Week Twelve

Some of the dates from last week's blog have changed due to the fact that we didn't get as far as I thought we would by the end of last week. I will hand out the Study Guide for the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems Test Monday of this week and it will be due on Wednesday, Nov. 1st. We will begin working on the Respiratory/Circulatory Paper Dolls Monday, and they will also be due by Wednesday. A rubric (1/2 sheet of green paper) will be provided for the paper doll project so the students know what to expect.

Monday- Finish Respiration Power Point / Work on Paper Dolls
Tuesday- Respiration Lab / Work on Paper Dolls and Study Guide
Wednesday- Review / Begin Digestion PowerPoint
Thursday- Test over Respiration and Circulation / Read Ch. 16 Digestion (organizer and vocab.)
Friday- Vocab. Quiz on Respiration /Finish Digestion PowerPoint / Read on Excretory System Video

Test Thursday over the Respiratory and Circulatory Systems!!

Websites from last week's post are very useful to aid in studying for the test Thursday. Below I have added links to help you learn about the digestive and excretory systems:

The Real Deal on Digestion
Your Digestion System
Digestive System for Kids
Human Body Adventure
Stomach Gurgles

Excretory System for Kids
Kidney Knowledge
Human Body Adventure
Urinary System
Pee
Poop

Week Eleven

As we all now know cells come together to form tissues, tissues come together to form organs, and organs come together to form organ systems. Which in turn form an organism (a living thing).

We have looked in depth into the structure and function of individual cells. Now we will see what happens when cells begin working together to create the amazing and complicated organism, the human body.

Monday- Cell Review Packet/Re-organize Notebooks/ Begin Circulatory System PowerPoint
Tuesday- Finish Circulatory Sys. PP for parts 1 and 2 / Read 17.1 and 17.2 in textbook
Wednesday- Circulatory Sys. PP part 3/ Read 17.3 in text and work on vocab. and organizer
Thursday- Respiratory System Powerpoint/ Read 18.1 in text and work on vocab. and organizer
Friday- Finish Respiratory System PP/ Begin working on circulatory or respiratory paper doll

Homework for the week will include studying vocabulary flashcards for a Circulatory System Vocabulary Quiz on Friday. Words covered on the quiz will be: circulation, heart, veins, arteries, capillaries, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, plasma, blood types, and lymph.

Other homework this week will include a Circulatory System worksheet due on Wednesday, and Essential Questions for the Circulatory System due on Friday, A Study Guide due on Tuesday 10/31 for the Circulation/Respiration Quest on Thursday 11/2.

Some helpful websites for this weeks topics on the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems include:

Cardiovascular System
The Heart: An On-line Exploration
Quick Questions Answered
The Circulatory System
All About the Heart
The Electric Heart

The Respiratory System
Looking at your Lungs
Quick Questions Answered
Oxygen Delivery System
Inside the Respiratory System

Week Ten

Essential Question: Why is a cell the basic unit of life?

Reading Essential Question: What are the essential skills of good reading?

Guiding Questions: How do cells make new cells?
How are cells organized into more complex structures?

This week is conference week and I look forward to meeting all of Dickerson's wonderful parents.

Monday- Cell Division Quiz / Word Puzzle / Article Reading
Tuesday- Read p. 473 - 475 / Make 4-tab book of Organization of Living Things
Wednesday- Organization of Living Things Powerpoint
Thursday- Human Body Graphic Organizer and Vocabulary / Human Body Notes
Friday- Human Body Video / Article Reading

We will be having our 2nd vocabulary quiz on Friday the words will include autotroph, heterotroph, producer, consumer, decomposer, eukaryote, prokaryote, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism.

We will also have a notebook quiz this week, most likely on Wednesday.

Week Nine

This week we will continue our quest to understand the process of cell division. Look to last week's post to find some good websites to use for learning about cell division. I'd also like to add a couple more sites to supplement your learning:

Web Quest in Class Lab
Mitosis and Meiosis in Action

Monday- Meiosis Notes / Comparing and Contrasting Mitosis and Meiosis
Tuesday- Meiosis Notes continued / Cell Division Web Quest
Wednesday- Cell Division Web Quest Continued / Work on Study Guide
Thursday- Vocabulary Quiz / Review for Cell Division Quiz on Monday
Friday- NO SCHOOL FOR YOU!

Homework for this week will include Compare and Contrast Mitosis vs. Meiosis due Wednesday, a Vocabulary Quiz (12 words listed in class) on Thursday, the Cell Division Study Guide due Thursday, Chapter 2 Vocabulary (Part 2) due on Thursday, and a Quiz over Cell Division on Monday 10/16.

Week Eight

Only 2 more weeks before report cards come out!

Don't forget your Cell Analogy Project is due on Monday and so is your Chapter 2 Vocabulary (Part 1)

Monday- Stomata Questions / Photosynthesis Video / Work on Study Guide
Tuesday- Review Questions / Go over Study Guide
Wednesday- Quiz over 2.1 - 2.4
Thursday- Cell Cycle Notes / Work on Vocabulary
Friday- Go over Mitosis W.S. / Meiosis Notes

Homework for this week will include the Cell Processes Study Guide due on Tuesday, studying for the Cell Processes Quiz Wednesday, next Chapter 2 Vocabulary (Part 2) dueTuesday 10/10, the Mitosis Meiosis W.S. due Friday, and the Compare and Contrast W.S. for Mitosis/Meiosis due Monday 10/9.

This week after the Cell Processes Quiz, we will be learning about Cell Division (Mitosis and Meiosis). Some helpful websites for this topic include:

Cells Alive: Cell Cycle
Cells Alive: Mitosis
Cells Alive: Meiosis
The Division of Plant and Animal Cells
Onion root cells in cell division
Biology in Motion