Wed. Feb 25th

Wed- Quiz today..

#1.  Enter your score for the diffusion lab and cell add onto your Standards page

#2 Quiz

#3   When done..

WU- Open up to your aha connections page…

Diffusion lab/Egg Diffusion

During the diffusion lab (iodine/starch) and the egg diffusion lab I learned (related to cells)…….

Photosynthesis/Cellular Respiration show that….

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration….????

Monday Feb. 23

Mon.

WU- Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Review

PHOTOSYNTHESIS, photosynthesis #2  Glucose

(discuss muscle cramps, diabetes/insulin etc, sugar(carbs)-fat-muscle use

1. Return Diffusion lab and tape in left side of diffusion notes (over the egg table if need be)
2. Return cell ad and tape in on left side of cell diagram
3. Photosynthesis worksheet answer check, tape in notebook on left side of cell energy notes

Homework:

• Quiz Wed:
• Cell process (diffusion/osmosis etc..)
• Cell Energy (Photosynthesis/Cell Respiration), organelle?, equations
• Characteristics of living things

Friday February 20th

Collect Cell ad

WU- Egg demo

Substance	Observation	Why do you think this happened?
Vinegar
Corn Syrup
Distilled colored water

1. Egg explanation
2. Review of photosynthesis
3. p. 39, Define Cellular Respiration, write the formula, what organelle does this occur in?
4. Glucose and Cellular Respiration
5. Life movie

Homework: Go outside and play in the snow

Thur. Feb. 19th

Thur.  WU- Please take out your diffusion lab, write your name on it and pass it down.

1. Cell ad reminder, what does 7th grade work look like?
2. Egg lab day #3

How do cells power themselves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgYPeeABoUsWU: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

PHOTOSYNTHESIS, photosynthesis #2  Glucose

1. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Internet activity Worksheet (tape in to right side, Left side label “Cells obtain and use energy”
1. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Notes
2. HOMEWORK- Cell ad due Fri

Wednesday Feb 18th

Wed.

WU: Add next step on egg cell

1. Overview of cell processes
2. Add to notes page “Cells interact with their Environment” :
1. Endocytosis: how cells bring particles into the cell
2. Exocytosis: how cells get rid of particles  
3. Intro Cell ad (block 2 and 3)
4. Work time on diffusion block 1
5. show final outcome then Post lab analysis work time blocks 2 and 3
6. Cell Ad worktime

Homework:

1. Diffusion activity due on Thur.
2. Cell ad due on Fri

Tuesday 2/17

Tue.

WU: Cell Rap

I can distinguish living vs.  non-living things and explain how structures work together to perform functions that make something living.

What would happen to a factory if its power were shut off or its supply of raw materials never arrived? What if it couldn’t ever get rid of its garbage?

1. Overview of cell processes

     .5  Cell ad introduction. Start Cell ad cell city video

1. Set up egg diffusion lab

1. Diffusion lab, add terms to sheet:
1. High concentration: a lot of a substance present
2. Low concentration: a little of a substance present
3. semi-permeable: allowing certain substances to pass through but not others
2. Cell ad work time/Lab, tape lab in right side of notebook when done
3. Left side Label “Cells interact with their Environment”:  Diffusion/Osmosis are important to cells because...

Monday Feb. 16th

Mon.

WU: NY Subway….the micro cosmos

Add to aha connections page:  

The microscope is a powerful tool because...

From the microscope labs I learned that….

1. Hand back quizzes (Microscope quiz (tape left side of microscope lab and Story of Earth (tape left side in beginning)
1. Add scores to learning targets sheets
2. Next blank page Tape in cheek/onion cell lab (right side) Similarities and differences (plant vs animal) (left side) “What similarities and differences of the plant/animal cell did you notice?”
3. Cell parts/processes from last Thursday,
1. Additional Resource: Cells/Factories Comparison, cell city video
2. A factory makes products, what does a cell make?
3. Answer key
4. Overview of cell processes
5. Start Cell ad

Homework:   1. Tape in sheets (see above), 2.  Complete cell organelle/factory worksheet (color and answer questions, answer key above)

Friday Feb 13th

Fri.- half day

WU- baby survey, when will it be?  how much will it weigh?  What should we name baby?

Click here to take

1. Onion/Cheek cell… discuss on Mon.
2. Cell parts...hang on to and work on Mon.

1. Live specimens (continued from Wed)

Wed. Feb 11th

Wed.

1. Story of Earth Quiz (see Kelly)
2. Cheek Cell vs. Animal Cell continued work

Homework:

• Quiz Thursday

-Parts and functions of microscope

-7 characteristics of living things

-Cell theory/cell parts/cell types (flow chart and notes)

• Onion/Cheek cell lab complete

Tuesday Feb. 10th

Tuesday

WU-  Return History of Earth papers, enter score in rubric

Then...

Pixels and Pictures video (This is why your magazine picture looked the way it did)

1. Please take out your microscope and letter e lab  Here are the answers. Here is another one
2. Flow chart (copy in notes)

How to make a cheek cell slide with stain.

1. Plant and animal cell lab

H.W.  Earth’s timeline quiz on Wed.  (Microscope, cell theory, cell parts on Thur.)

         Check microscope diagram, tape in microscope diagram in notebook on left side of letter e lab.

Monday Feb. 9th

Monday

Wu- Please get an I THINGER or chromebook and log on to our blog: www.tinyurl.com/communityhouse

1. The week ahead

M-Letter E Microscope lab

T- Plant vs. Animal

W-Earth Timeline Quiz? LIVE SPECIMEN LAB

Thur.- Microscope and cell theory quiz (I/Mrs. Koller will be gone this day)

Fr.- Cell parts and cell ad

   

     2.  Survey

3. Microscopes:

1. Complete microscope/letter e lab  T
2. Complete worksheet of microscope diagram and lab questions on the back.

H.W. complete lab and questions

Friday Feb. 6th

Friday

Wu- Open your notes to Living vs. Non-living characteristics.  Living vs. non-living check.

1. Please write on top of your microscope diagram

Field of View (FOV)- How much of the specimen you see

2. Continue parts of a microscope, prepared slide example
3. Letter E lab and making a wet mount slide lab

No Homework

Thursday Feb. 5th

Thur.

Wu- What is the most basic unit of life?  How do we know this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OpBylwH9DU

Cell- The smallest unit that can perform all the processes necessary for life.

Who is Robert Hooke?-

Robert Hooke- Father of cells “little rooms”, discovered cells by looking at cork through a microscope..

Cell Theory p. 5 in green book (place in notes)

Major parts of a cell (cell membrane, organelle, nucleus), draw picture of cell and define

Thursday Feb. 4th

Wed.

Wu- Standards for unit… and standards based learning information (Rubric), tape this in your notebook….How well do I know what we are learning?

1. Earth timeline example, notebook set-up

I can explain how the Earth changed from its formation to the presence of life and human history.

    2.  What Does it mean to be living?

  3. Notes (right side) What characteristics do all living things have?

2/4 Characteristics of Life Notes  

All living things:

-Move

-Respond and adapt to their environment

-Reproduce

-Excrete- Get rid of waste

-Respire (obtain and use energy)

-Living things are made of cells.

-Living things grow and develop.

Monday Feb. 2

Monday 2/2

WU- Standards for unit… and standards based learning information (Rubric)

1. Complete story of Earth

  2.  Timeline-

1. Make sure your names are on your timeline (front by Earth’s formation)

2.  Spend some time answering the questions

3. Bring your timeline out in the hallway to staple on the bulletin board

4. Hand in completed worksheet when done

H.W. Complete timeline questions for Tue.