Unit 4 Study Guide

Unit 4 PowerPoints
Skin: The Bodies Protection
Bones: The Body's Support
Digestion
Endocrine System

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
-    Unit 4 Exam
-    Happy Winter Break !!!

Friday, December 12, 2008
-    Review Chapters 34 and 35 for the exam

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
-    Quiz on skin, bones, and muscle
-    Endocrine System PowerPoint
By Friday, students should have completed their portfolios so they can spend the Monday before the test studying.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
-    Watch video on the skeletal system
-    Bones: The Body's Support PowerPoint
-    In groups, draw what you look like with and without bones, list facts, use vocabulary words
-    Handout assignment for 34.3

Friday, November 28, 2008
NO SCHOOL!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
-    Watch video on skin, listing 5 new facts
-    Break the students into groups to read the skin article and share summary
-    Skin: The Bodies Protection PowerPoint

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Unit 3 Study Guide

Unit Focus Guides                                                                  
Ch 6 Focus Guide
Ch 7 Focus Guide
Ch 8 Focus Guide
Ch 9 Focus Guide

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
-    Review for Exam
-    Exam and Portfolio due on Friday

Friday, November 14, 2008
-    "Energy for the Cells" PowerPoint
-    Have students fill out chart during the lecture
-    Complete the Standardized practice on pages 248-249

Friday, November 7, 2008
-    Mitosis Activity
-    Introduce energy in a cell
-    "The Need for Energy" PowerPoint
 
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
-    Finish additional Lab
-    "Cell Growth and Reproduction" PowerPoint

Friday, October 31, 2008
-    Foldable on Osmosis- previous knowledge
-    "Cellular Transport" PowerPoint
-    Complete filling in foldable
-    Begin additional lab, to be completed on Tuesday

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
-    Overview video
-    "Eukaryotic Cell Structure" PowerPoint to review parts of the cell
-    Plant cell versus animal cell Venn diagram
-    “Observing and Comparing Different Types of Cells” Lab

Friday, October 24, 2008
-    Collect lab from Tuesday
-    "The Plasma Membrane" PowerPoint
-    Have students illustrate and label the plasma membrane
-    Video clips:    “Types of Cells”
“Plant Cells”
“Animal Cells”
-    Using their textbooks, have the students fill out the handout on cell structure, to be finished at home

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
-    Lab: “Using a compound light microscope”

Friday, October 17, 2008
-    Handout to review vocabulary from Tuesday
-    Play video: “Brief History of the Cell”
-   "Discovery of the Cell" PowerPoint
Materials: vocabulary handout, lab, computer, projector

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
-    Review the importance of water
-    Penny Lab
-    Diffusion discussion
        o    show examples of diffusion with food coloring and water
-    "Life Substances" PowerPoint
-    Have students group vocabulary words
Be completely done with Chapter 6 by Friday
Read Section 7.1

Friday, October 10, 2008
-    Review pH
-    pH minilab
-    Begin "Water and Diffusion"


Tuesday, October 7, 2008
-   Introduction: Why don't we get sugar when we mix water and coal?
-   "Atoms and their interactions" PowerPoint
-    Build atoms out of candy
-    Come up with examples of mixtures and solutions
Understand 6.1, Read and take notes on Chapter 6 by Friday


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Friday, October 2, 2008
-    Exam
-    Preview the next unit
o    What do the students all ready know about cells?  Brainstorm, look through the chapters

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
-    Break the students into pairs and have them write a test question for each objective
-    Have the groups switch papers and take each others exams

Friday, September 26, 2008
-    Discuss proper debate etiquette and norms
-    Break the students into two different groups and debate!
-    Pass out grading sheets-    Take Quiz
-    Pass back exam 1- Students are to re-due any questions on a separate sheet of paper that did not receive full credit.  They are to turn this in on Friday along with the original test

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
-    Quiz
-    Pass back exam 1
-    Go over Ch 5
-    Complete group activity to prepare for Friday debate "Drilling in ANWR"

Friday, September 19, 2008
-    "Population Dynamics" PowerPoint
-    Play "Oh Deer" to model the dynamic
-    Complete "The Lesson of the Kaibab"- due on Tuesday

Tuesday, September 16:
-    "Communities" PowerPoint
-    Throughout PowerPoint have students write vocabulary definitions in their own words
-    Complete Venn Diagram for Primary and Secondary Succession
-    Students will complete Section 3.2 on their own