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MONDAY;
Complete vocabulary terms.
Reading Chapters 8-14, pp. 75-143. Assessment on Thursday of this week for these chapters.
Completion of Study Guide questions as we read.
TUESDAY:
Assessment using vocabulary terms.
Continue reading.
WEDNESDAY:
Video on cloning. Terms.
THURSDAY:
Assessment: chapters 8-14
MONDAY: VIDEO: The cell with assessment questions to answer.
Complete Cellular Structure and Function.
TUESDAY: Discussion: How animal and plant cells differ. Review of cell parts and function, history of cell for assessment on Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY: Assessment of history of cell, cell organelles and function.
THURSDAY: Introduction to the microscope. Label parts of the microscope.
FRIDAY: Microscope lab.
LIFE SCIENCE:
STANDARD: S6L2
Students will describe the structure and function of cells.
Element: S7L2.a
Explain that cells take in nutrients in order to grow and divide and to make needed materials.
Element: S71.2 b
Relate cell structures (cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts, mitochondria) to basic cell.
MONDAY: Cell video and quiz on parts and function of the cell.
Make up rhymes describing parts and functions of cells.
TUESDAY: REVIEW of parts and functions of cells.
Performance task: be able to label the parts of an animal cell and a plant cell and know the function of the parts.
vocabulary:
organelle
nucleus
cytoplasm
cell wall
cell membrane
mitochondria
chloroplast
prokaryote
eukaryote
WEDNESDAY: Assessment of chapter 3.1 and 3.2. The history of discovery of the cell and parts and functions of the cell
THURSDAY: Introduction to the microscope. Label parts of the microscope. Discuss total magnification. How to care for and use the microscope.
FRIDAY: Microscope lab. viewing the letter "e" and cloth under the light microscope.
:
Wednesday: Progress reports to anyone with a D of F average at this time.
Students may come for extra help Tues and Thurs. AM and report to Ms. Smith's room.
Let Mrs. Perry know 24 hours ahead of time. Working lunch available with Mrs. Perry
any day.
(6th Period) SCIENCE
Monday: New terms: mitochondria, cell wall, lysosome, DNA, nucleus
Review of history of the cell and video on history and general structure and function of cell parts
Tuesday: Whole group discussion of Eukaryotic Cells and Cornell Notes.
Group work: Making an eidable cell. Groups choose foods to represent a cell. Members of groups bring in foods Thusday and each group makes a cell with their food products. May eat at the end of class. Will make on Thursday.
Wednesday: Continuation of discussion and notes on Section 2 the Eukaryotic Cell.
Directed Reading A in class and finish at home if not complete. Groups meet and discuss their plans to build a cell Thursday in class. Decide who will bring what materials.
Thursday: Build a Cell Lab Activity.
Friday: Assessment Chapter 3.1 and 3.2
LITERACY: (7tth Period
Monday: Assessment of Chapters 1-7 of Scorpions
Group work on vocabulary terms.
Tuesday: Individuals read aloud pages in Chapter 8. Ansering study guide questions together as a class.
Wednesday: Popcorn reading aloud Chapter 9. Studey guide questions answered together as a class.
Thursday: Continue vocabulary work as a group. Read the word in context. Decide what the meaning is in context. Look up in dictionary to check interpretations.
Friday: Silent reading any book or magazine of student choice. Must have the book or magazine in class. Cannot go to the media center during class time.
SCIENCE CONNECTIONS (5th period)
Monday: Venn Diagram prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes.
Tuesday: Video history of cell. New terms: DNA, cell wall, chloroplasts, nucleus (review),
Take Cornell Notes: Living compared to non-living things. Also Venn Diagram.
Wednesday:
Drawing, labeling, coloring a typical animal cell. Give functions of cell parts.
Reading Essentials: Cellular Structure and Function. Hi-light cell structures, underline cell functions.
Thursday: Complete any of week's work and review for an assessment on Friday.
Friday: Assessment of Cell history, cell theory, parts and functions of cells if review Thursday indicates readiness.
Further work on the cell if readiness is not indicated Thursday.functions.
Science:
Thursday: Assessment
Friday: Review of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Begin Monday Chapter 3, 2 Eukaryotic Cells
MONDAY:
Video biomes Tropical Rainforests. Take notes.
TUESDAY:
Review of Biome and Assessment
Read Chapter 3.1 Cells.
Answer the standards check questions and the standards questions. (5 OF THEM IN BLUE AND READ THROUGH OUT THE READING)
WEDNESDAY:
Discuss the first section of chapter 3.
Terms to know: cell, cell membrane, organelle, nucleus, prokaryote, eukaryote. Vocabulary cards in interactive notebook
Know the 3 parts of the cell theory.
Draw the Typical Eukaryotic Cell on interactive notebook. Page 66.
Wednesday:
Work on world biome maps.
Tatto representing a biome. Draw and color. Be sure when you look at it you recognize the biome.
Thursday:
Video: Biomes Temperate Decidous Forest.
Take notes.
Friday:
Directed reading B
Puzzle and word find using terms from biomes
Test next Tuesday.
SCIENCE: CHAPTER 20 THE EARTH'S ECOSYSTEMS.
Section 1 Land Biomes 526-533
Monday:
Directed reading (handout) assigned previously 10/9.
Vocabulary Cards: biome,savanna, desert, tundra.
Handout: Land Biome Chart
Tuesday:
Handout: World Biome Map
Complete, color key, label, color correctly.
Wednesday:
Continue to study 20.1 Land Biomes
Assessment Tuesday of next week.
Design a tatto that represents a biome. Make sure when someone looks at the Tatto, they will recognize the biome.
Thursday:
Video on Biomes Temperate Deciduous Forests.
Take notes.
Friday:
Handout Reading Guide B for 20.1 Biomes
Word find and crossword using the terms from biomes
Wednesday:
Early release. Class 30 minutes
SCIENCE:
Monday:
WARM-UP. Levels of organization. New term biome to be used.
Reading Chapter 18 Section 3 Handout
Vocabulary Words: carrying capacity, limiting factors, prey, and predator. Interactive Notebook page 48.
Test on Section 3 will be Thursday or Friday of this week.
LITERACY;
Monday: Test Thursday will be on chapters 21-22 Pages 203-227.
Study guide questions to be copied and answered.
Today: 1-3. Quiz tomorrow.
MONDAY
Warm-up: The Pyramid of Life. Info: a food energy pyramid is a way to show the flow of energy through an ecosystem. Starting at the base of the pyramid and moving towar the top, energy is lost and the number of organisms in each population becomes smaller.
Word bank:
producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers (also referred to as third level consumers.
TUESDAY
Begin work with partners on Galapogos Marine Organisms Food Web: Develop a color key with one color for the organism eaten and another color for the organism doing the eating. Read paragraphs about the marine organisms and color key.
WEDNESDAY
Warm-up: Chains of Life Crossword using vocabulary terms: producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, decomposer, food chain, food web, energy pyramid, scavenger.
Scavenger: an animal that eats the remains of dead animals.
Students continue work on constructing the Food Web with their partner. Cut the parargraphs about each organism and make a food web using the information.
THURSDAY; Hand our Tropic Lvbels
A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships. Each step in a food web is called a trophic level. Producers are the first trophic level.
Students with partners complete their food web.
FRIDAY:
Test on Food Chains and Food Webs (more in depth on concepts)
Students Identify looking at a food web: producers, first level consumers, second level consumers, third level consumers. Students can construct a food web when given a list of organisms. Arrows are pointed in correct direction.
