Tues Sep 15th

General Plan:

1. Explore the mussels invasion using InterWrite and Google Earth
2. View photos of Niagara Falls
3. Complete Reflection Questions Form

Links and Tasks for today: (save to your desktop before opening!)

• Google Earth locations for today 
• InterWrite zebra maps, questions and information
• InterWrite Ecosystems Word Search

Additional Information:

• Warthogs on Wikipedia
• Kruger National Park in South Africa
• When Nature is Freakier than Sci-Fi
• Please make sure you have completed the OneNote assignment 1.2 from last class!
• Progress Reports for the 1st 6 Weeks will be distributed near the end of this week!

Mon Sep 14st

General Plan:

1. Read and discuss the Jason Project Information on Ecology
2. Introduce EtherPad for group collaboration
3. Practice InterWrite functions through Ecosystems Word Search

Links and Tasks for today: (save to your desktop before opening!)

• OneNote assignment 1.2  (1.2 PDF Version)

Additional Information:

• Curious Warthog Video Clip
• Phoenix Zoo Warthog Facts (what do they eat?  what eats them?  are they predators, prey, or both?)
• Quagga Muscles impact Lake Michigan
• Key Points concerning Quagga Muscles
• Quagga Muscles Feeding
• Another invasive species threatens Lake Michigan

Friday Sep 11th

General Plan:

1. Clarify the purposes for and uses of Dichotomous Keys (D-Keys)
2. Complete D-Keys lab packets
3. Complete missing assignments for the 1st Progress Reporting Period

Links and Tasks for today: (save to your desktop before opening!)

• View the McElway video clip
• InterWrite Lucky Charms practice file

Additional Information:

• The progress reporting period ends today; however, missing assignments may be completed up until the end of the 1st 6 Weeks reporting period
• Students may get help with assignments in my room before school any school day, or after school on even calendar days (I have duty until 4:20pm on odd calendar days)
• Students who are failing after today will be selected to receive extra help during Den Time (details to be explained in class)

1st 6 Weeks Assignments

Assignment: 1.1v   (1.1v PDF version)

Additional Links and Tasks for 1.1

• Watch the Jason Project Overview (in-class activity)
• Mission Briefing One (MB-1) Video Questions  (PDF version)
• Mission 1 Vocabulary Words  (PDF 1-8)   (PDF 9-12)

Additional Information:

• InterWrite practice file
• InterWrite Dichotomous Keys (D-Keys)
• InterWrite handout (for those without a laptop)
• Jason Project PDF example D-Key for mussels
• Jason Project making a D-Key PDF template (for ‘Lucky Charms’ activity)

Assignment: 1.1    (1.1 PDF version)

Additional Links and Tasks for 1.1

• Introduce online gradebook Logon here
• Introduce OneNote Science Notebook
  - through the OneNote Program - through your S-Drive
• Review important Lab Safety Information
• View the Lab Equipment PowerPoint
• Discuss and Study the Lab Safety Review - there will be a quiz on Friday!

Additional Information:

• True Colors Activity
  - enter your True Colors Activity results
• Google Earth Tour – measure distances around our campus - Today’s locations file
• Try This is Sand

 

Happy New Year!!!

Today we have a Linear Measurements Quiz (meaning we’re going to check to see if our lab last class has helped to remind you how to use a metric ruler correctly!)

Since we’re just getting our laptops today, the quiz will be available through 1) an online form or 2) a scantron during class

Here’s a link to the online version

True Colors Profile Information

Here's some additional information on True Colors Profiles:

True Colors Personality  Test
  Info:
      http://www.online-distance-learning-education.com/article_info.php/articles_id/24
      http://www.yuthguy.com/classroom/super/pupilservicestruecolors.htm
  Tests: 
      http://www.truecolorstest.com/truecolors.swf
      http://www.truecolorscareer.com/quiz.asp

(The following information comes from the links above) 

6th 6 Weeks Assignments

Assignment: 6.7      (6.7 PDF version)

Additional Links for 6.7

• Interactive Senses Challenge
• 6.7R  Human Systems 2 Review  (6.7R PDF version)
• Word Search Human Systems 2 (PDF version)
• Review Key for Human Systems 2

Additional information:

• Explore Forensics website

Assignment: 6.6      (6.6 PDF version)

Additional Links for 6.6

• Mind map Human Systems 2
• Quail Dissection Key
• 6.5Q Questions Senses Challenge (PDF version)

Additional information:

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for Teens

Assignment: 6.5      (6.5 PDF version)

Additional Links for 6.5

• Mind map Human Systems 2
• 6.5N Notes on Respiratory System
• Language Practice Activity

Additional information:

• NIDA for Teens:  Consequences of Smoking
• Texas Wildlife Association (TWA Conservation Education Initiatives and LANDS Program)

Assignment: 6.4      (6.4 PDF version)

Additional Links for 6.4

• Mind map Human Systems 2
• 6.4L Lab on Pulse Rate

Additional information:

• Video clip on the Circulatory System from Prentice Hall
• Information on how to check your pulse

Assignment: 6.3      (6.3 PDF version)

Additional Links for 6.3

• Mind map Human Systems 2
• 6.3N Notes on the Circulatory System
• Handouts for the notes (for makeup work at home)

Assignment: 6.2

Additional Links for 6.2

• Mind map Human Systems 2

Additional information:

• USDA Food Pyramid 
• Create your own Food Pyramid
• The Dave Project Endoscopy Atlas

Assignment: 6.1

Additional Links for 6.1

• 6.1N Notes on Digestive System
• 6.1N Handouts on Digestive System

Additional information:

• National Geographic Digestive System Interactive 

5th 6 Weeks Assignments (newest at the top)

Assignment: 5.6R Review

Additional Links for 5.6R

• Mind map Human Systems One
• PDF version of review
• PDF version of skeleton diagram

Additional information:

• Review Key for Human Systems One
• Review Key for Skeleton Diagram

Assignment: 5.6

Additional Links for 5.6

• Mind map Human Systems One
• 5.6L Lab on Skin Sensitivity
• 5.6N Notes on the Integumentary System (Skin and it’s parts)
• 5.6N Fill-ins

Additional information:

• Discovery News:  Link between depression and heart disease

Assignment: 5.5

Additional Links for 5.5

• Mind map Human Systems One
• 5.5L Lab on Muscle Fatigue
• Lab Graph Example
• 5.5N Notes on Muscular System
• 5.5N Fill-ins

Additional information:

• The Mayo Clinic Benefits of Exercise 

Assignment: 5.4

Additional Links for 5.4

• Mind map Human Systems One
• Skeletal System PowerPoint notes
• 5.4N Skeletal System Notes Fill-ins
• Human Skeleton InterWrite Interactive
• Human Skeleton Online Interactive
• 5.4V Bones and Muscles Questions

Additional information:

• The Visible Body 3D Interactive Model 
• San Diego Natural History Museum Body Worlds Exhibit

Assignment: 5.3

Additional Links for 5.3

• 5.3L (part1) Microscope Introduction
• 5.3L (part2) Hydra Lab
• 5.3N PowerPoint Notes Organization & Homeostasis
• 5.3V Video Questions 'To the Limits'
• Virtual Compound Microscope 
• Genetics Online Quiz Review
• Genetics Excel Quiz Review (class handout)
• InterWrite Activity: Organization & Homeostasis

Additional information:

• Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
• Genetic screening for cancer
• Genetic screening for traits
• All about Daylight Savings Time
• Dolphin Bubbles on ABC News

Assignment: 5.2

Additional Links for 5.2

• Genes Video Clips (these must be downloaded from the J-drive at school)
• 5.2V Genes Video Questions 

Assignment: 5.1

Additional Links for 5.1

• InterWrite Activity: Punnet Square Practice
• Heredity Notes PowerPoint
• 5.1N Heredity Notes Notes Fill-ins
• 5.1P Punnet Squares practice page

Assignment: 5th Vocabulary

4th 6 Weeks Assignments

Assignment: 4th Vocabulary

Assignment: 4.1

Additional Links for 4.1

• Water in space video clip
• Origami video clip
• Robert Lang Origami Home Page
• Guadalupe Mountains National Park Website

Rate of Weathering Lab

• This can be done at home using the Lab Worksheet and 4 Alka-Seltzer (or equivalent) tablets
• Substitute 2/3 cup of water for 150 ml if necessary

Erosion & Weathering Video

• The Erosion and Weathering Video is available on the BISD Student Portal in the 7th Grade Science Weathering and Erosion folder
• Video Questions

Assignment: 4.2

Additional Links for 4.2

• Japan Landslide video clip
• La Conchita Landslide video clip
• Laguna Landslide video clip
• Erosion and Deposition PowerPoint
• Erosion and Deposition Notes Handouts

Assignment: 4.3

Additional Links for 4.3

• Catastrophic Events PowerPoint  (note: this is a very large file and it might take a while to download!)
• Catastrophic Events Notes Handouts
• Mt. St. Helens Eruption Video Questions (note: the video must be viewed at school)
• Wikipedia Catastrophic Events List
• US Drought Monitor
• Earth Observatory Natural Disasters
• Unit Test Review: 4.3R
• Unit Test Linked Review

Assignment: 4.4

Additional Links for 4.4

• 4.4N Notes PowerPoint
• 4.4N Notes fill-ins and Vocabulary
• Google Earth Locations:       1)  Bay of Fundy       2) Hopewell Rocks
• Geo-Science Earth Movement Animation
• 4.4V Moon Video Questions

Assignment: 4.5

Additional Links for 4.5

• Earth Observatory Cities at Night
• Watch a Total Solar Eclipse
• Lunar Phase Simulator
• Moon Phases Calendar
• 4.5D Moon Phase Diagram

 

How to use the assignment links

Notes:

1. It may take some time to download these assignments depending upon your connection speed

2. The assignments will only open on computers with the Microsoft OneNote Program installed (like the students' laptop computers)

3. Additional Links (like video clips) will likely be blocked at school but should be available on a home computer with a broadband connection

4. Once each assignment opens, students will have to copy and paste them into the appropriate section of their Science Notebook (just like they do in class each day)

5. Completed assignments which are saved in the correct location (Science Notebook - current 6 Weeks section) will upload to the school server the next time the student logs on and opens the OneNote Program at school