Environmental Science 1/3 - 1/4, 1/7 - 1/11

Objective this week:  To be able to identify various trees in Kansas, found locally, by their bark and leaf characteristics.  Students will score at least an 85% on a quiz by Friday.

Thursday
Icebreaker

Friday
Trees in Kansas - begin learning specifics about leaf/bark patterns and leaf/bark identification

Monday
Leaf/bark patterns & identification.  Outside work, weather permitting

Tuesday
Colorado beetle case study for points

Wednesday
Forest conservation assignment

Thursday
Discuss forest conservation assignment, what worked, and what didn't.

Friday
Tree identification specifics

Anatomy & Physiology 1/3 - 1/4, 1/7 - 1/11

Objective this week:  To understand the basics of the central nervous system and begin looking at major muscle groups within the cat.

Thursday
Prep for cat dissection lab

Friday
Begin cat dissection - skinning

Monday
Basic anatomy & divisions of the central nervous system.

Tuesday
Cat dissection - finish skinning/muscle group set #1

Wednesday
CNS divisions and worksheet

Thursday
Cat dissection - muscle group set #1

Friday
CNS specifics of the sensory division

7th Grade Science 1/3 - 1/4, 1/7 - 1/11

Objective this week:  To be able to understand how living things relate to each other throughout evolutionary time.......

Thursday
Icebreaker/fossil activity analysis

Friday & Monday
Evolutionary relationships/common ancestry;  workbook pages 26 - 36; discuss these pages & answer questions within them.

Tuesday
"Your Inner Fish" documentary

Wednesday
Finish the documentary; write a reflection over it. 

Thursday
Workbook pages 47 - 55; complete these pages and questions within them.

Friday
Continue discussing common ancestry patterns.

Zoology 1/3 - 1/4, 1/7 - 1/11

Objective this week:  To understand differences in fish classes, their morphology, and how they interact within their environment.

Thursday
Icebreaker activity - fish/review

Friday
Cartilaginous fish categories/specifics about sharks.

Monday
Sharks - morphology and species

Tuesday
Dissection 1

Wednesday
Shark research assignment

Thursday
Dissection 2

Friday
Bony fish morphology details; gill mechanics/gas exchange.

6th Grade Science 1/3 - 1/4, 1/7 - 1/11

Objective this week:  To understand how light can get bent, absorbed, or reflected back to the observer depending on the material the light interacts with.  

Thursday
Icebreaker activity/video

Friday
Electromagnetic spectrum/review and discuss wavelengths.

Monday & Tuesday
Discuss the behavior of light waves, and how they work; explain reflection & refraction.  Workbook pages 61 - 71.

Wednesday
Continue discussing reflection/refraction

Thursday
Digital signal transmission discussion today

Friday
Activity/signal transmission

Biology 1/3 - 1/4, 1/7 - 1/11

Objective this week:  To understand patterns of inheritance from one generation to the next.


Thursday
Icebreaker activity

Friday
Begin discussing traits, alleles, and inheritance.  Discuss genes, and different forms of them.

Monday
Begin discussing traits, alleles, and inheritance.  Discuss the importance of Mendel's pea plants and punnett squares.

Tuesday & Wednesday
punnett square practice

Thursday
simple crosses/punnett squares

Friday
DNA Lab

All Classes - This week's schedule......

Hey all,  I thought for this week I'd put up a pretty simple schedule for ALL classes in one post, since it's finals week.  Here we go....

Monday, 12/17:

Finals for all ODD-HOUR class periods; that means Biology,  3rd Period Zoology, 7th Grade Life Science, and Anatomy/Physiology.  Once those finals conclude, we will finish the period with extension activities/videos.

Tuesday, 12/18:

Finals for all EVEN-HOUR class periods; that means 6th Grade Science,  6th Period Zoology, and Environmental Science.  Once those finals conclude, we will finish the period with extension activities/videos.

Wednesday, 12/19:

All classes - extension activities TBA

Environmental Science 12/10 - 12/14

Objective this week:  To learn about mammals in Kansas and hunting as a management tool.

Monday
Wildlife Management Plans due; Kansas mammal profiles

Tuesday & Wednesday
Kansas mammal profiles - notes and worksheet on Tuesday

Thursday
Field work weather permitting/review for final exam.

Friday
Review for next Tuesday's final exam

Anatomy & Physiology 12/10 -12/14

Objective this week:  To complete two labs over  the upper body bones and wrap up the semester/prepare for next Monday's final exam.

Monday
CCCC surveys

Tuesday
Lab  - upper body skeletal bones

Wednesday
Wrap up muscle unit

Thursday
Lab - upper body skeletal bones 2

Friday
Review for Monday's final exam

7th Grade Science 12/10 - 12/14

Objective this week:  To understand major geologic time frames and understand how to analyze rock layers.

Monday
Complete fossil mold activity;  Worksheet - fossil rock layers.

Tuesday
Geological time frames & organisms that existed during those time frames

Wednesday
Vocab activity - geologic time frames. Analyze the molds formed in the activity from Monday.

Thursday & Friday
Thursday - review for final.  Friday - Dinosaur video.  Write facts over the video for points.

Zoology 12/10 - 12/14

Objective this week:  To understand differences between jawless fish and cartilaginous fish, and prepare for the final exam next week.

Monday
Class Agnatha - the jawless fish.

Tuesday
Review agnathans; begin class Chondrichthyes (the cartilage fish); watch a video clip over sturgeon.

Wednesday
cartilage fish/sturgeon.  Write a rap/poem over fish that's a minimum of five lines and rhymes twice for points.

Thursday & Friday
Review for Final exam on these days

6th Grade Science 12/10 - 12/14

Objective this week:  To complete a STEM project that demonstrates how waves move through certain materials.

Monday
Waves/workbook

Tuesday
STEM Project work

Wednesday
STEM Project work

Thursday
STEM Project work

Friday
Review for Tuesday's final quiz

Biology 12/10 - 12/14

Objective this week:  To understand how meiosis works and begin reviewing for the semester final exam.

Monday
Meiosis specifics - all parts of the process. 

Tuesday
Meiosis vs mitosis - vocab practice

Wednesday
Video

Thursday &  Friday
Review for final exam

Environmental Science 12/3 - 12/7

Objective this week:  To work on and complete a comprehensive wildlife management plan for an imaginary acreage of property.  

Monday - Friday
Comprehensive wildlife management planning and work.  Complete by Friday.

Anatomy & Physiology 12/3 - 12/7

Objective this week:  Two things:  To understand how muscles tap into various energy supplies during contraction; to master the upper and lower body bones and their structures.

Monday & Wednesday
Muscle bioelectricity and energy tap-ins.  Graphic organizer assignment over ATP tap-ins given on Wednesday,


Tuesday
Class members absent

Thursday
Graphic organizer assignment due; interviews over muscle ATP tap-ins.  Finish class with a lab over bones.

Friday
Quiz - bone structures.

7th Grade Science 12/3 - 12/7

Objective this week:  To understand the importance of carbon dating and how we can use that information to learn about the past.

Monday
Carbon dating worksheet in class plus examples

Tuesday
Workbook explanations & questions in class; discuss absolute vs relative ages of fossils

Wednesday
Workbook explanations and questions in class; discuss index fossils, fossil formations, and analyzing rock layers

Thursday
Day One - modeling fossil casts (casts must dry over the weekend to continue the lab)

Friday
CAD design and coding

Zoology 12/3 - 12/7

Objective this week:  To understand the major morphological features of vertebrates

Monday
Discuss starfish and the Echinodermata.  Look at a timeline of development up through this point.

Tuesday
Vertebrate characteristics and Internet assignment

Wednesday
Begin discussing vertebrates from the past, including fossilized remains

Thursday
Project - cardboard animal designs

Friday
Discuss the Agnathans - jawless fish

6th Grade Science 12/3 - 12/7

Objective this week:  To construct a STEM project with materials that will insulate sound waves as compared to other classmate designs.

Monday
Metallica Moderator project

Tuesday
Begin discussing light waves, complete workbook pages in class.

Wednesday
Metallica Moderator project

Thursday
Continue discussion of light waves, complete workbook pages

Friday
Metallica Moderator project - finish the project today.

Biology 12/3 - 12/7

Objective this week:  To understand how our DNA assembles proteins to make us look and function the way that we do.

Monday
Protein synthesis ..... transcription and how it works.

Tuesday
Protein synthesis .....translation and how it works; complete a worksheet in class.

Wednesday
Protein synthesis overview and begin cell division

Thursday
Sexual reproduction/mitosis facts

Friday
Exit ticket for points - ten sentences over what you've learned; begin discussing meiosis