Landis's Science Classes

Announcements:

• Ch 18 quiz: Mon 1/30 – ch 18 study guides due
• Lab quiz: Taxonomy lab: Wed 2/1 – group data packets due
• Lab quiz: Comparison of plants lab: Fri 2/3

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Hand in Bio notebooks
• Hand in ch 18 study guide packets
• Quiz: Ch 18: Classificaction
• Finish Caminalcules lab

Tues:

• Debrief quiz
• Debrief Caminalcules lab – quiz Wed
• Direct instruction: Intro to plants – ch 22-1
  • ch 22-1 notes
• Video: non-vascular plants
• For Wed: Read ch 22-1 & 22-5, complete # 1 – 14 in plants study guide packet

Wed:

• Hand in group data packets – Caminalcules lab
• Lab quiz: Caminalcules lab
• Video: Crash course: vascular plants
• Discuss # 1 – 14
• For Thurs: Read ch 23-1, complete # 15 – 26 in study guide packet
• Lab: Comparison of plants
  • Lab_Comparison of Plants

Thurs:

• Direct instruction: Plant tissues
  • ch 23-1 notes
• Discuss # 15 – 26
• For Mon: Read 23-2 & 23-3, complete # 27 – 36 in study guide packet
• Finish Plant comparison lab & debrief – lab quiz tomorrow

Fri:

• Mid term grading day – 40 min period
• Video: Vascular plant reproduction
• Hand in Plant comparison lab data packet
• Lab quiz: Comparison of plants

Announcements:

• Ch 7 study guide packet due: Mon 1/30
• Lab quiz: potato osmosis lab: Tues 1/31
• Ch 7 cells test pt. 1: organelles only: Wed 2/1
• Ch 7 cells test pt. 2: Thurs 2/2
• Ch 8 packet due: Tues 2/7

Mon:

• Direct instruction: ch 7-4
  • ch-7-4-notes
• Discuss # 41 – 49 assignment, hand in ch 7 study guide packet
• Debrief potato osmosis lab
  • data packet due tomorrow
  • lab quiz tomorrow
• Group inquiry:
  • finish Organelles packet and submit group paper
  • Begin Membrane packet
    • group-inquiry-cell-membrane

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Hand in Potato osmosis lab data packets
• Lab quiz: Potato osmosis
• Test review: pt 1: organelles only
• Finish group inquiry packet and submit group paper

Wed:

• Cells test part 1: organelles only
• Test review: Cells test pt 2
• Assignment: read ch 8, begin study guide packet – due Tues 2/7
  • Chapter 8 packet

Thurs:

• Debrief test pt 1
• Cells test pt 2
• Work on Group inquiry packets or ch 8 assignment

Fri:

• Early release: mid-term grading: 40 min period
• Debrief test pt 2
• Direct instruction: ch 8-1
  • ch 8.1 notes

Announcements:

• Cell lab series data packets due: Wed 1/25
• Lab quiz: cell lab series: Wed 1/25
• Chapter 7 study guide due: Mon 1/30
• Test: Cells part 1: Wed 2/1
• Test: Cells part 2: Thurs 2/2

Mon:

• Discuss study guide questions #27 – 32.
• For Thurs: read ch 7-3, complete # 33 – 40 in study guide
• Continue Cell lab series

Tues:

• Finish Cell lab series
• Debrief Cell lab series – lab quiz tomorrow

Wed:

• Hand in Cell lab series data packet
• Lab quiz: Cell lab series
• Group inquiry: Cell organelles – begin
  • group-inquiry_organelles

Thurs:

• Direct instruction: ch 7-3
  • ch 7.3 notes
  • hyper-, hypo- & isotonic solutions osmosis
• Discuss # 33 – 40 assignment
• For Mon: read ch 7-4, complete #41 – 49 in study guide – packet to be collected Mon
• Potato osmosis lab – Day 1
  • Lab_potato osmosis

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Potato osmosis lab – day 2
  • share class data 
  • begin lab reports

Announcements:

• Evolution Unit Test: Mon 1/23 – ch 16 packet due
• Deep Time project due: Tues 1/24
• Biology notebooks due: Mon 1/30
• Chapter 18 quiz: classification: Mon 1/30 – study guide due
• Lab quiz: classification of Caminalcules: Wed 2/1

Mon:

• Hand in Zebra Biology book
• Hand in ch 16 study guide
• Unit test: Evolution & IB test supplement
• For Tues: read ch 18-1 in Dragonfly book (Miller & Levine – Biology)
• Final project work – due tomorrow

Tues:

• Debrief test
• Activity: shoe classification
• Direct instruction: ch 18-1
  • ch 18.1 notes
• Discuss # 1 – 9 in study guide
  • ch 18 review sheet
• For Thurs: read ch 18-2, complete # 10 – 17 in study guide

Wed:

• Handout: What to know – ch 18 quiz (Mon 1/30)
  • Chapter 18 quiz – what to know
• Handout: IB curriculum guide – classification & taxonomy
  • IB curric guide_student handout_classification
• Lab: Classification of Caminalcules – begin 
  • Caminalcules group protocol

Thurs:

• Revise Tues notes
• Direct instruction: ch 18-2
  • ch 18.2 notes
• Discuss # 10 – 17 assignment
• For Fri: read ch 18-3, complete # 18 – 27 in study guide
• Continue Caminalcules lab

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Direct instruction: ch 18-3
  • ch 18.3 notes
• Discuss # 18 – 27 assignment – packet due Mon
• Quiz review – ch 18
• Handout: what to know – Lab quiz: Caminalcules (Wed 2/1)
  • Caminalculues lab quiz study guide
• Continue Caminalcules lab

Announcements:

• Chapter 2 test: Biochemistry: Tues 1/17
• Lab report due: Scientific sketching: Thurs 1/19

Mon:

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday – no school

Tues:

• Quick test review
• Test: Ch 2: Biochemistry
• For Wed: read ch 7-1, complete # 1 – 12 in study guide
  • ch 7 packet

Wed:

• Test debrief
• Direct instruction: ch 7-1 & 7-2 notes
  • ch 7.1 & 7-2 notes 
• Discuss # 1 – 12 assignment
• For Thurs: read ch 7-2, complete # 13 – 26 in study guide
• Lab: Scientific Sketching
  • sketch lab_fly legs

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Discuss # 13 – 26 assignment
• For Fri: complete Organelles handout
  • organelles handout
• Handout: What to know – ch 7 – The Cell
  • ch 7 test what to know
• Finish Sketching lab and hand in report

Fri:

• Debrief Organelles handout
  • answers to organelles handout_2017_1_20
• For Mon: read ch 7-3, complete # 27 – 32 in study guide
• Begin Cell lab series
  • cell lab 1 cork 
  • cell lab 2 onion epidermis 
  • cell lab 3 elodea
  • cell lab 4 epithelial cells

Announcements:

• Ch 14 study guide due: Tues 1/17
• Sketching lab report due: Thurs 1/19
• Ch 16 study guide due: Mon 1/23
• Evolution Unit Test: Mon 1/23

Mon:

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – No School

Tues:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Discuss pgs 15 & 16 assignment & hand in study guide
• Direct instruction: Primates – ch 16
  • primates
  • primate groups concept map
• For Mon: Read ch 16-1, complete pgs 83 & 84 in study guide
  • study-guide_ch-16_primates
• Project: Deep time
  • Time Scale project rubric & events

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Discuss pgs 83 & 84 assignment
• For Thurs: read ch 16-2, complete pg 85 in study guide
• Work on Deep Time projects

Thurs:

• Discuss pg 85 assignment
• For Fri: read ch 16-3, complete p 86 in study guide (packet due Mon 1/23)
• Work on Deep Time projects

Fri:

• Discuss p 86 assignment – packet due Mon
• Test review: Evolution Unit
  • p 3 evol test review notes
  • p 4 evol test review notes
• Return Zebra books on Monday!

Announcements:

• Ch 2 packet due: Tues 1/10
• Lab quiz: Enzymes: Fri 1/11 (data packets due also)
• Test: ch 2: Biochemistry: Tues 1/17

Mon:

• OMG another snow day lol I can’t even

Tues:

• Revise Fri notes
• Direct instruction: Ch 2-4 
  • ch 2-4 notes__enzymes
• Discuss # 33 – 41 in packet. Hand in packet
• Lab: Enzyme simulation
  • Enzyme simulation lab

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Continue enzyme sim lab

Thurs:

• Review enzymes
• Finish lab & debrief – lab quiz tomorrow, data packets due

Fri:

• Hand in Enzyme sim lab data packet
• Lab quiz: Enzyme sim lab
• Test review: ch 2 – Biochemistry – test is Tues 1/17
  • WTK – ch 2 test

Announcements:

• Selection simulation lab report due: Tues 1/10
• Lab quiz: Hardy-Weinberg principle: Wed 1/11
• “Quest:” chapter 15: Thurs 1/12
• Ch 14 study guide due: Tues 1/17

Mon:

• OMG, another snow day lol I can’t even

Tues:

• Hand in Selection sim lab report
• Revise Fri notes
• Lab: Hardy-Weinberg, Case II & debrief
  • lab quiz: tomorrow

Wed:

• Lab quiz: Hardy-Weinberg principle
• “Quest” review – ch 15

Thurs:

• “Quest” – ch 15
• Direct instruction: ch 14-1
  • ch 14 – 1 notes
• For Fri: Read ch 14-1, complete pgs. 13 & 14
  • study-guide_ch-14_hist-of-life

Fri:

• Revise Wed notes
• Discuss pgs 134 & 14 assignment
• For Fri: read 14-2, complete pgs 15 & 16 – packet due tomorrow
• Handout: What to know – ch 14 & 16
  • wtk-ch 14 & 16
• Direct instruction: patterns of macroevolution
  • ch 14 notes – patterns of macroevolution

Announcements:

• Chapter 2 packet due: Tues 1/10
• Lab quiz: Enzymes: Fri 1/13
• Chapter 2 test: Biochemistry: Tues 1/17

Mon:

• New Year’s Day (observed) – no school

Tues:

• Professional development day – no class meetings

Wed:

• (yet another) Snow day

Thurs:

• (yet another) Snow day

Fri:

• Direct instruction: ch 2-3
  • ch 2-3 notes
• Discuss # 25 – 32 in ch 2 packet
• For Thurs: Read ch 2-4, complete # 33 – 41 in packet. Packet due Mon
• Finish Group Inquiry: Biological molecules & hand in group paper

Announcements:

• Ch 15 packet due: Fri 1/6
• Lab report: Selection simulation: due Tues 1/10
• Lab quiz: Hardy – Weinberg principle: Wed 1/11
• “Quest” – ch 15: Thurs

Mon:

• New Year’s Day (observed) – no school

Tues:

• Professional development day – no class meetings

Wed:

• (yet another) Snow day

Thurs:

• (yet another) Snow day

Fri:

• Direct instruction: ch 15-3 (continued)
  • Evolution as Genetic change notes
  • Speciation notes
• Discuss p. 50 of ch 15 study guide, hand in packet
• Debrief Selection Sim lab, report due Mon
• Lab: Hardy-Weinberg Principle, Case I
  • Hardy-Weinberg Lab