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Week 34: Reproduction & Genetics continued....
Brain Gym Goals: 7.14 The student knows that reproduction is a characteristic of living organisms and that the instructions for traits are governed in the genetic material.
7.14A Define heredity as the passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next generation
7.14B Compare the results of uniform or diverse offspring from sexual reporduction or asexual reproduction.
7.14C Recognize that inherited traits of individuals are governed in a genetic material found in the genes within chromosomes in the nucleus.
HOMEWORK: Create a ppt titled ABC Heredity, and select terms that you don't understand from our inherited traits and learned behaviour assignment from last week. Paraphrase and insert diagrams/pictures to add value. DUE THURSDAY AND IS A MAJOR TEST GRADE!
Wednesday from 10-2:30 Student Council field trip; Thursday is band contest and Splash Kingdom; VIP party is cancelled until Wed (May 16)
Moday: Use this class period to begin your ppt. Don't forget to SAVE!
Tuesday: Family Tree (pedigree) and Punnett Squares. Complete the data table and answer the analysis question. Diagram family tree.
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Thursday:
Friday:
Week 33: Reproduction & Genetics
Brain Gym Goals: 7.14 The student knows that reproduction is a characteristic of living organisms and that the instructions for traits are governed in the genetic material.
7.14A Define heredity as the passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next generation
7.14B Compare the results of uniform or diverse offspring from sexual reporduction or asexual reproduction.
7.14C Recognize that inherited traits of individuals are governed in a genetic material found in the genes within chromosomes in the nucleus.
Monday: Bad Weather Day, no school ;(
Tuesday: Paraphrase Brain Gym Goals in your science log
Wednesday: Hillside Photo today of AJH. Play ABC Traits game. Share results with class. Brain gym goals and game sheet are for a grade.
Thursday: Punnett Square Activity
Friday: Athens Freshwater Fisheries Fieldtrip! Be sure to:
*bring sack lunch/snacks & extra drinks
*watch the weather report and dress appropriately (must comply with Friday attire!)
*wear comfortable shoes, you will be walking A LOT!
*bring sunscreen, caps (keep the sun's harmful UV radiation off of you)
*bring your best attitude to wait your turn, say thank you, excuse me, and follow directions by the staff as you well represent your home & school
*if desired, bring cash for the gift shop
Week 30: Homeostasis, end of the 5th six weeks
TEKS: 7.13 Organisms and the environment. The student knows that a living organism must be able to maintain balance in stable internal conditions in response to external and internal stimuli. The student is expected to:
A. Investigate how organisms respond to external stimuli found in the invironment such as phototropism ad fight or flight.
B. Describe and relate responses in organisms that may result from internal stimuli such as wilting in plants and fever or vomiting in animals that allow them to maintain balance.
MATH MINUTE 24-28
Monday: BAD WEATHER DAY!
Tuesday: Discuss Reproductive System. Read chapter 5, pages 100 -119 and answer questions 1-27 on notebook paper.
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Week 29: Digestive System
TEKS:
Monday: Complete in the digestive game to be the first one finished!
Tuesday: Review for major test on the digestive systems!
Wednesday: Test on Body Systems
Thursday & Friday: Control of the human body with electricity (nerves)and chemical regulators (hormones)
Week28: Human Body Systems & STAAR Testing
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12B Identify the main functions of the human organism, including circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, digestive, excretory, reproductive, integumentary, nervous and endocrine.
Math Minute # 15-18
Monday: Copy notes on three types of muscles and the three types of cells-erythrocyte, white blood cells (leucocytes) and thromboyctes (platelets). Turn gaded papers, give cereal assignment to compare nutrution facts.
Tuesday-Wednesday: Writing STAAR Tests
Thursday: Begin digestion system, compare breakfast cereals (read and understand nutrition labels)
Friday: Digestion game. Students will travel the digestive system and answer questions.
Week 27: Circulatory & Respiratory
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12B Identify the main functions of the human organism, including circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, digestive, excretory, reproductive, integumentary, nervous and endocrine.
Friendly Reminder:This is the 3rd week of the 5th six weeks!
Math Minute: # 10-12
Monday: Circulatory Lab to investigate human pulse and understand how the heart works. Students copy questions from the board and answer questions in science log. See document below.
Tuesday and Wednesday: View Hemo the Magnificent, and write notes on the heart structure and function, and how the blood services the body cells. Bring netbooks for Thursday.
Thursday & Friday: Use your netbook and complete the following activities.
The link below is a quick overview of the organ systems. See how quickly you can help the man find organs to complete his body systems. Please use your headphones!
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html
At this link, use the quick menu at the bottom of the box, select how it works and follow the prompts. Do all on menu bar EXCEPT activity 1 (which is how to build a lung model and we will have a demo on Friday). Draw in your science log and use map colors diagraming the cardiovascular system. We will have class discussion, so be prepared to explain what you understand today!
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/topics/20a.html
Jonesy Challenge: Study Island, complete the Body Systems questions. And yes, you can use game mode!
Week 26: Human Body Systems
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12B Identify the main functions of the human organism, including circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, digestive, excretory, reproductive, inteumnetary, nervous and endocrine.
Homework: Complete the assignment on support and movement: comparing vertebrate systems
Math Minute: #6-8
Monday: Chicken Wing Lab, observe bone, muscle, skin tissues. Also differentiate tendons and ligaments. Answer questions.
Tuesday: Discuss answers to chicken wing lab, view A Crash Course in Calcium video (take notes), discuss alternatives to milk to obtain calcium in your diet (research)
Wednesday: Human movement lab, answer questions (this is a test grade!)
Thursday-Friday: Waiver Days, math practice on measurement
NEXT WEEK: Spring Break!!
Week 25: Human Body Systems
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12B Identify the main functions of the human organism, including circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, digestive, excretory, reproductive, inteumnetary, nervous and endocrine.
Math Minute: do #1-5. Best class average will win frozen snacks during Friday's Social!
HOMEWORK: Homologous structures and LA Connections worksheets
Monday: begin 5th six weeks, copy brain gym goals in science log; draw the 4 column chart and complete it. Column titles are cells, tissues, organs, organ systems.
Tuesday: Take notes on 5 systems giving the organs involved and the overall function of the system. Begin answering the questions for your assigned system and design a model to demonstrate your system.
Wednesday-Friday: Take notes on systems 6-10. Students will present their project, answering the questions and demonstrating their models.
Week 24: Benchmark IV and Waiver Days
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12 The student knows that living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
7.12C recognize levels of organization in plants and animals, including cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organisms.
7.12D differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole.
7.12E Compare the functions of a cell to the functions of organisms such as waste removal. Recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions
7.12F recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions such as extracting energy from food to sustain life.
NO HOMEWORK DUE TO BENCHMARK TESTING!
Monday: Review cell structure and function test from last week. This is a great tool to study for science benchmark tomorrow!
Tuesday: Benchmark IV: Cell Structure and Function TEST;
Complete new assignments: LA connections and Homologous Structures. These two are the first 2 grades for the new six weeks.
Wednesday-Friday: Waiver Days, all science classes will do math practice
Week 23: Cell Structure and Function
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12 The student knows that living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
7.12C recognize levels of organization in plants and animals, including cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organisms.
7.12D differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole.
7.12E Compare the functions of a cell to the functions of organisms such as waste removal. Recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions
7.12F recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions such as extracting energy from food to sustain life.
Monday: Draw the plant cell and label I-VI on the top half of your copy paper sheet. Color code each organelle: mitochondria-yellow, cell wall-brown, cell membrane-orange, nucleus-red, cholorplasts-green, large vacuole-blue. Below on the bottom half, list the organelles and write their functions.
HOMEWORK: draw and label the stages of mitosis and write 2 things than can be observed at each phase.
Tuesday: Continue tweeking your Cell Vocabulary ppt: 8-12 slides for the 20 terms. Include diagras, photos, select the theme and make it colorful and interesting, concise na d neat. Save to your network folder. THIS IS A MAJOR TEST GRADE!! We began this during week 18, so you've had several weeks to complete it!! When ppt is complete, complete directed reading for Chapter 8: The Cell in Action
Wednesday: Do the review on pages 233-236 on notebook paper from your textbook.
Thursday: Review for major test tomorrow!
Friday: TEST: Cell Structure and Function, 25 questions
Week 22: Cell Theory
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12 The student knows that living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
7.12C recognize levels of organization in plants and animals, including cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organisms.
7.12D differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole.
7.12E Compare the functions of a cell to the functions of organisms such as waste removal. Recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions
7.12F recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions such as extracting energy from food to sustain life.
Week 21: Structure & Function
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12 The student knows that living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
7.12C recognize levels of organization in plants and animals, including cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organisms.
7.12D differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole.
7.12E Compare the functions of a cell to the functions of organisms such as waste removal. Recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions
7.12F recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions such as extracting energy from food to sustain life.
Homework: Answer 10 questions on notebook paper.
Spongebob: define structure and function. Give an example.
Monday: Complete frog dissection.
Tuesday: get understanding of structure and function. Use the frigits as an example of structure affecting function. View the cell rap video on structure and function of organelles. Complete the worksheet pages 27-28 to match 6 natural structures with 6 manmade ones. Determine the function of each one. Trade and grade. Wednesday: Observe plant and animal cells, draw and label what you can identify. View prepared slides of plant and animal cells.
Thursday & Friday: Plant dissection, draw and label tissues and organs.
Week 20: Microscopic Cells Observation & Dissections
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12 The student knows that living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
7.12C recognize levels of organization in plants and animals, including cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organisms.
7.12D differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole.
7.12E Compare the functions of a cell to the functions of organisms such as waste removal. Recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions
7.12F recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions such as extracting energy from food to sustain life.
Homework: Write a 26 line creative story using our vocabulary terms (see week 18 list or on your ppt for cells). It can be an interview for CNN, FOX, a Magic Schoolbus,etc or from the perspective of a virus, a videographer for National Geographic, etc.
Monday: Spongebob asks "How do you make a slide of pond water?" Write the steps and for a wet mount and review how to use a microscope on pages 694-695 in text.
Tuesday: Mock STAAR tests for Science and ELA*
Wednesday: Mock STARR tests for Math and SS.*
*Take library book, homework folder and netbook so when you finish testing, you can be productive with homework, AR points, etc!
Thursday: Dissect Flower, draw and label what you observe in your science log. Friday: Dissect Frog, draw and label what you observe in your science log.
* You will observe pond water organisms with a microscope as well as samples from your dissections. Again, draw and label what you observe. Include the magnification!
Week 19: Structure & Function of Cells
Brain Gym Goals: 7.12 The student knows that living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
7.12C recognize levels of organization in plants and animals, including cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organisms.
7.12D differentiate between structure and function in plant and animal cell organelles, including cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, chloroplast, and vacuole.
7.12E Compare the functions of a cell to the functions of organisms such as waste removal. Recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions
7.12F recognize that according to cell theory all organisms are composed of cells and cells carry on similar functions such as extracting energy from food to sustain life. Use the following addresses to research cells for your power point :
http://www.cellsalive.com/toc_cellbio.htm
http://library.buffalo.edu/asl/guides/bio/dissections.html
Frog Dissection http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_16/BL_16.html
Homework: Cell Analogy and Cell Chop
Monday: Engage activity: What do living things do? List the characteristics of cells in your science log and determine what are the characteristics of our unknown species.
Tuesday: Glue vocabulary list and Venn diagram in your science log. Complete the diagram of plant and animal cells. View virus video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpj0emEGShQ
Wednesday: 
Thursday: new topic:Mitosis,copy notes for hand signals to understand phases of mitosis. Staple in your science log.
Friday: Draw a diagram of cytokinesis. View this link to understand mitosis and cytokinesis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhgRhXl7w_g
Semester Exam Week
Continue to complete Cell Power Point assignment as time allows this week.
NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF EXAMS!!
FRIDAY: VIEW DVD ON CELLS, WRITE NOTES TO HELP WITH PPT.
G/T TODAY
Week 18: Benchmark
Brain Gym Goals:
7.9A Analyze the characteristics of objects in our solar system that allow life to exist such as the proximity of the Sun, presence of water, and composition of the atmosphere. 7.9B List the accomodations considering the characteristics of our solar system that contribute to manned space explorations.
7.10A. Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms.
B. Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
C.Observe, record and describe the role of ecological succession such as in a microhabitat of a garden with weeds.
Monday & Tuesday: make up tests, submit late work, Benchmark III Review
Wednesday: Science and Math Six Week's Tests
Thursday: ELA and Social Studies Six Week's Test
Thursday & Friday: Create a ppt using the vocabulary terms for our new unit, Structure and Function of Cells. Create 8-12 slides using several related terms on each slide.
Week 17: Succession
Brain Gym Goals:
7.10C Observe, record and describe the role of ecological succession such as in a microhabitat of a garden with weeds.
Homework: Complete page 18 and page 28, vocabulary practice and succession questions
Monday: Write 7.10C brain gym in your science log. Cut apart the diagrams and descriptions of succession of a pond.Glue them in order in your science log. Read pages 309 and 322-232 and write notes for pioneer plants (lichens and mosses)
Tuesday: In your science log, answer these questions:
1. What factors change ecosystems? 2. What is succession? 3. What is primary succession? 4. What is secondary succession?
5. What are some examples of primary succession in the schoolyard? 6. What are examples of secondary succession in the schoolyard?
Create a T-chart for primary and secondary succession and complete it with facts.
Wednesday: Read pages 376-379, answer questions 1-5 on page 379. Page 381, record your ideas for the 3 photos on Going Further. Open the study guide below for brain gym goals 7.10A, 7.10B, 7.10C
Thursday: Major Test on Biodiversity and Ecological Succession
Friday: Early Release for Christmas Holidays!
Week 16: Biodiversity
Brain Gym Goals: 7.10 The student knows that there is a relationship between organisms and the environment.
7.10A Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats, in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms
7.10B Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
HOMEWORK: Eco-Puzzle, use the wordsearch to complete the definitions. Word bank: savanna, biome, deciduous, tundra, plankton, abiotic, estuary, desert, marsh, swamp, conifer, wetland, tributary, Sargassam, deep-water zone, permafrost, ecosystems, littoral. Use chapter 17 of the red science book for help.
MONDAY: Copy the brain gym goals in your science log. Write the following terms in your sci-log: adaptation, biome, deciduous, abiotic. Make a T-chart and determine the biotic and abiotic factors in the diagram on page 421 in textbook. Select a biome from the textbook and determine write examples for species, population, community, ecosystem.
Tuesday: Read North American Prairie Notes and complete the organizer sheet. This is practice to read information and then make it concise and quick to reference. Practice vocabulary matching cards.
Wednesday: Student groups are assigned a biome to research to report to the class. Complete the rubric provided. Create one power point for your team's biome. No more than 7 slides, be concise and use pictures. Save it to a network folder of one of your team members.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/taiga/taiga.shtml
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/index.html#how
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/biomes-of-the-world/
http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/index.html
http://www.worldbiomes.com/biomes_forest.htm
Thursday & Friday: present power points, take notes for each biome in your science log. If weather permits, we will observe microhabitats on school grounds (bring science log to record data).
Week 15: Manned Space Exploration
TEKS: 7.9 |
Earth and space. The student knows components of our solar system. The student is expected to: |
7.9B |
Identify the accommodations, considering the characteristics of our solar system that enabled manned space exploration. |
Homework: Complete the questions for Kepler's Laws and Newton's law of universal gravitation.
Vocabulary terms: mass, weight, microgravity, solar radiation, slingshot effect
Monday: Name the 3 characteristics needed to support life in space that we learned studying the planets in our solar system. Paste the 4 types of space crafts in your science log. List what space travelers need to survive in space.
Which of the following statements are true?
There is no gravity in space.Mass and weight are the same.Living in space has no effect on the human body. |
