Homework

HW: Work on your Unit 6 Study Guides: Human Development and Organ Systems  - Questions 1 - 13 due:  B day Monday, 5/6 and A day Tuesday 5/7

 

HW: Finish your organ systems shutterbooks.  Due Wednesday 5/1

 

HW:  Answer all questions at the end of the Human Growth and Development PowerPoint Notes – due next class

 

HW:  Organ Systems Shutter Books  Pages 1-5 - Due:  Next Class

 

HW:  Work on your Organ Systems ShutterBook 1st 3 pages due next block
HW:  Answer all questions at the end of the Levels of Organization PowerPoint Notes

Levels of Organization PowerPoint Notes

 

 

Journal:  What are the 5 levels of organization.  Give an example of each.

 

HW:  Close Read of  “Body Organization” Reading Packet - due: next block

 

HW:  Part 2 (pages 3 and 4) of Unit 5 Study Guide  “History of the Earth and Evolution” Entire Study Guide due Test Day (Give Examples and make Drawings with labels and explanations, especially for part 2)
Test Alert:  Unit 5 “History of the Earth, Natural Selection and Evolution” B Wed. 4/17 and Thurs. 4/18
HW:  Finish answering the Islands of Evolution video Questions

 

 

Journal:  Are humans going through natural selection and evolving?  Give reasons. Support your ideas.

 

HW:  Part 1 (pages 1 and 2) of Unit 5 Study Guide  “History of the Earth and Evolution” due Next Block (Give Examples and make Drawings with labels and explanations especially for part 2)
Test Alert:  Unit 5 “History of the Earth, Natural Selection and Evolution” B Wed. 4/17 and A = Thurs. 4/18

 

 

 

HW:  Finish your Evidence of Evolution Lab – Due:  B-day Thurs. 4/11  and A-day Friday 4/12

HW:  Finish your Evolution Flipbooks – Due:  B-day Thurs. 4/11 and A-day Friday 4/12

 

HW:  Finish pages 1-3 of  your Evolution Flipbooks – due After the Break
HW:  Change Over Time Close Read – After the Break

 

HW:  Finish pages 1-3 of  your Evolution Flipbooks – due After the Break
HW:  Change Over Time Close Read – After the Break
Bring Everything to class on Thursday!

 

HW:  Finish the Close Read of “Natural Selection in Action”
HW:  Complete all parts of the Evolution PowerPoint Notes

 

HW:  Finish your Natural Selection Comic Strip.  Make sure you show #1 What the population of Tree Hanging Cougars was like at the beginning, then show all 4 steps of Natural Selection and what they were like at the end. – Due next block.   

 

HW:  Finish the Evolution PowerPoint Notes up to the Steps to a New Species Panel - Complete the notes on the animation and then stop. 

 

 

HW:  Finish The First 2 panels of your Natural Selection (Tree Hanging Cougars) Comic Strip due next class!

 

Journal:  What are the 4 steps of Natural Selection?  Explain each.

 

HW:  Finish the Natural Selection PowerPoint Notes

 

HW:  Complete the Peppered Moth Lab Report, including the graph and all questions. - due next block  - be sure to check instructions carefully and plan out your graph thoughtfully

 

 

 

HW:  Finish “History of the Earth” Website Worksheet – Don’t forget to write the quiz questions
And answers on a separate page and staple it to the Worksheet.

 

 

 

HW:  Finish the close read of “Looking At Fossils” Due: B = Mon. 3/11 and A = Tues. 3/12

 

HW:  Unit 4 “Heredity and Meiosis” Study Guide 
Due Next Block!

HW:  TEST ALERT!  Next Block!

 

Journal:  Draw a Venn Diagram showing the similarities and differences between Mitosis and Meiosis

 

HW:  Begin Working on your Unit 4 “Heredity and Meiosis” Study Guide 1st ½ due:  Next Block

HW:  TEST ALERT!  B = Wed. 3/6 and A = Thurs. 3/7

 

HW:  No homework, unless you want more time on your vocabulary charts.

 

Journal:  What were the stages and phases of the Cell Cycle?
(remember IPMATC)

 

HW:  Finish your Heredity Vocabulary Charts due next class!

 

 

HW: Finish 1 -  5 of the Heredity Vocabulary Chart due next class!

 

HW:  Finish the Heredity PowerPoint Notes and the Close Read for Chapter 6 Section 2 “Traits and Inheritance”.

Journal:  Explain why an organism needs to have 2 recessive genes for a recessive trait to show up.   

(for example pp for white flowers)

 

 

HW:  Finish your Close Read of “Mendel and his peas”

 

HW:  Human Traits Survey due next class

 

Journal: Where did you get your DNA from?

 

What traits have you inherited from this DNA?

 

HW:  Work on missing work or low scores that can be fixed.

 

TEST Alert – Unit 3 TEST B-day Thursday 2/8 and A-Day Friday 2/9
HW:  Complete Study Guide due Test Day!

 

TEST Alert – Unit 3 TEST:  B-day = Thurs. 2/8 and A = Fri. 2/9

HW:  Complete 1- 4 on the Unit 3 Study Guide “DNA and the Cell Cycle” by next class

 

Journal:  How is the Cell Cycle Similar to a Human Life Cycle?  How is it different?  (use a venn diagram)

 

 

HW:  Finish your Cell Cycle Movie:  Due Next Block  This Wednesday you can do Narration only.
HW:  Start working on your Unit 3 Study guide: DNA and the Cell Cycle

 

HW:  Begin working on your cell cycle movie.  By next class have all of the images saved in your google drive and imported into the movie.  Have the title scene, Overview and Interphase complete (Except for Narration).

 

Journal:  How is the DNA language like the English Language?  Start with the letters and go all the way to the entire book. (the more detailed and well thought out the answer the more points).

 

HW:  Begin working on your cell cycle movie.  Find the proper images and save them into a folder in google drive.   Make sure to bring your storyboards every day.

 

HW:  Complete the Cell Cycle Story Boards.  If your storyboards are complete by Wednesday you can start looking for the images you will need in class.  Otherwise, you will need to finish your storyboards first.

 

HW:  Answer all questions on the Cell Cycle PowerPoint Notes
HW:  Complete the close Read on the Cell cycle Reading Packet  (Instructions for doing a close read can be found on my: Recent Assignment Instructions page.

 

If you were absent today, here is the journal question.  You need at least 3 similarities and 3 differences.

 

HW:  Finish coloring and giving detailed answers to mRNA Transcription/Protein Syntheis Lab. – Due Next Class!
HW:  Finish DNA Mutations Worksheet – due next class!

 

HW:  HW:  Finish any coloring and answer questions  up to page 5 of the mRNA Transcription/Protein Synthesis Lab – Due next class

Remember you can go to my "Recent Assignment Instructions" page to download and print any assignments you have lost or if you are absent, but want to get started making up an assignment.  

 

Here is the Key that was on the board for how to color your nucleotides.

KEY

Deoxyribose = Pink or Light Red

Ribose = Black or Grey

Phosphate = Blue

 

Adenine = Green

Thymine = Orange

Cytosine = Yellow

Guanine = Purple

 

Uracil = White

Colored Pencil or Crayon only!  No Marker!

 

HW:  If you got an incomplete on your DNA PowerPoint Notes, be sure to finish it by next class.

 

HW:  Finish your DNA PowerPoint Notes:  Due next class!

 

If you were absent here is today's journal question:

HW:  DNA Replication lab (Base Pairs Basics) Due - A day = Monday 12/18 and B day 12/19

HW:  "How Does DNA Work" Close Read Due - A day = Monday 12/18 and B day 12/19

 

HW:  Unit 2 Study Guide "Cells and Cell Processes"  Due:  Next Block

 

HW:  Unit 2 Study Guide "Cells and Cell Processes"  Finish pages 1 and 2 by next block.

TEST ALERT!  A - Day Monday 12/4 and -Day Tuesday 12/5

 

HW:  Complete any missing work and fix any scores below 50%.  The end of Unit 2 is coming.

 

HW:  We are nearing the end of Unit 2 - Atoms, Molecules and Cells.  Study guides are coming and Journal packets will be collected.  Make sure you've made up any missing or incomplete work.  

 

HW:  Make sure you and your partner know all of your cell's parts (plant or animal) and all of the comparisons and why they are good comparisons.  You will need to present next class.  If either of you don't know your comparisons it will be big points off.

 

HW:  Complete All parts of the Diffusion WebQuest Lab – Check your work

HW: Work on your “cell is Like..” Posters due:  A = Mon. 11/13 B = Tues. 11/14 Make sure you know your parts and what you compared them to and why you compared them.  Remember you will need to present them.

 

HW:  Work on your, “A Cell is Like…” project.  Due: A day Monday 11/13 and B day Tuesday 11/14  - Get started right away.  There will be other homework during this time

 

HW:  Work on your, “A Cell is Like…” project.  Due: A day Monday 11/13 and B day Tuesday 11/14  - Get started right away.  There will be other homework during this time!

 

HW:  Complete the Plant and Animal Cell Lab – Make sure drawings are detailed and labeled correctly (Look at the “e” Lab)

HW:  Work on your, “A Cell is Like…” project.  Due: A day Wed 11/9 and B day Thus 11/10

 

HW:  Work on your "A Cell is Like..." lists of 11 comparisons for a Plant Cell or 10 for an Animal Cell.  Each partner needs a copy of the list with each cell part and what it does, and each part you are comparing it to and why the comparison works.  You both should have a complete and identical list.  - List of comparisons due:  A = Monday 10/30 and B = Tuesday 10/31

 

HW:  Think of what you want to compare a cell to.  Write down two organelles and what part they are similar to and why.

 

HW:  Think about what you would want to compare a cell to, for your, “A Cell is Like…” Poster Project

 

HW: If you didn't finish all 12 parts and comparisons for the journal.  Finish it for homework.

 

If You Were Absent, Here is the Journal Question.

Journal; A  cell has different parts that have different jobs to make the cell “run” correctly.  This organization is similar to the organization of a business or city.   Compare the parts of a cell to the parts of a city.  Use your book Segment 2 Lesson 2 and/or Eukaryotic Cells Read Pack and the book to help explain the jobs of the different cell parts (13 parts total). 
Your table should work on this as a group, however, everyone should be writing down what you decide in your journals.

 

Don't forget to stop by my room at break or lunch for the FINAL ANSWER!

 

HW:  Finish the Cells PowerPoint Notes, due next class!  If you didn't finish in class today.

 

 HW:  Finish the Eukaryotic Cells close read - Due Next Class!

 

HW:  Finish your Close read of “Eukaryotic Cells” Due:  A = Monday 10/23 and B = Tues. 10/24

 

Journal:  Draw a Venn Diagram showing the differences and similarities between eukaryotic cells and prokaryotic cells.  A flagellum is not one of them!

 

Don't forget to stop by my room at break or lunch for the FINAL ANSWER!

 

10/16 and 10/17

HW:  Close Read:  Characteristics of Cells – Reading Packet  Due:  Next Class  (Wednesday)

 

10/12 and 10/13

HW:  Finish your Cell Theory Flipbook - if you didn't finish in class.

 

10/11

HW:  Finish your Covalent Bonding Worksheet - Due Next Block

 

10/9 and 10/10

HW:  Turn in Late Work!  Last day for the quarter is Wednesday!

HW:  Finish Close Read of Necessities of Life Reading Packet 

 

HW:  Double check your Covalent Bonding Worksheet

 

Journal:  Name 5 things living things need in order to live and why do they need them?

 

10/5 and 10/6

HW:  Finish Questions 1 – 4 of the Covalent Bonding Activity Sheet – Give complete answers. – due next block

 

Here is the Animation to help you with Questions 1 - 4.

 

 

HW: Double-check your "Atoms Bonding" notes that we did in class.  See the video below.

 

10/4

Finish your Atoms Factory (Atoms and Ions) virtual lab.  Go back to the website and check all of your answers.  Think about the last 2 questions.  See if you can figure out what would happen if the simulation went to the next row on the Periodic Table.

 

 

10/2 and 10/3

HW:  If you have no missing assignments or assignments with grades 
below 50% then relax,  If not, get them in by next Wednesday!  - End of the Quarter is next Friday!

 

9/28 and 9/29

9/27

 

9/25 and 9/26

HW: Finish pages 3 and 4 of your study guide.  Give detailed complete answers.  Go on to additional pages!  Due:  Next Block

HW:  Finish your helicopter projects Due:  Next Class (WEDNESDAY!)

TEST ALERT! A= Monday 10/2   B = Tuesday 10/3!

 

If you didn't finish your, "Just How Small is an Atom" Notes in class, be sure to watch the video below and finish the worksheet.

 

Just How Small is an Atom
https://drive.google.com/a/wvusd.k12.ca.us/file/d/0Bx4iVOrPhOx8OFBBOUFmNWppdFU/view?usp=sharing

 

How Small Are Atoms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQP4UJhNn0I

 

9/21 and 9/22

HW:  Finish your Helicopter Project – Due:  Wednesday 9/27

HW:  Finish all parts of the Introduction to Microscopes Lab Due:  Next Class

HW: Finish the first half (pages 1 and 2) of your study guide for Unit 1 “Scientific Method, Safety, and Microscopes” DUE:  NEXT CLASS

 

9/20

HW: Finish page 1 of your study guide for Unit 1 “Scientific Method, Safety, and Microscopes” DUE:  NEXT Class.  Be sure to go onto extra pages to continue your answers.  Give detailed definitions and examples for each vocabulary word.

 

9/18 and 9/19

HW:  Begin working on your Helicopter Project.  Type up these parts of your helicopter scientific investigation for your Helicopter Presentation Board “Observations”, Question”, Hypothesis”, “Prediction” .  Bring the printouts with you next class. 

 

9/14 and 9/15

HW:  Finish all of your Helicopter Lab Report  Don’t forget what needs to be in the Conclusion.  Double-check your variables.  Do not restate your hypothesis in the Prediction.  The Prediction describes the test and what you expect the outcome to be.

 

9/13

HW:  Finish your helicopter drop lab up to and including your hypothesis:  Due next class

 

9/11 and 9/12

HW:  Finish your Microscope PowerPoint Notes

Don't forget to watch the video and fill in the notes on page #2

 

Here's the link to the brainpop.  Don't forget to take the quiz.  You can print and staple your results to this packet.

 

Some Questions at the end will require your notes from the book we did in class and/or the movie clip.

 

 

9/7 and 9/8

HW:  Finish all parts of Bernadette and the Corn Plants Lab Sheet - Due Next Class

 

Journal:  What are the 7 steps of the Scientific Method?  (Be sure to put two blank lines between each one.)

 

9/5 and 9/6

HW:  Finish all parts of the Scientific Method PowerPoint Notes:  Don’t forget to take notes on all video clips, fill in all blanks, answer all questions completely, and do whatever Professor Hornbottom says!

 

 

9/1

No Homework:  Due  Next Class

 

8/30 and 8/31

HW: Finish the Understanding Variables Worksheet - Finish finding and writing the variables for the last 2 examples.  Due:  Next Class

 

Journal: THINK LIKE A SCIENTIST 
You learn that mustard is made from ground-up mustard seeds and you are curious to know if mustard would help plants grow? 
Explain how you would go about finding the answer to this question.   

 

8/29

HW:  Answer the questions at the end of the “What is Life Science” PowerPoint Notes (1st and last questions complete sentences) due next block

 

Journal:  What do you think are the 6 characteristics that all living things have in common and why do you think this?

 

8/25 and 8/28

HW:  Finish the CLOSE-READ of the  “Scientific Method” Reading Packet.  Make sure to find and write the answers to the questions at the end of the packet.

1st Read through the entire packet
 a.  Highlight what you think is important (don't highlight randomly, think about it).
 b.  Circle words you don't know (any words you aren't familiar with or can't give 
a definition for).
2nd Read through the entire packet
 a.  Underline what is really important (it may be exactly what you highlighted or more or less).
 b.  Answer all questions completely.
Extra Credit:
 a.  On a separate paper that you staple to the packet:  rewrite the "before you read" questions and answer them completely.
 b.  On that separate paper give definitions for 2 or more of the words you circled in the reading packet.

 

8/24 A - Day Only

HW:  Answer the questions at the end of the “What is Life Science” PowerPoint Notes (1st and last questions complete sentences) due next block

 

8/23

HW: Know your science safety rules and what each safety symbol means.  Quiz next class!

 

8/21 and 8/22

HW: Go to Appendix A in your science books:  Read through each Safety Symbol and quiz yourself to see if you remember what safety rule each symbol is reminding you to do.   

(Appendix A can be found in each segment of your science book)

 

8/17 and 8/18

HW:  Have a green pen and your science binder with 5 labeled
dividers, paper in the journal section, and the class syllabus.  Due:  Next Class!

 

8/16

HW:  Read Syllabus/Parent Letter with your family and bring back the signed contract by A day: Thursday 8/17 B day: Friday 8/18 for some extra credit!

 HW:  Put together and bring your Science Binder and bring your green pen by: A day:  Monday 8/21 or B day: Tuesday 8/22 for extra credit

HW:  Think about how to present your idea.  What still needs to be done?  Is anything still not right about your invention?

 

8/15

HW:  Read Syllabus/Parent Letter with your family and bring back the signed contract by A day: Thursday 8/17 B day: Friday 8/18 for some extra credit!
 

HW:  Put together and bring your Science Binder and bring your green pen by: A day:  Monday 8/21 or B day: Tuesday 8/22 for extra credit

 

HW:  Think of ideas for your Make-it-Better Project

 

8/14
HW:  Read Syllabus/Parent Letter with your family and bring back the signed contract by A day: Thursday 8/17 B day Friday 8/18 for some extra credit!

HW:  Put together and bring your Science Binder and bring your green pen by: A day  Monday 8/21 or B day Tuesday 8/22 for extra credit