Landis's Science Classes

Announcements:

• Ch 1 & 2 Test: Wed 4/4 – ch 1 & 2 reading guide puzzle due
• Graphing refresher packet due: Wed 4/4
• Speed lab: report due Fri 4/6
• Ch 4 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 4/10

Mon:

• Kahoot: significant figures review
• Direct instruction: graphing review
  • Graphing notes
• Activity: Graphing refresher
  • Graphing Refresher activity

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Ch 1 & 2 review packet & debrief
  • ch 1 & 2 test review sheet
  • answers to ch 1 & 2 review sheet
• Continue Graphing refresher activity

Wed:

• Hand in ch 1 & 2 reading guide puzzle
• Test: Ch 1 & 2
• Begin reading ch 4 & ch 4 reading guide puzzle – due Tues
  • Chapter 4 Motion Puzzle

Thurs:

• Debrief test
• Lab: Speed – begin
  • Lab 4A_Speed

Fri:

• Practice: Speed calculations problems & debrief
  • Worksheet_Speed Calculations
  • answers to speed calc story probs
• Finish Speed lab, debrief, hand in lab report

Announcements:

• Natural selection computer simulation lab reports due: Tues 4/3
• Lab quiz: Hardy-Weinberg lab: Thurs 4/5
• Short test: Ch 15 & 16: Thurs 4/5 – ch 16 reading guide packet due
• Evolution Unit Test: Fri 4/13

Mon:

• Revise Fri 3/23 notes
• Direct instruction: ch 16-3
  • ch 16.3 notes
• Discuss # 27 – 42 – packet due Thurs
• Continue Natural selection computer simulation lab

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Finish Natural selection simulation lab, hand in report

Wed:

• Lab: Hardy-Weinberg Principle
  • Lab quiz tomorrow
  • Hardy-Weinberg Lab
• Test review: Ch 15 & 16

Thurs:

• Hand in ch 16 reading guide packet
• Lab quiz: Hardy-Weinberg Principle
  • Hand in lab data packet
• Short test: ch 15 & 16
• Begin Video: “What Darwin Never Knew”
  • Question sheet: What Darwin Never Knew

Fri:

• Debrief short test
• Handout: What to know: ch 17 & 32
  • What to Know – ch 17 & 32-3
• Direct instruction: ch 17 – 1
  • ch 17.1 notes
• For Mon: complete # 1 – 17 in ch 17 reading guide packet
  • ch 17 packet
• Continue “What Darwin Never Knew”

Announcements:

• Syllabus signature sheet due: Tues 3/20
• Measurement lab report due: Fri 3/23
• Ch 1 & 2 Test: Wed 4/4 – reading guide puzzle due

Mon:

• Student information sheets
• Syllabus – signature sheets due tomorrow
  • Int Sci PED syllabus
• Handout: Academic integrity
  • Academic Integrity mission statement
• Activity: Nature of Science box
  • Scientific explanations
    • nature of sci explanations
• Handout: Effective effort
  • effective effort

Tues:

• Textbooks
• Hand in syllabus signature sheet
• Class blog demo
• Activity: Textbooks: THEIVES
  • THIEVES
• Ch 1 & 2 reading guide puzzle – due Wed 4/4
  • ch 1 & 2 reading assignment

Wed:

• Cornell notes – intro
  • Cornell notes scoring rubric_integrated science
• Direct instruction: metric measurement
  • Metric notes_2016_3_28
• Practice: Metric conversions & debrief
  • metric conversion chart
  • metric conversions I
    • answers to metric conversions I
• Lab safety agreement & crossword – hand in by Thurs
  • Lab Safety xword PS

Thurs:

• Revise Wed class notes
  • revised-notes-example
• Hand in lab safety agreement and crossword
• Direct instruction: Precision, accuracy, resolution
  • Precision, Accuracy, Resolution
• Lab: Measurement
  • Measurement Lab

Fri:

• Debrief Measurement lab, hand in reports
• Revise Thurs notes
• Significant figures
  • intro
    • Significant figures notes
  • practice
    • ISP_Worksheet_Significant Digits
      • answers to significant digits practice
• Significant figures in calculations
  • intro
  • practice
    • Significant Digits worksheet II
      • answers to significant digits practice

Announcements:

• Ch 15 reading guide packet due: Wed 3/21

Mon:

• Direct instruction: ch 15-1/15-2
  • ch 15.1 & 15.2 notes
• Video: Evolution – Crash course
• For Tues: # 1- 17 – ch 15 reading guide packet

Tues:

• Revise Mon notes
• Discuss # 1 – 17
• For Wed: # 18 – 39 – packet due Wed
• Direct instruction: ch 15-3
  • ch 15.3 notes
• Video: Rock pocket mice – answer questions
  • http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/pocket-mouse-film-quiz
  • HHMI rock pocket mouse w quiz-1

Wed:

• Revise Tues notes
• Discuss # 18 – 39, hand in packet
• Activity: “It’s not fair”
  • hand in data sheet & questions
    • It’s Not Fair Student Handout
    • It’s not fair notes
• For Thurs: Ch 16 reading guide packet, # 1 – 11
  • ch 16 review sheet

Thurs:

• Handout: What to know – ch 15 & 16
  • ch 15 & 16 what to know
• Direct instruction: ch 16-1
  • ch 16.1 notes
• Discuss # 1 – 11
• For Fri: # 12 – 26 in ch 16 reading guide packet
• Video: “Why Sex?”
  • exit ticket

Fri:

• Revise Thurs notes
• Direct instruction: ch 16-2
  • ch 16.2 notes
• Discuss # 12 – 26
• For Mon 4/2: # 27 – 42 – ch 16 reading guide packet
• Natural selection computer simulation lab – begin
  • PhET Selection Sim Lab

Announcements:

• Final exam: Tues 3/13 & Wed 3/14

Mon:

• Prep for final exam: memorelephants & old tests
  • Memorelephant

Tues:

• Final exam: Part 1

Wed:

• Final exam: Part 2

Thurs:

• Grading day/prep for Term 3

Fri:

• Professional development/prep for Term 3

Announcements:

• IB test questions: Immune system: Tues 3/13
• Final Exam: Wed 3/14

Mon:

• Debrief Vaccines video & group discussion
• Review Immune system – IB standards
• Final exam prep: Memorelephants & old tests
  • Memorelephant

Tues:

• IB test questions: Immune system
• Final exam prep

Wed:

• Final exam
• Course evaluation

Thurs:

• Grading day & prep for Term 3

Fri:

• Professional development/prep for Term 3

Announcements:

• ALL LATE WORK FOR TERM 2 DUE: WED 3/7 @ 3:30 PM!
• Quiz: ch 12-1 – 12-4 (DNA & RNA): Thurs 3/8 – ch 12 reading guide packet due
• Biology notebooks due:
  • per 2: Thurs 3/8
  • per. 5: Fri 3/9
• Ch 13 & 14 reading guide puzzle due: Tues 3/13
• Final exam: Biology A: Tues 3/13 & Wed 3/14

Mon:

• Revise Fri notes
• Practice: Protein synthesis
  • protein synthesis practice handout
    • answers to prot synthesis practice
• Lab: Protein synthesis & words
  • Protein Synthesis & Words Lab

Tues:

• Direct instruction: ch 12-4
  • ch 12.4 notes
• Discuss #38 – 42 assignment – ch 12 reading guide packet due Thurs
• Finish Protein synthesis & words lab
  • debrief
  • Hand in group data sheets and questions

Wed:

• ALL LATE WORK FOR TERM 2 DUE TODAY @ 3:30 PM!
• Revise Tues notes
• Quiz review: ch 12-1 – 12-4
• Direct instruction: ch 13-1/13-4/14-3 – genetic engineering
  • ch 13-1,13-4 & 14-1 notes
• Ch 13 & 14 reading guide puzzle – due Tues 3/13
  • Ch 13 & 14 puzzle

Thurs:

• Per 2: Biology notebooks due: end of period
• Hand in ch 12 reading guide packet
• Quiz: Ch 12-1 – 12-4
• Revise Wed notes
• Lab: DNA Scissors
  • DNA Scissors Lab

Fri:

• Per. 5: Biology notebooks due
• Debrief DNA Scissors lab, hand in lab packet
• Video: Cloning
  • debrief, hand in question sheet

Announcements:

• ALL LATE WORK FOR TERM 2 DUE: WED 3/7 @ 3:30 PM!
• E.I.R. projects due: Tues 3/6
• Test: Ecology: Ch 3, 4 & 5: Tues 3/6
• Biology notebooks due:
  • per 3: Tues 3/6
  • per 4: Wed 3/7
• Ch 40 reading guide packet due: Fri 3/9
• IB test questions: Immune system: Tues 3/13
• IB Biology B Final Exam: Wed 3/14

Mon:

• Finish Simpson Biodiversity activity, debrief, hand in packet
• Ecology test review, including IB standards!
• Work on Ecology projects – due tomorrow

Tues:

• Per 3: Biology notebooks due
• Unit Test: Ecology, including IB test questions
• For Wed: read ch 40-1, complete # 1 – 19 in packet
  • ch 40 review sheet

Wed:

• ALL LATE WORK FOR TERM 2 DUE TODAY @ 3:30 PM!
• Per 4: Biology notebooks due – end of period
• Direct instruction: ch 40-1
  • ch 40.1 notes_2016
• Discuss # 1 – 19 assignment
• For Fri: complete # 20 – 45 in packet – packet due Fri
• Handouts:
  • What to know – Immune system & infectious disease
    • ch 40 – what to know
  • IB Curriculum Guide – Immune system & infectious disease
    • IB Curriculum Guide_student_infectious disease & immune system

Thurs:

• Revise Wed notes
• Direct instruction: ch 40-2
  • ch 40.2 notes
• Video: NOVA: Calling the Shots (Vaccines)
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/vaccines-calling-shots.html

Fri:

• Discuss # 20 – 45 assignment, hand in ch 40 reading guide packet
• Finish Vaccines video
  • Small group discussion: Vaccine issue
    • Vaccine video_Calling the shots_group discussion questions