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Biology Daily Agenda Spring 2009
Lesson 1
Weds. Sept. 9, 2009
Announcements: Welcome!
(Also please see board)
Today:
Introduction to Course
Distribute and review documents:
Syllabus
Greetings letter home
Student information sheet
Text Distribution:
Fill out textbook cards
Discuss “
Distribute “Increasing your science vocabulary” table
HW: Due Monday!
1. Complete “Compiling Evidence (Galileo)” worksheet
2. Complete
Forming a Hypothesis worksheet
3. Complete Testing a Hypothesis worksheet
4. Complete
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5. For pre lab, read Sect. 1.1 & answer Sect. 1.1 questions, p. 9, #’s 1,2 & 5.
6. Complete “Increasing your science vocabulary” table
Next class:
Discuss and turn in homework
Discuss Scientific Method
Perform “What Is Life” Lab: gathering data, making observations
Lesson 2
Mon. Sept. 14, 2009
Announcements: Welcome! (Also please see board)
Please turn in your student information sheets!
Today:
Discuss/turn in “
Discuss /turn in Sect. 1.1 questions, p. 9, #’s 1,2 & 5.
(list characteristics of the living...)
Review “Increasing your science vocabulary” table
Discuss Scientific Method
Start “What Is Life?” Lab write up: follow guidelines and include answers to the questions on the reverse of the observation table.
HW: Due Weds!
1.
2. Sect. 2.1
Qs, #1-5.
Lesson 3
Weds. Sept. 16, 2009
Announcements: Welcome!
Business: add forms, class contracts, emergency cards: see Chrisy in the front office.
Please turn in your student
information sheets to me (in basket)!
Return graded work. Some comments:
- Please write the date on your assignments
- Nice work on the 1st passes (Rubrics/grading
evaluations)
- First Passes, follow template for full credit!
- My cryptic notes: please ask if you cannot read
my writing!
“C/S” means not exactly a complete sentence
- Please ask questions in class, even of each
other. Chances are you share many
and could consult each other to fill in the gaps on worksheets or problem
sets where you may just not get
the instructions. Talking it out
helps and is completely allowed and encouraged.
- That said, revisit your graded work, look for
green ink, any questions?
- Sect 1-1#2, p. 9, tell HOW the theme relates
specifically to a harp seal.
- Remember you can resubmit the next class.
Please turn in your first
passes of chap 2 (chemistry of life) as well as of chap 1, and chap 1’s
homework (sect 1.1, Qs 1,2 and 5)
Questions on the HW due
today?
Sect. 2.1 Qs, p.
#1-5.
Today: Rough out our first lab report on the “What Is Life?” Lab
Distribute and review lab report guidelines and rubrics
Complete the Data Lab, p.42 Enzyme Activity Graph
HW: Due Mon., Sept. 21
1. Complete “What Is Life?” Lab write up:
follow guidelines and include answers to the questions on the reverse
of the observation table. Also attach your completed self graded rubric.
2. Read Ch 2, sect
2.2 thru 2.4 and answer all sect Qs: #1-5
3. Complete two
coloring sheets: for full credit , make sure you color the image the same as
it’s vocabulary term (they are coded with the same very small letters)
Sizes of
things
Water’s
properties
4. Bugs in Guts
or Microbial Wardrobe or Who Knew? article response: see handout for guidelines (3-2-1 OK)
Due Mon., Sept. 28:
1.
2. Vocabulary: Etymologies of 10 terms, p. 67: Please pick 10 terms from the key terms listed on p. 67 (Ch. 3) and record their prefixes, roots and suffixes some may not have all three parts). Then look up and record the language of origin, the original term, and the meaning of each word part. (see table handout)
Due Weds., Sept. 30:
1. Please build a low tech model of a macromolecule
(consult guidelines handout)
2.
3. Math Lab, p.56
Surface area to volume ratio
