November 29 (B day) and November 30 (A day)

OBJECTIVE:
Students will perform a lab in order to differentiate between plant and animal cells.

WARM-UP: What organelles are found only in plant cells?

VOCABULARY:
1) ATP
2) biochemical process
3) chemosynthesis
4) chloroplasts
5) glucose

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ Vocabulary
2) Lab
3) Closure

HOMEWORK DUE:
Cell Trading Cards

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Finish lab and Read and take notes on Section 7-2

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Email me at margaret.lynch@pgcps.org with the answer to the warm-up and receive 5 extra credit points towards your test grades. This offer expires December 5, 2009

November 17 (B Day) and November 18 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to distinguish between a solvent, solute and suspension.

WARM-UP: Why is water referred to as the universal solvent? What other solvents can you think of?

VOCABULARY:

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review concepts for test, including enzymes
3) Hershey's kiss lab
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Test on Thursday for B Day students and Friday for A Day students, STUDY!!!

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

November 16 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will develop a cell in order to access and determine prior knowledge.

WARM-UP: In your own words, describe what a cell is.

VOCABULARY:
1) chloroplast
2) cytoplasm
3) endoplasmic reticulum
4) Golgi apparatus
5) mitochondria

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Pre-Lab Discussion
3) Lab
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test on Friday (for A Day students, test will be on Thursday for B Day students)

HOMEWORK DUE:
Unit 3 Review Sheets

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Need $5.00 Lab Fees

November 11-13

On November 11, we did not have school.

On November 12, I was out due to a workshop.

On November 13, I was out due to illness.

We will get all caught up next week!!!

November 9 (A Day)

I was absent today. Students were to start the Macromolecule Foldable in class and finish for homework.

November 10 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn to determine pH of common substances in order to identify solutions as acidic or basic.

WARM-UP: List all the phrases that you know that include the word "acid".

VOCABULARY:

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review new concepts
3) pH Lab
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Begin reviewing for Unit 3 Test next week. Do Section 2-3 Section Assessment in textbook.

HOMEWORK DUE: Macromolecule Booklet

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

November 6 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how to describe macromolecules in order to analyze their roles in living systems.

WARM-UP: Why does eating turkey make you tired?

VOCABULARY:

Monosaccharide

Polysaccharide

DNA

RNA

Enzyme

CLASSWORK:

1) Warm-up and vocabulary

2) review macromolecules

3) foldable

4) analyzing data

HOMEWORK DUE: You are what you eat lab

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:

Finish Foldable

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November 4 (B Day) and November 5 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how to analyze food nutritional content in order to describe the role macromolecules play in living systems.

WARM-UP: Why did Rocky drink raw eggs?

VOCABULARY:

1) carbohydrate

2) lipid

3) protein

4) nucleic acid

5) monomer

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-up and vocabulary
2) review macromolecules
3) You are what you eat activity
4) Closure

HOMEWORK DUE: Section 2-4 notes

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: finish McDonald's Lab

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none
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November 2 (B Day) and November 3 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how soap affects the stickiness of
water in order to analyze its properties.

WARM-UP: Tell mE everything you know about water.

VOCABULARY:

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-up and vocabulary
2) review water properties
3) Penny for your drops activity
4) Closure

HOMEWORK DUE: Section 2-3 notes

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Section 2-4 notes

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

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