Tuesday, September 6th
EARLY RELEASE
Monday, November 7th
HALF DAY AM ONLY
EARLY RELEASE
Monday, January 30th
PEP RALLY
NO SCHOOL
Friday, March 10th
NO SCHOOL
Monday, March 13th
1/2 day am only
Monday. April 10th
- First day of school!
- Parent Info sheet, Safety Contract, Syllabus signed - due Monday 9/12
- Scientist drawing due tomorrow
- Binder Check - Monday 9/12
- Went over the safety contract
- Homework (1st hour only due to 2nd hour class meeting) - SpongeBob safety
- Parent Info sheet, safety contract, syllabus signed - due Monday 9/12
- Binder check - Monday 9/12
- 1st Hour:
- Finish the Picture activity for CER practice
- Slip and Ernie's Lunchroom for CER practice
- Parent Info Sheet, safety contract, syllabus signed - due Monday 9/12
- Binder check - Monday 9/12
- 2nd Hour:
- Went over safety contract
- Homework - SpongeBob safety
- Parent Info Sheet, safety contract, syllabus signed - due Monday 9/12
- Binder check - Monday 9/12
- Binder check during class
- Lab design in table groups - Day 1
- Homework - variables and constants worksheet
- Continued working on lab design in table groups - Day 2
- Homework - get in any signed papers that are still missing! Sign up for google classroom (code: 147xpv)
- Quiz #1 - Friday 9/16
- Notes over variables and constants
- Time in class to get caught up on all unfinished worksheets
- Quiz #1
- Modeling practice using paper airplanes
- Pretest over ch 1 (found on google classroom)
- Practice on how to outline using Cornell notes
- Homework - read and outline pp 4-6 (stop at Characteristics of Life)
- Quiz #2 Friday
- What is Life Lab Day 1
- Intro notes over the characteristics of life
- HW - post lab questions and CER for What is Life Lab
- Group work - writing notes over the 8 characteristics of life
- HW - Martian worksheet (1st page only)
- Finish Mork Martian worksheet (2nd page)
- Update Big Question on google doc
- HW - study guide for Quiz #2
- Quiz #2
- HW - Scientific Method in Action worksheet
- Notes over What is Science and Scientific Method
- HW - questions #1-4 on pp 10, 15, and 21
- Lab Thursday!
- Senses Lab Activity
- HW - CER for lab activity
- Microscope Lab Thursday!
- Quiz #3 Friday!
- Notes over microscope basics
- Diagram of microscope to label the parts
- In class reading over history of microscope
- HW - prelab questions for the microscope lab
- LAB TOMORROW! Remember to wear correct shoes!
- Microscope Skills Lab
- Quiz tomorrow!
- Quiz #3
- Time to work on all missing assignments
- HW - Cornell notes over section 6.1 in book
- Pretest over sections 6.1-6.3
- Notes over atoms and elements
- pHet simulation activity
- HW - finish pHet activity if not done in class
- Notes over compounds and bonding
- Modeling Activity in class
- HW - electron dot worksheet
- Modeling Activity review worksheet - in class
- Study guide for quiz #4 - due tomorrow
- QUIZ #4 FRIDAY!
- Went over any questions on the study guide for tomorrow's quiz
- In class activity - CHNOPS posters
- If absent - please make a poster for one of the element's listed
- HW - study for quiz #4
- Quiz #4
- HW - energy of reactions reading assignment
- In class activity - Candy Compounds
- HW - Elemental Puns worksheet
- Quiz #5 - Friday!
- Half Day am on Thursday
- Early Release on Friday
- Notes over section 6.2
- Organic Food reading assignment
- Notes over Chemical Reactions and Energy
- Guidelines for quiz #4 corrections - Due Friday!
- Time to work on Quiz #4 corrections - remember they are due tomorrow!
- Time to work on missing work
- LAB TOMORROW!
EARLY RELEASE
- Quiz #4 corrections due by end of the hour
- Endo/Exo lab activity
- HW - finish lab activity questions if not done during class
- Notes over enzymes
- Enzyme activity in class with partner
- Quiz #5 on Friday!
- Finish enzyme activity in class with partner
- Notes over water properties
- Quiz #5 on Friday!
- Finish water notes
- HW - list of at least 10 acids/bases over the next 24 hours
- Quiz #5 Friday
- Work on review for quiz #5
- Quiz #5 tomorrow!
- Quiz #5
- HW - notes over section 6.4 in book
- Pretest over section 6.4
- Biological Macromolecules packet - classwork
- Time to work on missing assignments
- End of quarter 1 - November 4th!
- Notes over section 6.4
- HW - bring in at least one food label tomorrow that has sugars and/or carbs on it
- End of quarter 1 - November 4th!
- Food Label Reading Activity using labels brought from home
- worksheet turned in
- In the media center working on macromolecule poster activity Day 1
- Poster share out in class
- Notes over posters during gallery walk
- Fill in notes over macromolecules
- HW - organic molecule flow chart
- END OF QUARTER IS FRIDAY - LAST DAY TO TURN IN WORK IS FRIDAY!
- Finish notes over lipids, proteins and nucleic acids
- HW - begin to work on quiz #6 study guide
- QUIZ #6 on FRIDAY!
- ALL MISSING WORK IS DUE ON FRIDAY!
- Macromolecule reading packet
- HW - finish quiz #6 study guide
- Quiz #6
- Crime and Puzzlement packet
- END OF QUARTER IS TODAY!
Monday, November 7th
- Begin biological debate Day #1
- Research gathering day on computers in class
- Day #2 tomorrow
- Debate begins on Wednesday
- Day #2 Biological molecule debate
- All criteria for debate including rubric are found on google classroom
- Worked to get all students into google classroom and entering information in the assignment
- Debate begins tomorrow
- Day #3 Biological molecule debate
- time to practice and refine facts to use
- extra day due to large absences yesterday
- Debate day for biological molecules
- Pretest over section 7.1-7.3
- Notes over section 7.1
- HW - worksheet over section 7.1
- Poster model of cellular structures
- HW - p 212 #21-30 (must write answer out as a full, complete sentence)
- QUIZ #1 - FRIDAY 11/18
- Notes on index cards over cellular structures - use as flash cards for the quiz
- HW - textbook worksheet over section 7.3
- QUIZ #1 FRIDAY 11/18
- NEXT LAB - MONDAY 11/21
- Handout of notes to finish flash cards
- Began to work on review for quiz #1
- QUIZ #1 FRIDAY 11/18
- NEXT LAB MONDAY 11/21
- Continue to work on review for quiz #1
- QUIZ #1 TOMORROW
- NEXT LAB MONDAY 11/21
- Quiz #1
- NO HW!
- LAB ON MONDAY!
- Day #1 of Cell lab - Part 2 only (D and E)
- Day #2 tomorrow
- Day #2 of Cell lab - Part 1 only
- Day #3 tomorrow - lab due tomorrow
HALF DAY AM ONLY
- Finished cells lab - due at end of hour.
- Cell City analogy as a class
- Begin cell model project
- Due Wednesday during class
- Continued to work on cell model project
- Due Wednesday during class
- Gallery walk with cell models
- Time to revise model before final submission
- Time to work on missing work
- Notes over plasma membrane
- HW - read and outline pp 201-207 in book
- Continue notes over diffusion across plasma membrane
- HW - frayer model vocab
- Notes over osmosis
- HW - prelab questions for osmosis and diffusion lab
- LAB TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY
- QUIZ #2 FRIDAY
- Finish hypothesis and research questions for osmosis and diffusion lab
- Cell structure packet
- Work on missing assignments
- LAB TOMORROW
- QUIZ #2 FRIDAY
- Day #1 of osmosis and diffusion lab
- Review sheet for quiz #2 worked on in class
- QUIZ #2 TOMORROW
- LAB DAY #2 TOMORROW
- Quiz #2
- Finished osmosis and diffusion lab
- Worksheet over pp 201-207 in book
- Work on missing assignments
- QUIZ #3 on FRIDAY
- Fill in notes over 7.4
- Textbook worksheet over 7.4
- Time to work on missing assignments
- QUIZ #3 on FRIDAY
- Virtual lab over hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic solutions
- Quiz #3 review sheet - due tomorrow
- QUIZ #3 tomorrow
EARLY RELEASE
- Quiz #3
- Time to work on missing assignments
- Notes over prokaryote characteristics and bacteria
- Prokaryote coloring worksheet - HW
- Last day to turn in work for progress reports
- Notes over viruses and prions
- Hand out bacteria and virus project guidelines (also on google classroom)
- Pick bacteria or virus to study
- Begin research
- DUE 1/10/17 - must have something submitted prior to break!
- Continue work on bacteria and virus project
- Must have something submitted by end of the hour tomorrow to be reviewed over break
- Project due 1/10/17
- "final" draft submission due by end of the hour - comments will be given over break
- Project due 1/10/17
- Continue work in class on bacteria/virus presentatin
- DUE TOMORROW!
- Begin presentations of bacteria/virus presentation
- QUIZ #5 Friday!
- Presentations over bacteria/virus research
- QUIZ #5 review handed out
- Quiz #5 Friday!
- Continue presentations over bacteria/virus research
- Work on quiz review
- Quiz #5 tomorrow!
- Quiz #4
- Time to work on missing assignments
- All missing work due January 20th
- Notes over section 8.1 - cellular energy
- HW - textbook/frayer model worksheet
- All missing work due Friday!
- Notes over phase one: light reactions for photosynthesis
- Begin Larry the Leaf activity
- Handed out biology midterm review - due Tuesday 1/24
- All missing work due tomorrow!
- Notes over phase two: Calvin Cycle for photosynthesis
- Continue working on Larry the Leaf activity - due Monday
- Continue working on midterm review - due Tuesday 1/24
- All missing work due today!
- Time to work in class on midterm review
- Review due tomorrow
- Exam - Wednesday 1st and 2nd hour
- Received points for midterm review
- Reviewed for midterm
- Exam is tomorrow 1/25
- 1st and 2nd hour exams
- Exam review due at time of exam
Monday, January 30th
- Pretest over photosynthesis and cellular respiration
- Three tree writing assignment and rubric
- Quiz #1 Friday 2/4
- Notes over cellular respiration
- Begin clothespin lab
- Quiz #1 Friday 2/4
- Finish clothespin lab
- Notes over Krebs Cycle
- Graphic Organizer for cellular respiration
- Quiz #1 Friday 2/4
- Scheduling Meetings 1st, 2nd and 3rd hours
- Bring me course sheets to sign by Monday
- Worked on Quiz #1 study guide - due tomorrow
- Quiz #1 tomorrow 2/4
PEP RALLY
- Quiz #1
- Frayer model for mitosis - HW
- Pretest over mitosis
- Notes over section 9.1
- Revisit quiz #1 from Friday
- Quiz #2 - Friday 2/10
- Continue notes on cell cycle
- Google classroom assignment - due tomorrow
- Quiz #2 - Friday 2/10
- Continue google classroom assignment - due at the end of the hour
- Quiz #2 - Friday 2/10
- Mitosis coloring worksheet
- Quiz #2 review guide
- Quiz #2 tomorrow
- Quiz #2
- HW - worksheet pp 253-257
- Notes over mitosis
- HW - Henrietta Lacks reading assignment on google classroom
- Quiz #3 Friday 2/17
- Finish Henrietta Lacks assignment
- Begin cancer research brochure assignment - due Friday 2/17
- Early Release Friday 2/17
- Continued working on cancer research assignment and brochure
- Brochure due Friday 2/17
- Early release Friday 2/17
- Continued working on cancer research assignment and brochure
- Brochure due tomorrow 2/17
- Early release tomorrow 2/17
- Cancer research brochure due
- Reflection on brochure activity
- HW - cancer reading assignment
- Notes over cell cycle regulation and cancer
- Final submission of cancer brochure
- Time to work on missing work
- Virtual lab looking at cancer vs normal cells
- Stem Cell research assignment on google classroom - due end of the hour tomorrow
- Finish stem cell research assignment on google classroom
- Pretest over meiosis
- Frayer model for meiosis
- Work on missing assignments - progress reports captured this week
- Quiz #3 Friday
- Brief notes over meiosis
- Meiosis group project
- Quiz #3 Friday
- Notes over Meiosis I - poster share out for each stage
- HW - study guide for quiz #3
- Quiz #3 tomorrow 3/3
- Quiz #3
- HW - worksheet over 10.1 from book (copies found in class)
- Meiosis virtual lab
- Quiz #4 - Tuesday 3/14
NO SCHOOL
Friday, March 10th
NO SCHOOL
Monday, March 13th
- Review for quiz #4
- Quiz #4 - Tuesday 3/14
- Quiz #4
- Introduction to Mendelian Genetics reading assignment
- Human Traits bingo
- Genetics notes Mendel through dominant/recessive
- HW - genetics frayer model (page 1 and page 2)
- Notes over mono-hybrid cross Punnett squares
- Finish genetics problem worksheet from yesterday
- Review of notes on mono-hybrid Punnett squares
- Continue to finish genetics worksheet from Thursday
- HW - textbook worksheet over section 10.2
- Quiz #5 Friday
- Finish Punnett Square virtual lab
- Bikini bottom genetics worksheet #1
- Bikini bottom genetics worksheet #2
- HW - chapter 10 dihybrid cross worksheet
- Quiz #5 - Friday 3/24
- Review sheet for quiz #5
- Finish Bikini Bottom genetics worksheets and other missing work during class
- Quiz #5 - tomorrow
- Notes over incomplete dominance
- Punnett square packet
- Quiz #6 - Thursday 3/30
- Last day for missing work - Wednesday 3/29
- Notes over codominance and multiple alleles
- Classwork - codominance worksheet
- Quiz #6 - Thursday 3/30
- Last day for missing work - tomorrow 3/29
- Multiple alleles in chickens warm up worksheet
- Human Traits review drawing
- Quiz #6 - tomorrow 3/30
- All missing work due today
1/2 day am only
- Quiz #6
- Enjoy break!
Monday. April 10th
- Review of SAT/PSAT schedule for tomorrow and Wednesday
- Notes over sex-determination and X linked traits
- HW - X linked traits in calico cats worksheet
- PSAT 9 for 9th graders
- Registering for PSAT 10 and Khan academy for 10th graders
- SAT for 11th graders
- Exploring post high school options for 12th graders
- Pedigree virtual activity - worksheet
- Enjoy your three day weekend
- Next quiz - 4/21/17
- Google classroom assignment - Hemophilia: The Royal Disease
- Quiz #1 - Friday 4/21
- Notes over karyotypes
- Finish google classroom activity from yesterday
- Karyotype cut out activity in class
- worksheet to glue on
- post lab questions
- Quiz #1 - Friday 4/21
- Finish karyotype activity
- Monohybrid and dihybrid worksheet - classwork
- Quiz #1 - Friday 4/21
- Work on assignments from the week
- Review for quiz #1 - HW
- Quiz #1 - tomorrow 4/21
- Quiz #1
- Begin design a species project - due 4/25
- Continue working on design a species project - due tomorrow
- Tuesday, April 25th
- Create a species project due at end of the hour
- HW - worksheet over pp 326-332
- Quiz #2 - Friday 4/28
- Notes over DNA discovery
- HW - DNA reading assignment
- Quiz #2 - Friday 4/28
- Notes over DNA structure
- HW - study guide for quiz #2
- Quiz #2 - tomorrow 4/28
- Quiz #2
- HW - Chicken and DNA article
- Notes over types of RNA and the central dogma
- Textbook worksheet over 12.1 and 12.2
- Quiz #3 - Friday 5/5
- Notes over transcription and translation
- HW - review sheet for quiz #3
- Quiz #3 - tomorrow 5/5
- Quiz #3
- Worksheet over pp 342-349
- Notes over Mutations
- HW - textbook worksheet over central dogma
- Quiz #4 - Friday 5/12
- DNA and Genes online activity lab
- Quiz #4 - Friday 5/12
- Quiz #4
- HW - worksheet over pp 392-400
- Notes over Fossil evidence
- HW - textbook worksheet over 14.1
- Quiz #5 - Friday 5/19
- Notes over Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- Quiz #5 - Friday 5/19
- Notes over Evidence of evolution
- HW - textbook worksheet over 15.2
- Quiz #5 - Friday 5/19
- Quiz #5
- Peppered moth lab activity
- Evolve a creature activity
- Finish evolve a creature activity from Tuesday
- Begin "Becoming Human" video activity
- Finish "Becoming Human" video activity
- HW - worksheet over pp 32-40
- Emergency sub plans - work on missing assignments
- Notes over ecology and levels of organization
- HW - biomes worksheet (use http://www.mbgnet.net/ for help)
- Notes over ecosystem and community interactions
- HW - textbook worksheet over 2.1
- Biome project brochure
- Notes over energy flow through ecosystems
- HW - textbook worksheet over 2.2
- Quiz #6 Thursday 6/8
- Food Chain and Food Web activity in class
- Work on missing assignments - all missing work due Friday 6/9
- Quiz #6 - Thursday 6/8
- Work on quiz #6 review sheet in class
- Quiz #6 tomorrow 6/8
- All work due by Friday 6/9
- Quiz #6
- Handed out final exam review
- Final exam Tuesday 6/13
- Work on final exam review during class
- All missing work due by end of the day
- Final exam Tuesday 6/13
- Reviewed questions requested via google form for the final exam
- Final exam - tomorrow 6/13
- All books are due at the time of the exam