End of 1st Quarter Deadline

Your deadline for late work and extra credit to be included in your 1st Quarter Grade is Monday, November 7 by 3:20 pm.  The only exception is that you may go to the SPARK lecture on the afternoon of November 7th and turn in your write-up by FLEX on Wednesday, November 9th.  Make sure that you check EdBox for missing assignments and ask me if you have any questions. 

This deadline holds even though you don't have class on Monday!

October 31-November 11

• Mon 10/31:  Quiz on Cells.  Groups in Cell Model Project?  Notes on Membranes.  Complete Membrane Worksheet.  Read 7.1.
• Wed 11/2:  "Bubble Lab".  Complete and turn in both sides of WS.  Permeability of membranes.  Read 7.2.
• Fri 11/4:  Osmosis & Diffusion Lab.  Work on Cell Model Project, due next Tuesday.  Read 7.3.
• Tues 11/8:  Present and Evaluate Cell Models.  Turn in Osmosis and Diffusion Lab.   Surface Area and Diffusion Lab.  Read 7.4.
• Thur 11/10:  No School.  Teacher Grading Day for End of the 1st Quarter!
• Fri 11/11:  No School.  Veterans Day.

Week-End Update (Quiz, Paramecium Lab, and Cell Project)

I will probably not update the website until the end of the week-end, so in the meantime, don't forget that there is a quiz on cells on Monday 10/31.  Your best bet is to study the Intro To Cells Worksheet and make sure that you know how to focus in on and measure things in a microscope.  See "How to Use a Microscope" for help.

The Paramecium Lab (1st side only) is due on Monday.  You just need to complete the answers to the questions on the worksheet.  Some of them require you to speculate about what you think was happening with the paramecia, even if you were not able to observe that particular thing with your own paramecia.

Also, remember that we have a Cell Model Project due on Tuesday, November 8th.  I will ask you on Monday who you plan to work with and what initial ideas you have.  All of the documents mentioned in this post have been added to the website, so look there for more information.  Enjoy your week-end!

October 17-October 27

• Mon 10/17:  Introduction to cells.  Cell Theory.   Prokaryote vs. Eukaryote.  Organelles.  Take notes and finish Introduction to Cells Worksheet, due at the end of the period on Wednesday.  Read 6.1.
• Wed 10/19:  Take Biochem Test.   Finish Intro to Cells WS.  Powers of 10 Video.   Read 6.2.
• Fri 10/21:  Turn in Food Lab.  In addition to your write up itself, turn in the scores for manipulative skills done by your lab partner and a short paragraph written by you discussing your manipulative skills to date (see rubric for these skills in document section if you need to).  Microscope Skills.  Observing, Drawing & Measuring Cells.  Read 6.3.
• Tues 10/24:  Using a microscope to view eukaryotes and prokaryotes.  Read 6.4.
• Thurs 10/26:  Turn in Observing, Drawing & Measuring Cell.  Viewing paramecium in the process of digestion.  Paramecium Hand-out due Monday 10/31.   Read 6.5.

October 3--14

• Monday 10/3:  Notes on Proteins and Nucleic Acids.  Go over items for quiz on Wednesday (Identifying functional groups, isomers, identifying monosaccharides, disaccharides, fatty acids, fats (saturated and unsaturated), amino acids, and polypeptides (there will not be any nucleic acids).  You should also be able to describe what a condensation or dehydration synthesis is and show how it works between 2 molecules.)  Finish Science Dictionary Coloring.  Read 5.4 and 5.5.
• Wednesday 10/5:  Structural Chemistry Quiz.  Building Models of Organic Molecules.
• Friday 10/7:  DNA Structure.  4 Tests for Identifying Organic Molecules.
• Tuesday 10/11:   Lab:  Identifying Organic Molecules in Foods using the 4 Tests.  Essential Questions for Biochemistry Test (next Wednesday 10/19).
• Wednesday 10/12:  Testing Day.  Very short (20 minute)  classes.  Finish food group lab.
• Thursday 10/13:  B Day (no class for you)
• Friday 10/14:  Statewide Inservice Day.  No School.

SPARKS Lecture on Monday 10/3!

Remember that guest speaker, Matt Clark, Executive Director of the Johnson Creek Watershed Council will be speaking on the subject: "Salmon Restoration Project in the Metro Area's only Free Flowing Stream", on Monday from 3:45-4:30 pm in room 169.

You can get extra credit for your science class if you do the following:

1)  Make sure that you get there early or on time as the door is closed when the room is full!
2)  Sign in and/or get a signature from the speaker or science teacher present to verify that you were there
3)  Write a 1-2 page summary of what the speaker talked about and YOUR RESPONSE to it.  Please do not just turn in notes.  Transcribe them into a more readable format to get the extra credit.

September 19-30

You've made it through the first 2 weeks of school!  If you haven't already turned in your signed Safety Contract and Academic Honesty Contract, please do so ASAP.  Those will be the first 2 "assignments" on your Points Sheet and on Edbox.  I am starting to enter grades, but as far as I know, Edbox is not yet available to students.   Keep an updated Points Sheet and you will know your grade.

• Mon 9/19:  Questions on Brine Shrimp Lab or Statistics Packet?  Go over further statistics on packet.  Packet due on Friday.  Graphing data using LoggerPro.  Go to Computer Lab to make graphs.  Remember that your first draft (preferably word-processed) of the Brine Shrimp Lab is due Wednesday.  We will have a quiz on statistics on Friday.
• Wed 9/21:   Color-mark another student's Brine Shrimp Lab and then return to them and give feedback.  Final draft due next Thurs 9/29, although it can certainly be turned in earlier, especially if your revisions are minimal!  Hand out Chemistry Review and work on this using text books (Chapters 2+3) and group members.  Chemistry Review due Tues 9/27.
• Fri 9/23:  Turn in Statistics Packet.  Quiz on statistics.  Water Properties Stations Lab.  Turn in LoggerPro graphs ASAP if not already.  If you need help, ask me in class or shoot me an e-mail.
• Tues 9/27:  Turn in Chem Review and Water Properties Lab.  Read "Molecules of Life".  Recognizing Functional Groups in Organic Compounds.  Read 4.1-4.3
• Thurs 9/29:  Final Brine Shrimp Lab Due (include color-marked version).  Sugars and carbs.  Linkage activity.  Read 5.1 and 5.2 in Campbell.