The Week of 10/28-11/1

If you want to correct your Biochemistry Test (up to a 55), you need to get it done this week, either during FLEX or a time that you arrange with me!

• Mon 10/28:  Questions on Paramecium Lab?  Introduce membranes and the Bubble Lab.  Check off Paramecium Lab while you do the Bubble Lab. Check in on Cell Model Project.  Read 7.1-7.2 in new text.
• Tues 10/29:  Dialysis Tubing Lab demonstrating osmosis and diffusion.  While your tube sits, do some research for your Cell Model Project.  Finish Dialysis Tubing Lab, due Thursday.
• Thurs 10/31:   Turn in Dialysis Tubing Lab.  Agar Cubes Lab.  Cell Model Project due on Monday 11/4!

Link to video of Paramecia Eating Pigmented Yeast

We watched this in class, but you can see more detail in this Youtube video, while listening to the Maple Leaf Rag!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ymaSzcsdY&safe=active

The Week of 10/21-10/25

SPARK Lecture on Monday 10/21 at 3:30 in 169.  The speaker is an engineer from Intel.  You may go to one SPARK lecture per month for extra credit, although remember that there is a limit on extra credit (5% per quarter or usually about 20-25 points).

• Mon 10/21:  Questions on Cell Worksheet?  Turn in.  Microscope work.  Draw cork, onion skin, algae and euglena (if not already) and paramecium.
• Tues 10/22:  How to calculate magnification of your drawings.  View bacteria through the oil immersion lens of the microscope.  Complete drawings and finish the lab hand-out for Thursday.  Read 6.1-6.5 in your new book (chapter 7 in old books in class).  The cell's cytoskeleton.
• Thurs 10/24:  View and draw amoebas.  Turn in Microscope Lab.  Finish up the cytoskeleton.  Start plasma membranes.  Hand out Cell Model project.  Read 7.1-7.2 in new text.

The Week of 10/14-10/18

• Mon 10/14:  Questions on Biochemistry Review?  Questions on Food Lab due Wednesday?  Hand-out Microscope Reading.  Introduce how to use microscopes and scale tool.  Draw cork, elodea, and onion skin.  Draw 2 critters.
• Wed 10/16:  20 minute classes.  Turn in Food Lab.  Work on Cell Worksheet using class textbooks.
• Thurs 10/17:  Take Biochemistry Test.  Continue working on Cell Worksheet (due Monday).  If time, continue with Microscope Lab.  Read 6.1-6.4 in textbook.

Turnitin.com Instructions

For any of you who went to the SPARK lecture on Monday, please submit your write-up (summary and your response, 1-1.5 pages) through turnitin.com The class info for this year: Class ID #: 7134746 Password: polypeptide Instructions for getting signed in are here. Please turn in SPARK lectures by the Friday of the week of the lecture, although I will give you until next Wednesday this time.

SPARK Lecture

The first SPARK lecture of the school year will be Monday, October 7 at 3:30 in Room 169. The speaker is Dr. Kathleen Dalke, ObGyn. Please come and learn about her work and earn some extra credit for your science class!