Field Biology 4/29-5/3

Monday - Friday
Continue field study, add data/information to research paper

Life Science 4/29-5/3

Monday
Finish up insect board games, play board games

Tuesday
Outside - nature trail.  Collect insects and investigate

Wednesday
Quiz - insects

Thursday
Begin discussing vertebrate characteristics and anatomy

Friday
Vertebrates of the ocean

Anatomy 4/29-5/3

Monday
Begin nutrition - carbs, lipids, proteins.  Essential nutrition will be covered.

Tuesday
Nutrition/diet

Wednesday
Nutrition/diet.  Discuss review for quiz

Thursday
Review for quiz over nutrition, digestive system

Friday
Nutrition/diet quiz

Zoology 4/29-5/3

Monday
Nature trail - collect insects/arthropods/fill bird feeders

Tuesday
Outside - bird watching journal entries

Wednesday
Rat practical

Thursday
Mammal project

Friday
Mammal project

Biology 4/29-5/3

Monday
Finish perch dissection; investigate fish parts under dissection scope

Tuesday
Class discussion - three fish categories (jawless, cartilage, bony fish)

Wednesday
Introduce amphibians - form and function

Thursday
Continue amphibian discussion, review for Friday's fish quiz

Friday
Fish quiz, amphibian specializations

Field Biology 4/22-4/26

Monday-Friday

Pack Rat study (weather pending)

Life Science 4/22-4/26

Monday
Discuss insect success and body plans; interactive classroom discussion

Tuesday
Begin designing insect board games; cooperative and differentiated learning

Wednesday
Differentiated learning - board game project

Thursday
Differentiated learning - board game project

Friday
Board game project due; verbal presentation of games/insect properties; this will satisfy the verbal presentation component (for points) of the exercise

Zoology 4/22-4/26

Monday
Rat dissection

Tuesday
Finish rat dissection; create a video tutorial over the dissection (20 points)

Wednesday
Yellowstone wolf assignment (Google Docs); critical thinking activity over wolf management

Thursday
Continue the wolf assignment

Friday
Wolf assignment due; review for Monday's practical over the rat dissection.  Dissection checkoff today

Anatomy 4/22-4/26

Monday
Digestive system organs, accessory organs

Tuesday
Digestive system of cat: hands-on activity to apply Monday's material

Wednesday
Digestion quiz; Begin nutrition unit

Thursday
CCCC Cadaver trip

Friday
Nutrition unit continued

Biology 4/22-4/26

Monday
Introduction to vertebrates; form, function, structures

Tuesday
Introduction to fish - morphology, anatomy, specializations

Wednesday
Video - salmon runs; extension activity on Thursday

Thursday
Extension activity with salmon video and fish (Edmodo/collaborative)

Friday
Fish physiology and species accounts

Field Biology 4/15-4/19

Monday - Friday

Field study projects - Pack Rats

Anatomy 4/15-4/19

Monday
Begin digestive unit; discuss mechancial vs chemical digestion and discuss general organs of the digestive tract

Tuesday
Cover specifics of the major digestive organs

Wednesday
Begin the "build your own digestive system" activity; create a Google Doc to demonstrate the construction of the model

Thursday
In-class work and build digestive system model

Friday
Show model to class, work on Google Doc presentation

Zoology 4/15-4/19

Monday
Mammal skull lab - identification and distinction of mammal skull characteristics

Tuesday
Mammal champions of Kansas - please write these in-class facts down

Wednesday
Finish mammal champions of Kansas; video

Thursday
Review mammals of Kansas for quiz on Friday

Friday
Take mammal quiz

Biology 4/15-4/19

Monday
Outside activity - study microhabitats

Tuesday
Google Doc over yesterday's microhabitat study; upload pictures, begin journal entry

Wednesday
Video - insects

Thursday
Differentiated insect lab

Friday
Insect review activity

Field Biology 4/8-4/12

Monday - Friday
Continue pack rat field study

Life Science 4/8-4/12

Monday - Friday

Differentiated field projects; Google docs, uploading pictures, maintaining journal entries

Anatomy 4/8-4/12

Monday - Thursday
Review for reproductive unit exam

Friday
Reproductive unit exam; there is a 100/85 performance objective for this exam

Zoology 4/8-4/12

Monday
Nature walk #3

Tuesday
Introduction to mammals

Wednesday
Mammal specifics, case studies

Thursday
Mammal case studies

Friday
Nature walk #4

Biology 4/8-4/12

Monday
Begin discussing arthropods; morphology, success, etc

Tuesday
Arachnids - spiders and scorpions vs ticks

Wednesday
Class Insecta - morphology, classifications, etc

Thursday
Review for worm quiz tomorrow

Friday
Worm quiz; there is a 100/85 performance objective for this quiz.  Continue insect discussion

Field Biology 4/2-4/5

Tuesday
Field work - finish mapping packrat nests

Wednesday
Begin research proposal

Thursday
Research proposal

Friday
Research proposal/field work

Life Science 4/2-4/5

Tuesday
Video - deciduous forests

Wednesday
Review - deciduous forests

Thursday
Quiz over deciduous forest/food chain dynamics and relationships

Friday
Nature trail project

Anatomy 4/2-4/5

Tuesday
STI's - bacterial & viral

Wednesday
Continue STI's, human growth & development.  Hand out review sheet for next Friday's test.

Thursday
Human growth & development

Friday
Human growth & development

Zoology 4/2-4/5

Tuesday
Wrap up pigeon dissection

Wednesday
Backyard wildlife #2

Thursday
Dissection checkoffs, review

Friday
Dissection practical.  There is a 100/85 performance objective on this practical

Biology 4/2-4/5

Tuesday
Discuss earthworm facts:  external anatomy, internal anatomy, reproduction, importance of earth worms

Wednesday
Live earthworm lab

Thursday
Earthworm dissection 1

Friday
Earthworm dissection 2