March 30 (A Day) and March 31 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will simulate the spread of a disease that requires the exchange of bodily fluids in order to understand the outbreak of disease described in the book Hot Zone.

WARM-UP: How are viruses spread? What can you do to prevent yourself from catching a virus?

VOCABULARY:
1) homeostasis
2) immune system
3) muscular system
4) nervous system
5) reproductive system

CLASSWORK:
1)Students will share knowledge about viruses and how they are spread. Class will discuss prior knowledge.
2) Class will discuss how to develop an experiment to simulate the rates of virus infection using supplies that teacher has.
3) Students will perform experiment.
4) Students will analyze their data and draw conclusions.

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 12-5 in textbook

HOMEWORK DUE:
Unit 7 Review sheet (B Day students)

CLOSURE: Discussion of lab.

March 27 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA.

WARM-UP: What is a karyotype and what does it tell you

VOCABULARY:
1) circulatory system
2) digestive system
3) endocrine system
4) equilibrium
5) excretory system

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Test
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 12-5 in book.

HOMEWORK DUE:
Review Sheet

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NONE

March 26 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA.

HOMEWORK DUE: none

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Read and outline Section 12-5

March 25 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will practice Punnett Squares in order to determine how alleles are inherited.

WARM-UP: List three traits that you have and identify which parent or family member you inherited them from. Do your siblings have them, too? Are they different?

VOCABULARY:
1) homologous structure
2) isolation
3) natural selection
4) survival of the fittest
5) theory

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of 11-4 assessment
3) Hot Zone lab and discussion
4) Review Punnett Squares
5) Sponge Bob activity (for homework)
6) Review Sheet
7) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Sponge Bob activity (due Monday) and Review Sheet

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-4 outline

March 24 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 7 in order to prepare for the test.

WARM-UP: What is a karyotype and what does it tell you

VOCABULARY:
1) circulatory system
2) digestive system
3) endocrine system
4) equilibrium
5) excretory system

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test next class

HOMEWORK DUE:
Sponge Bob Activity

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NONE

March 23 (B Day)

I was out sick today and students completed the Chapter 13 Worksheets in their workbooks. I will collect everything when I return tomorrow.

March 20 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will practice Punnett Squares in order to determine how alleles are inherited.

WARM-UP: List three traits that you have and identify which parent or family member you inherited them from. Do your siblings have them, too? Are they different?

VOCABULARY:
1)homologous structure
2) isolation
3) natural selection
4) survival of the fittest
5) theory

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of 11-4 assessment
3) Review Punnett Squares
4) Sponge Bob activity
5) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Sponge Bob activity

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-4 outline

March 18 (A Day) and March 19 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will investigate organisms that reproduce sexually in order to explain how traits are passed on.

WARM-UP: How many chromosomes are present in each human cell at the following stages concerning human life: sex cell, zygote, adult

VOCABULARY:
1) adaptation
2) classification
3) evolution
4) fitness
5) fossil

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review Chapter 11
3) Group Activity
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Do Section 11-4 Assessment on page 278.

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 12-3 Outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Make sure your parents pick up their passcodes to access your grades and attendance online. They can come right to school for the information.

March 16 (A Day) and March 17 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will complete a lab in order to determine how alleles are inherited.

WARM-UP: What is a mutation and how can they be inherited?

VOCABULARY:
1) recessive
2) sex chromosome
3) sex-linked gene
4) sexual reproduction
5) trait

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Review Chapter 11
3) Lab activity: Investigating inherited traits
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 12-3 in textbook

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-1 and 12-2

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

March 11 (B Day) and March 12 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA.

WARM-UP: none

VOCABULARY: none

CLASSWORK:
Test today

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 12-3

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-2 Outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

March 9 (B day) and March 10 (A day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze the structure of DNA in order to understand the function of it.

WARM-UP: Why does DNA replicate itself?

VOCABULARY:
1) nondisjunction
2) pedigree
3) phenotype
4) probability
5) Punnett Square

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Classwork
3) Drawing/Foldable
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
BEE Book and flashcards due next class. Test next class

HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 12-2 Outline

Vocabulary words 85-159

1)
1) cell wall
2) centriole
3) chloroplast
4) chromatin
5) chromosome
2)
1) cilia
2) cytoplasm
3) cytoskeleton
4) diffusion
5) endocytosis
3)
1) endoplasmic reticulum
2) equilibrium
3) eukaryote
4) exocytosis
5) facilitated diffusion
4)
1) flagella
2) Golgi apparatus
3) homeostasis
4) hypertonic
5) hypotonic
5)
1) isotonic
2) lipid bilayer
3) lysosome
4) mitochondria
5) nucleolus
6)
1) nucleus
2) organ
3) organ system
4) organelle
5) osmosis
7)
1) aerobic
2) anaerobic
3) ATP
4) autotroph
5) calorie
8)
1) fermentation
2) pigment
3) chlorophyll
4) anaphase
5) cancer
9)
1) cell cycle
2) cell division
3) centriole
4) centromere
5) chromatid
10)
1) chromosome
2) crossing-over
3) cyclin
4) cytokinesis
5) diploid
11)
1) homologous
2) haploid
3) interphase
4) meiosis
5) metaphase
12)
1) mitosis
2) prophase
3) spindle
4) telophase
5) tetrad
13)
1) allele
2) asexual reproduction
3) autosome
4) dominant
5) fertilization
14)
1) gametes
2) gel electrophoresis
3) genetics
4) genotype
5) heterozygous
15)
1) homozygous
2) hybrid
3) karyotype
4) monohybrid cross
5) mutation

March 6 (A Day) and March 7 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze the structure of DNA in order to understand the function.

WARM-UP: How does DNA copy itself? (Replication)

VOCABULARY:
1) homozygous
2) hybrid
3) karyotype
4) monohybrid cross
5) mutation

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Classwork/ Reveiw DNA Structure
3) Drawing
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline 12-2

HOMEWORK DUE:
12-1 outline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Test on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. I will also be checking BEE Books and Vocabulary.

February 26 - March 5

HSA Testing has been going on for the last week. During this time, you should have completed the following assignments:

Review Sheet
Section 11-3 Outline
Section 11-5 Outline

Homework due on March 6 and March 9 is Section 12-1 Outline. You will have a test on Wednesday (B Day) and Thursday (A Day) and BEE Books and Flashcards will all be due on the same day.