Here are your First Quarter 2015 Assignments:
DoDEA Standards: Cells and Heredity
31 August: First day of class. Students will rotate today through all their periods 1-8 and classes are shortened in order for students to meet all their teachers on the first day. For all classes I will share my expectations of all students and share some strategies how they can be successful in my science class.
Click Here for the 2015-2016 A/B Day Block Schedule.
1. What is Science? Click here.
2. Monte Python's What is Science! Click here.
2. Class PowerPoint for today: Click here
3. Video: Click here to watch Kid Presidents Pep Talk to Students and Teachers.
1-2 September: Introduction to Science class. Mr. Hanson's Introduction, textbook issue, science notebook, welcome letter to parents, lab safety contract, science journal/lab notebook, Cornell notes, science lab, science projects, Introduction to 7th grade science and course, integration of math, 7th grade science website on Weebly, Quia.com homework assignments, quizzes, and tests, Glencoe Science text online. IMPORTANT: Students and parents need to complete the Welcome Letter that Mr. Hanson passed out and turn it in next class. I need parent e-mail and phone numbers for contact. Also, insure that you read my syllabus on this website so you know the requirements of my class. IMPORTANT: STUDENTS WILL BE DIRECTED TO KEEP THEIR TEXTBOOKS AT HOME AS THEIR TEXTBOOKS WILL BE USED TO COMPLETE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS AND STUDY FOR QUIZZES AND TESTS. THEY MUST NOT LEAVE THEM AT SCHOOL IN THEIR LOCKERS.
1. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM2IrtehVdE NASCAR Engineer
born with no arms. This is an inspirational video about how persistence and hard work pay off.
3-4 September: Homework Assignment #1: Chapter 3, Section 1 Cell Structure. Assignment can be taken twice. This assignment can be found by reading Section 1 on pages 70-77 in your textbook. Themes are to identify the names and functions of each part of a cell, explain how important a nucleus is in a cell, and compare tissues, organs, and organ systems. Vocabulary: cell membrane, cytoplasm, cell wall, organelle, nucleus, chloroplast, mitochondrion, ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi body, tissue, organ. Assignment will be given on 3-4 September and will be due on 8 September ALL CLASSES. Click here for Quia.com to complete your homework assignment. Also, you can go to these websites to learn more about cells: Click here for the Cornell Notes for Cell Structure from class. You may use your Cornell notes on Quiz #1, and also on the Chapter 3 Exam.
Class Video on Cell Organelles Part 1 click here.
Class Video on Cell Organelles Part 2 click here.
Class Video on Cell Organelles Part 3 click here.
Click here and here for the Introduction to Biology.
1. Cells Alive click here
2. Khan Academy Cells click here
3. Cells Intro click here
4. The BBC Hidden Life of the Cell Part 1-3 click here
5. Click here for Kid Presidents 20 Things We Should Say More Often.
6. Animal Cell diagram click here.
7. Plant Cell diagram click here.
8. Bacteria Cell diagram click here.
9. Virus diagram click here.
10. Levels of Organization for living organisms click here.
11. Levels of Organization for the natural world click here.
12. Click here for 200 cell videos on YouTube - this is awesome.
7 September: No School Labor Day Weekend.
8-9 September: In class students will be using their 7th Grade ScienceSaurus book to study vocabulary related to cells and cell structure. These textbooks will stay in my classroom as I only have a classrooms set. Students will be using this textbook in class all year. I will post the sections students will be studying periodically in conjunction with the topics they are learning about. Here is a .pdf document of the pages from the book: Click here
BLANK CORNELL NOTES FORM CLICK HERE (A student asked for this and maybe others would like to download a copy).
8-9 September: IMPORTANT: Click Here for the Assignments PowerPoint Slides that I show in class.
8-9 September: Homework Assignment #2: Chapter 3, Section 2 Viewing Cells. Assignment can be taken twice. This assignment can be found by reading Section 1 on pages 79-83 in your textbook. Themes are to compare the differences between the compound light microscope and the electron microscope, summarize the discoveries that led to the development of the cell theory, and relate the cell theory to modern biology. Vocabulary: Cell Theory. KNOW THE THREE PARTS OF THE CELL THEORY. Assignment will be given on 8-9 September and will be due on 11 September ALL CLASSES. Click here for Quia.com to complete your homework assignment. INTRODUCTION TO CELLS VIDEO CLICK HERE.
What is a Cell? From MonkeySEE - Click here.
10-11 September: Students will continue to learn about Cells and their Organelles today. Students will also have an introduction to Microscopes. Click here for the Tutorial on the use of the Compound Microscope.
See the following sites to learn more about Microscopes:
1. Microbe Hunter's Beginners Guide to Microscopy click here
2. Virtual Microscope click here
3. Parts of the Microscope click here and Microbus here
4. How to make a wet mount slide click here
5. Click here for the Compound Microscope Diagram.
14-15 September: Quiz #1 in class. This quiz is on the vocabulary and science concepts from Chapter 3, Section 1 Cell Structure on pages 70-77 in your textbook. THIS QUIZ CAN ONLY BE TAKEN IN CLASS and is worth 125 points. All questions will be taken from this section and from your Cornell Notes. You may use your HANDWRITTEN Cornell Notes on this test and you will have to bring these notes to class on this day. If you forget your notes, you will have to take the quiz anyway so insure you study for this quiz. Click here for Quia.com to take the quiz. You MUST bring your Cornell Notes to class today as they will be graded. Completed handwritten notes are worth the maximum 50 points. Partially complete notes will receive partial grade, and no notes will receive a zero.
**IMPORTANT TO NOTE: ALL QUESTIONS ON ANY QUIZ OR TEST THIS YEAR WILL COME FROM THE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS, AND CORNELL NOTES FROM CLASS.
14-15 September: Microscope Lab Microscope Lab 1 Introduction. Students are introduced to
the use of microscopes, different types of microscopes used in science, the parts of a microscope, and how to use the Compound Microscope which they will use in class to study cells. Students are evaluated on their performance and attention in this lab. Students who have not completed their homework assignments above on time, will be working on it in class, while other students who were responsible enough to complete their assignments on time will be working in the lab. Students will also read and sign the Lab Safety Contract to insure that safety is observed at all times in the Lab. Students will learn how to make a wet mount slide and zoom in on key features of cells. Live cells will be observed as well as prepared slides of preserved cells. Assignment is worth 100 Points.
16-17 September: Click here for the BBC Documentary on: The Cell, The Hidden Kingdom.
1. Click here for Prokaryotic Vs. Eukaryotic Cells.
17 September: Naples Middle/High School Open House from 1700-1900 hours.
18 and 21 September: Chapter 3 Section 3 on Viruses in class. Students will learn about viruses in class and how they work. Quiz #1 answers will be reviewed in class today. Students will continue Microscope Lab and learning how to make a wet mount slide.
Click here for an Introduction to Viruses.
1. Click here for the animation on Viruses and Bacteria called Bacteriophages.
2. Click here to find out how a Virus works. And here for the 3 D animation.
3. Click here to find out how the HIV Virus works.
4. Virus diagram click here.
5. Click here to see the 10 September 2014 News story on the Entero-Virus D68 that is spreading across the United States.
6. Click here for the World Health Organization news video on the Ebola Virus.
18-21 September: Homework Assignment #3 - Chapter 3, Section 3 Viruses on www.quia.com/web. Assignment can be taken twice. Students complete this assignment using their textbook on pages 84-87. Students will be able to explain how a virus makes copies of itself, identify the benefits of vaccines, and investigate some uses of viruses. Vocabulary is: Virus, and Host Cell. Viruses infect nearly all organisms, usually affecting them negatively yet sometimes affecting them positively. Due the next class you have me. Date assigned: 18 and 21 September. Date due: 24 September ALL CLASSES.
1. Click here for Cornell Notes on Viruses from class. You may use your HANDWRITTEN Cornell Notes on your upcoming Chapter 3 Exam on 5-6 October. These notes and your Section 1 notes will be worth 50 Points on Chapter 3 Exam day.
22-23 September: Plant Cell Lab. (Students will receive a lab class performance grade for this lab worth a total of 100 points. See this grade on Gradespeed for details.). Using microscopes, live water plants, and prepared slides, students will view and learn about Oscillatoria and Spirogyra. They will see the cell colonies and zoom in on the internal structures of these cells (cell wall, cytoplasm, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, and the nucleus of the cell).
1. In Class today students will research the organisms Spirogyra and Oscillatoria. They will see these organisms under their microscopes and go online and create a Google Presentation researching the organisms. The assignment is worth 100 points. They will share their Google document with me. Click here for the Assignment Guidelines.
a. Click here for the video on Oscillatoria from class.
b. Click here for the video on Spirogyra from class.
c. Click here for facts about Oscillatoria.
d. Click here for facts about Spirogyra.
24 September - 15 October: In class Protist Lab/Protist Research Assignment. Students are graded on their performance, and sketching the protists they see under their microscopes. Students have been making their own wet mount slides and looking at and observing the behavior of live plant-like and animal-like protists using high school microscopes. Protist Research Project (130 points). Using my laptops, students will research seven different plant-like and animal-like protists, draw them, label the parts of these one-celled organisms, and write about their Scientific Name, habitat, diet or how they get energy, Locomotion how they move, and how they reproduce. Students will progress from this lab into a lab focusing on Bacteria and Viruses. Click Protist Lab Guidelines to understand how to complete this assignment. DUE DATE IS 23 OCTOBER - LATE PENALTIES WILL APPLY.
Click here for the video from class on The Diversity of Protists.
Click here for the video from class: What are Protists? from Monkey See.
Click here for the video on MICRO-ORGANISMS THAT IS GREAT!
1. Click here to learn what Bacteria are.
2. Click here for an Introduction to Bacteria.
3. Click here for an excellent resource for Protists called Microbe Wiki.
4. Click here for another great resource for Protists called Buzzle.
5. Click here for Microbe World.
6. FINALLY, CLICK HERE FOR THE TREE OF LIFE PROJECT. USE THEIR SEARCH ENGINE AND TYPE IN THE NAME OF THE PROTIST.
1 October: Early Release for Students at 1100 hours. No Lunch Provided Students this day as they are out at 1100.
2 October: No School for Students - Teacher CSI Training.
5-6 October: 7th Grade Science Chapter 3 Exam (170 points). Students will be tested on the three sections in Chapter 3 (Cell Structure, Viewing Cells, and Viruses). Students can use their HANDWRITTEN Cornell Notes from Section 1 Cell structure and Section 3 Viruses only on this test. Click here to see the study guide of the vocabulary from this chapter. Students were encouraged to review questions from the Homework Assignments #1, #2, and #3 on Quia.com that they have already completed and study them as I will take all my questions on the test from the homework assignments. Students will take the test in class on www.quia.com/web. After students take their test today, I will meet with each on individual to let them know what their grade is so far, and make recommendations on how they can improve their grade in the class. IMPORTANT: Students will turn in their HANDWRITTEN Cornell Notes today for Section 1 Cell Structure and Section 3 Viruses. These notes will be worth 50 points today.
5-6 October: The "Bacteria Internet Research Homework Assignment" (100 Points). This assignment will be due on 9 October all Classes. Students will need click on the following sites and then log onto www.quia.com/web to answer the questions from these two sites on Bacteria below. All questions are taken directly from these two websites (Bacteria: More than Pathogens, and Shapes of Prokaryotic Cells):
Click here for an Introduction to Bacteria.
1. Click here for the MonkeySEE Video on, What is Bacteria?
2. Click here for the Introduction to Bacteria!
3. Action Bioscience:Bacteria: More than Pathogens
4. Functional Anatomy of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic
Cells: Shapes of Prokaryotic Cells
5. Click here for the video on the shapes of Bacteria
7-8 October: Protist Lab/Protist Research Assignment continued.
12 October: No School - Columbus Day
9 and 13 October: In Class - Today students will be looking at live animal-like and plant-like protists under the microscope. They will observe their behavior and identify specific organisms. Students will study bacteria and viruses and how viruses use bacteria as a host to make copies of its DNA to make more viruses. Students will use their microscopes in the lab to look at slides of live bacteria, and also use the internet to study different species of bacteria. Students will also be drawing the three shapes of bacteria on their poster they have been working on, and label the parts of each bacteria shape. Students will continue their research Project on Protists.
1. Click here for a video on Amoeba Proteus
2. Click here for a Tutorial video on Paramecium
3. Click here for a Tutorial video on Euglena and here for the Amazing Euglena
4. Click here for a video on Dinoflagellates
5. Click here for a video on Diatoms and here for Diatoms in Action
6. Click here for a video on Vorticella and here for Vorticella feeding
7. Click here for a video on Volvox
8. Click here for a video on the Diversity of Protists
9. Click here for a video on the Kindom of Protists
9-21 October: Students will continue to finish their Protist Research Project in class. Due Date is 21 October. Late penalties will apply.
9 and 13 October: Homework Assignment #4 - Chapter 4, Section 1 Chemistry of Life (137 Points). Students will need to read this section in the text (pages 98-105) and answer questions on www.quia.com/web. It is critical that students are able to list the differences amoung atoms, elements, molecules, and compounds, explain the relationship between chemistry and life science, and discuss how organic compounds are different from inorganic compounds. Vocabulary: mixture, organic compound, enzyme, and inorganic compound. All questions on the homework are taken from this section. Assignment is due next class on 15 October all classes. Students will also finish up their Protist Project in class.
14-15 October. Continue Protist Research Project in Class Today
16 and 19 October: Quiz #2 on Chapter 4 Section 1 Chemistry of Life (120 points). This quiz must be taken in class only. The quiz will be taken on www.quia.com/web. Students are highly encouraged to study the questions and answers on quia.com from Homework Assignment #4 as all questions on the quiz will be taken from this assignment.
16 and 19 October: Homework Assignment #5: Chapter 4, Section 2 Moving Cellular Materials (100 points). Students will need to read this section (pages 106-111) in the text and answer questions on www.quia.com/web. It is critical that students can describe the function of a selectively permeable membrane, explain how the processes of diffusion and osmosis move molecules in livin cells, and explain how passive transport and active transport differ. Vocabulary: passive transport, diffusion, equillibrium, osmosis, active transport, endocytosis, exocytosis. All questions in this homework assignment are taken from this section. Assignment is due 21 October for all classes. It is important that students learn these concepts as the will have a Osmosis and Diffusion Lab coming up.
20-21 October: Cornell Notes for Chapter 4 Section 2 Moving Cellular Materials, and Section 3 Energy for life: Click Here for the notes. (Worth 50 Points) These Cornell Notes can be used on the Chapter 4 Test on 30 October and 2 November.
20-21 October: Students today will take Cornell Notes on Moving Cellular Materials through the Cell Membrane.
1. Click here for the video from class on the Cell Membrane.
2. Click here for the video on the Fluid Mosaic Model of the Plasma Membrane.
3. Click here for the Animation of the Types of Passive and Active Transport.
20 October-5 November: Passive Transport - Diffusion and Osmosis Lab. This Assignment is due on 5 November. Students will be using the Scientific Method to explore how a Semi-Permeable Membrane works (cell membranes), and how materials and substances move into and out of the cell (100 points - 50 points for lab performance, and 50 points for writing portion of the lab using their Science Journal and the Scientific Method. Students will collect their data in a data table and graph their data. They will then analyze it and make their conclusions. Students will be using the following websites:
Click here are the Lab Guidelines.
1. Animation for Diffusion, Osmosis, and Facilitated Diffusion (click on links on
left)
2. Chicken Egg Development and Structure
3. Isotonic, Hypertonic, and Hypotonic Solutions
4. Passive and Active Transport Animation
5. You Tube video on the Cell Membrane
6. You Tube video on Passive and Active Transport
7. Khan Academy tutorial on Diffusion and Osmosis
23 October 2015: PROTIST PROJECT IS DUE NO LATE THAN TODAY. LATE PENALTIES WILL APPLY AFTER THIS DATE.
23 October: Early Release for Students at 1300 hours today. Lunch is provided in school.
22-23 October: Homework Assignment #6: Chapter 4, Section 3 Energy for Life (100 points). Students
will need to read this section in the text (pages 113-117) and answer questions on . It is vitally important that students are able to list the differences between producers and consumers, explain how the processes of photosynthesis and respiration store and release energy, and describe how cells get energy from glucose through fermentation. Vocabulary: metabolism, photosynthesis, respiration, fermentation. All questions are taken from this section. Assignment is due on 26 October for all classes. Assignment can be found on www.quia.com/web.
1. Chapter 4 Cell Processes Vocabulary List (100 Points). I am posting this list as students will be responsible for understanding their meaning and how chemistry is a part of life processes at the cellular level. Click here for the list. I will also pass this list out to students in class. They will need to write down the definitions and an example of each. Students can use this list/definitions on their Chapter 4 Exam next week. Students must complete their entire vocabulary with the definitions, they will receive 100 points on the day of their Chapter 4 Exam on 30 October and 2 November.
2. Cornell Notes for Chapter 4 Section 2 Moving Cellular Materials, and Section 3 Energy for life: Click Here for the notes.
3. Click here for the video on Photosynthesis from Monkey See.
4. Click here for the video on Cellular Respiration from the Amoeba Sisters.
22-23 October: Extra Credit Assignment (25 Points). Students will choose any current Science topic on BIOLOGY (The study of Living Things) in the news and write (type) a two-page (MUST BE TWO FULL PAGES), 14 pt Font size, double-spaced report (must have the title, your name, and period number on the first page) about the specific topic, what it is, how it works, how we can benefit from this science, and what they learned. This assignment is due NO LATER THAN 2 November and must be turned in on time to get credit. Students must follow these guidelines above to complete their paper - I will not accept a paper that does not follow these requirements. To get started, click on these sites: (REMEMBER, A TOPIC FROM BIOLOGY ONLY)
You can use Google Documents and share it with me. But let me know.
CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO WRITE THIS PAPER.
IMPORTANT: I have advised all students not to plagiarize by copying and pasting text into their paper. I have a program I use to take their text and search for the website they used. I can see if they copied it word for word. If a student is caught plagiarizing in school, I will have no choice but to refer them to the Administration. Please write your paper in your own words - you can use scientific vocabulary, but you must explain what the word means in your paper.
1. Science Daily
2. Student Science
3. List of Science News Sites
4. National Geographic
5. e Science News
26-27 October 2015: Students will be working on their Diffusion and Osmosis Lab (Passive Transport) in class today.
28-29 October 2015: Students will be working on their Diffusion and Osmosis Lab (Passive Transport) in class today.
30 October and 2 November (This test date has been changed and moved to the next class): Chapter 4 Cell Processes Exam. (120 Points) All questions on this exam will be taken
from Homework Assignments #4, 5, and 6 on www.quia.com/web. Students will need to study the questions and answers from these three assignments to be successful on this exam. Students will take this exam in class on those dates. Students will have the entire class period to take this test, so important to study questions and answers from the three homework assignments. All vocabulary words on this LIST will be on the exam. Students can also use their Vocabulary list with their definitions for the test and if it is complete, they will receive 100 points. For the Vocabulary assignment see above. Students can also use their Cornell notes for Chapter 4 Section 2 and 3 on this Exam. Cornell Notes will be graded this day and will be worth 50 points.
Possible Lab: (Ran out of time for this lab): Lab today Comparing Cells (100 points). Students will identify and compare structures and organelles of plant and animal cells, as well as the structure of bacteria and archea cells. Skills used: observing, identifying, inferring, diagramming, comparing and contrasting, classifying. Students will use slides of live Elodea, and prepared slides of other plant, animal and bacteria/archea cells.
2 November: Last day to turn in Extra Credit Assignment given on 20-21 Oct. I will grade all extra credit on this day. Extra Credit Assignments must be turned in on time - students who turn them in late will not receive credit as I must have grades finalized in my gradebook today. Finish Lab today. Students will watch a video on Dolphin intelligence and behavior and how they have helped save people in the water who have been attacked by sharks.
3 November Period 4 Class: during this period I will have a substitute teacher. Students will:
1. Click here for the Homework Slide for today's class.
2. Complete Day 3 of their Passive Transport Lab.
2. When finished they will watch the video on "The Rise of the Superbugs Resistant to Antibiotics" Click here for the video.
3-4 November: Students will continue collecting their data from the Osmosis and Diffusion Lab, input their data into MS Excel, and make two graphs (Daily Egg Mass Changes, and Difference in Egg Mass Changes) indicating whether the movement of molecules through the cell membrane was due to Osmosis, Diffusion, Facilitated Diffusion, or Active Transport.
3-4 November: Homework Assignment #7 - Chapter 8, Section 1 Cell Division and Mitosis. Students will need to read this section in the text (pages 210-216) and answer questions on www.quia.com/web. It is vitally important that students are able to explain why mitosis is important, understand how the cell cycle works, examine the steps of mitosis and know what happens at each step, compare mitosis in plant and animal cells, and list two examples of asexual reproduction. Vocabulary: mitosis, chromosome, asexual reproduction. All questions are taken from this section. Assignment is due on 9 November for all classes. Students will take Cornell Notes in class on cell division and mitosis.
3-9 November: After Lab, students will watch one of the following videos:
1. The Rise Of Superbugs Resistant To Antibiotics - click here.
2. Virus Evolution - click here.
3. The Deadliest Viruses in the World - click here.
5 November: End of the 1st Quarter. All late assignments must be in by no later than this day.
5 and 9 November: Students will continue collecting their data from the Osmosis and Diffusion Lab, input their data into MS Excel, and make two graphs (Daily Egg Mass Changes, and Difference in Egg Mass Changes) indicating whether the movement of molecules through the cell membrane was due to Osmosis, Diffusion, Facilitated Diffusion, or Active Transport.
6 November: No school for students - Teacher work day. 1st Quarter Grades are finalized.