Monday
Objective: Finish discussion of basic animal facts and body plans. Begin phylum Porifera and Cnidaria. Body plans of sponges. Look at sponge slides under a microscope. Go to CRC if there's time (depends on the amount of student questions)
Text: none
Vocab: sessile, collar cells, osculum, spongin, spicules, filter feeders, amebocytes, gemmules, regeneration
Homework: Look at the "sponges & sea squirts" website and answer the questions on the sponge worksheet found under "Biology Stuff"
Objective: Finish discussion of basic animal facts and body plans. Begin phylum Porifera and Cnidaria. Body plans of sponges. Look at sponge slides under a microscope. Go to CRC if there's time (depends on the amount of student questions)
Text: none
Vocab: sessile, collar cells, osculum, spongin, spicules, filter feeders, amebocytes, gemmules, regeneration
Homework: Look at the "sponges & sea squirts" website and answer the questions on the sponge worksheet found under "Biology Stuff"
Tuesday
Objective: Virtual starfish dissection with Froguts. Take two quizzes for grades. Quizzes will be taken within the dissection module.
Text: none
Vocab: review vocab from Monday's class
Homework: review notes
Text: none
Vocab: review vocab from Monday's class
Homework: review notes
Wednesday
Objective: To learn about the body plan of cnidarians; jellyfish reproduction, facts, etc.
Text: none
Vocab: medusa, polyp, sexual, asexual, budding, bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry, zygotes
Homework: Jellyfish worksheet
Thursday
Objective: Jellyfish worksheet due; video about oceans & its inhabitants
Text: none
Vocab: none
Homework: none
Objective: Jellyfish worksheet due; video about oceans & its inhabitants
Text: none
Vocab: none
Homework: none
Friday
Objective: State assessment formative testing in CRC; prepare students for the upcoming science assessment on 3/29/11
Text: none
Vocab: none
Homework: story due at end of period; study notes from this week for 15 minutes/day throughout the weekend.
