Agenda February 1

Science Game Day

1Pandemic II - evolve a deadly organism and destroy the Earth - pretty scary! http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/fullscreen.php?game=Pandemic-2

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other games, for another day

1. Survival Game - Can your species make it a million years? http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html

2. Put together the bones of ancient creatures! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/skeleton_jigsaw/

3. Can you guess which animals are most closely related? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/family/index.html

5. Can you build a balanced food chain? http://puzzling.caret.cam.ac.uk/game.php?game=foodchain

Agenda Thursday and Friday

Tiger Salamander vs Axolotl!!

1. Genetics challenge (done with shoulder partner!) http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc2j9tpq_216czc477gh - (each of you must have your name on it - and have it on your symbaloo page - hint. . .make it a shared google document)

2. Finish Mitosis animation

3. Finish the 3 cell questions on google docs and tell us which students influenced you from the discussion group

4. Double check your symbaloo page is up to date with all assingments.

5. Check my last email for what is due today.

6. See me if you have finished all items on the email so I can guide your next step.

Agenda Tuesday and Wednesday January 26-27

1. Finish Mitosis Animations



2. Genetics Review (3o minutes after the bell - optional unless you missed last class)



2.5. Make a punnet square for two wild type heterozygous axolotls (Bb) . Out of 350 babies, about how many can we expect to be albino? (if you can't answer this, you must report to the genetics session)



3. Mitosis Dance Break



4. Go to the discussion forum and finish rating your classmates. When you complete this, use google docs to make official answers to the 3 questions. List which student's answers influenced you (like a citation)



5. Make sure these assignments and the discussion group site is posted on your symbaloo page.



6. Read this article http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.stru.celldiagram/



7. Answer the questions under (questions for discussion) - use google docs an post this to your symbaloo page

Agenda Thursday and Friday January 21-22

1. Return to the discussion group on the differences between plant and animal cells.

http://groups.google.com/group/pkyscience7-cell-comparing
2. Read through the answers and rate each post honestly.

3. Compose your best answer for each discussion question using google docs and cite which student's reply helped you the most.

4. Post this assignment on your symbaloo page

4.5 Begin genetics and Punnet squares (you must have evernote ready)

5. Finish mitosis animations

6. Continue to the next article (with interactive cell) http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.stru.celldiagram/

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Agenda Tuesday and Wednesday Janurary 19-20

1. Read the article "Comparing Animal and Plant cells" - http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.cell.animplant/

2. Join this discussion group and answer each of the questions at this link http://groups.google.com/group/pkyscience7-cell-comparing

3. You will use this discussion to put your actual answers for me next class.

4. Continue your mitosis animation

4.5 - Post ALL of your assignments on your sybaloo page - you need to do some organization

6. Choose one (for 50 pts) from the list below (Don't forget to site your work)
- Describe the most important parts of a cell and describe what they do and why they are important.
-Describe the different types of cells that appear in bodies. Explain how they are different and what are their different funcitons.
-Embryology - Look at how an animal develops from a single egg and follows mitosis until in forms into a complete organism.

Agenda Wednesday and Thursday January 13-14

Here is another example of mitosis in animation.

1. Finish Mitosis animation

2. Look at the last agendas and finish the other cell related assignments

3. Your group will be called up to view human cells and cells in mitosis. You will need to put results in your evernote page.

4. Explain the difference between animal cell and plant cell (up to 50 pts, required) - There are many ways to do this, so be creative and have fun3.

5. Choose one (for 50 pts) from the list below

Choose the most important parts of a cell and describe what they do and why they are important.

Describe the different types of cells that appear in bodies. Explain how they are different and what are their different funcitons.

Embryology - Look at how an animal develops from a single egg and follows mitosis until in forms into a complete organism.

Science Agenda January 11-12

Here is an example of 'A' work (Ok it's professionally done!)



1. Check last agenda - You will probably be working on your mitosis animation. We will begin sharing these as you complete them.

2. There are other assingments that are worth points. You should begin these when you are done with you animations.

3. QUIZ - MITOSIS - (Dance)

Science Agenda Janurary 7-8

1. Begin cell mitosis animation (100 pts required)
2. Explain the difference between animal cell and plant cell (up to 50 pts, required) - There are many ways to do this, so be creative and have fun
3. Choose one (for 50 pts)

• Choose the most important parts of a cell and describe what they do and why they are important.
• Describe the different types of cells that appear in bodies. Explain how they are different and what are their different funcitons.
• Embryology - Look at how an animal develops from a single egg and follows mitosis until in forms into a complete organism.

4. Look at earlier agendas to see what you are missing.

5. Brain break - Mitosis Dance introduction

Welcome Back - Science Agenda

This is a bit random, but the first dog looks like mine so I had to put it in!

1 Introduction of technology upgrades

1.5 Technology check - make sure you remember how to get to all of your stuff - blogger, evernote, mygradebook (you can check your final exam grade)

2. Prepare for Mitosis Olympics (after a brief speech from Mr. H - You will need your evernote account ready) - new words for evernote - spindle fibers, centrioles -- Old words - nucleus, cell membrane, nuclear membrane, chromosomes,

3. Make Mitosis Cards

4. Mitosis Olympics

5. Begin mitosis animation (use any program you want, I actually use powerpoint, I'll show you how)