Week Thirty-Five

This week we will continue our study of plants and conclude the unit with a test on Thursday, and your Plant Booklets will be due on Friday.

Monday - Looking at Leaves, stems, and roots / Study Guide / Plant Booklet
Tuesday - Tropisms / Great Plant Escape / Plant Booklet Check
Wednesday - Importance of Plants / Review for Plant Test
Thursday - Test over Chapters 8 & 9
Friday - Final Plant Booklets Due / Bean Lab Analysis if finished

Homework this week includes Plant Booklet through page 8 due Tuesday, Plant Study Guide due Wednesday, Test over Plants (chapters 8 & 9) Thursday, Final Plant Booklet due Friday.

Helpful Websites for Plant Study:

Non-vascular Plants
Vascular Plants
Seedless Vascular Plants
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Biology of Plants
Great Plant Escape
Flower Dissection and Quiz

Week Thirty-Four

This week we will continue our study of plants, which focuses on chapters 8 and 9 in the textbook.

Monday - Bean Lab Set-up and discussion / Plant Booklet
Tuesday - Section 9.1 / Group Seed Lab
Wednesday - Notes Gymnosperms and Angiosperms / Plant Booklet
Thursday - Dissecting Seeds Lab / Monocot vs. Dicot W.S. / Plant Booklet
Friday - Dissecting Flowers Lab / Plant Booklet

Homework this week includes BRING IN a FLOWER TO DISSECT BY FRIDAY (preferably a lily with male and female parts - refer to picture above), Plant Booklet through page 4 and 3 seeds due Tuesday, 9.1 worksheet and Plant Vocabulary 13 - 21 due Wednesday, 9.2 Worksheet due Thursday , 9.3 Worksheet and Plant Vocabulary 22 - 36 due by Friday, Plant Booklet through page 7 due by Monday.

Helpful Websites for Plant Study:

Non-vascular Plants
Vascular Plants
Seedless Vascular Plants
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Biology of Plants
Great Plant Escape
Flower Dissection and Quiz

Week Thirty-Three

CRCT's already! It seems hard to believe that we are this far into the year, but here we are.

This week we will begin our study of plants, which focuses on chapters 8 and 9 in the textbook.

Monday - Jane Goodall Lesson w/sub
Tuesday - Jane Goodall Lesson w/sub
Wednesday - Introduction to plants chapter 8 section 1 / begin Plant Booklet Project
Thursday - Notes on Vascular & Non-Vascular / Plant Booklet
Friday - Notes on Seedless & Seed Plants / Plant Booklet

Homework this week includes 8.1 worksheet due Thursday, Plant Vocabulary 1 - 9 due Thursday, 8.2 Worksheet and Plant Vocabulary 10 - 11 due Friday, 8.3 Worksheet and Plant Vocabulary 1 - 12 due by Monday, Plant Booklet cover page - page 3 due by Monday, and 3 Seeds (collected by you) due Tuesday (4/24).

Helpful Websites for Plant Study:

Non-vascular Plants
Vascular Plants
Seedless Vascular Plants
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Biology of Plants
Great Plant Escape
Flower Dissection and Quiz

Week Thirty-Two

It's time to have some fun with fungi, while we review what we learned about protists before we left on spring break.

A tentative schedule for the week includes:

Monday - Fun Fungi Facts, notes, and article / Work on Focus Questions
Tuesday - Mushroom Lab
Wednesday - Yeast Lab / CRCT Review
Thursday - Practice Questions for Test / Fungi Video
Friday - TEST on Protists and Fungi

Homework this week includes the Fungi Focus Questions due Wednesday, the Fungi Worksheet due Thursday, the Protist / Fungi Study Guide due Thursday, and Test over Protists and Fungi on Friday.

Helpful Websites for Fungi Study:

Fungi Pictures and Video
Introduction to Fungi
Dr. Fungus
Fun Facts about Fungi
All About Yeast
Fungi Phylums
Tree of Life: Fungi
Slide Show: Fungi
Simply Fungi