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Welcome to Mr. Hardin's Science Class

White Hill Middle School. 101 Glen Drive. Fairfax, CA 94930

 

Mr. Hardin's Science Class

7th Grade Science

chardin@rossvalleyschools.org

(415) 454-8390 - ext. 205

Room #105

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Please find the units and assignments from our 7th grade science class. This is a great way to find out what is being covered each day!

 

Unit: Light & Optics:  (due date: June 4)

 

Warm Ups

1. What Is Light?

2. L.M.L.

3. Test Your Spectrum Skills

4. Examples Galore

5. Light Basics

6. Mirror Observations

7. Mirrors and Lenses

Assignments

1. Light & The EM Spectrum

2. Light Interacts With Materials

3. Light & Color

4. Pinhole Projector Lab

5. Light & Color Stations Lab

6. Clothing Store Mirror

7. Refraction and Lenses

8. Optics Stations Lab

 

 

Week of May 23-27

 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Warm Up: Mirrors and Lenses

Draw 3 mirrors (flat, concave, convex) and 3 lenses (flat, concave, convex) and how light rays interact with each.

 

   2.  Optics Stations Lab

 

Wednesday

  1. Warm Up: Outer Eye

Use a mirror to draw your eye. Label at least 3 structures in your eye that you can see. List at least 3 structures in your eye that you cannot see.

 

   2.  Labeling the Eye

   3. Homework: 14.4 workbook (congratulations on finishing your final 7th grade science workbook!)

 

Thursday

  1. Warm Up: Eyes Have It (worksheet)
  2. Blind Spot Lab

 

Friday

  1. Warm Up: Eye Exam (nothing to make up if absent)
  2. Exploratorium video

 

Week of May 16- 20

 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Student Survey (if absent, nothing to make up)
  2. Light & Color Stations Lab

 

Wednesday

  1. Warm Up: Light Review

1)  What are 2 differences between colors of lights and colors of pigments.

2)  You are in a room with a light hanging from the ceiling, and a basketball laying on the ground. Which of the following is the pathway of light that allows you to see the basketball?

            A.        Light bulb > your eyes > basketball

            B.         Your eyes > light bulb > basketball

            C.        Basketball > light bulb > your eyes

            D.        Light bulb > basketball > your eyes

                    3) Cone cells demonstration (nothing due)

    2)  Light & Color Stations Lab continued

 

Thursday

  1. Mirror Notes (can be copied from a friend or Mr. Hardin)
  2. Clothing Store Mirror (worksheet)
  3. Homework: 14.1 Workbook, due Friday

 

Friday

  1. Video Segment: Mirrors
  2. Refraction and Lenses (corresponds to text 14.2)

 

 

Week of May 9- 13

Monday/Tuesday

 

1)  Warm Up: What is Light?

                        a) What is light? (Your definition first: _____________________________)

                        b) Draw light. (Your interpretation)       

                        c) What is the book’s definition of light?: __________________________

2)   Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum (Notes Guide, 1st half only)

  3)   Homework: 13.1

 

Wednesday

  1. Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum (Notes Guide, 2nd half)

2)   Video: Elements of Physics: Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum 

                          (nothing due if absent)

 

Thursday

  1. Warm Up: Test Your Spectrum Skills (pink worksheet)
  2. Light Interacts With Materials (you can complete this using your textbook section 13.3)
  3. Homework: Light & Color worksheet (corresponds to text 13.4) due Friday

 

Friday

  1. Warm Up: Examples Galore

Give an example of each of the following:

a. Radio waves             g. Gamma Rays                 m. Reflection

b. Microwaves             h. Transparent material       n. Primary color of light

c. Infrared light             i.  Translucent material        o. Secondary color of light

d. Visible light               j. Opaque material             p. Primary color of light

e. Ultraviolet light          k. Scattering                      q. Secondary color of pigment

                  f.  X-Rays                     l.  Refraction

  1. Pinhole Projector Lab: Light Rays and Colors 

                       (If absent, nothing to make up… but ask a friend about it. It was pretty neat!)

 

 

Unit: Sound and Hearing: (Packet due date: Thursday May 6)

 

Warm Ups

1. Sound/ Waves

2. L.M.L.

3. The Venn of Waves

4. Whale Love Songs

5. From Mr. Hardin To Your Brain

6. Text 444
 

Assignments

1. Making Waves

2. Video: Exploring Sound

3. Sound Stations Lab

4. How Do You Speak? How Sound Travels

5. Ear Shape and Sound Direction Lab

6. Modeling the Human Ear Lab

7. Speed of Sound
 
 

 

Week of May 2- 6

 

Monday-

  1. Warm Up I- Text 444

   Read pgs 440-444 and answer #1-4, 6 in complete sentences.

    2. Speed of Sound

 

Tuesday/ Wednesday

  1. S= d/t Lab (nothing to make up if absent)
  2. Study Guide

Thursday

  1. Review Study Guide for Quiz

 

Friday

1. Collect Packets

2. Sound Quiz    

April 25- 29

Monday

            1) Warm Up: Vocal Cords

Please place the following categories in order of shortest vocal cord length to longest vocal cord length:male child, female child, female adult, male adult. Please provide an explanation for your answer. (hint: remember the “Ruler Station” Sound Station. Those observations/ results will be helpful in this warm up)

             2)   How Do You Speak?/ How Sound Travels (worksheet)

 

Tuesday/ Wednesday

 

  1. Ear Shape and Sound Direction Lab (on same sheet as Animal Hearing Comparison)

 

Thursday

  1.  Warm Up: From Mr. Hardin To Your Brain

Describe the creation of, and the pathway of, sound as it comes from Mr. Hardin to your brain. You must use the following words in your response:

Compression       Rarefaction      lungs       vocal cords       mouth       air molecules         pinna           ear canal

Vibrations           hammer            anvil        ear drum           stirrup       cochlea                  nerves          brain

            3)   Whale Love Songs 

            4)   Homework: 12.2 workbook, due Friday

 

Friday

1) Model of the Human Ear Lab

 

Week of April 18- 22

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Warm Up: Waves

1) What is a wave? Your definition (before looking in book):____________

                               Book’s definition: ______________________________

    Draw a wave. (before looking in book)

 

2) What is sound? Your definition (before looking in book): ______________

                             Books definition: _______________________________

     Draw sound. (before looking in book)

 

2.  LML: Bones, Muscles, and Blood Quiz test corrections

3.  Making Waves: Worksheet and Demonstrations

4.  Homework: workbook 12.1

 

Wednesday

  1. Finish Making Waves
  2. Video: Exploring Sound (if absent, be sure to get Mr. Hardin’s initials on your assignment sheet)

 

Thursday

  1. Warm Up: The Venn of Waves                                 

                    a) Think about the two types of waves (Transverse/ Longitudinal).       How are they alike? How are they different? (Do a Venn Diagram)

 b) You knock on a door. Which side of the door vibrates? How do you know?

 

    2) Intro to Sound Stations Lab

 

Friday

  1. Sound Stations Lab

 

 

 

Links for the Muscular Skeletal Project

http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cybertherapist/muscles/allmuscles.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/muscle_anatomy.shtml

http://www.innerbody.com/image/musbov.html

http://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html

http://www.odec.ca/projects/2006/sabh6a2/2.htm

http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/HumanBody/BodyMuscles.htm

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/HumanBody/BodyBones.htm

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humananatomy/skeletal/skeletalsystem.html

http://kidshealth.org/kid/ill_injure/aches/broken_bones.html

http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/bones.html#

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/skeleton/Skelprintout.shtml

http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000124.html

http://health.howstuffworks.com/muscle.htm

http://www.besthealth.com/besthealth/bodyguide/reftext/html/musc_sys_fin.html

 

Unit: Bones, Muscles, and Blood: (due date: April 8)

 

Warm Ups

1. Very Important Bones and Muscles Facts

2. LML

Assignments

1. Facts Sheet

2. Chicken Wing Dissection Lab

3. Circulatory Webquest
4. Circadian Rhythms

5. Is This P.E. or Science? Lab

 

 

Week of April 4-8

 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Is This P.E. or Science? Correlations Among the Muscular, Skeletal, & Circulatory Systems
  2. Computer Lab: Work on Muscular/ Skeletal Systems Project
  3. Muscular/ Skeletal Project due Wed.

 

Wednesday

  1. Finish conclusion questions to Is This P.E. or Science?
  2. Bill Nye video: Blood and Circulation
  3. Homework: Study Guide

 

Thursday

  1. Project Presentations
  2. Review for quiz

 

Friday

            1. Bones, Muscles, and Blood quiz

 

 

                                             Week of March 28- April 1

 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Hand back Botany quiz
  2. Chicken Wing Dissection Lab
  3. Homework: Read 11.2; Complete worksheet “Circulatory”

 

Wednesday

  1. Computer lab: Circulatory Webquest

Site #1: http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/heart.html#

Site #2: http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000131.html

Site #3: http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/systems/circulation.html

Site #4: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/transplantwave.html

   2. Homework: Muscles/ Bones Project Drawing

 

Thursday

  1. Computer Lab: Work on project

 

Friday

  1. Circadian Rhythms

 

Week of March 21-25

 

Monday- Teacher Work Day (no school)

Tuesday-

  1. Pushing the Limits video
  2. Introduce Skeletal/ Muscular Systems Project
  3. Homework: Read text 10.1 and answer questions on “Skeletal” worksheet

Wednesday

  1. Warm Up: Very Important Bones and Muscles Facts
  2. Bullet Breakdown
  3. Homework: 10.2

Thursday

  1. Computer Lab

Friday

  1. Watch school play
  2. Video

 

Unit: Botany:  (Packets due Friday, March 18)

 

Warm Ups

1. Chloroplast Count

2. Flower Power

3. Flower Power Challenge

4. Help Wanted!

5. Vascular Venn

Assignments

1. Why Don't You Make Like a Tree... And Leave

2. Nature Journaling

3. Video: Our Flowering World

4. Reinforcing Key Concepts

5. Cool Beans Lab

6. Plant Anatomy Notes/

Plant Microscopy Lab (1)

7. Flower Dissection Lab

8. Leaf Anatomy

9. Flower Structure and Reproduction

10. Counting Leaf Stomata Lab
11. Plant Microscopy Lab (2)

                       

Week of March 14-18

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Final observations of Cool Beans Lab
  2. Counting Leaf Stomata Lab
  3. Plant Microscopy Lab (leaf cross-sections)
  4. Homework: Quiz Friday; Packets due Friday

 

Wednesday

  1. Warm Up: Table on study guide (plant anatomy functions)
  2. Continue Plant Microscopy Lab
  3. Homework: finish Study Guide due tomorrow; Quiz/Packets due Friday

 

Thursday

  1. Review Study Guide
  2. Finish Plant Microscopy Lab
  3. Homework: Quiz and Packets due tomorrow

 

Friday

  1. Collect Packets
  2. Botany Quiz

 

 

                                     Week of March 7-11

 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. First observation of “Cool Beans” Lab
  2. Flower Dissection Lab (including microscope section)
  3. Plant Anatomy Powerpoint and Lecture Notes (if absent, copy from a friend of Mr. Hardin)

 

Wednesday 

  1. Second observation of “Cool Beans” Lab
  2. Plant Microscopy Lab (on backside of Plant Anatomy Powerpoint notes)

 

Thursday

  1. Observation for Cool Beans Lab
  2. Warm Up: Help Wanted!
  3. Leaf Anatomy (worksheet reading/questions/coloring)

 

Friday

  1. Observation for Cool Beans Lab
  2. Warm Up: Vascular Venn: Create a Venn Diagram for: Xylem, Phloem
  3. Flower Structure and Reproduction

 

Week of February 28- March 4 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Nature Journaling
  2. Video: Our Flowering World (13 min)
  3. Class/ Homework: Read textbook and do workbook 9.2  

 

Wednesday

  1. Warm Up: Flower Power (label the parts of a flower)

2.   Reinforcing Key Concepts (worksheet)

 

Thursday

  1. Warm Up: Flower Power Challenge

2.   Bean Sprout Lab Set Up

Friday

  1. Flower Dissection Lab

 

Week of Feb 14-18 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Review study materials (Classification Review 1-4)
  2. Packet Party

3.   Classification Quiz

 

Wednesday

  1. Why Don’t You Make Like A Tree…. and Leave

(Side 1: the notes for this assignment can be found in chapter 8.2) 

               (Side 2: Draw a plant including: roots, leaves, stomata, xylem, phloem)

 

Thursday 

  1. Video: The World of Plants
  2. Read textbook 8.2 (pgs 277-283) and do the workbook

3. Homework: Bring a leaf to class 

 

Friday

  1. Chloroplast Count (on graph paper) (if absent, answer the questions on pg. 284)

2. Video: From Seed to Shining Seed (nothing due)

 

 

Unit:  Classification: (Packet due 2/15/2011):

 

Warm Ups
1. What Is Classification?

2. Paperclips and Backpacks

3. How Are Living Things Classified?

3. Flower Classification

5. What Is A Cladogram?

6. Cladogramania

8. What Are The Kingdoms?

9. What Is A Virus?

Assignments

1. Shark Classification

2. Florida Sea Turtles

3. Shoe Classification Lab

4. Human Evolution
5. What Did T-Rex Taste Like?

6. The Six Kingdoms

7. Classification Review 1-4

 

Week of February 7-11

Monday/ Tuesday

            1) Warm Up: Cladogramania

                                    1. If absent, please do the Challenge on page 247.

                                    2. Create a mnemonic device for the levels of classification:

                                                             Example

Kingdom                      Kings

                           Plyum                           Play                             

Class                            Chess

Order                           On      

Family                          Fine     

Genus                           Grain   

Species                         Sand

 

  1. Video: Classification of Animals
  2. Computer Lab: What Did T-Rex Taste Like?

      4.Homework: 7.2 in workbook

 

Wednesday

  1. Warm Up: What Are The Kingdoms?” (green worksheet)
  2. The Six Kingdom’s. Coloring and labeling. (white worksheet
  3. Homework: 7.3 workbook

 

Thursday

  1. Warm Up: What Are Viruses? (white worksheet)
  2. Classwork/Homework: Review #1&2: 1) Dichotomous key (genus Norno);  2) Cladogram Construction

 

Friday- Classification Review 3-4

  1. 3) Dichotomous key (planet Pamishan)
  2. 4) Classification Facts Review

 

Week of January 31- February 4

Monday/ Tuesday

Introduction to Classification Unit

  1. Warm Up: Paperclips and Backpacks
    1. What categories could you use to classify various paperclips? (Come up with as many categories as you can)
    2. What categories could you use to classify the contents of your backpack? (Come up with as many categories as you can)
  2. Shark Classification

            Identify the 14 families of sharks and answer the 3 questions on the back 

  1. Florida Sea Turtles (Yellow worksheet, classify turtles using dichotomous keys)
  2. Homework: 7.1 workbook

 

Wednesday

  1. Warm Up: How Are Living Things Classified?
  2. Video: Classification of Living Organisms (nothing due if absent)

 

Thursday

  1. Warm Up: Flower Categories
    1. How many categories can you think of to categorize flowers? (What are they?)
    2. What are two “rules” of a dichotomous key?
  2. Shoe Classification Lab
  3. Homework: Closet Classification (found on Shoe Classification Lab)

 

Friday

  1. Warm Up: How is a Cladogram Constructed?

                        If absent, read 246-247. Construct a cladogram from for Table 1. and             answer question 1-3 in section Observe and Analyze

2.Human Evolution: Biological Evolution (white worksheet)

 

 

 

 

Unit:  Evolution (Packet Due: Friday, January 28):

 

Warm Ups

1. Extinction question #1-2

2. One Affects the Other

3. Natural Selection Notes

4. Create Your Own Example of Natural Selection

5. The Bird Is The Word
6. Polar Bear Express

7. Aquatic Stage of Evolution?

Assignments
1. History of Life

2. Video: Evolution: Extinction/ Great Transformations

3. Bird Beak Adaptations Lab

4. Adapt-A-Bird

5. Evidence For Evolution Notes (front)

Adaptive Radiation: Mammalian Forelimbs (back)

6. Create Your Own Evolution

7. Natural Selection on Newspaper Island

8. Peppered Moth Simulation

 

 

Week of January 24- 28

Evolution Quiz this Friday 

Monday/Tuesday-

  1. Peppered Moth Simulation (computer lab) 
  2. Warm Up: Aquatic Stage of Evolution?
  3. Positive Behavior Plan
  4. Homework: Evolution Study Guide due Thursday

 

Wednesday-

  1. Group Trivia for Evolution: Quiz Review
  2. Homework: Study Guide due tomorrow

 

Thursday-

  1. Review Study Guide
  2. Get packet in order

           

Friday

  1. Turn in packets
  2. Evolution Quiz
  3. How Are Living Things Classified? (green worksheet)

 

 

Week of January 17- 21

 

Note: Evolution Quiz next Thursday, January 28 

 

Monday- Martin Luther King Jr. Day

                No School

Tuesday-

  1. Jigsaw Puzzle
  2. Create-A-Quiz
  3. Homework: Finish individual portion of group quiz.

IF ABSENT:Complete 6.3 in your workbook and excused from activities #1 and #2

 

Wednesday

  1. Evidence For Evolution Notes (if absent: may copy from a friend or Mr. Hardin)
  2. Coloring: Adaptive Radiation: Mammalian Forelimbs

 

Thursday

  1. Warm Up: Polar Bear Express

Use your knowledge about natural selection and your creativity to think of new adaptations a species may evolve in the next several million years to be better suited to live in our constantly changing climate due to global warming. Include a drawing.

  1. Create Your Own Evolution 

2.   Homework: 6.4 workbook

 

Friday

  1. Natural Selection on Newspaper Island (if absent, read directions and answer conclusion questions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week of January 10- 14

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Warm Up: Create Your Own Example of Natural Selection

Steps

Our Example from Fri

Your Example

1) Overproduction

Turtles lay many eggs

 

2) Genetic Diversity

Slight differences in DNA (some have longer limbs)

 

3) Adaptation

Long limbs are helpful for survival (crawl across beach towards ocean)

 

4) Selection

Long-limbed turtles have better % for survival & reproduction (passing genes on). Over time, more turtles in population have long limbs.

 

    

2.  Bird Beak Adaptations Lab 

(if absent, please read “Background” information  and answer questions #2-4 on back

    

3.  Homework: 6.2 Workbook, due Wednesday

 

Wednesday

            1) Warm Up: The Bird Is The Word

                 Pretend you are a bird. 1) What would you want your food source to be?           

                 2) Describe and draw your ideal beak for this resource. Be specific (long, slender,   

                     short, blunt, hooked, curved, scooped, etc)

            2) Adapt-A-Bird Activity

 

Thursday

            1) Check homework and class discussion (Adapt-A-Bird)

            2) Video: Evolution: Great Transformations (use back worksheet: "Extinction" video 

                                                                                notes)

Friday

  1. Warm up with trivia: Show Me What You Know About Evolution (nothing due if absent)
  2. Finish video: Great Transformations

 

Week of January 3-7 

 

Monday- Teacher Work Day- No School

 

Tuesday

  1. Computer Lab- History of Life; Internet site is: 

    http://www.scuc.txed.net/webpages/pparris/files/Hist%20of%20Life.pdf

 

Wednesday

    1.  Extinction: Read and discuss with class. Answer questions #1-2 on a separate sheet of paper.

    2.  Homework: workbook 6.1

 

Thursday

            1. Video- Evolution: Extinction (if absent, get a signature from Mr. Hardin)

 

Friday

1. Warm Up: One Affects the Other

  1. Write the definitions for: 1) Extinction 2) Evolution

b.    Explain how the extinction of a species affects the evolution of other species?

 

  1. Natural Selection Notes and Drawings (if absent, you may copy these from a friend or Mr. Hardin)

 

Geologic Period Research Project Websites (project due Dec 18)

 

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/etc/timeline/timeline.html

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/prehistoric-time-line.html

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/timeline.html

http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/toiletpaper/history.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/Geologictime.html

www.fossilmuseum.net/PaleobiologyVFM.htm

www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

www.handprint.com/PS/GEO/geoevo.html

www.fossil-facts-and-finds.com

http://universe-review.ca/R10-23-plants.htm

http://prehistory.com/colorchr.htm

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim4.html

http://www.sdnhm.org/exhibits/mystery/fg_timeline.html

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/global_history.html

www.palaeos.com

 

 

 

Unit: Earth History (due Thursday Dec 16)

Warm Ups

1. How Many Is A Billion?

2. Compressed Time Scale

Assignments

1. Relative Dating

2. Geologic Time

3. Fossil Find

4. Geologic Period Time Travel

 

Week of Dec 13 – 17 

Monday/ Tuesday

1.      Computer Lab

2.      Fossil Find

3.   Continue Timeline

4.   Homework: Work on Geologic Time Travel (if not at recommended spot)
 

Wednesday

  1. Finish Timeline

 

Thursday

  1. Computer Lab
  2. Homework: Finish Geologic Time Travel (Overview: 5 facts; Animal: 3 “interesting” facts; Plants: 3 “interesting” facts; Earth/ Land Masses/ Climate: 3 “interesting” facts)

Friday

            1.     Surprise Activity

            2.     Have a nice holiday break! 

 

 

 

 

 

Week of Dec 6 – 10 

Monday/ Tuesday

1.   Heredity Quiz     

2.      Introduce Geologic Time Travel 

3.   Homework: Workbook 5.1; Personal Timeline (bottom of Era & Period Table sheet)

 

Wednesday

1.  Warm Up: How Many is a Billion? (pink worksheet)

2. Relative Dating

 

Thursday

1. Warm Up: Compressed Time Scale (green worksheet)

2.  Timeline Lab

 

Friday

1.    Return Quiz

2.      Computer Lab

 

 

Unit: Heredity (to date)

Warm Ups

1. Mendel's Work (green worksheet)

2. Freckles

3. L.M.L.

4. Vocab Recap
5.Ch 4 Genetics Notes
6. SpongeBob
7. Is There A Black Sheep In The Family?

Assignments

1. What Is A Gene?

2. Probability, and Coin Tossing Lab

3. Punnett Squares and Single Factor Crosses

4. SpongeBob Genetics

5. Paper Pet Creations

6. Blood Notes

7. Synthetic Blood Typing Lab

8. Blood... Online!

9. Blood Crossword

 

 

 

Week of November 29- Dec 3

Monday/ Tuesday

1)      Blood… online! (computer lab)

2)   Group trivia (nothing due if absent

3)   Study Guide: Due Thursday

Wednesday

    1. Warm Up: Blood Typing Lab 2
    2. Human Blood Crossword + Questions

 

Thursday

  1. Review Study Guide
  2. Packets due tomorrow

 

Friday

  1. Computer Lab- practice genetics questions at the following sites:

 

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/geneprob.htm

 

http://anthro.palomar.edu/blood/quizzes/bldquiz2.htm

 

http://anthro.palomar.edu/blood/quizzes/bldquiz1.htm

 

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/blood_types/blood_types.html

 

Heredity quiz next block day (Monday/ Tuesday)

 

 

Week of November 22- 26 

Monday/ Tuesday

1)   Warm Up: Is There A Black Sheep in the Family? (worksheet)

2)      Add to Genetics Glossary: Incomplete Dominance, Codominance

4)   Video Segments: Blood Cells, Blood Typing

5)    Blood notes (if absent, may be copied from friend or Mr. Hardin)

Wednesday

1)      Blood Typing Lab

3)      Enjoy Thanksgiving Break!

Thursday

            Thanksgiving

Friday

            No school

Week of November 15-19

 

Monday/ Tuesday

1)      Warm Up: Vocab Recap

a) Match the following vocabulary words with the examples:

  1. Alleles                      a. Green eye color
  2. Gene                        b. segment of DNA that influences a trait
  3. Trait                         c. Hh

b) What are the differences (definitions) between the following pairs of words:

1) heterozygous and homozygous (can be found in computer lab assignment “What is a Gene?”

2) genotype and phenotype (can be found in the book)

             2)   Update Vocabulary List with terms homozygous and heterozygous.

3)      Making Babies Lab

4)      Workbook 4.2 due Wednesday

Wednesday

1)    Warm Up: Genetics Notes

2)   Punnett Squares and Single Factor Crosses (odd problems)

3)     Homework: Finish Punnett Squares and Single Factor Crosses #1-10

Thursday

1)      Homework check and review

2)      Warm Up: “SpongeBob”

3)      Bikini Bottom Genetics (SpongeBob)

Friday

             1)      Paper Pet Creations

 

 

 

Week of November 8- 12

Monday/ Tuesday

1) “What Is A Gene?” (blue worksheet) in the computer lab

2)   Mendel’s Work (green worksheet)

3)      L.M.L. (Return Quizzes and make corrections if necessary)

4)      Dominant/ Recessive Traits Group Survey (nothing due if absent)

    5)    Homework: 4.1 workbook; Finish Genetics Glossary of vocab words in chapter 4.1 text: due Wednesday   

                             

Wednesday-

1)      Warm Up: Freckles 

Having freckles is a dominant trait, represented by the allele “F.”

Having no freckles is a recessive trait, represented by the allele “f.” 

(A)  If you, or a friend, have no freckles, what allele makeup (genotype) do you have? Which allele did you inherit from each parent?

(B)  Is it possible for a freckled husband and a freckled wife to have a child with the physical trait (phenotype) of having no freckles? Explain your answer.

2)   Cell Division Quizzes handed back: LML (test corrections)

 

           

Thursday- No School: Veterans Day

 

Friday

1)      Probability and Coin Tossing Lab

 

 

Unit: Cell Division

Packet due date: Friday November 5

 

Warm Ups

1. DNA Wrapped Up

2. Chromosome, Chromatid, Chromatin

3. L.M.L.

4. Mitosis Lab Practice

5. Mitosis Rap

6. How Long is Each Phase of Mitosis?
7. Review

Assignments

1. Mitosis Notes

2. Control of the Cell Cycle

3. Presentation Notes

4. Stages of the Cell Cycle Lab

5. Cell Division Study Guide

 

 

Week of November 1- 5 

Monday/ Tuesday

1)      Warm Up: How Long Is Each Phase of Mitosis? (pink worksheet)

2)      Finish “Stages of the Cell Cycle Lab”

3)      Mitosis Flip Books

4)      Cell Division Study Guide

5)      Homework: Quiz Friday; Finish Mitosis Flip Book and Study Guide due      

                           Thursday)

Wednesday

  1. Group Trivia (review for quiz, nothing due if absent)
  2. Study Guide due tomorrow

 

Thursday

1)      Warm Up: Review

             1a) Why do cells divide?

               b) How do cells divide? (Compare your answer to your original answer    

                                 from Thursday October 21 Warm Up: DNA Wrapped Up)

                            2a) What is a Cycle? Give three examples of cycles in your life.

                              b) Draw a large circle for the Cell Cycle. Label it with G1 phase, S 

                                               phase, G2 phase (all part of Interphase), and Mitosis.

                 c) Briefly state what happens in each of these phases (for questions b 

                                  and c, use your Control of the Cell Cycle for help)

3a)  What is an advantage of asexual reproduction vs. sexual reproduction?

  b)  What is a disadvantage of asexual reproduction vs. sexual reproduction?

 

2)      Review Study Guide for quiz tomorrow

 

Friday

1)      Cell Division Quiz

 

2)      Read text 4.1, begin “Genetics Dictionary” from all bold print words in section  

 

 

 

Week of October 25- 29 

Monday/ Tuesday

1)      “Control of the Cell Cycle” (Interactive Internet Activity in the Computer Lab)

2)     Last Minute Learning (hand back Cell Function quizzes and review/ make corrections)

3)     Phases of Cell Cycle Posters continued

4)     Homework: Textbook/ Workbook 3.3 due Friday

 

Wednesday

1)      Finish Posters/ Presentations + Presentation Notes

2)      Warm Up: Mitosis Lab Practice (yellow worksheet)

 

Thursday

1)      Stages of the Cell Cycle Lab

 

Friday

1)      Warm Up: Mitosis Rap

                         Write a rap about mitosis including at least one fact about    

                         each   phase of the cell cycle.

2)      Mitosis Flip Book Project

 

 

 

Week of October 18- 22 

Monday- No School 

Tuesday

            1)  Update Assignment Sheet

            2)  Osmosis in Elodia Leaf Lab

            3)  Homework: Packet Party at Home! (Put Cell Function packet together. This is a homework assignment. Points off for being late)

            4)  Homework: Finish Study Guide (include in packet)

           

Wednesday                        

            1)   Cell Function Quiz

            2)  Read text 3.1 “Cell Division”

            3)  Homework: do WB 3.1 due Thursday

Thursday

            1)      Warm Up: DNA Wrapped Up

                                     1) Draw and label the following terms:

                                         DNA, Protein, Chromosomes, Chromatid, Centromere, Nucleus

                                      2) What do you think?... “Why & how do cells divide?” 

                                          (We will revisit this warm up towards the end of this unit).

            2)   Mitosis Notes (If absent, you may get these notes from a friend or Mr. Hardin

            3)   Homework: WB 3.2 due Thursday

 

                 

Friday   

             1)      Warm Up: Chromosome, Chromatid, Chromatin

                                     1)      What is the difference between a chromosome, chromatid, and  

                                             chromatin? (use your book and “Mitosis Notes”)

                                      2) Which would you see in each of the phases of the cell cycle?

                                                       a) Interphase: ____________________

                                                       b) Prophase: ____________________

                                                       c) Metaphase: ____________________

                                                       d) Anaphase: ____________________

                                                       e) Telophase: _____________________

                                                       f) Cytokinesis: ____________________

            2)     Group Posters

 

Unit: Cell Function

Packet due date: 10/20/10

Warm Ups

1. Last Minute Learning

2. Photosynthesis Sequence

3. Cell Energy

4. Perfume Demo

5. Moving In and Out of Cells
6. Cell Membrane Passage

Assignments
1. What Are Cells Made Of?

2. Video: Flow of Matter

3. Yeast Respiration Lab

4. Photosynthesis

5. Respiration

6. Egg Osmosis Lab

7. Osmosis in Elodia Plant Cell Lab

8. Cell Function Study Guide

 

 

Week of October 11- 15
Monday/ Tuesday
1)   Warm Up: Perfume/Water Color Demonstrations of Diffusion
        Questions: a) What is diffusion? b) What would happen if you put a drop of color dye in         a container of water? c) Why would this happen (read 2.3 in text book for information)
2) Day 1 of “Egg Osmosis Lab”
3) Homework: Finish “Respiration” from Friday; Workbook 2.3

Wednesday
1)      Warm Up: Moving In & Out of Cells (green worksheet)
2)      Day 2 of “Egg Osmosis Lab”
3)      Quiz next Wednesday

Thursday
1)      Day 3 of “Egg Osmosis Lab”
2)      Cell Membrane Passage (How substances move in and out; blue notes worksheet)
3)      Quiz next Wednesday

Friday
1)      Day 4 “Egg Osmosis Lab”
2)      Study Guide (due next Wednesday)
3)      Quiz next Wednesday

 

 

Week of October 4-8 

Monday/ Tuesday

               1)      Warm Up: What Are Cells Made Of? (worksheet) If absent, complete the notes table for the following macromolecules: carbohydrates, protein, lipid, nucleic acids

Write what each is composed of, and what its primary function(s) are within the cell. (Answers can be found in text chapter 2.1)

 

2)      Video Notes: The Flow of Matter and Energy in the Living World,

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration …[if absent, get an “excused” on 

your assignments sheet from Mr. Hardin]

 

3)      Homework: Read text 2.2 and do Workbook 2.2 (due Wednesday)

 

Wednesday

1)      Yeast Respiration Demo

2)      Warm Up: Title: Photosynthesis Sequence

Rearrange the following components of photosynthesis to fit in the appropriate place: glucose, water, chloroplast, carbon dioxide, sun energy, oxygen 

Starting Reactants  +     Reaction Agents   =      End Products

                           1.                                 1.                                 1.                    

                           1.                                 2.                                 2.

 

   3. Saltine Cracker Experiment (nothing due)

            4. Yeast Respiration Worksheet

 

Thursday-

            1) Discussion about grades

            2) Video: The World of Plants (nothing due)           

            3) Photosynthesis (green worksheet)

 

Friday-

            1) Warm Up: Cell Energy

Plant cells and animal cells create energy through different processes.

1) What are the names of these processes?

         2)  How are they related to each other? Explain your answer?  

            2)   Lactic Acid from Fermentation Demo on basketball court (nothing due)

            3)      Respiration (orange worksheet)

 

 

Unit: The Cell

Packet to date

Warm Ups

1. Microscope Gadgets

2. Permission-To-Use Microscope Quiz

3. Last Minute Learning (LML) (quiz corrections)

4. Cell Functions in Your Home
5. Cell Venn Diagram
6. Cell Rap

 

Assignments

1. Textbook Treasure Hunt

2. Microscope and "e" Lab

3. Organization of Life

4. Cells Alive! 

5. Animal Cell Coloring

6. Plant Cell Coloring

7. Cell City Analogy

8. Seeing Cells Lab

9. Video: The Living Cell
10. Study Guide

 

 

Week of September 27- October 1

 

Monday/ Tuesday

1)      Warm Up: Cell Venn Diagrams

1)      Complete a Venn diagram for a Prokaryote Cell and Eukaryote Cell

2)      Complete a Venn diagram for a Plant Cell and an Animal Cell

            2)   Review Seeing Cells Lab

            3)      Cell Day! (Viewing and presentations of student models)

Wednesday

            1)    Warm Up: Cell Rap

            2)    “Cheat Sheet” notes (last page of Cells Alive) if absent, may copy from friend                                                                                         or Mr. Hardin

3)      Video: The Living Cell (video questions)   

4)      Study Guide: due Friday

Thursday

1)      Group Cell Trivia review

Friday

1)      Packet Party

2)      Quiz                                                    

Week of September 20- 24

 

(note: out of the next 4 school days, Mon- Thurs, every student will be missing 1 day due to Challenge Day, but the day missed will vary student by student. For simplicity, I am scheduling Monday as Challenge Day (but if your Challenge Day is a different day, the lesson for Tuesday will be held on Monday, and so on until every student has had 3 lessons in 4 days).

 

Monday- Challenge Day

 

Tuesday-

    1. Animal Cell Coloring (front/ back)
    2. Plant Cell Coloring
    3. Cell Model due next Block Day

 

Wednesday

1)      Warm Up: Cell Functions in Your Home

Choose any 4 organelles and compare their functions to things in your home, and explain why. (example: Cell membrane :  Front and back door--- both allow things to enter and exit the cell/ home.

2)      Cell City Analogy

3)    Seeing Cells Lab (Elodia Section only) Look at Elodia leaf under the microscope. 

              4)   Cell Model due next Block Day

 

Thursday

            1)   Read textbook 1.3; do workbook 1.3

    2)   Prepared Slides Lab

            3)   Cell Model due next Block Day

Friday

 

  1. Seeing Cells Lab
  2. Cell Model due next Block Day

 

 

Week of September 13- 17

Monday/ Tuesday

1)      “Permission-To-Use Microscope” Quiz retakes

2)     Hand out science textbooks

3)     “Popcorn” Read textbook ch. 1.1; Do workbook pg. 1.1 in Workbook

4)      Homework: Textbook Treasure Hunt: due Wednesday

 

Wednesday

1)     Microscope and “e” Lab

              2)   Homework: Read textbook 1.2; Do workbook 1.2

 

Thursday

             1)  Hand back Orientation Quiz and “Last Minute Learning”

2)  Cells Alive! Computer demo/notes

3)    Homework: Organization of Life (parent involvement worksheet)

Friday

            1) Review: Organization of Life

             2)      Finish Cells Alive!

3)      Video Quiz: The Living Cell

4)    Discuss Cell Project/ Discuss next week schedules due to Challenge Day

 

 

 

September 6- 10 

Monday- Labor Day, no school

 

Tuesday

          

            1)  Review “Is It Alive? Lab” from Friday

            2)  Is It Alive? Game (nothing due)

            3)  Study Guide

            4)  Homework: Study Guide due tomorrow

                                     Packets due tomorrow

                                     Quiz tomorrow

 Wednesday

1)      Packet Party

2)      Quiz

 

Thursday (Begin Unit: The Cell)

1)      Warm Up: Microscope Gadgets (blue worksheet)

                     (Permission-To-Use-Microscope Quiz tomorrow)

 

Friday

             1)   Permission-To-Use-Microscope Quiz

 

Unit : Science Orientation

Packet due date: Wednesday 9/8

Warm Ups
1. Personal Survey
2. New Knowledge
3. Life
4. Stimulus and Response

Assignments
1. Penny Observation Lab
2. Footprints in Time
3. Scientific Method Basics
4. Is It Alive? Lab
5. Orientation Study Guide

 

 

August 30- September 3

 

Monday/ Tuesday

  1. Warm Up (on binder paper): Title: New Learning:  

                        How do you learn something by yourself? (Without the use of books, magazines, internet, teachers, parents, newspaper, television, etc).

  1. Binder Check
  2. Hand back quizzes
  3. Scientific Method Basics (note taking guide; you may copy these notes from a friend or Mr. Hardin)
  4. Mythbusters Experiment: Video
  5. Hardin Challenge
  6. Homework: Scientific Method (green worksheet) design your own garden experiment

 

Wednesday

  1. The String Challenge (work with partners) (nothing due)
  2. Review homework (Scientific Method experiment design)
  3. Table grouping time trials
  4. Design your own group experiment
  5. Presentations of group experiment
  6. Quiz next Wednesday; Packets due next Wednesday

 

Thursday

 

1)   Warm Up: Title: Life

                 “How do you know if something is alive? (What characteristics does it possess?)”

2)    Notes on the 8 characteristics of life (on same page as warm up)

3)    Quiz next Wednesday; Packets due next Wednesday

 

Friday

 

  1. Warm Up: Title: Stimulus and Response

Name three examples of a stimulus and response for each of the 5 senses.(sight, sound, touch, taste, smell)

[example for touch: stimulus- heat; response- sweat]

  2)  Is It Alive? Lab

  3)  Quiz next Wednesday; Packets due next Wednesday

 

 

 

What a great first week of school!

August 23- 27

Monday:

1)      Introduction

2)      Around the Room

3)      Personal Survey

Tuesday

         1)   Classroom Scavenger Hunt

2)      Syllabus

3)      Expectations

4)      Homework: Science Binder Check (due Monday)

5)      Quiz on Friday: School/ Class Expectations and Procedures

Wednesday

 1)     Penny Observation Lab 

2)      Behavior policy and “While You Were Gone” Box

Thursday

1)      Hand out Study Guide for Expectations Quiz

2)      Create our class “Safety Rules” for labs and activities (work in groups)

3)      Presentations 

Friday

1)      Expectations Quiz

2)      Footprints in Time activity (inference vs. observation)

3)      Rate Your Science Skills (if time permits)

 

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