectives:
1.Share responses to the Do Now/collect homework.
2.Review 2 websites on favorite links.
a. Link #6-nearly complete list of physical properties.
b. Link #18-An on-line practice identifying minerals.
3.Video review of identifying minerals.
Wite a paragraph for Monday, describing how some of these tests are done.
4.Review of Directed reading worksheet ch 5.
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Biology 10/10/08
Do now: Read and answer A. and B.
A.What is the question we are trying to answer by doing the lab (due Monday)?
You have a second day to complete your SAT II pretest.
At the end of this semester I will give you a post test,and look for evidence of learning.
B.Take out a piece of paper today, and list 15-20 of the most difficult science words found in the practice test.
Standard: For the second day, all of them.
Objectives:
1.To demonstrate improvement between this pre-test- and a post-test at Semester's end.
2. For you-To score your best possible score by using your time effectively during these two days of testing.
3. For you- To choose the best possible answers to challenging questions using logical and critical thinking skills.
4. Opportunity to drop your lowest 10-week test grade by achieving 50% or higher on this pre-test.
5. Completion of this test is worth 200lab/activity points.
6. You are competing against yourself, not any other student.
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Addtional background for lab analysis:
The Lock and Key model( also called the Lock and Key hypothesis)states that a reactant or reactants temporarily physically bind to an enzyme, forming a complex that allows a reaction to occur. There are three parts, the lock, the key and the keyhole in this model.
Turn to page 52, Figure 2-21, which shows this in picture form.
Write a brief paragraph describing this example, the reactants , products, the enzyme, and state which one is the key, the lock, and where the keyhole is.
HW.9/2/08: 1.Get guidelines signed, due tomorrow.
2.Put the portfolio together(To be checked on Friday).
3.Print out the bio or earth science standards from fav. link # 11.for Biology, or #12 for Earth Science(This will be checked in your portfolio, on Friday).
Homework 9/3/08:
1. Portfolio due Friday- must have the notes I gave you so far, the handouts on guidelines,portfolios, and the state standards you print out from Favorite Link(see below) # 11 all in section 1.
All dividers must be labeld.
Anything else we do should also be placed into the portfolio for Friday.
2. Due tomorrow, a good sentence for each of the vocabulary words you defined in class today.
Homework 9/4:
1.Portfolios are due.
Bring in those portfolios, with everything set up as was listed under 9/3's homework.
2. Complete both sides of the scientific method example worksheet we worked on in class today.
Attach a piece of paper and identify,in each case:
The manipulated variable, responding variable, experimental group,and control group.
3.Study for Tuesday's vocabulary quiz.
Homework 9/5: IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE:
1. Study for Tuesday's quiz.Note that "observation" was replaced by "scientific method" on the quiz.
2. New students prepare the vocabulary list of definitions, and study them. All students, even the new ones, will take the quiz Tuesday.
Vocabulary list for our first quiz:
1. metabolism
2. cell fractionation
3. controlled experiment
4. scientific method
5. hypothesis
6. homeostasis
7. asexual reproduction
8. metric system
9. manipulated variable
10.inference
11.data
12.cell culture
13.microscope
14.stimulus
15.theory
16.cell
17.biology
HW for Monday 9/8:
1. Biology-Study to be able to match words and definitions on your quiz tomorrow.
2.Finish today's classwork :2 or more pages
Copy the list of characteristis of life from pg. 15
Take notes from pages 18-22
Answer # 2 on pg. 22
3.Earth Science- Get your guidelines signed and begin to put together your portfolio.
HW for Wednesday 9/10:
1. Earth Science:
a. Bring back the handout on Portfolios and any questions you may have.
b. Complete 2 pages of notes for Chapter 1 section 1(pages 5-8) and include the answers to #1-4 on page 8.
2. Biology: Make-up tomorrow.
Due to Sports on Friday, the make-up quiz is Thursday after school in room 352! That is tomorrow...Be here to avoid a zero on your first quiz!
If you have sports after school tomorrow and can prove it....You must come and take the make-up on Friday during lunch.
Earth Science HW for Friday: "The Unchained Goddess"
1. Make a list of 10 facts from the movie.
2. List all the examples of what meteorologists study, as shown in the movie.
3. Bring back The notes you took during the movie.
4. New students, or students who did not do it yet, complete the Earth Science Activity on schoolnotes.com
HW Earth Science 9/15/08 and 9/16:
1. Bring your protfolio notebook, all set up, for a check on THURSDAY, 9/18.
2. Students must be caught up on the makeup work by Friday. See notes I gave on 9/15.
HW BIO
1....The make-up for the make-up quiz for all new stduents is Thursday 9/18,during lunch.
2. Make sure you have turned in section 2-1 and 2-2 vocabulary lists (done seperately).
Homework 9/18, Thursday:
Earth Science:
If you did not check your portfolio in with me today, you will be allowed to do so tomorrow.
The grade for this portfolio check, and the Earth Science activity from this website, will both count heavily for your 5-week grade.
The quiz on Monday will be your most important grade, since tests/quizzes count for 45% of your grade.
Monday we will have a quiz on Section 1(in chapter 2), entitled "Earth;A Unique Planet". Read and study this section from the notes you have taken in class.
Answer these questions tonight, from your notes and the book, Chapter 2-section 1.
1. What is the term used to describe earth's shape?
2. What do we call the solid, plastic layer of the mantle?
(Hint: the lithospere floats on top of this layer).
3. In the Law of gravitation, the force of attraction between 2 objects depends on what two things?
4. What is the source of Earth's magnetic field?
5. What do we call the lowewr boundary(edge)of the crust?
6. What do we call the part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core?
7. What do we call the plates of crust and upper mantle that float on top of the asthenospere?
I mentioned two names for these plates, so either one is correct)
Biology: Read Ch. 2 and begin studying!
DO NOT FORGET to make up quiz 1 today at lunch, if you are new and missed the quiz. Tests and quizzes count for 45% of your grade.
After turning in the vocabulary for section 2-4, you will have completed all the vocabulary for chapter 2.
Our second biology quiz will be Tuesday, September 23rd, on the following words and definitions:
1. polymer 10. chemical reaction
2.amino acid 11. electron
3. isotope 12. ion
4. nucleus 13. reactant
5. covalent bond 14. nucleic acid
6.nucleotide 15. ionic bond
7.acid 16. atom
8. base 17.compound
9. proton
HW for Monday September 22:
Biology- STUDY for your QUIZ!
And if you missed Friday the 19th,, printout several pages on the functions of proteins (search under "functions of proteins" on the internet), and write a one page summary essay explaining these functions.
9/23 HW Earth Science:
Finish the section quizzes for chapter 2.
9/24HW Earth Science: Finish the worksheet for section 2-2.
HW bio: Finish the section notes for section 2-4 and answers for #1-4.
9/25: Earth Science: Study for the Quiz Monday, 9/29.
It is on the 10 vocab words listed on schoolnotes.
You must remember the word matching the definition.
There will be no "word bank" for Monday's quiz.
Bio: Finish the Q annd A for pg. 57.
This will be what you USE on your chapter 2 test on Monday, 9/29
9/26 hw: Earth:
Make 10 flashcards and study them, for your quiz. You will turn them in before the quiz on
Monday.
Bio: Study chapter 2 and notes.
Pg. 57 will be returned to you, to actually use on your chapter 2 test Monday.
Hw 10/1:
Earth Science- Review chapter 2 for your open notebook test tomorrow.
Biology-Period 6 only-Complete the Reading and Study Workbook for ch. 7
HW 10/3:
Earth Science-none!
Biology: Bring the materials for your lab.
HW 10/7:
Finish any unfinished classwork.
HW 10/8:
Earth Science:
HW:1.Read pages C20-C21 in the back of your book Entitled "Mineral Resources".
2.Write down 10 important California minerals and their uses.
3.Consult your copy of the California Earth Science Standards, under #9, California Geology.
Copy the standard, listed under #9, that relates to this homework. Attach it to your list of minerals and their uses.
Homework 10/9/08:
Biology
A complete lab report is due on Monday, 10/13.
All parts must be typed or in ink.
All parts must be clearly labeled according to the handout I provided.
Add these questions and answers to your Analysis and conclusion section.:
1. Where does the catalase come from, and what is the effect of this enzyme?
2. Explain how the the "lock and Key" model (hypothesis) of enzyme function works.
3.Identify the parts of the Lock and Key model for this lab.
4.Was your hypothesis true? How do you know?
5. What effect did boiling the material have on the function of the enzyme? Was the effect any different on plant versus animal cells?
6. Which types of cells, plant or animal, show a higher average catalase content?
a.Of the plant cells, which one contained more
catalase? What rank did you give it?
b.Of the animal cells, which one contained more catalase? What rank did you give it?
7.Your book mentions factors that may influence enzyme activity, what are they?
What evidence is there from this lab,that suggests heating an enzyme(temperature), may alter its shape,
and so affect its ability to function?
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