Now through Spring Break!!

Can you believe you are getting close to the final stretch!?!  We are going to be very busy these last couple of months trying to finish our last few units of new material, reviewing old material, and getting those darn IA's squared away!  First of all, thank you to the many of you have turned in your first drafts and I am close to being done with those.  There are still many of you who have not turned in a first draft.  After this Friday 3/8, you will no longer be able to turn in a first draft and get feedback from me.  The official due date for the Final Draft is this Friday, 3/8, but my request is that you just get them in to me as soon as you can and no later than Saturday, 3/16.  I need to have time to carefully read them and score them before Spring Break.  Now, here is the upcoming schedule:

• Mon 3/4:  Kidney Dance Simulation.  A few more details about the kidney.  Kahoot Review for Muscles and Kidney Test to be taken on Wed 3/6.  (A Review sheet for this is in the documents section).
• Wed 3/6:  Muscle and Kidney Test.  Review Cell Respiration and Photosynthesis.  Start going over 5 hormones (insulin, glucagon, thyroxin, leptin, and melatonin).  Read 6.6.
• Fri 3/8:  Official due date for Internal Assessment through turnitin.com.  More on hormones.  Male and female hormones.  Reproductive system anatomy.  Reproduction Worksheet.  Due Thursday 3/14.  Hand out Chapters 9+10 Review
• Tues 3/12:  Review the menstrual cycle.  In vitro fertilization (IVF).  Spermatogenesis and oogenesis.  Read 11.4
• Thurs 3/14:  Check off Reproduction Worksheet at the beginning of class.  Structure of sperm and egg.  Fertilization and early development.
• Sat 3/16:  Drop Dead Deadline for Internal Assessment through turnitin.com!
• Mon 3/18:  The placenta and birth.  Kahoot Review for Reproduction Test on Wed 3/20.
• Wed 3/20:  Hormone and Reproduction Test.  Start neurobiology.  Read 6.5
• Fri 3/22:  Structure of an axon and movement of an impulse.  Synapses.