Environmental Science 1/27 - 1/31

Monday
Wetland lecture in class

Tuesday
Table top activity for points

Wednesday
Wetland worksheet due tomorrow for 50 (!!!) points.  Here is the worksheet, with the link included at the top of the worksheet:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pxdV909HnZulXGdG3aGJgUTwVr4a522A-IuYQzbXH_0/edit?usp=sharing

Thursday
Review activity - wetlands

Friday
Video - wetland marsh conservation

Anatomy & Physiology 1/27 - 1/31

Monday
Activity - human brain

Tuesday
Brain dissection - finish

Wednesday
Midbrain parts and function

Thursday
Review for CNS test, graded review activity

Friday
Review for CNS test  (test is on Monday)

6th Grade Science 1/27 - 1/31

Monday
Vocab activity - waves

Tuesday
STEM project - Metallica Moderator

Wednesday
Sound wave specifics and workbook

Thursday
Workbook due; STEM project

Friday
STEM project

7th Grade Life Science 1/27 - 1/31

Monday
Review activity - natural selection

Tuesday
Lab - natural selection

Wednesday
Workbook pages - natural selection cycles

Thursday
Finish lab - natural selection

Friday
Speciation discussion

Biology 128 - 1/31

Objective this week:  To reach level of mastery over dihybrid crosses and to complete a dissection in class.

Monday
Dihybrid corn lab

Tuesday
Frog dissection 1

Wednesday
Dihybrid corn - finish lab

Thursday
Frog dissection 2

Friday
Reflect/review dissection

Environmental Science 1/21 - 1/24

Objective this week:  To reach the level of mastery over duck identification by completing an identification quiz, and to discuss & understand the importance of wetlands.

Tuesday
Quiz - duck identification.  Begin discussing wetlands.



Thursday
Wetland exploration assignment for points

Friday
Wetland characteristics/ note set

Anatomy & Physiology 1/21 - 1/24

Objective this week:  To understand the different parts of the cerebrum and how they contribute to body balance and function.  There is a quiz at the beginning of the week.

Tuesday
Quiz.  Then .... lecture over Major brain regions.



Thursday
Major brain regions - lecture and Google Classroom worksheet

Friday
Brain regions and in-class review assignment/exit ticket

6th Grade Science 1/21 - 1/24

Objective this week:  To reach the level of mastery over magnetism and electromagnets.

Tuesday
Quiz (magnetism); video

Thursday
Workbook - page 9, 12, 13, 15, 16 (do # 7-18).  .

Friday
Finish the workbook questions.  Work on electromagnet

7th Grade Science 1/21 - 1/24

Objective this week:  To demonstrate the level of mastery over genetics and natural selection with a quiz, and to continue discussing natural selection in terms of population dynamics.

Tuesday
Quiz - natural selection & evolution.  Video - Evolution (HHMI video)




Thursday
Finish the video, begin working on pages 95 - 99 (#1-9)

Friday
Finish workbook pages and review the week's material.

Biology 1/21 - 1/24

Objective this week:  To reach the level of mastery over punnett squares, and to complete a dihybrid punnett square worksheet by the end of the week.

Tuesday
Quiz; dihybrid worksheet



Friday
Dihybrid worksheet in class and video

Environmental Science 1/14 - 1/17

Objective this week:  To reach the level of mastery over waterfowl identification by completing a quiz at the end of this week.

Tuesday
Create a Google Slide presentation for points over puddle ducks and diving ducks

Wednesday
Begin discussing wetlands and wetland characteristics

Thursday
Interview assignment for daily points.  This serves as a review for tomorrow's quiz

Friday
Quiz - waterfowl identification

Anatomy & Physiology 1/14 - 1/17

Objective this week:  To understand how different divisions of the brain work together to promote life & human body functioning.

Tuesday
Brain regions plus assignment

Wednesday
Brain regions day two - assignment due.

Thursday
Brain dissection

Friday
Quiz - central nervous system

7th Grade Life Science 1/14 - 1/17

Objective this week:  To understand and explain how common ancestry explains relationships among living things, and to demonstrate that understanding with a quiz at the end of this week.

Tuesday
Video - common ancestry

Wednesday
Video discussion/E Mail assignmenet

Thursday
Class review for quiz tomorrow

Friday
Quiz - common ancestry

6th Grade Science 1/14 - 1/18

Objective this week:  To understand how differences in mechanical vs electromagnetic waves.

Tuesday
Begin discussing wave patterns and mechanical wave characteristics.

Wednesday
Continue wave patterns.

Thursday
Lab - electromagnets

Friday
Quiz - electromagnets

Biology 1/14 - 1/17

Objective this week:  To understand how to traits can be distributed in different proportions of offspring.

Tuesday
Monohybrid cross distributions and worksheet.  Worksheet due tomorrow

Wednesday
How to do di-hybrid crosses.  Di-hybrid cross practice problems.

Thursday
Dihybrid cross worksheet for points.  Due tomorrow.

Friday
Quiz - punnett squares

Environmental Science 1/6 - 1/10

Objective this week:  To be able to identify various waterfowl species, and understand how management techniques have helped waterfowl populations.

Monday
CRT - pre test.  Waterfowl migration theories & identification

Tuesday
Case study assignment - waterfowl conservation

Wednesday
Waterfowl identification; case study due.

Thursday
Case study #2 -waterfowl conservation

Friday
Case study due; video today

Anatomy & Physiology 1/6 - 1/10

Objective this week:  Be able to identify major brain structures.  Understand how these different parts work together to promote life.

Monday
CRT - pre test .  Begin discussing the nervous system - major anatomical portions of the brain.

Tuesday
Brain dissection prep and outer anatomy

Wednesday
Sensory areas of the brain and functions within these areas.  Google Classroom assignment today.

Thursday
Brain dissection. Work on packet.  Packet questions due tomorrow.

Friday
Packet questions due; video over the brain

7th Grade Life Science 1/6 - 1/10

Objective this week:  To understand how natural selection and mutations work together to determine how well living things can survive in their environment.

Monday
CRT semester test, discussion about mutations

Tuesday
Class discussion - mutations & adaptations.  Complete book pages 80, 83, 84

Wednesday
Adaptation table activity for points

Thursday
Class discussion - Mutation rates, population sizes, and reproductive rates

Friday
Video - HHMI video.   There will be an assignment over the video.   Here is the link to the video, if you're absent:

https://youtu.be/Ncgm9QOzQsA

6th Grade Science 1/6 - 1/10

Students will be able to describe & model the effects of gravitational, electrical, & magnetic fields on objects within those fields.

Monday
CRT - Semester pre-test.
Discuss what "fields" are.  Explain how gravitational, electrical, & magnetic fields are different.

Tuesday
Workbook pages 131 - 134

Wednesday
Electromagnet builds

Thursday
Google Classroom assignment - fields

Friday
Electromagnet builds

Biology 1/6 - 1/10

Objective this week:  To understand the relationship between DNA, genes, and traits.  We will also learn how mutations are so important with these things.

Monday
Semester CRT pre-test

Tuesday
Traits, genes, DNA, and how they're all connected.  Mutations - outcomes

Wednesday
Mutation activity

Thursday & Friday
DNA research project