•••please note: changes made to the syllabus during the week may not be reflected here•••

Week of 11/30

Heredity continued

.....Independent events

.....Probability in genetics

.....Punnett squares

Vocabulary Quiz

Introduce and begin Paper Pet Project

HW:

Coin Cross Activity

Breeding Chickens problem

.....part I

.....part II.

Week of 11/23

Genetics and Heredity continued

...Vocab look-up

..........Quiz on 12/1

...probability activty

HW: 3 vocab cards based on vocab look-up

Study for vocab quiz

Week of 11/16

Non-fiction reading (Gregor Mendel)

Cancer quiz

Begin Genetics

.....mendel - discussion

.....F1, F2 generation

.....dominant and recessive alleles

.....dominant and recessive traits

....probability and heredity

HW

Type three. Letter to a friend explaining how you understand what is happening with cancer.

Type two. Definition and a sentence, based on class notes, for heredity, trait, genetics, fertilization, purebred

Type two. 4 things I learned.

Data collection, dominant and recessive traits for two family members

Week of 11/9

Fermentation, quick review

Meiosis & Mitosis

(sexual and asexual reproduction)

Cancer

at the cellular level

prevention

treatment

HW

Type three vocab cards

4 cards: photosynthesi, cellular respiration, meiosis, mitosis

Type two. 4 things I learned about cancer

Week of 11/2

Chemical compounds in cells

Photosynthesis

Respiration (cellular)

Cell division (Meiosis & Mitosis)

. asexual reproduction

HW:

Type two. How does the body use carbohydrates and fats? (8 sentences)

Type two. 3 things I learned about photosynthesis (6 sentences)

Type two. 3 things I learned about respiration (6 sentences)

Week of 10/26

.Completion of Body Systems unit including QUIZ

Begin heredity unit

...readings, discussion, and video

HW:

Study for Body Systems quiz

Type three: Self evaluation

Type two. Three things I learned. (6 sentences: 2 each)

Type two. Three more things I learned (6 sentences: 2 each)

Week of 10/19

.Human Body systems continued

. Poster study

(The 2nd period class will not have class Tuesday or Wednesday due to NECAP   testing.)

Viruses, a brief exploration

HW:

Type two: first four body system responses

Type two: remianing body system responses

Type two: three things I learned from the origin of Life video. (Pd 4 class)

Week of 10/12

ANOTHER NECAP WEEK. GET PLENTY OF SLEEP!

.Body system poster work continued

• Revisiting the origin of life.

HW: Because of the NECAP schedule homework will be determined on a daily basis.

Week of 10/5

NECAP WEEK. GET PLENTY OF SLEEP!

.Complete research on body system

. Computer & Reading

Begin body system poster

HW:

Type one: Six things I can do to be an effective partner. (Complete sentences)

Type two: How does the system I'm studying relate to the other systems? Which ones are most closely related?

Week of 9/28

Origin of life on Earth

Domains and Kingdoms

Begin Human Body Systems

HW

3 things I learned about the origin of life.

Type three: Time travel bservation. What did you see when the first life came to be?

Type one: Six things I can do to be an effective partner.

Week of 9/21

Complete Leaf Lab

Classification and the theory of evolution

The three domains of living things

The origin of life on earth

HW:

Activity response

Make a dichotoumous key (4 objects)

Three new things I learned.

Week of 9/14

Classification

. Organize items

. Taxonomic Keys

. Evolution & classification

Leaf Lab

HW:

Worksheets from notes

3 things I learned

Activity response

Week of 9/7

Recap of dissolving activity

Needs of Living Things

Potato lab

Classification activity

HW:

Type two: Activity response

Potato lab process description

Type two: 3 things I learned

Week of 8/31

The characteristics of living things

Spontaneous generation

Lab: How much water in a potato? (moved to next week)

Needs of Living Things

Activity: Solubility of sugar and salt in oil and water

HW:

Type two: 3 things I learned

(This includes both the topic and what was learned.)

Explain why Computer, River, Amoneta are, or are not, alive. Use the characteristics of Living Things.

Type three: An example of something that might be thought to be spontaneous generation (Next week)

(see handouts page)

Predictions and process description for potato lab

Type two: Activity response for solubility activity

(see handouts page)

Week of 8/26

Introduction and Expectations

Kinds of scientists

Branches of science

"Is it Living?" probe

The needs of living things

HW:

What is a scientist? Drawing.