Landis's Science Classes

Announcements:

• “What is a Newton” lab report due: Tues 5/2
• “Friction” lab report due: Fri 5/5
• Chapter 5 study guide puzzle due: Fri 5/5
• Chapter 5 test: Tues 5/9
• Rocket materials due in classroom: Fri 5/12

Mon:

• Direct instruction: Force
  • ISP_Notes_Ch 5_Force
• Lab: What is a Newton?
  • Lab 5A_What is a Newton?

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Debrief “What is a Newton?” lab, hand in report
• Direct instruction: Weight and Mass
  • ISP_Notes_Weight and Mass
• Kahoot practice: weight and mass
• Practice handout: weight and mass
  • ISP_Worksheet_Weight and Mass

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Debrief Weight and Mass practice handout from Tues
  • answers to weight & mass practice handout
• Lab: Friction & Force
  • Lab 5B_Friction

Thurs:

• Finish Friction & Force lab
  • debrief lab; report due Fri
• Direct instruction: Friction
  • ISP_Notes_Friction

Fri:

• Hand in ch 5 study guide puzzle
• Direct instruction: equilibrium
  • ISP_Notes_Equilibrium
• Practice handout: equilibrium
  • ISP_Worksheet_Equilibrium
    • answers to equilibrium practice handout
• Rocket materials due in classroom: Fri 5/12
  • rocket materials list_2017_5_12

Announcements:

• Lab quiz: Taxonomy lab: Tues 5/2
• Animal kingdom test questions due : Wed 5/3 @ 9 pm via email
• Animal kingdom presentations: Thurs 5/4 & Fri 5/5
• Animal kingdom test: Mon 5/8

Mon:

• Debrief quiz – ch 18
• Debrief Taxonomy lab – hand in group data packet and phylogenetic tree
  • lab quiz tomorrow
• Direct instruction: ch 26-1: intro to Animal Kingdom
  • ch 26.1 notes
• For Tues: read ch 26-1, complete # 1 – 12 in study guide packet
  • ch 26.1 review sheet
• Animal Kingdom presentations:
  • Intro/scoring
    • Animal Groups presentations instructions and scoring rubric
    • Animal Kingdom presentations note-taking table
  • Example presentation
    • Landis – Porifera
  • Assign Animal Kingdom groups

Tues:

• Lab quiz: Taxonomy lab
• Discuss # 1 – 12 assignment
• For Wed: complete # 13 – 21, study guide packet due tomorrow
• Work on Animal Kingdom presentations – Google docs

Wed:

• Debrief lab quiz
• Discuss # 13 – 21 assignment, hand in study guide packet
• Finish Animal Kingdom group presentations
  • TEST QUESTIONS DUE VIA EMAIL – 9 pm!
  • Presentations begin tomorrow

Thurs:

• Handout: What to know – Animal Kingdom test (Mon 5/8)
  • Animal Kingdom Short Test what to know
• Animal Kingdom presentations

Fri:

• BIOLOGY NOTEBOOKS DUE – END OF PERIOD
• Finish Animal Kingdom presentations
• Animal Kingdom test review

Announcements:

• Balloon jet cars final test: Mon 4/24
• Acceleration lab 4B lab reports due: Tues 4/25
• Test: ch 4: Fri 4/28
• Ch 5 study guide puzzle – due Fri 5/5

Mon:

• Final test: Balloon jet cars
  • hand in group report
• Acceleration lab 4B: debrief

Tues:

• Direct instruction: Free fall
  • ISP_Notes_Free_Fall
• Videos:
  • Apollo 17 hammer & nail
  • ball and feather in a vacuum
• Activity: Analyzing graphs of motion
  • Analyzing Graphs of Motion
  • answers to analyzing graphs activty

Wed:

• Revise Wed notes
• Kahoot review: acceleration
• Acceleration story problems
  • ISP_Worksheet_Acceleration Story Problems
    • answers to accel story probs practice
• Video: Pseudoscience

Thurs:

• Chapter 4 review sheet & debrief
  • ch 4 review sheet
  • answers to ch 4 review sheet
• Kahoot practice quiz: motion

Fri:

• Test: Ch 4: Motion
• Begin Ch 5 study guide puzzle: Force
  • Chapter 5 Force puzzle

Announcements:

• Ch 18 quiz: Fri 4/28 – study guide packet due
• Caminalcules taxonomy  lab: group data due: Fri 4/28
• Lab quiz: Caminalcules taxonomy lab: Tues 5/2

Mon:

• Hand in Earth History timeline projects
• Debrief Fri test
• Direct instruction: ch 18-1
  • ch 18.1 notes
• Discuss # 1 – 9 assignment
• For Wed: complete # 10 – 18 in study guide packet
• Activity: shoe dichotomous key

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Handout: What to know – ch 18 quiz
  • Chapter 18 Quiz – WTK
• Lab: Taxonomy of Caminalcules
  • Caminalcules group protocol
  • caminalcules student handouts A & B

Wed:

• Direct instruction: ch 18-2
  • ch 18.2 notes
• Discuss # 10 – 18 assignment
• For Thurs: # 19 – 27 in study guide packet
• Continue Taxonomy of Caminalcules lab

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Direct instruction: ch 18-3
  • ch 18.3 notes
• Discuss # 19 – 27 assignment – packet due tomorrow
• Quiz review
• Handout: What to know: lab quiz – taxonomy of Caminalcules – quiz is Tues 5/2
  • Caminalculues lab quiz study guide
• Continue Taxonomy of Caminalcules lab

Fri:

• Hand in ch 18 study guide packet
• Quiz: ch 18
• Finish Caminalcules lab – hand in group data

Announcements:

• Speed lab 4A lab report due: Tues 4/18
• Acceleration lab 4B reports due: Mon 4/24
• Balloon Jet cars ready to test: Mon 4/24

Mon:

• Speed calculations story problems
  • Notes_Speed Calculations
  • Worksheet_Speed Calculations
    answers to speed calc story probs
• Finish Speed Lab 4A

Tues:

• Kahoot review: speed calculations
• Debrief Speed lab 4A, hand in reports
• Project: Balloon Jet Cars
  • ISP_Balloon_Jet_Cars

Wed:

• Hand in ch 4 study guide puzzle
• Direct instruction: velocity
  • ISP_Notes_Velocity_Grphs of Motion
• Work on Balloon car project

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Direct instruction: acceleration
  • Notes_Acceleration
• Lab 4B: Acceleration
  • Lab 4B_acceleration

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Finish Acceleration Lab 4B – reports due Mon
• Finish Balloon cars – ready to test on Mon

Announcements:

• Lab quiz: Hardy-Weinberg Principle: Mon 4/17 – data packet due
• Ch 17 study guide packet due: Mon 4/17
• Unit Test: Evolution: Fri 4/21 – primate reading study guide puzzle due
• Earth History Timeline projects due: Mon 4/24

Mon:

• Debrief Fri big quiz
• Lab quiz: Hardy-Weinberg Principle
  • hand in data sheets
• Revise Fri notes
• Direct instruction: ch 17-4
  • ch 17.4 notes
• Discuss # 18 – 39 in ch 17 study guide packet, hand in packet
• Video: Evolutionary arms race – HIV

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Direct instruction: Primate evolution
  • primates & human evol
  • Primate classification flow chart
• For Fri: Read ch 26-3 packet, complete study guide puzzle
  • primate evol reading packet_ch 26.3_miller&levine_2014 edition
  • Primate Evolution study guide puzzle
• Project: Earth History Timeline – due Fri
  • Time Scale project rubric & events

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Work on projects

Thurs:

• Unit test review: Evolution
• Work on projects

Fri:

• Hand in Primate study guide puzzle
• Unit test: Evolution
• For Mon: Read ch 18-1, complete # 1 – 9 in study guide packet
  • Chapter 18 packet
• Work on projects – due Mon

Announcements:

• Measurement lab report due: Mon 4/10
• Graphing refresher activity due: Thurs 4/13
• Test: ch 1 & 2: Thurs 4/13 – study guide puzzle due

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Debrief Measurement lab, hand in report
• Significant Digits
  • ISP_Notes_Ch 1_Sig Fig
  • significant digits practice
  • Significant Digits worksheet II
  • answers to significant digits practice

Tues:

• Review: Significant digits: Kahoot
• Direct instruction: graphing
  • Graphing notes
• Activity: Graphing refresher
  • Graphing Refresher activity

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Ch 1 & 2 test review
  • ch 1 & 2 test review sheet
  • answers to ch 1 & 2 review sheet
• Continue graphing refresher activity

Thurs:

• Hand in ch 1 & 2 study guide puzzle
• Test: ch 1 & 2
• Finish Graphing Refresher activity, hand in packet
• Begin reading ch 4, begin ch 4 study guide puzzle – due Wed 4/19
  • Chapter 4 Motion Puzzle

Fri:

• Debrief test
• Direct instruction: Speed
• Lab: Speed
  • Lab 4A_Speed

Announcements:

• Natural selection lab report due: Wed 4/12
• Big quiz: Chapter 15 & 16: Fri 4/14 – ch 16 packet due
• Lab quiz: Hardy-Weinberg principle: Mon 4/17

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Lab: Natural selection computer simulations – begin
  • PhET Selection Sim Lab

Tues:

• Direct instruction: ch 16-2
  • ch 16.2 notes
• Discuss # 12 – 26 assignment
• For Wed: Read ch 16-3, complete # 27 – 42 in study guide packet
• Finish Natural selection simulation lab

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Debrief Selection simulation lab, hand in lab reports
• Direct instruction: ch 16-3
  • ch 16.3 notes
• Discuss # 27 – 42 in study guide packet – packet due Fri
• Lab: Hardy-Weinberg principle: Case I
  • Hardy-Weinberg Lab

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Lab: Hardy-Weinberg principle: Case II & debrief
  • lab quiz: Mon 4/17
• Big quiz review: ch 15 & 16
• For Fri: read ch 17-1, complete # 1 – 17 in study guide packet
  • ch 17 packet

Fri:

• Hand in ch 16 study guide packet
• Big quiz: ch 15 & 16
• Direct instruction: ch 17-1
  • ch 17.1 notes
• Discuss # 1 – 17 assignment
• For Mon: complete # 18 – 39 in study guide packet
• Handout: What to know: ch 17 & 32
  • What to Know – ch 17 & 32-3

Announcements:

• Syllabus signature sheets due: Wed 4/5
• Lab safety crossword due: Fri 4/7
• Measurement lab report due: Mon 4/10
• Chapter 1 & 2 test: Thurs 4/13 – reading assignment puzzle due

Mon:

• Grading day for Term 2 – no classes

Tues:

• Student information form
• Syllabus – signature cover sheet due back tomorrow
  • Int Sci PED syllabus
• Handout: Academic integrity
  • Academic Integrity mission statement
• Activity: Nature of Science box
  • Discussion: Nature of scientific explanations
    • nature of sci explanations
• Handout: Effective effort
  • effective effort

Wed:

• Textbooks
• Hand in syllabus signature cover sheet
• Class blog
• Activity: THIEVES
  • THIEVES
• Reading assignment: ch 1 & 2 puzzle – due Thurs 4/13
  • ch 1 & 2 puzzle

Thurs:

• Note-taking – Cornell method
  • Cornell notes
  • cornell-notes-template
• Direct instruction: Metric system
  • Metric notes
• Handout: Metric system summary
  • metric conversion chart
• Practice: Metric conversions & debrief
  • metric conversions I
    • answers to metric conversions 1
• Handout: Lab safety – due tomorrow
  • Lab Safety xword – Integrated

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Hand in lab safety crossword
• Direct instruction: precision, accuracy, resolution
  • Precision, Accuracy, Resolution
• Lab: measurement
  • Lab_Measurement

Announcements:

• Ch 15 study guide packet due: Thurs 4/6
• Quiz: Ch 15 & 16: Fri 4/14

Mon:

• Grading day for Term 2 – no classes

Tues:

• Direct instruction: ch 15-1 & 15-2
  • ch 15.1 & 15.2 notes
• Video: Miller – evolution intro (12 min)
• For Wed: read ch 15-1 & 15-2, complete # 1 – 17 in study guide packet
  • Chapter 15 reading packet

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Discuss # 1 – 17 assignment
• For Thurs: Read ch 15-3, complete # 18 – 39 – packet due Thurs
• Direct instruction: ch 15-3
  • ch 15.3 notes

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Discuss # 18 – 39 assignment, hand in study guide packet
• Activity: It’s not fair
  • It’s Not Fair Student Handout
  • It’s not fair notes
• For Fri: read ch 16-1, complete # 1 11 in study guide packet
  • Chapter 16 reading packet

Fri:

• Review evidence for evolution
• Direct instruction: ch 16-1
  • ch 16.1 notes
• Discuss #1 – 11 assignment
• For Tues: read ch 16-2, complete # 12 – 26 in study guide packet
• Video: Why sex? (30 min)
• Handout: What to know – ch 15 & 16 quiz – quiz is Fri 4/14
  • big quiz ch 15 & 16 what to know