January 20, 2010

Daily Questions:

Using the food web in your books on page 790, identify a food chain with 4 trophic levels.  What in your chain is a producer?  What is a primary consumer?  A secondary consumer?

Now look at the Carbon Cycle on page 796.  In your food chain with 4 trophic levels, trace the carbon from the atmosphere (inorganic CO2) to your top chain consumer.  Write down how the carbon in the atmosphere moves through each step in your chain.

Agenda:

Envirothon Class!

1. Ch 15 notes

2. Reviewing for the test (answering questions in packet from yesterday)

3. Ecology Concept Map

Homework:

Study for the final on Friday!

Quote:

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." ~Sir Winston Churchill

January 19, 2010

Daily Questions:
Answer C.C. #s 2 & 3 section 14.3; create  2 questions (with answers) for section 14.4 and use these to quiz your neighbor.

Agenda:
1. Continue PP notes Ch 15
2. Creating & using keys
3. Handout study materials for final
4. Hand back Ch 10-11-12 tests

Homework:
Study for cumulative final on Thursday

Quote:
"Respect yourself and others will respect you." ~Confucius

January 15, 2010

Daily Questions:

Skim through sections 14.1 & 14.2, paying attention to figures and captions.  Create 4 questions (with answers) that you think adequately summarize the concepts in these two sections.

After you have finished, share your questions with the person sitting nearest you, and test each other with the answers.

Agenda:

1. PowerPoint Notes Ch 15

2.  Continue working on I.S. Ch 14

Homework:

-Make up  tests before close of semester, Friday Jan 22nd.

-I.S. due BEGINNING of class Tuesday, Jan 19th.

Quote:

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." ~Christopher Lasch

January 7, 2009

Daily Questions:
Ch 11 discusses a lot of scientists!  Create a list (annotated timeline) of each scientist mentioned, with the date of their major discovery/claim to fame, and briefly describe what it was.

Agenda:
1. Finish group discussion
2. Finish DNA-RNA Protein review handout from Tuesday
3. Handout WS Ch 11 (HW)
4. Class field trip expectations

Homework:
-Signed consent forms for video tapping!
-Bring a lunch for field trip Friday
-WS Ch 11 due Monday, 11th

Quote:
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." ~Oscar Wilde

January 6, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please pick up a copy of the article "Superboy" near the projector.  Read this quietly to yourself, and using the information within the article, as well as ideas of your own, create a list of 3 situations/scenerios that would benefit from having a drug that increases muscle mass.

Agenda:
1. Group discussion about Genome packet
2. Notes 11.6 handout
3. Continue transcribing & translating DNA to proteins

Homework:
-Transparency 32 due today
-Return video forms for field trip (signed!!!)
-Finish notes Ch 11.6 for Thurs, 7th

Quote:
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." ~Oscar Wilde

January 5, 2010

Daily Questions:
Quietly read section 11.4 to yourself and answer the CC questions 2-3.  Read through the figures with captions for 11.5  There are a LOT of diagrams to sort through, do your best to follow the processes of transcription & translation.

Agenda:
1. Creating reading groups for class discussion about Genome packet
2. Online activity: Dragon Meiosis (a little review and connection to current unit- to help with final)
3. DNA to RNA handout/practice
4. Handout Transparency 32 (HW)

Homework:
-Be prepared for class discussion regarding Genome packet Wed., 6th.
-Transparency 30 due Wed., 6th

Quote:

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing." ~Benjamin Franklin

January 4, 2010

Daily Questions:
1. Recall Mendel's first experiments with peas (pg 208).  Was the P generation produced sexually or asexually?  What about the F1 generation?
2. Cross a heterozygous male with brown hair (B) with a heterozygous female with brown hair.  The recessive trait is blond (b).  Make a punnett square to determine both the phenotypic and genotypic ratios (pg 211).

Agenda:
1. Continue working through punnett squares & quizzes
2. Handout Transparency 30 (HW)
3. Go over PP notes for Ch 11 & questions

Homework:
-Transparency 30 questions due Tues, 5th.
-Genome packet outline due Tues, 5th.

Quote:
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." ~Mahatma Ghandi