August 27 (A Day) and August 28 (B Day)- Unit 1, Lesson 1 (continued)

OBJECTIVE: The student will describe the characteristics of life in order to classify an unknown item as living or nonliving.

WARM-UP: Describe 5 characteristics to determine if something is living or non-living.

VOCABULARY:
1) analysis
2) centi-
3) conclustion
4) control
5) data

SAT WORD OF THE DAY:
Wednesday, August 27 – ENIGMA (n.) – mystery
Hal is an enigma; he never studies for any tests but always gets good grades.

Thursday, August 28 – INEVITABLE (adj.) – unavoidable; bound to happen
It was inevitable that Brittany would fail geometry; she never did any homework and didn’t understand any of the class work.

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary. Get Textbooks. Discuss lab fee and grading policy.
2) Explanation of monarch project. Begin data collection
3) Closure- what things did you learn about your caterpillar that surprised you? Name one piece of quantitative and qualitative data that you learned.

HANDOUTS:
1) Data Collection Sheet
2) Monarch stages
3) Lab Fee letter
4) Grading policy

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Get BEE Books organized. Read and outline (or take notes) pages 8, 9, 10 and 14 in your books.

HOMEWORK DUE:
Parent Contact Sheet

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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