HOMEWORK Feb. 22-26, 2010

7th grade PHYSICAL SCIENCE... THERMAL ENERGY TEST WILL BE ON TUESDAY, FEB. 23
Monday, Feb. 22--Review for tomorrow's thermal energy test
Tuesday, Feb 23--Test today!
Wednesday, Feb. 24--Finish the analysis and conclusion portions of the HOT CHOCOLATE LAB on thermal insulation--due tomorrow!
Thursday, Feb. 25--No class today--History Fair!
Friday, Feb.26--Notes on waves--"CATCH A WAVE!"

8th grade EARTH SCIENCE -- We are currently studying the ATMOSPHERE AND WEATHER
Monday, Feb. 22--Cloud data collection; Slideshow of cloud photos - label the clouds together
Tuesday, Feb. 23--Cloud data collection; Read the CLOUD-WEATHER article together: HW--define the vocab and draw a picture for each word in Ch.12 Sec. 1 and 2 (11 words)
Wednesday, Feb. 24--Notes over Ch. 12 Sec.1; popquiz over vocab. from Sec. 1
Thursday, Feb. 25--History Fair Day
Friday, Feb. 26--Notes over Ch.12 Sec. 2

9th BIOLOGY--
Monday, Feb. 22-Review invertebrates; take up invertebrates homework from Friday

Tuesday, Feb. 23-Discuss the various body systems of organisms:

• Skeletal System
• Nervous System
• Circulatory System (how fluids flow around --sometimes called CardioVascular System)
• Muscular System
• Respiratory System (how gases are exchanged, i.e. oxygen in and CO2 out)
• Digestive System
• Reproductive System
• Integumentary System (skin)

Read about starfish from book and complete a table (with 8 columns headed with the words above, and 4 rows below-- in the first box, explain what each system does in organisms, then in the remaining three boxes, give three bullet point facts about the organism's design by God in that particular system

Wednesday, Feb. 24-Discuss the HW together in preparation for a quiz over the material on Friday

Thursday, Feb. 25--Finish the "systems" discussion of the starfish; Classwork: Read the lab over the Starfish in our lab book and highlight steps to take before class on Monday (when we will dissect!); Tomorrow STARFISH quiz over systems
Friday, Feb. 26--Quiz today over the systems of the starfish!

11th grade HAP -- YOU ARE NOW WORKING ON A SPECIAL SENSES EXHIBITION WHICH WILL BE ON FRIDAY
Monday, Feb. 22--Special Senses exhibition work
Tuesday, Feb. 23--Special Senses exhibition work
Wednesday, Feb. 24--Special Senses exhibition work (Finish Magic Schoolbus reading)

Thursday, Feb. 25--Special Senses exhibition work; Extra credit for a group to present today (Yea! Austin and Josh S.)
Friday, Feb. 26--Exhibitions on the Special Senses

HOMEWORK Feb. 16-19, 2010

7th grade PHYSICAL SCIENCE... We are currently studying about THERMAL ENERGY from Ch. 15--TEST WILL BE ON TUESDAY, FEB. 23
Monday, Feb. 15-- No school today...enjoy God's creation today!
Tuesday, Feb 16--Finish side 1 (Sec. 1) of the study guide worksheet

Define HEAT ENGINE

One type of heat engine is Internal Combustion Engine…What is burned in ICE?

Give 4 examples of where they are used

Read the steps of a FOUR STROKE CYCLE

Wednesday, Feb. 17--Notes on engines and refrigeration; HW--bring a cup for tomorrow's lab
Thursday, Feb. 18--THERMAL INSULATORS LAB (AKA hot cocoa lab)
Friday, Feb.19--Work on rest of study guide for next Tuesday's test

8th grade EARTH SCIENCE -- We are currently studying the ATMOSPHERE AND WEATHER
Monday, Feb. 15--No school....enjoy God's amazing creation!
Tuesday, Feb. 16--Learn about how to read a compass; Make a cloud data table and record data about clouds in 3 directions (i.e. Northeast sky --nimbus ; S--no clouds)
Wednesday, Feb. 17--Continue with cloud data collection; Notes from rest of Ch. 11; HW-study for cloud quiz tomorrow over p. 288 (announced Tuesday)
Thursday, Feb. 18--Cloud quiz today; cloud data collection; notes on coalescence and precipitation; FIELD TRIP TOMORROW
Friday, Feb. 19--Field trip to Marianna/ Florida Caverns State Park today!

9th BIOLOGY--
Monday, Feb. 15--No School

Tuesday, Feb. 16--Presentations today over Bioethics topics

Wednesday, Feb. 17--Finish the presentations

Thursday, Feb. 18--One last presentation; Intro to zoology unit today
Friday, Feb. 19-- Use your computers to research invertebrates at the National Zoo's website http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/default.cfm and answer the following questions...... After you have explored the National Zoo website, you may use other invertebrates information websites as well.

1. What do all invertebrates have in common?
2. Remember the classification system (Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species). What kingdom are all invertebrates in?
3. Name and describe the 6 different phyla of invertebrates then give four characteristics of each of those phyla. (Yes, I realize that is 24 different characteristics!)
4. Under the four characteristics of each phylum, please include the name and a picture of one representative species from that invertebrate phylum.
5. Read more about one of the 6 species (that you just collected the name and a picture from) and read more detail about it. Write a paragraph of 5-7 sentences describing that particular organism. In it highlight something you find particularly interesting about this animal.

Note: Students taking Biology at the General level only need to choose 4 of the 6 phyla to write bullet points about. You still need to write the paragraph on a specific invertebrate animal of your choosing.

11th grade HAP -- We are studying the NERVOUS SYSTEM-- TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY, Feb.17 over the NERVOUS SYSTEM
Monday, Feb. 15--No School
Tuesday, Feb. 16--Autonomic Nervous System notes; Review for tomorrow's test over the nervous system
Wednesday, Feb. 17--Nervous System Test-- Be very afraid! (ha--get it?!)

Thursday, Feb. 18--Read MAGIC SCHOOL BUS visits the Senses
Friday, Feb. 19-- Begin work on the Senses project in pairs

HOMEWORK Feb. 8-12, 2010

7th grade PHYSICAL SCIENCE... We are currently studying about THERMAL ENERGY from Ch. 15
Monday, Feb. 8--Notes on thermal energy and movement of molecules; no HW
Tuesday, Feb 9--Three scales for temperature: Kelvin, Celsius, and Fahrenheit-- Convert the following --using the equations in the book on p. 436...
#1 and #2 from Practice Problems plus calculate
#3. 46 degrees F to _____ degrees C
#4. 40 degrees C to ______ degrees F
#5. 10 degrees F to _______ degrees C to _______ degrees K (finish for HW if you didn't finish in class)
Wednesday, Feb. 10--no HW
Thursday, Feb. 11--Side 2 (over Sec.2) of the worksheet called Study Guide --checked in class tomorrow
Friday, Feb.12--Side 1 (over Sec. 1) of the worksheet called Study Guide

8th grade EARTH SCIENCE -- We are currently studying WEATHERING AND EROSION from Ch. 7 and Ch. 8... NEXT TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27 (this is a change!)
Monday, Feb. 8--Discuss and take notes over what happens in each of the layers of atmosphere; HW--GET FIELD TRIP FORM SIGNED for Friday! WE NEED DRIVERS!!!
Tuesday, Feb. 9--Discuss heat versus temperature; HW--Define the vocab from 11:2 (8 words)
Wednesday, Feb. 10--no HW
Thursday, Feb. 11--Draw the diagram of the types of clouds from p. 288 (Quiz over this next week)
Friday, Feb. 12--Watched video called "Whirling Winds"

9th BIOLOGY-- We are currently studying BIOETHICS-- You will be doing an exhibition over a specific topic in Bioethics on Tuesday, Feb. 16 and Wednesday, Feb. 17
Monday, Feb. 8--Work on Bioethics article exhibition -- HAVE TOPICS BY THE END OF THE DAY!

Tuesday, Feb. 9--More work on Bioethics exhibition-- Received RUBRIC today for grading (In your email...let me know if you didn't receive it-- or if a parent would like to see it, you my email me jcurrieo@ccs-chargers.org

Wednesday, Feb. 10--Continued work on the Bioethics project

Thursday, Feb. 11--Bioethics project
Friday, Feb. 12--Finish your bioethics project-- they will be presented when we come back on Tuesday

11th grade HAP -- We are studying the NERVOUS SYSTEM-- TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY, Feb.17 over the NERVOUS SYSTEM
Monday, Feb. 8--Quiz over the "Where Am I ? worksheet
Tuesday, Feb. 9--Follow link for NERVOUS SYSTEM review http://bio.rutgers.edu/~gb102/lab_5/skip_frames.html then look at the Anatomy and Physiology revealed dissection and animations for the Nervous System review-- esp. note REFLEX ARC on both site and animation
Wednesday, Feb. 10--Dissection of the sheep brain today!

Thursday, Feb. 11--Use ANATOMY REVEALED Cd-rom to look at dissections of the brain and spinal cord; Discuss reflex arcs (see animation of reflexes)
Friday, Feb. 12--Reflex lab (begin today and finish after test next week)

HOMEWORK Feb. 1-5, 2010

7th grade PHYSICAL SCIENCE...
Monday, Feb. 1-- Group work on your ECC (ECC= Energy Conversion Contraption)
Tuesday, Feb. 2-- Each group will run their ECC for their classmates and Mrs. C
Wednesday, Feb. 3--Check Ch. 13 study guides for completion grade; Review game over ENERGY in prep. for tomorrow's test
Thursday, Feb. 4--Test over ENERGY (ch. 13); Turn in the diagram of your ECC and the list of five energy transformations that take place in your ECC
Friday, Feb. 5--Demonstration of thermal energy -- heated water and molecule movement; no HW


8th grade EARTH SCIENCE – We are currently studying the atmosphere and Weather (Ch. 11 and 12)
Monday, Feb. 1—Read from Ch. 9 on Streams and discuss the important points from the textbook—no HW
Tuesday, Feb. 2—Streams and rivers worksheet completion; begin going over the correct answers
Wednesday, Feb. 3—Finish going over the worksheet from yesterday; YOU WILL HAVE A QUIZ OVER IT TOMORROW then draw a diagram of the layers of the atmosphere and make a mnemonic device for remembering the layers of atmosphere in order out from Earth.

Thursday, Feb. 4—Quiz over streams and rivers; HW—Read about the three ways that sun’s energy is delivered to earth and outline at least 4 bullet points on each of the three ways (from Ch. 11 Sec. 1)
Friday, Feb. 5—Quiz over the layers of atmosphere; Discuss the energy delivery from the sun

9th BIOLOGY--

Monday, Feb. 1—Review game over genetics in prep. for tomorrow’s test
Tuesday, Feb. 2—Test over GENETICS

Wednesday, Feb. 3—Video on Genes and Heredity (simple review)

Thursday, Feb. 4—Begin talking about stem cells, Hand out instructions for the upcoming EXHIBITION on Bioethics issues:

Follow these links to the BIOETHICS pages

http://www.citizenlink.org/FOSI/bioethics/ from FOCUS ON THE FAMILY CITIZENLINK
http://leaderu.com then in the advanced search box write the words "BIOETHICS" then mark "stay within the site"

Friday, Feb. 5-- More discussion about Stem Cells

11th grade HAP -- We are studying the NERVOUS SYSTEM ... TEST WILL BE WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17
Monday, Feb. 1—Coloring sheet over the spinal cord
Tuesday, Feb. 2—Notes from the slideshow about the spinal cord and brain (CNS)

Wednesday, Feb. 3—Read the section on the BRAIN and complete the “Where Am I?” worksheet (finish for HW)
Thursday, Feb. 4—Go over the answers to the WHERE AM I worksheet – then watch the rest of the NAT. GEO movie including the brain surgery; Discuss this video

Friday, Feb. 5--Notes on Cranial Nerves and Spinal Nerves; WHERE AM I...what part of the brain... QUIZ is on Monday (Study !)

Biology Genetics Test study for the test on Tuesday, Feb. 2

Define these genetics words:

Gene

Allele

Dominant

Recessive

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Hybrid

Pure bred

Genotype

Phenotype

Genetics

Incomplete Dominance (aka Co-dominance)

Multiple Alleles

Dihybrid

Phenotypic Ratio (or percentage)

Genotypic Ratio (or percentage)

Sex-linked traits

Sex chromosomes – X and Y- and determination of males and females

Carrier

Pedigree

Zygote

Know how to do the worksheet from Friday as well as ...

• Know how to do crosses (using Punnett Squares) like on Friday’s worksheet-- as in a dihybrid cross.) You will also need to understand and use a Punnett Square for determining traits with incomplete dominance.
• Know the five traits Mendel studied in peas and the dominant gene in each pair.
• How are multiple alleles different from polygenic inheritance? Which of the two involved more than one gene?
• Blood type is an example of both multiple alleles and incomplete dominance.
• Know the genotypes of each blood type and be able to predict blood types of offspring.
• Know examples of sex-linked traits, and why they are more common in males than in females.