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.

Test Tomorrow

Tomorrow there will be a test about our current unit of geology, paleontology, and studying the earth's history. This is Ch. 15 in the textbook (http://my.hrw.com username: student9490 password: j9m7j) and p. 140-150 in students' notebooks.

As part of our review, students worked on "Chapter Review" sheets which we went over the last 20 minutes of class. However, we did not get a chance to go over the last 5 questions and will discuss them before the test tomorrow. We will also be able to take about 15 minutes for questions and clarifications about the material.

In addition, students received a vocabulary skills sheet to help them prepare for the test. I am not requiring this to be completed, but the answers will be posted on my bulletin board for students to check when they come into class.

Interactive website for radioactive decay and dating.

Click to Run

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/radioactive-dating-game

Tuesday, April 5 homework.

Tonight's homework is a concept map about Geologic Time. Although the guided reading has much of the information, students may find it useful to look at the on-line book. There is a table where information is much better organized.

http://my.hrw.com

username: student9490 password: j9m7j

OBX trip photos

OBX 2011 NCMS

This is a link to a bunch of the pics that I took of our trip. I haven't really gone through and edited out blurry or poor quality photos, but here they are anyway.