Thurs Sep 17th

General Plan:

1. Summarize information regarding Energy Flow in Ecosystems
2. Create Food Web Cubes for later use in Energy Pyramids

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

• Direction for Today
• Energy Flow in Ecosystems section summary PDF
• Energy Flow in Ecosystems review questions PDF
• Food Web Cubes template (Excel Version)  (PDF version)
• Clipart search

Additional Information:

• Students will be receiving ePals email account logon information and Student Access gradebook logon information this week

Wed Sep 16th

General Plan:

1. Review the Food Webs concept and components
2. Distribute ePals email accounts
3. Create and test logon (with ePals account) to the Jason Project

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

• Direction for Today
• View the following Food Webs video clips (part 1, part 2, part 3)
• Food Webs video clips questions
• Please complete the Reflection Questions Form if you have not already done so!

Additional Information:

• Missing assignments may be completed up until the end of the 1st 6 Weeks reporting period.

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