Friday, September 14, 2012

Week of Sept 17 - 21

Monday - Learning Objective: Bacteria in our world
Personal REsponsibility: watch one of these clips with a parent/guardian and write one paragraph response in notebook.
             Video Clipvideo
              Video Clip video 2 link
               Video Clip  Video Clip 3
                Video Clip  Video Clip 4
If you have trouble linking to these clips, try this page: link

            Classwork: Video - Evolutionary Arms Race
             Homework: Read pages 29-31 Reflect and Connect 1 and 2
            
Tuesday - Learning Objective: Investigating bacteria
              Classwork: Read one article and record 5 interesting pieces of information
              Article
              Share information at your table and answer the following questions:
             
1. Why don’t we have a major problem with Cholera in our country?

2. What is the best way to make a disease less harmful?

3. What is the problem with depending on antibiotics to cure disease/

4. How does the information in these articles relate to the information in your homework reading on pages 29-
 
Wednesday: Leraning Objective: Identifying Bacteria
            Classwork: Notes notes and Bacteria Work sheetworksheet
             Homework: Read pages 40-41 Record one major idea from each paragraph

Thursday: Learning Objective: Identifying Bacteria
             Classwork: Bacteria ID lab Directions
              Homework: None - turn in notebok
            

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Week of Sept 10

Monday - Finish Bacteria Lab Write up:   See Science II Information and Updates for Lab Write-up format

Tuesday - Set-up Bacteria Lab
Read the following -article Reflection: How does this make you think differently about bacteria?

Wednesday - Results

Thusday/Friday - Share Findings

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Week of Sept. 5

Tuesday -  introduction to Investigations
                   Pages 7-9, Process and Procedures 1
                   Homework - Pages 9-11, Process and Procedures 2-4
Wednesday - Small Problem and Safety
                       Page 11- 15 Reflect and Connect. & P/P 1
                       Safety video
                       homeworkQuiz
Thursday- Designing a testable question
                  observe petri dish and brainstorm questions
                   Homework - none
Friday - Scientific Process
               Design experiment
                Homework- bring additional materials on Monday