Field Biology 10/1 - 10/5

Objective this week:  To reach the level of mastery over the legislative acts that shaped the conservation movement across North America through the completion of two assessments.

Monday
Practice quiz over the legislative acts; outside to collect insects

Tuesday
Quiz - Acts #1-5.  Outside to collect insects.

Wednesday
Vocab activity/word search.  Outside to collect insects if we have time.

Thursday
Quiz - Acts #6-10.  Field work outside also.

Friday
Homecoming activities.

Anatomy & Physiology 10/1 - 10/5

Objective this week:  To  understand differences between sweat & oil glands/types of burns, and be able to understand how common skin care products work to help your skin.

Monday
Discuss sweat & oil glands, and hair anatomy.  Prepare for Wednesday's skin care lab

Tuesday
Continue with hair anatomy; discuss nails. 

Wednesday
Skin care lab.

Thursday
Burn categories today; discuss rule of nines.  Take a quiz over this week's material.

Friday
Video today

7th Grade Life Science 10/1 - 10/5

Objective this week:  To understand the basics of inheritance and how we acquire traits from previous generations.  There will be a quiz at the end of the week.

Monday
Mendel and his pea plant experiments.  Discuss dominant vs recessive traits, alleles, and genes.

Tuesday
Genotype vs phenotype; begin practicing punnett squares.  Develop five practice punnett squares plus a separate answer key for points.  Due tomorrow.

Wednesday
Punnett square practice and worksheet.  Discuss mutations.

Thursday
Punnett square worksheet due; mutation activity

Friday
Finish mutation activity and take quiz over this week's material.

Zoology 10/1 - 10/5

Objective this week:  To learn major features of the gastropods & bivalves, and demonstrate the level of mastery over squid anatomy through the completion of a practical exam.

Monday
Class Bivalvia - clams, oysters, and their anatomy.  Discuss clam digging and complete a vocab worksheet

Tuesday
Squid dissection; review for Thursday's practical over squids.  worksheet due today.

Wednesday
Class Gastropoda - slugs, snails, etc. Review squids if needed.

Thursday
Squid practical exam

Friday
Video - Humboldt squid

6th Grade Science 10/1 - 10/5

Objective this week:  To understand seven different forms of energy transfer and how one form gets converted into another.

Monday
Energy transfer - forms of energy listed and explained today.

Tuesday & Wednesday
Modular station work - energy transfer stations.  There will be a worksheet due on Thursday ovevr this activity.

Thursday
Energy transfer review

Friday
Quiz - energy transfer.

Biology 10/1 - 10/5

Objective this week:  To understand how seven different resources in parts of an ecosystem can limit the density of organisms in that area.

Monday
Finish the skull lab today.  Turn in the assignment for points.

Tuesday
Discuss density and limiting factors.  Explain the limiting factors and how they affect density.  Explain carrying capacity if we have time.

Wednesday
Carrying capacity discussion and worksheet over carrying capacity due tomorrow in class.

Thursday & Friday
Carrying capacity activity

Field Biology 9/24 - 9/28

Objective this week:  To prepare for Thursday's Eco Meet event and complete prep for the interpretive event.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Eco Meet prep each day; points will be awarded for participation and completion of the interpretive event.

Thursday
Class to Eco - Meet.

Friday
Reflect on Eco Meet; collect insects outside if weather cooperates (wildlife management legislation discussion inside if there's adverse weather).

Anatomy 9/24 - 9/28

Objective this week:  To understand the anatomy of the human skin, identify/remember five layers of the epidermis, and functions of skin accessory structures.

Monday
Integumentary system preview - vocab assignment for points.

Tuesday
Begin discussing skin, and layers of the epidermis.  Also discuss accessory structures.

Wednesday
Epidermal layers and accessory structures - build the layers and discuss.  This is a model-building activity for points.

Thursday
Finish building the layers and accessory structures from yesterday and present to classmates/Mr. Hadachek

Friday
Hair and nails - anatomy, structure, function, etc. 

7th Grade Science 9/24 - 9/28

Objective this week:  Understand animal systems as they compare to plant systems, and be able to identify at least five different body systems and how they interact together.

Monday
Hadachek absent; complete questions on pages 81 - 94 in your workbook.  Due tomorrow for points.

Tuesday
Discuss/explain animal systems in class.

Wednesday
Continue discussing animal systems, complete a building activity over these systems.

Thursday
Video - animal systems. 

Friday
Class activity - dissected animal systems.  Take a quiz.

Zoology 9/24 - 9/28

Objective this week: To learn about the body plan of mollusks through both lecture and dissection lab experiences.  Be able to identify eight different parts of a squid.

Monday
Phylum Mollusca preview:  Vocab assignment for points due tomorrow.

Tuesday
Introduction to mollusks, including their basic body plan; squid anatomy today.

Wednesday
Squid dissection 1

Thursday
Video - Mr. Hadachek absent.

Friday
Squid dissection 2

6th Grade Science 9/24 - 9/28

Objective this week:  To specifically engineer a scribble bot that will stay within a 30 cm wide track and travel a 50 cm distance, with quiz points being awarded for the distance traveled.

Monday
Workbook pages assigned in class, due tomorrow.

Tuesday
Scribble bot phase 2 - engineer your scribble bot so it will travel 50cm in a straight line without going out of  bounds.  You will get three attempts to receive these points.  These points will be QUIZ-WEIGHTED points. 

Wednesday
Scribble bot phase 2 continued.

Thursday
Hadachek absent; video today

Friday
Wrap up scribble bots; disassemble them.  Reflect on the engineering design process.   

Biology 9/24 - 9/28

Objective this week:  To understand how energy flows through both biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem.

Monday
Vocab activity in class for points.  Due tomorrow.

Tuesday
Producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem, and trophic levels

Wednesday
Trophic level practice and worksheet for points;

Thursday
Video - Hadachek absent

Friday
Skull lab today for points

Field Biology 9/17 - 9/21

Objective this week:  To understand how wildlife legislation helps modern wildlife management principles.

Monday
Eco Meet Prep

Tuesday
Note set - history of wildlife management in the United States.  Eco Meet prep.

Wednesday
Begin studying wildlife legislation laws & acts; know ten major acts, dates of enactment, and purpose of these acts. Eco Meet prep.

Thursday
Wildlife acts and wildlife act assignment.  Eco Meet Prep.

Friday
Wildlife act review/prep for next Tuesday's first quiz over the acts.

Anatomy & Physiology 9/17 - 9/21

Objective this week:  To be able to identify connective tissue micrographs  and demonstrate mastery of content in the tissue unit through the completion of a unit exam over tissues.


Monday
Types of cartilage and also tissue repair process; look at tissue micrographs online.

Tuesday
Tissue vocab review/practice.  Vocab assignment for points.  Look at tissue micrographs.

Wednesday
Look at tissue micrographs.  Create a graphic organizer over epithelial/connective tissue for points.  Begin review for Friday's tissue exam

Thursday
Review for tissue exam

Friday
Tissue exam today

7th Grade Life Science 9/17 - 9/21

Objective this week:  To reach the level of mastery over plant organization through the completion of a kinesthetic exercise.

Monday & Tuesday
Kinesthetic exercise prep work

Wednesday
Kinesthetic prep work and practice.

Thursday
Film kinesthetic project and then complete an extension worksheet over the project for points

Friday
Extension worksheet due; video for the rest of the period.

Zoology 9/17 - 9/21

Objective this week:  To understand the differences between flatworms and roundworms, and complete a unit exam on Friday over the worm unit.

Monday
Roundworms - form and function

Tuesday
Online assignment - parasitic worms and veterinary applications

Wednesday
Roundworm & flatworm vocab for points - crossword puzzles

Thursday
Review for tomorrow's exam

Friday
Exam - worm unit

6th Grade Science 9/17 - 9/21

Objective this week:  To understand the application of electrical potential/kinetic energy and apply engineering principles through the completion of a STEM project.

Monday
Vocab review - systems/engineering & energy crossword puzzles for points.

Tuesday & Wednesday
STEM - bots.  Students will apply engineering and system principles

Thursday & Friday
STEM - bots.  Students will construct bots with a specific engineering goal.

Biology 9/17 - 9/21

Objective this week:  To understand the importance of cellular respiration to your life, and also understand how cellular respiration works.  There will be a quiz over the process at the end of the week.

Monday
Cellular respiration - steps and processes

Tuesday
Cellular respiration ad - lib/fill in the blank worksheet for points

Wednesday & Thursday
Cellular respiration video review assignment

Friday
Quiz - cellular respiration

6th Grade Science 9/10 - 9/14

Objective this week:  To understand how to analyze graphs using potential and kinetic energy and show mastery of this concept through the completion of a differentiated activity and a quiz at the end of the week.

Monday
Read graphs and practice kinetic/potential energy examples.


Tuesday
Critical thinking and problem solving, plus four examples of potential energy in a boat, and four examples of kinetic energy in a boat.  This will be for points.

Wednesday
Do # 1-14 on pages 23 - 30 in your workbook.  This is due for points tomorrow.  Remember if you don't have your workbook at home, you can access it with your iPad and write out the answers to the question on paper.

Thursday
Workbook assignment due;  study for tomorrow's quiz over potential and kinetic energy.

Friday
Quiz - potential & kinetic energy

7th Grade Life Science 9/10 - 9/14

Objective this week:  To understand how biological systems work together in plants to help both them and us survive.


Monday
Learn about the plant body system; tie in to last week's material with animal systems.

Tuesday
Plant systems and read pages 65 -72 in workbook; complete # 1 - 13 due tomorrow.

Wednesday
Workbook assignment due today.  Begin a differentiated kinesthetic learning activity

Thursday
Work on kinesthetic activity

Friday
Quiz - plant systems.  Then work on kinesthetic activity

Field Biology 9/10 - 9/14

Objective this week:  To further prepare for the completion of the insect collection and to take a quiz over common Kansas plants to demonstrate mastery of that content.

Monday
Insect collection - collect specimens outside.

Tuesday
Plant identification review

Wednesday
Plant identification quiz #2

Thursday
Natural resource assignment today; in-class work over conservation/hunt & fish programs

Friday
Collection prep/assembly

Anatomy 9/10 - 9/14

Objective this week:  Learn how to distinguish epithelial tissue from connective tissue, complete a lab, and take both a lab and lecture quiz at the end of the week over tissues.

Monday
Begin studying characteristics of connective tissue and connective tissue categories.  Look at tissue micrographs.

Tuesday
Microscope lab - epithelial and connective tissue

Wednesday
Review all histology categories learned so far; prepare for tomorrow's quiz over tissues.

Thursday
Microscope quiz #1 - tissues

Friday
Quiz - tissue characteristics

Zoology 9/10 - 9/14

Objective this week:  To learn the tapeworm lifecycle, the anatomy of tapeworms, and prepare for Friday's quiz over worm lifecycles.

Monday
Tapeworm anatomy and tapeworm lifecycle

Tuesday
Tapeworm lifecycle review/differentiated activity (graded study guide for points)

Wednesday
Microscope lab

Thursday
Finish microscope lab if needed; begin review for Friday's lifecycle quiz

Friday
Lifecycle quiz - flukes and tapeworms.

Biology 9/10 - 9/14

Objective this week:  To understand the major parts of cellular respiration and reach the level of mastery of photosynthesis through the completion of a differentiated activity and a quiz at the end of the week with an 80/100 performance objective.

Monday
Photosynthesis differentiation - complete project.

Tuesday
Begin watching lecture videos over cellular respiration.  Watch the videos and write down the notes.

Wednesday
Begin discussing cellular respiration in class.

Thursday
Quiz - photosynthesis.  Then discuss cellular respiration

Friday
Cellular respiration and in-class assignment

Field Biology 9/4 - 9/7

Objective this week: To learn more about natural resources, their history, and what Kansas has to offer for natural resources.

Tuesday
Begin discussing natural resources and complete an assignment due tomorrow over National parks.  Here is the assignment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11LhD0JJT67yC8BgBNWfdamyOp1ht_8nI8ExaPZNmGO0/edit?usp=sharing

Wednesday
National Park assignment due; continue discussion of natural resources.

Thursday
Field Work

Friday
Review natural resources; field work if necessary.

Anatomy 9/4 - 9/7

Objective this week:  To reach the level of mastery over Unit One and complete a unit exam scoring a minimum of 90% on it.  Also, learn and understand how tissue types have certain characteristics that help them to function.

Tuesday
Open review - Unit One

Wednesday
Unit One exam

Thursday
Begin discussing epithelial tissue characteristics; complete a graphic organizer over epithelial tissue characteristics.

Friday
Epithelial tissue lab #1 - handout for points.

7th Grade Life Science 9/4 - 9/7

Objective this week:  To understand how levels of organization within living things are connected together and dependent on one another. 

Tuesday
Begin discussing levels of organization in organisms; visual display with dissected specimens and complete # 1 - 10 on pages 47 - 52.  Due by class tomorrow.

Wednesday
Video - earth systems

Thursday
Tissue lab/demonstration

Friday
Tissue lab/demonstration

Zoology 9/4 - 9/7

Objective this week:  To understand characteristics of flatworm classes and life cycle components.

Tuesday
Introduction of phylum platyhelminthes; introduction of the Class Turbellaria and their characteristics.

Wednesday
Review turbellaria; Introduction to Class Trematoda (flukes) .  Begin a comparison worksheet/table over the vocab in this unit.

Thursday
Fluke lifecycle; create a visual aide for this lifecycle and master it.

Friday
Open worm vocab review, key in on life cycle of Trematoda.  Quiz over Trematoda lifecycle.

6th Science 9/4 - 9/7

Objective this week:  To learn how energy is involved in the world around us, various types of energy, and potential vs kinetic energy.

Tuesday
Review Friday's quiz; Types of energy and in-class assignment today

Wednesday & Thursday
Potential vs kinetic energy.  Discuss what the differences are, and classroom examples.   Paper assignment on Wednesday over examples of potential/kinetic energy.

Friday
Potential/kinetic energy project STEM builds.

Biology 9/4 - 9/7

Objective this week:  To understand the process of photosynthesis, how it works, and why it's important to your life.

Tuesday
Photosynthesis equation - major parts, light reaction, Calvin Cycle. 

Wednesday
Photosynthesis modular activity day 1 model and/or microscope component ... here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMSYFjElS0EkAxVroOlMJV9en4B7u9oCSgwfkgm31Jg/edit?usp=sharing

Thursday
Photosynthesis modular activity day 2 - model/microscope component wrap-up

Friday
Photosynthesis tutorial work (final segment of modular activity)