Friday, February 26, 2010

Week #2 for the Heredity Unit!

3/1 Acquired and Inherited traits, Natural Selection
3/2 Lesson 5-1 Change over time; Family Heredity activities due
3/3 Reproduction in organisms
3/4 lesson 5-2 How does evolution happen?;
3/5 any catching up we need to do; topics we need to cover more

Have a great Spring Break!!!

Other important dates for this unit:
3/2 Family Heredity sheet due
3/8-3/12 Spring Break
3/15 Teacher Work day- No school for students
3/19 Test on Heredity

Friday, February 19, 2010

It's a new term and a brand new start! We are 2/3 the way done with this school year! Can you believe how fast it has gone by??? Here is the schedule for the week:

2/22 Lesson 3-2 on Traits and Inheritance;
2/23 Family Heredity activity sheet goes home (due on 3/2); Punnett Squares
2/24 Correct 3-1 DR, BN Probability
2/25 Begin Gene Shuffle Activity
2/26 Finish Gene Shuffle Activity

Other important dates for this unit:
3/2 Family Heredity sheet due
3/8-3/12 Spring Break
3/15 Teacher Work day- No school for students
3/19 Test on Heredity

Friday, February 12, 2010

Week of February 15-19

We are wrapping up cells and the term this week! Whew!!! It has gone by soooooo fast!!! Here is this week's plan. We are doing the reteaching a little differently this time, we are going to go over the test on the first day and answer any questions, and then do the reteaching and enriching the following two days.

2/15 No school for President's day
2/16 Go over the test, answer questions, any class housekeeping for the end of the term.
2/17 Reteaching/enrich
2/18 Reteaching/enrich
2/19 Begin Heredity Unit (Heredity unit will be on 3rd term's grade), Genes and DNA, Read lesson 3-1, begin DR if time.

Important upcoming dates for the term
2/19 End of the term!!!

Friday, February 5, 2010

Cells Week #3

We are on the downhill slide for cells. What is the scariest, is we are also on the downhill slide for the school year!

For this week:
2/8 Respiratory system
2/9 Skeletal and Muscular system
2/10 2-1 Exchange with the environment (how cells get stuff in and out of them), Diffusion review
2/11 Review for test, finish up any cell stuff
2/12 Test on Cells

***Students who do not pass the test on 2/12 will be relearning the information and retaking the test on 2/16 & 2/17. Those who pass the first time will get to do some fun science enrichment stuff to celebrate their achievement on those two days!!!

Important upcoming dates for the term
2/12 Late work due
2/19 End of the term!!!