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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October 28 (B Day) and October 29 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn to describe the structure of an atom in order to know how atoms bond to one another.

WARM-UP: Tell me everything you know about the following equation:
6CO2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2

VOCABULARY:
1) atom
2) nucleus
3) electron
4) element
5) isotope

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Think and Share- students will take turns putting up answers to the Warm-Up on the document camera
3) Presentation Pro Section 2-1
4) Demonstration
5) Model Activity
6) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on Section 2-3
LAB FEES!!!

HOMEWORK DUE:
Notes on Section 2-2

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

October 26 (B Day) and October 27 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will take the practice Biology HSA in order to gauge progress towards success on the Biology HSA in May.

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Read and take notes on Section 2-2 in your textbook.

HOMEWORK DUE: Section 2-1 notes.

October 21, 2009 (A Day) and October 22 (B Day)

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

WARM-UP: N/A

VOCABULARY: N/A

CLASSWORK:
N/A

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
LAB FEES AND READ SECTION 2-1 AND TAKE NOTES (MINIMUM 1/2 PAGE OF NOTES)

HOMEWORK DUE:
NONE

October 20, 2009

I was out this day and students were given an assignment on succession and symbiotic relationships to complete in class.

Test next class.

October 15 (B Day) and October 19 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn to review Unit 2 in order to prepare for their test next week.

WARM-UP: Describe 2 types of relationships organisms can have with each other.

VOCABULARY:
1) protein
2) RNA
3) solute
4) solvent
5) vitamin

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

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test next week

HOMEWORK DUE:
None

October 14 (A Day)

I was out this day and students were to complete Section 7 in their green HSA Books. This will count as an assessment grade.

October 12 (A Day) and OctoBer 13 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn to analyze ecological pyramids in order to determine how energy flows in an ecosystem.

WARM-UP: Why does your body need energy? What happens to the energy that it doesn't use up?

VOCABULARY:
1) monosaccharides
2) nucleic acids
3) nucleotide
4) organic
5) polarity

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-up and Vocabulary
2) Think, Pair, Share
3) Presentation Pro
4) Foldable
5) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
LAB FEES!!! Finish foldable

HOMEWORK DUE:
LAB FEE

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NONE

October 8 (A Day) and October 9 (B Day)

Part 3 of forest ecology lab- presentations.

October 7 (B Day)

I was out on this day and students completed Section 7 in the HSA Green book. This counted as a quiz grade.

October 5 (B Day) and October 6 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn to observe various structures of organisms in order to determine the organism's position in a forest ecosystem.

WARM-UP: Describe 2 structures in any animals and the function of that structure.

VOCABULARY: none

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and discussion
2) Continuation of forest ecosystem lab
3) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Finish drawing and be ready to present next class.
Bring lab fee $5.00

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

October 1 (B Day) and October 2 (A Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn to observe various structures of organisms in order to determine the organism's position in a forest ecosystem.

WARM-UP: What would happen in a marine ecosystem if the top predator goes extinct?

VOCABULARY:
1) ionic bonding
2) ions
3) lipid
4) minerals
5) molecule

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-up and vocabulary
2) Pre-lab discussion
3) Presentations
4) Closure

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK
none

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Students received grade printouts today.