Assignments to complete today (5/29):

1.  Work on and complete at least 1 portion of the gold electricity and magnetism summative sheet.
2.  If you didn't pass the electricity and magnetism test please complete the following:
      a.  Page 134-135
      b. Page 142-143
      c.  Page 154-155
      d.  Page 164-165
      e.  Page 182-183  (Page 183 only complete Questions 1-2, 4-8)
      f.  Go to Thinkcentral.com.  Login.  My library. Module I.   Unit 3 (Electricity and Magnetism).  
          Complete Digital Lesson 3, 4 and 5.
3.  Go onto Student Vue and check your grade.  If you grade is a D or F write down a plan for improving your grade and get your plan checked by Mrs. Adkins.  Once your plan has been okayed begin working on the plan.
4.  Build an electromagnet and test the two following questions:
      a.  Does the size of the bolt affect the strength of the electromagnet?
      b.  Does the thickness of the wire affect the strength of the electromagnet?
 With at least one partner (or 2, no more than 3 in a group)  take turns writing for the group:
      a.  Copy the questions above
      b.  Write a hypothesis for each question
      c.  Write a procedure for both tests (please be specific)
      d.  Create a data table showing the data you've collected (number of paper clips)
      e.   Write a concluding statement for each question include whether your hypothesis was supported and include DATA (as in numbers) to support your concluding statements.

Electricity and Magnetism Test

TEST TOMORROW

What should you do to prepare?  Here's a list:
1. Read, skim or scan pages 126-175 and complete the pages
2.  Go over your Basics of Electrical Circuits formative Worksheet (you got it back today), correct any wrong answers.
3.  Go over your static electricity cartoon
4.  Go through your last set of reflections
5.  Go through Magnetism and Electromagnetism slideshow and the work you completed with that slideshow.
6.  Go through your electric current digital lesson
7.  Go through your circuit labs

Today you will complete an inquiry experiment by first building an electromagnet online and then building one for real!  Here is the website you will start at:  Build an electromagnet

For today's assignment go through the presentation and complete the work on a piece of paper.  You'll need your textbook and headphones:   Magnetism and Electromagnetism Introduction

For Today's lab:  Circuit Construction Kit (DC only)

For today Complete the:  Electricity Digital Lesson

Here is the website for the last part of this assignment:  Resistance experiment

Atoms and Charges Notes


For your Static Electricity Formative Cartoon:

Static electricity in general
Lightning
Electric shock 1

For Today:

Static Electricity Interactive

Write 4 observations that you made while completing this activity.

Tomorrow there will be a quiz on gravity.  Here are the review questions we did in class with the clickers:  Gravity Review Questions  I posted the answers to the very last page (no cheating!)

For 4/29/14

For Demo 2:
Pinhole in Bottle video

For Demo 3
Peeps in a vacuum

For 4/25/14 mini lab.  Here is the worksheet:  Gravity Intro Worksheet

Penny Drop Video
The above video is out of order, please go to the video below in order to see what should happen when one thing falls horizontally vs. something that falls vertically.  You also may want to watch the Myth Busters gunshot part 5 video that comes up after the video below.

Simultaneous Free Fall Video

Worldly Weights link

Please review your car being, well, obliterated! Think about Newton's laws, inertia, momentum,  unbalanced forces, etc.

Car Crash lab:  Unfortunately the cards are almost impossible to read for periods 1-3. Do your best to read them or pick out your car.
 Period 1 Car Crash video

Period 2 Car Crash Video

Period 3 Car Crash Video-  Period 3 is a video of me teaching for the first 15 minutes of class.  Skip this section and at the end you will find video of your cars.

Period 5 Car Crash Video Day 1

Period 6 Day 1 Car Crash Video

Period 5 Car Crash Video Day 2

Period 6 Car Crash Video Day 2

Today we took the mini formative assessment on speed, velocity and motion:  http://youtu.be/dGWLap91auU 
We also began an acceleration lab.

Along with "playing" with the motion sensors today, here is the review we did for tomorrow's formative assessment quiz (meaning it's not a summative grade): Speed, Velocity and Motion review
Come see me if you want to know the answers.

Fun with Speed, Velocity and Motion Sensors today and tomorrow!  Look over the graphing packet to help you make sense of it all!

Pedigree project is due tomorrow! 

Picked up new physics textbooks today and starting new unit tomorrow.

If you need to retake the Genetics test.  Please click on the Test Retake tab above.

Complete the following activity after you've taken the test:  The Purebred Paradox

1.  Punnett Square Practice for quiz tomorrow Punnett square practice worksheet

A lot coming down the line for next week:

1.  Have a rough draft pedigree drawn of one side of your family (3 generations).  Only circles and squares.  With names and find out phenotypes for your trait.  That means you may need to call some family members this weekend to find out some things!  Pedigree Project is due April 1st (Tuesday after spring break.  And I know that's April Fool's but this is no joke!)

2.  Quiz on Tuesday on Punnett squares.  I would Study the Punnett Square worksheets you have, study the following vocabulary: phenotype, genotype, dominant, recessive, punnett square, genes, alleles, heterozygous, homozygous.  Make up problems, have your parents make up problems or study with a friend and make up problems for each other!  Here's a helpful video A Beginner's Guide to Punnett Squares  

• I will be having a study session on Monday during lunch and also after school.  You should come if you are struggling.

• If you will be gone for choir or band on Tuesday it is your responsibility to make this quiz up.

3.  On Monday your Day 1 of Dogbreeding Worksheet is due (All of it needs to be completed!)

Test (see below) is rescheduled for Tuesday, March 18th. 

There will be a test on Friday on pages 124-141 in your text.
Vocab! Vocab! Vocab!  That is essentially what you'll be tested on.  Punnett squares will be included but not pedigrees. 
What can you do to prepare?  Flashcards! Do pages 132-133, and pages 140-141.  Complete problems 1-2, 4-5 and 8 on page 145.

Also we'll be starting a pedigree project before spring break.  You will have a couple of days to work on it before break (in class), and 1-2 days after spring break.  More on this coming soon!

PUNNETT SQUARE MADNESS!!!

The last few days we've been learning about genetics and how to figure out probabilities of certain traits for the possible offspring from two parents.  If you're interested in learning more go to youtube.com and type in "Bozeman Science punnett squares" there are many good videos to watch about how to draw a simple punnett square and genetics in general.

Today we looked at specific traits we did or didn't have.  For example can you roll your tongue?  If not it's ok, you just have a recessive trait.  After this we completed a passage analysis for pages 124-129.  Heredity Passage Analysis

1.  Collected Gummy Bear Lab today.  If you can't find yours you'll need to come see me for a new copy.  If you already got an MDF for it and turned it in to Mrs. Raz then I have it. 

2.  Completed the Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction Concept Map: Sexual vs. Asexual Reproduction Concept map  with the following concepts Sexual vs. Asexual Reproduction concepts

3.  Friday we will be having a Guest Speaker:  Dan Meador, an engineer!

Today we finished up mitosis and meiosis by acting it out with cards and doing a formative assessment.  We started to look at the differences between sexual and asexual reproduction by beginning to work on this concept map:  Asexual vs. Sexual reproduction concept map

Today we got to slide 8.  Make sure the three questions for mitosis and meiosis are done.  We'll act out meiosis tomorrow.   Mitosis and Meiosis presentation

Tomorrow is Test Day!

Here is the review we did with the clickers today! Cell structure, function and processes review

Answers to questions are given but if you want to know more about information regarding
1. prokaryotes and eukaryotes (questions 1-3 in review) go to pages 10-11
2.  cell structures and their functions (questions 4-7 in review) go to pages 25-35
3.  Cell processes (questions 8-13 in review) go to pages 52-77 (don't worry too much about mitosis)

You could also complete the worksheet given in class, look over labs, homework, worksheets, digital lessons, virtual labs, and that slow flipbook you made!!!

Good luck! E-mail me if you have any questions

1.  Today we worked on the virtual lab from Friday, you'll need to finish it for homework.
2.  TEST on 2/20!!!
Today you received a worksheet that covers studying for the last test that we are retaking on Thursday.  In order to cover the cell processes part you will want to do one or all of the following to study for that part:
1.  For each of the following cell parts explain what they do:  Ribosomes, mitochondria, chloroplasts, and cell membrane.
2.  Explain how the structure of the mitochondria and nucleus are different.
3.  Complete pages 34-35, 60-61, 74, 76-77
5.  Complete the "Other processes" page on your slow flipbook by adding information and drawings of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

Today we completed the Gummy Bear Lab! Yuck, but we didn't eat them!
We started the Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Virtual Lab: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Virtual Lab  This is not homework, we will complete this on Tuesday.
The virtual lab can be found by:
 1.  Click onto the home page 2.  click on the Think Central link 3.  log in to Think Central.  4.  Go to my library  5.  Click on Fusion blue box Module A (top right hand blue box).  6.  Click on Cells  7.  Click on the virtual lab (the right blue play button) for lesson 6 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration.

We will have a review session on Wednesday and the Cell processes and cell structure and function test will be on Thursday the 20th.

1. We completed Day 2 of the Gummy Bear lab.  IF you are gone you'll need to get your data from your partner.
2.  Complete the digital lesson worksheet: Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis Digital Lesson
To get to the digital lesson: 1.  Click onto the home page 2.  click on the Think Central link 3.  log in to Think Central.  4.  Go to my library  5.  Click on Fusion blue box Module A (top right hand blue box).  6.  Click on Cells  7.  Click on the digital lesson (the left blue play button) for lesson 6 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration.
3.  We are most likely going to be taking our Cell structure and function + cell processes test on 2/20.  You will want to use your old study guide from the first test and study the following processes: cellular respiration, photosynthesis, osmosis, diffusion, endocytosis, exocytosis, passive and active transport.  I'm hoping to put together some sort of study guide for this portion of the test in the near future.  

Today we completed fast flip books and shared the different transport in cells processes.  Due to snow days the upcoming test has been tentatively moved to the 20th.  This test will count as a retake for every student and will include the last test.  The following are pages you will want to study:  Pages 8-13, 25-35, 39-49, and 51-77.  The following is the study guide from the last test that will find useful for studying as well:  Cell Structure and Function Study Guide

Today's assignment was to make a slow flip book based on the reading (pages 52-58).  Below shows the labels and what needs to be under each of those labels.

Top cover = Cell Process- on the cover in 1-2 sentences explain what cells need to be able to do (use the word homeostasis). Page 52
Next label = Passive Transport- What is passive transport? Which cell processes are considered passive and why? Page 56
Next label = Diffusion- explain the process,  draw at the cellular level, and say what cell part/organelle is involved.  Page 56
Next label = Osmosis- explain the process,  draw at the cellular level, and say what cell part/organelle is involved. Page 56
Next label = Active transport- what is active transport transport? Which cell processes require active transport? page 57
Next label = Endocytosis- explain the process,  draw at the cellular level, and say what cell part/organelle is involved. Page 58
Next label = Exocytosis - explain the process, draw at the cellular level, and say what cell part/organelle is involved. Page 58
Next label = Other processes (you can get this information from pages 54-55) divide the inside into two parts one side will be labeled "Getting Energy", the other side will be labeled "Replication".  Under "getting energy" describe each process, include a drawing of each and say which organelles are involved.  (hint: one starts with "p" and one starts with "c") Under replication describe the process and draw it, then say which organelle is involved.  (hint:  it starts with an "m")

Today we turned in the Cell Theory Lab, then we read and did a vocabulary shuffle for pages 10-11 in the book. 

We started a lab today to support our understanding of the Cell Theory. Cell Theory Lab

Today we started the Cells and Heredity Unit.  We are breaking this unit into smaller units and we're going to start with the cell basics.  Here is the study guide for this small unit Cells Structure and Function Study Guide.