Biology is about studying life, and since you're alive, it's really about you. Hopefully you'll find this very interesting!
Seek to improve your learning by polishing each project (page) in your notebook, until you've earned at least two stamps on each!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

110 111 Exploring homeostasis

First, do your flow chart and then your day 3 egg activities

Next get a computer for your table, and copy this next line:
homeostasis
Then go to the ADAPTIVE CURRICULUM web site, log in, and paste the line above into the search box...
Click on play and complete the LEARNER JOURNAL (pp.110-111)


Tuesday, November 27, 2012

108 109 Plant versus Animal Cells


Copy this next line:
comparing plant and animal cells
Then go to the ADAPTIVE CURRICULUM web site, log in, and paste the line above into the search box...
Click on play and complete the LEARNER JOURNAL (pp.108-109)


Monday, November 26, 2012

101-107 The chicken or the egg? An osmosis question...

We'll be looking into osmosis and diffusion with our eggs this week.  Make sure to write down your observations and data as we go!

Day 1 - love that vinegar smell
Day 2 - sticky sweet syrup!

Friday, November 16, 2012

99 100 Antibiotics Video

The Antibiotics video is on the flash drive - if the sub has problems logging, please elect a student to log in and start the video :-)  One you all finish watching, go ahead and finish whatever else needs to be completed in your notebook!  (Coloring, etc.)

95 96 97 98 Diffusion Experiment (with Osmosis!!!)


94 diffusion observations

93 Diffusion Circle Map

So, what do you know about diffusion?

Friday, November 9, 2012

90 91 92 5 Second Rule part deux

Here we go again, with much improved technique and protocols...





Wednesday, November 7, 2012

83 84 85 86 87 88 89 Cell (Basic Structures)

For all you visual learners, let's get COLORFUL!  Make sure you mark up the text as you go...

83 Prokaryotic Cell (Coloring guide, color the underlined text and the name)
84 Cell Structure and Function - cool reading, mark it up!
85 Prokaryotic Cell (color it) - write the names on the lines

86 Eukaryotic Cells - mark up the text
87 Eukaryotic Cells - mark up the text
88 Plant Cell (Coloring & a few questions)
89 Animal Cell (Coloring & a few questions)

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

81 82 Some Analysis of our Data - does it really mean anything?



79-80 about microbes...

Mark up the text - highlight key terms, circle the lists, draw some pictures of bacteria shapes - you know, mark it up in a way that helps YOU learn...
Now see how many of the various shapes you see in your petri dish (do we ever open them?  NO!)

Monday, November 5, 2012

73 74 75 76 77 78 Five Second Rule

It all started with a letter....
and then we started asking questions
 










Friday, November 2, 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012

70 Tissue Types

How many examples can you list?  (Better be at least 3+1+1+1!!!)