Get Ready for Semester 2! After Snow Day Update #1. Stay tuned for more changes....

Hello Students!  Here we go, heading into the last semester of high school (for most of you).  We will continue to plow through the material, finish the IA, and try to review much of the material from last year.  In short, we will be busy up until May, when the IB Exams start.  Then we will work on projects and relax until the end of the year.  Here are the first few weeks mapped out.

This schedule may be changed if we don't need this much time to finish IA's.

• Thurs 1/23:  Hand back final exams to look at and then recollect.  Hand out Immunology Worksheet and work on it or work on your IA.  
• Mon 1/28:  Work on Immunology Worksheet and IA.  Read 6.3.
• Wed 1/30:  Work on Immunology Worksheet and IA.  Check off Immunology Worksheet.
• Fri 2/1:  Notes on complicated parts of Immunology.  Read 11.1.  Work on writing up your IA!  First draft due for Peer Review next Thursday 2/7.
• Tues 2/5: Snow Day.
•  Thurs 2/7:  Finish notes on Immunology. Peer Review of First Draft of IA.  Test next Friday, 2/15.
• Monday 2/11:   Play Kahoot to review for Immunology Test Friday 2/15.  Videos to prepare for Group IV Project.
• Wed 2/13:  Group IV Project.  Meet at PSU if you are doing it .
• Friday 2/15:  Immunology Test. IA Peer Review.  Start Muscles and Movement.  Read 11.2.
• Wed 2/20:  Dissect Chicken Wings.  Overview of Muscles and Movement.  Steps of a muscle contraction.   Crash course video.
• Fri 2/22:  Structure of the elbow joint and dissect chicken wings.  Read 11.3.  Complete draft of IA submitted through turnitin.com
• Tues 2/26:  Overall structure of the kidney.  The nephron:  functional unit of the kidney.  

Happy 2019!

Hello Students!  For most of you, this is the year the you will graduate (and I say "most" because of a couple juniors, not that I have any doubt that you will graduate).  We only have 2 weeks before final exams start, so the turnaround here will be quick.  Please note that Tuesday, January 15th is the last day before finals and it is also the drop-dead deadline for any late work or extra credit.  You can do book groups during FLEX and I will also have 1 lunch per week when you can come in.

• Wed 1/2/19:  Hand out Respiration Worksheet, due Tuesday 1/8.  Get plants going for anyone doing a plant IA.  For the rest of you, start getting your materials assembled while you also work on the Respiration Worksheet.   Have you turned in your IA pre-lab through turnitin.com?  Remember that it should be in before you start taking data.
• Fri 1/4/19:  Monitor plants.  Continue working on Respiration Worksheet, work on your IA, and/or start reviewing for the semester exam.
• Tues 1/8/19:  Respiration Worksheets checked off and gone over.  Work on IA's.
• Thurs 1/10/19:  Work on IA's.  Review for final exam.
• Mon 1/14/19:  Work on IA's.  Kahoot for final exam.
• Tues 1/15/19:  Full 8 Schedule.  All late work and extra credit due by today!  Last minute questions for final exam.
• Wed-Fri 1/16-1/18:  Final Exams!  If you have plants on the cart, you will need to find time to come in and water them and take data.
• Mon 1/21:  Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  No School.
• Tues 1/22:  Teacher Work Day for Semester 1.  Check with me if you want to come in and do some work on your IA.  We will continue with IA's for another 3 days into the 2nd semester, but if you want to have more uninterrupted time, feel free to check with me about a good time to come in