Monday February 29 2010

20%
1. Answer or revise your driving question as needed. Must be approved by Mr. H
2. Fill your evernote page with valid and useful web pages relating to your topic (includeing pictures if that helps)
3. Make a list of experts with contact information that can be contacted. (phone #, skype, email etc)
4. Create one google doc that you will use as a planning page - Write about what your finished product will look like.

Agenda Thursday and Friday Februrary 25-26

1. Organize your information : an official scientific paper on Darwin's Birds (your lab you did last class)
- State the problem (from lab)
- gather information (done together and/or alone) try this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcjgWov7mTM
-Hypothesis - (your guess)
- experiment (steps, can this be copies exactly)
- Results (your spreadsheet and graphs)
-Conclusion - tie together the results with what your learned about Darwin and the finches. (The questions from yesterday will guide a good conclusion)

2. You paper must be peer reivewed by one student and one adult. (Hint, try emailing your parents or family or friends) - You can make your document shared.

Tuesday and Wednesday February 23-24

1. Watch Darwin and his tortoises.

2. Prepare logs for ""Survival of the Fittest"

3. Survival lab

--To get an 'A'

• a spreadsheet completed by all group members
• at least 3 different graphs
• Proof that relates to multiple data when answering the questions from the link below

--To get a 'B'

• a spreadsheet completed by all group members
• a graph that helps explain your results
• proof that relates to your data when answering the questions below

--To get a 'C'

• a spreadsheet completed by all group members
• no data proof in your answers from the link below

6. Here are the questions : https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaoG5TaoiHZMZGMyajl0cHFfMjI1ZHBoaHZ6Y3Q&hl=en

7. Here is a spreasheet example :https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqoG5TaoiHZMdFFjMDctZ3RNVEtIcmkyWU56dVZtM2c&hl=en

Agenda Monday February 22

1. Go to your email

2. Open the spreadsheet I sent you.

3. Wait for me

Science Agenda and Sub Plans Thursday and Friday February 18-19

Hello Students - Have a great day and here is what you will do together.

1. Pick one student to be in charge of the teacher desktop computer
2. Take attendance (done by sub using sheets on desk)
3. Check seating chart and have all students in the wrong seat do plan B (see below)
4. Have all students prepare themselves with a notebook and something to write with
5. Watch this video (17 minutes) on evolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcjgWov7mTM
6. Make comic book about the moths from the video - what happened first? what changed that put pressure on a certain color? who survived? Make sure you use little baloons for their voices, have fun with it.
7. Take some time to share your comics with the class one person at a time.
8. Now check this out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXzcPNsqGA
9. Write a response to this video: how is it like the other video? which video explained it better for you
10. The more generations are born, the easier it is to study and witness evolution. What type of living things would be possible to see evolution and natural selection take place. What types of living things would be very difficult to view in a human lifetime (i.e. long living things)
11. If you have time after all of this, you may read the chapter on evolution from the green science book (dont' worry, you dont' have to do any questions) and explain how it is similar or different from these videos. Which way helps you learn the most?

Plan B-

Read the chapter on Evolution from the green text book in the office. Answer all checkup questions and end of chapter questions. Also, do two column notes from all vocabulary words in the chapter.

Click here for agenda

http://pky2015.blogspot.com/2010/02/agenday-tuesday-and-wednesday-february.html

Agenda Wednesday and Thursday February 10-11

0. Math challenge (optional if you dare) - what is the lowest number divisible by the numbers 1-10?

1. (Do not start until Mr. H says go) - Look up information on how Natural Selection and Evolution work together. You have 25 minutes. (cite EVERYTHING!) - Evernote will help with this

2. Create a shared document (google) between you and your shoulder partner.

• one partner will work on Natural Selection, the other partner will work on Evolution.
  
  3. Be as creative and as clear as possible on how these two scientific concepts work together.
  
• How does this relate to the game Pandemic or the Darwin game from earlier agendas?
• How does it relate to the similarities and differences between tiger salamanders and axolotls?
• How does it relate to making the varsity basketball or baseball team?
• What evidence do scientists use to explain these concepts?
• How does it relate to resistent bacteria and the overuse of antibiotics?
• Some other way to explain it?

4. This work will be publicly presented in the last 20 minutes of class.

Agenda Monday and Tuesday February 8-9

1. Work Day: Finish anything that is not done, you MUST check past agendas (think about mitosis animation, final answers from TWO discussion groups, ask me if you think your done)

2. Adopt and axolotl (optional)

• Pick an axolotl and use a google doc to write the phenotype and genotype
• You will need to bring a small clean container that holds about .25 liters or more of water.
• Bags of adult brine shrimp would be nice also if you live near aquatropics
• You will start a spreadsheet and measure your axolotl (you can share with a partner) and take water temperature and keep track of any vital data
• Keep them alive!

3. Choose one of your recent products and prepare it for peer review

4. Mitosis Dance preparation for Thursday!! (t-shirt color)

4. Find a scientist, check with me and prepare your email.

Agenda Thursday and Friday February 4-5

1. Quiz on viruses and the Pandemic Game: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHJ3YlM5amQwMjdiWExHeVU5ckNaOEE6MA

1.5- Science math connection: 1 out of 50000 bacteria is resistant to penicillin (a drug that should kill them) . If there are more than 100 resistant bacteria, they can breed into a new colonoy that can't be stopped by drugs (AHHHH!). What is the highest number of bacteria we can allow to breed if we don't want the resistant bacteria to reproduce?

2. Genetics Quiz: Level 3=D, Level 4= C, Level 5=B, Level 6=A - http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/games/game_dogbreeding.html

3. Contribute to this discussion: You will have these questions. http://groups.google.com/group/pressure-to-survive

4. Rate the answers. See if anyone used references on questions #4. If so, give them 5 stars for sure!!!

5. Gentics game with pressure!!

6. Continue next chapter on the virus article and add the answers to these questions to your google doc (which should already be a button)

-What virus is spreading due to long term environmental change?

-How does human population effect the spread of a virus?

-Why is it dangerous for us when mosquitoes and viruses change?

-What is putting pressure on mosquitoes and viruses to change? (the change or die method of survival!)

1. Take the tour - write a short summery on the "environmental change" on a google doc and make this a symbaloo button. This will be a longer assignment so don't loose it (make it a button!)
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/prologue/prologue.html
Answer these questions.
1. How does an environmental change effect the spread of viruses?
2. What environmental change helped the spread of the Hantavirus?
3. What could help us predict another outbreak of the Hantavirus?

2. Try Pandemic II again! - http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/fullscreen.php?game=Pandemic-2

3. Contribute to this discussion: You will have these questions. http://groups.google.com/group/pressure-to-survive

1. What pressures make the virus in the game Pandemic have to change to survive (and destroy).

2. How is the game similar to the axoltol's development in Lake Xochimilco? (Hint: what pressures were put on the axolotl (when it was a salamander) to change or die as a species?

3. How did neoteny (new word huh!) help the axolotls survival in Lake Xochimilco?

4. What pressures are on the axolotl today?

5. Optional game - survival game - http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html