Thursday March 29, 2012

Biology HW :  Study for Photosynthesis Test (tomorrow)

Chemistry HW: Study for Atomic structure Test (tomorrow)

Monday March 26, 2012

Chemistry

• Catch up
• Review periodic table and electron configurations
• Lecture Electronegativity and Octet rule
• Study first 56 elements for quiz tomorrow (names and symbols)
• Get back Essay Test (matter and definitions)

Biology

• Catch-up
• Review Week's schedule (quiz on Wednesday and Test on Friday over Photosynthesis)
• Work on photosynthesis project (due this Friday)
• Study for Wed/Friday quiz and test
• Get back graded work and talk about grades

Class 8: September 9, 2011

Class Schedule:

• Punnett Squares Practice
• Royalty Lab

Homework:

• Study Vocab
• Update Vocab List
• Lab Questions

Vocabulary:

• F1
• P
• F2
• Allelles
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous
• Dominant
• Recessive
• Genotype
• Phenotype

Class 7: September 8, 2011

Class Schedule:

• Vocab Quiz
• Traits Game
• Traits discussion
• Intro Genetics Vocab

Homework:

• Study Vocab
• Update Vocab List

Vocabulary:

• Traits
• Selective breeding / artificial selection
• Genetically Modified Organism

Class 6: September 7, 2011

Class Schedule:

• Vocab Quiz
• Review Transcription and Translation
• Discuss Nature and Nurture
• Write Haiku
• Work on Drawing Transcription & Translation

Homework:

• Study Vocab
• Update Vocab List
• Finish Haiku and Drawing

Vocabulary:

• DNA
• Complimentary Base Pairing
• RNA
• mRNA
• Uracil
• Single Stranded
• Ribose
• Nucleus
• Nuclear Pores
• Ribosome
• tRNA
• Amino Acid
• Protein

Class 5: September 6, 2011

Class Schedule:

• Vocab and mRNA Quiz
• Name Quiz for Teacher
• Take Notes
• Transcription and Translation (continued)
• Practice homework sheet together
• Talk about captain elections
• Work on Homework

Homework:

• DNA --> Protein Work Sheet
• Study Vocab
• Update Vocab List
• Consider Class Captain Votes

Vocabulary:

• DNA
• Complimentary Base Pairing
• RNA
• mRNA
• Uracil
• Single Stranded
• Ribose
• Nucleus
• Nuclear Pores
• Ribosome
• tRNA
• Amino Acid
• Protein

Class 4: September 2, 2011

• mRNA
• RNA
• Uracil
• Ribose
• Nucleus

Class 3: September 1, 2011

• Chargaff
• Deoxyribose Sugar
• Phosphate
• Adenine
• Guanine
• Cytosine
• Thymine
• Sugar Phosphate Backbone
• Nitrogenous Bases
• Purines
• Pyrimidines

Class 2: August 31, 2011

Class Schedule:

• Vocab Quiz
• Take Notes
• History of DNA structure discovery (continued)
• Hershey and Chase
• Rosiland Franklin (from website)
• Components known
• Chagraff's Data Inquiry Assignment
• Check and Collect Homework
• Silent Reading (Watson and Crick Article)
• Structure of DNA 
• Assign Homework

Homework:

• Read and Highlight Watson and Crick Article
• Complete 4 questions on Chargaff's DNA Worksheet
• Update Vocab Sheet
• Study for Vocab Quiz
• 3D DNA Molecule (Due Friday)

Vocabulary:

• R. Franklin
• X-Ray Crystallography
• Helix (helical)

Class 1: August 30, 2011

Class Schedule:

• Expectations
• Learn Names
• Take Notes
• What is Heredity?
• How is Heredity transmitted?
• History of DNA structure discovery
• Silent Reading (Watson and Crick Article)
• Share story of Watson and Crick (nature of science)
• Assign Homework

Homework:

• Read Syllabus thoroughly (and ask parent to read it, discuss it with you, and sign it)
• Study for Vocab Quiz tomorrow
• "What I want out of Biology Class" Reflection
• Vocab Page Filled Out and up-to-date
• DNA Drawing Page completed

Vocabulary:

• Biology
• Heredity
• Zoology
• Hershey and Chase Experiment
• Protein
• Experimental Design
• Bacteriophage/virus
• DNA
• -logy
• bio-

Tuesday, April 12th

Homework:

• Get your hardscape materials!
• Study for make-up photosynthesis quiz if applicable to you.

Notes:

• I will be sending the lesson plan for tomorrow in the morning!

Monday, April 11th

Homework:

• Study for make-up Vocab Quiz (will have 15 words and one bonus) - remember this could correct the scores for many vocab quizzes!
• Study for make-up Photosynthesis Quiz (we will take this on Wed.)
• Do Ecosystem Analysis homework
• Update your ecology vocab list and start studying those terms

Notes:

• Fundraising should probably still be on your group's RADAR
• I moved the photosynthesis quiz to Wed. so that we do not spend all period tomorrow on make-up quizzes.

Friday, April 8th

Note:

• Tuesday Make-up Day (we will do make-up photosynthesis quizzes in class and we will also do the make-up vocab quiz that day!)

Tuesday, April 5th

Homework:

• Update Vocab list
• Study for Cellular Respiration Test (tomorrow)
• Complete Cellular Respiration Worksheet

Notes:

• You will receive an email from me with directions for class tomorrow
• You will start with the Test (45 minutes)
• You will finish with aquarium work time - making your formal presentation for Thursday

Monday, April 4th

Homework:

• Gather favorite aquariums as a team
• Prepare for your next fundraising day
• update your vocab list
• prepare for your vocab quiz
• Study for Cellular Respiration Test (Wednesday)

Notes:

• We will do a retake Vocab Quiz on Thursday in class
• You must make-up your photosynthesis Test on TUESDAY, THURSDAY, or FRIDAY after school
• We will try to schedule Aquarium Adventure trip for this Friday

Tuesday, March 31st

Homework:

• Fermentation Application Sheet (probably will take 45 minutes)
• Update Vocab Sheet
• Study for Vocab Quiz
• Gather supplies and bring in to make the CO2 injectors in class Friday

Notes:

• Fundraising will start next Monday.  Each team should have a plan in place to implement.  If you need earlier cash, you could ask someone you know for a cash advance by showing them your formal fundraising plan and signing a contract for when you are going to pay them back.
• We will try to make our trip to Aquarium Adventure next week.

Wed, March 30th

Homework:

• CO2 Injector Research and Design Sheet
• Study for Vocab Quiz
• Update Vocab List

Notes:

• I am looking forward to these teams.
• We are going to need to start talking about fundraising.
• Vocab make-up quiz will be after school on Friday
• Here is the International Competition you will be submitting to on May 31st!

Tuesday, March 29th

Homework:

• Go to the design competition website
• Look through a lot of the entries
• Pull pictures of your favorites - along with the data about what is in them and judges comments
• Make a PPT slide for each of your favorite tanks.
• We will show the slides tomorrow in class via a student work gallery.

Notes:

• Make-up vocab. quizzes will be on the Friday of each week.  Everyone will get the same make-up quiz (which will be cumulative over that week's words).

Monday, March 28th

Homework:

• Study for Photosynthesis Test (it will be short-answer)
• Finish photosynthesis Packet (and check answers)
• Finish (if applicable) and bring your ACT Science answer key so we can grade it tomorrow.

Notes:

• Good job voting on captains - two were clearly selected.  I think I am going to have you vote once more for the third captain because all the other possible captains received roughly the same number of votes.

Thursday March, 17th

Homework

• Update vocab list
• Study for vocab quiz
• Complete (as much as possible) the light dependent reaction sheet

Notes:

• We will try to finish light dependent reactions tomorrow and vote on captains (for the preliminary elections)
• We will finish voting on captains (based upon the results of the prelims) when we get back from break
• We will spend the first day after break reviewing photosynthesis and learning the Calvin cycle.  We will have our big photosynthesis quiz/test on Tuesday of that week.