Final

Study guide for the Science Final was given to the kids yesterday. If you don't have a copy of it, you can download it from my webpage.

I think I figured out a way to post it. You can click on this link and see the document in google docs.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eGEnV3vgLnikl14cHl9FKoGz45DZFiV9VdFiW0KUd6Y/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CLvWsKEK

Perseverance

Protists

Today and yesterday in class we focused on the question "What are protists?" The protists we have been studying are (mostly) single celled organisms. Students should now be able to answer the above question on p. 164 of their notebook discussing characteristics of protists, how they acquire food/energy, and how they reproduce.

Originally, their green warm up sheets were going to be due on Wednesday, but I had to change my approach to the week and they will be due on Friday.

Homework tonight

Tonight, students should prepare for their quiz. Also, a worksheet called "The Big M--Mitosis and Meiosis" should be completed for homework.

A quiz and some links.

For the past week we have been studying cells. We will have a quiz on Thursday. Students were given the questions in class.
This includes:

• parts of a cell (NB p. 155).
  
• what do cells need to survive?
• how do cells get what they need? (diffusion, osmosis, passive transport, and active transport)
• how do cells get energy? (p. 160-161--photosynthesis and cellular respiration)
• how do cells reproduce themselves? (p. 162-163)

Here is a link to site to help students get more information. http://www.cellsalive.com/
Mitosis videos from class.
http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/work/animation/the-stages-of-mitosis/


Coming up, we will be studying other microbes, such as bacteria and protists, as well as fungi.

• http://bacteriamuseum.org/cms/
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Coming in the next couple of days.

How do cells create other cells? Maybe this will help!

Monday's class.

Today we went to the computer lab and we learned about plate tectonics. Here is a link to the website we used. http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/index.html There will be a quiz about this material using questions pulled from the "Test Skills" portion of the interactive site.