Landis's Science Classes

Announcements:

• Test: Chapter 4: Motion: Mon 10/2
• Lab 5A: Newton Lab report due: Wed 10/4
• Lab 5B: Friction Lab report due: Mon 10/9
• Chapter 5 reading guide puzzle due: Mon 10/9

Mon:

• Chapter 4 test
• Begin reading ch 5, begin reading guide puzzle – due Mon 10/9
  • Chapter 5 puzzle

Tues:

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

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Debrief Lab 5A: Newton, hand in reports
• Direct instruction: Weight & Mass
  • ISP_Notes_Weight and Mass
• Kahoot review: Weight & Mass
• Practice handout: Weight & Mass
  • Practice: weight & mass

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Debrief Weight and Mass practice handout
  • answers to weight & mass practice handout
• Lab 5B: Friction – begin
  • Lab 5B_Friction

Fri:

• Finish Lab 5B: Friction, debrief
  • lab report due Mon 10/9
• Direct instruction: Friction
  • ISP_Notes_Friction

Announcements:

• Lab quiz: Potato osmosis lab: Tues 10/3
• Cells test Pt. 1: Structure & function: Wed 10/4
• Cells test Pt. 2: Thurs 10/5 – ch 7 packet due
• Biology notebooks due: Fri 10/6

Mon:

• Debrief Potato osmosis lab – lab quiz tomorrow – data packet due
• Direct instruction: ch 7-4
  • ch-7-4-notes
• Discuss #41 – 49 reading packet assignment – packet due Thurs
• Group inquiry activity: Cell membrane – begin
  • group-inquiry-cell-membrane

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Hand in data packets for Potato osmosis lab
• Lab quiz: Potato osmosis lab
• Test review: cell structure & function
• Finish Cell membrane group inquiry; submit group paper

Wed:

• Cells test pt. 1: structure & function
• Test review: Cells test pt. 2: theory, cell membrane, etc
• For Tues 10/10: read ch 8, complete ch 8 reading guide packet
  • ch-8-review-packet

Thurs:

• Hand in ch 7 reading guide packets
• Cells test pt. 2 (including IB supplement questions)

Fri:

• Debrief test
• Direct instruction: ch 8-1
  • ch 8.1 notes
• Hand in Biology notebooks
• Group inquiry activity: Photosynthesis – begin
  • group-inquiry_photosynth

Announcements:

• Lab 4B: Acceleration lab report due: Tues 9/26
• Balloon Jet car project report due: Tues 9/26
• Test: Ch 4: Motion: Mon 10/2

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Finish Acceleration lab, debrief
  • Lab report due: Tues
• Work on Jet cars

Tues:

• Hand in Acceleration Lab reports
• Final testing of Balloon Jet Cars
  • hand in report

Wed:

• Direct instruction: Free Fall
  • ISP_Notes_Free_Fall
• Videos:
  • Apollo mission 1971
  • Feather and ball drop
    • https://laughingsquid.com/a-feather-and-a-bowling-ball-dropped-together-inside-the-worlds-largest-vacuum-chamber/
• Activity: Analyzing graphs of motion
  • Analyzing Graphs of Motion
  • answers to analyzing graphs activty

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Acceleration story problems practice & debrief
  • ISP_Worksheet_Acceleration Story Problems
  • answers to accel story probs practice

Fri:

• Chapter 4 test review packet & debrief
  • ch 4 review sheet
    • answers to ch 4 review sheet
• Kahoot review: Ch 4

Announcements:

• Lab quiz: Cell lab series: Wed 9/27 – data packets due
• Potato osmosis lab report due: Mon 10/2
• Test: Cells part 1: structure & function: Wed 10/4
• Test: Cells part 2: Thurs 10/6 – ch 7 packet due

Mon:

• Discuss # 13 – 32 assignment
• For Wed: Read ch 7-4, complete #33 – 40 in packet
• Continue Cell lab series

Tues:

• Finish Cell lab series
• Debrief labs –
  • Lab quiz: Wed 9/27
  • Data packets due: Wed 9/27

Wed:

• Hand in Cell lab series data packet
• Lab quiz: Cell lab series
• Potato osmosis lab – Day 1
  • Lab_potato osmosis
• Direct instruction: Ch 7-3
  • ch 7.3 notes
• Discuss # 33- 40 assignment
• For Mon: Read ch 7-4, complete # 41 – 49 in packet

Thurs:

• Potato lab – Day 2
  • Class data set
    • potato lab group data per 3_2017_9_28
    • potato lab group data per 4_2017_9_28
  • Begin lab report

Fri:

• Group inquiry activity: Cell organelles
  • group-inquiry_organelles

Announcements:

• Lab 4A: Speed – report due Tues 9/19
• Chapter 4 reading guide puzzle due: Thurs 9/21
• Lab 4B: Acceleration – report due Mon 9/25
• Balloon jet car final testing: Mon 9/25

Mon:

• Test debrief
• Intro: speed
• Lab 4A: Speed – begin
  • Lab 4A_Speed

Tues:

• Speed calculations story problems practice
  • Worksheet_Speed Calculations
  • answers to speed calc story probs
• Finish Lab 4A: Speed, debrief, hand in report

Wed:

• Kahoot review: Speed calculations
• Balloon Jet Cars project
  • intro
    • ISP_Balloon_Jet_Cars
  • begin

Thurs:

• Hand in ch 4 reading guide puzzle
• Direct instruction: Velocity
  • ISP_Notes_Velocity_Grphs of Motion
• Work on Balloon Jet cars, testing

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Direct instruction: Acceleration
  • Notes_Acceleration
• Lab 4B: Acceleration: begin
  • Lab 4B_acceleration

Announcements:

• Lab quiz: Enzyme simulation lab: Mon 9/22 – lab data packet due
• Chapter 2 test: Biochemistry: Tues 9/23 – ch 2 packet due

Mon:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Debrief Enzyme simulation lab
• Lab quiz: Enzyme simulation lab
  • hand in lab data packet
• Test review: ch 2: Biochemistry

Tues:

• Hand in ch 2 reading packet
• Test: ch 2: Biochemistry & IB supplement
• For Wed: read ch 7-1, complete # 1 – 12 in reading packet
  • ch 7 review sheet
• Direct instruction: ch 7-1
  • ch 7.1 & 7-2 notes

Wed:

• Test debrief
• Discuss # 1 – 12 reading packet assignment
• For Thurs: read ch 7-2, complete # 13 – 26
• Lab: Scientific sketching
  • sketch lab_fly legs

Thurs:

• Finish Sketching lab, debrief, hand in lab packet
• Discuss # 13 – 26.
• Handout: What to know: ch 7: the Cell
  • Chapter_7_Test_-_what_to_know
• Handout: IB Curriculum Guide: the Cell
  • ib-bio-a-curriculum-guide_unit-2_cells
• For Fri: complete Cell Organelles handout
  • organelles handout

Fri:

• Discuss Organelles handout
  • answers to organelles handout 2017
• For Mon: read ch 7-3, complete # 27 – 32 in reading packet
• Cell lab series: begin
  • cell lab 1 cork
  • cell lab 2_onion epidermis
  • cell lab 3 elodea
  • cell lab 4 epithelial cells

Announcements:

• Measurement lab report due: Tues 9/12
• Graphing refresher packet due: Thurs 9/14
• Ch 1/2 reading assignment puzzle due: Fri 9/15
• Ch 1/2 Test: Fri 9/15
• Ch 4 reading assignment puzzle due: Thurs 9/21

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
  • revised-notes-example
• Hand in Lab Safety sheet if not done Fri
• Direct instruction: Precision/accuracy/resolution
  • Precision, Accuracy, Resolution
• Lab: Measurement
  • Measurement Lab

Tues:

• Debrief Measurement lab, hand in report
• Revise Mon notes
• Direct instruction: significant figures, calculations
  • Significant figures notes
• Practice: significant figures, calculations
  • ISP_Worksheet_Significant Digits
    • answers to significant digits practice
  • Significant Digits worksheet II

Wed:

• Kahoot review: significant figures
• Direct instruction: graphing
  • Graphing notes
• Classwork: graphing refresher packet – due Thurs
  • Graphing Refresher activity

Thurs:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Chapter 1/2 review packet & debrief
  • ch 1 & 2 test review sheet
  • answers to ch 1 & 2 review sheet
• Finish graphing refresher packet

Fri:

• Hand in ch 1/2 reading assignment puzzle
• Test: Ch 1/2
• Reading assignment: ch 4 – due Thurs 9/21
  • Chapter 4 Motion Puzzle

Announcements:

• Properties of Water group inquiry packet due: Mon 9/11
• Lab safety agreement due: Wed 9/13
• Lab quiz: Enzyme simulation alb: Mon 9/18
• Enzyme simulation lab report due: Mon 9/18
• Test: ch 2: Biochemistry: Tues 9/19 – ch 2 packet due

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
  • revised-notes-example_ch-2-1
• Video: Crash course: Water
• Finish Properties of water group inquiry – hand in group packet
• For Tues: read ch 2-1 & 2-2, complete # 1 – 24 in ch 2 packet
  • ch 2 packet

Tues:

• Discuss # 1 – 24 assignment
• For Wed: Read ch 2-3 & 2-4, complete # 25 – end of packet
• Direct instruction: ch 2-2
  • ch-2-2-notes
• Group inquiry activity: Biological molecules – begin
  • group-inquiry-biological-molecule

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Discuss # 25 – end of packet assignment – packet due Tues 9/19 ( test day)
• Direct instruction: ch 2-3
  • ch 2-3 notes
• Finish Bio molecules group inquiry – submit group packet
• Lab safety agreement – complete and hand in
  •  Lab Safety agreement & xword_Bio
• What to know: ch 2 test
  • WTK – ch 2 test
• IB curriculum guide: Biochemistry
  • IB curriculum guide Unit 1 Biochem

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Direct instruction: Enzymes
  • ch 2-4 notes__enzymes
• Lab: Enzyme simulation – begin
  • Enzyme simulation lab_tubase

Fri:

• Finish Enzyme simulation lab & debrief
  • Lab quiz Mon 9/18
  • Lab report due Mon 9/18

Announcements:

• Syllabus signature page due: Thurs 9/11

Mon:

• No school – Labor day

Tues:

• No classes – Teacher planning and prep day

Wed:

• First day of classes: late start: Period 1 begins 9:30 AM: 60 minute periods
• Student information sheet
  • Personal data assignment_Bio
• Class syllabus discussion
  • IB Biology syllabus_2017_8_29
• Overall course goals
  • IB Bio A & B overall course goal
• Handout/discussion: Academic integrity
  • Academic Integrity mission statement
• Activity: Hypotheses
  • hypothesis activity

Thurs:

• Textbooks distributed
• Hand in syllabus signature sheet
• Discussion: class blog
• Handout/discussion: Effective Effort
  • effective effort
• Activity: Evaluating evidence: emails activity
  • emails lab_student handout

Fri:

• Finish emails activity & debrief.
  • Hand in group paper
• Cornell notes
  • Intro
    • Cornell Notes Intro
  • Scoring rubric
    • Cornell notes scoring rubric_biology
  • Biology notebooks – distribute folders
• Direct instruction: ch 2-1: the Nature of Matter
  • ch 2-1 notes
• Group inquiry activity: Properties of Water – begin
  • Properties of Water Group Inquiry Activity

Announcements:

• Syllabus signature page due: Thurs 9/7
• Lab safety crossword due: Mon: 9/11
• Chapter 1 & 2 reading assignment puzzle due: Fri 9/15
• Chapter 1 & 2 test: Fri 9/15

Mon:

• No school – Labor Day

Tues:

• No classes – Teacher planning and prep day

Wed:

• First day of classes – late start: Period 1 begins @ 9:30 AM – 60 minute periods
• Student information sheet
  • Personal data assignment_PS Energy
• Class syllabus discussion – signature page due tomorrow
  • PS Energy syllabus_2017_8_29
  • PS Energy overall course goal
• Discussion/handout: Academic integrity
  • Academic Integrity mission statement
• Activity: Nature of Science box
• Handout/discussion: Effective Effort
  • effective effort

Thurs:

• Textbooks issued
• Hand in syllabus signature page
• Class blog: discussion
• How to use a textbook activity: THIEVES
  • THIEVES
• Reading assignment: Chapter 1 & 2 crossword puzzle – due Fri 9/15
  • ch 1 & 2 reading assignment

Fri:

• Cornell notes:
  • scoring rubric
    • Cornell notes scoring rubric_integrated science
• Direct instruction: Metric measurement and conversion
  • Metric notes
• Practice handout: Metric conversion
  • metric conversion chart
  • answers to metric conversions I
• Lab safety:
  • discussion
  • Lab safety crossword: due Monday if not finished in class
    • lab safety agreement PS
    • Lab Safety xword PS