| 9/25/07 assignments are posted on the small black(green)board as you enter
the room. We are currently working thru chapter 3 in the text. We have
already discussed The Scientific Method, metric system, physical and chemical
changes.
4/11/07
Current assignments include.
Text thru 307.Cells.
In class we are working on Calorie lab where students determine the calories
in a pecan and a peanut and perhaps other foods. This will be due by the
l8th. It includes a data table and students will NOT get higher than a D if
they do not determine the calories per gram(kcal/g) and do not answer
questions at the end of the activity. All will be demonstated, stated and if
needed further explained, in class.
Currently there is a home project called Nutrition. It has been explained
and I am taking any questions. Today we reviewed , determining percent
protein. This will be due by the end of next week(20th). The student is to
construct three pie graphs. The third one based on their data table. I am at
the present, asking students to bring their data tables in on Friday and
Monday, and any problems we can together work out so they will have the data
needed to make the third pic chart and draw conclusions and make
recommendations about their diet.
This project, in addition to having the student gather data and draw
conclusions, is a way for the children, as part of their unit on Human
Growth and Development, to learn what is a recommended diet and why and will
increase their quality of life. This will hopefully aid them and prevent
their getting early onset diabetes and heart disease.
Home work is posted regularly on the board and reviewed almost every other
day. Assignments are usually posted or announced many days in advance.For
many assignments, almost any excuse will give the student more time. A
quiz/test will be on Wed 9/13 and come from the four pages of questions at
the end of chapter one. Period five will have an additional essay where they
will describe progress researching project ideas. Film summaries will be
due the last week of this nine eeks.
Current homework that should be ready are pages 44 and 55. Pages 75 and 84
will also be assigned during the week. All four will be collected at or
around Sept 29th.
Soon the students will be weighing some objects and finding their volumes.
Then there will be a lab, worth three homeworks, determining density, and
ranking them by density. Students will have a nutrition project in
February. Please start reading food lables and identifying protein,simple
sugars,complex carbs,saturated fats and unsaturated fats. Subtract
indented on the lable, sugar and fiber from carbohydrates to get cmplex
carbs.
ADVANCED
The advanced class was assigned their research project the first week of
school in August. This involves at this time, ONLY doing background
research. A problem statement CAN NOT be created till the junior scientist
is knowledgeable in the area they choose to research. The student might
start with an idea of what they want to know more about. Many suggestions
from food to pollution have been made. By now the student should have
investigated (read and summarized in their own words for their background
and bibleography, not merely xeroxed or printed) their topic in an
encyclopaedia, dictionary, and their science text. Now it is time with new
terms and ideas to search The New York Times Science News,a bookstore,
library, professional journals or universities dealing with the topic.After
this research and knowledge is acquired perhaps specific internet searches
can be made. I will try and come up with some. But the kids are much better
at this than I am.
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