- Check Lab. Students will play the role of Forenic Scientist and learn to form hypothesis.
- Homework: Complete Study Guide Chapter 1-3.
Tuesday
- Students will continue with the Check Lab and draw their final hypothesis. Students will turn in the Lab at the end of the period.
- Homework: Complete Study Guide Chapter 1-4.
Wednesday
- Quiz Chapter 1.
- Homework: Vocabulary and Key Concepts for chapter 2 page 56. Students are to do this assignment in Cornell Note format. They will copy the 14 key concepts on the right side of the page and write a question for each key concept on the left side of the page. They will then define the 41 vocabulary words. They will write the vocabulary word on the left side of the page and the definition on the right side of the page. Students should number the key concepts 1 - 14 and the vocabulary 15 - 55.
Thursday
Friday
- Magazine Project
- Homework: students need to think about there magazine and plan what they want to do with this project.
Tuesday
- Lecture Chapter 1-1 (Chapter 1- Section 1)
- Homework: Vocabulary and Key Concepts for chapter 1 page 30. Students are to do this assignment in Cornell Note format. They will copy the 7 key concepts on the right side of the page and write a question for each key concept on the left side of the page. They will then define the 23 vocabulary words. They will write the vocabulary word on the left side of the page and the definition on the right side of the page. Students should number the kep concepts 1 - 7 and the vocabulary 8 - 23.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday
- Welcome to Biology. We will get our biology books today. I will begin discussing the class rules starting with the cell phone policy.
- Homework: Students and Parents need to sign and return the Cell phone policy.
Tuesday
- We will continue to discuss class rules, class expectations, grading policy, and how all student should conduct themselved in class. Students are expected to keep a notebook of ALL their work done in this class. Notebook requirements are outlined in the Notebook Requirement handout.
- Homework: Students and Parents need to sign and return the Class Procedure and grading policy.
Wednesday
- We will discuss how students will be expected to conduct themselves during Labs and Lab safety. Students will read and highlight important Lab safety procedures.
- Homework: Students and Parents need to sign and return the Lab Safety Contract.
Thursday
- We will discuss the six steps of the scientific method while discovering how student learn. We will do the Learning Styles Lab. Each student will discover how they learn and what types of assignments they learn best from and what assignments they dislike.
- Homework: Complete todays portion of the Lab.
Friday
- We will continue with the Learning Styles Lab. We will collect our data, analyze the data, and draw our conclusions.
- Homework: Write half page in complete paragraph no less that 3-5 sentences in each paragraph. Student needs to include the name of their learning style and a discription of that learning style. They need to discuss the types of assignments they learn best from and the types of assignments they dislike the most.
