OBJECTIVE: Students will investigate different factors that make up biomes in order to classify specific biomes.
WARM-UP: What is a biome?
CLASSWORK:
1) Biomes video
2) Biomes worksheet
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Finish any outstanding work.
2) Permission slips.
HOMEWORK DUE:
None
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
May 15 through May 21
OBJECTIVE: Students will review several units in Biology in order to prepare for the HSA.
WARM-UP: Work on flashcards, through 100
CLASSWORK: Review Stations
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Finish flashcards through 100, I will check them next class.
HOMEWORK DUE: None today, flashcards due next class.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HSA is on May 22, Review session on May 21. Sign up with Ms. Lynch
WARM-UP: Work on flashcards, through 100
CLASSWORK: Review Stations
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Finish flashcards through 100, I will check them next class.
HOMEWORK DUE: None today, flashcards due next class.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HSA is on May 22, Review session on May 21. Sign up with Ms. Lynch
May 11 (A Day) and May 14 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will review genetics in order to prepare for the HSA.
WARM-UP: Do Flashcards #81-90
CLASSWORK: Review
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Flashcards #91-100
HOMEWORK DUE: Flashcards #71-80
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Biology HSA is on May 22!!!
WARM-UP: Do Flashcards #81-90
CLASSWORK: Review
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Flashcards #91-100
HOMEWORK DUE: Flashcards #71-80
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Biology HSA is on May 22!!!
Thursday, May 10, 2007
May 7 (A Day) and May 8 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will take an Ecology test in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA.
WARM-UP: N/A
CLASSWORK: TEST!!!
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Flashcards 61-70
HOMEWORK DUE: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HSA IS ON MAY 22!!!
WARM-UP: N/A
CLASSWORK: TEST!!!
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Flashcards 61-70
HOMEWORK DUE: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HSA IS ON MAY 22!!!
Monday, May 07, 2007
May 3 (A Day) and May 4 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will review nutrient cycles in order to describe the movement of water, carbon and nitrogen between living organisms and the environment.
WARM-UP: What is "carrying capacity"?
CLASSWORK:
1) Review cycles.
2) Work on review sheet for Ch. 3 test.
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test on Ch. 3. (can also refer to 7-1 through 7-17 in green book).
Do review sheet.
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards through number 60.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSA is on May 22
WARM-UP: What is "carrying capacity"?
CLASSWORK:
1) Review cycles.
2) Work on review sheet for Ch. 3 test.
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test on Ch. 3. (can also refer to 7-1 through 7-17 in green book).
Do review sheet.
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards through number 60.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSA is on May 22
Thursday, May 03, 2007
May 1 (A Day) and May 2 (B Day): Ecology Lesson 3
OBJECTIVE: Students will discuss ecological relationships in order to explain the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem.
WARM-UP: List 3 types of symbiotic relationships organisms can have.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review relationships
2) Owl Pellet lab
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Read 7-5 to 7-7 in green book.
2) Flashcards through #60
HOMEWORK DUE:
Reading and Flashcards through #50
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSA is on May 22.
WARM-UP: List 3 types of symbiotic relationships organisms can have.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review relationships
2) Owl Pellet lab
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Read 7-5 to 7-7 in green book.
2) Flashcards through #60
HOMEWORK DUE:
Reading and Flashcards through #50
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSA is on May 22.
Friday, April 27, 2007
April 27 (A Day) and April 30 (B day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will discuss food chains and food webs in order to explain the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
WARM-UP: List out the taxa used in the classification system.
CLASSWORK:
1) Food web activity
2) Ecology Movie (15. min.)
3) Do BCR #10
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Read pages 7-1 through 7-4 in the Green HSA book.
2) Do flashcards through #50.
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Flashcards through #40
2) Read Evolution pages 6-1 through 6-12 in green HSA book.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSA is on May 22!!! Strive for five every day!!!
WARM-UP: List out the taxa used in the classification system.
CLASSWORK:
1) Food web activity
2) Ecology Movie (15. min.)
3) Do BCR #10
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Read pages 7-1 through 7-4 in the Green HSA book.
2) Do flashcards through #50.
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Flashcards through #40
2) Read Evolution pages 6-1 through 6-12 in green HSA book.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HSA is on May 22!!! Strive for five every day!!!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
April 25 (A Day) and April 26 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will perform a laboratory activity in order to classify items.
WARM-UP: Identify the five factors that affect evolution.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Evolution
2) Classification lab
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Make flashcards for the following words:
31) habitat
32) limiting factors
33) population
34) predator
35) prey
36) autotroph
37) carnivore
38) commensalism
39) consumer
40) decomposer
Read pp. 6-1 through 6-12 in green HSA book. Skip the review sections.
Spend five minutes reviewing flashcards.
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards, reading in Green HSA book (B Day students)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 22 is your HSA, STRIVE FOR FIVE
WARM-UP: Identify the five factors that affect evolution.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Evolution
2) Classification lab
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Make flashcards for the following words:
31) habitat
32) limiting factors
33) population
34) predator
35) prey
36) autotroph
37) carnivore
38) commensalism
39) consumer
40) decomposer
Read pp. 6-1 through 6-12 in green HSA book. Skip the review sections.
Spend five minutes reviewing flashcards.
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards, reading in Green HSA book (B Day students)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 22 is your HSA, STRIVE FOR FIVE
Monday, April 23, 2007
April 23 (A Day) and April 24 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will perform a laboratory activity in order to classify items.
WARM-UP: Explain current evidence for evolution.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Evolution
2) Classification lab
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Make flashcards for the following words:
21) abiotice
22) Biosphere
23) biotic
24) carrying capacity
25) comminity
26) competition
27) ecology
28) ecosystem
29) environment
30) habitat
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 22 is your HSA
WARM-UP: Explain current evidence for evolution.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Evolution
2) Classification lab
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Make flashcards for the following words:
21) abiotice
22) Biosphere
23) biotic
24) carrying capacity
25) comminity
26) competition
27) ecology
28) ecosystem
29) environment
30) habitat
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 22 is your HSA
Friday, April 20, 2007
April 19 (A Day) and April 20 (B Day): Evolution Lesson 4
OBJECTIVE: Students will review the mechanisms of evolution in order to understand what factors influence evolutionary change.
WARM-UP: What is meant by the phrase "survival of the fittest"? (All except period 1A)
CLASSWORK:
1) Evolution Review
2) Review Bird Adaptation Lab
3) Make flashcards for the following words:
12) classification
13) eukaryotes
14) prokaryotes
15) kingdom
16) organ
17) organelle
18) organ system
19) taxonomy
20) tissue
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Finish flashcards, I will check all 20 from 4th quarter next class.
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Spring Break Packet
2) Letter to companies for field trip
3) Flashcards from last class
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BIOLOGY HSA is on May 22
WARM-UP: What is meant by the phrase "survival of the fittest"? (All except period 1A)
CLASSWORK:
1) Evolution Review
2) Review Bird Adaptation Lab
3) Make flashcards for the following words:
12) classification
13) eukaryotes
14) prokaryotes
15) kingdom
16) organ
17) organelle
18) organ system
19) taxonomy
20) tissue
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Finish flashcards, I will check all 20 from 4th quarter next class.
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Spring Break Packet
2) Letter to companies for field trip
3) Flashcards from last class
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BIOLOGY HSA is on May 22
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
April 18 (B Day): Evolution Lesson 3
OBJECTIVE: Students will review the mechanisms of evolution in order to understand what factors influence evolutionary change.
WARM-UP: None today
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Bird Adaptation Lab
2) DNA Day presentation
3) Make flashcards for the following words:
12) classification
13) eukaryotes
14) prokaryotes
15) kingdom
16) organ
17) organelle
18) organ system
19) taxonomy
20) tissue
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Letter to companies if you haven't done so.
Finish flashcards
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Spring Break Packet
2) Letter to companies for field trip
3) Flashcards from last class
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BIOLOGY HSA is on May 22
WARM-UP: None today
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Bird Adaptation Lab
2) DNA Day presentation
3) Make flashcards for the following words:
12) classification
13) eukaryotes
14) prokaryotes
15) kingdom
16) organ
17) organelle
18) organ system
19) taxonomy
20) tissue
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Letter to companies if you haven't done so.
Finish flashcards
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) Spring Break Packet
2) Letter to companies for field trip
3) Flashcards from last class
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BIOLOGY HSA is on May 22
Friday, April 13, 2007
April 16 (B Day) and April 17 (A Day): Evolution Lesson 2 (B day) and 3 (A day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will compare beak structure of birds in order to review adaptation.
WARM-UP: Draw 3 different bird beaks and explain the type of food each bird would eat.
CLASSWORK:
1) Lab
2) Flashcards: Write flashcards for all Evolution words from Green HSA book.
a) evolution
b) fossil record
c) geologic time
d) adaptive value
e) natural selection
f) overproduction
g) genetic variation
h) common ancestry
i) homologous structures
j) vestigial
k) extinction
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Spring Break Packet due next class
2) Letter to Johnson Controls, Inc. and Chesapeake Bay Foundation
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Biology HSA is on May 22.
WARM-UP: Draw 3 different bird beaks and explain the type of food each bird would eat.
CLASSWORK:
1) Lab
2) Flashcards: Write flashcards for all Evolution words from Green HSA book.
a) evolution
b) fossil record
c) geologic time
d) adaptive value
e) natural selection
f) overproduction
g) genetic variation
h) common ancestry
i) homologous structures
j) vestigial
k) extinction
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Spring Break Packet due next class
2) Letter to Johnson Controls, Inc. and Chesapeake Bay Foundation
HOMEWORK DUE:
1) N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Biology HSA is on May 22.
April 4 (B Day) and April 5 (A Day)
Review and discuss the following items:
1) Pictures from field trip.
2) What did you learn on the trip?
3) Start Spring Break packet.
4) Get final 3rd quarter grades.
1) Pictures from field trip.
2) What did you learn on the trip?
3) Start Spring Break packet.
4) Get final 3rd quarter grades.
April 2 (B Day) and April 3 (A Day)
LIVING CLASSROOMS FIELD TRIP!!! No assignments today since most of us will be on the trip.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
March 28 (A Day): Evolution Lesson 2
OBJECTIVE: Students will review natural selection in order to explain evolution.
WARM-UP:
My, How You’ve Changed!
Prior to the 1800s, life scientists knew that living things changed over generations. They just didn’t know how these changes were brought about.
1. Divide a sheet of paper into two columns and title the first one Inherited Characteristics. Title the second column Acquired Characteristics. In the first column, list the characteristics that you believe you have always had. For example, you may have brown eyes or curly hair.
2. In the second column, list your acquired characteristics. For example, you may have learned how to play a musical instrument.
3. Which of the items in your lists do you think you might pass on to your children? Explain your answer.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Lab
2) Teach the teacher assignment
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read 6-1 and 6-2 in green book. Do questions on 6-2 and 6-3.
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
WARM-UP:
My, How You’ve Changed!
Prior to the 1800s, life scientists knew that living things changed over generations. They just didn’t know how these changes were brought about.
1. Divide a sheet of paper into two columns and title the first one Inherited Characteristics. Title the second column Acquired Characteristics. In the first column, list the characteristics that you believe you have always had. For example, you may have brown eyes or curly hair.
2. In the second column, list your acquired characteristics. For example, you may have learned how to play a musical instrument.
3. Which of the items in your lists do you think you might pass on to your children? Explain your answer.
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Lab
2) Teach the teacher assignment
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read 6-1 and 6-2 in green book. Do questions on 6-2 and 6-3.
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
March 26 (A Day) and March 27 (B Day): Evolution Lesson 1
OBJECTIVE: Students will perform a laboratory investigation in order to simulate natural selection.
WARM-UP: What is evolution?
CLASSWORK: Perform lab.
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Flashcards.
HOMEWORK DUE: None
WARM-UP: What is evolution?
CLASSWORK: Perform lab.
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Flashcards.
HOMEWORK DUE: None
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
March 21 (B Day) and March 22 (A Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will take the Biology HSA Benchmark in order to gauge progress toward the real HSA in May.
WARM-UP: N/A
CLASSWORK: Test
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Study for Chapter test next class (B Day students)
2) Do the next 10 flashcards
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
WARM-UP: N/A
CLASSWORK: Test
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Study for Chapter test next class (B Day students)
2) Do the next 10 flashcards
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
March 20 (A Day) and March 23 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test on DNA in order to gauge progress toward the HSA.
WARM-UP: N/A
CLASSWORK: Test
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Study for Benchmark
2) Do the next 10 flashcards
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
WARM-UP: N/A
CLASSWORK: Test
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1) Study for Benchmark
2) Do the next 10 flashcards
HOMEWORK DUE:
Flashcards
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